Show Notes
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January 20, 2025 Techtonic, Kirk’s first appearance on the show
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Electronic Music From Scratch: A Beginner’s Guide to Homegrown Audio Gizmos, by Kirk Pearson – published by Make
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Dogbotic, Kirk’s company
Big Tech alternatives
• Don’t use Gmail, use
Fastmail (Australia),
Proton Mail (Switzerland), or
Tuta Mail (Germany).
• Don’t use Google Chrome, use
LibreWolf or
DuckDuckGo.
• Don’t use Facebook’s WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger, use
Signal,
Element,
Delta Chat, or
Threema.
• Don’t use Facebook’s Instagram, use
Pixelfed
• Don’t use Google’s YouTube, use
Peertube
• Don’t use Amazon’s GoodReads, use
Bookwyrm
• Don’t use Google Cloud, use
Nextcloud – or
Filen, based in Germany
• Don’t use Google Docs, use
CryptPad, “a collaborative office suite that is end-to-end encrypted and open-source.” It can replace Google Docs and the document sharing in Microsoft’s Office 365.
• Don't use an iPhone or Google surveillance phone, use a
Fairphone (Netherlands),
Punkt (Switzerland) phone, or
Light phone.
--> If you do use a Google phone, remove Android and install
CalyxOS.
• Don’t use an Apple or Windows computer use a
Framework laptop running Linux. (More on Linux on the
May 27, 2024 Techtonic.)
