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1over137last Saturday at 5:49 PM4 repliesview on HN

Commercial OSes (both Windows and macOS) are also both American, and lots of people are trying to de-Americanize.


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cyberpunklast Saturday at 5:53 PM

Yep, I'm in this boat. After years of macs my next will be a FreeBSD Desktop.

edit: Although phone is much harder. I guess I'll just turn all the 'stuff' like icloud off, use only signal and my banking/etc apps, and get a separate camera.. Anyone found a less painful way to live without an iPhone/Android?

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pjmlplast Saturday at 6:19 PM

However if we don't get something like SuSE desktops and laptops at Media Markt and friends, most people won't care.

In fact I know of library that rolled back to Windows kiosk mode, from a previous SuSE deployment, because it wasn't what library users were expecting.

anon291last Saturday at 8:18 PM

Linux is also realistically American since the largest contributors are American corporations and the dictator for life lives on Portland oregon.

America has a monopoly on software essentially.

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shevy-javalast Saturday at 6:50 PM

Yeah. The TechBros changed things globally. I can not support their Evilness, so I also need to get people to commit to having viable alternatives, e. g. improving LibreOffice to the point where the proprietary office suites from US corporations are no longer needed.

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