NEW YEAR NEW ME!!!
No but on a more serious note, I always do like to evaluate the past year on this day. I’ve noticed that I let myself get stuck in a drag in my daily life much more than I needed to. Weeks could go by where I just worked, ate, watch some dumb show and slept. And it made me unhappy. A few weeks ago I decided that I’m going to change the way I spent my time so that I have more meaningful interactions with my friends, family and gf and so that I can prevent myself from becoming a zombie.
You guys have any plans?
Gonna start decoupling from big tech companies. Not just out of principle but it’ll be less painful if tensions between China and The West lead to more region restrictions like with TikTok.
Already off Facebook.
Free of Amazon as soon as I switch to alternatives to Audible. Logging out of my twitch account is doing my MH a world of good.
Google’s going to be the biggest PITA to decouple from. Gonna start by getting a Huawei and then can begin untangling everything from my Google Account.
MS I have to stick with for a while. A lot of work-related stuff requires Windows and I’m not dropping xbox gamepass until I can find other hobbies.
Smart move. I deleted twitter, fb, and insta with my partner for the new year. Twitter was the hardest for me to break, but it’s like your twitch, already doing wonders for my mental health.
Google is a tough one… especially the play store, and Google play services. I have a Xiaomi phone, but it’s still heavily tied to Google.
What you doing for messaging? Afaik signal relies on Google play services.
Yeah Signal sucks. Its raison d’etre is security and it’s not secure.
Luckily most people I know have WeChat (I should have specified Western big tech comapanies), it’s mostly overseas friends that don’t and they’re mostly on Discord. Gonna keep Discord for a while.
Having a lot of success with Mastodon. It’s not ‘suggesting’ or ‘promoting’ posts at me, my followed list is just people I follow and it feels so fucking clean.
Noice… I’m gonna install WeChat rn. I honestly trust that more than signal.
Masto really got a boost with its nice android apps IMO, so I’ve gotta start using it more, even though I’m not huge into microblogging.