Safety razor and/or shavette is such an eye-opener. You can buy a good shavette for €20 and 10 premium blades for €5. That's 500 shaves for the price of a month's worth of fancy quadrouple Gillette blades that suck ass.
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Divesting is so important. It's good for your savings account too. My Canadian, French, Korean and Swedish stocks slap.
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@halfdane Ok, brevity is sometimes the enemy of clarity... I used to have a Murena Fairphone and switched from there. I learned only later there is a community port for Sailfish on FP.
Sailfish I run on the Jolla C2 and it is little different from eOS, Graphene or Lineage without MicroG that I also tried. My bank is Triodos NL and that works fine for now. MFA I use the Ente Auth Android App also no issues. Sometimes Android App support crashes and I need to reboot, thats it.
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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 🤣
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@halfdane If you already made your infrastructure so that you can run fine on degoogled phones, Sailfish SHOULD work for you.
It was fiddly in the beginning but minimizing my dependencies helped. Took me several attempts to get Signal (Android App) working.
What I especially like: it isn't made for the attention economy. Less distractions. My phone is a tool again, not a digital pacifier....
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@msrb711 I switched from streaming back to owning my media again and buying CD, DVD and Bluray. They are dirt cheap in flea markets and there is something neat about the coverart, leaflets and Bonus features. I also bought a FIIO Snowsky Echo and it has amazing sound quality and battery life for 60 Euros. UX is a bit fiddly but I got used to it.
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Damn. xvids and xhampster are both European
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@halfdane Oh and one more thing? Battery life is AMAZING. Sometimes three days on one charge.
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Chrome to Vivaldi
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YouTube Music to Spotify to Deezer
Edit: Actually start with a US company
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Apple Podcasts to Spotify to PocketCasts
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oh wow thank you for your input.
I was weighing the option of getting an USB dvd drive for my laptop for the same reason. I'm still afraid that buying dvds could quickly add up.
I do understand that it is indeed a much better way to enjoy movies, it's just that it's still quite expensive (for me).
What I did do is I got a library card and German Libraries have their own streaming platform which is amazing.
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Notion to Anytype
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yup, gotta change up your media consumption.
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@mirshafie Yep, not only that... It also gives a way closer shave and less burn than the latest #Gilette Mach25 Turbo Fusion Glide nonsense. I personally swear by the Japanese Feather #DE #razor and #blades
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Netflix -> Yo Ho!
How do you like your Fairphone? Doesn’t it still run a Google based OS? I mean even if you “deGoogle” it, you’re still stuck in a rut of needing some amount of Google BS.
Also the > in your comment make it look your saying like.. Windows > Linux lol. Might as a - so it looks like an arrow rather than a greater than. Pedantry, I know.
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Whatsapp to Olvid, anyone?
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Whereabouts do you buy your blades? I'm in Canada but fuck me sideways they've been hard to find. I found one retailer who was doing sample packs buy they didn't have any packs without at least one Russian set of blades which isn't much better than buying american...
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@androidul Strictly speaking thats still #US... #CloudAct and #PatriotAct still enable the US to coerce and manipulate #Bitwarden, no matter where the data is stored. The #TADPF thats supposed to guarantee #GDPR compliance is worthless.
#European alternatives include (but are not limited to) @protonprivacy @passbolt @keepassxc #passworddepot #uniqkey #heylogin @yubico
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- 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.
