I never disputed that this person might be doing much. I only disputed that they said it would be easy living US Free. Which, in the Tech Sector it is not.
This is not a political debate, this is about facts of patents, dependencies and supply chains.

Hell, this guy has the guts to say that living US free is easy and then goes to work every day to work on a windows machine. It apparently is not easy

Nah, man. I hate the American Dominance as much as the next guy. I’m just telling you to be realistic. There is no independence from US Tech yet. We will reach that some day and I will be glad but right now it is not feasible.
You got to get your mindset in check. If you call anyone a MAGA plant that corrects you, there’s something wrong with how you see the world.
I also never said that we should not do anything about it, that’s just something you put into my mouth. I want people to get off American Tech, why do you think I’m here on Lemmy? But saying that not a single cent will go to the US is just factually wrong.

Sure, man.
If Huawei were to release a Laptop without Bluetooth, without Wifi, without HDMI, without H.264 or H.265, and without any other US patented Tech and without any paid US Software anywhere inside their supply chain, not a single cent would flow to the US.
But that’s not the case yet, so we still have to keep on dreaming.

Well, yeah. If you just exclude companies that are too hard to avoid, like Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, and Google (with your Android), suddenly it is really easy. Just because something isn’t fabbed in the US, that doesn’t mean it’s a non-US Product. Some Tech Company in the US still profits through your purchase. That’s what the previous commentor hinted at with “Don’t use any computers?”

Yep, it’s a smart system.
For the user, the file is immediately no longer in the tree, so for them it’s considered done.
The OS should handle all the hassle, not the user.

they’ve doubled down on their mistake

How so? Is JoyCon drift still a thing on the Switch 2?

Archived BlueSky Post of them: https://archive.ph/2yWGz

Using Proton always seemed like a bad idea. People come to Proton in order to deGoogle or de-big-tech but then lock themselves into their ecosystem, defeating the entire purpose.
Not mention how scummy their PR-Team, their CEO and their Business Practices are.
So many Proton sponsered content creators spread lies about how Proton Mail is supposedly E2E encrypted or how Proton VPN is supposedly a privacy and security tool.
Time and time again they have lied about how much data they have and how much they have disclosed to investigating agencies.

The only way I could ever undestand someone using Proton Mail would be to use their service but behind your own domain, such that migrating away stays easy.

I’m not sure what your post is really about and what exactly a possible future you imagine has to do with an EU membership today.
Also the Russia Argument was just one example I gave. There’s so much more to EU membership than just the Fear of a Russian threat. There’s economic systems, socialism, geography, culture, standardized systems, city structure, etc. For all these, Canada aligns closer to the US than to the EU.
The european settlers, ex-colony argument also holds for the US. Should we then also consider the US as an EU Member?

(Maybe an unpopular opinion)
I’d rather not. The EU has already experienced growing fatigue. The further away the member states are, the less they have in common and the harder it will be to agree on political topics.
People in Canada have little in common with europeans, compared to countries within the EU, which are much more alike to another. Canadians are politically, economically and stragegically much closer aligned with the US than with the EU. E.g. a Canadian does not need to care as much about the Russian threat as Poles or Fins do.
I’d love for Canada and the EU to become closer allies but I wouldn’t want them as a (current day type) member. The same goes for Australia, New Zealand or Japan. I’d love them as allies but not as EU Members.
A new Type of EU Membership though, which would profit from the single market, the euro, etc. but does not have voting power on people that actually live in europe though, I’d like.

Thoughts and counter arguments welcome

Personally, I don’t think that LLMs are useful for documentation. I feel that it only helps you have documentation and won’t help with actual useful documentation. Just a single hallucinated aspect of a documentation renders it almost useless.

In my experience it only generates adequate documentation when the software is simple and already self explanatory. It does not however help with actual use cases that might need to be documented because they are somehow difficult.

Software developers that are not interested in providing documentation will probably also not be interested in checking whether the documentation slopped out by an LLM is actually correct.

Some Proton Employee really contacted me here on lemmy to basically say that Proton could never do anything malicious, because they are owned by a non profit. Then how the heck can OpenAI be this scummy when they are also owned by a non profit? (See my Comment History)
Protons PR Team is so scummy. They spread misinformation about themselves in public forums and pay Content Creators to say incorrect things about online privacy to sell products to customers that don’t need those products.

Interesting idea. Cut enough heads of the Hydra until the heads are so small, that they don’t pose any threat.

Okay, so? OpenAI is also controlled by a Non-Profit (Similar Structure to Proton, I suppose). That doesn’t stop them from being scummy. Please explain your point.

Doesn’t work like that. It’s more like fighting a Hydra. If a Billionaire worth $50B dies, like 10 Children are gonna inherit $5B each. So we would have even more Billionaires afterwards.

Nothing is stopping Proton from doing the same thing next week. And seeing how many people lock themselves in to Proton (by using all their services, Apple style), they have a strong incentive to also do some “restructuring” and spike prices.

Second Mistake was using Windows in 2026