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In the months leading up to May 1, 2026 let's build a GLOBAL #BOYCOTT. People can begin now, pledge to delete their accounts at the major US tech platforms:

• #Amazon
• #Google
• #Meta
• #Microsoft
• #Apple

Imagine for a minute, what that looks like! The lead-up to that day and the actual day. If hundreds of millions people, globally, were to actually delete their accounts (or at least stop using them to purchase services). Those CEOS, those boards and stock holders SHOULD FEAR US. They think themselves isolated from their actions.

We should not just talk shit about them, we should end their companies, we should cut their companies to the ground.

With the internet, is such a thing really so far fetched? For fucks sake, we have the internet.

THEY. SHOULD. FEAR. US. WE. SHOULD. MAKE. THEM. FEAR. US.

Global Boycott. Start now. Build, build, build. #DeleteDay2026 #TheyShouldBeAfraid

Dare to imagine kicking those fuckers in their testicles.

Dream with me. No, really. Close your eyes and imagine a day, May 1, 2026.

In the months leading up to May 1 a GLOBAL campaign is organized. On May 1 (or before) people pledge to delete their accounts at the major US tech platforms:

• #Amazon
• #Google
• #Meta
• #Microsoft
• #Apple

Imagine for a minute, what they looks like. The lead-up to that day and the actual day. If hundreds of millions people, globally, were to actually do that.

Imagine for a moment, in the months leading up to such a day, the result on those CEOS, the boards, etc. They think themselves isolated from their actions. We should not just talk shit about them, we should end them. We should cut their companies to the ground.

With the internet, is such a thing really so far fetched? For fucks sake, we have the internet.

THEY. SHOULD. FEAR. US. WE. SHOULD. MAKE. THEM. FEAR. US.

Global Boycott. Start now. Build, build, build. #DeleteDay2026

Dare to imagine kicking those fuckers in their testicles.

Daily reminder to #Apple enthusiasts that claim it's too hard to transition to other options: The Enshitification will only get worse.

YOU are CHOOSING in part because you don't want to make an effort. It's easier to complain and weakly protest. Americans are really good at this while they avoid any actual action. This is how we got here (hand wavy gesture).

YOU control YOUR COMPUTING. YOU.

Yes, it requires effort. Why not start now with small steps to begin a process to gradually replace Apple Services and apps. Download the #FOSS apps that can replace the Apple's Mac apps:

• LibreOffice to replace Pages, Numbers, Keynote
• Mullvad which better protects your privacy compared to Safari
• Thunderbird for an email client
• Proton to replace iCloud email, calendar, iCloud Drive
• Ente.io for cloud photos and sharing

Don't give up before you try. Your #freedom and #privacy are worth the effort.

#Tech #Google #Amazon #Microsoft

A fantastic post that makes an excellent point: Liberty, freedom and computing ethics really do matter. Now more than ever.

And Matt's process of extricating himself is right on. He's doing it gradually, as he suggests, "quiet quitting". SLOW, STEADY. If you're deeply entrenched in Apple services don't quit before you start because it seems too much to do.

Slow, steady steps. In the end, you will be more free.

YOU WILL BE MORE FREE.

This is important.

#Apple #Freedom #Tech #FreeSoftware

Posted by an #Apple user just now. Not sure if it is a user created playlist or official but let me just say, FUCK YOU APPLE. You can stick your attempt at profit by marketing protest songs straight up TIM COOK'S ASS.

You insulting fucks.

#Boycott

One of my local volunteer projects is the library's website which I'm updating this morning as Cosmo waits for second breakfast.

Happily using #FreeSoftware: ghostwriter for markdown conversion to html. Then I'll use Kate to edit a couple html files then upload with Filezilla. #GNU #Linux

and the Cinnamon DE. All running on a 2018 #Thinkpad bought for $250 on Ebay.

No need for new/expensive hardware from #apple. No #malware from #Microsoft or #google #UpCycle #FOSS #Tech

"When Beijing pressured Apple to remove apps, to store Chinese user data on Chinese servers, to make the iPhone a tool of state surveillance for Chinese citizens—Apple complied. Silently. Efficiently. As Cook’s supply chain required.

This is not a company that can stand up to authoritarianism. This is a company that has made itself a instrument of authoritarianism, because the alternative is losing access to the factories that build its products." #Apple #Tech #Fascism

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-crisis-no-5

Yes, but, also, anything for profit, anything for the stock price. Also, It's not corporate betrayal, it's #capitalism. Corporations do capitalism and that's what we see here.

Corporations do no care for humanity, if it seems to you that they do, that's marketing. Apple marketing has created story about a company that cares about #privacy, creativity and helping humans be better. #Apple marketing has convinced people it is the caring rebel.

It's not betrayal because it was never for you.

