It’s far overdue, but my #diday resolution this year is to completely divest from US tech.
Feels rather like my responsibility as an 🇺🇸 expat firmly planted in 🇪🇺.
It feels like an enormous task, as I feel helplessly bound to past tech decisions, but I hope breaking into small steps:
Software:
✅ Gmail -> Posteo
✅ Safari -> Firefox
MacOS/Windows -> Linux
Hardware:
iPhone -> Fairphone
MacBook -> ??
RE: https://fediscience.org/@BioGeoBryce/115904641047323289
Woah, that was waaaay easier than I thought it would be. Despite being (happily) rather tech-ignorant, it only took about a week of occasional tinkering to transfer all of my US tech dependencies to #opensource and #europeanalternatives.
Unfortunately, though, my largest tech footprint remains work (a 🇩🇪 federal research institute). Outside of some pretty terrible SAP systems, we are entirely reliant on #USTech. That's the case even for low hanging fruit like team organization, office products, and social media outreach.