Latest blog posts about Services

I have been using iCloud to synchronize files for more than I can remember. Recently, I became a little annoyed by the political and privacy situation in the united states of america, and I decided to move away from Apple’s iCloud.

Instead of deploying more tools on my homelab like NextCloud or WebDAV, I went with a decentralized solution that surprisingly removed the need to self-host servers for other use cases too!

In the past few months, I started thinking about how I use social networks and the impact they have on my life. Today, I took a strong decision: it’s time to move on from Instagram, a platform that is clearly no longer a social network. How did we get here? Where are we going? I need to dig deeper into my past personal experience with the social network to really understand why I am going to use Mastodon and Pixelfed.

I miss the days when I bought software on my Mac instead of using a subscription. More and more software and services are moving to subscription-based models. In this blog post, I want to share my thoughts on subscriptions, including those that I am grateful for paying for and those that I have stopped paying for. By working with open-source software I learned how important it is to give back and support the developers (and companies) that are providing services that we like, or not paying them if we don’t!