Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)
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me: looks at cereal aisle at the local grocery store
No...I think i've got plenty of choices, thanks. In which areas do you feel like your freedom to chose is badly impinged-upon?
Do you want a list of tech companies that have been allowed to fail? It's a very long list.
I'm typing this on NixOS on a Framework laptop. Very happy with both. Both were products of (*gasp*) capitalism!
I'm sitting in a 20-year-old La-Z-Boy chair. Not the most beautiful, but it sure is comfortable, and it's in good condition for it's age.
Sipping on a nice red wine. Don't remember the company--it was a random pick, one of thousands of choices. Anyway, it's great, I'm enjoying it. Snacking on some corn nuts from Trader Joes.
That's just a few companies whose products I appreciate, and am interacting with right this instant.
Google annoys me sometimes. I'm kinda de-googling, and it's harder than it ought to be. Still: totally doable. Microsoft was a huge PITA back in the 90s and 00s, but these days they don't affect me at all. It didn't fail, but it changed in major ways, and more to the point it became irrelevant in important ways.
Overall, when I compare the system I'm living in with the alternatives that we've tried in the past...well, it's very much a no-brainer.
"The Illusion Of Choice"