Hey everyone,

I’ve been thinking a lot about how to help my parents reduce their reliance on American Big Tech (Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.). They’re not tech-savvy, and I don’t want to overwhelm them or make them feel like I’m forcing a radical change. At the same time, I’m concerned about privacy, data collection, and the monopolistic practices of these companies.

Any ideas? First of all I thought about ecosia, I see that it returns more similar results to google than Qwant.

I want to buy them Threema licence.

I installed Le Chat as chatgpt replacement, moved some documents to Synology Nas

What’s next?

  • thetrekkersparky@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    3 days ago

    So my grandparents had somehow signed up for a free trial of office or 365 or whatever. They ended up getting locked put of opening documents because they didn’t want to give the computer their credit card. I was able to fairly easily convince them that Libre office was the was to go. They were pretty thrilled.

    I’m thinking of giving them a linux PC to try out at some point as they mostly use it for Facebook and excel spreadsheets anyway.