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Using tech with my own well defined intentions

(This blog is A.I free, in writing and development)

I want to base the decisions I make on the base of what is proven to be better for humans. For me that means choosing tech that enhances human virtues, like connection, creativity, honesty, joy, kindness, modesty. Supporting companies like Apple, Google, Meta feels like it’s not fitting. Some of them are purposely exploiting these virtues for money.

I choose not be a part of that.

It also means trading in some of the comfort of a techy lifestyle for more friction. I won't give up my dishwasher, don't worry. Also an EV sounds like an excellent idea to me.

I think of it as finding the balance and defining my own moral compass. So I just sold my iPhone 16 pro, and replaced it with a refurbished Pixel 10 Pro.

The Stack

It's currently running Graphene OS, it has a great mindset of sandboxing the play store and asking you permissions for every little bit of your phone.

  • For Photos: I run my own Immich Server
  • For Calendar & Contacts: I use the Murena service
  • For Music: I am on Tidal
  • Got Proton Mail, VPN and Drive
  • Using Organic Maps for Maps.
  • Medito for meditating
  • Browser: Firefox
  • Using the PixelCam for the Camera.

And all hail our lord Signal for being awesome in messaging and everything else.

Don't need more, don't want more.

Using A.I less

I like keeping myself challenged and actively thinking about all the things I do. I've also tried out a full coding stack with LLM at the wheel, but seeing how its destroying open source. It's also breaking my active engagement with the projects I build.

I am going to be taking a big step back.

I now use Zed editor with a.i disabled.

Currently LLM tasks for me are for:

Transcribing audio (local using Macwhisper) Summarizing big texts or horrible pdf's Generating code that it meant to be generated (Migrations, converting data, boring repeating HTML)

That's it.

No Phone challenge

With my friends I am currently planning some trips where we don't bring our phones at all. We want to bike from one dutch city to another, going to be fun!