I was already used to Debian Linux for 3 years.

I was already used the browser Mozilla Firefox + uBlock.

I was already used to having a dumbphone instead of a smartphone. (I don’t regret it).

This year, I started financially giving money to free open source software like VLC, Krita, Inkscape, Gimp, Qbittorrent. For too long, I have used amazing open source software without contributing. For far too long, I have taken them for granted. We live in a world where we should take nothing for granted.

I started buying Signal toothpaste (Unilever) instead of Colgate toothpaste (USA). Until I find a brand that is actually even smaller than Unilever.

But Google was the real challenge.

I had another email account, but my Gmail account had a ton of stuff on it. Youtube ? I liked it. But I can put my favorite channels in my bookmarks.

It took some time to sort out everything.

But I actually did it.

It’s over.

Finally.

FINALLY

Fuck the US social model. Inhuman vile shit :

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/10/inhaler-cost-death-optum-rx-walgreens/

Increasingly, this cancerous social model is spreading. Starting - as usual - with the British.

According to multiple sources who spoke to their favorite newspaper (The Financial Times), UK CEOs are now asking their friends on their boards to be paid exactly like American CEOs:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/03/london-stock-exchange-chief-calls-for-uk-firms-to-pay-bosses-more/

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/10/when-17m-isnt-enough-ftse-firms-plead-to-pay-bosses-millions-more

Resist US corporations. Resist huge multinationals.

Support non-profit organizations and small-medium sized businesses.

    • titaniumarmor@lemmy.world
      13·
      4 days ago

      It’s a practice called soft-deletion. The idea is that you flip a “deletion” flag on customer data and record the date of the deletion request. After some time, typically 30 days, a garbage-collection cron job will identify your data as having been “soft-deleted” N days prior, and then permanently wipe your data from their servers. This gives people a chance to restore their data in case they accidentally moved it to the trash or change their mind soon after.

      • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        Yeah that makes sense. Soft deletion is also a lot more efficient anyways. I wonder if it actually complies with GDPR etc. though? Like legally, does soft deletion really count as deletion?

    • epicstove@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      Honestly it’s probably just held for a short period of time before finally being deleted.

      Enough time to profit off it one last time.