All the proposed services/technologies would benefit the wider consumer base and the user but switching is too big an ask for many people. We need to encourage people into using “as well as” the global defaults. That will build the network effects that lower the cost of fully switching

An easier and bigger immediate impact would come from people replacing Chrome and google search with respectful alternatives, and/or replacing gmail or outlook with private services like proton or tuta.
Starve the surveillance machines a little bit.

Brilliant. Target the money without collateral damage to third parties

“super stable, backward compatible system without “AI”” Sounds like Linux 😁

Only 2 years, since the revolutionary war didn’t end until 1783.

Anyone got a a link to the unlockable bootloader confirmation?
If that’s confirmed, its a big deal - to me at least though I’d also want some comments or info from clicks about other OSs running on the device?

Not being able to run ai spyware 11 sounds like a big entry in the plus column to me 😅

Well that sucks. I assumed the ram, ssds, hdds could be recycled into useful forms.

Can we all buy cheap hardware when the bubble bursts and the billionaires decide not to pay the electricity bills for these ridiculous datacentres?

Feel free to repost, I’m more of a commenter 😅

Sweden have been leading the way in extracting screens and digital services from schools. Worth reading this: https://www.afterbabel.com/p/sweden-went-all-in-on-screens-in?publication_id=1221094 Plenty of data referenced for the reasons why…

A fair response. Just couldn’t see anything except US references when I looked at the site.

Love the princess bride reference. Thank you for acting on behalf of those of us with less technical skills.

Your comment is more technical than I can properly follow, but this all reminds me of the tarpits I read about a year ago. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/

Is that more usable? (Genuine curiosity from someone who would shed no tears if the plagiarism machines experienced resistance)

your Industrial Workers of the World only seems to exist in the USA; a disproportionately problematic but still relatively small part of the world.

Alas, I don’t live in a world where context is restricted by what is convenient for your point of view.
Thanks for the lazy ad hominem response though.

Thanks for the kind reply.

I agree. New user introduction is very poor. Took me ages just to choose an instance - and that was in no small part because I’m here not only to escape the enshittified chokepoint capitalism of american big tech, but also because I’m utterly sick of the domination of US centric points of view and censorship. Even though i know communities are not instance locked, I wanted an instance that is not likely to be managed in the same way. Time will tell if I chose well or poorly

Let’s just substitute China for America and see how that reads…

‘There is this time now when people, perhaps rather conveniently in Europe and indeed elsewhere, might be ignoring that America’s economy has massively been running on slave-like labour for long period now. I think these and other human rights violations in America aren’t gone. I think America has very strong dictatorial policies, censorship, and surveillance capabilities.’

I don’t think anything in that revised text is completely wrong.
The inadequacies of US human rights and employment rights do impact to the point of forcing many into fearful servitude as a form of slave labour, even when they aren’t just quietly paying slave wages for manufacture in other countries anyway.

I’m not saying you are wrong about China, but a critique of anyone pursuing ‘partnership’ with China while not even mentioning equivalent criticisms of the current dominant trade partner discredits the complaint. If anything trade with china is a side grade, but probably not a downgrade.