It would be good if, when people use technical devices, they didn't just rely on them, but tried to understand or study how it all works. And schoolchildren would also be taught how it all works, at least within the limits of what is possible for them, and not just click on the buttons and get the result. And completely replacing writing with a pen with typing on a keyboard is also not always good.
I'm from Russia, so I don't need to boycott American corporations myself, American corporations boycott me themselves. :D
It's a joke.
But in reality, I just try to minimize my purchases from multi-billion dollar corporations whenever possible. I prefer buying indie, open-source or custom. Nothing about culture. As others have already said, nowadays American culture is mostly common culture. Sometimes I think about buying a Chinese CPU or GPU. And in general, I have a pretty limited budget.
If "Life being worse builds character" then most billionaires don't have it built.
And it also causes addiction in some unstable people.
Maybe this. Most smartphones have a modem inside, this modem has a separate closed-sourced operating system and it usually has the main priority in controlling the smartphone relative to the processor running the main operating system, such as Android. Sometimes the modem has access to the microphone or memory, even bypassing the CPU. Although maybe everyone already knows that.
It's not their fault that they can't make Graphene OS for more models. It's the fault of the manufacturers of these smartphones who always put a stick in the wheel for anyone who wants to make a privacy oriented OS for their smartphone models.
Sometimes I may be dissatisfied with how Medicine works here in Russia. But reading your stories, I understand that everything is still more or less good for us, given the current difficult times, at least in Moscow. But getting a disability can sometimes be difficult here too.
People are different. There is people on the west and on the east and there are also aggressive Nationalists. I always wondered why journalist and politics often say that if people support the West they must necessarily support joining NATO. And this is not always the case. It's very complicated and opinions are not divided only into black and white.
Linux. The Power of the Community.

I didn't come up with it and the picture is not mine. I just found it on the internet earlier.
Snap. :)
In general, I noticed that a significant degradation of search engines began to occur after the appearance of chatGPT, perhaps this is somehow related. Before that, degradation was slower. Maybe in Google for example they were a little afraid that ChatGPT would learn from their search engines and replace them...
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"Сlean room" method and the current AI hardly combine.