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Back in the aughts I was an apple fanboy. Later they no longer had the edge but I won't say it was completely not an option. Now it is completely not an option.
Just in case, if you're (still) a Nintendo, Sony, Tesla, Disney, Spotify, ... fan, it's not too late to change your mind about them too :)
Totally agree, but what to do? Just forsake all entertainment, media, and technology at this point?
High seas
There are a lot of alternatives to these corpos
!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
I've cut those out, except tesla because I never had one, and never will
im off almost everything.
We all believed they cared about privacy back then, I just never got one because side loading is essencial for me.
We all believed? What?
Lol. "we". No, I was never convinced. I'm sorry, but you might be far more gullible than you think you are.
What does this have to do with privacy?
honestly I never liked smartphones. it was mostly about the freebsd based os, large with lots of power and ports (this was the aughts), and the apple care was amazing. Once that went away it just made sense to save money but now its like they could be the cheap option and like no. ewww. linux was not as great at that point to.