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 For good or ill, I seem to be a devout Luddite. The minute I started hearing about Fb's privacy shenanigans, I deleted my account with extreme prejudice. (I'd already started to avoid it, bc old unwanted acquainances kept bubbling up out of the woodwork.) Never had an interaction with Ig until after Fb bought it, so was never a temptation. Being tech avoidant has its price, but def certain advantages 😂 & chronic poverty limits the impulse spending. 9 comments
Yeah, that whole conscience/livelihood tradeoff is a killer. I discovered a long time ago that by far the easiest way to break a bad habit is to never start 😂 & I am deeply & profoundly lazy, so.... > I've largely sworn off Amazon, too. I get that they're impossible to avoid completely, & my little wallet-vote doesn't amount to a hill of beans, but where I have choice I exercise it. I remember back when they were just dodgey & not yet openly evil, I kept thinking "Seduced by the convenient side of the Force" every time I'd make a 1-Click purchase. At least avoiding them minimizes the stain on /my/ soul...? Oh, plastic is a whole 'NOTHER kettle of fish altogether. The worst part of it is it's SO GODDAMN USEFUL. & there are functions for which, really, nothing else will do. But the whole "Throw Away" economy is just asdf;eaefwkae a;feaefwkjl ::foams at mouth:: And at this stage, it's /impossible/ to avoid. Especially if you have any fantasies of wanting to, you know, eat. Or get medical care. And (ATM) there's just no financial incentive to find alternatives. 🤬🤬🤬 >  @cavyherd @sdeltergo @samir Ditto with Amazon and its subsidiaries, though getting rid of AWS took years after one of my IT friends put us on it. Long story but it was hard when youʼre not a computer expert! By all accounts it's hard even if you /are/ a computer expert. AWS has wormed its way so deep into the infrastructure of the internet, it's basically impossible to avoid, at this point, from what I understand. @cavyherd @sdeltergo @samir Plus it has the worst UI of any major site that Iʼve seen in a long time. Nothing in there is comprehensible to a layperson. The worst value for money, too. No wonder they are getting richer and richer. |
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@cavyherd @sdeltergo @samir I admire your approach! I left a lot of the Big Tech sites but weaned myself off. But then I had to find a way to continue looking after clients while minimizing my time on their platforms.