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TLDR - What you can do to make your computing more European (better-tech.eu)

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[-] Libb@jlai.lu 15 points 1 week ago

Firefox is owned by the Mozilla Foundation, which is US-based and I say that as a lifelong Firefox user, mind you. Waterfox is a UK-based fork of Firefox. Not owned by Mozilla. Also, based on Chromium (the open source part of Chrome) there is the cool Vivaldi browser (Norway).
Why Ubuntu only? Promoting almost any GNU/Linux distro would be a good move. I will promote the one I'm using: Mint. I'm happy to say that everything works out of the box and have been working great for 4 or 5 years now—and I never have to use the command line if I don't want to... which, frankly, I don't mind using, quite the contrary ;)
Cloud: I tried following the suggest links and gave up on the 3rd one. It's too technical, at least for me. depends what you're looking for but here is a couple of EU/European cloud storage providers I use: Infomaniak (Swiss, works great, more features than just cloud), Filen.io (German, works great, more limited in features but offers full end-to-end encryption).

[-] bettertecheu@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Firefox

I explained that here: https://better-tech.eu/web/article/switch-browsers/ In short, this is the only thing where I believe keeping the web open by using Firefox is more important than using a "European" browser like Vivaldi. If everyone uses a Chrome-based browser, we will end up in an IE6-like situation where it will be extremely hard to create a 100% European browser and get any traction.

Why Ubuntu only?

There are more options here: https://better-tech.eu/infra/article/operating-systems/

Cloud

Cloud computing is always going to be a technical subject, but this is also the part where I still have to do a lot of work and add a lot of content. Maybe I need to make separate pages for home users and for companies to make the information more accessible.

Btw, Infomaniak is mentioned here: https://better-tech.eu/cloud/article/workspace/

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