It’s time. I am buying a bidet today.
yes!! PLEASE more people need to use bidets ToT
Careful Thar be Linux users in them thar hills watching ye
Linus is Finnish, so it’s euro tech :)
Did someone shit in your head? Which lobotomy did you get today? Your 30th?
Fucking GNU/Linux is licensed und er fucking GPL, so shut the fuck up and never say A word again you fucking idiot
Uhhhhh, Big Tech can and does also exist in Europe, Blaze. We need people switching to FOSS and non-profit software, but switching from American proprietary software to European proprietary software as a stopgap at least plausibly makes things somewhat better – owing to better regulations.
Oh, indeed. Ideal would be FOSS, but if people can already stop using the US Big Tech that’s still something.
Like people leaving Twitter for Bluesky
The alternative for Tw!ter is Mastodon. Bsky’s business model is based on growth, it will be sold for billions to the highest bidder once there are sufficient subscribers locked in.
Isn’t Bluesky still US big tech?
It is, but at least the CEO does not make Nazi salutes
That’s a pretty low bar.
Yet Musk manages to limbo underneath.
Oh, who am I kidding, he couldn’t hit the bar doing his feeble attempt at a jumping jack.
yet
Open source
Still, it’s run by a large American tech company and has a federation model that makes self-hosting and true decentralization somewhere between difficult and impossible.
Not fully open source AFAIK.
Can’t let the struggle for perfection get in the way of good.
Canadian is okay too. Enjoy pornhub.
So does anyone have a list of cc European alternatives to US big tech?