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So it ends up that apple’s board meets on 2/25 and will decide on any dei changes. If they fold, I’m full out of apple. If not, I’ll probably stay where I’m at, partly still apple. but I’ll always hold a big giant “fuck Tim Cook” grudge and will never truly trust apple again.

Musk goon Gavin Kliger thinks of himself as a tech-iconoclast but is really just a racist, insecure, musk-infatuated kid who (IMO) should be nowhere near our national government. This from his twitter history. Maybe I'll post up a summary later: web.archive.org/web/*/https:...

I had to screenshot this.

Why is it so hard to cancel online services? Rhetorical question, dammit. Looking at you Yahoo (need to wait 90 days after canceling premium, which runs until the end of the period), and MS (so many layers if you've ever created an azure account), and Apple (absolute nightmare).

1/20 will be anniversary date for my breakup with big tech. Goodbye apple music and icloud, microsoft azure, yahoo email. Already in the rear view mirror are amazon and google. Feels so damn good.

My focussed project is to decouple from all Apple, Google, and Amazon products and services. They have buried tendrils deep down to my life, so it is not easy ... but each step feels liberating! Earlier this week I ditched my iPhone; today's target was Google Authenticator.