Canada has more than 2 coasts, we have a third coast up north!
Reannlegge
joined 6 months ago
I tried use hosthero.ca to host all of my email, I have unlimited email addresses. I create a new email address for everything and everybody.
I cancelled all of my US streaming services and started paying for CBC gem if I so want to watch the news.
I stopped using Facebook proper long before the boycott, and only used messenger but have not used it for a long time. A group I belong to uses discord I tried to get them to move off of that but the group as a whole would find it difficult to move to whatever else I found (do not remember what it was). I try to avoid using using Reddit and have replaced it with lemmy.ca to use lemmy. The only reason I have a Bluesky account is because one of the creators I follow posts on there when he is going live.
Most of my web services I have moved away from the US things, and have replaced them with Canadian things. I also use a pair of piholes to block ads many of which are sold by google and other US companies. I wish there was a real alternative to YouTube as I could move to that rather than using Unwatched to block ads.
I self host a lot of things to but I still have a cloud provider (sync.com as it is Canadian) and a Canadian web host service (hosthero.ca) for my web site and now my email. I have broken my home lab (made up of raspberry pi’s) to many times to trust running anything for my password manager so I have 1Password, another Canadian company. I stopped using google services (minus youtube) long ago so I found another authenticator app; I should maybe move all that stuff to 1Password as well, but I do like having separate apps for that stuff. I stopped paying for youtube premium and started using Unwatched so that I am not paying for ads. I have cancelled all of my US streaming services and moved to the high C’s for those things, and host them out of my home. Maybe if my Mac Pro still could connect to the internet, no idea what is wrong with it, I would use that to host more of my stuff.
I found out that my ISP has moved to an exchange server, and I cancelled most of my Apple services so hide my email is no longer available to so now I am in the process of moving everything to their own email address from my old email addresses. I already got very little spam and for the first time in months I got some spam today.
Small pox has entered the chat!
Wow what a fail!
I believe it was someone on Lemmy that suggested it to me, but no problem in passing it on.
No the fact that they where being indoctrinated as Christian had no relevance to that story.
I encourage others to find ways of getting off of US services and hopefully Carney will not chicken out and put that retroactive DST in and all the major brands will be massively hurt not only by the tax but the drop in Canadian subscribers. I really wish people and companies would get off of Amazon services.
Pi-hole all the way.
It will be impossible to make a trade deal with Trump. I think he should put that retroactive DST back in place.