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Good morning!

~bartender? Coffee with cream and sugar, please! Thank you!

In a few "digital detox" sort of moments I have removed a lot of accounts in the last two years, including Xing/linkedin, github, gitlab. Even a site to keep in touch with old school mates. Most were accounts at web shops. And I decided, that I could easily create another account iff I really needed it. The ones I still care about, I connected to a new email address. It reduced the amount of emails I receive quite a bit. And I'm totally fine with that.

Cheers!

ridgewalletjussiesmollett

good luck on your journey. i thought it was ridiculous too seeing these obscure keybumps leading to partnered microsoft software

currently on my own path to eschew google maps and other location-needing direction-finding apps. reclaim lost skills and all that

Good morning,

google maps can be replaced by OpenStreetMap. There is a client OSMand for android (and I'm sure there are more) to show the map. You can download chunks of "the map" to your device, so you don't even need online connection. For navigation while driving I do use a small notebook (with a fairly fat battery), running Debian and Navit plus OSM maps. This has served me well.

ridgewalletjussiesmollett

I actually just transferred all my stuff over from maps.me after their complete annihilation of that app into the pure OSM apk and also got StreetQuest which is just like a pokemonGO style game to walk around and add missing info to OSM

I was meaning more generally divorcing myself from the process of having a machine tell me where to go in my local environment, navigating based on my own map of the area and just accepting the couple minutes of time I might lose, in order to improve life

Well done! I highly respect anyone at least trying to put "the computer" back at it's place: in the tool box. It is not life. And you are on you way! Great!

~bartender? How about something nice for ~ridgewalletjussiesmollett to celebrate this step? Whatever they fancy, it's on me! Cheers!