Degoogle + BuyFromEU + Privacy: I’d like to share about my smartphone apps replacement journey:

WhatsApp -> Olvid

Gmail -> Mailo

Reddit -> Lemmy

Play store -> Aurora store (no account needed)

Google (browser and search engine) -> Qwant

Google maps -> Here Wego

Gboard -> Heliboard

All trails -> Komoot

ChatGPT -> LeChat

Any recommendation to replace the following?

  • Google Drive,
  • Google photo,
  • Apple wallet (I’d like an alternative to pay with my phone)
  • JohnSmith@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    20 hours ago

    If tech for you means software, then yes, you can decouple from global supply chains with relative ease.

    If, however, you look into some other areas of tech a different picture emerges. Global dependencies especially in semiconductors are much deeper. Products built from such components are the same. Decoupling in those domains would be significantly more difficult.

    • Wrongdoer1@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      20 hours ago

      I feel you but although we’re not chip producers, we have some of the key players such as ASML in NL, clearly they’re just the main player in that field.