Switched from YouTube Music to Qobuz
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2026
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I Wanted To, But IT Seems To Be Unavailable On My Country.
Iโm enjoying Qobuz
I also gave it a try, but had to cancel my plans to switch due to limited music selection and playlists lacking folders.
I am currently trialing Deezer, so I guess that still counts. Also can't do folders for playlists, but basically all my music transferred over.
Deezer is owned by a Russian oligarch. Just something you might want to know about.
I do, but the company is based in Paris as far as I know, so it's European. At least most employees are (probably?) around there, as are the paid taxes (assuming they pay any).
Given my experiences, I don't think I have any other option that wouldn't be just a way worse experience for me. There's a reason in dropping Spotify after all.
I mean. There is Quobuz which is also French but actually only owned by French people.
Re-read the comment you originally replied to. Music selection is too small for me.
On Linux, it works great for me over my browser, but i recently tried QBZ, and it both works and looks great! And its got lyrics, and other cool audio features like DAC, EXC, and Qobuz Connect that I don't really understand.
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I switched to DeepL
I too switched to DeepL. Also doing the trial period of kagi.com search. Probably gonna buy the "family" plan for me and my dad.
Keep in mind Kagi is US-American though.
Good point, I forgot where I was commenting on.
At the moment I'm doing most of my searches with Ecosia (yeah I know, they use bing and google, but at least they are German and planting trees), its only when Ecosia fails, I switch to Kagi. At this rate it will probably take me a year to run out of the 100 free searches that are included in the trial.
same here, switched to DeepL; then switched to Mistral AI.
Bought a Fairphone 6 (e/OS) and finally deleted my Google and Microsoft accounts.
Got myself a Tuxedo Aura 14 which I'm enjoying.
Also, kinda, just bought four vinyls of Wardruna (Norwegian band) from a Swedish store.
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I now wear sweaters and polo shirts fully sourced from Europe, including the cotton. They're really nice, too, the quality is amazing.
People are also growing cotton in Italy now, so maybe one day we could have cotton that's not only spun in Europe but also grown there. Still, lyocell and flax/hemp would probably be easier.
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Sold stock from ETF which covered US companies.
I'll put that into european funds.
Does second hand count? If so, I bought a Bosch laundry machine
Moved my email from iCloud to Proton. For the next step, it would be great if Proton Calendar started supporting (recurring) tasks.
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Got my old PC from 2011 working again, had loads of RAM at the time and runs pretty well now. Put it in the loft and installed proxmox on it. Am now using remote-backups.com from Germany as a remote backup :) for a load of services.
Bosch made in West Germany
Which products do they still make in Germany?
Not sure. This one is 2nd hand. Absolute beast
I have a big angle grinder from 1884. Think its from Germany IR Switzerland. It still works like a charm
Motorcycle tools for on the road. Both dutch and german. Love them
Which brands please?
Good question :)
German: wera. They are super nice in the workshop and everywhere . Colour coded , super comfortable, smart stuff really. For the bike I got a small โmotorcycleโ toolkit. With sockets and bits, tiny spanner, etc.
Dutch: eastbound. specific tools for fixing tyres . Lightweight wrench for the backwheel nut (34) and to get the tire off the rim. Very clever designed.
Ah, nice. I have a Wera ratchet screwdriver and it's nice kit
I recently bought a Fairphone 3 and installed Ubuntu Touch onto it, ditching Android entirely! I spent about 3 days working on this and would strongly recommend buying one of the newer ones with Ubuntu Touch pre-installed, I'm incredibly happy with it, feel freer than ever, and Google's however-much-money poorer for not having my data!
PixelUnion to save my photos and Euria for AI
I just moved all my photos from Google to Ente to get them out of the US... How's Euria?
It does the job honestly. It's not the best out there obviously especially for coding but for me it's good enough most of the time. Regarding Ente, don't they have headquarters in the US? I love what they're doing though. I ise the 2FA app and the recently released Ente locker
Switched to Aliasvault from Nordpass if that is considered a win
Subscribed to inlinestyle.it and have been able to actually use on a daily basis a good 40/50% of the services included in the subscription. Primarily email, personal website, photos, docs and notes. But I also enjoy some PeerTube channels there from time to time.
I just checked their services and while it seems great, the volumes are a bit small, aren't they? I host Immich myself and my collection uses about 90GB. Are the 10 given there enough for you?
I have started by importing my photos from 2020 onward and those consumed 3Gb, but I tend to curate my library so I don't have duplicates etc. And I don't record videos, but only photos. My whole collection of photos on Google Photos was 11GB before I stopped using it.
I think you can get more space with invite codes etc when you invite friends, but I never tried using them
Sneaky Steve boots from Sweden made in Portugal.
Kitchen stuff from WMF! Saved so much money and good quality!
Magic Pages (managed hosting service for Ghost CMS). Ghost is amazing. I thought bloging is dead. It's not. It's intuitive, scalable, natively suppors mailing AND fedi. MP makes it even better.
I signed up as a proof of concept, that this is a valid alternative. But man, did it delivered. It's my first choice now.
I bought sneakers from Wojas recently. Polish brand and as I understand it they are produced in Poland.
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