I’ve found John Lewis and Argos to be pretty decent replacements for Amazon. Similar shipping times, and decent variety.

It doesn’t matter how perfect or sloppy I pick out cars, buses, bicycles or stairs, it still makes me do at least 3 rounds before relenting. Captchas are the bane of my existence.

Even worse is cloudflare’s infinite loop captcha that never actually lets me through. That one absolutely hates my firefox for some reason and forces me to use chrome.

Still, I’m extremely stubborn and refuse to give up my vpn and privacy, so I just suffer through.

Sensodyne. Too many fizzy drinks as a teenager, unfortunately.

You could give rclone + cryptomator a try if you’re concerned they can see your files. They’ll only ever see encrypted files that way.

Biggest thing would be migrating to the Fediverse for Reddit / Twitter, and deleting every big tech account I had.

I’ve also migrated pretty much everything other than email (since big tech prevents you hosting your own) to my homelab. Gives me stuff to tinker with and it’s nice knowing my data is fully private, at least until HTTPS is broken by quantum computers.

Yeah I always looked down on the pro-LGBTQ marketing during pride. If your only interest in supporting people like me is to try and sell me shit in rainbow colours one day of the year, then you’re not interested in diversity at all.

Exactly, we’ve already seen this in the past. GDPR is a good example. Whilst I’m glad this regulation exists, it wouldn’t be necessary if megacorps would have behaved.

I wish these companies would realise that acting like this is a very fast way to get scraping outlawed altogether, which is a shame because it can be genuinely useful (archival, automation, etc).

I use jtx Board with a CalDAV server. Not sure on where the jtx devs are based but at the very least it’s open source and based on open standards.