Over the past few weeks I’ve been slowly degoogling my technology and streamlining my consumption of media. For degoogling and stripping of big corps, I’ve swapped to Linux along with Zen and Ecosia. My phone still has some google products as that’s a whole project to strip it and keep my tech ecosystem. My email is swapped over to Tuta. Now that I’m not using Microsoft’s ecosystem, I needn’t a subscription, so I cancelled mine. While I’m not using Youtube as I’ve swapped to the Freetube open-source client, I’ve cancelled that subscription too. I’ve also cancelled my Twitch subs. I’ve deleted my twitter and instagram along with some other social medias. Now instead of social algorithms dictating what I view I’ve started trying Inoreader, with my social feeds lightly linked to it. Instead of doomscrolling a platform till I stop and swap to another platform to doomscroll I’m locking myself into scrolling only my Inoreader feed. As it’s highly customized and curated, I only see what I wish, and can tag what I want to save. I’ll scroll till my feed is marked read, then I’ll try to transition into doing something more productive with my time, either gaming or my projects.
My experiences so far with Hydroxyzine and lexapro have been positive. The negative symptoms are all gone as far as I can tell. Positive symptoms remain, I’m feeling less on edge, more relaxed, I have more energy and motivation to concentrate on things that I enjoy. It’s easier for me to socialize and to socialize longer. I’m being led a lot more by my plans and ambitions for the future.
Ambitions such as decorating my own space, my own room, to setup the perfect bedroom where I can store all my items. My perfect desk, a home mini-lab and network cloud system to provide me with the technological experience and playground that I desire. I’m led a lot more by my curiosity, there are many tools and things I’ve learned in the past few weeks purely by my curiosity.