’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech.
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@CiaraNi jeg er godt tilfreds med Ente til mine fotos https://ente.io/
@Flatus Tak. Jeg har også prøvet Ente. Den har mange super features. Jeg kørte dog ind i to (for mig) udfordringer. Den er US-baseret. Og den giver ikke, bedst jeg kan se fra en ordenligt prøve, mulighed for at strukture fotos i filer og mapper. Kun albummer. Jeg håber at finde noget tilsvarende, bare i EU og med arkiveringstruktur.
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Before I could pick my 2026 goal for #DanmarkSkifter, I did a digital status. I was mildly surprised when I saw my 2025 digital changes together. I looked at the list and thought: ’Tell me you hang out in the Fediverse without telling me you hang out in the Fediverse.’
From Outlook to Tuta
From Office to Libre
From MS Authenticator to Ente Authenticator
From Google Play to F-Droid
From Spotify to AntennaPod
From Firefox to Vivaldi
From DuckDuckGo to NoAIDuckDuckGo
And I bought a back-up drive.Talking from experience I'd add one thing (if it's a manual action):
Regular calendar reminder to actually do the backup.
edit: not that the reminder actually makes one do the action.. but it's a start.
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’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
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@CiaraNi Nice ! Halfway that road, not fully yet.
Android is the weak point, need to figure that out.
Special for Maps for the few times we still need a car.
Laptop and PC are older ones. Running very smooth with Linux, no Big Bros there anymore.@hanktank61 Every move helps. We were entangled in and by these solutions for years and decades, no wonder it takes time to move. I was so overwhelmed by the need to move Everything All At Once that I did nothing. Then I got so cross at the constant enshittification that I decided to just move different things at my own pace in a way that I could manage. 'Something better than nothing.' Bit by bit, we get there.
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’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
I sync my Photos automatic to my PC, when I come home and my smartphone switch to my Wifi. Then Syncthing do the rest for me.
Syncthing:
https://syncthing.net/Syncthing on Android:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingfork/ -
@sebastian @Flatus Thanks for the tip. I did browse around in NextCloud's solutions but couldn't see a simple off-the-shelf one for a non-tech person like me who just wants it to plug-and-play work. I've been waiting to see Tuta's drive. Then the DanmarkSkifter campaign nudged to me to stop faffing around - get off OneDrive now, get the photos backed up, then pick the right cloud solution after that. Otherwise I'll never take that final step.
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’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
@CiaraNi I am delighted to hear this good news from Denmark! Let us turn our backs on Big Tech!
#DanmarkSkifter #DigitalIndependence #did #dut #DigitalIndependenceDay #Fediverse #Europe #KickBigTech #DigitaleUnabhaengigkeit #Denmark
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@CiaraNi many people would like to delete Microsoft ;)
@mirabilos Ha yes :-) I hope it's obvious what I meant - it was just my shorthand way of saying 'empty my account, delete my account, cancel my subscription'.
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@mirabilos Ha yes :-) I hope it's obvious what I meant - it was just my shorthand way of saying 'empty my account, delete my account, cancel my subscription'.
@CiaraNi yeah, but still, the idea 😹
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’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
We need a EuropeShifts.
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’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
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Talking from experience I'd add one thing (if it's a manual action):
Regular calendar reminder to actually do the backup.
edit: not that the reminder actually makes one do the action.. but it's a start.
@Pepijn Thanks, that's a good tip. Yes, it's a manual back-up. Just like in the old days, back when the internet was enjoyable. I have now, literally this minute, put a reminder in my calendar. Tak.
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@Crisper Tak for forslagene og navnene. Dem vil jeg undersøge.
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Talking from experience I'd add one thing (if it's a manual action):
Regular calendar reminder to actually do the backup.
edit: not that the reminder actually makes one do the action.. but it's a start.
@Pepijn it does actually, if you make backing things up easy enough. 😅
This is super nerdy, but I have an entry in my monitoring software that expects at least one manual backup per week. "Manual" means that I have to take a USB drive and plug it in. With some Linux magic, once this exact drive is plugged it, it will automatically start a backup job and send me a push notification when it's done and tell my monitoring that a backup was created. 😁
If I forget about it, I'll get nagging reminders until I do it.
@CiaraNi -
I sync my Photos automatic to my PC, when I come home and my smartphone switch to my Wifi. Then Syncthing do the rest for me.
Syncthing:
https://syncthing.net/Syncthing on Android:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingfork/@Bodo Interesting. That sounds effective. I must look at that. Thanks for the tip.
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@Pepijn Thanks, that's a good tip. Yes, it's a manual back-up. Just like in the old days, back when the internet was enjoyable. I have now, literally this minute, put a reminder in my calendar. Tak.
@CiaraNi Super!
I wasn't trying to be pedantic btw. It's just that we have the same setup and even though I DO remember (I told myself "this is a thing on the first sunday of the month") for the past months life got in the way.
And then on Friday evening my laptop crapped out.. I eventually fixed it but it would've been very frustrating to have the backup disk be very much out of date.
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@Crisper Tak for forslagene og navnene. Dem vil jeg undersøge.
@CiaraNi helt ok, jeg bruger filen.io som en daily driver på min Linux maskine. Og jeg har ikke noget at klage over.
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@Pepijn it does actually, if you make backing things up easy enough. 😅
This is super nerdy, but I have an entry in my monitoring software that expects at least one manual backup per week. "Manual" means that I have to take a USB drive and plug it in. With some Linux magic, once this exact drive is plugged it, it will automatically start a backup job and send me a push notification when it's done and tell my monitoring that a backup was created. 😁
If I forget about it, I'll get nagging reminders until I do it.
@CiaraNi@irgndsondepp I'm pretty certain some people here would appreciate a tiny manual ;-)
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@CiaraNi I am delighted to hear this good news from Denmark! Let us turn our backs on Big Tech!
#DanmarkSkifter #DigitalIndependence #did #dut #DigitalIndependenceDay #Fediverse #Europe #KickBigTech #DigitaleUnabhaengigkeit #Denmark
@chris It feels quite liberating. And oh the relief of getting away from ads and AI as much as possible!
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@CiaraNi yeah, but still, the idea 😹
@mirabilos It would be an excellent idea!
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