Dude, I use a lot of FOSS software including Linux as a daily driver. I know what you are talking about. But we’re in BuyFromEU, so you shouldn’t be surprised my opinions reflect that.

Personally, between supporting a Organic Maps and Here WeGo I prefer the option that will make Europe richer. Especially now that the fascists overseas have decided Europe should be up for grabs by Russia and we need to up our defense.

You can LARP “outside of capitalism” all you want but there’s still a reality here that needs to be addressed.

Yeah, why help an EU company develop their free product, away from Google, when we can all just stay poor? Are they stupid?

And some people still complain that US tech companies keep getting petty fines in Europe.

We’re the only ones trying to enforce even an anemic degree of antitrust, since the US just allows them to do whatever.

People are just stupid.

Source: am Portuguese. The veneration for Elongated Muskrat that exists here is insane.

I agree with you thoroughly.

It didn’t pass. Its just, they keep trying to push for it, but thankfully some countries are still shutting it down.

I’m fairy sure the guy above said “use X” not use social media. X is a particularly shitty platform.

First of all, it’s not pointless – every little bit helps.

And I really want to emphasize this. People are having an “all or nothing” attitude about this when that’s not even the point.

If we can replace 50, 40, even 30% of the US software we use daily with European alternatives, it’s already a massive win for us. The difference then adds up to millions at scale at the end of the fiscal year.

I don’t lose sleep over having to add “reddit” or “forum” at the end of my search query.

Do you know how SearXNG works? It literally pulls search results from whatever other SEs you define it should pull from. You just get to reap the perks of all engines, without having to deal with their antagonistic design.

Who pays for all of it in the end? The people who still want to use Google’s service and feed their all-reaching tentacles. But that is their choice.

Yeah, that’s the thing about Sear. You can customise it how you want and that’s it. No need to let some corpo be in control of what and how you see your results.

Can’t wait for Trump’s speech about how he single handedly united Europe:

“Nobody unites europeans better than me, believe me. When I’m done with my presidency they will be so united they will be tired of it. Yeah, they will be tired of how united they are. This will be the most united union this country has ever seen. Not like Biden, who claims he has a handicap of 6. Can you believe that? Biden, a handicap of 6. He’s so senile he believes he’s a better golfer than me. Anyways, that Hunter Biden laptop…”

Yikes. Thanks

Is that real, or a misinterpretation of the law?

I meant to say SearXNG. Still being maintained.

I’ve tried SearXNG and stayed there. And it costs me a whole 0€ per month. 10€/month for a search engine is insane.

Wasn’t Google in the middle of an antitrust investigation?

Yeah, in the end I managed to make it work. Quite cool. I wanted to set it up in such a way that all EU SEs get a tick every time I search for something but sadly it seems Startpage is giving me issues.

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China does everything better than the US. iPhones are made in China.