A pair of locking pliers from Parkside. My brain defaults to aliexpress or amazon, but checked Lidl as they tend to have ok tools at ok price.
will try on the weekend, already look better and cheaper than anything in amazon.
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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Parkside has serious quality, in general Lidl products have unbeatable quality/price ratios.
reMarkable, E Ink writing tablet.
It has a pressure sensitive marker that you can draw with like a wacom tablet, runs a Linux os you can ssh into and do tons of custom stuff with... It's just wonderful.
CMF (by Nothing) Buds 2. Really inexpensive and surprisingly good sound quality earbuds.
Nothing is British, CMF is Indian.
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I am migrating my data from onedrive to nextcloud.
Switched from Tidal to Qobuz.
I'm replacing my old and battered Marshal headphones with some Repeat ones (repeat.audio) from the Netherlands. Also opened an account (Standard) with Mailbox.org, quite pleased. Currently analyzing/considering moving from Spotify to Qobuz.
Isn't Spotify from Sweden?
yeah but enshittification is also for eu tech
Well, I left reddit and now I am here.
Me too I didnโt know there was a Reddit alternative, so I was using RSS feedsโthen someone mentioned Lemmy in a comment, so here I am. Now I just need to wipe out Visa, and my boycott will be complete
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Well done! Rather donate some money to your instance, instead of paying with your data.
I just moved as well.
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I ditched Gmail for protonmail
I just installed Ubuntu on my mom's laptop. I also considered Mint, but Ubuntu seems to me to be the distribution with the least risk of any major issues.
Either way, the point was to finally get away from Windows, especially since my mom doesn't use any applications for which there isn't a reliable Linux alternative anyway.
Donations to LibreOffice and so on have also been transferred - in the amount of the license costs for Windows 11 and MS Office for now.
I bought a pair of Mustangs (German brand) instead of buying new Converses, and I'm very pleased by them.
A small win, but still a win.
Not as admirable but for the last year or so I have, when necessary, replaced my Nike sports gear with Adidas.
I mention it ready for someone to say they're American also :)
Bit by bit moving everything off Google Docs and into CryptPad.
Left Amazon a while ago, which is a big win.
But for special items, I kept ebay. It's funny though, that some deliveries from ebay came with an Amazon packaging...
With Wero I hope, I can ditch Paypal soon.
Lots of people put up the same products on every available marketplace, and they fulfill their orders with Amazon because it's easier to ship everything Fulfilled By Amazon.
You buy on ebay, they buy from themselves on Amazon and drop ship it to you via FBA.
That's what I thought. So basically I'm still using 1% Amazon...:(
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If it's a small seller with only a couple items, there's a better chance to avoid Amazon compared to bigger sellers selling many items.
Just an hour ago I created a Proton account and transferred and redirected my gmail to it.
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Setup koofr on my gf's laptop recently so that we can use that for sharing documents
Just set up a mailbox account.
Before this it was probably some plus12 socks.
Dropped Google drive in favour of Filen