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If you're in the EU, taking a stance against the GAFAMs is getting ever easier. Since you have pre-teens, being a role model is probably the best you can do -
by BlueTemplar 5y ago
If you're in the EU, taking a stance against the GAFAMs is getting ever easier.
Since you have pre-teens, being a role model is probably the best you can do - boycott them in all your life. Yes, it's hard to refuse to use both Android and iOS, Slack, Github, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, Zoom, TikTok, LinkedIn and their ilk even in your work - but at some point one has to take some responsibilities !
Especially that there's an opportunity for someone in the infocom industry these days with the rebirth of ("real") Linux smartphones.
(Note that this doesn't remove all the issues with social media, just most of them.)
https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/ https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/
- nivenkos 5y agoBut like here in Sweden Mobile BankID forces you to use Android or Apple. And at least that's a great improvement over the old BankID that forced you to use Windows. But even both of those are massive improvements over the old days of constant in-person appointments (and delays), paper forms, etc. I think it's the lesser evil tbh. Go live in Germany to experience the hassle of a technologically backward society (cash-only, paper forms and no widespread online authentication, in-person bureaucracy, widespread use of faxes or letters for service changes, etc.) I do wish the EU/European governments would invest in Linux and FOSS to develop competitors to the US though. Atm we're basically a US colony, and tech salaries and opportunities reflect that.
- BlueTemplar 5y agoChange banks ? Clearly alternatives exist since I assume even in Sweden a not an insignificant minority of the population never had access to Windows or Android or Apple. And at this point using cash, checks, and other paper alternatives is clearly a lesser evil than being forced (to stay) on Android or iOS.