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The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.

Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.

America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.

America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.

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Non-American computer hardware (self.boycottus)

submitted 3 days ago by ninthant to c/boycottus

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I’m looking to avoid American-made goods and American companies as much as possible and this relatively challenging when it comes to computers.

From my research so far it seems very difficult to find computer hardware that isn’t using American company microprocessors. CPUs available to non-industrial uses tend to be AMD, Intel, or recently some Qualcomm — all US companies. Even Raspberry Pi uses a Broadcom chip, and the other up-and-coming ARM chips I’ve researched seem to be American as well.

I’d appreciate any insights in this area, either companies with existing products or up and coming companies to watch. If I had a blind spot in my research and I’m missing something obvious please tell me.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (7 children)

AFAIK MediaTek is from Taiwan, but their CPUs often come pre soldered to a small form factor mainboards, like from Via (also Taiwanese)

[–] ninthant 1 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I have been looking into mediatek, and your tip about via was a good one. It seems to be the best answer to my question in terms of what exists now.

However I’m unable to find anything available for retail consumers, they seem to mainly target industrial markets for embedded applications.

But it’s very close. Part of me wonders if there is a niche market for this in Canada if one could develop this into a product for sale.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

mediatek chips are sometimes used in chromebooks. Look there.

[–] ninthant 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That’s not a terrible idea, I bet I could strip the mainboard out and use that.

This is a really solid idea, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My brother in law has a Chromebook with a mediatek chip that performs pretty well. It’s rather resource limited though so switching to full blown Linux might not work out all that well. And keeping it stock means you are using googles operating system, a western technology that probaby shouldn’t be trusted at this point.

[–] ninthant 1 points 2 days ago

Indeed but for my use cases of a headless server this might be just fine.

The problem is that it’s quite expensive because the cost includes of the screen and camera and components i don’t want, but hey it exists and that’s the furthest I’ve got right now.

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