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?
Change happens in waves - first come the early-adopters and enthusiasts, then the curious, then the majority hits, then after the majority come the initial sceptics until everyone is there.
If you apply the same logic in the past, our parents were probably the sceptics who initally said why would they install an app to communicate when they already had perfectly fine cellular calls and SMS, and they had no reason to use WhatsApp.
The same tech we try to move them from, were the same tech we probably spent the same amount of effort trying to get them to use it in the first place.