Somtimes things just need to change
I’m James Wolner. If you’re here looking for information on my podcast or documentary films you can find all that over at DakotaSpotlight.com
This blog tracks my goal for the next few months: to get off of as much US-based “big tech” as possible. (Gmail, Google, Apple, Spotify (okay not US but still), YouTube, Chrome, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter to name just a few). Not saying I won’t ever watch a YouTube video again, I just won’t have the app on my devices, and will visit youtube.com on a web browser that is not spying on me.
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Goodbye Google #3
Another of my way-too-many Google accounts has been deleted. Spring cleaning during the late summer, I guess. Read more ⇢
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Gone Google #2
Managed today to close another google account. This one was one I didn’t use all that often for email and was more for storage. Moved the data to proton, skimmed… Read more ⇢
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Your Google Account has been Deleted
Oh Happy Day!! I have a few Google/Gmail accounts I’ve picked up over the years. Before I even started my now, somewhat successful, podcast, I learned how to create podcasts… Read more ⇢
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Status Update
I thought a status update is in order, mostly to force myself to jot this down and get organized in my thoughts: Google. No longer paying google 3 dollars a… Read more ⇢
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Looking out at the breathtaking landscape of poor grammer and spelling mistakes
This blog started very spontaneously as a way to document, mostly for myself, how well I will succeed or how terribly I’ll fail at my quest to move away from… Read more ⇢
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Finally looking forward to things instead of burning through everything all day long
A funny thing happened today. I mentioned in a post earlier today that I left home for the second day in a row without my cellphone. Returned both days after… Read more ⇢
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Lost my first friend by divorcing Big Tech
I just learned that I’ll be losing a friend over this. I exaggerate. It’s not that we won’t be friends, we probably just won’t keep in touch as much. Here’s… Read more ⇢
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My memories of Microsoft will float away forever in the prairie wind
Successfully installed Ubuntu Linux on my laptop. For now its a dual-boot situation as I evaluate which thangs…if any…I can’t get done with linux. About 6 years ago I was… Read more ⇢
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Forgetting Facebook (almost)
Facebook is one of those giants that falls into the category of Business-Needed. I want off of F%%book, but I also have a FB group with 5k members that I’d… Read more ⇢
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Vivaldi Web Browser
So far so good (well almost) with ditching Chrome for Vivaldi webrowser. I ran into a situation where a couple of online logins do not work for me (yet) on… Read more ⇢