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Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by gib444 »

askonomm wrote: post #555
AlexandrB wrote: post #495

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, I don't get someone who would look at the US and say that their government overreach is particularly bad compared to the rest of the "first world". For example, the UK is arresting people for getting too spicy in school Facebook groups[1]. It just feels like "grass is greener" mentality because folks on here are most familiar with US political issues. [1] https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/police-arre…

Do the immigration police in UK also murder their own citizens in broad daylight? What about incarceration (and falsely incarcerated) rates? What about general cases of police brutality? What about pedophile-run government where nobody ever gets arrested? What about a government that's bailing out known criminals for money? Or one that rug pulls its own citizens via crypto scams, phone scams, citizenship scams? USA i…

Indeed. USA is gone, got taken over and is now RUSA. The rest of the world can see it. Look at the pain their latest stupid war is inflicting on Europe. Cui bono...

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by Aachen »

pelzatessa wrote: post #337

> I’ve always been a happy Mullvad customer. For 5 euros a month, I pay a Swedish company that has proven it doesn’t log any data How did they prove that? Is such proof even possible?

Also based on your reply on a sibling thread, is this a legit question (you expect that there is a way but you're not sure how) or are you just waiting for someone to bite just so you can state your case about proving a negative?

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by matt-p »

jwr wrote: post #584

I can recommend: * Hetzner.de for servers (I've been using their physical servers for many years now, incredible performance per € spent) * Fernand as your CRM, it's smooth and nice and so much better and faster than all the zendesks and freshdesks it's not even funny. ( https://getfernand.com/ ) * AISLER if you design electronics and need to make PCBs ( https://aisler.net/ )

AISLER are AMAZING at printing boards, but sadly are very very expensive for assembly.

Love them though.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by deepsun »

jwr wrote: post #584

I can recommend: * Hetzner.de for servers (I've been using their physical servers for many years now, incredible performance per € spent) * Fernand as your CRM, it's smooth and nice and so much better and faster than all the zendesks and freshdesks it's not even funny. ( https://getfernand.com/ ) * AISLER if you design electronics and need to make PCBs ( https://aisler.net/ )

Thanks, just a note that by "CRM" people typically think of Sales (Salesforce, Hubspot etc), not Support (zendesks and freshdesks).

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by darthcloud »

gattilorenz wrote: post #592
darthcloud wrote: post #213

As a Canadian, I’ve been thinking since last year about migrating to non-US services and applications. My main goal is simply to avoid giving money or data directly to US corporations. I have no illusions, these non-US services probably still benefit US companies in some ways. They’re rare, but I’ve consciously decided to stay away from some Canadian alternatives. The main customers of most Canadian tech companies ar…

To you people who moved email to a different provider… how did you do that, practically? Email signature, reply from another address and hope your contacts pick it up, or something else? How well did it work? I have been a user of gmail since you needed an invitation to register, and even though I have felt for years the pressure to de-google myself, I find it a daunting task due to the amount of people/services that…

I was on gmail since the invitation too. Using their domain.

I started to use my own domain within Gmail 2 years ago. Transitioned things I cared about to use that email at that time.

Then this years I moved to Proton using that domain. And I'm forwarding Gmail to proton indefinitely.

I told my family, friends to start using that address going forward.

Slowly but surely as I get email into my gmail folder on proton I take the time to go change the address.

The big change is using an address from you own domain.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by Aachen »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #533
flowerthoughts wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you summarize the easy and hard aspects? Have you had any unexpected benefits or downsides?

For me: - SES was a big one. There was no affordable alternative at my (not big, not small) scale. - I'm still waning myself personally of GMail. That dependency took decades to build and it will take years for all ties to sever.

Maybe this comment downthread helps for the email problem? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489711

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by Wool2662 »

gattilorenz wrote: post #592
darthcloud wrote: post #213

As a Canadian, I’ve been thinking since last year about migrating to non-US services and applications. My main goal is simply to avoid giving money or data directly to US corporations. I have no illusions, these non-US services probably still benefit US companies in some ways. They’re rare, but I’ve consciously decided to stay away from some Canadian alternatives. The main customers of most Canadian tech companies ar…

To you people who moved email to a different provider… how did you do that, practically? Email signature, reply from another address and hope your contacts pick it up, or something else? How well did it work? I have been a user of gmail since you needed an invitation to register, and even though I have felt for years the pressure to de-google myself, I find it a daunting task due to the amount of people/services that…

Yes, pretty much. I bought a domain to make sure I only have to do this once and parked it with Infomaniak.

Then I setup a new mail account (by now I abandoned Proton for Infomaniak there as well)

The next year I just kept responding with my new email address, asking people to update their contact data and each time I logged in somewhere I changed my email address. This went really well, just 1 or 2 services where I couldn't change it because they only accept the big providers, no custom domains.

In the end the first 3 weeks were really painful, afterwards it was smooth sailing.

Since then I've swiched provider quite a bit from Proton to Zoho and now to Infomaniak (where I will stay for a long time I think) and each of those changes took me about 2h each time.

So in sumnary, you will curse yourself for a few weeks and thank yourself later!

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by akvadrako »

okanat wrote: post #569
akvadrako wrote: post #245

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I use mailbox for the past few years and I think it's the best option out there. But they have one major issue, which is that anyone can impersonate your domain: https://userforum-en.mailbox.org/topic/anti-spoofing-for-cus...

I think that is not up to date. Mailbox publishes DKIM records: https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/custom-domains/spf-dkim-an... SPF is here https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/custom-domains/spf-dkim-an... DMARC is up to the domain owner to set.

Lack of records isn't the issue. You authorize mailbox's servers to send on behalf of your domain. Then they let anyone with a mailbox account set the from to your domain.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by u8080 »

messe wrote: post #550
u8080 wrote: post #531

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Could you explain to me (non-US and non-EU resident), how people in EU are okay with mandatory photo scanning on your devices(aka CSAM protection)? Who does this weird proposals like Chat Control? AFAIK, it is not "alt-right" parties - so it really does not clicking for me, why AfD and others constantly brought in during online privacy discussions?

Can you remind me when those actually passed? I can pull equally up equally ridiculous bills from the US that never came to fruition.

I am not saying passing, but seems there is a large group of politicians(supposedly backed by voters?) who lobby such initiatives who are not some alt-right fascist outliers?

(I am not from US, please keep that strawman out)

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by varispeed »

jwr wrote: post #584

I can recommend: * Hetzner.de for servers (I've been using their physical servers for many years now, incredible performance per € spent) * Fernand as your CRM, it's smooth and nice and so much better and faster than all the zendesks and freshdesks it's not even funny. ( https://getfernand.com/ ) * AISLER if you design electronics and need to make PCBs ( https://aisler.net/ )

I like that German company offers Blitz service. Tempted to order something from the UK.
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