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I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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Re: I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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I'm not sure what your problem is here. Non-US means anything that is not US. Pickup a map and start enumerating countries, China and Russia are just two of many.

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You understand that the set is greater than those two countries, thus you understand the problem already.

Re: I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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I don't like the idea of moving from google's ecosystem to proton. While they're better, ecosystems tend to get locked down or change for the worse.I'm not planning to repeat the google cycle. I got my own domain for email, bitwarden for passwords, firefox forks for browsing, and many other stuff to get off google. Also I realised that stuff like contacts, notes, calendar don't really need to be on the cloud, but I'm…

It's a non profit so I think the risk of change for the worse is little.

Re: I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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I find it funny that right at the start the author claims he wants "privacy and data sovereignty" and then he comes into the EU. Now, Proton is based in Switzerland (thank god for some sane countries in Europe that still remain), but EU is not friend to your "privacy and data sovereignty". Countries in EU are going after you (and demanding that external platforms disclosure your anonymous identity so that they can pu…

I started watching YouTuber Evan Edinger recently and it’s been a breath of fresh air because he’s been saying things I understood to be true a long time ago, but never quite verified until now. One of those being about American exceptionalism and how Americans will only ever make judgement about other countries (including the EU) from the highly deformed perspective of their local news. And they’ll do this, knowingl…

> EU culture

There is no such thing, and has never been. Europeans are different people with different cultures. No matter how much hackers and global projects want to exterminate those cultures and those people.

The equivalent would be to talk about "Mercosul culture" or "NAFTA culture". Or why not "NATO culture", or "BRICS culture"?

Re: I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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> You're linking a US media website, one famous for having its head way up the american exceptionalism hole. Oh, I didn’t notice we are already in the censorship phase and we can’t even link Fox News. It’s a factual news (but you are free to contest it) and if Fox is the only one willing to publish it, it says more about European descent into madness than you think. > Also, didn't you vote to not call yourself Europe…

If Fox is the only one willing to publish it, it says a lot about the news story itself.... Whilst they may time to time have some journalism I'm sure, it's not a respectable news organisation in the same way as AP or Reuters and such. If it was a decent story it would be picked up on and re-reported by other outlets. There is not some conspiracy where all other journalists refuse to publish the 'truth'...

> it says a lot about the news story itself

What does it say then about the news story itself?

Re: I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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post #94

I don't like the idea of moving from google's ecosystem to proton. While they're better, ecosystems tend to get locked down or change for the worse.I'm not planning to repeat the google cycle. I got my own domain for email, bitwarden for passwords, firefox forks for browsing, and many other stuff to get off google. Also I realised that stuff like contacts, notes, calendar don't really need to be on the cloud, but I'm…

We should all have e-mail backups regardless of which service we are on. Even Google shuts down accounts randomly. Owning your domain and having e-mail backups makes it easy to switch e-mail services.

True, just happened to one of my friend. 10 years old gmail account got suspended because he supposedly sent phishing emails. Which is completely false (he didn’t even understood what pishing was, he had google authenticator for totp). Ofcourse the appeal process was useless as no one reply to those. It’s been 2 months now. Own your domain.

Re: I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I started watching YouTuber Evan Edinger recently and it’s been a breath of fresh air because he’s been saying things I understood to be true a long time ago, but never quite verified until now. One of those being about American exceptionalism and how Americans will only ever make judgement about other countries (including the EU) from the highly deformed perspective of their local news. And they’ll do this, knowingl…

> EU culture There is no such thing, and has never been. Europeans are different people with different cultures. No matter how much hackers and global projects want to exterminate those cultures and those people. The equivalent would be to talk about "Mercosul culture" or "NAFTA culture". Or why not "NATO culture", or "BRICS culture"?

As someone who's lived in 7 different european countries throughout my life, I feel like I can confidently speak on the matter and yes, there is an EU culture. This does not mean there isn't also cultures individual to the countries, just like the latter doesn't mean there aren't cultures individual to regions or cities.

(You'd think this last part is obvious, and yet it seems it has to be spelled out for some, who'd rather pick random acronyms to strawman a culture question onto, than use common sense.)

PS- For the sake of your mental health, work on popping that bubble of yours you seem to live inside of.

Re: I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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Just migrated away my personal email (with custom domains) from Microsoft 365 to Proton, and boy, it is such a better experience. M365 has become an intangible mess of a multitude of different admin dashboards redirecting you around and complicating things beyond comprehension. For the migration, I wanted to backup my entire email backlog. It took me two hours to finally get it connected to thunderbard via IMAP and d…

To add to my own post what made me switch from M365 away in the first place besides the admin madness: - No catch-all (yes, I use my own domain just for me, and I want a catchall to my mailbox) - Outlook 365 webinterface becoming buggy and shitty in so many ways - I had 2 domains set up (one private, one business) but O365 would not display which email a given was used as target (just display my name), nor would it l…

1. That's one mail flow rule.

2. Agreed

3. Yes, inbox rules could color these

4. Something must wrong in CA, this should not happen (if you don't want it to)

Re: I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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post #146

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"Free speech" is a thing between persons and the state. It does not require persons to accommodate nazis. Some corporations claim otherwise because they think nazis are good for business.

> Some corporations claim otherwise because they think nazis are good for business. And they are right at this time in various major tech hubs. We will see how that works out.

It'll probably be fine for the corporations. Not necessarily for the people comprising the corporations, but the fictive legal constructs will do absolutely fine.

Re: I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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What's this person's phone OS? This seems somewhat overlooked here. To me, the mobile OS is the centerpiece of any ecosystem. That leaves only two options.

Strictly speaking, that's not quite true. There's non big-tech Android distros like Graphene and /e/.

Those are both AOSP-based.

Re: I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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Just migrated away my personal email (with custom domains) from Microsoft 365 to Proton, and boy, it is such a better experience. M365 has become an intangible mess of a multitude of different admin dashboards redirecting you around and complicating things beyond comprehension. For the migration, I wanted to backup my entire email backlog. It took me two hours to finally get it connected to thunderbard via IMAP and d…

I really tried migrating to Proton, but unfortunately I found their suite not really fit for purpose and I had to request a refund. - No search in Mail. You can use Bridge to pull your emails into something else, but this means it's no longer secure, and not really feasible for a non-techy partner! - No search in Drive - 3 domain limit for Mail(???) - Drive sucks. No previewing files, viewing photos etc. due to missi…

Wow, no search is a deal breaker. Might as well just delete my email, that's pretty secure.
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