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Streaming giants to piracy
Reddit to Lemmy
- x to mastodon (long before the movement, I guess when the Ewong had to let that sink in)
- reddit to lemmy
- google to ecosia
- google to mailbox (long before the movement)
- a google phone to GrapheneOS
- jotta cloud
- amazon to otto
- several food brands and consumer products
Sadly, there are several services I cannot switch yet, due to profession.
What’s otto?
Iphone > Fairphone
Windows > Linux
Google > Qwant
Gmail > Proton + My own domain
Youtube (music) > Digital audio player (it’s just a modern name for a good old mp3)
Gilette > Mühle DE shaver + Proraso ( That was because I worked for P&G who own Gilette and never use their products out of spite)
Netflix > nothing (I’m okay with that… for now)
Pornhub > Xvideos 🤣
Damn. xvids and xhampster are both European
yup, gotta change up your media consumption.
Netflix -> Yo Ho!
How do you like your Fairphone? Doesn’t it still run a Google based OS? I mean even if you “deGoogle” it, you’re still stuck in a rut of needing some amount of Google BS.
Also the > in your comment make it look your saying like… Windows > Linux lol. Might as a - so it looks like an arrow rather than a greater than. Pedantry, I know.
fairphones have support for e/OS
Not OP but I’ve had my fairphone for a couple of months and I love it. I use e/OS on it so being free of googles clutches alone feels great. But what I really like is the thought that I will most likely keep this phone for well over 5 years.
yeah, I get your point and technically you’re right.
I was going along the lines a small step is better than nothing.
Actually, Pornhub isn’t American, it’s Canadian, so keep using it all you want!
Thank you for the info! I didn’t know that. But still not EU 😁
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Reddit to Lemmy has been hands down the best one so far. You lemmlings may be wierd at times, but not nearly as toxic as redditors.
Also moved from Gilette Fussion to a safety razor, cheaper, better quality (my skin is less irritated after shaving), and I feel like a boss when shaving.
From Chrome to Vivaldi & from Google to Ecosia.
And for lots of hygine products I moved to EU brands from US - ones. (Palmolive,Colgate, Lenor etc). I know Loreal, Beiersdorf and Unilever aren’t great companies, but local alternatives are crazy expensive.
Deleted Insta, unfortunately way too many people refuse to move from What’s App to Signal.
Switch from Vivaldi to Firefox.
firefox to icecat
Use Vivaldi only for Gather.town at work. PITA with FF
You lemmlings may be wierd at times, but not nearly as toxic as redditors.
This seems to be true for most users. However, I feel that the administration is toxic and nontransparent. It is not very transparent on reddit either. However, maybe I should go for a different instance.
Which safety razor?
Mootes & Tiger platinum blades.
switched from bourbon to scotch
Any recommendations? Love bourbon and a few Irish whiskies but scotch always tastes too smokey and… ionidy? to me.
Glenmorangie is a good “entry level” Scotch that isn’t smokey and peaty at all.
But if you like the taste of bourbon and don’t like smokey and peaty, there’s nothing wrong with sticking to Irish whiskies. Or Swedish. Or Canadian.
They’re more similar to bourbon.Oh yeah, I do like me some Canadian whiskey! But I’ll grab a bottle of Glenmorangie if I see one around 🙂
Balblair 12 year old.
moved here
Windows -> Linux CachyOS Google Mail -> Tutamail Amazon -> Buying local where possible
Best decision ever…
And quitting all the social media crap and using feddit now.
Still looking for a Twitch alternative. There are some, but the content is lacking…
Windows to Linux
- Windoof -> Linux
- WhatsApp -> Threema
- Google Mail -> Proton Mail + mail at hoster with my domain(s)
- Google Maps -> OpenStreetMap
- Google Drive -> Nextcloud
- [no social media] -> Fediverse
- GitHub -> Codeberg (partially)
Moved business and personal email from ms to Proton. Wow turns out I really missed a simple email interface. And it’s saving me about 23 hours a day not logging back into o365 for the thousandth time.
