• Daniel Quinn@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    As an expat, the availability of physical American products in the UK is limited, so the digital services have been on my “screw the Yankees” list:

    Service Alternative
    Amazon Just buying shit from other sites
    AWS, Azure Self-hosting, and kicking up a fuss at work to push us out of the cloud
    Microsoft Windows Linux baby! (To be fair, I was already on that train)
    Google DuckDuckGo, though it’s still american, I can’t find an actually useful non-US search engine
    Android I might make the jump to Graphene or e/OS for my Fairphone
    Steam GOG

    I’m also avoiding US brands at the grocery store, but that’s probably easier here than back home.

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      How do you find the correct sites to buy whatever specific shit from?

      Do you do any streaming? High seas for that, I guess?

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        CBC Gem, Crave (owned by Bell), Britbox for shows - Qobuz for music (Fully French owned unlike Deezer which represents itself as French but is 45% owned by an American investment firm that donated to Trump’s campaign), and yes the high seas for what you can’t get at these places.

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        Oh right, I forgot to include that one. Yes, I was paying for Paramount Plus before all this as I wanted to support Star Trek. I cancelled the moment #ElbowsUp started and told them as much when I did.

        The high seas are an excellent resource.

        As for buying other stuff, sometimes it’s as easy as searching for it on DuckDuckGo and buying right from the site. Other times I got to local companies like John Lewis’s site.