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A guide for change (infosec.pub)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by ooli3@sopuli.xyz to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
 

from FallenWalnut@lemmy.world

Details:

    Site - https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/
    Code - https://codeberg.org/purchase-with-purpose/pwp-website
    Community - https://lemmy.world/c/PurchaseWithPurpose

Every time I post these guides, there is always feedback on things that can improve, or I got wrong. Please do share, as it is the best way for these to evolve!
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[โ€“] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 73 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (12 children)

The companies below have proven to be reputable and worth supporting.

Spotify

Pays artists $0.0003 per play

Shows ICE ads

Says something about see deep dive for disclaimer, but I donโ€™t see a link in the post body. But interested to see whatโ€™s on there.

Edit: found the link

Warning

They pay significantly less royalties, promote AI music, and platform podcasters who spread misinformation - context: https://t.ly/spotify-history. They do offer a superior service, but some people choose not to support them for these reasons.

Yeah so, that doesnโ€™t align with โ€œreputableโ€ and โ€œworth supportingโ€.

[โ€“] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 days ago

Apple Music is actually better than Spotify, which deserves to sit on the left too along with the American options (no, I wouldn't move Apple Music to the right)

[โ€“] AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I've been looking to get off Spotify for a while now. Was shocked to see it recommended. It's a shame tidal removed their "connect" feature, it would have made it so easy

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[โ€“] CertifiedBlackGuy@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Unless someone ruins tidal by commenting below, I love tidal.

They pay their artists more

[โ€“] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Tidal is great, and their "share with anyone" feature is just flat out 12/10, but I recently moved to Qobuz (French) because they pay the artists around 4 times more than Tidal does. And they're European.

[โ€“] njordomir@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I appreciate the share with anyone feature as well. I have a few friendships that are largely based on testing cool songs back and forth. This way the only inconvenience is me getting inbound Spotify links.

[โ€“] FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Artist pay is actually a big factor in comparing the Music Streaming options, with high royalties being a special shout-out. https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/category/music-streaming/

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[โ€“] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 36 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I would add Librewolf in the browsers and Searx in the search engines.

Honestly if you have to put american things in the change columns then swap spotify and youtube music, spotify is just soo bad

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[โ€“] Barrington@lemmy.wtf 23 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I appreciate the transparency in this post but I find it odd there are so many American/Canadian options in the change to column.

[โ€“] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Why do we hate canada now?

[โ€“] Barrington@lemmy.wtf 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I don't hate Canada but the sub is buy European...... and Canada isn't in Europe

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[โ€“] beSyl@slrpnk.net 12 points 3 days ago

Why is there no section for alternatives to reddit? We should really push more people into the fediverse.

[โ€“] Cybersec@piefed.social 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I got to the bottom of the image and Lemmy and Piefed not even on there, ha wtf. Iโ€™d add Migadu for email and Kagi for search, both very good value.

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[โ€“] OutOfBoundsJupiter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Pop_OS I not very good at gaming. Try looking into Gardua Linux and Bazzite as they have more modern packages and faster driver updates.

[โ€“] Meridula@europe.pub 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cachy OS is also pretty solid in my experience. But i cant really compare it as i didnt use anything else so far

I personally use cachyOS as a daily driver (I got tired of Arch) and it is pretty good performance wise, I just experience a lot of stability problems compared to gardua or bazzite. Still stand by my choice, its an amazing distro.

[โ€“] XM34@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or Manjaro. Arch purist weeaboos hate it, but it's made in Germany, is amazing for gaming and has very fast driver updates. Additionaly, the installation is super simple and fast.

In my experience Manjaro only has problems when you use AUR dependencies break because some package hasn't been updated for Manjaro. Other than that, it's perfect for me.

If you include Nextcloud Memories for photo management, why not include it for data storage and web office as well?

[โ€“] BandDad@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Dude, where has libro.fm been?! That's the type of thing I have been looking for recently. DRM free downloads and a portion of sales supporting a local store.

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[โ€“] arsCynic@piefed.social 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Saapas@piefed.zip 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Vivaldi mail requires you to be an "active community member" in the Vivaldi communityย 

Tuta and Proton are a no-go for me for free tier (or at all) allowing me to use third party software for their email. I like to use Thunderbird and Vivaldi's email client to combine my inboxes. Unfortunately that doesn't work with Proton and Tuta.

[โ€“] arsCynic@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Vivaldi mail requires you to be an โ€œactive community memberโ€ in the Vivaldi community

Shit, didn't know. Thanks for pointing that out.

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[โ€“] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 9 points 4 days ago (4 children)

The guide doesn't say what greyed out means. I thought it was for american companies but there are canadian, australian, and eu things greyed out too.

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[โ€“] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

For Linux, there's also Arch if you know what are you doing. Manjaro might be a good first step into the Arch ecosystem, even if there are obvious differences, as Manjaro is a different distro, not just a (poorly) preconfigured Arch installation line Omarchy.

[โ€“] FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thanks @ooli3@sopuli.xyz for sharing my guide. Below is the text that followed the original.

I shared a version of this guide earlier this year, but felt a website was needed to unpack the different options fully. So after an unreasonable number of hours, I put together the necessary data and website.

I hope this is digestible enough for the average person to help those looking to take that first step, or for people who are equally passionate and want to get their friends or family involved.

Details:

Every time I post these guides, there is always feedback on things that can improve, or I got wrong. Please do share, as it is the best way for these to evolve!

I see there are several comments! I'll go through it now and respond.

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[โ€“] CubitOom 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

How about startmail for email from the Netherlands

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[โ€“] Demdaru@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Okay, one questian. What about mega.io? I never see anyone talking about them, neither negatively or positively. Are they ok for folk around here, non-foss aside?

[โ€“] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Isn't that the descendant of Megaupload?
The pricing looks good to me... and also the scrolling animation on their webpage.

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[โ€“] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Another paid search option is Metager - since Mullvads Leta shut down, i looked for something to switch to and Metager fits the bill: no tracking shit, no ads, a good search with working blacklists, and a configurable cost for the search depending on which indexes you want to use and if you want to use search suggestions. It also taught me to use search shortcuts which i was too lazy to use before - no need to use my tokens when i know i want a wikipedia result.

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[โ€“] Kroko@feddit.online 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

KAGI use russian yandex index.

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[โ€“] INeedANewUserName@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Anyone tried https://www.navidrome.org/ for self hosted music streaming? Haven't yet myself

[โ€“] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Yes, it's great. I mostly use symfonium for listening. Big recommend.

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[โ€“] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago

i was a big fan of flickr before they got bought by yahoo and enshittified

[โ€“] Saapas@piefed.zip 5 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I've recently switched to Vivaldi on Android because Firefox was constantly just janky for me. Now I'm testing it on Linux too, the included email client is a great perk. Too bad it is not fully open source (the UI stuff is proprietary).

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[โ€“] DreasNil@feddit.nu 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Does anyone have any experience with Zeitkapsl? I switched to Ente almost a year ago and am generally happy with them, but I'd rather support a European company if they're offering more or less the same solution.

[โ€“] Lanske@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ive been using zeitkapsl for about 8 months now. Does the trick, very basic functionality, but also really quick and good response from the company if you find a bug or you have questions etc

[โ€“] DreasNil@feddit.nu 2 points 9 hours ago

Great! I might give it a try this weekend. They have a free trial after all.

it's not for everyone but instead of youtube and apple music, i suggest https://idagio.com/ too

[โ€“] DreasNil@feddit.nu 3 points 4 days ago

Amazing guide!

[โ€“] CubitOom 4 points 4 days ago

How about startmail for email from the Netherlands

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