Just remember IBM helped the nazis in Germany by producing a punch card system to track and exterminate Jews.
History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.
I avoid Lenovo products to this day because of this.
You’re avoiding a random a Chinese company founded in the 80ies because they bought the Thinkpad brand from IBM?
Yes.
But why? The company is different, it’s not the one that did that.
Same reason I will never buy a car brand even loosely associated with evil. Because they chose a side, and it isn’t the one I’m on.
Edit: love how there is a not insignificant lemmy users who dislike this comment. Know I’m saying “fuck you” to you too.
Edit 2: your down votes fuel my hatred for you pricks! Keep the hate coming!
Then it’s probably not a good idea to be on Lemmy. It’s written in Rust, which is a programming language funded by a lot of unapologetically evil big tech companies, like Microsoft and Google. It was also initially created by Mozilla, a company with heavy associations with Google and which has even become quite pro-AI.
I’d say using tools funded by evil counts as “loosely associated”.
I’m going to let you know I’m down voting & blocking you.
No hate, I just wish to not interact with you anymore.
Edit: vote manipulation is not a good look.
I get that, but brand doesn’t pick sides. The company behind it does. A lot of current companies have predecessors working for axis.
The company is responsible for the brand’s decisions.
Just wondering why you’re singling them out like that. Especially if you want to avoid anyone that has anything to do with them. If we’re talking acquisitions from IBM, the largest owner of patents originally owned by IBM is Google (they bought around 2.5k). Companies that had significant dealings with IBM include Microsoft, which would probably not exist in its current form without the original contract from IBM to develop DOS. (Linux would also be quite different if the influence from RedHat, owned by IBM, was removed.) And pretty much every PC manufacturer who’s been in the business for long enough would have licensed IBM technologies at some point or at least copied them. Even though they failed to make money from licensing the original PC design or later inventions like USB memory sticks, IBM created a lot of computing basics such as DRAM.
Avoiding Lenovo kind of sounds like a random easy way out. They have much less influence. I’m not consciously avoiding them and still have nothing from them. They’re not difficult to avoid at all.
Sorry I’m not going to read your comment in its entirety as I’m watching a new DND campaign, and got a cat begging for attention.
I’m not singling them out. I avoid BMWs, VWs, and Fords for the same reason despite being a huge fan of all .
Edit: strange 30 plus of y’all are in favor of fascism…
Edit: strange 30 plus of y’all are in favor of fascism…
That’s not it. At least in my case, I’m not a fan of the way you are choosing to be.
Again with the easy choices though? It’s trivial to avoid a few car brands. So far you’re only listing companies people are likely to randomly not buy from anyway. When someone asked a question about something where it’s not as easy, you blocked them. You’re not avoiding Nazi collaborators, you’re just virtue signaling in the cheapest way possible.
I’m going to apologize again.
My cat takes precedence.
Edit: love that my love for my cat upset a few of fuckers!
What brand of PC is innocent? Genuinely curious.
Good question!
After searching for half an hour, it seems none.
Not even framework.
This sucks thinking about.
Can I use Signal on GrapheneOS?
Yes, and for added security, you could sign into Signal through Molly, for example
My mom warned me against people who told me to try Molly
Nah. She’s clean enough for antibiotics anyway
They chose the wrong side, didn’t they?
For now. A fish can flip flop quite a bit prior to death.
