What would be your top 5 most important and impactful product/service to switch from US to European?

And bonus question: What is one product/service you think is not as imlactful as another product/service or as others think?

My top 5(and choice):

  • Search engine (Qwant)

  • AI chatbot (mistralAI)

  • Map app (mapyCZ)

  • Mobility: selling US cars (this one should have easy EU choices)

  • Food (may be very hard for some, but I think everyone should invest a lot of time into this topic)

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Tech services neeeed(!) to be switched, since data is crucial in modern age. Oh also ofc don’t use chrome based browsers.

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Search: French Qwant.com is shockingly good, results, even in images is identical to Google/Bing. it has no AI integration which is fine, just use mistral. Only image search need a little refinement like a search for more identical of selected imagery. .

AI: chat.Mistral.ai is French and does the job to answer ie more specific but not too scientific questions.

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Map: pleased with mapy.cz, ofc no street view but everything else, adding images of places is our job

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Car: preferably even trying public transport+cycling or just cycling for groceries is a lot already or go for EU car if still needed for whatever degree

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Food: this is a big topic, so I’ll be general. I’d say don’t be perfect. Go for the essentials you buy most. If you replace these, already rate that as a win. Because every brand is just a pseudo of a likely American corporation behind

  • lapping147@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    Switching from reddit and X to lemme and mastodon has removed all the racism and political extremists from my life. Such a joy!

    Other than that, I’m on Facebook because of my sons football club has a group there and instagram to support my wife and receive the occasional meme worthy reel she sends me.

    I ditched google and apple photos backup for synology years ago and am just now trying immich, which is amazing BTW.

    • arakhis_@feddit.orgOP
      1·
      5 days ago

      Need to look into that one, I tried to get ino online file-hosts…and chose the worst one,

      Resulting in losing all my photos because they forced me to pay and I refused since it was very predatory (mega)

  • Darkmoon_UK@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

    Impactful? It has to be supporting EU in the AI race!

    If you have a ChatGPT or Claude subscription; please switch to paying for ‘Le Chat Pro’ from Mistral.ai, to help them grow. It’s a very capable LLM, honestly not as accurate as Claude yet, but not far off, and cheaper at $14 USD (ironically).

    It’s also really fast, and has a superior image generator to others.

  • fjordo@feddit.uk
    1·
    5 days ago

    Biggest thing would be migrating to the Fediverse for Reddit / Twitter, and deleting every big tech account I had.

    I’ve also migrated pretty much everything other than email (since big tech prevents you hosting your own) to my homelab. Gives me stuff to tinker with and it’s nice knowing my data is fully private, at least until HTTPS is broken by quantum computers.

    • arakhis_@feddit.orgOP
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      4 days ago

      quantum computers powered by nuclear fusion! (theres this joke about nuclear fusion having a constant of 20 years from the current day until its finally usable, I kinda fear quantum computers are also a little bit far still)

  • Ye be warned 🏴‍☠️@lemm.ee
    1·
    6 days ago

    In the digital realm: Reddit and G-Suite were the big ones. Just completed migration of my private accounts. Both 16+ years). Lemmy, Proton + Nextcloud for now. Have not switched my business over yet, but it will be a quick process once I fully commit.

    If for any reason Gmail gets blocked in the future there will be many people surprised by not only losing their email, but also access to their external online services (if they need the email address in any way to sign in). Of course also to any data they keep in the Google ecosystem.

      • Ye be warned 🏴‍☠️@lemm.ee
        2·
        5 days ago

        I recommend FreeTube on desktop or NewPipe on Android. Tubular = NewPipe with SponsoBlock and Disklike button, but sadly does not get updated that often.

        All a bit more work with keeping subscriptions in sync manually, but so much better experience than YouTube native.

        • arakhis_@feddit.orgOP
          1·
          1 day ago

          Hey I now used Freetube for some videos and now discovered even a redirect to avoid youtube links to open up in youtube too.

          Problem is now I get this error when opening the video and videos dont play at all [BAD_HTTP_STATUS: 403] Potential causes: IP block or streaming URL deciphering failed I have issues understanding the developer talk on sites like github and seem to not understand the issue/solution that well… any idea? I have never used a VPN… is that an issue?? I am confused

            • arakhis_@feddit.orgOP
              1·
              5 hours ago

              crazy how aggressive the corporation is without even mentioning this. i mean ofc but still…

              shows their true colors…

              then when you hear them talk about some new update how they value the customer’s experience or whatever bs they try to feed you, its hard to endure these people talking like that out of their mouths… this society is really messing with me and breaking me.

          • Ye be warned 🏴‍☠️@lemm.ee
            2·
            21 hours ago

            I get the same error sometimes too. Most of the time it works by going back and re-opening the link again, or a few reloads. Maybe 1 out of 5 videos that have problems will not resolve and I just avoid them or retry at a later time.

            Have not yet cared enough to dig deeper. Will let you know if I ever stumble upon a good explanation / solution.

        • arakhis_@feddit.orgOP
          1·
          4 days ago

          wow free tube looks promising. I hate how youtube is a monopoly - glad theres tools like this with the right intent