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.)

  • Sparrow_1029English
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    11 months ago
    • I turned my old desktop into a home server, which let me cancel some streaming services… and I set up an rpi4 as a kodi server.
    • Signed up for Firefox Relay (had a holiday sale) to have email masks and a proxy phone number, which should help with spam & marketing crap.
    • Stopped using Reddit in favor of lemmy (which I hope to contribute to this year)
    • Gonna have to find a replacement for mint, since it’s dying this month
    • BoisZoi@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Firefox Relay and email relaying/forwarding services are so useful, not just from a privacy point of view, but also being in control of accounts simply by turning off forwarding for a specific email, or just deleting the forwarding email all together. I use iCloud’s Hide My Email.