Google released a handy tool to transfer your Google Play Music stuff to YouTube music:
It “may take a few hours”, but from the look of things that’s still quicker than what it takes me to find a proper alternative to YouTube Music. Continue reading Google Play Music ➡ YouTube Music: I caved (so far).
A little more than half a year has passed since I naively wrote this (here):
As of 2 days ago, the “holdout” Google services on my phone are:
- Google Music (won’t go in the foreseeable future)
Oh, to be young and ignorant! With Google’s decision to send Google Music to the ever growing Google Graveyard, it will be time for me to look for an alternative. Continue reading Google Play Music ➡ ?
Zoom has turned into the de facto default conferencing solution for the lockdown, and as we all know this hasn’t worked out brilliantly for Zoom so far. (Side note on the larger scale of things, another opportunity Google has missed to get some conferencing/video chatting market share.)
Bruce Schneier has possibly the best brief overview of the situation, but his summary is what I’d like to highlight for the purpose of this post:
In the meantime, you should either lock Zoom down as best you can, or — better yet — abandon the platform altogether.
His next suggestion is to look at Jitsi, and ethical/open source/privacy minded/call it what you will alternative; so I did. Continue reading A quick look on Jitsi, the self hosted Zoom alternative that doesn’t sell your data.