all individual can do is find other individuals and try to do something together
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
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try spray painting a cock and balls onto a Tesla
Self host
Yes totally, but I still kind of expected tries.
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The first thing you can do is not buy anything that makes the tech billionaires more money. All they care about is money: don't give them any if you can help it.
But it will make me mildly uncomfortable! /s
for example:
get off of facebook (easy). don't buy tesla or use starlink (easy). don't buy on amazon (difficult but doable). Don't upgrade your iphone, and don't buy new apple products (moderate). Don't use CHATGPT (easy).
I use chatgpt a lot, what is the best non-billionaire funded llm? I really need to change to one that doesn't worsen the world...
Try hosting locally DeepSync R1, for me the results are similar to ChatGPT without needing to send any into on the internet.
LM Studio is a good start.
Don't you need a fast GPU to do so?
You would benefit from it with some GPU offloading, this would considerably accelerate the speed of the answers. But you only need enough RAM to load the model at the bare minimum.
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Thanks I'm trying it now!
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Use Linux and open source software. Contribute to open source projects. Buy hardware second hand. Use non corporate social media. Buy local. Get your stuff fixed instead of throwing it away. Avoid data harvesting where possible.
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Getting off Amazon was easier than I thought. Has been years now, and I only needed to order through a friend once, when I needed a specialty item I could find nowhere else. Most small shops have comfortable checkout systems now and short delivery times. And there's eBay, which afaik takes a smaller cut from third parties than Amazon.
I'd add not using Amazon Prime, Amazon Web Services and other Amazon services. Not using X, being critical of SpaceX. Also, stop advertising these things, stop telling your friends about them, maybe even stop talking about them altogether. I think for some strange reason sometimes bad press is better than no press.
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Instead of spending 200$ a month on subscriptions, spend 300$ on a used PC, take a weekend to learn how to selfhost/pirate and then pay 5$ for a trustworthy vpn like mullvad. If you're in the EU, send data deletion requests to every big company you've had an account with. Start buying things off local retailers, not Amazon. Buy computers/phones either second hand or from smaller/more trustworthy manufacturers...
And most importantly. NEVER. STOP. COMPLAINING. ABOUT. IT. The moment the complaints stop is the moment that bullshit is accepted...
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Years ago people laughed at me for not having Facebook (and never having had it in the first place). Who's laughing now? Not me, nor any other consumers. But hey, we tried...
Pirate, AdBlock/Sponsorblock and use Free/Open Source alternatives.
You start by 3D printing a gun.
Fight for regulation
The only thing that can stop them from their established position of power and influence is regulation that limits those, with effective checks and prosecution.
Split up their platforms and companies, require transparency and provable decency, require structural or behavioral changes
They have so much money, fines won't do a thing [unless they're excessively high and against their companies]. They have such established prevalence with their platforms, activism of and with evasion won't have much of an impact at scale.
Demonstrating public aversion towards advertisers is also a workable approach that could have an impact [long term].
I'm all for that, BUT
Tech companies tend to push for policies that seem to regulate their strategies, but are really designed to not let anyone else use the loopholes they used for themselves. In that they are trying to weed out competition and become a monopoly. So if there are regulations, they need to be thought through. And definitely not be Big Tech backed.
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