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
    8·
    4 hours 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.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
    3·
    3 hours ago

    • 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 4425€ per year for the basic license

  • undone@lemm.ee
    1·
    4 hours 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.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
    6·
    7 hours ago

    Hmm, I haven’t really switched much. Our car is from a Korean manufacurer, my email and webhosting providers are from Germany, I selfhost some services and use a lot of open source software, use a metasearch engine, OsmAND… And while I still have accounts on Facebook, X, Reddit, you-name-it, I’ve been trying to avoid them for years by now. I wonder if there’s something left for me.