regardless, this would be a good time for countries to strengthen laws protecting against foreign ownership of media companies and heavily regulating foreign media companies operating in countries instead of opening up the floodgates and letting american companies control the culture.
I want to cancel my american owned subscriptions and I’m a american
I want to cancel my residency and move to Canada.
Maybe we’ve always been the bad guys, but it sucks that the US is openly being the bad guys now. This isn’t the country I was indoctrinated to think it was. Sad.
The US have always been the bad guys. Even independence was about being able to do more genocide and land stealing without the British getting in the way.
Canada also has a brutal history of both slavery and genocide.
Accepting that is the first step to overcoming systemic racism and building communities that we can all thrive in.
Everywhere in the world had slavery.
Thats not true
you be the first to give up your land and give it back to the Indians… but u wont :)
People dont own land anymore. We live and die in ever-inflating rental properties.
My parents are teachers. They own land. It’s not quite as impossible as people like to pretend. Hell, my 20 year old cousin has a house
You’re right. Everybody is just being dramatic and pretending they can’t afford to own a home. Especially the people having their homes repossessed. They are the biggest fakers of all.
You said people. There’s plenty of people who can afford a home. I get that it sucks for you, but there’s many who can. It isn’t just a rich person thing.
And no, I don’t think they’re pretending, I think you’re being overdramatic.
Friendly reminder that practically speaking most countries have committed genocide if they’ve been around longer than a century ish.
I was at a bar a while back and the talk stuck with me. He was a Israeli who moved to America about twenty years ago and still visits Israel to see his family.
He said, “Americans have to stop seeing America as being #1 at anything.” We talked about Israel and Palestine, we talked about the current White House bs, and afterwards, I finally understood what he was saying, especially with the lens of him being an Israeli.
America is America. It’s a place that exists. The rest of the world has a lot better everything. It’s like living in a small backwater town: You know it’s shit, and it wont magically become something it’s not, especially if the Mayor and the Sheriff are inbred hicks who bang each other’s sister wives. Maybe you grow your nestegg until you can move. Or maybe you carve out a piece of the shit hole. But know that it’s a shit hole.
That’s America. Just keep milking because the lunatics are out of their cage.
I’m an American and I canceled mine years ago! (Except youtube premium)
Not trying to yuck someone’s yum, but what are the perks for youtube premium?
You get to pay for commercials.
No ads and unlimited YouTube music. I do the family plan for my mom, wife and young daughter. We get our money’s worth for sure.
Do it. I canceled all my streaming and music subscriptions about a year ago and would highly recommend it to all right thinking people.
The real cancel culture.
Then do it, is someone holding a gun to your head?
Real American question
Haha I don’t actually have any to cancel.
Eagerly awaiting European owned competitors to american big tech products
It might not cover everything, but here’s a nice list:
https://european-alternatives.eu/Thanks!
Thank you!
Le livre des visages
Does that mean Facebook in French?
Oui
There are already many out there
Would love to hear about some you like!
The frama suite is good too, e.g. https://framapad.org/abc/en/
https://cryptpad.fr/ as an alternative to Googles online office suite.
end-to-end encrypted and open-source collaboration suite.
still really early in development but if you primarily work from the browser on a desktop/laptop, it works well enough. I’ve struggled with getting sheets working on a mobile browser but I really like that you could completely self host if you want or just pay them to do it for you.
Tell me what you need?
Cloud, Calender Sync, Contact Sync and Document Collaboration? I use a Nextcloud Instance provided and managed by my university (who have a contract with Nextcloud, a German Company)
Hetzner and many others sell managed Nextcloud Instances
For the Pictures I use a Photoprism Instance running on a VPS, but for Drop-In solutions you can also use a Plug-in for Nextcloud, or buy a managed instance, like on PikaPods
To be honest that was very over my head, but maybe I’ll do some research on it sometime. I don’t do self hosting so I would be looking for things that don’t need that to work.
I know its intimidating but getting a managed instance of nextcloud somewhere like Hetzner is really straight forward. You wont have to do much if any admin past the initial setup.
But services like Proton are a Swiss alternative to a lot of these cloud services.
Yeah that’s the thing that stands out so much. That almost everything mainstream is either US or China. Come on rest of the world step up.
jellyfin ftw!
the CBC celebrates
Just a reminder to use your local library, they’ll often have plenty of movies and TV shows to rent either at a very low price or fully free. Perfect complement for the seven seas
Local libraries rock.
Local library here has streaming services with lots of classic movies (watched some Akira Kurosawa flicks). And other streaming services thru there have educational kids’ stuff. Also, free museum passes. Telescopes. Musical instruments. Video games. Online newspapers and magazines. Pretty badass.
some libraries even have a small streaming service, so you don’t have to leave the house
Canadians were some of the OG tv pirates. They were the hookup for hacked satellite boxes in the 90’s.
I tried searching for this but only found recent news. Anywhere I can read about this? Wikipedia, article, or book?
I love tech history.
There’s a little bit in this Wikipedia article but I can’t find much either.
IIRC it mostly stemmed from a lot of US tv channels not being available in Canada at the time. So to make them available, they started hacking satellite descramblers and Direct TV cards. Then they found a giant market in the US willing to buy these boxes and cards to get free tv.
There were people in the US making them too, but the Canadian stuff was more reliable and updated quicker when Direct TV changed codes.
This is great! Thank you.
It’s why most of the shows I watched as a kid had the maple leaf in the corner.
Ukraine had to start banning Russia funded slop after the invasion…
Maybe doing it before the invasion would have been better.
Argh, eh!
Thanks for the reminder. Just cancelled
Canada here! Literally cancelled Netflix last week and talked to my SO about using the money instead to pay for a seedbox lol.
Also trying to do a grocery run without buying any American products is a challenge but doable! Loading up on Dr. Oetkers pizza and Romanian pasta
Are there some good Canadian seed boxes?
Not sure yet, I’m looking into it! I’ll report back if I find a good one though
Dr. Oetkers
You guys get Dr. Oetker over there? Extremely jealous!
Safeway had them on sale for like $3.50 so we loaded up lol
You have Safeway in Canada? Doesn’t that defeat the point of not buying American?
The Canadian stores have been owned by Sobeys since 2013!
WTF, I always thought Dr. Oetker was just another brand of some American multinational. It’s apparently German.
I started cancelling all American subscriptions back in December (all Google services out, Facebook+Instance out, Amazon out…) I’m down to Netflix but currently building out my movie library daily. Plex server is next. Long live Torrents!
People paid for Netflix?
Suckers come from both sides of the border
An arr set up is not hard to do. Though I am having a hard time finding a good waybto acquire music. I have lidarr but is there a jellyseerr option for music?
Soulseek?
Eco-Max makes good dish soap and other products like that here in Canada…free shipping in Canada and you can get it at Walmart:
Did you mean to comment this somewhere else? Or am I just not getting something?
I too am confused by this streaming to cleaning connection.
Made sense to me. Canadians dropping American goods in favor of Canadian made ones.
oh, that would make sense 😅
the quality and selection are better on certain websites with weird little cartoon character avatars
I cancelled two weeks ago expecting it to be difficult, but I don’t really miss it. Maybe something happens when you get old, but I just don’t have the will to commit to a series or a binge watch anymore. What I’ve started doing is borrowing movies at the library, which is free and takes forever, but is oddly charming.
