The world is dependent on the United States for everything related to technology. If we don’t react, the United States can put pressure on other countries by removing access to these technologies or disclosing users’ personal data. For example, our smartphones or computers could stop working because of our dependence on Google. Another example is that Microsoft has access to our personal data through the cloud.
It is possible to get out of this dependency on the level of an individual, or on the level of an administration or on the level of a company.
Here are a few recommendations:
– Don’t use X, Tiktok, Instagram, and Facebook. Choose Mastodon or BlueSky, for example.
– Choose Libre Office instead of Microsoft Office.
– For instant messaging, use Apple Messages, Signal, or Element X instead of WhatsApp.
European Open Source – Element: https://element.io/en/app
– For email, choose Proton or another service (e.g., laposte.net or Infomaniak) governed by European law, rather than Gmail or other email services from non-European countries.
– Choose open source alternatives for storing data. Do not use One Drive or Google Drive.
Self-hosted cloud collaboration platform for home users– Next Cloud: https://nextcloud.com/home-users/
– Choose Linux over Windows.
Choose Linux instead of Windows to revive an old Mac (e.g., Asahi Linux), a very old Mac (e.g., CachyOS), or an old PC (e.g., Mint).
Asahi Linux: https://asahilinux.org/
CachyOS: https://wiki.cachyos.org/installation/installation_t2macbook
Linux Mint 22.3: https://linuxmint.com/
– Don’t feed artificial intelligence: don’t use Chat GPT or Alexa, which listen to all your conversations to create an identity for themselves.
– For businesses, government agencies, working groups, or individuals who want to use artificial intelligence, use an open source model that will run locally instead of in a data center at a large technology company outside Europe. Examples include Mistral and GPT4All. Do not use artif…
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