I created these guides as I was dispondent in the direction the world is going and feeling helpless. Besides the political movements, I feel the next best thing is to promote businesses that don’t prioritise profits over people.
The starting point is moving away from big tech, but the intention of the movement is to extend to other products and industries.
I have subsequently created a website after the popularity of these infographic guides with far more detail:
https://purchasewithpurpose.io/
Hope this helps you, friends or family, make the switch!
There’s something funny about posting that to lemmy and not mentioning lemmy as a Reddit alternative.
I guess so… The social media part wasn’t meant to be a main focus, as it often depends on moving not yourself but the people around you. I do intend to revisit it, though.
Hi! Just wanted to pop in here and say that I’ve been following your guides for a long time now (I was the Degoogle+ Journey OP), and I’m super happy for the website finally releasing! Your call to action has helped me tremendously with making my digital life align more with my values, as well as finding some much better alternatives. Thank you for making a difference in this ugly future we’re living.
Thanks @xpey@piefed.social ! It’s comments like these that make it all worth it. So hard to know how many people are actually following these guides and benefiting from them. Having done the switch myself through this process, I feel so much better using tools from genuine businesses.
For gaming OS I really have to point CachyOS, their “somewhere in the middle between pure Arch and SteamOS” approach makes it a really good gaming option. I’ve been trying it for over an year with zero regrets.
And Spotify as a music streaming alternative?? Really?! 👀
Will all the crap that they keep on making over and over again?
Spotify is an alternative, but it doesn’t come recommended (in the guide or the website) and has a huge disclaimer to their name. https://purchasewithpurpose.io/software/D5JUoM1dZysf7JJgTAWXy/
The reality is that most people know about Spotify, so it’s better to educate people as to why they aren’t a good option rather than not mention them at all.
Actually it’s on the website. Hence my reaction.
It users don’t actually click the more info to see the details, all they see is that it’s in the list.
Still, fully agree with the educate and warn part.
I get your point. I’ll look at adding the disclaimer to the category list as well to help educate without needing to click into the tool.
Where is Spotify listed on this guide?
Oh, and for an easier transition from Windows, on my personal point of view, Mint is great but I would go with KDE Neon instead of Ubuntu.
does anyone know if there’s a company that hosts immich for people to pay to use? I like it but don’t want the hassle of keeping that data safe
https://pixelunion.eu/ is a fantastic option and they recently donated 20% of their profits to humanitarian aid
wonderful thanks, I was beginning to worry I’d have to start a company to do this myself lol
Yes, leave Twitter for the next Twitter. Smh
Pop! OS is my daily driver and I’m very happy with it. That being said, Bazzite would be a better “gaming” distro to put in the guide.
