I just contacted them, and they are not yet hearing from Patriots about how the company is helping the Chinese dictatorship by dropping the app that the protesters use for coordination. Also, Apple is threatening to drop Twitter from the Apple Store because the company believes in censorship, not free speech.
Go woke, go broke. Call and chat with the main company, and contact the Apple stores. Mention a pending boycott. Make it so these assholes can't walk the street. Spread the word. You guys are really good at that.
And, most important, look at Linux for your next computer, and a Musk phone if that happens ("Musk phone" sorta works, doesn't it?). I hope to hell Elon makes a phone. Any suggestions on hardware for a machine with Linux OS?
Send Apple on the downward spiral now enjoyed by Disney, Netflix, FaceBook, and Amazon. And don't forget Bed, Bath, and Beyond when they dropped My Pillow. You Patriots are kicking ass! Now it's time for Apple.
Don't forget about Paypal most recently in the "go woke, go broke" category!
I can vouch Dell for a PC based system: https://www.dell.com/en-us/lp/linux-systems. You can also look at the Dell Outlet for refurb machines (good discounts here), then manually install a Linux distro, depending on your level of tech saavyness (Dell certifies select systems). But, you can install a flavor of Linux on most any system nowadays.
As much as I'd like an alternative phone option, I think we'll be stuck with Android/Apple until we hit TGA. Been looking at going to a non-5G Pixel and flash with GrapheneOS (Clowns still have a hardware backdoor I'm sure). I'd like something new... but not 5G which means options are still limited to used phones :(. There are also Pine phone and Librem5 as Linux alternatives, but definitely not for the faint of heart. Haven't looked into those recently, so maybe things have gotten better in the last 10 months or so.
Dont get Dell Dell just stopped ads on twitter because bad man musk. Get compiter from Meta PC Its not a facebook company, Meta PC sponsers non woke tubers like The Quartering
https://www.metapcs.com/
Looks like this is them. Thanks for the recommendation. Personally, I build all my own desktops, but recommended Dell since I have firsthand (recent) experience using Linux on them, specifically, and they offer more regular consumer products that are reasonably priced.
MetaPC looks to have a year warranty period and is mainly specialty machines that might be overkill for 95% of folks on here (not to mention out of budget).
I completely understand the boycott game and do it myself (cancelled Paypal), but our options are limited already (and get even more limited if we start boycotting everything). Pick our battles - I only wish more normies would realize this and participate.
I built my own desktop years ago so I know what's inside and I can upgrade however I please. For example, I started with a hard drive and now have an SSD in it. It only gets sluggish when I have a dozen programs running and dozens of open browser windows with stuff going on. So I'll use it until the Windows in it fails and can't be replaced, then go to Linux. I already have Linux in a Virtual Box, as well as Windows XP so I run some favorite old software.
I agree that the boycotting is tricky. We need to do the best we can, but, you can see, that is doing a lot of good.
Many years ago, the company I work for replaced all the PCs with Dell. It took months to get them to work on the network. It was a fiasco. I wouldn't use a Dell, if I got it free.
Thanks for the info.
Thanks for the info on Dell refurbished machines. That sounds like a good plan when my machine dies. Hopefully not too soon. I heard a little about the Pine phone, but nothing seemed to come of it.
No problem. Linux on the desktop has come a long way, but still far from being accessible like Windows is. I made the decision to not go to Win11, so I've been converting over to Linux instead. My phone is still serviceable, but getting long in the tooth. If it died tomorrow, I'd probably go the Pixel route, only because Linux native phones still need more time in the oven.
If more normies were to wake up, we could really bankrupt these Cabal puppets like Apple. The bread and circuses are too comforting still....
Rob Braxman sells a de-googled phone. Here's a video about the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5USiHT7mzM