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**Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more**
"A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives"

#BigTech #DeFAANG #DeGoogling #Amazon #Apple […]

How I’m Building a Trump-Proof Tech Stack Without Big Tech The world can no longer trust American tech. If that sounds dramatic, take a step back and consider the facts. The United States is a nation in the thrall of authoritarianism, owned and operated almost completely by a far-right doomsday cult intent on betraying every alliance, every contract, every promise

**How I’m Building a Trump-Proof Tech Stack Without Big Tech**
"The world can no longer trust American tech. If that sounds dramatic, take a step back and consider the facts."

#DeFAANG #DeGoogling #ToRead #HowTo #BigTech #privacy

Photo from Trump’s second inauguration, with Trump and Vance in the foreground out of focus. Just behind them, clearly in focus between them, is Apple CEO Tim Cook.

I’ve been buying Apple products since 1984. Tim Cook has bent the knee and kissed the mushroom. My next computer is going to be from #System76. #deFAANG

I have been #deFAANG -ing my life over the past two weeks and I strongly encourage everyone to do the same.

#deFAANG #digitalpresence #BlueSky

#deFAANG #digitalpresence

Also I don't see anyone else using #deFAANG yet. Can we make that a thing, #Bluesky?

Tim Cook and Donald Trump at a meeting table, laughing and telling jokes like they are old friends in the locker room.

The way #TimCook and other tech giants are cozying up to the felon is really not sitting well. I'm starting the long journey to see how I might #deFAANG my digital life more.

I'm writing this now from a #Fedora #Linux desktop that I just installed today on a cheap #N100 mini PC.