I was already used to Debian Linux for 3 years.

I was already used the browser Mozilla Firefox + uBlock.

I was already used to having a dumbphone instead of a smartphone. (I don’t regret it).

This year, I started financially giving money to free open source software like VLC, Krita, Inkscape, Gimp, Qbittorrent. For too long, I have used amazing open source software without contributing. For far too long, I have taken them for granted. We live in a world where we should take nothing for granted.

I started buying Signal toothpaste (Unilever) instead of Colgate toothpaste (USA). Until I find a brand that is actually even smaller than Unilever.

But Google was the real challenge.

I had another email account, but my Gmail account had a ton of stuff on it. Youtube ? I liked it. But I can put my favorite channels in my bookmarks.

It took some time to sort out everything.

But I actually did it.

It’s over.

Finally.

FINALLY

Fuck the US social model. Inhuman vile shit :

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/10/inhaler-cost-death-optum-rx-walgreens/

Increasingly, this cancerous social model is spreading. Starting - as usual - with the British.

According to multiple sources who spoke to their favorite newspaper (The Financial Times), UK CEOs are now asking their friends on their boards to be paid exactly like American CEOs:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/03/london-stock-exchange-chief-calls-for-uk-firms-to-pay-bosses-more/

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/10/when-17m-isnt-enough-ftse-firms-plead-to-pay-bosses-millions-more

Resist US corporations. Resist huge multinationals.

Support non-profit organizations and small-medium sized businesses.

  • lazycog@feddit.ukM
    4·
    4 days ago

    Way to go! I’m still working on that, but I’m close as well :)

    Bit envious on the dumb phone part. I just can’t live without my bank app, browser and signal. There were these “half dumb half android” phones from Nokia and they seemed to work well with messaging apps but bank/browser was bit clunky.

    • Rikudou_SageA
      2·
      1 day ago

      I have a SailfishOS phone which includes an Android compatibility layer. Some banks don’t work on that setup, but mine does. It might be worth a try.

      • lazycog@feddit.ukM
        1·
        3 hours ago

        I’ve seen SailfishOS been thrown around here on lemmy, but never actually looked it up.

        If bank apps can be made to work on it then I will definitely take a look! Thanks for the tip!

        I have been wanting to get off google’s android for so long, but it’s just too important to have bank apps work…

        • Rikudou_SageA
          1·
          1 hour ago

          Well, it entirely depends on your bank, some banks intentionally block anything that’s not Google certified Android and there’s not much you can do about that.

          Edit: here’s a forum thread with user reported bank apps, not everything is there, but you might be lucky: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/banking-apps-on-sailfish-os/18438

          If you want, tell me your bank app and I can at least try installing and opening it.

          • lazycog@feddit.ukM
            1·
            9 minutes ago

            Holy shit A1, so it should work! Thanks for the link and thanks for offering to check for me.

            I think I’ll have to give this a try. I don’t have a backup phone so might wait for my holiday lol.

            Thanks Rikudou! This entire time I thought /e/OS might be my only other choice.

      • lazycog@feddit.ukM
        2·
        2 days ago

        I’ve been super interested in /e/OS since fairphone had an option to have it preinstalled on one of their models. Glad to hear positive experiences!

        I’ll definitely give it a try. Thanks!