Wait this can’t be right 🤨

See people wouldn’t need to install Word if the builtin wordpad opened Word documents. They can upsell it to you and use your data

Wait isn’t OnlyOffice more feature wise closer to MS office, and with a more similar layout? Used it shortly but realized I like the “older” non ribbon UI of LO, but I’m still relearning the old office layout.

Various stuff, some not best practice per se but here it is (more focused on digital sovereignity than anything else these days):

• Degoogled my android phone to the greatest degree without breaking essential stuff. Noticed better battery life so a unintended win
• moved off from Outlook to paid hosted email in my country. Cheap, reliable and have full control over it. Also in case of any issues way easier to get support
• Cancelled M365 subscription as I don’t use office and was using it purely for cheap OneDrive backup for family
• Moved all my files for me and my family off of OneDrive to my Synology NAS. Ended up using more of its functionality, happy with the purchase. Doing the occasional backup to the external drive just in case
• Ditched proprietary authentication apps in favor of Keepassxc. TOTP codes on any synced device so if I lose my mobile phone I don’t get locked out of anything. Local only was mandatory
• For work stuff I use ente auth, separating work and private MFA
• Replaced windows on all my machines with linux. Its become more user friendly in recent years and does not get in my way.
• Replaced all US service providers with EU ones where possible, if any service gets cut off for EU I won’t lose access to anything important, never know with Trump these days…

KDE plasma. Coming from 30 years of running exclusively windows it’s just the most comfortable and easy for me to use (way more than Gnome). Easily configurable, works. Can’t ask for more.

Yep, used Skygrabber, you could filter out files depending on extensions, filenames etc and could narrow out what you wanted. Still had no real way of knowing what you’d end up with as you were effectively just passively listening on the satellite traffic. It was wild as you could fill out a 40 gig drive overnight without issues in the era where people were downloading a MP3 album for hours.

If you had real shitty internet back in the day (read 56k modem) and you liked to play russian roulette you would dump satellite traffic with a skystar2 DVB-S card. You never knew what you’d get realistically, found some true gems underneath mountains of coal in the day of (still) unfiltered internet.