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There's a great solution to this.

Just stop using Microsoft shit. It's a lot easier than untangling yourself from Google.

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Yeah it is legitimately hard to avoid Google, if nothing else some of your emails will probably be leaked to Gmail.

But Microsoft is pretty easy to avoid after their decade of floundering.

Whenever I have to use Windows, I just create a new throwaway account on proton, connect it to the mother throwaway account connected to a yahoo email account created in the before times, install what I need, and then never access that account again.

It is fucked you almost need mob levels of burner cell precautions to have privacy and use Excel.

How can I play starcraft 2 without it?

Apparently it runs in Proton (I haven’t tried it though).

Starcraft 2 w/ Battlenet has been working on Linux for over a decade. You don’t even need Proton, it works lovely with WINE.

Besides the obvious answer in the siblings, the more general answer (because there will always be something that won't transfer effortlessly) is that you don't have to play Starcraft 2. If the only way to engage in a leisure activity is by allowing yourself to be raped then maybe you should just not do it.

Yes. Just use Immich for photos. AI scanning, but local and only opt-in.

Is there a free platform that will let me blog like GitHub Pages works?

Gitlab. Codeberg. Neocities. Nekoweb. Wasmer. Surge. Digital Ocean. Freehostia. Awardspace. 000webhost. Static.run. Kinsta. Cloudflare Pages. Render. Hostinger. Ionos. Bluehost. Firebase. Netlify. Orbiter. Heliohost. There's probably hundreds of services with a free tier these days (though many of them will have strict limitations on website size and traffic, and you may have to run the build step locally).

https://pico.sh/

you mean like stop using GitHub?

Yes, that too.

Yes.

For private repos there is Forgejo, Gitea and Gitlab.

For open-source: Codeberg

Yes, it'll make projects harder to discover, because you can't assume that "everything is on github" anymore. But it is a small price to pay for dignity.

Why not put open-source projects on Gitlab?

You can't create new account on Gitlab without a credit card (outside of EU and USA).

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