List your alternatives to Big Tech

A lot of self hosted stuff
firefox instead of chrome
jellyfin and some 🏴‍☠️ sites hooked into radarr etc for movies)
meta: never use them really
OpenAI I stopped using ages ago as they got junk over time anyway
DNS: I self host my own lol

them immich for photos etc

* I don't use social media except discord.
* I'm on Linux (Ubuntu 26.10) since a month and I'm surprising pleased as I can game without too much trouble.
*I don't use AI (LLM) and I use a little bit of stable diffusion locally for images.
*I use a custom DNS (cloud flare).
*I'm on Firefox instead of chrome.
*thunder bird instead of outlook.
*Foxit reader as pdf reader/modification.
*For taking notes on tablet for Rpg table top I use Star note (paid version not the free one)
*And for my passwords safe I use keepass.
That's all folks.

I use a Plex Share in lieu of all of the insanely priced, fragmented streaming services. Saves me a decent chunk of change.

Other than that I don't really have many alternatives since everything is so integrated at work :/

Laptop: Linux distribution Zorin OS
Phone: slowly degoogling a Motorola G Power.

Much harder to de-google an Android than it should be.