That interface and the ads... 😂🤢🤮

I don't ever want to read/hear another Apple fan blather on about the supposed high quality of Apple's OS/app design.

There's never been a better time to switch to #GNU #Linux and #FreeSoftware.

with the Cinnamon desktop and default theme is a nice upgrade from Liquid Ass.

#Apple #enshittification

Enough complaining. Initiate & organize a campaign.

Make concrete demands. Spitballing:

• Tim Cook's firing
• Demand Apple publicly state opposition to current #ICE actions
• Apple commitments to human rights, democracy and rule of law

Follow with actions against Apple including:

• Consumer boycott
• Store pickets
• Call on Apple employees to organize/make demands from the inside

Make news, shift the conversation rather than let #Apple dictate conversation with their product releases.

Are #Apple enthusiasts that post about Apple's latest product release also doing free Apple Marketing?

Yes, yes they are.

Connecting the dots (and this isn't that hard), is voluntarily doing marketing for a company who directly supports a fascist regime for favors bootlicking by extension?

Why the fuck would anyone opposed to #fascism and #ICE murders volunteer to do free marketing for a company and CEO (FUCK YOU TIM COOK) engaged in active fascist bootlicking?

Get off your knees.

FUCK TIM COOK. FUCK APPLE. And fuck the rest of these fucking fascist fucks.

They're allegiance to fascism and violence is the real profanity.

American tech oligarchs and their companies need to be shunned (shunning is just the beginning of what they deserve).

Shun these fuckers, their products, their companies. No bullshit excuse "they're just doing what they need to do."

FUCK cooperation with #fascism. FUCK #Nazi bootlickers.

#Boycott #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Meta

This and also, delete your #Amazon account.

Why in the ever-living-fuck is anyone still giving money to any #US #bigtech #fascist boot-licker unless there is no other choice for something that is essential? Don't feed the fascist machine.

Rather than talk about the latest corporate streaming tv show you enjoyed, share about your boycott of those companies. Give your money to #PBS instead. Use your library.

#Flock #Ice #Fascism #Boycott #Apple #Google #Microsoft

Agreed with the erosion of the #Apple ecosystem. I'm not "almost equally happy" running GNU/Linux, I love using it in a way that previously enjoyed macOS & iPadOS. I don't feel the hardware constraints Rui mentions on a 2018 Thinkpad or on my 2012 Mac Mini. Daily html/css coding, page layout with Scribus, vector work w/ Inkscape are all very fast. Mint Cinnamon on the Thinkpad, Trisquel with KDE Plasma on the Mini is perfectly responsive.

Bonus: No #Fascism! #FreeSoftware #FOSS #Privacy

"It is absolutely unconscionable that, as of this writing, X is not only still on the App Store but is ranked #1 in “News” and that Grok is the #3 free app. Moreover, there has been—as far as I have seen—no public statement from Apple or Cook about this situation in the days, at least, over which it has unfolded. Probably because it is indefensible. "

Start the process to quit Apple today. Services

• iCloud
• Music
• TV

Future: GNU/Linux - It's better than you think.

#Apple #Tech #Resist

2025 End of year personal computing check-in

I've written quite a bit over the past 11 months about flipping the table on my personal computing. All very unexpected but what a relief to have done it. And also very satisfying to know that my computing now fits my personal ethics in a way that it did not before.

#Permacomputing #GNU #Linux #FreeSoftware #FOSS #Apple #Computing #Tech #Technology #Privacy #Resist #Capitalism #Fascism

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-12-26.html

This is not a joke, $150 and $230 for a piece of cloth/strap iPhone pouch.

Apple as a company and a brand is not only following fascist dictates but is holding up increasing income disparity as a feature to be celebrated. Can't eat or walk the streets in safety from the secret police? Too bad for you. Check me out with my $230 Apple pocket.

As a brand, #Apple is #toxic, #fascist, #cruel and Apple enthusiasts should really be walking away.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/introducing-iphone-pocket-a-beautiful-way-to-wear-and-carry-iphone/

has a great post on #Apple behaving as the capitalist it is.

If you are a disgruntled Apple customer opposed to #fascism you have a choice to make. You can continue buying their products and services or you can stop. No one forces you to buy the latest, greatest iPhone, iPad or Mac. No one forces you to buy AppleTV+ or iCloud.

If you don't want to support a company happy to appease fascism make an effort to start reducing the money you give them.

TRY HARDER.

https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/apples-iceblock-capitulation-is-business-as-usual/

With Apple’s WWDC25 announcements comes news that most pre-2020 Macs are ineligible for macOS 26... Obviously, given my recent turn to GNU/Linux I’m going to take this as an opportunity to encourage Mac users to add GNU/Linux to their line-up. Take it as an opportunity to learn. Productive and fun computing does not require macOS. My 2012 Mac is running the latest version of Linux Mint without breaking a sweat and gets all the latest security...

