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[–] [email protected] 147 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The one silver lining about the new US administration is that it has helped undermine some fundamental notions around American exceptionalism.

American oligarchs are not that different from oligarchs in other countries.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Its been wonderful purging all my american owned crap from my smart speakers to reddit. Looking forward to getting a linux desktop for the first time in nearly 10 years!

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Agreed, moving away from American tech stuff is becoming a priority.

American oligarchs are no better than the oligarchs who work with putin or Xi. Perhaps even worse because they tend to be much more dishonest in their rhetoric (constant pompous rants about "changing the world for the better").

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

If your last time using Linux was 10 years ago you're going to be SO PLEASED at how good it is now.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I just switched over to Linux Mint and, while it's not perfect, it's so much better than windows.

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Tim Apple, Nazi collaborator and sympathizer.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Apple is just like the rest of big tech. They tried to play it as if they were the ethical one, but in the end all these private corpos are just the same.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Microsoft/Bill Gates only got a worse rap because they were more successful

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Actually about Gates, does anyone know about his stance on the current fascist takeover?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He's notoriously short $TSLA, so probably not a big fan of Elon.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Who cares lol

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

How quickly most companies have walked back all of the "moral" stances they have taken over the last few years, all within just a few weeks of the political winds changing, should be a lesson to everyone that there is no such thing as an ethical publicly traded company.

They will do what they think will make the most money for the shareholders, no matter what. If you want them too "pay", the only choice is to stop giving them money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

If anyone ever pays any attention to a company's posturing and dewy eyes they are truly naive. It is just pandering at best. It is why I want them to be honest and cut out all of the "We celebrate group _____" and all that and just be honest. "We want to increase our stock price by 5 cents." The best they can be is neutral. A small private company can be positive though.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That ring, it feels nice to kiss it - Tim Apple

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not that ring... The other ring... - Tim Apple

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I guess a lot of good people will ditch Apple now, right? RIGHT?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I did only a quick search really but couldn’t find if any major android phone manufacturers had stopped advertising on there?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

FOSS alternatives exist for many Android devices. Apple goes to great lengths to block every alternative on all hardware that isn't mac. I've been on iOS since the 3G, but have just purchased an older pixel to start migrating apps and data to GrapheneOS. I wish Pine phone had GOS, but it is what it is.

There is no negotiating with fascists, and Apples #1 market is the US. There is no chance in hell they will defy or deny fascism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My question is less about the OS than it is the manufacturers paying to advertise on X. Buying from them is supporting X indirectly.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The best option is GrapheneOS on Pixel devices.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (5 children)

If you buy a Pixel, you're supporting Google which is probably worse.

Maybe a Nothing Phone or a OnePlus?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago

Hmmmm, money

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

Next up is Tim apple announcing his conversion therapy was successful and that he will now be marrying a blonde fox news anchor on the white house lawn. He'll then run for Lindsey Graham's senate seat and carry on the tradition of being the most closeted man in the Senate... And the world.

When Lindsey Graham was asked who his first lady would be should he ever win the presidency, he replied... "My sister".

Just can't take those swinging bachelors off the market.. one at a time ladies.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago

I'm looking for silver linings and I suppose the marketing people at these companies are much less stressed to have to keep Googling, "how to pretend to give a shit about fellow humans" every time they need to produce a few hundred characters.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (3 children)

At least the mask is off. Apple, Google, Meta. None of them care about anything but profit and there isn’t a value they aren’t willing to compromise on if it makes the line go up.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I wanted to point out that it's as futile as shouting at the sun for rising again and shiting into your eyes through the window and then I realised how often I do exactly that and now I'm 100% fine with your comment.

Edit: I meant to write "shining" but what's done is done.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Money talks and even flat earthers and antivaxx trolls have money.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago

All in bed together. Didn’t they both attend Mar A Lago? No way they’re going to separate.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Actually last time I checked apple did their keynotes mentioning the environment and stuff, greenwashing their choices... I'm curious what they'll do now.

Just like Tesla, they might have saturated their liberal userbase, I wouldn't be too surprised if they took a more "neutral" stance

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Neutral in this instance being pro fascist

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

Trying to get on president musk's good side

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Apple never was, and never will be not an evil company so why the surprise? Of course they do.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Bend the knee

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Which phone brand is recommendable at the moment? Fairphone uses android, which can hardly be trusted.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

Google Pixel + GrapheneOS

Also, if you think Apple's completely closed source software is more trustworthy than Google's mostly open source software... LOL

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

also, idk how true this is, but ive seen that google sells pixels at a loss when they’re on sale (they expect to make back the money by spying on you)

so if you were to get a pixel while it’s on sale and install grapheneos on it, not only would you get a nice phone with a secure os, but you’d do so while costing google money. win win win!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You can install CalyxOS or other custom ROM

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yeah, the most "free" option is probably android custom ROMs (anything based on lineageos, I suppose).

There are alternatives that are slowly building up, such as postmarketos, but it's not production ready.

I think KaiOS was a thing for a while, and it's based on FirefoxOS. But you would have to ditch the confort of a real smartphone and I'm not sure it's still active?

EDIT : KaiOS is indeed maintained BUT it is still based on Android (probably with less higher level components)

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