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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 5 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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[–] ninthant 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This looks very promising thanks for sharing it.

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

worth mentioning that “promising” is about all it is right now… you absolutely don’t want a RISC-V based machine yet: they’re incredibly slow, and incredibly expensive… they’re development machines; not for end users

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

Yes your perspective on this matches the results of my research as well.

It’s a very interesting project to watch and hopefully upstart companies around the world will see this as an opportunity to serve their domestic markets.

But right now today it’s extraordinarily expensive for limited performance. I can live with limited performance but those price are way too high to consider for anything not directly related to development of the platform itself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

the most interesting case right now i think is specialised chips… i think i read that western digital were thinking of building drive controllers using them, because they’d be cheap and very flexible… i can see lots of things like that: little tiny things that suddenly get a whole lot more interesting

[–] klu9 2 points 4 days ago

You're welcome