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?
@Padit @Kennystillalive Merkur handle or the Feather one (the cheap one, not the all metal) and Feather blades
Feather is japanese, but better than American. I‘m also using Feather.
Mootes & Tiger platinum blades.
moved here
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…
Proton is nice and surely better than Office, but let’s not forget that the owner of Proton publicly supports Trump, so I’m planning to move out of Proton ASAP
Lol nobody supports trump, they had one unfortunate post on twitter that some people (un) intentionally misinterpreted. The drama is over, so maybe time to move on?
@locahosr443 Thats what pisses me off so much: #MS is a #usability and #security nightmare for #users and #admins. It’s really difficult to manage well especially for #SMB Its bloody expensive for the mediocre and increasingly buggy products you get. They shove services down your throat like #Copilot and #Recall #Windows updates regularly break stuff. Yet folks cling on to it for dear life because it is what they know #adminlife
What’s up with all these # ?
Couldn’t you just write normally?
They all link to Mastodon hashtags. Not really sure what the point is is it doesn’t really add anything. They’re not linking to anything specific, just the general hashtag.
It is super annoying to read. Very distracting. And doesn’t even add anything useful, just noise.
@ErenOnizuka Ehm… That is to make my post easier to find for users looking gor those topics and making it pop up in the feeds about those topics.
Kind of #unnecessary
Mastodon doesn’t really play very nice with Lemmy despite the fact that it technically federates. They just come over as links, which is fine but hashtags themselves don’t do anything on Lemmy, so they’re just sort of there, hanging around, in the way.
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…
Watch Twitch with Firefox + ublock origin maybe?
Different to what most people are doing, but I’ve been thinking about dressing more European. So many popular casual clothes come from the US: bomber jackets, duck chore jackets, baseball caps, most sneakers, jeans. The last two alone are permanent parts of “default dude uniform”.
So I now e.g. have:
- a harrington jacket (ironically the name comes from an American show, made in China from UK brand) - it’s an English golfing jacket by origin
- a Shetland sweater (made in Shetland)
- a tartan wool scarf (made in Scotland)
- some corduroy and moleskin pants for the winter (Made in Bangladesh, UK company)
- wool balmacaan-style overcoat from Italian tweed made in Portugal
- chukka boots (Made in England).
Also eyeing a French chore coat.
You’d think doing this would be really easy given how the US came to be. Say, a suit is European, but wearing one every day is not as common as before. The overall theme in the west is that democratization is cool, while tradition is not. But when I think Europe, I think tradition. Hence the suit is European, but it’s not “cool”.
Corduroy and shetland sweaters are pretty “grandpa” as well. But I guess this is the arduous process of re-learning an identity after being fed American culture all the time while growing up. You just don’t know what’s yours.
As you can see by the items it’s all clothes that come from the UK. Again, it was easiest to pick the UK because it was the purveyor of European style, back before, you know.
Man dressing made in EU is soooo expensive though.
I found a few sales on avocadostore. With the sale prices they were the same as other slavemade brands on normal price.
What items do you have in mind?
A good “gateway drug” is buying second hand. It lets you get acknowledged with a brand and let you decide if you’d like to drop the retail or sale price on an item from them in the future. They don’t necessarily even need to be made in EU, just they need to come from a higher price bracket.
Here are my Vinted filters for mostly EU brands (only some are made in EU), they link to the Polish Vinted so maybe change the .pl to your region:
Poland has the most connected regions on Vinted so your results may vary.
Yes, but most of the time more durable, fair working conditions etc
For Shoes:
Portugal, mayby most famously, as well as poland have very talented cobblers who make great quality shoes while not being nearly as expensive as some of the bigger brands (looking at you, doc martens). Unfortunately the best way to find out about them currently is etsy. But I‘d reckon there are other platforms where they are active. Maybe it‘s even possible to contact them for sales circumventing Etsy.
switched from bourbon to scotch
Any recommendations? Love bourbon and a few Irish whiskies but scotch always tastes too smokey and… ionidy? to me.
Balblair 12 year old.
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 🙂
OneDrive to pCloud.
OneDrive was absolute ass in the first place but i got it for free as part of uni. It was horrible for syncing files between devices and would often corrupt files.
PCloud just works. They also have a lifetime tier, so you don’t have to subscribe every year. My data is stored in Switzerland but you can choose to have it stored in the US if you really really want to.
Next best thing was changing from Gmail to Runbox. Excellent service at Runbox. I’m looking to transfer my domain as well but that’s proving a bit difficult at the moment.
We use OneDrive at work and it will often just randomly break for no reason. No mind to tinkering with it will fix it you just have to leave it alone until it starts working again.
Jeans and Digital Services
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!!
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?
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.
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.
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.
PayPal to Wero or iban
I would classify Wero as US-dependent in multiple areas, since they incorporate US-based trackers. Also in a way that I believe is violating the GDPR. On top of that, the Wero app incorporates a US-based bug tracking system that the user cannot reject, other than maybe blocking it it with a firewall. I also have not seen them officially supporting any of the EU-made operating systems yet. Mandatory Notarization (by OS vendor) in iOS and Android is adding another US-dependent layer.
While there is more EU in Wero than in Paypal, it would be a false claim to call it “EU independent”.
OK still a good move but they could do better. PayPal is a useless middleman if wero is around.
I wish Wero was available in Italy :(
Currently going through transition, step by step:
Windows > Linux Fedora Chrome > Vivaldi Gmail > Eclipso
Chrome > Vivaldi
😒
Btw Fedora in backed by red hat and American corp. loved Fedora but switch to opensuse or Ubuntu :)
Really?? And I went through the whole process of removing Windows and installing Fedora 🙃. I didn’t know! Well, guess I’m going to Ubuntu then. Thanks!
opensource software doesn’t have a country. No need to change to ubuntu. The same software you run in fedora you will run in ubuntu.
IBM, intel, microslop, etc, all have developers that work in the linux kernel and provide patches and new functionalities. Are you going to stop using the linux kernel? Good luck with temple OS
TempleOS was built by an American
true. but templeOS was built with god’s instructions
Terry Davis is a… glowie!!!
It’s easier the second time. Ubuntu is London based and opensuse is German. Good luck!
Thanks! I’ll look into it.
Moved my main repositories off from Github to Codeberg. The latter is more minimalist, but has what it needs instad of being an overbloated mess with AI slop features. Cannot fullz abandon Github due to the vast amount of code there, also some projects I’m contributing to have no plans to move.
While I know I should have moved to single blade safety razors, Lidl’s own 5 blade offerings last longer than Gilette Fusion, while being the fraction of the price.
Windows -> Linux Mint Gmail -> Tuta mail Outlook -> mailbox Facebook -> [nothing] Instagram -> pixelfed iCloud -> Jotta cloud (not Eu, but Norwegian’s) Reddit -> Lemmy PayPal -> [nothing] More to come…
Windows => Linux Stock-Android => iodéOS CustomROM
And probably buying from Otto instead of Amazon. Works in Germany pretty well.
