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This guy sounds like me ~8 years ago. Eventually I gave up on the idealism and settled on some compromises. Mostly I have a few bright lines I won't cross: I do
by coldpie 5y ago
This guy sounds like me ~8 years ago. Eventually I gave up on the idealism and settled on some compromises. Mostly I have a few bright lines I won't cross: I don't use Facebook or Amazon or any of the "gig economy" scams; I don't participate in any of the IoT or smart home/automation crap; I don't have wearables; I use an ad-blocker to do my part to kill the ad-economy. I've completely given up on privacy online: there is no such thing as computer security and the only winning move is not to play. Don't put anything you care about being private onto a computer. Your doctor will, but there's nothing you can do about that.
It's worth exploring where the limits of digital asceticism are for yourself, and then scaling it back to a place you find reasonable.
- psychomugs 5y agoSorry to creep, but doesn't your Instagram violate your no-Facebook policy?
- coldpie 5y agoYeah, it does. I'm often tempted to quit it because it's owned by Facebook, but my objection to Facebook is mostly their lack of content moderation and I feel that's less of a problem on Instagram. It's a poor justification and I don't feel great about it.
- conradfr 5y agoI'm a bit like that. I try to not invest in any proprietary technology, especially hardware-wise. Consequently I have basically no smart-anything. I don't want something I bought rendered useless because a connector changed or an app has been discontinued.