“Bye bye bye.” It took some time, and a serious amount of research, but I have finally crossed the finish line. I have officially migrated my digital life to pure, EU-hosted solutions.
I use the Proton suite - their Proton unlimited plan. But I have a couple of beefs with them: They’re advertising in their suite now. I’m not loving that. I’m a paid user damnit!😬.
Then recently, I just can’t get either they’re openVPN or Wire Guard client vpn setup to run in my router - their support response has not been encouraging.
They have not, they’ve said, tested the vpn on that model router. And I’m like huh? So yeah, I’m not 100% happy with them. 🙂↔️
At least Substack isn't Big Tech, even if it's American. We don't need to fight America, we need to fight American oligarchy, sorry, rich and powerful people, oligarchs are only in Russia.
Substack is a tradeoff. You can also write on your own page like ghost. But how you reach people then? Just sharing on LinkedIn is not enough, actually gets punished by the platform.
Love this, definitely bookmarking and it'll push me to give proton a try.
I'm surprised you haven't mentioned Obsidian for note taking. Have you encountered/tried it? It's been the simple, sovereign yet extremely functional system I had been looking for for ages. In case it helps!
Hace you considered also to use Linux ? I have been using Linux Mint , for a year now , and I am never going back to windows . It is better for privacy too and it's completely free OS. There are a lot of replacement apps in Linux for a lot of things you would use , and they are free too . I think the way to go for a better tech world is open source . However I do respect proton, they are doing great things , and I haven't found a workaround for cloud services in open source that don't require me to build my own server .
Ah. You mean that thing that Andy was glad about slaters selection by trump? She is considered as a person against big tech. Or do you mean something else?
Personal information in borders of legal demands. Like every provider has to do. As long as you don’t do something criminal you shouldn’t be concerned. Or are you?
You might should read all information and not just the headlines of the Sunday morning post.
And you know who uses the “if you're not doing anything illegal you don't have anything to worry about” argument? Boomers high on rage bait, liars, propagandists, and fascists, that's who. You just outed yourself, boy, because your entire comment uses their argumentative talking points, they're suggested defenses. I can pretty much discern your real political alignments entirely from the content that you use to make your defense, and you are no friend of the little guy, my dude. Just how libertarian and fascist would you consider yourself, boy-o?
It sounds to me like you're one of their propagandists, and equally as disloyal to the values you seem to state you have, just like Proton. He made pro-trump statements during his first Administration and supported some of the legislation that they were trying to pass, while regurgitating lies that the Trump Administration was the one that was anti-big-tech and against anti-competitive practices (which is lie he internalized and puked back out into the world with certainty). And of course he did support Slater, and that person is a traitorous motherfucker to her own people -- and anything but anti big tech when you do away with the empty rhetoric she uses to lie to people in the press. And the other matter has to do with them handing over information to the FBI with almost no fight and a handshake, and then they ran and hid behind excuses that they followed all the procedures of their law. When really it looks like they just rolled over and played dead the first time any pressure was put on them. Proving that they will not protect their users, they will not fight for them, and in fact will likely be the ones to stab the dagger into their backs, especially for journalists and activists. You can't trust an organization like that, with leadership like that, and Proton has proven that they are traitorous to the core values they lie and say they have.
I just did something similar and cut expenses by about 50%. And I can sleep at night now that I’m not feeding the beast. Btw, proton isn’t ready to be the backbone yet, I went with infomaniak and their platform is much more mature. Still a few odd pieces from other places, but I have 3 companies across 2 continents and it’s working well.
I think I saved 500 without even migrating anything. I just locked my card and during the last month I got maybe 20 „payment rejected” messages. I honestly hate all kind of models where you have to leave your CC details and then they hope you will forget.
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I mean how did you change your email on all the accounts that you had used your previous email for? Is there a way to do it all at once or did you have a list of them and did it manually? I just wonder how easy it is to move from one email to another. Thanks for your reply, and pardon me if that’s what you described in your comment already (I’m not sure what you mean by saying you are on your domain, regarding my question about the many accounts you may have on various platforms).
Whats your take on Ecosia Browser being powered by Google and Bing search? I tried it myself until I found out its basically based on Chromium. Maybe Im missing sth here? You got more insight?
Interesting perspective on moving away from big-tech ecosystems. Taking more control over your tools and data is becoming increasingly important.
I use the Proton suite - their Proton unlimited plan. But I have a couple of beefs with them: They’re advertising in their suite now. I’m not loving that. I’m a paid user damnit!😬.
Then recently, I just can’t get either they’re openVPN or Wire Guard client vpn setup to run in my router - their support response has not been encouraging.
They have not, they’ve said, tested the vpn on that model router. And I’m like huh? So yeah, I’m not 100% happy with them. 🙂↔️
I love how you chose each service from different providers not just one ecosystem.
