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Maybe we disagree on the kinds of technological problems society needs to solve. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Okay, picture this:
You have an employer. Like a wild number of employers they require you to sign up and use an account with the largest and most exploitative corporate surveillance system in existence. Not only that, but to ensure that you're able to use their products and services the employer requires you to install and use a browser from said corporate surveillance system because other browsers don't implement non-standard features and functions they made up?
How's your RPi going to fix that?
Or maybe a billionaire buys up one of the largest media platform in existence and uses it to manipulate an entire country into letting a convicted felon become President, along with further enriching himself to the tune of 100 billions dollars.
How's your RPi going to fix that?
By helping eject from those systems. There's lots of cool open source projects based on all sorts of different hardware. And you can self-host some bits and pieces of your digital life if you really feel motivated to.
I don't know if it's much help but I never said it would solve all the things you seem to want it to. There are some alternatives out there for people feeling trapped by big tech, I'm just trying to share a small piece of that.