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   Softwarewolf (faoluin@chitter.xyz)'s status on Friday, 02-Jan-2026 18:44:30 JST Softwarewolf

   I'm really tired of hearing terms like "digital detox".

   We don't need to "detox" from digital. We need to wrest control of digital away from the capitalist oligarchs who have corrupted it into a torment nexus.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Jan-2026 18:44:29 JST Miakoda

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     @faoluin Instead of a "digital detox", I detoxed my digital.
     Google? Moved all my PIM to NextCloud, and my email to a better provider.
     Netflix, Crunchyroll, etc - I ripped a movie collection to a personal server.
     Spotify? I've gone back to buying music, and keeping it on that same personal server.

     Windows? I left Windows back in 2009, and my only regret is I didn't switch to Linux sooner.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jan-2026 01:39:09 JST Miakoda

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     @faoluin So far, my only deliberate AI use was I played with it a bit to get an understanding of what it's doing... poorly.
     I asked it to play along for a story, I playing one of the characters. It could not keep track of what characters can and can't do (like one being unable to eat, or one not knowing a skill), and would make up shit that didn't actually happen earlier, or make characters remember events together from before they met.
     AI makes less sense than the highest stoners.

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     Softwarewolf (faoluin@chitter.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jan-2026 01:39:11 JST Softwarewolf

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     • Miakoda

     @hellomiakoda Right on! I've been on roughly the same journey with Nextcloud, Linux, and email.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jan-2026 01:45:02 JST Miakoda

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     @faoluin Was it amusing to play with? Sure. Amusing enough to be worth the energy and resources it burns? No. Would I trust it with anything? HA No! Maybe I'd let it turn on my lights, since nobody dies if my lights come on at the wrong time... but only if I put it in my own little box and it can't call anybody besides me. I'd much rather just stick to old school voice commands.