I explained the whole tech thing to my old dad who has an iPhone and an iPad and such. I didn’t tell him he should shift to non-american tech, I just reminded him that while he wants to boycott American products in the stores, he must be aware that the places where a boycott matters is also the places where a boycott is the most difficult. Getting our governments to stop investing in American weapons and American an tech. Us stopping investing in American tech in private and stop using American websites and software. X, Y and Z are American websites, software or tech.

I told him I would be looking into getting myself a European phone next time and I tried to explain what Linux was - despite not being anywhere close to knowledgeable about it myself lol.

I think it gave him something to think about, but I don’t expect him to change immediately. But I know that he might reach out to me if he needs a new device at some point.

I think that is the best method, honestly. Just plant the seeds in their heads, let them think about it over time, give them the information your can and be available if/when they reach out 🤗

I’m dumb as a fucking brick and yet here I am.

There literally is no excuse if I can figure it out. The only excuse I see is that people just don’t want to leave the comfort of reddit and go here and actually put in the effort to build this place. Which btw isn’t super hard either. You can make or comment on posts of you’re a tech retard like I am. That is a way to keep the pulse of this place alive.

I think people would do themselves a favor if they just admitted that they don’t want to change because of the comfort of the big tech platforms and how they feed you endless entertainment without you having to make any effort.

If I feel Lemmy is dull, it is my own fault for not adding to it. If I don’t have anything to add, I’ll have to deal with Lemmy being boring for a day or two and in the meantime I do something else.

I think the scariest part about mainstream social media and part of why I cut the chord, was because it turns you into a mindless zombie. I still deal woth someone of the effects of it. The fear of boredom. It’s such a destructive thing I allowed to do to my brain and it’ll take me a minute to learn to be bored again. Already much better now than I used to be, but fuck. The level of lazy social media lures you into is scary.

Swede. Norwegian. Potato. Potato.

They’re just mad because we used to own their asses and had a flag so awesome they got jelly and copied our design.

Denmark superior country. 👏 and don’t kid yourself into thinking we are compensating because our nature is flat chested af and 60% is spent on growing pig food instead of protecting wildlife. And we are totally not ass mad that there is no tone or life in our language that more so resemble throat cancer than song when we speak. DENMARK COOL. DENMARK AWESOME. Sweden lame. Norway gay. DENMARK DENMARK DENMARK.

Bruh, am I high or is that factually incorrect that we were the only country saving jews during ww2? I mean, my national ego would love for us to take credit for such a feat, but I feel like there were people in every country who tried to save the jews in one way or another. It was a collaborative effort, no? I especially feel like he did Poland dirty. Holy shit the effort some people went to in that country to protect and save Jewish lives. I mean fuck.

Homeboy literally made a chocolate brand and gave it a vaguely Danish name that sounds nothing like Danish because of a misperception about ww2. Peak ignorance.

FOUND THE SWEDE! D:<

At least he wears his red flags on his sleeve.

I’m not sure this person is aware what indigenous means. Unless, of course this meme is a 100% America-centric meme and largely ignores the entire rest of the world.

Also pretty funny that “eco fascism” is placed underneath what I assume are native Americans.