Farhan Tajuddin

@fat8893
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If you’re feeling trapped within the Big Tech apps you rely on, Canadian tech critic @parismarx shares his list of global alternatives and his progress in trying to divest.

“It’s not an easy task to reject services that have become so ubiquitous and are made to be easy to use.”

https://disconnect.blog/we-need-to-reassess-our-relationship-to-digital-tech/

We need to reassess our relationship to digital tech

Getting off US tech led me to a wider questioning of digital convenience

Disconnect

"Your quote for the deliverables requested was much higher than we anticipated and outside our budget for this campaign. We thought you would just be so overjoyed at the opportunity to handle our gray-label accessory, you'd jump at the chance to do days worth of work, and field our endless notes on revisions. We really wanted to build a long term relationship of using you for dirt cheap marketing, but with high quality production expectations. We sadly won't be moving forward with this collaboration."

Bullet dodged!

Friendly reminder to Apple users, if your subscriptions suddenly get more expensive over the next couple months, it's probably not services or creators getting greedy. Apple is an insufferable bully about payments and is mandating a percentage of all subscriptions paid through their payment processing. One example, Patreon subscriptions https://www.patreon.com/posts/apple-has-its-on-148395613

Apple lost a court case against Epic, so now you can pay for things through alternative payments systems on the iPhone, but if you keep using Apple payment processing, they're going to try and make it look like the subscription is getting greedy. They're hoping services and creators will just eat the price hikes to not upset Apple users.

I doubt many services or creators will take that hit when Apple users can pay outside the App Store's greed.

I really thought we would have moved on by now, but I'm still getting requests to review USB drives based on a "standard" that doesn't really exist. https://youtu.be/Y_OCsYdSQ4k

So moving forward, I think I'll connect these drives to a USB4 port, and show that you can only get HALF the speed advertised by the manufacturer...

#tech #technology #technews #youtube #geek #gadgets #video

We can just admit that USB SSD speeds are basically lies now, right?

YouTube
My "favorite" is being subscribed to my friend's YouTube channel (TK Bay), and I've SMASHED THAT BELL, and I KNOW he put out a video yesterday, but I got no notification AND it's not in my subscription feed.
Youtube is actively working AGAINST creators.
Building a smartphone #photography community for #Android users on Digg. You should share some photos!
https://digg.com/shot-on-android

Is this the perfect gift for film fans? Going hands on with the Rokid Spatial AR Bundle for the holidays!
https://youtu.be/moE8epnPzMo

It's not every day you can gift someone a movie theater screen that can fold up and fit in a shirt pocket!

#tech #technology #technews #gadgets #geek #ar #android

The Perfect Holiday Gift for Film Fans and Techies? Rokid Spatial AR Tour!

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Another CES on the books! Here's a rundown of some of the products and trends I saw from the show floor in Las Vegas! Was there more than just AI?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn5tYsv9fqE

#tech #technology #technews #ces #ces2026 #geek #AI

CES 2026 Recap: AI in your PC, AI in your Phone, AI on your Face?

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Your phone is crazy powerful. It just needs some better hardware to USE all that power! https://youtu.be/4fAteJ-zkEc
The new NexDock looks a little lacking on paper, but I think I like this experience better than the last model...

#android #tech #technology #technews #review #video #youtube #PC

Your Phone COULD Be Your Laptop, But is This New NexDock an Upgrade?

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It's a BIGGER mini PC! Great performance from the AMD chip in this computer, but what's going on with the RAM? Are components getting too expensive?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwI6PIiryCM

Geekom A7 Max Review is GO!

#tech #technology #windows #pc #amd #geek #gadgets #youtube #video #review

Geekom A7 Max Mini-PC Review: BIG Performance, Shame About the RAM Though...

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