Dunno why it took so long, we’re full Linux with the odd mac. The office admin panel is so fucking awful I could never work out how to backup. Turned out Proton can just import…
- Reddit to Lemmy
- iPhone to Fairphone
- Apple Music to Qobuz
- Google to Qwant
- Gmail to Protonmail (and other tools like Pass, Drive)
- WhatsApp to Signal
- Audible to BookBeat
- Microsoft Office to LibreOffice
- ChatGPT to Mistral.ai
Various cloud services replaced with selfhosting, like Immich. And quit and deleted X, Facebook, Insta. No shopping ever at Amazon. No eating or drinking ever at McDonalds, Burger King, Subway, Starbucks.
Signal is not a EU switch,btw.
It isn’t, but it is definitely the best switch if you have privacy in mind. A lot of other options have various areas they are lacking in. Signal is a real gold standard of privacy and security, and open-source, so location matters much less.
It is not even close to the gold standard of privacy and still falls within the Homeland Security act as well as Trump shenanigans - and are hosted on Google, Amazon and MS servers.
While as far as we know their encryption is close to gold standard, the foundation and concept itself has massive issues one should be aware of.
There is no european alternative though. Maybe threema, but people don’t want to pay for a messaging app. (Even though they did in the past with WhatsApp on iOS)
Or Matrix…
There are unencrypted messages in Matrix though. Not by default, but it’s there.
Hardly an argument. The clients warn against it,it’s not default, has to be done very intentionally,etc. That’s on one level with “I screenshot messages and post them on facebook” - and in that case the other end would not be warned about it.
The downsides of Matrix exist (key exchange, performance, audio/video, federation issues), but this is not one of them. Overall it’s as secure as Signal but, I totally must agree on that, not as easy as signal. Which partially comes with the federation, but partially also due to ongoing issues the current development fails to adress so far.
Threema has the downside of being swiss hosted (which sadly is an issue by now due to their legislation) and being from a company very close to the swiss goverment but at least the Orange Tittler can’t shut it down directly.
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Google Android to e/OS. Fairphone 6 is great.
hell yeah brother 💪📱
Sister, but yeah. It’s fantastic.
Do banking apps work yet, because that forced me back to the stock install?
Banking worked once I added a Google account to microg. Which is not the best I know, but thats a compromise for now. With e/os and others you also habe to keep in mind that not all images allow you to lock your bootloader.
Only with MicroG. My workaround is to have a compromised computer at home that stays in my house, and then not have google on my phone at all. It’s an added layer that is supposed to obfuscate details about the user, but I don’t trust it. Also, you have a tracker that tries to call home, but you can disable it.
Any limitations you ran into?
I just don’t do banking or make transactions in it. It’s setup with MicroG by default. I used developer mode to get all that off and stop the attempts of google to call home. I guess without the ability to do those things they would lose market share. If you’re like me and refuse to tolerate, just remove it. Other defaults are fine. I didn’t like that I had to go through Dev mode if I wanted to remove the native maps app, but I ended up keeping it anyway.
Here is what’s good: modular design so you can replace parts,
battery is absolutely amazing, after two months it has never wen dead, best battery life I’ve ever seen
Ethical building, part of build in China is performed under a fair labor plan
Spoofs your ip
Fakes your geolocation
Has app tracker detection and blocks leaks
Forums with helpful community
No bloatware, just normal stuff
I have had no issues with this phone. Accessories are high but they are not a big company, so… You can use NextDNS to see any tracker queries if you want. You are able to disable the google tracker in MicroG if you just go to community forum and read how. If you block in NextDNS first you will not need to worry anyways.
iPhone to Fairphone with /e/os
Windows --> linux debian
I wanted to do this for a long time. But hesitated because i thought it is a lot of work and inconvenience.
Now I have done the transition and first of all it was very easy to install linux. A 13 minute youtube video explained everything step by step. I was done after roughly 30 minutes.
And now i am working/gaming on linux and it is like switching from an android to an apple smartphone. Everything is a bit different. But in the end it is the same.
Can strongly recommend it. Is super easy and just feels great!!
Dropbox to Nextcloud. Saves me so much money every month and I way prefer the user experience.
