I've re-canceled my Apple and Amazon services, will soon delete the associated accounts, deleted my Google account, Comcast will be next (but is tricky due to apartment setup.)
Few to no-one else in my life is taking any such actions - it is hard, which is itself heart-breaking.
So someone is mad.

This expresses what I've been realizing the past few days. Trump and Musk forgot or never knew they were living with their followers in a fragile palace of lies; and have ignored the properties of glass and stones. Reality and truth always win, though sadly lies drag many victims down with them.

It galls me is that the USA Constitution was created in large part to allow a common defense against European powers dominating the USA to demand unfair trade deals or simply invade and take resources. This attitude towards Ukraine is fundamentally and absolutely "un-American".

Well, I'm exiting the Apple ecosystem and generally distancing from the cult of tech, adopting a simpler, pragmatic, minimalist, humanist approach to devices, computers, and their uses, when they're even needed. So I couldn't give a flying whatever what Apple is currently hawking. But you do you :)

Is perhaps the problem global tech companies empowering autocratic, inhumane governments? And now the nascent fascist USA government? Nay, I want MY services to reflect cultural and international norms, and where multiple names exist for the same feature, show then all.

Hmm, I see an opportunity for some epic trolling on govmnt forms...

Used vinyl is pretty cool, though. Scratchy, wavy, dusty, musty. Just great vibes to pull out an LP and put it on the turntable. CDs? I rip them and then give them away :) New music? Something down something load; ethically buy digital downloads and add to the collection. Car? Thumb drive subset.

Yup, reported it, with the most literary comment that just burst out of my fingers - "oh, and fuck off!"

Like he held UA support $$$$ hostage for corrupt dirt on Biden, he is now holding UA's very existence hostage over mineral rights, which of course will be riddled with corrupt kickbacks. It is just too obvious how Putin could outbid Ukraine.

Yeah, a few days ago I dug through some of his posts at web.archive.org/web/*/https:.... After a laborious hour, found mostly reactions and RTs: anti-anti-racism, anti-fact-checking, non-white crime, anti-gun-control. Reveals himself, even if he didn't state his feelings overtly (in a small sample)

On point. I finally get it, Apple really isn’t different anymore, they just think they are. Maybe we aren’t the product, as with other companies, but we are no longer their priority.

If you look up Gavin Kliger's twitter activity, he is has a real mean (racist, left-hating, musk-loving) streak. Not surprising he was selected. IMO dangerous to have any power to fulfilling his white supremacist and tech-bro fantasies: web.archive.org/web/*/https:...

okay you shamed me into putting more work into my vim + tmux + clang workflow. damnit.

Long time user but prying myself away from the whole Apple ecosystem. Pretty disgusted at this point with the whole pristine designer image and the faithless, heartless, shameless shenanigans of Cook and co.

Congrats! I share your sentiment. Canceled ours recently - have just 4 days left. I'm afraid, though, Amazon has swept across the landscape, leaving a desert of local business. A diversity of local businesses can be difficult to find in some areas.

Well, then there are the 2,705 WIRED stories containing the word "musk".

Probably because slaveholders swore the same oath and no one cares? Or, perhaps because words mean nothing and never did?

I agree, but welcome to your economy. Also, it isn't for you, or me; it is for millions of young wallets to be emptied into a few bottomless bank accounts.

Sometimes my sarcasm filter is confused 😵‍💫
Maybe there is way to get their attention? I'm pondering something as simple as posters outside Apple stores.
Anyway, I'm currently de-Apple-ing my life (not easy).
Next is to try to have an impact beyond myself.