The alternatives to Intel/AMD/Nvidia, Visa/Mastercard/American Express/Discover and IOS/Android need to be more developed.

  • parpol@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    JCB is a japanese alternative to the American credit card payment processors.

    It didn’t participate in visa and MasterCard’s collusion to boycott and bankrupt manga, anime and art sites.

    • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I really wish JCB was in Canada. C’mon Japanese friends make a deal with Mark Carney to strengthen our economies together.

  • krolden@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I like how it took the threat of annexation to mildly inconvenience yourselves.

  • stormeuh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    To the point of replacing Visa/Mastercard: it would be great if the EU could continue in line of SEPA and create an EU payment processor. Now, I want to be very clear, it should be owned by the member states’ governments, and profit (if any) should go into the EU budget. No neoliberal bullshit of “oh we’re going to put out a contract/give out loans for anyone to set up a payment processor and the market will decide”. It should be a state owned payment processor, to finally stop the likes of Mastercard, Visa, etc. from leeching off every single consumer transaction in the economy.

  • MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Back to flip phones? Or what alternative are you guys looking at?

    Google and Apple are a bunch of bootlickers imo to the Trump administration.

    • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It can be hard to convince others to switch over to foss alternatives in that setting but as long you’re doing the right thing yourself that’s all that counts.

      Keep supporting the developers building better software and the businesses will eventually take heed to their work.

  • Reannlegge@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I long ago gave up on Twitter, prior to it becoming X. I was briefly on X but closed that account. Facebook I still have an account, but from what I understand it cost the Zuk more to have a barley active account then have a closed account, but it will probably be closed soon. Reddit is something I am trying to get rid of but it keeps sucking me back in, I have however removed myself from all the groups that are not Canadian centred. The only reason why I have a google account is for youtube, I got off of all the other services because of ads and all of that. I moved all of my subscriptions to things to Apple’s hide my email so I would get less junk mail. I also got a pihole setup on my LAN to see less ads so less google ad sense. I was never really a windows user so that is not a problem for me. I was fine with Apple Maps but now if I need a map I use open maps or whatever it is called. I have decided that I will not buy another apple thing, rather get things updated/repaired at shops local to me.

    I have gone through my web services and cancelled everything that is not Canadian. I have moved my blog off of square space and onto Hosthero with a .ca address and I use it to create all my emails for things I may signup for. Unlimited emails so that I can signup for unlimited free trials to things, like I did with Apple’s hide my email!

    Yes I agree ARM needs to be accepted a little more so Linux computers using it can be used as better (non Apple) desktops. Payment methods need to be developed even more in Canada outside of interact. I will have difficulties moving away from iOS because of FaceTime and messages.