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I use Linux exclusively at home. I keep my last three generations of smartphone's working and up to-date by running one form of de-googled fork of android or another, mostly based out of Europe. I don't use cloud storage, preferring to use Syncthing to keep certain folders synced between devices without uploading to a cloud server.

I keep a gmail because I've simply had it for so long, that by the time I degoogled, most financial things were using it/have it. But I switched to a couple of others as my primary and am slowly getting things transitioned over.

Both my Mastadon and my Lemmy are official .ca servers hosted in Canada (I think both from the same person/group) and they do an amazing job. So I'm not worried about losing access to that and any non-US instance that they federate with.

Does that mean that there isn't the possibility that my replacement services (mostly french and German) won't enshittify eventually too? No. Of course not. But they're open source, so it's (to me) a higher ethical standard right out of the gate because if you really wanted to be shady, you wouldn't allow thousands of people to peek into your source code, so these replacement services get the benefit of the doubt...for now.

The rise and fall and rise of RIM. Blackberry, here we go!

I've withdrawn to self-hosted local almost entirely. In 9 months, my google account will be shut down all the way.

Although I've lost a little convenience, the shuttering of a ton of other access, accounts, services, etc has been good overall. I can tell you with confidence where my data now lives, and how my information flows around.

There are loose ends; I don't like smart TV apps, but I have to live with those.

I have better attention span, I read way more. And honestly, I've realized that an online life is a lot of management, which I think is a silent mind-killer.

It's convenience only at this point. I'm 90% FOSS, and a cutoff would just make it easier to cut the optional 10%.

Go for it, there's enough open source stuff out there already. I don't need that proprietary garbage.

I'd actually invite it. Watch Canada go open sauce. The people will win at that rate.

It wouldn’t do anything because all those big companies operate completely separate subsidiaries in almost every country on the planet. They would just split off and continue to operate with no changes functionally.

I know for a fact that a lot of our banking IT infrastructure is in the cloud. So that would be a problem right there. I don't think the government uses any of the big cloud services though. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Also, some of those cloud services have data centers in Canada for various reasons including legal ones. Would they still work? I mean Google and Amazon have offices in Canada and data centers. How would that work in this scenario?

I would support it, I think our government should be doing that.

All my music and photos are on my local hardrives

I have been working at cutting the US out of my online stuff, I would like to cut it from my offline digital stuff to.

I have been using pi’s for things for years prior to the boycott but I am using more for more things. I have one that I am setting up as my vpn into my lan, finally getting around to it. I have a pi zero 2 w with the PoE hat that I am going to try and turn into my “smart” home subnet. I have 3 pi 5’s one is solely homeassistant I plan to get away from Siri just have not pulled the plug yet. Another runs my *arr apps and Jellyfin along with being my secondary pihole/DNS provider, the last pi 5 runs things? I know there are things just cannot think of them right now but it also is my primary pihole/DNS server. Sure I could have just got a computer and run those things in containers on a Linux distro but that would involve me getting an x86 processor, or an Apple computer both are no goes for me.

I have a Nextcloud hosted on a Canadian server that I use to replace my iCloud space. I moved my blog from a US host with a .com TLD to HostHero with a .ca TLD, I also got an unlimited email accounts package so that if I need to sign up for something I can give it an unique email address. Each of those unique email addresses forward to specific emails that are on my devices; the amount of spam I get is next to nothing if something starts sending me unwanted emails I can just close the address, which I have done many of times. I have 1Password for my password manager, I would go bitwarden if I did not have habits of messing up something on my LAN frequently.

Because of my 180 something current addresses and my pihole setup Google must hate me, they have no idea of how to sell ads to me. Prior to moving to the boycott I was paying for youtube premium because I got such weird ads so google only saw the spam I was getting in my gmail and what I was watching on YouTube, after the boycott I decided to stop paying and found the app Unwatched that blocks trackers and ads.

I am wanting to get some smart speaker things not made for google or amazon to tie into homeassistant and I am thinking of getting another pi 5 to replace my AppleTV.

i am stuck with FaceTime with family however I am looking at alternative ways to keep it easy for my Grandma.

The only US based services I use are Signal, Bluesky, and YouTube.

Signal. I only E2EE with one person so we can switch to Briar.

I don't care enough about Bluesky to find an alternative but Mastodon might do.

I watch YouTube with a frontend (PipePipe) so I'll probably continue using that.

Email is Proton as is password manager and VPN. I don't use cloud storage.

Edit: corrected my early morning attempts at spelling.

Ive always gone to mouser in past. Whats a good alternative for electronics like resistors and capacitors?

Immich self hosted images, instead of google. Immich is really good. The intiial face recognition naming setup is highly counter intuitive, but once you have labelled your people the facial recognition AI does a good job of grouping images by person. The companion phone app integrates well