I basically track everything with obsidian and spreadsheets. It's a lot more work in the front, but it trains better habits for owning your own shit.

Don't use services that track all your activity down. It should be pretty obvious as to why.

At the very minimum, log into all your credit cards and bank accounts and start cutting and pasting what you want to track into an excel spreadsheet. With a little youtube searching, you can make formulas and all kinds of good stuff that will get you a 90 percent accurate picture of all your activities.

How does Mullvad stack up to librewolf? I set up portable builds on all of my Windows desktops.

I wanna make the switch from Firefox as my daily, but damn it, the syncing is fucking glorious. I've got two PCs and two Android devices. And it really is great.

I am so goddamn finished with this enshittification.

Yep that's some title gore... I was trying to figure out how the hell that could even happen...

It's an interesting perspective.

And it kinda tracks historically. So many of the great vfx moments in cinema history came out of production lining up for a killer moment and then focusing whatever the technology was on hand into pulling it off.

Captain Disillusion did a great little essay on Flight of the Navigator that touches on this idea. What a world of difference in the outlook and implementation of skills and manpower.