I figured this may lead to an interesting discussion in the comments.

How has your use of Technology changed in the past year? I’ll start.

  • Due to the rise of streaming services and Sony/discovery removing content from libraries, I downloaded all my iTunes purchases onto a 2TB SSD (which I’ll soon need to get another).

  • Like many, I’ve stopped using Reddit outside of Google search.

  • I’ve reduced my subscriptions to just two. (Apple One and Google One)

  • I’ve purchased DVDs/Blu rays of my favorite uncensored shows (Family Guy and American Dad) and ripped them and watch them through Cloud storage (Google Drive via Infuse for Apple platforms, and Kodi for Windows)(I’ve also purchased MakeMKV just because it is so damn useful)

  • I’ve used Google App Scripts to bypass some Gmail limitations to make filters that I otherwise couldn’t. For instance, in Outlook.com, you can block email addresses and domains before you have ever gotten an email from them. In Gmail, you can’t. The best you can do is create a filter that deletes them. In my case, I’ve created a Google App Script that runs every hour and looks for (@.mil) domain emails and marks them as spam. (I am in college, and I fucking hate that they give my email to recruiters.)

  • rhabarba@feddit.deEnglish
    11·
    6 months ago
    • Stopped using reddit, went here instead.
    • Intensified my Mastodon usage, winding down my Twitter activity.
    • Started using my own mail server for more than just a few tests.
    • Changed search engines a few times (I’ll probably stick with Kagi now).
    • Reduced my subscriptions and cleaned up my RSS feeds.
    • Stopped doomscrolling (I subscribed to a weekly paper newspaper instead).
    • Started using Ulysses for writing. Works very well.
    • BoisZoi@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      If you subscribe to RSS feeds that sometimes due ads in the form of articles (looking at you daringfireball); services like SiftRSS let you use Regex to filter out titles that match (i.e., sponsor, sponsorship) so you only get organic content.

      • rhabarba@feddit.deEnglish
        11·
        6 months ago

        My RSS reader (Newsblur) lets me do that too, to some extent.