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This ramping up AI war will leave no prisoners. I am not an Apple customer in any way, I am in Google's ecosystem, but I feel that I need to make an exit, at le
by hawski 2y ago
This ramping up AI war will leave no prisoners. I am not an Apple customer in any way, I am in Google's ecosystem, but I feel that I need to make an exit, at least some essentials, preferably this year.
My e-mail, my documents, my photos, my browsing, my movement. The first step for me was setting up Syncthing and it was much smoother than I initially thought. Many steps to go.
- sircastor 2y agoI haven’t adopted passcodes, and moved all my email out of gmail to a private domain. Photos backup t to my NAS. I’m terrified of the automated systems deciding I’m a bad actor. I can’t help but think it’ll get worse with AI
- its_ethan 2y agoNot that you shouldn't do it, but too much of an active effort or obsession with not using standard e-mail services or photo back ups is probably a faster way to get flagged as suspicious lol
- jwrallie 2y agoFor things that don’t leave your system it’s ok, but the moment you send something to others it will go into the systems that you try to avoid anyway. Mostly I see no point in things like email self hosting if half my contacts are on Gmail and the other half on Microsoft. My suggestion (as someone that tried to escape for some time) is to build a private system for yourself (using private OS and networks) and use a common system to interface with everyone else.