My degoogled life
Room B (2B11) | Thu 22 Jan 3:45 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Presented by
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Joshua Hesketh is an Engineering Manager at Grafana Labs where he helps lead the engineers creating an open source, highly scalable, efficient, performant, cloud-native, observability logs database: Loki.
Josh has previously worked as an Engineer on many open source projects including Mimir, OpenStack, Zuul, Ceph, and more. He is a long time Linux user, open source proponent, and active member of the open source community in Australia.
When not spending time with his family, Josh likes to play competitive pinball, or tinker with Home Assistant.
Joshua Hesketh is an Engineering Manager at Grafana Labs where he helps lead the engineers creating an open source, highly scalable, efficient, performant, cloud-native, observability logs database: Loki.
Josh has previously worked as an Engineer on many open source projects including Mimir, OpenStack, Zuul, Ceph, and more. He is a long time Linux user, open source proponent, and active member of the open source community in Australia.
When not spending time with his family, Josh likes to play competitive pinball, or tinker with Home Assistant.
Abstract
I have been avoiding Google services and products for a long time. It's painful. It's work. It's not convenient. It's not for the lighthearted nor something I'd recommend to anybody without a keen interest.
So why do I do it? What do I gain?
Is it possible to own your digital life completely? Is it realistic or even desirable?
In this talk I will go over some of the reasons you might want to avoid giving away your digital data and some of the trade-offs you need to consider when weighing up what software to use. Be it self-hosted, paid SaaS, or services that monetise your information.
This isn’t a talk specific to one company, or to pick on Google; it’s a talk about owning your own data in an ever increasing software-as-a-service world, and being aware of the non-monetary costs.
We’ll look at a bit of what I do (eg, self host mail server, file server, GrapheneOS, etc etc). What compromises I have made, and what compromises I’ll likely take going forward.
There is no silver bullet here. It’s all about being informed and pragmatic in the decisions you make and finding what is right for you.
I have been avoiding Google services and products for a long time. It's painful. It's work. It's not convenient. It's not for the lighthearted nor something I'd recommend to anybody without a keen interest.
So why do I do it? What do I gain?
Is it possible to own your digital life completely? Is it realistic or even desirable?
In this talk I will go over some of the reasons you might want to avoid giving away your digital data and some of the trade-offs you need to consider when weighing up what software to use. Be it self-hosted, paid SaaS, or services that monetise your information.
This isn’t a talk specific to one company, or to pick on Google; it’s a talk about owning your own data in an ever increasing software-as-a-service world, and being aware of the non-monetary costs.
We’ll look at a bit of what I do (eg, self host mail server, file server, GrapheneOS, etc etc). What compromises I have made, and what compromises I’ll likely take going forward.
There is no silver bullet here. It’s all about being informed and pragmatic in the decisions you make and finding what is right for you.