Published on 2017-04-04
It has been over a month since I've switched to using Chrome for all of my work and I think I've found my happy place.
Cloud9 is a fantastic editor and, by following C9's official directions, I've been able to set up the C9 IDE for both work and home. No, I am not giving c9.io access to my work machine. Yes, it is awesome to be able to call up a complete editor+terminal without a bunch of SSH keys. And the vim/emacs keybindings are spot-on.
I still haven't resolved my DNS concerns yet, but HTTPSEverywhere and uBlock Origin are doing a bang-up job of keeping my connections secured and cutting out the ads. I think what I'll need to do for my home is set up a RaspberryPI 3 for my home DNS instead. I've had some issues getting the C2000T to honor my settings and not add itself as the DNS resolver, but I have time on my side. If it comes to the worst situation, I'll buy my own gigabit-capable wired router.
Finally, after testing each of the streaming music services out there, I have settled on Google Play/YouTube. They are the only services that managed to work reliably as HTTPS-only. I'm aware that Google is an Ad company by itself, but there's only so much I can do about protecting myself there. I'm already a Project Fi subscriber, GMail user, and a Google Cloud Platform subscriber. They already have most of my data. My opposition is with CenturyLink deciding that they have a right to my data.