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[921.14 --> 923.88] And when it matters, you're really going to appreciate the customer support. |
[924.28 --> 929.34] Linode's rolled out Rocky and Alma Linux images, if you've been wanting to give those a go, as well as CentOS Stream. |
[929.34 --> 933.26] They have one-click deployments of Nextcloud and things like that, if you want to use that. |
[933.76 --> 937.08] And, of course, they have an S3-compatible object storage that I rave about all the time. |
[937.48 --> 940.04] So you could always deploy something on there and just let it grow. |
[940.60 --> 946.30] And then you'll really appreciate things like their nice dashboard that gives you a heads-up on your system's performance, what's been going on. |
[946.88 --> 949.66] Sensible alerting that's just set up and available by default. |
[949.88 --> 952.44] A powerful DNS manager, Kubernetes, and Terraform support. |
[952.44 --> 953.70] I mean, I can go on and on and on. |
[953.90 --> 957.54] Not to mention the NVMe PCIe storage they're rolling out right now. |
[957.86 --> 964.16] And pricing 30% to 50% cheaper than the major hyperscalers that have complicated platforms and they just want to lock you in. |
[964.78 --> 965.86] But maybe the best part? |
[966.14 --> 967.00] You can support the show. |
[967.62 --> 969.74] Linode.com slash SSH. |
[969.82 --> 970.12] Go there. |
[970.22 --> 973.02] Get $100 in 60-day credit on a new Linode account. |
[973.44 --> 974.62] And you go there to support the show. |
[975.24 --> 977.66] Linode.com slash SSH. |
[977.66 --> 988.42] All right, so some other hoo-ha this week is that Google have announced that they're going to shut down free G Suite accounts unless you start giving them some greenbacks. |
[989.18 --> 991.90] Boy, did it kind of like touch a nerve with our audience. |
[992.04 --> 993.68] And I mean, obviously not everybody. |
[994.02 --> 996.34] But we got a lot of upset people that wrote into the show. |
[996.60 --> 997.82] People are hitting me up on Telegram. |
[998.62 --> 998.84] Angry. |
[999.36 --> 1000.98] We got lots of email about this. |
[1000.98 --> 1013.34] So on Wednesday, Google announced that it's getting rid of their G Suite Legacy Free Edition, which allowed those that snuck in before 2012 to get free Google app services tied to a custom domain rather than a Gmail address. |
[1013.34 --> 1028.76] So that would mean that for a lot of our listeners who are generally more tech savvy, early adopter type people who have their finger on the pulse, that could mean that they're losing years worth of purchases tied to that Google Play account, potentially in the hundreds or thousands of dollar ran... |
[1028.76 --> 1039.62] But also friends and family members who they've signed up for these services as well with their at customdomain.com email addresses are suddenly going to have to start paying a minimum of, I think, $6 a month for this thing. |
[1039.62 --> 1043.58] Yeah, and imagine you sign into your Android phone with that ID. |
[1043.92 --> 1044.62] It's your everything. |
[1044.76 --> 1046.16] It's your contacts, your calendar. |
[1046.34 --> 1047.44] It's everything. |
[1048.42 --> 1050.88] And yeah, those Play Store purchases as well. |
[1051.12 --> 1056.28] And it almost seems like Google was unprepared for people to be upset by this. |
[1056.48 --> 1066.68] But that seems scientifically impossible because you think Google as an organization would be aware when you give people something for free and then you take that free thing away, people get upset. |
[1066.68 --> 1068.78] That happens 100% of the time. |
[1068.88 --> 1069.30] That's math. |
[1069.62 --> 1070.90] So they had to know. |
[1071.34 --> 1080.24] But their response after the fact, which was just a couple hours ago as we're recording, almost seemed to imply like they were completely caught off guard. |
[1081.20 --> 1083.98] I mean, if you're a PR person, that's the easy route to take, isn't it? |
[1084.00 --> 1085.62] There's a bit of a story to this this week. |
[1085.68 --> 1088.50] So they announced it a few days ago that they're going to do this shutdown. |
[1088.88 --> 1094.42] Then there were some news articles came out about how they might be facing a class action lawsuit from several users. |
[1094.42 --> 1098.74] And then, as Chris says, you know, a few hours ago, they have relented to the pressure. |
[1098.84 --> 1106.64] There's an article on Ask Technica, which there's a link to in the show notes, where they say that Google is launching a survey of affected G Suite users. |
[1106.64 --> 1110.92] The company is surprised by how many people this change affected. |
[1111.92 --> 1112.18] What? |
[1112.36 --> 1113.26] Like they didn't have metrics? |
[1113.44 --> 1114.82] Google's supposed to be the data company. |
[1115.76 --> 1116.44] I'm sorry. |
