What would be your top 5 most important and impactful product/service to switch from US to European?

And bonus question: What is one product/service you think is not as imlactful as another product/service or as others think?

My top 5(and choice):

  • Search engine (Qwant)

  • AI chatbot (mistralAI)

  • Map app (mapyCZ)

  • Mobility: selling US cars (this one should have easy EU choices)

  • Food (may be very hard for some, but I think everyone should invest a lot of time into this topic)

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Tech services neeeed(!) to be switched, since data is crucial in modern age. Oh also ofc don’t use chrome based browsers.

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Search: French Qwant.com is shockingly good, results, even in images is identical to Google/Bing. it has no AI integration which is fine, just use mistral. Only image search need a little refinement like a search for more identical of selected imagery. .

AI: chat.Mistral.ai is French and does the job to answer ie more specific but not too scientific questions.

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Map: pleased with mapy.cz, ofc no street view but everything else, adding images of places is our job

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Car: preferably even trying public transport+cycling or just cycling for groceries is a lot already or go for EU car if still needed for whatever degree

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Food: this is a big topic, so I’ll be general. I’d say don’t be perfect. Go for the essentials you buy most. If you replace these, already rate that as a win. Because every brand is just a pseudo of a likely American corporation behind

  • Ye be warned 🏴‍☠️@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    In the digital realm: Reddit and G-Suite were the big ones. Just completed migration of my private accounts. Both 16+ years). Lemmy, Proton + Nextcloud for now. Have not switched my business over yet, but it will be a quick process once I fully commit.

    If for any reason Gmail gets blocked in the future there will be many people surprised by not only losing their email, but also access to their external online services (if they need the email address in any way to sign in). Of course also to any data they keep in the Google ecosystem.

      • Ye be warned 🏴‍☠️@lemm.ee
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        8 days ago

        I tried Cryptpad and Nextcloud Office Suite and the latter is what I went with.

        Two main reasons:

        • Main issue is that the Cryptpad UX just was inferior to Nextcloud office. Too much wasted space for my taste, dark theme was not great, etc. Dark theme is not 100% on Nextcloud either, but mostly fine.
        • Cryptpad uses OnlyOffice code for parts of their Sheets implementation. Onlyoffice seems to have obfuscated ties to Russia. Was even removed from the goeuropean database after people found out. Not implying Cryptpad has a backdoor or anything, but their FAQ does not go very deep and don’t want to run the risk: https://docs.cryptpad.org/en/FAQ.html#what-is-the-relationship-between-cryptpad-and-onlyoffice TBH I read it as they only use parts for their front end code and did a lot of refactoring / adjustments. I would hope everthing is safe. But together with the inferior UI (personal preference) Nextcloud was the better choice.
        • Maintenance would also be more time consuming. Might not matter in a bigger business environment (would assume both are the same), but for my personal self-hosting it’s easier to run nextcloud office (already running nextcloud since a few years and office was a one-click install instead of a whole separate stack).

        Nextcloud does offer different office integrations. I use their Office bundle which can run a bundled small Collabora server (no separate setup needed, one-click install). For my personal self-hosted environment perfect. Would recommend a dedicated collabora instance in business environments.

        Collabora itself is based on Libreoffice and their online UX is just amazing. Such a good use of screen real estate. Great product really. As I had Nextcloud already running it was an easy decision.

      • Ye be warned 🏴‍☠️@lemm.ee
        3·
        8 days ago

        I recommend FreeTube on desktop or NewPipe on Android. Tubular = NewPipe with SponsoBlock and Disklike button, but sadly does not get updated that often.

        All a bit more work with keeping subscriptions in sync manually, but so much better experience than YouTube native.

        • arakhis_@feddit.orgOP
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          4 days ago

          Hey I now used Freetube for some videos and now discovered even a redirect to avoid youtube links to open up in youtube too.

          Problem is now I get this error when opening the video and videos dont play at all [BAD_HTTP_STATUS: 403] Potential causes: IP block or streaming URL deciphering failed I have issues understanding the developer talk on sites like github and seem to not understand the issue/solution that well… any idea? I have never used a VPN… is that an issue?? I am confused

            • arakhis_@feddit.orgOP
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              3 days ago

              crazy how aggressive the corporation is without even mentioning this. i mean ofc but still…

              shows their true colors…

              then when you hear them talk about some new update how they value the customer’s experience or whatever bs they try to feed you, its hard to endure these people talking like that out of their mouths… this society is really messing with me and breaking me.

              • Ye be warned 🏴‍☠️@lemm.ee
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                2 days ago

                Haha. Replied to the wrong comment earlier: Expect a Hotfix Update pretty soon. Message from the Devs an hour ago:

                “UPDATE: We have tested the fix on our end and we will put out a hotfix release ASAP.”

                Ideally it would not break, but great effort by the team and I can live with the issues from time to time. Overall a much better experience than the YT website

          • Ye be warned 🏴‍☠️@lemm.ee
            2·
            3 days ago

            I get the same error sometimes too. Most of the time it works by going back and re-opening the link again, or a few reloads. Maybe 1 out of 5 videos that have problems will not resolve and I just avoid them or retry at a later time.

            Have not yet cared enough to dig deeper. Will let you know if I ever stumble upon a good explanation / solution.

        • arakhis_@feddit.orgOP
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          6 days ago

          wow free tube looks promising. I hate how youtube is a monopoly - glad theres tools like this with the right intent

          • Ye be warned 🏴‍☠️@lemm.ee
            2·
            2 days ago

            Expect a Hotfix Update pretty soon. Message from the Devs an hour ago:

            “UPDATE: We have tested the fix on our end and we will put out a hotfix release ASAP.”