A really helpful website for this topic: european-alternatives.eu
Wow! Canva has no substitute!
At least Substack isn't Big Tech, even if it's American. We don't need to fight America, we need to fight American oligarchy, sorry, rich and powerful people, oligarchs are only in Russia.
Substack is a tradeoff. You can also write on your own page like ghost. But how you reach people then? Just sharing on LinkedIn is not enough, actually gets punished by the platform.
Love this, definitely bookmarking and it'll push me to give proton a try.
I'm surprised you haven't mentioned Obsidian for note taking. Have you encountered/tried it? It's been the simple, sovereign yet extremely functional system I had been looking for for ages. In case it helps!
yes, I come back multiple times, but it’s to big, and to slow. For my way of working I need fast to open a note, drop it, done.
Obsidian is to slow for it, on mobile it sometimes delays with syncs etc.
Wow, that's the last thing I expected to hear, and definitely my experience is the entire opposite. But fair is that's yours!
Thanks for the good tips. For spellcheck, I can recommend the German company https://languagetool.org it works great in English too.
Hace you considered also to use Linux ? I have been using Linux Mint , for a year now , and I am never going back to windows . It is better for privacy too and it's completely free OS. There are a lot of replacement apps in Linux for a lot of things you would use , and they are free too . I think the way to go for a better tech world is open source . However I do respect proton, they are doing great things , and I haven't found a workaround for cloud services in open source that don't require me to build my own server .
Yeah, I tried many over the years, also for side projects and so on, but it never really grow on me.
I hate Windows, I enjoy Mac, I have to say it. Also performance wise Mac are hard to beat.
The CEO of Proton is pro-Trump, pro-Fascist, and caves easily to legal pressure to hand over the personal information of its users. Just an FYI.
Ah. You mean that thing that Andy was glad about slaters selection by trump? She is considered as a person against big tech. Or do you mean something else?
Personal information in borders of legal demands. Like every provider has to do. As long as you don’t do something criminal you shouldn’t be concerned. Or are you?
You might should read all information and not just the headlines of the Sunday morning post.
And you know who uses the “if you're not doing anything illegal you don't have anything to worry about” argument? Boomers high on rage bait, liars, propagandists, and fascists, that's who. You just outed yourself, boy, because your entire comment uses their argumentative talking points, they're suggested defenses. I can pretty much discern your real political alignments entirely from the content that you use to make your defense, and you are no friend of the little guy, my dude. Just how libertarian and fascist would you consider yourself, boy-o?
It sounds to me like you're one of their propagandists, and equally as disloyal to the values you seem to state you have, just like Proton. He made pro-trump statements during his first Administration and supported some of the legislation that they were trying to pass, while regurgitating lies that the Trump Administration was the one that was anti-big-tech and against anti-competitive practices (which is lie he internalized and puked back out into the world with certainty). And of course he did support Slater, and that person is a traitorous motherfucker to her own people -- and anything but anti big tech when you do away with the empty rhetoric she uses to lie to people in the press. And the other matter has to do with them handing over information to the FBI with almost no fight and a handshake, and then they ran and hid behind excuses that they followed all the procedures of their law. When really it looks like they just rolled over and played dead the first time any pressure was put on them. Proving that they will not protect their users, they will not fight for them, and in fact will likely be the ones to stab the dagger into their backs, especially for journalists and activists. You can't trust an organization like that, with leadership like that, and Proton has proven that they are traitorous to the core values they lie and say they have.
I just did something similar and cut expenses by about 50%. And I can sleep at night now that I’m not feeding the beast. Btw, proton isn’t ready to be the backbone yet, I went with infomaniak and their platform is much more mature. Still a few odd pieces from other places, but I have 3 companies across 2 continents and it’s working well.
Very Interesting take. I have written this article about Cloudlfare and would be happy if you can check it out :)
https://marketsminds.substack.com/p/deep-dive-cloudflare-the-internets?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
I think I saved 500 without even migrating anything. I just locked my card and during the last month I got maybe 20 „payment rejected” messages. I honestly hate all kind of models where you have to leave your CC details and then they hope you will forget.
I guess I would have to change an email address to move to proton?
Hi Max, how did you replace your previous email in all the things you were using it for with the new proton mail?
As I’m on my own domain, I just change the provider Gmail -> Proton and migrated all email. Therefore no need to exchange email on the other platforms
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I mean how did you change your email on all the accounts that you had used your previous email for? Is there a way to do it all at once or did you have a list of them and did it manually? I just wonder how easy it is to move from one email to another. Thanks for your reply, and pardon me if that’s what you described in your comment already (I’m not sure what you mean by saying you are on your domain, regarding my question about the many accounts you may have on various platforms).
Whats your take on Ecosia Browser being powered by Google and Bing search? I tried it myself until I found out its basically based on Chromium. Maybe Im missing sth here? You got more insight?