Personally, I found the whole trump thing enough of a reason to finally switch from Gillette razors to a safety razor. Bit of a learning curve but not half bad. And it feels cooler shaving with something you could sort of hurt yourself with.
How about you?
Windows 10 -> Linux:
- I really dodged a bullet not using Windows 11 … is what I would say but just after switching I was told I have access to a free year of updates for Windows 10.
- Linux has not been smooth sailing but it’s been manageable, still trying to find a distro that’s secure, stable, and simple.
- I also had to try to teach someone Windows 11 recently which went about as well as you’d expect.
American candy -> Local candy:
- Less candy = more health and more money. Overall a complete victory.
Microsoft Outlook to Proton Mail:
- I CAN FINALLY ENABLE 2FA.
iOS (10 years old) to GrapheneOS (on a used phone):
- I CAN NO LONGER ENABLE 2FA (on my government services, Proton Mail works fine).
- For once I feel actually good about my phone rather than begrudgingly tolerate it.
Bluesky to anonymous frontend:
- Less Twitter arguments.
American streaming services to foreign services:
- Less stuff to watch means I’m less overwhelmed by choice.
New BalanceLe Coc Sportif and PumaApple MacBook ProTuxedo Computers Infinity Book ProApple iPhone 15used! Google Pixel 6 with Graphene OSiCloudselfhosted Nextcloud, ImmichCloudflare Tunnelsselfhosted Pangolin on Infomaniak VPSUS Streaming Servicesselfhosted Jellyfin + Usenet/Torrents (not paying for fascist supporting companies like Disney, my ancestors flew from the Nazis and fought fascism)usenet
german spotted :D
That’s an insult. I do speak German but I am not German! There’s 5 more countries with German as official language or one of the official languages!
i didn’t want to insult you :) i just noticed that people from the DACH-Area don’t really torrent - which is understandable with these draconic fines.
No fines in my country, downloading for personal use and making copies for personal use is perfectly legal.
I moved my Wordpress host from some US host to hosthero and changed the domain from reannlegge.com to reannlegge.ca.
I have an unlimited email address package with my domain so I can create new email addresses for every thing, I get next to no spam but when I do get spam I can close the email address.
I moved my passwords from Apple to 1password.
I moved my cloud storage away from Apple to stormweb.
I use the app Unwatched to watch YouTube it blocks ads.
I use ecosia instead of Google, sure it currently is just a skin on Google but I believe they are going to be changing their agent sooner or later.
I canceled my cable (for sports) and just got TSN streaming.
I cancelled all the streaming services and replaced it with the *arr apps, and CBC gem.
Most of my food products are Canadian.
I stopped using Reddit and replaced it with Lemmy.
Melitta coffee filtersTechnivormNeither are American companies, but Melitta manufactures theirs in the US.
I was mostly de-Americanized already (I’ve been distancing myself from the USA and US products since 1999), but this year has me completely de-Americanized. The only American product I use is the Android that’s in my phone, but that’s still out of reach of Google because it’s not an American phone. (And when I get a new phone it will be HarmonyOS based likely, not Android. I’m just not going to throw away a functioning phone after the horse has run out the barn.)
The last item I ditched was Coke Zero which I was drinking from habit without thinking. Someone pointed out that it was American, I stared at it and realized that I’d screwed up, so found a really nice iced tea to replace it.
