Tech Choices

Of course it’s okay to criticize people for their tech choices — for returning to X, for instance, as MacStories recently did. I’m not on X and there’s no way I would return. Fuck that place and fuck Elon Musk. (Yes, there’s a brentsimmons there, but it’s not me. I deleted my account.) But it’s not like my tech choices are free of fascists and collaborators — and yours almost surely aren’t either. Do you have an iPhone? A Mac or iPad? Do you order from Amazon, buy groceries from Whole Foods, or use any of their other properties (Prime Video, Twitch, Audible, etc.)? Do you use AWS or any websites that rely on AWS? Do you use GitHub or Office or Windows or Azure or Typescript? How about DuckDuckGo, which uses Bing? Do you run Linux, which now includes AI-assisted code? Do you use Claude or ChatGPT or any of those? Do you use any Meta social networks (Facebook, Threads, Instagram)? Do you write Ruby code? (Which features DHH prominently on its home page.) Do you have an Android phone or…