I’ve started archiving my media much more vigorously. Due to the corpos enshitifying so much, the amount of media I have ripped and preserved on my own NAS has exploded.

I started torrenting again for the first time since college.

I gave up reddit and use Lemmy and Fediverse exclusively, except for the occasional tech issue I have and then search old reddits for advice/solutions.

I watch YT exclusively through GrayJay, NewPipe, and FreeTube now.

I’ve become much more active converting people to Linux. So far I convinced two friends to buy Steam Decks, one friend to buy a Framework laptop and put Fedora on it, converted my parents to Linux Mint, and may have two more people switching to Linux on their main computers in the coming year.

I’ve also been pushing more FOSS software and hardware to family and friends, trying to convince them to care more about right to repair, FOSS and the like.

This year I am planning to build a new NAS that will be a self-hosted defeater for streaming and get my close friends and family onboard. Hopefully they will slowly give up their subscriptions.

We’ll see how it all goes, but I’m very optimistic about FOSS tech in the coming months and years, so much great stuff happening!

• Switched to Linux
• Switched to Firefox
• Set up email forwarding to a new account on Proton Mail
• Finally upgraded my PC

• deleted my Reddit account. Only use it if I land there from a web search
• Started using Firefox containers - keep Amazon, Google, Microsoft etc in their own containers
• Deleted my Dropbox account when they started deploying AI tools late 23. About to delete Google Drive.
• Migrated to paid Protonmail. Intend to wipe my Gmail data in next couple of months
• Migrated to paid data backup service
• Bought a steam deck, connected it to my living room TV and now PC game in my living room (had a steam link but never got into it before, but steam deck has changed how I play)
• Cancelled most streaming services
• Started using Freetube software and Libredirect to escape YouTube
• Installed fdroid open source store on my phone and switched to many foss and non cloud apps.

Basically mostly I’ve started taking my privacy and data much more seriously. I was already privacy “aware” but the explosion of so called AI tools in my industry (healthcare) has made me realise the value and importance of my data, and how much of it is being stolen and exploited by private interests. There are also examples of how private data is being extracted from this bullshit AI tools.

I’m increasingly understanding how important it is now to actively protect my data and also fragment my internet presence as much as possible.

I’ve stopped trusting anything online due to AI being a cancer on the internet and it’s only going to get worse.

No more Reddit

Deleted my Twitter account and switched from Reddit (accounts are not deleted) to Lemmy.

Switched from Chrome back to Firefox after more than a decade.

Dropped Windows in favor of Linux Mint.

Unsubscribed from Netflix, Disney+, etc. Now I only torrent the films, series, etc. that I know I’ll watch more than once, for stuff that I only plan on watching once I use Stremio with the Torrentio add-on.

Started using my old Facebook account after several years just for Marketplace.

That’s all I can remember at the moment.

EDIT: Oh yeah, ditched PornHub for NoodleMagazine.

• Dropped Reddit and Twitter completely. Actually deleted my Reddit account and deleted most of my Twitter history.
• Stopped using Gmail as my primary email.
• Went back to DVD and Blu-Ray for shows and movies I think I might want to rewatch.
• Slowly importing stuff I’ve posted on various social media to my website.
• Slowly moving stuff off of Google Drive and Dropbox to my local PC and/or Nextcloud.
• Finally set up my Nextcloud server to use object storage so I can use it for auto-uploads without worrying about space.
• Tried out a bunch of different Fediverse platforms.
• Made more of an effort to report bugs instead of just living with them or using something else.
• Deleted Chrome as my secondary browser and installed Vivaldi. (I’ve been using Firefox as my primary for a while.)

Moving stuff is slow because I don’t want to just copy it all over, I want to decide what to keep in the process.

• I stopped using reddit and created this lemmy account.
• SSD failed on my desktop system, so I switched my gaming 100% to steam deck and bought Raspberry pi 400 for browsing the internet, light video editing and bank stuff.

That’s about it.

Dumped reddit, Google, streaming, android apps and Facebook. Replaced with proton, Plex, Lemmy. Grapheneos, kagi and mastodon.

• Ditched Reddit for Lemmy

• Twitter for Mastodon

• Netflix, Apple+, Prime for Plex

• Gmail for Protonmail

• Outlook for Thunderbird

• partly Degoogled my android Smartphone

• switched from Vanced to Re-vanced

• Chrome for Firefox with add-ons

• Alexa for Home Assistant

• Partly switched off telemetry on Windows 10

• Got my first all unlimited contract on my smartphone

• Upgraded my ADSL to 200 Mbps

• Used FOSS quite more frequently

• Used Calibre for the first time

• Learned a lot about emulators on PC

Tbh, didn’t realised about all these things until I wrote them down

edit: formating

• Stopped using reddit & facebook

• started using the fediverse

• Got my own domain and set up an email via proton

• vanced->revanced->greyjay

I finally overhauled my home server. I built a 12TB storage and media server using a few parts from the old server but am running it on Linux using docker rather than my old gaming PC’s windows 7 install. Should be much better for security and easier to upgrade or move.

Paid for PlexPass finally since hardware transcoding is locked behind the paywall.

Dropped Netflix after over a decade of using it regularly because the prices went up and I had been using it less.

Have used ChatGPT for help planning trips and developing goals and plans at home. I was restricted from using it or anything like it at work so I haven’t been able to properly use it to my advantage much.

Finally upgraded my router to WiFi 6 and my Internet bandwidth to gigabit from 250 mbps. It’s refreshing! Probably the best decision I made in 2023.

Dropped reddit (to include blocking the domain on my pihole). I still waste time but less of it is on social media.

One of the national mobile networks finally put up a blisteringly fast 5G mast near my house. I have finally reached the totally cable-free nirvana I dreamt of in 1997 when I held my first Motorola Startac in my hand and took an office call on a park bench.

Ditched centralized social media and started a personal diary

I finally got myself a pihole up and running. Yeah and the regular stuff… ditched reddit, got protonmail and trying to move my kids to using popos.