"I would never buy a Tesla, because I don’t want to drive a car built by a fascist.

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Apple has become increasingly difficult to stick with. Everything that I really care about is open source. I’m not really getting anything interesting from this platform other than a very long-standing email account.

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I have bad news about nearly every product they own for people that think like this.

Tim Cook is the literal architect of the supply chain that birthed factories with suicide prevention nets. Not sure being mad at Apple now means anything if you were still buying iPhones made in those factories 10-15 years ago.

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I suspect Tim Cook is selling Apple's soul because he no longer has one.

@marcoarment at this point with that definition of fascist, you probably can't buy very much anywhere in the centralised financial world. The very money you use is arguably supporting a type of fascism. Let alone the products.

@mikesaul @marcoarment been using the pinephone over a year and love it! currently running manjaro/plasma. can't recommend it enough

@marcoarment While I see Cook’s actions not as personal agreement and support for Mango Mussolini, but as “hedging corporate bets,” that doesn’t make it any better.

I’m due for a phone upgrade this year. I really hope Apple reverses course on their support for a trumped-up government before it’s time to buy.

@RoguePlayer Don’t deify Jobs. He likely would be doing it, too. Any public performance to keep Apple from having to feel the effects of Cheeto’s “policy of the hour” whims.

It’s “protect the company” BS. All the tech CEOs are doing it. Which is legitimizing Drumpf’s behavior even more. It ain’t good, but at this point, claiming things about Jobs is ridiculous.

At this point; all the tech CEOs are terrible. #BanBillionaires

@marcoarment The rich always bow to fascism. Always have. That you ever throught otherwise is the actual weakness we should be criticising here..

@marcoarment I bought a Linux laptop and haven't touched my Macbook for a few weeks now

One thing i didn't expect, is what a big relief it is, to be free'd from the constant useless macOS permission dialogs/requests (which i didn't even read anymore and just blindly accepted...)

PS. Of course these annoyances only happened for all software which you don't pay Apple for...

@regis @marcoarment Since Wozniak left.

@Mungencakes @marcoarment I could’ve titled it “Tim Cook sold his own soul to save Apple’s profits”. Maybe that would’ve been more precise.

But he damaged Apple’s reputation alongside his own. And I think calling Apple’s reputation its “soul” isn’t unfair.