I recall a comment from Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist, saying to "aim low" when starting from a difficult perspective, and slowly increasing from there.
This is an interesting approach - you're going out of your comfort zone yet making it productive for yourself and helpful for others. I've recently started something similar to push bad moods away - decided to work as a nurse in an isolated community. I won't do it for long, but I feel good useful.
I've been doing it for while. For me, "degoogling" was (and still is) a long process. I literally went service by service, testing a new solution online for a while, and when satisfied, I switched. Obviously, I can't reproduce the way everything was integrated to work together, but my other options are still comparable and functional. I feel I've taken back control of my data and how I manage it.
Another aspect is that I have much less trust in any online services - free or not, open source or not. I'm more sensitive of where my data is hosted (politics and privacy), who owns the service, and their reputation. I now have a plan B for those solutions I've switched to, just in case.
For things like backups, passwords, file storage, calendar, I use different systems on a Raspberry Pi that I can access online. When picking an online service, I made an effort to read the EUA and the privacy policy to find out how my data would be used and if/how I would be tracked. In the end, it's very possible to move away from Google and it's working for me, but this will always be an ongoing issue, since companies, like people, will "adjust" their ethics to fit their needs.
1. Clean air most of the time.
2. Clean water available.
3. Enough food to thrive.
4. A safe place to properly rest and live.
5. A fair job that gives enough to save/invest money.
6. Having friends you can depend on.
7. Respect from authorities (health, equity, privacy, etc would come into this?)
Now imagine the many important concepts these points require to reach.
If LibreOffice is offering a paid version for extra features / services, considering what they are already offering, I would certainly paid, or at least have a strong interest.
You're right, and it brings controversy. Many times discoveries were made because of unethical approaches: they save time, resources, and debates. But sometimes there can be a moral price to pay.
Overall, and depending on context, I think this is a moot point. Inaction is as important as action and can be considered a different action in itself. What some call inaction is not necessary a state of being inactive, but simply observing and analyzing the outcome longer, while focusing efforts elsewhere.
Maybe "being on the fence" or staying in a frame of doubt and uncertainty for too long, without developing future steps for a given plan could really be considered disruptive inaction.
- Support small/local/regional cyber organizations that respect users online and motivate them build dynamic online communities instead of mass aggregates of UIDs.
- Use open source softwares that respect my rights and privacy.
- Decentralize my financial and technological options.
- Randomly support a small but empowering online project that someone started.
- Wear an N95 mask when browsing online.
- Reconsider gopher as a healthy and viable way to access data :-)