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PayPal to Wero or iban
I would classify Wero as US-dependent in multiple areas, since they incorporate US-based trackers. Also in a way that I believe is violating the GDPR. On top of that, the Wero app incorporates a US-based bug tracking system that the user cannot reject, other than maybe blocking it it with a firewall. I also have not seen them officially supporting any of the EU-made operating systems yet. Mandatory Notarization (by OS vendor) in iOS and Android is adding another US-dependent layer.
While there is more EU in Wero than in Paypal, it would be a false claim to call it “EU independent”.
OK still a good move but they could do better. PayPal is a useless middleman if wero is around.
I wish Wero was available in Italy :(
The market is already taken by Satispay.
Satispay is just a proprietary solution with no bright future ahead, because the only reasons people were using it are not there anymore (super cheap commissions for merchants; free money if you invite a friend).
Like a few here, microsoft to linux and reddit to fediverse.
Tidal to Qobuz, old spice to dove deodorant were all good but gillette razors to various safety razors has been the best I think.
Safety razor and/or shavette is such an eye-opener. You can buy a good shavette for €20 and 10 premium blades for €5. That’s 500 shaves for the price of a month’s worth of fancy quadrouple Gillette blades that suck ass.
Whereabouts do you buy your blades? I’m in Canada but fuck me sideways they’ve been hard to find. I found one retailer who was doing sample packs buy they didn’t have any packs without at least one Russian set of blades which isn’t much better than buying american…
Yeah Russia produces lots of blades, for Gillette too btw.
I actually tend to buy blades when I’m in the Middle East or India straight from a barber shop, but I’ve also bought from Gents.com on occasion. Looks like they do ship to Canada.
What blade is best for you depends on your skin and hair type. Feather (Japan) makes insanely sharp premium blades that dull quickly, they are loved by lots of people. Solingen (Germany) and Merkur (Germany) make more conventional blades similar to Gillette. And of course you can also get Gillette, there’s nothing wrong with their double-edge blades except I have animosity toward the brand.
Interesting! Really reinforcing my idea that a sampler pack would be best. I’ll take a look at gents (thank you for the link!) and then see if I can get anything comparable local.
Much obliged!
- x to mastodon (long before the movement, I guess when the Ewong had to let that sink in)
- reddit to lemmy
- google to ecosia
- google to mailbox (long before the movement)
- amazon to otto
- several food brands and consumer products
Sadly, there are several services I cannot switch yet, due to profession.
What’s otto?
Various really :
- reddit to lemmy
- Amazon to Galaxus (and various other shops)
- Calvin Klein to Armedangels
- Windoof -> Linux
- WhatsApp -> Threema
- Google Mail -> Proton Mail + mail at hoster with my domain(s)
- Google Maps -> OpenStreetMap
- Google Drive -> Nextcloud
- [no social media] -> Fediverse
- GitHub -> Codeberg (partially)
Switched from OneDrive to NextCloud. It’s much better with Linux.
- doomscrolling to fediversing;
- getting off Coca Cola and Pepsi Co. products (alternatives are both tastier and healthier, too many to list here, it will depend on where you live, anything from Fritz Cola and Green Cola through VitaminWell to your local kombucha brand);
- Google Photos and Dropbox to Koofr, I got two-in-one;
- Google Search to Karma/Ecosia.
- Google Translate to DeepL and Reverso Context (the latter being much more helpful if you actually want to learn);
- ChatGPT to Mistral and solidagent. Thinking you need a larger model is often like thinking you need a larger car: it really depends how you use it. With some brain power a smaller and less “reasoning” model might give you more to sieve through;
- Google Maps to Citymapper in Stockholm/other big cities (It was always JakDojade in Poland <3);
- it is not a change as much as an add-on, but getting Minimalist Phone on top of my Android (I hope I will get established in a de-Googled environment in a foreseeable future).
And possibly the biggest one: Divesting!!!
As my antivirus expires, I am looking forward to switch to Bitdefender. I’ve been avoiding most American non-digital services before. Using alternatives to credit cards in real life is annoying in Sweden, but I try my best. It is easy online, though.
