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Are you sure about that? Every metric I’ve seen show considerable reductions and returning growth is relatively minuscule.

A 25% drop is quite catastrophic for an entire sector like tourism.

https://fortune.com/article/how-are-canadians-snubbing-us-travel-tariffs-tourism/

For me a major concern was American surveillance and law enforcement backdoors. A country with no concern for international law or human rights should not have that kind of supranational power. I’d feel safer with Chinese electronics in all honesty.

Here’s some alternatives I’ve been using:

-Routers: Mikrotik, Latvian company, mostly made in Eastern Europe

-Cloud Storage: Tresorit, owned by Swiss Post

-VPS: Ovhcloud, French company with its North American Datacenter in Canada

-Linux: Anything but Fedora which is owned by IBM. Using it contributes to their RnD for their Redhat corporate services and distros.

-DNS: Quad9. Switzerland based non profit. Don’t give Cloudflare your precious traffic data.

-Dropped every single US owned social media and subscription service.

Still working on migrating my email and search off Microsoft and Google. Going to drop Android and Steam at the first viable opportunity.

Credit Cards and Youtube are literally the only two that are unviable to switch from… for now.

Dude, the American imported oranges have been going moldy on the grocery store shelves since Biden left office.

People will go hungry before they buy fascist.

Yeah, I’m annoyed at a lot of transformed food products saying “made in Canada from imported produce”. Basically American diarrhea spreaders. Ain’t buying food that will kill us.

I’ve successfully cut the use of nearly every American product or service since last year. Genuinely worth it and enriches your life. You just realize how enshitified everything is.

I don’t think the American public has understood how these are permanent lifestyle changes. Any trade agreement, getting alcohol back on the shelves, will make these people change that. Tourists are gone. People will not cross the border with the risk of being sent to concentration camps in chains over minor bullshit.

Cool nice shit costs money sometimes. You can’t really consider this device from a regular value standpoint. Its unique.

They also give you 24 games within the price of the device. At say $5-$10 a pop, its decent value for the games alone.

Yup its exactly this. And with supply shortages, itll take a while to filter down in price unfortunately.

Why? Its a phone that supports Graphene where Google isn’t trying to kill it?

“GrapheneOS has supported Pixels because Google’s Tensor chips provide the necessary security features, but not all Qualcomm chips offer the same capabilities. Only Qualcomm’s most expensive 8-series processors are comparable from a security standpoint, and those only go in expensive flagship smartphones.”

The price has to do with cpu types. As long as those particular chips remain expensive and top shelf, it won’t reach more budget devices. Its not a malicious choice.

Lenovo is just always killing it. Guess I’m getting one of these next.

In a sense, its the system functioning as it should. If you have a healthy democratic society with good principals, juries should acquit people for things that may be crimes but are perfectly reasonable and justified.

May be an orange, but you sure have a smart system to alert you if the kibble is late.

An app is always a red flag, especially if it’s the only way you can interact with the device.