Notices by Sam Schlinkert (schlink@octodon.social)

"Critics of the big tech companies are often told, 'If you don’t like the company, don’t use its products.' I did this experiment to find out if that is possible, and I found out that it’s not—with the exception of Apple."

What happened when a reporter blocks blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple for a week.

Featuring:
- Onionshare
- Jitsi
- Purism laptop
- Nokia phone
- physical maps, calendar, and books
- cash

https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194

Purism has announced a new USB security token. They partnered with NitroKey (shape looks similar to NitroKey's).

"One of the most exciting opportunities the Librem Key opens up to us is in integrating with our tamper-evident Heads BIOS to provide cutting-edge tamper-evident security but in a convenient package that doesn’t exist anywhere else."

https://puri.sm/posts/introducing-the-librem-key/

Reminder for newcomers: Know about your instance!

Each instance should have an about page at /about/more (e.g. Octodon's is at: https://octodon.social/about/more )

You can usually learn who runs your instance (if you don't know already) AND, hey, they might have a way that you can support the costs of running the instance financially, like Patreon