<p>The headlines are filled with stories of "Big Tech" abuses, using the
tight control they have over their devices and platforms to keep us
powerless and dependent on them. There's no time at which this is more
-evident than in the holiday season, when they martial all of the
+evident than in the holiday season, when they marshal all of the
advertising at their disposal to sell us things that we don't need --
- and worse, products that don't respect our <a href="https://gnu.org/free-sw/">basic freedoms</a>.</p>
+ and worse, products that don't respect our basic freedoms.</p>
<h4>This year, choose freedom</h4>
- <p>This year, we advise you to end that cycle of forced obsolescence and user exploitation, and opt to try running <a href="https://gnu.org/free-sw">free software</a> on a device you already own. If you're unlucky enough to get a gift that doesn't respect your freedom, you can still <a href="https://h-node.org">help others avoid it</a> by documenting its ethical pitfalls.</p>
+ <p>This year, we advise you to end that cycle of forced obsolescence and user exploitation, and opt to try running <a href="https://gnu.org/
philosophy/free-sw">free software</a> on a device you already own. If you're unlucky enough to get a gift that doesn't respect your freedom, you can still <a href="https://h-node.org">help others avoid it</a> by documenting its ethical pitfalls.</p>
<p>Let your loved ones know that you respect their freedom and privacy
too much to cave for the newest Apple, Amazon, or Google device, and
give them the one gift that keeps on giving: freedom.</p>
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<a class="action-button" href="https://www.fsf.org/share?u=https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/&t=Check out the Free Software Foundation Ethical Tech Giving Guide">Tell your friends</a>
<p>
- Use the hashtag <span class="label label-default">#UserFreedom</span> on social media sites like <a href="https://
mastodon.social">Mastodon</a>, <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/social/">GNU social</a>, or <a href="https://fsf.org/twitter">Twitter</a>. You might get a gift out of it yourself!
+ Use the hashtag <span class="label label-default">#UserFreedom</span> on social media sites like <a href="https://
joinmastodon.org/#getting-started">Mastodon</a>, <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/social/">GNU social</a>, or <a href="https://fsf.org/twitter">Twitter</a>. You might get a gift out of it yourself!
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<a class="action-button" href="">Collaborate</a>
<p>
- You can help others know which devices to avoid by documenting hardware you currently own in the <a href="https://h-node.org">H-Node</a> database. Join a growing community of volunteers to help individuals choose hardware compatible with their freedom, even if they don't have <a href="https://ryf.fsf.org">RYF</a> certification.
+ You can help others know which devices to avoid by documenting hardware you own that does or doesn't work with free software in the <a href="https://h-node.org">h-node</a> database. Join a growing community of volunteers to help individuals choose hardware compatible with their freedom, even if they don't have <a href="https://ryf.fsf.org">Respects Your Freedom</a> (RYF) certification.
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- <p><strong>Our advice:</strong> There's currently no cell phone on the market that's fully compatible with user freedom, given the presence of nonfree software in iOS and Android. There are promising projects like PINE64 and the Librem 5 that seek to run GNU/Linux on smartphone hardware, but even these aren't perfect. What makes matters worse is that all smartphones currently run a separate, nonfree OS commonly referred to as the "mobile baseband," which is responsible for most of the device's communications.</p>
+ <p><strong>Our advice:</strong> There's currently no cell phone on the market that's fully compatible with user freedom, given the presence of nonfree software in iOS and Android. There are promising projects like PinePhone and the Librem 5 that seek to run GNU/Linux on smartphone hardware, but even these aren't perfect. What makes matters worse is that all smartphones currently run a separate, nonfree OS commonly referred to as the "mobile baseband," which is responsible for most of the device's communications.</p>
<p>If you're at all able to, and if you find your hardware is compatible with it, we recommend pairing the <strong>Replicant</strong> distribution of Android with the <a href="https://f-droid.org">F-Droid</a> app repository. Replicant is the bottom line when it comes to mobile OSes that respect their user's freedom, and is a project <a href="https://www.fsf.org/working-together/fund">fiscally sponsored by the FSF.</a></p>
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<a href="https://shop.libiquity.com/product/taurinus-x200" class="seller action-button">Libiquity</a>
</p>
- <p> <a href="https://store.vikings.net/x200-ryf-certfied" class="seller action-button">Vikings</a></p>
- <p class="sale-info links">
- <a href="#vikings-promotion">Sale details.</a></p>
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<a href="https://shop.libiquity.com/product/taurinus-x200" class="seller action-button">Libiquity</a>
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- <p> <a href="https://store.vikings.net/x200-ryf-certfied" class="seller action-button">Vikings</a></p>
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- <a href="#vikings-promotion">Sale details.</a></p>
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<li>Durable hardware that's meant to be easy to repair.</li>
<li>Created by small businesses that replace restrictive components from a stock laptop.</li>
</ul>
- <h5 class="text-center">Stay away from: MacBook Air and MacBook Pro</h5>
+ <h5 class="text-center">Stay away from: M1 MacBook and MacBook Pro</h5>
<ul class="cons">
<li>macOS is <a href="https://gnu.org/proprietary">proprietary software</a> that restricts its users' freedoms.</li>
<li>In early November 2020, macOS was caught alerting Apple each time a user <a href="https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/">opens an app</a>. Even though Apple is <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491">making changes</a> to the service, it just goes to show how bad they try to be until there is an outcry.</li>
- <li>Apple has been <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evmeya/apple-iphone-right-to-repair-california">opposing the Right to Repair home user devices</a> for years, and maintains totalitarian control over their hardware.</li>