Divesting is so important. It’s good for your savings account too. My Canadian, French, Korean and Swedish stocks slap.
Yes! The US economy relies so much on overinvestment. All the American giants and startups had international investment fueling them for years before they made profits. The dollar relies on everybody securing savings in US treasury. The less of it the better.
And my diversified European, Latin American, and Asian stocks slap as well (⌐■_■) I need to get more stuff from Canada!
Bombardier has been doing particularly well for me. I’m pretty confident it will continue to do so.
Haven’t really chosen any Latin American stocks yet, but Brazil looks good overall.
Is it this app ? https://join.minimalistphone.com/
Yes!
Using alternatives to credit cards in real life is annoying in Sweden, but I try my best. It is easy online, though. Wero is our Lord and Savior!
Can’t you pay with swish?
I try to pay with Swish when possible. But it is a bit cumbersome.
Blik, the Polish member of the European Mobile Payment Systems Association has a contactless payment solution that works as smooth as using a card. But I think they somehow collaborate with Mastercard on it. Some terminals in Sweden apparently can connect with Swish via Bluetooth, but I never got to set it up. So I use the QR code…
I wish these mobile payment systems would be integrated better across borders.
Bluetooth sucks, it’s even slower than reading a QR, and unreliable on top of that. We’ve had this with the Swiss equivalent of Swish (Twint), and it sucked so bad they abandoned it completely. It’s just QR now.
The reason we can’t use NFC is Apple, by the way. They’reocking everyone out. And because corporate product managers don’t want to use NFC on Android and relegate Apple users to QR both get the same, worse option.
No, I’m based in Nordics. Definitely not popular here but I am converting my friends and family one by one.
Windows to Linux
Streaming giants to piracy
Reddit to Lemmy
Any hints for an elder pirate trying to find a good torrent site? My buddy was kind enough to give me an invite to a decent provider but that was maybe a decade and a half ago…
My elderly ass just barely figured out linux, so you can see how behind I am.
The trick is to sign up to private trackers. Sometimes they have a open signups period.
downloading torrents is very 2010s. Now we use Stremio app with torrentio plugin (or MediaFusion, or Comet). You get streaming from many torrent sites. Works on ios, android, many tvs, pc, whatever. There’s tons of other addons too like trakt.tv integration, etc. If you setup RealDebrid (paid, but cheap) thats even better, it acts as one big server with massive library of torrents, but provides very high download speeds, so you don’t need to worry about dead torrents or lack of seeders. I watch 4k movies without any problems.
Well that seems just wild! I’ll be looking into it this weekend, thanks, much appreciated!
It’s an absolute godsend. It’s a Netflix like experience for 3€ a month, only you get every content from every streamer there is
This seems so crazy good. I’m looking forward to spending some of this weekend researching and hopefully trying it!
Use qbittorrent. It has torrent search and download integrated.
Oh interesting, I have qbittorrent but have always just used it to on torrents I downloaded from a website. I’ll look into this, thanks!
I guess you have to change somerhing in the program options in order to make the Search tab visible
Try Usenet and a Usenet indexer. There are multiple guides on the internet on how to set up and use it, even automatically with some r-apps on a home server.
arr-stack is the secret weapon.
But for starters just a usenet client, a good usenet indexer and VLC are enough.
Recommended Usenet provider: astraweb with a block account. Buy 1000 GB for 50 €$ and use it over time for years without any subscription necessary.
Dropbox to Nextcloud. Saves me so much money every month and I way prefer the user experience.
iPhone to Fairphone with /e/os
Cloudflare >> Bunny.net
Gmail >> Tuta & Mailbox
iCloud Passwords to Bitwarden (EU)
- managed to move all my secrets completely out of there
Bitwarden is a corporation headquartered in Santa Barbara, California with employees located in the U.S. and around the world.
https://bitwarden.com/about/#%3A~%3Atext=Resources-%2CFAQ%2C-Is+Bitwarden+a
Windows to manjaro
Google suite to proton
Firefox to librewolf
Reddit to piefed
Barely used X but got mastodon anyway
