With MS’s purchase of GitHub, can one really set up a Linux machine without using MS resources?

With MS’s purchase of GitHub, can one really set up a Linux machine without using MS resources?

Maybe the EU can fine phone companies for discriminating against women who want phones that fit in their jean’s pockets?!

At least livers regenerate nicely!

And the best free period tracker there is!

All the cool kids use TeX in Notepad++ and compile it at completion!

I think you mean “barring all the good stuff” in Excel! :)

...that means this isn’t a smartphone option for me during the last week of the experiment when I plan to block all five big tech companies at once.

Thank you for this.

Apple seems fairly straightforward by itself, but she says she’ll try and go without all of them simultaneously, and not having Apple as an alternative then seems like it’ll be horrible.

I think it’d be interesting to see the same series done by people in different countries. Since I left the US, I don’t use Amazon anymore (except, of course, AWS, which is ubiquitous), but I had to reopen my defunct Facebook account in order to function normally in society. (Even my non-smart-phone-using cousin has a…

“raptor claws” and “gosh-dang-golly”

Thanks for this!

Obviously there are books, but I was referring to the fact that one would have to order such books online. The specialty bookstores around me are not particularly geared towards off-grid living. My local library certainly does not have such info.

While I know women who have never been stalked or threatened, I don’t know a single women without a friend (real friend, not just FB connection) who has been.

Really? ‘Cause my take-away was “wow, I can’t access anything on the internet!”

Good luck living off the land without first purchasing supplies to live off the land with and resources for learning how to do so!

Even without user data, traffic patterns can be very revealing.

I found that the most informative part of the article. I think the author is correct in that Amazon the conglomerate must be analyzing AWS traffic in order to develop their own products, and I was quite ignorant as to the extent of AWS in general online services.

They also allow you to switch between accounts without logging out of any. That’s what my extended family does; individual accounts for browsing products, then switch into a shared Prime account for making purchases.