<li>Comes crawling with <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary-surveillance.html#SpywareInMacOS">spyware</a> that rats on you to advertisers.</li>
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- <h5 class="text-center">Vikings D8</h5>
- <img src="img/products/desktop.png" alt="Vikings D8" class="center-block" />
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- <strong>Get it from</strong>
- </p>
- <a href="https://store.vikings.net/ryf-certified-hardware/d8ryf" class="seller action-button">Vikings</a>
- </div>
- </noscript>
- <ul class="pros">
-<p>Why it's cool: The Vikings D8 is a robust desktop computer that can be scaled up or down according to your needs, and which is capable of doing everything from simple Web browsing and video playback to intense code compilation.</p>
-
-<p>You can order the Vikings D8 installed with the FSF-endorsed <a href="https://trisquel.info">Trisquel</a> distribution of GNU/Linux, a fully free operating system that removes the user-hostile binary-only blobs lurking in the drivers of many common network and graphics cards, or, if you prefer, you can order the D8 installed with any other <a href="https://gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html">free distribution of GNU/Linux</a>.</p>
-</ul>
-</div>
-
-<div class="good col-md-6 col-sm-6">
-<ul class="pros">
- <li>Want to graduate from the X200? The D8 is higher performing while still just as respectful of your freedom.</li>
- <li>Has room for three hard drives and four custom case fans.</li>
- <li>Despite being a mid-tower PC, it runs quietly, allowing you to surf the Web or code in peace.</li>
- </ul>
- <h5 class="text-center">Desktops running Microsoft Windows</h5>
- <ul class="cons">
- <li>Windows is <a href="https://gnu.org/proprietary">proprietary software</a> that profits from treating the user as a product. It <a href="https://www.fsf.org/news/the-fsfs-statement-on-windows-10">forces users to consent to data collection</a> for "targeted advertising."
- </li>
- <li>Mandatory Windows updates force users to test potentially unstable new versions. <a href="https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/windows">Read more about Windows's abuses.</a></li>
- <li>Looking at a computer that includes an Intel CPU? They come with the <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/the-management-engine-an-attack-on-computer-users-freedom">Intel Management Engine</a>, a hardware-based backdoor that gives Intel -- or intruders -- permanent and privileged access to your computer.</li>
- </ul>
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<li><a href="https://leanpub.com/">Leanpub</a> is an author-driven ebook Web site encouraging people to "publish early, publish often."</li>
<li><a href="https://www.libreture.com/">Libreture</a> provides a catalog of DRM-free ebook publishers, and a storage solution for all of your digital books and comics.</li>
<li><a href="https://lektu.com/">Lektu</a> provides you with an array of DRM-free media in Spanish.</li>
+<li><a href="https://nantucketebooks.com">Nantucket E-Books</a> is a DRM-free publisher and writing platform that also makes a strong commitment to software freedom. They were profiled in this season's <em>Free Software Bulletin.</em>
<li><a href="https://nostarch.com">No Starch Press</a> offers "the finest in geek entertainment," with educational books on a variety of programming topics.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.smashwords.com">Smashwords</a> is the world's largest distributor of indie ebooks.</li>
-<li>Many free (as in freedom) educational books are available through sites like <a href="https://flossmanuals.net">FLOSS Manuals</a>, a supporter of the <a href="https://dayagainstdrm.org/">International Day Against DRM 2019</a>.</li>
+<li>Many free (as in freedom) educational books are available through sites like <a href="https://flossmanuals.net">FLOSS Manuals</a>, a supporter of the <a href="https://dayagainstdrm.org/">International Day Against DRM</a>.</li>
<li>Looking to buy paper books? Check out the <a href="https://shop.fsf.org">GNU Press Shop</a> for your technical manuals and documentation needs.</li>
</ul>
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<h5 class="text-center">Stay away from: Netflix</h5>
<ul class="cons">
- <li><p>Netflix is continuing its <a href="https://defectivebydesign.org/netflix">disturbing trend</a> of making onerous DRM the norm for streaming media. That's why they
're a target for last year's <a href="https://dayagainstdrm.org/">International Day Against DRM (IDAD)</a>.</p>
-<li><p>They're also leveraging their
newfound place in the <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-becomes-a-member-of-the-mpaa/">Motion Picture Association of America</a> (MPAA) to advocate for tighter restrictions on users, and drove the effort to embed DRM into the <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5">fabric of the Web</a>.</p</li>
+ <li><p>Netflix is continuing its <a href="https://defectivebydesign.org/netflix">disturbing trend</a> of making onerous DRM the norm for streaming media. That's why they
were a target for last year's <a href="https://dayagainstdrm.org/">International Day Against DRM (IDAD)</a>.</p>
+<li><p>They're also leveraging their place in the <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-becomes-a-member-of-the-mpaa/">Motion Picture Association of America</a> (MPAA) to advocate for tighter restrictions on users, and drove the effort to embed DRM into the <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5">fabric of the Web</a>.</p</li>
</ul>
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<div class="good col-md-6 col-sm-6" style="position:relative">
-<p>In this section of our guide, we've highlighted some of the types of devices where there just isn't a choice on the market that actually respects your freedom. We hope you'll take this list as inspiration for the free software projects you contribute to and support.</p>
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- <h5 class="text-center">In need of development</h5>
- <ul class="pros">
- <li>Cameras</li>
- <li>eBook readers</li>
- <li>Home appliances</li>
- <li>Fitness trackers</li>
- <li>Smartwatches</li>
- <li>Video gaming consoles</li>
- </ul>
+ <p>
+ The FSF's long-running <strong>h-node</strong> project has recently seen an uptick in activity, and we need your help to document how well free software runs on common devices.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ By registering an account on <a href="https://h-node.org">h-node</a> and filling out listings for your hardware, you can help newcomers to the free software movement select hardware that will make thir transition as easy as possible.
