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the best would be some kind of movement from the bottom that customers start to divest at least from some services. Help closest family and direct friends to:
by pzo 1y ago
the best would be some kind of movement from the bottom that customers start to divest at least from some services. Help closest family and direct friends to:
- install Firefox/Zen as main browser
- install uBlock Origin
- switch to Brave Search / Qwant for search engine
- switch to signal for IM for communicating with your parents and loved one (still use WhatsApp elsewhere)
- help family setup passkeys using Bitwarden EU
- advocate that they don't need to buy the latest android but can get 2nd hand e.g. motorola edge+ (2023) and help setup your parents linageos
- when switching router pick one with openwrt support and setup AdGuard on the router (some asus routers already have such things build in)
- csomar 1y agoSo divest from American big tech to … new American startup tech? Remind me again of who came up with the phrase “don’t be evil”.
- pzo 1y agoMost of those are open source. Even if not perfect this is still better than doing nothing and still better than perfect but not user friendly.
- hulitu 1y ago> Help closest family and direct friends to: - buy european processors like ... (?) - buy european motherboards like ... (?) - buy european RAM like ... (?) - buy european SSD/harddrives like ... (?) - buy european graphics cards like ... (?) Trully a road to independence. /s
- pzo 1y agoSo is better to do nothing because we cannot divest everything right now? You start by divesting partners that are getting complicated (this year US). Apple divest its supplies by using many different partners and stop using one if they having problem with one. EU can for sure get a most of those you mentioned from South Korea and Japan who are also having issues with US. At least with those countries EU has stronger hands than with US.