| quote | Originally posted by MidEngineManiac:
What did you replace all the other services with ?
Gmail...blogger...drive....documents...android.....Google are left-wingNUTS and suck, but they DO make it sooooooo damn easy to be integrated wherever you go.
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I'm retired and out of the workforce so I have little need for most of that stuff.
However, I use Yahoo for e-mail but never anything of importance.
Blogger????? Not sure what that is.
By "drive" and "documents" I suppose you mean something on the cloud. I keep all the important stuff on a thumb drive in the safe deposit box. Every couple of months I download the bulk of it to another thumb drive and switch it out with the one in the box.
And I don't do Android. In fact, the only cell phone we have is a pay as you go unit we take on trips. Sometimes we go away for a weekend and about an hour into the trip one of us will ask the other about the phone. Turns out about 1/2 the time we both forgot it. Hasn't ruined a trip yet. In fact, a couple of times some family drama has occurred and we didn't know about it until we got home. Not knowing didn't change a damn thing but it would have ruined a perfectly good weekend if we'd had.
I know this sounds stone age to some of you but really, you can do without A LOT of these so called conveniences. And yes, I understand that business must be done through many of these devices.
And don't get me started with Alexa. Who the f*ck thinks its a good idea to have a microphone in their house recording everything they say?
Oh, they don't store the recordings, you say?
heh, right.