[1116.56 --> 1117.74] That's that's bullshit. |
[1118.14 --> 1121.24] You're telling me they didn't check active users before they made this announcement. |
[1121.36 --> 1122.20] I'm not buying it. |
[1122.20 --> 1125.62] Yeah, I'm calling I'm calling BS on that. |
[1125.96 --> 1133.88] But they have announced a couple of extra nice things as a result of kind of capitulating to this upswell is uprising of nerd rage. |
[1134.00 --> 1139.30] They're promising a data migration option, which will include your Google Play content purchases. |
[1139.78 --> 1141.24] That's really what they got to do. |
[1141.32 --> 1143.60] I mean, you're going to have an Gmail address now. |
[1143.78 --> 1147.22] So you're going to have a dirty peasant email address, I suppose. |
[1147.22 --> 1153.30] I think it's important for the longevity of people buying digital content. |
[1153.50 --> 1164.58] I think a lot of people kind of suck it and see with DRM without fully exploring the ramifications of what would happen if Google did exactly this. |
[1164.86 --> 1166.22] Yeah, you're out of luck, mate. |
[1166.42 --> 1167.02] You know, that's it. |
[1167.14 --> 1171.08] The money you spent on that thing was just a rental, really. |
[1171.42 --> 1173.82] A long term rental, sure, but you don't own it. |
[1174.36 --> 1174.74] That's true. |
[1174.74 --> 1182.02] Every time something like this happens, a group of people kind of come to a new realization about the arrangement they find themselves in. |
[1182.60 --> 1183.64] Just like Spotify. |
[1183.82 --> 1194.96] You know, I've got access to every song in my pocket for the duration that my dollar gives me access to that library or for the duration that that particular artist likes Spotify. |
[1195.50 --> 1200.42] You know, it's never been a better time to self-host or something, right? |
[1200.42 --> 1207.74] But reflecting on our summer de-Google challenge, I just kind of have been coming to like maybe a new kind of arrangement. |
[1207.74 --> 1214.10] You take your data valuable stuff like your email, your contacts, your photos. |
[1214.30 --> 1215.80] You put those somewhere else. |
[1216.50 --> 1223.94] So perhaps you use something like ProtonMail or FastMail or you self-host the email and you use Prism for the pictures. |
[1224.46 --> 1231.08] But you still have a lot of Google services like YouTube and Maps, obviously, and the Play Store. |
[1231.08 --> 1234.94] I think you still want a burner Gmail account, but why not a new one? |
[1235.92 --> 1239.74] Why not a new Gmail account with very little details in it, right? |
[1240.02 --> 1243.76] And then you self-host with a combination of things like Nextcloud. |
[1243.86 --> 1245.24] You self-host all the other stuff. |
[1245.84 --> 1251.04] And kind of, you know, it's not like a binary, no Google at all kind of. |
[1251.04 --> 1254.48] It's like this limited risk exposure approach to Google. |
[1255.28 --> 1256.68] I mean, F-Droid is quite good. |
[1256.78 --> 1267.14] You can go quite deep with Lineage OS and F-Droid to replace Android properly, you know, without some of the more sneaky Google Play services that are in there. |
[1268.08 --> 1275.84] In fact, I've got a friend who was looking to switch to iOS, but he's very happy with his Android hardware and doesn't want to actually throw the phone in the bin. |
[1275.84 --> 1279.18] But he doesn't want it to be tracking him quite so much either. |
[1279.58 --> 1285.52] And so he's actually going that route of Lineage OS and F-Droid and going to see how long he can stick it. |
[1285.66 --> 1288.80] Just de-Googled, no micro-G, nothing. |
[1289.44 --> 1289.78] Good for him. |
[1289.90 --> 1293.30] I think it's a good thing to try and figure out if you can do it or where your line is. |
[1293.78 --> 1300.00] I think more and more about Gmail and just what a brilliant, brilliant move that was. |
[1300.00 --> 1309.44] Because if you really use Gmail as your default inbox, which so many people did because it was just the most amount of storage you could get back in the day for free. |
[1310.26 --> 1318.38] But as a result, Google knows everything I buy because all my receipts get sent to my inbox. |
[1318.38 --> 1324.86] So they literally, even things that are way outside the Google ecosystem, they know. |
[1325.10 --> 1326.08] They know what I buy. |
[1326.80 --> 1329.52] And that is gross. |
[1330.30 --> 1335.54] And it makes me more and more think about maybe it is worth considering self-hosting email. |
[1336.10 --> 1340.74] It's just fraught with issues or something like ProtonMail. |
[1341.04 --> 1341.72] But yeah. |
[1341.88 --> 1343.74] Anyways, I find that to be really gross. |
[1343.74 --> 1347.94] And so if you can just maybe create a limited risk exposure to Google, that's the way to go, I feel like. |
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