BuyFromEU

Streaming giants to piracy

Reddit to Lemmy

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.

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...

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...

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.

• 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.

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.

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 🤣

Jeans and Digital Services

switched from bourbon to scotch

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!!

Gmail to Mailbox.org. Whenever I'm using it to login somewhere I get reminded that no US corporation can steal or shutdown my identity.

Google Android to e/OS. Fairphone 6 is great.

PayPal to Wero or iban

• 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.

• 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)

Windows to Linux

• doomscrolling to fediversing;
• getting off Coca Cola and Pepsi Co. products (alternatives are both tastier and healthier, too many to list here, it will depend on where you live, anything from Fritz Cola and Green Cola through VitaminWell to your local kombucha brand);
• Google Photos and Dropbox to Koofr, I got two-in-one;
• Google Search to Karma/Ecosia.
• Google Translate to DeepL and Reverso Context (the latter being much more helpful if you actually want to learn);
• ChatGPT to Mistral and solidagent. Thinking you need a larger model is often like thinking you need a larger car: it really depends how you use it. With some brain power a smaller and less "reasoning" model might give you more to sieve through;
• Google Maps to Citymapper in Stockholm/other big cities (It was always JakDojade in Poland <3);
• it is not a change as much as an add-on, but getting Minimalist Phone on top of my Android (I hope I will get established in a de-Googled environment in a foreseeable future).

And possibly the biggest one: Divesting!!!

As my antivirus expires, I am looking forward to switch to Bitdefender. I've been avoiding most American non-digital services before. Using alternatives to credit cards in real life is annoying in Sweden, but I try my best. It is easy online, though.

Various really :

• reddit to lemmy
• Amazon to Galaxus (and various other shops)
• Calvin Klein to Armedangels

Like a few here, microsoft to linux and reddit to fediverse.

Tidal to Qobuz, old spice to dove deodorant were all good but gillette razors to various safety razors has been the best I think.

iPhone to Fairphone with /e/os

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.

Currently going through transition, step by step:

Windows > Linux Fedora

Chrome > Vivaldi

Gmail > Eclipso