we fuckin are now

helped with formatting:

Chrome -> Firefox

Drive -> sync or Dropbox or any number of options

Sheets and productivity tools > libre office or Apache open office

YouTube -> Invidious or even better, odysse

Google search -> duck duck go, SearXNG, StartPage, etc

Gmail -> not a ton of great options. I’d probably recommend proton mail but the FOSS email world is definitely lacking, or gets blocked or goes down, harder to self host etc.

And I agree for sure. In order I use firefox (and brave sometimes), Proton Drive, Apple Productivity suite (pages, numbers etc), and either startpage or qwant, and proton mail. I do still use use YouTube Premium, but the point is Google doesn't need to have its fingers in every aspect of my digital life.

the conversation should never be about reddit losing, it's about the users winning. And I personally feel like I won. I showed my support for Christian and 3rd party apps, I abondoned ship quickly and I've found a new home on the fediverse.

I also stopped using facebook and instagram 18 months ago. They both still exist, but I won. I'm happier now without it. Job done.

Dadspace - A game of smoking meats and questionable fashion choices

Fun fact

He went completely blind a few years later.

this got progressively less fun as it went along

Let's start small. Can we do a Christian Selig AMA first? I think that would be a decent flagship that might draw the attention of the press. That way we have something proven before we start getting in people who have PR teams...

I don't know if you need to hear this or not; but you also don't have to donate your time to anything for free anymore. Nobody would blame you for throwing in the towel (if you feel you need to, that is)

Plastic Surgeon here; this is what we in the business call “fucked up”

The "home button" being hidden behind the hamburger menu and the fact that I can't collapse comment threads are my only 2 QoL issues, otherwise it all works great for a product that's only like 6 weeks old lol

There's just a polish to this site that Lemmy instances don't have

that's in the DLC - dad loadable content

It truly is a special post, the start of something enigmatic. we are all creators, we are all poets, we all have the capacity to hold in our poops for three days at a time

memory hole

sick turn of phrase, i'm stealing that

Seriously, thank you for that extra mile. This is the kind selflessness that I remember on the old internet

shitifacation

The term is enshittification, penned by Cory Doctorow

Shitifacation was my last international holiday where the airline lost my luggage

This might not be an answer but my worked also requested us come in 2 days a week. So I ride my bike in around 11am and back home about 1pm. WFH the rest of the hours. I’m all about malicious compliance.

I often come to YSK for my cane recommendations

nah fuck all that. meta has never acted in good faith; to assume they'll be anything other than anticompetitive is naive

Wow he handled those outlandish claims with tact. Imagine not understanding something and immediately deciding that it’s ammophilia and naziism

TekSavvy is the last remaining large internet wholesale provider, as others have been snapped up by bigger rivals in what independent ISPs describe as a challenging regulatory environment.
Roughly half a dozen independent ISPs have been sold since February of 2022

From the article

Can we just sunset google altogether