Canada has huge reserves of oil, natural gas, minerals, timber. Americans need that.
Canada doesn’t need anything americans sell
Adobe Photoshop 👉 Use GIMP or Affinity.
Adobe Illustrator 👉 Use Inkscape or Affinity.
Word and Excel 👉 LibreOffice is better. No AI shit and it won’t spy on you.
Microsoft Windows 👉 Use Linux. It’s more secure anyway.
General Motors, Ford, Dodge, Chrysler, Tesla 👉 We don’t need shitty american cars. Buy Hyundai, Toyotas, Honda, Volkswagen.
Apple iPhone 👉 Buy a Samsung
Starbucks Coffee 👉 Just drink local coffee.
McDonalds 👉 Buy from A&W or Harveys
Hyatt Hotels, Marriott Hotels, Four Seasons 👉 Go to Canadian hotels
Amazon 👉 Fuck Jeff Bezos. Buy from your local stores.
Maxwell House Coffee 👉 Balzac’s Coffee Roasters is Canadian
Tourism 👉 Visit Quebec, Banff National Park, Niagara Falls, Vancouver Island, Johnstone Strait, Yoho National Park. Go north to watch beautiful Arctic landscapes. At least you won’t be shot and killed.
Boeing 👉 Buy Airbus. At least they won’t crash.
What do americans sell that Canadians actually need? Nothing. They just sell convenience. Their products are often substandard
Also stop buying Google Pixels. Wait for the Motorola phones that support Graphene if you have to use that OS or buy a Samsung.
No, Samsung sucks from a FOSS point of view. Go Chinese before you touch those cursed things. Buying a used whatever is also an option.
I implied if you don’t care about FOSS go Samsung. I’d never buy a Chinese phone personally but you do you. They’re also expensive and many don’t have band 13 which is needed for most carriers Canada ( I won’t use Rogers or its subsidiaries and Freedom Videotron Telus and Bell all use band 13 in rural areas - I’m in a rural area)
Okay, sure, if you don’t care, Samsung would work. If you care at all, they use program-once SoCs from hell. (You mentioned Graphene, but there’s also Lineage, and Motorola is American FWIW)
I too am a rare rural Lemming, and I have a used Chinese phone running a custom ROM. It looks like the export models tend to have a full compliment of bands, and 13 is listed for all of them. If you literally get a domestic Chinese phone model custom imported, sure, you’ve made your bed a bit, and might have to sleep in it. I’d be shocked if they all cost more new than Samsung, as well.
If you don’t like China either, yes, you do you. There’s a case for it. They’re kind of like America geopolitically, and not just becoming authoritarian. Sony also had something Lineage-compatible, as of last I checked.
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