#Linux #Apple #macos26

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-06-10.html

A fantastic blog post by

Growing old in the age of crap tech, and fascism: "In a nutshell, I found myself trapped within a kind of self-inflicted jail, where the warden was a collective entity made of rich white men. These mercurial figures come from a foreign country that I was conditioned to think as an ally."

We do not have to remain users and subjects of US mega tech. There absolutely are solutions.

#Linux #FOSS #Apple #Google #Microsoft

https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/growing-old-in-the-age-of-crap-tech/

Excellent post by Ploum: "Small low-tech manifesto"

My initial take-away: Even as a somewhat "advanced" user, my relationship to my computing technology precarious. He writes:

"Thanks to the complexity, constant change and the imposition of a strict “intellectual property” regime, users have been transformed into consumers. "

#Computing #FOSS #Apple #Linux #LowTech

https://ploum.net/2025-05-16-manifeste-lowtech.html

Are Apple Enthusiasts Miserable?

It's been on my mind to write about Apple enthusiast user culture for the past couple weeks and this morning the title of the current Rebound podcast got my attention: General Misery About Life and Technology. I write this post as a former Apple enthusiast, a 30+ year user of Apple computers and devices. When I bought my first Mac in 1992 I just needed a computer to write my masters thesis. It was just...

#Apple #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-05-04.html

Apple to Linux Journal - Two months, enjoying the journey!

It's been over two months since my first install of Linux Mint on my old 2012 Mac Mini, now dubbed LinuxMini. I've got quite a few posts covering various apps and aspects of the migration but thought I'd write up a two month status report. My initial plan was for Linux to be an experiment and eventual migration while my initial main goal was just to begin the process of migrating away...

#Apple #Linux #FOSS

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-05-01.html

Are you bending the knee to fascism?

If your favorite local hardware store started flying a Nazi flag would you shrug and go ahead and step through the door to purchase that garden hose you need? Many US companies and, relevant to this post, most of US big tech have all bent the knee to the Trump administration. For the sake of business and profit, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and others are all going along...

#Fascism #Apple #Google #Meta #FOSS #Linux

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-03-31.html

Apple to Linux Journal - Scribus is actually amazing

In a recent post I shared a few things that turned out to be incorrect or just lacking in information. Honestly, I should have known I'd not taken enough time and should have used the app another day or two before posting. First, I incorrectly stated that there was no way to neatly organize the free floating palettes by docking them to the side of the document as I'd come to expect based on past use of Adobe InDesign...

#Apple #Linux #FOSS

Apple to Linux Journal - Rhythmbox as a local music player

"Okay, let me get this out of the way first: I learned long ago that Apple's Music app is absolute garbage for playing local music shared by a Mac on the network. Absolute and utter garbage...

Apple provides an app that has been intentionally broken to push users away from using their local music to an Apple subscription...

Linux offers a FOSS app that works perfectly for the same task."

#Apple #Linux

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-03-27.html

Apple to Linux Journal - Migrating from Apple Photos to digiKam

One of my first considerations in moving from Apple to Linux was photo management. I've moved my photo workflow to digiKam. And I'll say right up front, this is NOT the app for families that want to live in one large, shared photo library in a cloud. digiKam is for managing a local file photo library. I might work over a local network though I've not tried that. One of the stickiest bits...

#Linux #Apple

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-03-25.html

So, you're a frustrated Apple user looking for alternatives?

There's a growing discontent amongst Apple users rightly frustrated with Apple's increasing greed and arrogance. There's no one forcing to you to remain an Apple customer. It's absolutely possible to migrate away and still have an enjoyable computing experience. Even better because it leaves you in control of your own computing destiny.

You really can leave...

#Apple #Linux

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-03-22.html

Apple to Linux Journal - Linux troubleshooting successes!

Today marks one month with Linux and I was glad to solve two of my three issues that have continued since install (connecting bluetooth devices and, separately, audio stutters when streaming). To be clear, these were obviously not deal breakers, just bothersome. Linux Mint is meant to be an easy way into Linux and it absolutely has been. Windows and macOS are not without their problems and...

#Linux #Apple

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-03-17.html

Apple to Linux Journal - Can I replace Affinity Publisher with Scribus?

I've been using Affinity Publisher with the iPad and, before that, the Mac for all of my layout and desktop publishing work. Now that I'm moving to Linux I'm looking at options for this kind of work. Scribus is the only app in this category so I've spent the past couple days getting my feet wet.

My first take...

