Ask HN: Will you switch to FOSS following Trump's reelection?
3 points by mwinatschek 3 hours ago | 3 comments
I’m German and deeply integrated into the Apple ecosystem, using a MacBook and iPhone with all my files and data synced to iCloud. With Trump’s reelection as U.S. president, I worry the country might drift toward a surveillance dictatorship, one that even Apple’s advancements in encryption and privacy couldn’t counter.

So my question is: Is it time to cut ties with U.S. tech companies and finally switch to alternatives like Linux, Nextcloud, and others?

  • tolerance 2 hours ago |
    It all boils down to your threat model, your use cases and whether you truly feel like your privacy would’ve been less at risk had the Trump lost the election and whether the idea of the U.S. becoming a surveillance dictatorship was any less feasible between in the fifteen years before Trump first took office.

    Great blog by the way. I don’t care for the subject matter per se, but the fact that it reads like it is written in a way that is indifferent to public perception despite being public is a good trait for a blog I reckon. It reads like a human wrote it and as a human you owe me nothing as far as a blog is considered, because I don’t know you I just know that you’re a human, that I can tell.

  • cen4 an hour ago |
    America is not turning into a dictatorship. Cause Americans are not Germans.
  • JSDevOps 40 minutes ago |
    What is it with these questions? People need to get a grip. Your already in a surveillance dictatorship