Using Linux mint instead of Microsoft. The windows 11 update fiasco made that easy.
Also: Google photos> photoprism and immich
I’d like to host my own email at some point too and move away from Gmail . or at least have a offline copy of my emails combined with an online EU service.
I’ve tried to keep on top of not allowing ai to crawl through my personal data on various services. Google going through my emails is like going through my physical letters, it’s extremely intrusive.
It’s getting tiresome. I think next year I’ll have a go at self hosting my emails. Email is one of the big things I have kept online and the same as everything is linked to it. It’s like your digital address.
Most users are just quietly accepting the significant loss of privacy, especially nowadays as a lot of our lives are online. I don’t believe there will be any pushback from users, governments need to step in but they are seemingly unwilling to.