Big tech lobbying is behind all this

Great list - thanks for sharing! I hadn’t heard of Inkscape - that’s a good find.

More alternatives here in the Alternatives menus of this site: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html

wow! that’s quite a serious undertaking… especially if you need to be able to interact with it e.g. create new tasks, change due dates, mark as done/not done.

you sure?

RSS. And very happy that it is!

As long as software is available in the Software Manager to be installed that way… I don’t care what format it’s in.

But don’t make normies go to the terminal. It’s inhumane, and really does not help the masses get away from big tech - which is a worthier goal than keeping your software terminal-only.

oops. linked now…

It says “Payments are made after exchanging existing money into electronic money with the help of an Exchange service, that is, a payment service provider for Taler.”

Do they say anywhere who that payment service provider is? And are there options for who to use?

What is the relationship of fiat currency to tokens? is it €1:1 token?

Good tip! I had heard of them, but they fell off the list somehow. I’ll add them in soon. thank you!

We just put some of these privacy alternatives on a map: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html (scroll down)

What’s missing is anything truly FOSS with no fixed country of origin, but it’s still fun to see how some of the main players spread out.

Enjoy!

Is there not a service like Bandcamp, but for movies and TV?

I want to pay for stuff, so the creators are rewarded, and then I own a copy.

Is Emby totally self hosted (like Jellyfin)? Or do they host your stuff (like Plex)?

Can access this via Duck AI, and compare to other models on the fly.

Currency? I thought it was a payments handler to rival Visa and MasterCard.

Lots of alternatives on this website https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html

If there was a Bandcamp for film and TV, then I would buy stuff there. DRM free.

But until then…

I installed Mint in a cheap mini PC to self host, and have had problems with external USB storage drives.

They kept dismounting, until I realised you have to give them a permanent mount location (why?!).

And they kept losing power because Linux had a default setting that USB devices ‘auto suspend’ after some time. This took ages to diagnose, and command line stuff to fix 😔

Other than that it seems to be a solid distro.

Also - I think these distros should make it simpler to partition the SSD on install. I used to easily do that when building Windows PCs but it was not clear I was making the right choices with Mint, so I went with the default.

Oh… I thought it meant that those cookie banners were ‘false consent’ and therefore render the data collected to be illegal?

Please provide more info - I would like to learn more about this subject!

That is a great find. Thank you!

Totally. And that “legitimate interest” nonsense takes ages to click through 🤦