Another painful one to write, given my life-long love of Apple.

The world must extricate itself from US big tech: https://mattgemmell.scot/liberty-as-resistance/

Liberty as Resistance β€” Matt Gemmell

The world must extricate itself from US big tech.

Matt Gemmell
@mattgemmell My wife just handed me her macbook and incredulously asked me "WTF is this???" pointing to an upgrade prompt in Pages asking her to subscribe. It's gonna take years, but my family is now gonna start de-appling our lives
@mkristensson @mattgemmell I am following you both for advice on this
@SCampbell @mkristensson Well there was just a new release of LibreOffice that supports Markdown too…
@mattgemmell @mkristensson I use Libre & I'm happy with it. Downloaded Proton Mail & Tuta mail & testing them to replace gmail. Getting away from iCloud will be my challenge.
@SCampbell Yup, getting away from iCloud is gonna take me a long time. I tried Proton mail and absolutely despised their app(s) so I'm using Fastmail now.
@mkristensson @SCampbell another longtime @fastmail user here! I don't understand the hype with Proton. 1) it supports no standards like caldav, imap, etc. 2) what good is my sent mail encrypted when it's still stored unencrypted on the receiving end (unless also Proton user)? 3) is bad apps i presume from your comment ;-)
@derlinzer @mkristensson @fastmail Fastmail has servers based mainly in US. Looking for an EU option