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Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by brailsafe »

carlosjobim wrote: post #590
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…

Google has two products without competition: YouTube and Google Maps. Don't waste your time trying different map services. Everything else is super easy to switch to better alternatives, especially search, e-mail and browser.

> Google has two products without competition: YouTube and Google Maps.

I've actually found great success in migrating to nothing from YouTube. Specifically I've found nothing to have a much less insidious algorithm, no shorts, no comment section, no upvotes or downvotes, no creepy Mr beast thumbnails, it's quite refreshing. If you still want cideos that are exclusively on YT, you can simply skip the website and access them via other means.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by atoav »

majoe wrote: post #132
atoav wrote: post #41

One tip in the EU is to consider just renting a Hetzner Storage Share. This is a 1TB (or more) Nextcloud that Hetzner manages for you for 5.11 Euros per month. A Nextcloud can give you many things at once, file syncing, file shares, contact syncing, calendar syncing, etc. I have been using this for years now after having hosted my own Nextcloud instance. The space and performance they give you for that price is unbea…

Had a self hosted nextcloud instance runnning on my homeserver, but migrated away two years ago to a Hetzner Storage share. All in all I'm quite happy with that. There are some downsides, though: - No support for collabora online, so no way for collaborative editing of office files - Data is not encrypted Hetzner also has classical web hosting offerings, which are cheap as well. I'm using that for email and a website…

You can do collabora online if you add your own collabora server. I did not try encryption, but there is an addon for that, did you try it?

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by thiisguy »

exiguus wrote: post #674

My next phone will be also one that is supported by GraphenOS. Currently, my private setup is: - VPN: Windscribe [CA] - AI: Mistral [FR] - Phone: De-Googled Fairphone [NL] (F-Droid/Aurora/OpenStreetMap) - Search: Self-hosted SearXNG + YACY (since ~10 years / good setup & documentation) - Domain Provider: INWX [DE] (since +10 years / good setup & documentation) - DNS: Self-hosted AdGuard Home / dnscrypt-proxy 2 + dnsd…

Interested to hear what hardware you have if you’d mind sharing some details.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by marcus_holmes »

krzyk wrote: post #248
copper4eva wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

His comment did not even mention the US. Only critiquing the authoritarianism going on in the EU. One of the issues with modern politics is everyone wants to deflect.

> critiquing the authoritarianism going on in the EU What?

There's a ton of disinformation in right-wing media in the USA that the EU is either already an authoritarian police state, or rapidly becoming one.

For example: https://www.heritage.org/europe/commentary/europe-wants-be-t...

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by ongy »

josephg wrote: post #647
ongy wrote: post #597

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Smack center of Europe (southern Germany) Got >100ms pings.

Heh I’m sorry to hear that. The whole internet is that slow for us here in Australia.

I'm aware. I'm worried we'll get an Aussie customer at work and I have to fix their access to our systems...

Granted, we already have US/EU/Asia as distinct regions. AUS would just make fail over even worse.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by frm88 »

thesmtsolver2 wrote: post #404
panda-giddiness wrote: post #372

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What a disingenuous comparison. The wiki article you've linked ("List of killings by law enforcement officers in Germany") sums to 552 people over the last 100 years. In contrast, the corresponding wiki article on the US ("Lists of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States" [1]) estimates more than 900 deaths per year. Indeed, the number of slayings is so great that the article does not tabulate the s…

> 552 people over the last 100 years What a disingenuous comment. Do we really think that is the case? You ignored my other link. Imagine the outrage EU would have had if US seized immigrants jewelry. Yet, Denmark gleefully does that. Funnily, I had friends from Europe participate in the No Kings protest here, while coming from countries that have literal kings.

CBP does it too https://holdcbpaccountable.org/abuses/confiscation-of-proper...

And here's the US laws for it, explained https://leppardlaw.com/federal/forfeiture-seizure/federal-se...

Trump issued an executive order that explicitly allows seizure of assets https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/trump-administr...

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by saxenaabhi »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #535
deaux wrote: post #49

https://bunny.net/ seems solid as a Cloudflare and S3 replacement. I'm not affiliated but they deserve more mentions in these threads.

Hetzner and Bunny are solid choices for EU projects.

For those looking for a PaaS instead of VPS provider like hetzner I can suggest Northflank. We moved from Render to Northflank and couldn't be happier.

Again non affiliated with either.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by frm88 »

rafram wrote: post #108
alpineman wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least there is still the rule of law and democracy in the EU

The baseline level of freedom of speech in the EU, in particular, is much, much worse than in the US. We’re talking about a group of countries with active, enforced blasphemy laws! Completely unthinkable for Americans.

I would argue that if protesters against Israels politics are persecuted, detained or even deported, the baseline of free speech has crumbled significantly.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL »

detectivestory wrote: post #402
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…

I've moved to pCloud for photos and I've found it to be a good alternative. One frustrating thing is that if you are cycling through your photos on the default pcloud app, they are usually slow to render which can be frustrating. Playing music on the app is also a little frustrating. It works, but it it's not an amazing UX. Other than that I am completely content with pCloud though, and I would recommend it. One othe…

Just heads up, pCloud throttles you heavily if you upload more than a certain amount of data per month or week or whatever. I have been their customer for a long time, with terabytes available in my account, but when I start to put dyson sphere program save files in there which changed often and were large, suddenly it started taking very long to upload. I have 1gbit at home and it works flawlessly with google drive and my nextcloud instance, so it's them.

Re: Migrating to the EU

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Post by deepsun »

perch56 wrote: post #657
deepsun wrote: post #614

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Ehm sorry but no. CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management so … a support ticket is, by definition, a customer relationship event. Salesforce spending millions to conflate “CRM” with “sales pipeline” was just marketing. Also, Zendesk calls itself a CRM. Freshdesk’s parent is literally named Freshworks CRM. Gartner and Forrester have always put support under the CRM umbrella.

I just noted how people typically think, based on my experience in the area. :shrug:

PS: By the way, "Can Zendesk be used as a CRM?": https://www.zendesk.co.uk/blog/can-zendesk-be-used-as-a-crm/

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