+ </p>
</div>
- <div class="good col-md-6 col-sm-6" style="position:relative">
- <h5 class="text-center">Stay away from these devices:</h5>
- <ul class="cons">
-<li>Internet of Things connected home appliances, smart speakers, and virtual assistants are little more than spying devices brought into your home. These include Ring, Amazon Alexa, Amazon Echo, Google Home, Nest, Ecobee, and Sonos products.</li>
-<li><p>The Nintendo Switch is a popular holiday gift, but few realize that Nintendo has utter control over the platform and offers little insight into how it really works -- or how it might be spying on you and your family. Not much has changed since our advice to <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/nintendo">brick them</a> before they bricked the Nintendo DS.</p></li>
- </ul>
- </div>
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+<!-- <h5 class="text-center">Stay away from these devices:</h5> -->
+<!-- <ul class="cons"> -->
+<!-- <li>Internet of Things connected home appliances, smart speakers, and virtual assistants are little more than spying devices brought into your home. These include Ring, Amazon Alexa, Amazon Echo, Google Home, Nest, Ecobee, and Sonos products.</li> -->
+<!-- <li><p>The Nintendo Switch is a popular holiday gift, but few realize that Nintendo has utter control over the platform and offers little insight into how it really works -- or how it might be spying on you and your family. Not much has changed since our advice to <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/nintendo">brick them</a> before they bricked the Nintendo DS.</p></li> -->
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<div class="container">
- <h1 class="text-center">Recommended organizations for holiday donations</h1>
- <div class="row">
- <div class="col-md-4 col-md-offset-4 col-sm-4 col-sm-offset-4 col-xs-6 col-xs-offset-3">
+ <h1 class="text-center">Join the FSF associate membership program</h1>
+ <div class="container choices">
+ <div class="row is-table row">
+ <div class="col-md-4 col-md-offset-4 col-sm-4 col-sm-offset-4 col-xs-10 col-xs-offset-6" style="position:relative">
<a href="https://www.fsf.org/"><img src="img/logo-1.png" alt="fsf" class="center-block img-responsive" /></a><br />
-<p>The Giving Guide is brought to you by the <a href="https://fsf.org">Free Software Foundation</a>. Our <a href="https://fsf.org/join">associate membership</a> program is the heart of the FSF's work campaigning for computer user freedom worldwide. We've been fighting for digital freedoms since 1985, and have no plans of stopping. Will you make your voice heard by <a href="https://fsf.org/appeal">joining today</a>?</p>
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- <a href="https://april.org/"><img src="img/charities/april.png" alt="April" class="center-block img-responsive" /></a>
- </div>
- <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-4 col-xs-6">
- <a href="https://creativecommons.org/"><img src="img/charities/cc.png" alt="Creative Commons" class="center-block img-responsive" /></a>
- </div>
- <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-4 col-xs-6">
- <a href="https://www.torproject.org/"><img src="img/charities/tor.png" alt="Tor Foundation" class="center-block img-responsive" /></a></div>
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- <a href="https://www.wikimedia.org/"><img src="img/charities/wikimedia.png" alt="Wikimedia" class="center-block img-responsive" /></a>
+ <p>The Giving Guide is brought to you by the <a href="https://fsf.org">Free Software Foundation</a>. Our <a href="https://fsf.org/join">associate membership</a> program is the heart of the FSF's work campaigning for computer user freedom worldwide. If you're still looking for a gift, and want to put your money towards digital freedom, please consider becoming a member or donating to another charity supported by your friend or loved one.</p>
+ <p>We've been fighting for digital freedoms since 1985, and have no plans of stopping. The work we do year-round is work to provide more and better options for gifts: spreading the message of software freedom, as well as helping retailers do the right thing and promoting the work of those who do. It's your support that makes this work possible.</p>
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- <li>Vikings product images copyright © 2019, Vikings GmbH. Licensed under the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0</a> license.</li>
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