The upping your boycott game thread.

[Crowman2009]

Need help finding alternatives to these products:

Gmail
OneDrive
Hp computers
Smartphones that don't use Google or apple

Feel free to add alternatives to products you plan to boycott.

[taxi]

1. For the true minimalist (and Amish)

Postcards
A journal
A library
Semaphore flags

Seriously though, there's no way around it anymore. Everything you think, say, or do is noticed in some form or another. With that in mind choose your actions carefully and you'll have nothing to worry about. It will be like hiding in a crowd.

[sir pball]

2. I can give you 3/4

ProtonMail
A USB thumb drive
Build your own

As.for the smartphone…no real options besides a dumb phone.

[Crowman2009]

3. Is Credo mobile any good?

[sir pball]

6. From a quick search it looks like they're a carrier

Their corporate values seem pretty good but you're still going to get an Android or Apple smartphone with all the bloat and spyware.

Someone else mentioned the LibrePhone, which is theoretically free from all that, but you're going to have to essentially be a programmer to use it.

[Crowman2009]

7. Ugh, I guess I'll have to half-ass it and get an Android smartphone from Credo.

Or get some unlocked smartphone that is less than $500 and get Credo.

[usonian]

4. In the works --- FSF Announces The LibrePhone Project

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FSF-LibrePhone-Project

Otherwise, I use email "free" (meaning it costs them money) from Apple and Comcast (loss-leaders, in effect) though I urge others to use Signal Messenger to communicate. (reluctance prevails until it's too late for people)

Generic hardware and Linux. Plenty of bargains will hit the thrift stores and Craig's List since Microsoft "obsoleted" older hardware with Windows 11 and strict hardware requirements.

Host your own storage. Sheesh, a terabyte solid state drive is like $70 and fits in the palm of your hand.

I got a new computer, took a big old disk drive from the old one and plugged it into the new one.

Transferred terabytes in a couple of minutes.

Old one will be running linux shortly.

[RandomNumbers]

5. OneDrive alternatives - LibreOffice, other backup providers

Are you trying to replace cloud backup, or Office applications?

For office apps, try Libre Office

For cloud backup - not sure who the ultimate owners are, but there are for example, Carbonite and SpiderOak. (hoping to hear other suggestions)

For avoiding cloud backup entirely, you take your chances. If you can afford safe deposit box or other off-site place, and feel like the hassle, back up to an external drive and swap it out weekly (or more often) with the one in off-site storage.

[Crowman2009]

8. Yeah, I'll just skip the cloud entirely and use an external hard drive for backup.

Not to mention thumb drives for my downloaded music and movies.