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What you can do to make your computing more European
If you don't have time to check out the entire site, this is what you can do to lessen your technical dependence on the USA. These are all conservative choices; nothing too exciting.
Low impact
Use Firefox as your main browser. Read more here.
(Yes, Firefox is made by an American company, but not using a Chrome-based browser is more important right now.)
Set your default search engine to Qwant. For instructions, see here.
Switch to HERE WeGo for your mapping needs. Read more here.
Use LibreOffice as your office suite. Read more here.
Use DeepL to translate text.
Use Le Chat for your AI Chat needs. Read more here.
Medium impact
Switch from Reddit to Lemmy by joining https://lemmy.world/.
Switch from Twitter/X and Threads to Mastodon by joining https://mastodon.social/.
High impact
Switch from Windows or MacOS to Ubuntu. Please read more here before you do so.
Move away from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google for your cloud computing and workspace needs. Start by reading more here.