but saying that a Chinese company isn't "under the control of Xi Jinping", the guy who crushed Hong Kong for having too much independence and wants to do the same with Taiwan, is laughable.
Just take that sentence at face value and consider the ridiculousness of actually believing the guy alone has that amount of crushing power.
You're just regurgitating unfounded US propaganda which, this being Lemmy, is very unfortunate to see.
If you think Xi Jinping is dictating what BYD does with their cars then you don't understand the fundamentals as to why China managed to attract so much foreign investment and got to where they are now in the first place.
I don't think the internet is more impervious to propaganda than cable TV tbh. YouTube has been pushing far-right propaganda since at least 2013. Quite effectively, too.
I use both. They work well and get out of my way, while adding security. Just make sure you use a distro that has those things working OOTB and you'll be fine.
It's just their devices just aren't up to standards. Of all, only Pixel phones have the security features GrapheneOS is looking for. If that isn't indicative of the garbage that OEMs are putting out there, I don't know what is.
I feel like we're living in a [Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire]
I don't understand why you'd say this. The US 100% did start all these fires. Not only did they start them, they keep adding wood to the fire. It's so blatant even a blind person could see.
Billy Joel has great song and I appreciate him as an artist, but I'll he damned if he isn't an imperialist justifier.
When proselytizing, go where the sinners are. I don't understand why that's controversial.
Talking about boycotting the US on Lemmy is mostly just preaching to the choir: We're already all anti-US, long socks-wearing pirate furries playing on our Linux Thinkpads.
Same thing on Google results. I don't use Google but I use what are basically frontends for Google and all it feeds you with every search is AI-generated slop.
Every Google search must be precedented by writing "Reddit", now.
Is it any less bad that to have a pretend personality when you're talking about finding friends...?