A senseless destruction of so many animals' lives for the pursuit of enriching the few.

Stop supporting Big Tech, starting with your browser, search engine and email... a small act goes a long way.

We are starting to see meaningful fines. The next step is to jail people for breaking the law.

They grew 14% to $20B, yet they look for more and more ways to fleece their users.

We need to stop enabling them! It takes 5 minutes to move to another platform with all your playlists saved.

You've likely seen the news, but it serves as a good reminder to boycott Google and other big tech as much as possible.

Browser, Search and Email are an easy starting point!

Weekly reminder to not support these companies. They are laying off people at scale and don't pay their fair share

Another one joins the Linux ranks.

If you haven't done so yet, it really is a great time to give Linux a go.

Awesome to see more options coming out with these alternative operating systems.

LibreOffice takes aim at Microsoft's proprietary charts, exposing why users still cannot view or edit some of Office's flashy visuals

TDF notes that some may consider this a lack of functionality on LibreOffice's part, but the culprit behind this problem is Microsoft itself

Microsoft's policy and tender documents cite the ISO/IEC 29500 standard, but the reality of the files being exchanged is much different as they contain proprietary implementations

Fairphone offers one of the few true alternatives to Google

https://www.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6-plus-e-operating-system

The other being the Jolla phone: https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-october-2026

Alternative link https://archive.ph/iUpEr

They're using https://www.opendesk.eu/ if anyone is interested, and will likely expand it to 54,000 after the pilot.

Love to see it. The experience is getting increasingly similar; why pay all that money for Office 365

Brave will continue to support it, but the best move is to switch to a Firefox-based browser, either Firefox itself, Waterfox or Zen Browser.

Worth taking this opportunity to spotlight other map providers.

• OpenStreetMap
• HERE WeGo

Although this is one of the harder alternatives to replace, their data is getting better over time.

Full video on how they are doing this and the investigation that they did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLIgmEibBL0 (13 min)

They aren't the cheaper option anymore and are taking money from the people who actually do the work. Stop using Uber.

It cannot be stated enough. People need to get off Twitter. It is a cancer on society that drives so much misinformation and division.

If you haven't seen it, Honey (owned by PayPal) and Phia, have been caught stealing referral attributions. These are often small content creators.

They also rarely find genuine discounts. Avoid using them.

A reminder of the sheer wealth these corporations and individuals hold, and how they use the power we give them to influence politics & people.

It is a long journey, but it is worth moving away from these businesses.

A reminder of the sheer wealth these corporations and individuals hold, and how they use the power we give them to influence politics & people.

It is a long journey, but it is worth moving away from these businesses.

On par with entire countries, including Switzerland, Ireland, and Bulgaria.

Incredibly sad to see as we battle record-breaking heatwaves. We need to stop supporting these companies...