Matt Gemmell π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ ΏAnother painful one to write, given my life-long love of Apple.
The world must extricate itself from US big tech: https://mattgemmell.scot/liberty-as-resistance/
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I very much appreciate this article. I have a similar Apple footprint and a love for their βit just worksβ feature list. (Although I could argue that Apples recent design choices have not been as good their track record so they are being carried by nostalgic momentum)
I accept the challenge. This year 2026 will be the year of minimizing my big-tech footprint.
I can buy a mini-pc with Linux on it and use the Mac mini just for games that I never play anyway.
Do I really need to cloud host my photos? Probably not. The world is full of photos and nobody has to have 24/7 99.9999% uptime to see mine. Storing them on the cloud for sharing was convenient for backup, but there are other ways to accomplish that.
Minimizing will not end in zero but by the end of the year I will have alternatives for everything but my phone and tablet.
@notveryhandsome Got a particular machine in mind?
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I have a 2011 MacBook Pro. Might as well run Ubuntu.
But I would get a small box pc and stick it behind my monitor. I need a big monitor for when I bring my work laptop home, so I just switch inputs on a usb hub and everything works.
I would enjoy recommendations for that.
The Mac mini is a) for steam games b) Adobe products that I have to ween off of and c) general computing which can be on anything.