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Image from the post is a brief exploration of various software (and some phones) to choose from for people who want decouple their life from Microsoft Meta, Google, et cetera. Here it is:

List of various European open-source software for various aspects of digital life. It has been compiled by Tuta. List offers plenty of options for many of its categories from operating systems to office, from chats to todo-lists and from search translation services. Only fact that there are plenty of options present under Linux umbrella is not very obvious.

I already use plenty of this:

  • Vivaldi
  • Linux
  • LibreOffice
  • Mailbox.org
  • I follow people from Mastodon and Pixelfed via self-hosting this WordPress with great Friends plugin).
  • Element and DeltaChat I use in dormant mode, as I don’t have contacts there and 95% of people here in Georgia use WhatsApp, but who knows? One day it may be useful.
  • For search I use Kagi which not included in the above list as it an American paid service, but it is not related to Google or Microsoft.

I guess only when it will be mandated by EU law for delivery services, taxi operators, banks and companies with turnover over 1 million EUR annually to create mobile apps compatible with linux mobile distributions or “websites as progressive apps installable on the home screen of mobile devices” providing identical functionality as apps for android and iOS, it would be possible to speak about real de-googling and de-appleing people en masse via possibility to make a linux phone usable for ordinary people lives, not just tech enthusiasts .

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