#Apple #Linux #FOSS #Design

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-03-13.html

Apple to Linux Journal: Moving email from iCloud to my own domains

A mistake I made over 10+ years ago was depending on Apple for my email. It was easy, it was convenient. I'd done the same with Gmail before that. As of 2 weeks ago my email, according to Settings for iCloud showed that I was using around 5GB of storage. In my migration process the past two weeks I first moved all my Photos then my files to my own local network cloud. I was saving email...

#Linux #Apple

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-03-07.html

Helpful Linux Utilities for an Apple Switcher: Autokey, Diodon and Ulauncher

Upon switching to Linux I noticed there were three things missing that I was missing from the iPad: Text expansion, Clipboard history and Spotlight search. The iPad does not acutally have a clipboard history but I was using an third party app for that function. These are the three I'm using on Linux...

#Apple #Linux

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-03-06.html

Linux apps for notes, blogging, coding and remote file management

I've written a couple times in the past couple weeks about switching to Linux. As I've mentioned I'll still be stuck using Apple devices for a few years due to my reliance on the Affinity suite of apps but I'm shifting everything else to a Linux Mint Mac Mini and it's been great thus far. This post is specifically about using the LinuxMac for updating local static websites that consist...

#Linux #Apple

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-03-04.html

Building a reliable local cloud replacement for iCloud or other corporate cloud-based computing

It's been 10 days since I installed Linux Mint on an older 2012 Mac Mini and began the process of migrating from Apple's hardware, software and iCloud services ecosystem. One of the more important tasks I've completed is building my local cloud replacement for Apple's iCloud. I should say nearly completed because I expect I'll be tweaking things for a bit...

#Linux #Apple

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-03-01.html

Apple, big tech, lock-in and the corporate colonization of life experience

"Over the past few weeks, months really, as I've been considering the state of the world and the US (as many have) I've found myself increasingly of the mind that it was time, probably past time, to more specifically redefine my use of computing technology. I've written about the most recent kick in the ass that finally got me moving and that was Apple's ..."

#Apple #Enshittification #Computing

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-02-26.html

Apple to Linux Journal - First Days

"The first day with Linux went fairly well. Downloading, creating a bootable thumbdrive and install was easy. And by easy I mean almost anyone with some experience using and maintaining a computer would likely understand those first few steps and be able to accomplish them. That said, the resulting install was not perfect. There were two issues both of which required basic tech that some may not have immediate..."

#Apple #Linux

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-02-22.html

Progress!

"In the two days since I made my decision to begin the process of migrating away I've taken significant first steps. I've retrieved my 2012 MacMini from storage on a shelf and have installed Mint Linux and the apps I need to do my website work. That's about half of my freelance income. That's a big chunk and it's done. I do have some kinks to work out but I can now do that work from that Linux Mac today.

I've created a migration plan..."

#Apple #Linux

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-02-19.html

After 33ish years of using Apple computers I've started the process of exiting.

Step one, installing Mint Linux on my old, un-used 2012 Mac Mini. Is Cinnamon too much for 2012 Intel Mac, 16GB?

Will still be using iPad and Affinity apps for half my freelance income for another 5 years.

Moving from iCloud over next few months then gradually move everything else to Linux.

Any recommended Linux apps for:

• Photo management
• Text/html/css editing and ftp clients

#Apple #Linux

When computing and tech are turned against us "I was deeply disgusted when I woke up a few days ago to the news that Apple has chosen to return to advertising on what many now view as a Nazi social media platform. I'm not surprised. Any social justice ethics put forth by multinational capitalists can only ever be a pretense. As a capitalist seeking to maximize profits Apple will often make decisions I don't like. Given the role of its owner in current events..."

#Apple

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-02-17.html

Apple has added another important utility feature to iPadOS 18: The Files app is able to erase and reformat drives.

"Now in the Files app on iPadOS 18, when we right click or hold press on an external drive and select “Erase”, new options appear for reformatting the drive. Currently, the format options here are APFS (with options for Case Sensitive or Encrypted), ExFAT, and MS-DOS (FAT), the same format options available in Disc Utility.

#ipad #Apple

https://kalebcadle.substack.com/p/ipados-18-adds-another-very-useful

The iPad is the touch first computer for the rest of us

A response to Jeremy Gray's post over at PetaPixel: "Why Reviewers Lament iPadOS While Users Absolutely Love It."

#Apple #iPad

https://beardystarstuff.net/2024/05/27/181723.html

A bit inside baseball: A few observations and thoughts on the dynamics of the Apple enthusiast community in the narrative of the past 8 years evolution of the iPad and Mac as Apple platforms. A bit of attention paid to the role of podcasters/publishers in how the narrative was created and how it evolved, how it is still evolving. Not so much about the tech as it is about a community's tension, excitement and concerns as it grappled with potential disruption.

#Apple

https://beardystarstuff.net/2024/05/14/warning-this-post.html