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  • New Year's Resolution

    From Dim Witte@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 19 06:22:43 2021
    A little early for New Year's Resolution, but I'm inclined to do a
    couple things differently shortly to de-hoard.

    One thing is to "cut the cord" with Internet Cable service, so will be
    going in the direction of antenna TV and Android smart phone for
    connection with an ad-free streaming TV service.

    My CaptionCall telephone--a clever device that allows me to just read
    phone calls and recorded messages--does require Internet to be
    readable, but I can even look into finding a way to cover that as both
    my smart phone and TV are Android. Not sure about schooling-up on
    such networks as BlueTooth, etc., but am inclined NOT to be spending
    for more add-on toys at Amazon.

    Am liking my FREE MailWasher aps, and may cough up the $30 to get the
    pro version "washing" all my email services.

    The computer battles are not to my liking, so it looks like I'll be
    going to Linux Ubuntu 2.04 on a partition. One look at Windows-11
    tells me that it's even more proprietary and restricting than the W-10
    I have. Maybe I'll consider a radical (for me) OS like Android.
    Several alternative browsers out there beside Edge, Chromium, and
    Firefox.

    So I'm resolving to "cut the TV cable cord," cut out the ads on TV,
    email, limiting telephone calls, and going independent on computer OS.
    I already have collections of DVD, CD, books in my Kindle library,
    plus would like to exercise more. All benefit mind, body, and spirit?
    After all, what did people do before computers, TV streaming, and
    political action groups?

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  • From marc hanson@21:1/5 to Dim Witte on Sat Jan 8 04:54:49 2022
    On Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 10:22:44 AM UTC-5, Dim Witte wrote:
    A little early for New Year's Resolution, but I'm inclined to do a
    couple things differently shortly to de-hoard.

    One thing is to "cut the cord" with Internet Cable service, so will be
    going in the direction of antenna TV and Android smart phone for
    connection with an ad-free streaming TV service.

    My CaptionCall telephone--a clever device that allows me to just read
    phone calls and recorded messages--does require Internet to be
    readable, but I can even look into finding a way to cover that as both
    my smart phone and TV are Android. Not sure about schooling-up on
    such networks as BlueTooth, etc., but am inclined NOT to be spending
    for more add-on toys at Amazon.

    Am liking my FREE MailWasher aps, and may cough up the $30 to get the
    pro version "washing" all my email services.

    The computer battles are not to my liking, so it looks like I'll be
    going to Linux Ubuntu 2.04 on a partition. One look at Windows-11
    tells me that it's even more proprietary and restricting than the W-10
    I have. Maybe I'll consider a radical (for me) OS like Android.
    Several alternative browsers out there beside Edge, Chromium, and
    Firefox.

    So I'm resolving to "cut the TV cable cord," cut out the ads on TV,
    email, limiting telephone calls, and going independent on computer OS.
    I already have collections of DVD, CD, books in my Kindle library,
    plus would like to exercise more. All benefit mind, body, and spirit?
    After all, what did people do before computers, TV streaming, and
    political action groups??

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From bookburn@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jan 8 14:08:08 2022
    On Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 3:54:51 AM UTC-9, [email protected] wrote:
    On Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 10:22:44 AM UTC-5, Dim Witte wrote:
    A little early for New Year's Resolution, but I'm inclined to do a
    couple things differently shortly to de-hoard.

    One thing is to "cut the cord" with Internet Cable service, so will be going in the direction of antenna TV and Android smart phone for connection with an ad-free streaming TV service.

    My CaptionCall telephone--a clever device that allows me to just read phone calls and recorded messages--does require Internet to be
    readable, but I can even look into finding a way to cover that as both
    my smart phone and TV are Android. Not sure about schooling-up on
    such networks as BlueTooth, etc., but am inclined NOT to be spending
    for more add-on toys at Amazon.

    Am liking my FREE MailWasher aps, and may cough up the $30 to get the
    pro version "washing" all my email services.

    The computer battles are not to my liking, so it looks like I'll be
    going to Linux Ubuntu 2.04 on a partition. One look at Windows-11
    tells me that it's even more proprietary and restricting than the W-10
    I have. Maybe I'll consider a radical (for me) OS like Android.
    Several alternative browsers out there beside Edge, Chromium, and
    Firefox.

    So I'm resolving to "cut the TV cable cord," cut out the ads on TV,
    email, limiting telephone calls, and going independent on computer OS.
    I already have collections of DVD, CD, books in my Kindle library,
    plus would like to exercise more. All benefit mind, body, and spirit? After all, what did people do before computers, TV streaming, and
    political action groups??

    Apologies for once again posting to the wrong group, but I'll appease by mentioning a great FREE library and device reader, the Calibre, which can store tons of "books," or whatever you wist, do searches on-line, and contain such things as the whole
    Shakespeare canon, which you can then read on a device, make notes, save pages, and more.

    https://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows



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