snuser

it feels like every time I turn around there's a new news widget or whatever announcing itself

I've seen it a many times it's dumb stuff they have the money and talent to waste and a fear of being left behind.

the leaders of these companies are also fairly uncreative leading them to blindly follow the current meme of "the future" which ironically leads to them faltering anyway

Proton has always been as bad a hushmail

It's all fucked up. all of it. Google, Facebook Apple, Microsoft, whatever they are a disease worse than covid

My system76 laptop (lemp10) has crashed, bugged out, failed to wake from sleep, fully frozen, and just outright failed more often than windows10 ever has for me which is also less than any of my work macbook's have either

linux is a nice operating system and the community developed aspect is neat but be real

It's not fair to be called a side project at this point, it's used to mediate all software on a computing device used by over a billion people

> How can the layperson fight back?

Simply not using a smartphone is fine, they aren't that great and there doesn't need to be an alternative.

it feels like we've been trained as consumers to the point where saying no isn't realistic anymore, there must be something else to buy that represents me more.. etc