Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
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5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
6. No hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.
7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
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Already on Proton my privacy conscious friend, why you think it took me so long?
But alas, I do still have a Google account, had it since like 2004, so I'm not exactly in a position to completely abandon it anytime in the near future...
Depending on how you think of things, the CEO of Proton has recently been spouting a bunch of MAGA crap, which sucks because I’ve almost been wrapped up in Proton services the way I had been in Google’s. So now I’m moving again to Fastmail.
I'm in exactly the same boat. I'm trying to degoogle-adjacent because I don't have the mental energy to completely transition over, at least immediately
The biggest thing I want to do is make a backup of my photos. There's a lot I've taken over many years and I'd hate to lose access for some reason. Not that I do anything to warrant it, just heard the horror stories of when it does happen
Oh, that's one thing I've never done, I've never had Google auto-archive my photos on Drive. All my photos are local on my devices. At least I have a 4TB HDD to backup all my stuff to...