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| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: bd139 on August 08, 2021, 01:47:18 pm ---[...] I need to recoup some investment before I spend on something else [non-Apple, presumably]. --- End quote --- Where do we go, though? The computing world started out as the Wild West, it seems it is ending up in 1984 or Brave New World... |
| bd139:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on August 08, 2021, 02:05:00 pm --- --- Quote from: bd139 on August 08, 2021, 01:47:18 pm ---[...] I need to recoup some investment before I spend on something else [non-Apple, presumably]. --- End quote --- Where do we go, though? The computing world started out as the Wild West, it seems it is ending up in 1984 or Brave New World... --- End quote --- I already had a fairly extensive exit plan ready to roll. It's important if you tie yourself with convenience handcuffs. Firstly the whole concept of tablet and smart watch are disposed of. Those were conveniences and luxuries which are just discarded. The remaining requirements are distributed across general computing and smartphone utility which can be managed fairly easily with Ubuntu 21.04 on the desktop in my case. I spent perhaps 3 hours moving photos and document data over. Some cloud services have been replaced with other cloud services where privacy is not guaranteed anyway. In the case of email, which is the big one I just rolled out a Fastmail account with my domain and changed all the forwarders around and job done. The smartphone is far harder to get rid of and that will take a few weeks of careful unpicking. I've had my eye on a Nikon DSLR for a few weeks now so that bit is already solved. The biggest loss for me would be Apple Music as that's actually fairly good. Everything else is replaceable or I can live without. I need to migrate my 2FA stuff over to YubiKeys. I've got a cheap Garmin eTrex 10 and paper maps for outdoors nav, Casio F91W to tell the time. Quite frankly I probably don't need the Internet or phone comms most of the time and spend a lot of my dead time spamming on here when I should be reading a book or something :-DD. I may just switch to a dumb phone for the sake of on call requirements. Welcome to the glory of 2005, the peak of technology. Phone wise this is looking good: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B096QXC42Q/ (4g, £35!) |
| PKTKS:
I wonder... Just HOW MUCH these cranks are charging for providing their privacy collected information about hot targets... how much they will charge for these kinda of hot back doors.. Alas what kind of people will pay these crippled over priced and invasive devices.. Still buying that shit of privacy? Paul |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: bd139 on August 08, 2021, 02:21:18 pm ---[...] The biggest loss for me would be Apple Music as that's actually fairly good. [...] --- End quote --- I use SoundCloud, it is extremely good & works in a browser without installing anything. --- Quote from: bd139 on August 08, 2021, 02:21:18 pm ---[...] Welcome to the glory of 2005, the peak of technology. [...] --- End quote --- Sad, really, but I'm beginning to think you may be right... Technology has 'technically' progressed since then, but the technology is no longer owned by the user, and the technology is increasingly just being used mostly as a way to milk us. Any benefits to us users is just a side effect of the real purpose... Enough of that, please. I never thought it would come to this. Feel like I just swallowed the red pill! |
| bd139:
Yeah I'm mostly concerned about mobile music if I'm honest. There are a few discrete mp3 players which may do the job. Totally agree with your second point. I'm slap bang in the middle of the tech sector and people are blind to their own futures there as well :palm: |
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