Category: Beating Big Tech

  • Losing Battle ; Google Owns us now

    I’m learning that getting away from google on a computer is possible, I think. On an android phone… impossible. And its all so much worse than I thought. Meanwhile don’t…

  • Three steps backwards – Google doesn’t want to let me go.

    Today didn’t go as well. I thought I was all ready to delete my google accounts from my android phone … and I did and then the problems showed. The…

  • Goodbye Google #3

    Another of my way-too-many Google accounts has been deleted. Spring cleaning during the late summer, I guess.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…