My way of rebelling against techbros and autocrats:

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@andycarolan £100 a month for these three?!?! OMGGGGGGGGG 😱

This is precisely why I switched to Pixelmator Pro for graphics and DaVinci Resolve for video editing.

These prices are extortionate!!!

[sturmsucht@mastodon.social]

@_elena oh, count me in!

[francoisprague@mastodon.social]

@_elena looking forward to these podcasts about self hosting…

[elopup@mastodon.social]

@_elena

Great idea 🙌🏻 !

I think a podcast could reach even more ppl, who rather listen to podcasts than reading longer blogs. Maybe even with guests sometimes 🤷🏻?

With your projects you’re not just giving yourself hope, but also others 😊 🚀

[amirbkhan@mastodon.social]

@_elena your departure from big tech and embrace of open source and foss mirrors my own personal journey also in timeline!

I’ve been planting the seeds to get my professional livelihood from ethical tech consulting so that’s my primary focus for the 1st quarter of the year. Then alongside I’ll continue with my mission of raising and helping regular people untangle themselves from big tech.

[amirbkhan@mastodon.social]

@_elena @Iloo @Castopod
This is a target audience that certainly needs the help and guidance.
I’m doing that for my family, in-laws, parents, friends and neighbours.
Will certainly tune them to such a podcast if I will provide non techies the tool, tips, insights and most importantly the courage to take the first steps themselves or purchase managed services from ethical providers.

[thecyberwitch@mastodon.social]

@_elena yep the cost and knowledge makes FOSS and self-hosting feel inaccessible to most. In the long run it definitely saves much more, but anything to make it feel like less of a hurdle to friends and family.

I say start with having them practice booting to USB and VMs, dip their toes in and build their confidence.

[snakeoilsalesman@mastodon.social]

@_elena its so fun switching off these mega-corp platforms and apps. you realize you don't actually need most of them at all.

[hielseitan@mastodon.social]

@_elena
https://mastodon.social/@HielSeitan/115721195689700941

[tarxz@mastodon.social]

@_elena still no simple FTP server that doesn't require 287302723 different config files with 0xDEADBEEF command line options.

Honestly if a ftp server is more complicated than `ftpserver $HOME --write --read` then it is a failed one.