Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen the words, “I need to drum up my courage” and “I’m afraid to switch”, “building my courage”, and “This is HARD!”
I will say that there have been a few times in my own life where “courage” was the furthest thing from my mind, and yet I dove right in; into the water to rescue a child, into a fire to carry out people who were injured, into a battle I didn’t ask for, into the window of a moving vehicle to stop the out-of-control car from taking a man suffering a seizure into a river.
Courage isn’t about being brave. Not at all. Those real-life incidents above happened to me. No, I am not bragging about it. I’m simply saying that I DID NOT THINK about the danger any time I did those things. It was only afterward that the adrenaline hit me, and brought me nearly to my knees.
Sometimes in life, it’s not about being afraid of what MIGHT happen, it’s about what might happen if you do not take the steps you need to take.
In this case, we’re speaking of taking the steps to Free Yourselves of Big Tech Tyranny.
Many might not see the convenience of Windows or Apple iOs as a danger. No, they see it as “easy”. They don’t have to “worry”. They click and go, buy, and sell, search for things, and use the nice, pretty, built in search engine (and “built-in” it IS, right to the OS for both Safari and for Internet Explorer).
In theory, all things being equal, you should be fine with using Safari, Internet Explorer or any OS to do whatever you need to do, without worrying about spyware, people collecting your “metadata” (the essential part of who you are).
Unfortunately, that today, is not the case. You don’t have to take my word for it, after all, I’m just a “Pirate”. In reality, you should check me, check my statements, and LEARN for yourselves about the truth behind the Giant Tech Companies and how YOU are the actual commodity, and your money is there for them to pick from your money tree. I’ll leave you to do that later.
But now, let’s go back to “Courage”.
Stepping away from Big Tech isn’t going to take any courage at all. It takes 1) Determination that you want to do it, 2) the time to actually do the job and learn how to do the job, 3) the ability to have a working (or mostly working) computer running a glacially-slow-Windows Operating system (or iOs).
Not courage. JUST THE WANT TO DO IT.
So get out there, find that extra computer (highly recommended you find a spare one to work with), find that Linux Distro (or many of them to play with), and build that USB flash drive (first with one, then another to test!) and then boot the computer into them.
Examine the OS. Find one you LIKE. Finally, install it and move away from Big Tech forever.
The real Courage is going to come when they realize finally, that they are being left behind and they try to stop what is coming… the end of Closed-Source-Proprietary Operating Systems.
The War is on-going. You are already a part of it. You just haven’t realized it yet.
Pick up your weapons and and form up. We march at DAWN!
ARRRRRRR!!!
(By weapons I mean your computer, your Linux, your thumb drive and your ‘courage’)
Signed
Captain Fletcher, Pirate
I was able to recover all that data. Nothing at all important now - except some contacts that I had lost touch with and now had their numbers and emails again. If you have a reason to move - its not only easier - you have the drive to get thru any little issues.