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Your Top 5 most impactful product/service switch (feddit.org)
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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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (6 children)

  • immich instead of google photos, self-hosted

  • jellyfin + *arr suite and Belgian streaming services instead of Netflix

  • organic maps, suitable for the day to day, but because of very long map update delays with no option for quicker updates, construction can lead to 10, 20 minute detours that could be avoided by updated data

  • Linux instead of Microsoft is a big one, and libre office, no adobe products, etc...

  • KiCAD instead of Altium for ECAD design. Altium is a buggy mess of spaghetti code and errors with no standards, but a ton of QoL, component creation, and productivity features missing from alternatives. KiCAD is fine for all hobby projects and small-medium complexity professional projects. Deprives altium of the ridiculous 4425โ‚ฌ per year for the basic license

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't get through the stage of switching from MS Office to Libre Office especially that I kind of need Excel desktop version. Thus I'm still keeping Windows on my laptop.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

LibreOffice Calc isn't good enough?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Well, it's good, but it's annoying with the interface and finding what is where.

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