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  • floofloof@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.worldGoogle hates you
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    1 day ago

    Yes you almost certainly can. It’s less painful than you might imagine. I used Gmail since it was launched, and now that account is unused except for a couple of mailing lists I don’t care about. It just takes a bit of time, but you can do it bit by bit.



  • The Liberals are determined to turn Canada into a surveillance state and share data with other “eyes” countries including the USA. This government is not looking to protect Canadians. And they haven’t taken the objections on board, as evidenced by their statements that they need to “define” encryption, and that “the new amendments will aim to align the bill’s encryption provisions with US counterparts.” How can you look at all the history of the USA spying on its own citizens and think “Yep, Canada should copy that”? Not a government that’s serving Canadians.






  • Thats cool. For now my low-effort version of this is a 25-year-old ELO fanless all-in-one computer running Microsoft Word for DOS and WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS, on Windows XP. There’s no network and I use a USB stick to transfer files. The main worry is that the ancient hard drive will crap out, so I keep a second identical computer with the same software running on Windows 2000 as a backup. WordPerfect seems more stable than Word. I tried using Linux but these are very feeble computers and struggle to run even the lightweight distros.