Taking It Back Digital Sovereignty

New milestone in my ongoing quest to move all my software away from US tech companies toward non-American or open-source alternatives. Started small on Android – swapped Microsoft SwiftKey for FUTO Keyboard. 100% offline, fully private, running locally-hosted open-source OpenAI Whisper models for voice input. No cloud, no telemetry, no bullshit. Then migrated all Google services to Proton out of Switzerland – Proton Mail, Proton Drive, Proton Calendar, Proton Pass, the whole suite. Final boss: upgrading my gaming laptop from Windows 11 to Bazzite, a Fedora-based Linux distro designed to feel like Valve’s SteamOS while still functioning as a real computer. Worked fantastic out of the box. US tech companies are increasingly not neutral – not politically, not ideologically, not commercially. Digital sovereignty isn’t paranoia. It’s overdue.