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Give the gift of freedom!
A new phone or computer can be the highlight of the holidays, but with proprietary software lurking under the wrapping paper, your thoughtful gift may be more naughty than nice.
-This guide replaces these holiday humbugs with better devices from ethical companies -- no creepy remote deletion of files, no punitive and mean rules about copying and sharing. Just products and software that respect the freedom and privacy of your loved ones: gifts you can feel good about.
+This guide replaces these holiday humbugs with better devices from ethical companies—no creepy remote deletion of files or punitive and mean rules about copying and sharing. Just products and software that respect the freedom and privacy of your loved ones: gifts you can feel good about.
Plus, our crib notes below will help you explain why this version is better than the one they've heard of (and spread the word about software freedom, too).
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Host a Giving Guide Giveaway
+
Host a Giveaway
Download the printable version.
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Support free software activism
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Support free software
- Donate to our suggested charities in your friend/family member's name
+ Donate to our suggested charities
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Runs the
Replicant free operating system, based on Android.
- Features F-Droid, the free software catalogue that makes it easy to get all the applications you need without sacrificing control of your phone.
+ Features F-Droid, the free software catalog that makes it easy to get all the applications you need without sacrificing control of your phone.
Note: While the main processor is exclusively running free software, the modem processor runs a Samsung nonfree system.
-
Stay away from: iPhones
+
Stay away from: iPhone X
- Sale details.
+ The T400 is Respects Your Freedom certified. Sale details.
Minifree
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Why it's cool: You need a reliable computer for work and play. This one is just dandy for both, minus icky DRM and spyware.
- Setting up a fully free system is easier than it used to be, but can still seem daunting -- especially if you've never done it before. Luckily, you can now get a new-to-you laptop that's ready to go out of the box.
+ Setting up a fully free system is easier than it used to be, but can still seem daunting—especially if you've never done it before. Luckily, you can now get a new-to-you laptop that's ready to go out of the box.
Technoethical also has a T400s available.
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Durable hardware is meant to last and is easy to repair.
Created by a small business that replaces all restrictive components from a stock laptop.
- Stay away from: Windows
+ Stay away from: Microsoft Windows
+ Avoid: Dell Inspiron Touch-Screen, HP Omen, and MacBook Pro
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X200 with GNU/Linux
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- Why it's cool: Take it to the office, take it to the cafe, take it to class, take it home and set it up on the counter so you can listen to NPR while you cook. Do all of this the easy way.
+ Why it's cool: Take it to the office, take it to the cafe, take it to class, take it home and set it up on the counter so you can rock out while you cook. Do all of this the easy way.
This machine is made to go everywhere with you, and thanks to Libiquity and Technoethical, you can have your mobility and your freedom too.
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Created by a small business that replaces all restrictive components from a stock laptop.
Stay away from: Apple
- - Runs on proprietary software that restricts the user's freedoms.
+ - Runs on proprietary software that restricts the user's freedoms.
-
Apple app stores use DRM to restrict what you can do with your purchases.
- Comes crawling with spyware.
+ - Avoid: MacBook Air, Asus Zenbook, Lenovo Ideapad
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Stay away from: Microsoft Surface
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- Options of coming with the FSF-endorsed Trisquel or Parabola operating systems.
- - Choose between corebook and Libreboot.
+ - Free boot firmware.
- Customize and specialize to your needs.
-
Stay away from: Intel Management Engine
+
Stay away from: Apple iMac
+
Stay away from: Alienware Aurora
+
+ - This gaming desktop claims to come without boundaries, but it does include enough proprietary software to limit any gamer.
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- Why it's cool: Trying to go 100% free? Do it the easy way â just plug this into your USB port and you're ready to go.
+ Why it's cool: Trying to go 100% free but stuck with a proprietary Wi-Fi card? just plug this into your USB port and you're ready to go.
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- Why it's cool: Think ahead -- if you give this to your friend or relative, they might use it next year to make YOU a gift.
+ Why it's cool: Think ahead—if you give this to your friend or relative, they might use it next year to make YOU a gift.
3D printers are an amazing learning and exploration tool for kids and a fun toy for grownups, and they've come a long way from their origins in the early 2000s. Keep it free and fun by digging into the zillions of free software options for modeling, and communities that share freely licensed designs.
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- - Performance and seamless interface earned it "Editor's Choice" in Tom's Guide's 2016 3D printer comparison.
- - Hardware designs available to make customization easy. Standardized material format allows 3D printing with plastics, wood-, stone-, bamboo-, rubber-, and metal-like materials.
+ - Performance and seamless interface earned it "Editor's Choice" in Tom's Guide's 2017 3D printer comparison.
+ - Hardware designs are available to make customization easy. Standardized material format allows 3D printing with plastics, wood-, stone-, bamboo-, rubber-, and metal-like materials.
Stay away from: MakerBot
-
- MakerWare software is proprietary, restricting freedom and stifling innovation.
+ MakerWare software is proprietary, restricting freedom and stifling innovation.
-
MakerBot was founded with a more freedom-respecting philosophy, but has since announced an increasingly proprietary approach and distanced itself from the community that formed around it.
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Books, Games, Music, and Video
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+ Books, Music, and Video
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Books
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Many consider music essential to the richness of the human experience. Thanks to the many artists, producers, record labels, and shops highlighted on Defective by Design, the rights-respecting options are nearly endless. Check out music from great labels and artists, including:
- Dischord Records, a classic punk label providing music since 1980.
- Folkways, courtesy of the Smithsonian Institute.
- - Merge Records, home to Grammy-winning and well-loved indie darlings.
- - Nine Inch Nails
- - They Might Be Giants
+ - Emusic is the Web's second largest music store.
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Stay away from: Spotify
- DRM is the unfortunate standard for so much major-label music that's available today. While Spotify certainly isn't the only offender, they're the one we are choosing to highlight.
- In addition to streaming music encumbered by DRM, people who want to use Spotify are required to install additional proprietary software. Spotify's build for GNU/Linux is available as a Debian package that requires Debian non-free and comes with "onerous license conditions."
+ Spotify isn't the only offender when it comes to putting DRM in music—all major streaming services do this with the support of big record labels.
+ In addition to streaming music encumbered by DRM, people who want to use Spotify are required to install additional proprietary software. Even Spotify's client for GNU/Linux relies on proprietary software.
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