I have lots of old friends who I only maintained sparse contact with. When I let my personal email address die (the address they would all have records of), I did not bother to update them with a new address.
They are all on the platform of some surveillance capitalist (e.g. Google or Microsoft). Google & Microsoft both refuse connections from self-hosted residential servers. And even if they didn’t, I am not willing to feed those surveillance advertisers who obviously don’t limit their surveillance to their users but also inherently everyone who makes contract with their users. I cannot support that or partake in pawning myself to subsidize someone else’s service.
I just wonder if anyone else has taken this step.
Those parts were still made with fossil fuels? Doesn’t matter how you got them. Still using “fossil fuel partners”
No, it matters absolutely. You can get the goods by financially contributing to their bottom line, or you can get them without contributing financially. Surely you must understand that companies exist to profit.
Of course. But you’re still using something produced by a fossil fuel partner. So your holier-than-thou attitude is just hypocrisy
You don’t get how boycotts work. Using their products without compensating them doesn’t contradict opposition to feeding them. You don’t know what hypocrisy means. You could more easily argue that it’d be a hypocrisy to leave the PCs in a dumpster and allow e-waste to go to a landfill and pollute ground water against my beliefs. Even in regions where they dispose of PCs properly, I oppose destruction and recycling whenever reuse is an option.