Anything from any company large enough that the obvious business decision is the screw over the end user to generate additional profit. That excludes basically everything, so instead it’s easier to give recommendations for what I would buy/use instead:
- Open hardware products
- Framework laptop with RISC-V hardware
- not released yet
- Purism
- Maybe not fully open, but at least they have schematics
- Pine64
- Caveat emptor, software controlled charging circuits, be wary of bomb
- RaptorCS
- Wikipedia has an okay list
- Framework laptop with RISC-V hardware
- Open source software
- Operating systems
- *BSD
- Some Linux distributions
- Plan9, Haiku, Illumos, etc
- Web browsers
- qtwebkit based
- qutebrowser
- gtkwebkit based
- luakit
- Textmode/Terminal browsers
- w3m
- lynx
- links
- Other graphical browsers
- netsurf
- links graphical mode
- ladybird
- Apparently the developer is an asshole
- qtwebkit based
- Other userspace software
- Video
- ffmpeg
- Graphics
- Krita
- Blender
- GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick
- ffmpeg
- Audio
- LMMS
- ffmpeg
- PDF
- xpdf
- mupdf
- IRC
- Hexchat
- Feature Complete ( dead :'( )
- EPIC5
- Hexchat
- This list could go on forever, consult your repository instead of me
- Video
- Operating systems
Everything sucks, avoid car brands that sell your driving data (AKA buy an old car or figure out how to permanently disconnect your car from the internet), and avoid smart home and llm garbage.
are you aware that the vast majority of people can’t relate at all with the way you assign value? Or that they cannot afford the cognitive and temporal cost to adopt the technologies you mentioned? This kind of reasoning is what killed FOSS.
are you aware that the vast majority of people can’t relate at all with the way you assign value?
Clarify?
Or that they cannot afford the cognitive and temporal cost to adopt the technologies you mentioned?
People can learn entire, sometimes multiple languages, but learning some FOSS tools that are much more limited in scope is too difficult I guess. Relevant reading.
This kind of reasoning is what killed FOSS.
FOSS is dead? (and we killed it?)
FOSS is more popular than ever.
Clarify?
The vast majority of people do not care at all for technological autonomy, either because they don’t know about the implications or because they know and don’t care because it has very intangible effects over their life. Therefore they don’t make decisions taking into account technological autonomy or privacy.
People can learn entire, sometimes multiple languages, but learning some FOSS tools that are much more limited in scope is too difficult I guess. People who learn new languages during adulthood while working are a small minority. I speak as an immigrant who after 7 years barely speak the local language, like pretty much all my peers who didn’t take a whole year off to study. People with a job, social life, healthy relationships have very little time to focus on learning and very little incentive to do so.
FOSS is dead? (and we killed it?)
FOSS, on a political level, as a movement, it is dead. What we observe is the corpse, being a resource for value extraction processes by corporate and military organizations. The space of conflict over technology today is somewhere else: tech unionization, the post-FOSS movement, tech cooperativism, direct sabotage, public regulation. FOSS has been subsumed by the system.
https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/08/13/post-open-source.html
