For years, I relied on Microsoft’s OneDrive — not for the Office 365 suite, but for its 1TB of cloud storage. It served me well for offsite backups and seamless syncing between my computers and phone. I even used the Personal Vault feature, though more out of curiosity than necessity. Later, I joined a friend’s family plan, making it even more cost-effective.
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I underestimated my dependency to OneDrive
If you’ve followed my blog, youknow that I’m trying to get rid of BigTech services — without sacrificing convenience (too much). Over the year I’ve replaced quite some services, but what I underestimated a bit was OneDrive.
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Feeling Trapped by Big Tech? Just Take the First Step
Do you feel that you are too dependent on Big Tech and overwhelmed by the number of services you use?
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Mistral – the European ChatGPT
OK, I admit that I’m sometimes too focused on technology to realise that not everyone is aware of all the different AI services out there. — This week, I mentioned Mistral.ai to a colleague and was surprised that he hadn’t heard of it. But, as I said, you can’t know everything.
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Have We Left Web Radio Behind?
Since my decision to #unplugTrump, I have consciously moved away from Spotify. Instead, I chose to use Navidrome as my personal music server combined with Symfonium as the client. This setup allowed me to rediscover my own MP3 collection — a treasure of gems I hadn’t listened to in years! And I can tell: I really enjoyed the feeling of reconnecting with my personal music library.
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Goodbye Facebook
Finally! My Facebook account is deleted.
My Facebook-Exit is a long story. I never really used it a lot. I used it mostly to have the possibility to contact some people. Especially from university when they went to other countries or so.
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How to delete all content from LinkedIn
As I’ve written earlier, I’m going more and more away from LinkedIn (like here and here). During my #unplugTrump activity, I decided that I want to go a step further and remove all my content (posts, answers, likes) from LinkedIn. On Mastodon, I have auto-delete activated already for various reasons. Now I wanted to clean up LinkedIn, too!
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Myown #UnplugTrump to more digital sovereignty / digital independence
If you’ve been following my blog, you know that I’m gradually moving away from “classical” Big Tech social media, focusing more on Mastodon and my own homepage.
On Mastodon, I came across Elena Rossini and followed her journey toward greater digital sovereignty. Inspired by her example, I decided to give up my YouTube channel in favor of a self-hosted PeerTube instance.
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