You could always just use PDF

No, I can’t. You’re obviously not familiar with such processes. The format is enforced, nobody cares about some dude asking for money and then also asking to use a different format. Won’t happen.

Vivaldi is from Norway

Uses chrome under the hood

Ecosia is German

Uses Google/Bing under the hood

Mullvad

Uses Firefox under the hood

Kagi

Is American

Technically we’re on social media

Yes, and there are dozens of us!! Dozens!

Good point, I hadn’t thought about the entire post apocalypse genre. But I was rather thinking about something similar to a strategy game like Tropico or SimCity, just in that setting

No, not out of convenience. I don’t know what your image of American diplomacy is like, but they have always been willing to force other countries to go their way. In some cases they had to kill political leaders, in the EU for example politicians "understand’ without getting killed.

But I think we’re generally on the same boat. It’s weird how all relevant tech companies are in the US. The difference is, I don’t think this is because of"convenience". That doesn’t scale that much. This is enforced.

Yes, but nobody cares about Spotify. It’s not an essential app in any sense. It’s also owned by the music industry, btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ5z_KKeFqE

But I can use my own cd collection instead if I want to or play my own music or none at all. Nobody cares.

What I can’t do is write a funding proposal in libreoffice, because docx is the standard form and if your proposal looks odd they are happy to desk reject it. I also can’t just use my own search engine, browser, social media. Well, I can, but I’ll have to be tech savvy and will be isolated. This is by design.

The actual counterexample is SAP, which for some reason managed to cling itself into core business infrastructure. I don’t know of another example, but let me know if you have one.

Many other startups were founded abroad and eventually bought by big tech or moved over for tax reasons. This is part of the “standard path” now, and people discuss when the strategic point in time is right to move over. American diplomacy made sure there is no competing environment anywhere else, except in China where they couldn’t enforce it.

what exactly is the rest of the world’s excuse for not creating viable local or collaborative alternatives to American corporate services and products?

Decades of American diplomacy and big tech market domination hindering them from doing exactly that. It’s not a coincidence all relevant tech companies are in the US. For the most time, if you started a company elsewhere and it became reasonably relevant, you had to eventually move to the US or go down.

Of course, you could start a non profit, but it would also stay irrelevant because it’s incompatible with big tech. Microsoft’s docx, android and iOS locks etc.

That said, there is now a political opportunity to move away from this system, but it takes a few years.

Yeah, I wouldn’t say “semi legit”, but they know how to run a business 😅

If you’re talking about ransomware (?), they are actually famous for great customer service and not stealing your credit card details. If people don’t trust them, noone will pay. So they offer live chats with real humans to help you set up a bitcoin wallet etc., to ensure smooth processing.

The business has developed further though, not if you don’t pay they often threaten to release the data on the web.

https://clan.lol/docs/25.11

Edit: oh, took me a second. I just thought you should know there is a tool called clan already and you can use it to run kde on all your machines

Clues by Sam. It runs on a website, do no installation necessary. Perfect for a quick round on the commute.

Another one that I found fun to start with and it grows with your skill is shattered pixel dungeon

Necessary for thee, not necessary for me I guess

I’m sure it’s because of his genuine concern for the pilots (not)

It’s like that with many animals

They already only show positive reviews unless you login

Palestinians were being lured to food aid while the ngo employees stood by and let the IDF slaughter them.

Not going to deny that, but what does that have to do with some nazi mf attacking some guy while having a tattoo?

And in particular: wtf do any unnamed NGOs have to do with that shit? Catch him, arrest him, put him in front of a court. In the meantime, report about it. No NGO necessary

“treated as an antisemitic incident by NGOs”

What is that supposed to mean? Greenpeace categorizes this as antisemitic and as a result…?

I don’t know, I’d find it more infuriating if the press or police or judges would do that. But NGOs sounds like a bullshit headline to be

I so wish this is a book about Humanities

Is it a pig or a rabbit?

I so hope this gets sour quickly enough for all of us to enjoy.

The stupid Iran war has already shown that Ukraine is much more up to date with how current drone war works than the US and Trump is too dumb to see that.

Once Ukraine has kicked out the Russians and has all the expertise on modern drones wars, the US is going to come begging.

Cringe? 67? Sus?

What’s no. 1?