Isn't that what pretty much everyone was doing already?

Have you not been doing that? If you want to have the largest impact, go after the big money. Stop using US tech, switch to open source.

The homespun movement was started in 1767 by Quakers in Boston, Massachusetts, to encourage the purchase of goods, especially apparel, manufactured in the American Colonies. The movement was created in response to the British Townshend Acts of 1767 and 1768, in the early stages of the American Revolution.

-- https://www.timesmojo.com/what-was-the-homespun-movement-in-india/

Its amazing that in the 1700s people realized they could resist oppression by introducing more self reliance and community solidarity, but today, making things that we all need without corporate middlemen seems impossible.

Maybe it's time we consider what the true cost of the goods we consume are, and how we can collectively make a difference.

Yeah, just looking at the tech side of this, I suppose that you could get a Linux phone from some start up company and be completely disconnected from all the services everyone else uses, but in terms of price and availability, that's for hipsters and enthusiasts, not the average Joe on a working class wage.

Until someone is able to mass produce basic Linux touchscreen phones with something comparable to WhatsApp and all the other social apps and shit, nothing is going to take down Google Android. And having a pricey, concept Linux phone will always be a hobbyist thing because everyone else is using a different messenger app.

The problem is that all of these companies own the market on the cheap crap that their wage slaves can afford. Buying local or going out of your way to support the smaller companies is fucking expensive.

I don't know what will change things now short of a total revolution.

Do you wanna invent an arc reactor?

Because that is how you invent an arc reactor!

Sounds like you are catching on to their plan.

Please elaborate why.

Yeah these guys turned their small Facebook fortune into a major crypto fortune. I'm certain their benefiting heavily by the current crypto-friendly government.

They own one of the largest crypto exchanges, Gemini. Naturally they had to match Coinbase.

Depends on the products or services it's providing

LMAO! I just took mine in for the same issue! Glad I gave my money to the repair guy instead of the shitty trump lapdogs. Said I was cuttin it close and that it'd nearly cracked the palmrest near the power button, but he managed to salvage it with a few used parts!

Interesting. If you would, please add this in comments to my reorganized list here...

https://lemmy.world/comment/20138343

Walmart. I already arranged that. They want login info?

User Email: irrelevant@dispostable.com

Password: Walmart1

Fuckem, last I checked, that still works for Walmart.

It's registered to the name Anonymous Human.

They are busy moving money between themselves

They suck his [redacted], obviously...