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Born and raised in London. Just a normal guy with a moral compass.

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For the lazy like myself

This video is about how to degoogle your life, czyli [in Polish] to minimize your reliance on Google products and services.

In the first part of the video, the speaker discusses why you might want to degoogle your life. They mention that Google collects a lot of data on its users, and that this data is used to target ads and to train machine learning algorithms. The speaker also argues that Google's services are becoming less and less usable.

The speaker then provides a number of alternatives to Google products and services. Here are a few examples:

  • Search engines: DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Ecosia, Brave Search
  • Email: Proton, Tuta
  • Photo backup: Ente, Stingle, PhotoSync, Image
  • DNS: Quad9, NextDNS, Cloudflare

The speaker acknowledges that there are many other alternatives available, and that this is just a starting point. They also recommend checking out the sponsor of the video, Pulseway, which is a monitoring and management software.

The video ends with a call to action, encouraging viewers to watch part two of the series.

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Google's 😂

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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You could feel sense the marketing team giving themselves high fives as they thought about how happy their boss was with it.

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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That looks like something Sega would've come out with

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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Facts. Though to be fair, it's a design blog, rather than a product blog.

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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All jokes aside, weren't they the first to do the widescreen phones? Plus their camera sensors are in a lot of phones.

sabreW4K3 ,
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Nice. You took it one step further than I would've and in such a nice way.

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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Glad you enjoyed them.

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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Just the other day, me and @rottingleaf "designed" a new messenger to combat things like this: https://lazysoci.al/comment/9619656

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I'm surprised that Slack beat Discord to it.

But yeah, you're right. We need to invest our time, energy and support into self hosted solutions.

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I think that's the issue. We're all so used to the idea of free storage and we're not cognizant of the consequences. If we start holding some of our chips in our own hands, all these corporations won't be able to sell us out and abuse us so easily.

Also thank you!

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The problem with Signal is that it's just not very user orientated.

sabreW4K3 ,
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Further helping the Chinese? Come TF on and get real. When did America ever help China? In fact when did America help anyone? America got greedy and has sucked all of the possible profit they could from American industry, when they decided to outsource it.

It started off as raw materials and then became wholesale manufacturing and China quickly became very good at making all the things you felt you were too good to make and then became very good at the things you needed them to make and now they're just all round very good at doing all the things that you stopped doing so a handful of executives could have a larger bonus.

Help the Chinese? You're drowning in your own shit and demanding China save you like you're doing them a favour. America, the UK, let's just say, the West in general needs China more than China needs us and its because of greedy CEOs and politicians who only see things in the short term. The idea that you're helping China is your propaganda, it's not reality.

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Without Western outsourcing, China would be economically like North Korea.

Would/Could/Should

I have a feeling you're on of those guys that thinks NK is Wakanda, though, so maybe that's not as useful an analogy as I'd hope.

Ad hominem attacks, really?! Have a good day.

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I remember I used to use Winamp then Sonique then Foobar 2000 and that's when I switched to Linux.

sabreW4K3 ,
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Yep, the press release says opening the source code. It also says they're inviting developers to contribute.

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I'm assuming that they don't have enough revenue to continue paying developers, so they're trying to find free labour and this is the last gasp attempt to keep WinAmp alive.

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Google under Sundar Pichai is a terrible company that only succeeds based on its size and monopoly. Let's be honest, they're saying that search results will become secondary as they push their service. How do you, as a CEO and board, sign off on an idea that kills most of your (ad) revenue pursuing something that you haven't even figured out how to monetize? Make it make sense.

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There's a bunch of things you can add to normal blinds to make them smart, the problem you'll face is that most of them are battery powered.

First example: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EGSpRhZ

Second example: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EwOUwWR

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Sorry I couldn't be of more help

sabreW4K3 ,
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You're right and all my blinds are Venetian, so I should've thought of that.

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Whittaker —a former Google employee— argues that the entire premise of the anti-scam call feature poses a potential threat. That’s because Google could potentially program the same technology to scan for other keywords, like asking for access to abortion services.

“It lays the path for centralized, device-level client-side scanning,” she said in a post on Twitter/X. “From detecting 'scams' it's a short step to ‘detecting patterns commonly associated w/ seeking reproductive care’ or ‘commonly associated w/ providing LGBTQ resources' or ‘commonly associated with tech worker whistleblowing.’”

Absolutely. I'm just surprised that they weren't doing this already.

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Google said, "yo, we heard you liked search, so we gave you AI with a slither of search and we will ram it down your throat until you feel like you can't live without it, because walled gardens are the best and we can't figure out a way to trap you in ours" 🥴

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Google will be sued again by the big publications and will pay out. But little independent publications will die as people get used to not leaving the search engine.

sabreW4K3 ,
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In my grandpa's thick Jamaican accent: "you fucker, you!"

sabreW4K3 ,
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😂

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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You're my favourite person of this thread so far. Way more information than I need, but the type of post you can come back to and learn things from over and over. Thank you.

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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Thanks actually quite reasonable.

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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Realistically thinking, my domain name, email, VPN and IPTV are the only things I'm gonna be paying for in the next few months. If that came to £200 a month, I'd die 😭

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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Stop, I'm starting to get excited! 😭

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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Those man hours rack up, but I bet you still feel exhilarated when you get something working or fix something.

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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😂😂😂

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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It seems a few people are using them for more than just self-hosting, which is quite cool

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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Is the firewall something you've needed?

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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I'll check when I go downstairs.

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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I totally forgot. But I'm in front of my TV now. Sadly I can't test. It won't let me into the app unless I log in.

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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How did it go?

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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Glad you're sorted.

sabreW4K3 ,
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Forgive me if I sound like I'm trying to over simplify things.

So your coordinator is the piece of hardware that listens for Zigbee devices. You typically plug your coordinator into your Pi or NUC on an extension cable and coupled with an add-on in Home Assistant or two, it will convert that to Mosquitto which is a Home Assistant readable format.

When you're going through things, just make as many threads as need be and people will offer advice. In the meantime, this video should help

https://youtu.be/sFSqgiOoPMs

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