Refocusing on Building, Not Reinventing the Wheel

I find myself simplifying my tech, again, as I work to finding a state where I can build something without worrying about my tools.

For now this means focusing on working with my Apple hardware instead of putting my limited time into trying to make Linux my daily driver. It’s not ideal, but this isn’t an ideal world and it’s the only direction I can take, at the moment, that will give me the chance to actually build anything.

I learned a lot about leaving Apple, again

All is not lost with my latest experiment in leaving Apple. Nextcloud has proven to be good enough for my file syncing (I would like better encryption with it but that’s for another post). Fastmail did a great job for email and calendar. Gnome’s native apps in Ubuntu synced all the data I needed without issue.

I did, however, learn that if I give up Apple I’ll have to change the way I listen to music as Apple Music is the best service for my needs as it offers a streaming service where I can bring my own music for what they don’t have. I don’t know how I’ll overcome this one, yet.

These aren’t lessons I’m going to forget and, at some point in the future, I plan to utilize them to try yet again to escape Apple.

For all its faults, Apple works for me and my family

In the end the biggest lesson, for now, is that Apple does what I need it to do and does it well. Sometimes that’s all we can hope for.

I feel a constant pull to reinvent the wheel, if you will, when it comes to my tech. That has to stop. There is no perfect tech stack and, in the end, my tech is a tool to build something, not the thing I want to build.