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[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ive been doing this for a long time. The key is to use open source and community projects for some things and just not use certain other things.

And yes that means youd have to use Linux.

[–] ahriboy@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone from Thailand just made Ultramarine Linux, which is a fork of Fedora Linux, an American product.

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ive never used fedora. I have heard some bad things about red hat. I use plain old Debian.

[–] ahriboy@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Btw, the head admin of my instance, transfem.social uses Fedora 41.

[–] sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I really want to question why almost all countries depend on US tech corporations in the first place. This dependency on a few oligarchy from one foreign country is an red flag indication that the international market was rigged through hypocritical government intervention and Bretton Woods institutions by the Liberals.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seems like most countries failed to understand the importance of digital sovereignty.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Can't say they failed to understand it when they simply didn't care in the first place.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd argue not caring stemmed from a failure to understand long term implications. They simply assumed that the US would always be on their side, and never considered what would happen if their interests diverged as they do now.

[–] sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The US always had divergent interest from other countries. Besides, the US Liberals have the doctrine of self-interest unless you gain benefit from alignment of interest. Does it take a Donald Trump to help them realize the danger of one-sided foreign dependency?

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Trump is definitely making it hard for the vassals to pretend this is an equanimous relationship.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I love how libs just refuse to mention China, you know the only country that has succesfully built large scale local tech alternatives to the US. Like just maybe try to look at how they did it? Canada and Europe are not going to decouple from the US lol

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

yeah seriously