Overview:
The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
Related communities:
Boycott:
!buycanadian@lemmy.ca
Activism:
!antitrumpalliance@lemmy.world
The alternatives to Intel/AMD/Nvidia, Visa/Mastercard/American Express/Discover and IOS/Android need to be more developed.
For fuckin years the foss community has told us to stop using these products. It only took them all turning into literally fascist for people to finally stop giving them power
FOSS is so much better!
GrapheneOS is a good alternative to iOS/Android, although still Android-based
Are there lots of reports with security applications not liking Graphene OS?
I'd like to migrate, but i need to make sure my banks and job authenticator can work on it.
I'd love to get a secondary phone for these, but then it still yas to be on an up-to-date phone so I can't simply use my old one.
All apps I need for banking, 2 factor authenticator, etc work in my GrapheneOS phone, with the exception of one particular app used for ID authentication in the country I reside. The reason is bc this app uses Google's Play Integrity API to check the phone's OS, and since it does not match with Google's Android OS, it stops working since it does not pass integrity checks. As far as I know, there are few apps that do this, and as time passes more apps are moving towards hardware-attestation tests, as GrapheneOS facilitates, instead of relying Google's Play Integrity. For me this is not an issue, because the government provides other means for ID authentication, but some other countries only relies on apps, and that might be a show stopper.
My bank app works. Westjet app for flights is very intrusive and needed the special per app compatibility mode turned on to allow app to work. It reduces GrapheneOS exploit prevention for that app, but for some reason Westjet needed more device identity confirmation than my bank app.
Check if your banks work ok in a web browser, that's kinda my method for most things that really don't need an app
I like how it took the threat of annexation to mildly inconvenience yourselves.
Inertia can hard to overcome!
For myself the invasion threat challenged me to devote more of my free time to look into alternatives to things that I was just coasting on.
Like using Lemmy, for example. You’ve been using this for years but I started just this month. I looked into it during one round of the failed boycotts of Reddit but there was no discussion ongoing in the topics I was interested in, and it sailed out my memory and off my priority list. Was it always the right call? Yes. But now the reasons are strong enough for me to overcome the inertia.
Isn’t the important thing is that it’s happening now , and not that folks like me took longer?
So yeah; I want to ditch Apple products. Right now there are no non-American products that can replace my phone but also provide all the functionality I use such as NFC payments. But I’m gonna do it anyhow when it comes time to replace my phone because it’s important to me. And if enough people do this that will trigger development of solutions for these problems, but even if they don’t I still am doing it anyhow.
I would suggest setting a self goal to switching to Postmarket OS in 2 years time then donate every month to ensure the development goes as far as possible.
I like your idea of setting self goals with a built-in reminder system. This is a mindset I’ve been trying to adopt more in my life and it’s been very successful when applied.
However I also want to counterbalance that against an impact of replacing my existing device which is not compatible with those and is a perfectly usable machine. Particularly because of the costs and the waste from upgrading devices before it’s needed.
But maybe I’m under-thinking this because of inertial and it just being easy to punt it to another day. I could sell my current device and buy a used compatible device and this wouldn’t be an excessive cost nor generation of electronic waste
Thank you for the push.
Apple was the first to go on my list. Google secondish because I switched from iphone to graphene pixel
I've had my Google Voice number since 2005 when it was originally called GrandCentral.
I don't think there is any place I could port my number that would let me keep service for free.
And I have never found a reasonably price alternative that doesn't seem sketchy or gimmicky or built just for business, that also seems like it will be around in another 10 years.
Any ideas?
we need an AOSP fork like Forgejo is to Github. Accept good changes, maybe share patches, but keep a fork that ROM devs can build upon.
Back to flip phones? Or what alternative are you guys looking at?
Google and Apple are a bunch of bootlickers imo to the Trump administration.
What are you replacing google maps with? I've been getting more and more annoyed with it for a while.
It keeps wanting me to do U turns on ultra busy roads when I could just make a left turn at a light.
The recommendations are:
Organic Maps: walking/hiking/cycling.
Magic Earth: driving.
Osmand: advanced search.
Here Wego: owned by Mercedes Benz and BMW, the maps that power their in-car navigation available as a free app.
OSMand~ I prefer how the maps look. And directions have been good. Initial address search is not as slick as GMaps, but it is OpenSourceMaps so :)
I long ago gave up on Twitter, prior to it becoming X. I was briefly on X but closed that account. Facebook I still have an account, but from what I understand it cost the Zuk more to have a barley active account then have a closed account, but it will probably be closed soon. Reddit is something I am trying to get rid of but it keeps sucking me back in, I have however removed myself from all the groups that are not Canadian centred. The only reason why I have a google account is for youtube, I got off of all the other services because of ads and all of that. I moved all of my subscriptions to things to Apple’s hide my email so I would get less junk mail. I also got a pihole setup on my LAN to see less ads so less google ad sense. I was never really a windows user so that is not a problem for me. I was fine with Apple Maps but now if I need a map I use open maps or whatever it is called. I have decided that I will not buy another apple thing, rather get things updated/repaired at shops local to me.
I have gone through my web services and cancelled everything that is not Canadian. I have moved my blog off of square space and onto Hosthero with a .ca address and I use it to create all my emails for things I may signup for. Unlimited emails so that I can signup for unlimited free trials to things, like I did with Apple’s hide my email!
Yes I agree ARM needs to be accepted a little more so Linux computers using it can be used as better (non Apple) desktops. Payment methods need to be developed even more in Canada outside of interact. I will have difficulties moving away from iOS because of FaceTime and messages.
That’s great progress.
Check out Organic Maps that uses openstreetmap data.
Then check out the element client that uses the matrix protocol to have video calling and secure texting.
I tried to move people to matrix, but it is hard.
I'm sure the numbers are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, but it still brings me satisfaction to upload loads of long videos to Facebook, all set to Visibility: Just Me, just to cost them more in storage than they earned off me in ad revenue.
I can’t give them up for work tho 💀
It can be hard to convince others to switch over to foss alternatives in that setting but as long you’re doing the right thing yourself that’s all that counts.
Keep supporting the developers building better software and the businesses will eventually take heed to their work.