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How to Gently Move Your Non-Tech-Savvy Parents Away from American Big Tech (Without Starting a Family War) (lemmy.world)
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Hey everyone,

Iโ€™ve been thinking a lot about how to help my parents reduce their reliance on American Big Tech (Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.). Theyโ€™re not tech-savvy, and I donโ€™t want to overwhelm them or make them feel like Iโ€™m forcing a radical change. At the same time, Iโ€™m concerned about privacy, data collection, and the monopolistic practices of these companies.

Any ideas? First of all I thought about ecosia, I see that it returns more similar results to google than Qwant.

I want to buy them Threema licence.

I installed Le Chat as chatgpt replacement, moved some documents to Synology Nas

Whatโ€™s next?

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[โ€“] [S] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

My mom relies on office documents. We wanted replace office with libreoffice and that was painful for her :(

I gave her laptop with libreoffice and she still prefered to use old laptop with old office license

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Yeah that's tough. Libreoffice is definitely not polished. Two solutions, 1) you can fiddle with the settings to make it look and act more like MS office . With the ribbon instead of the drop-down etc. 2) You can run old office versions for free using Wine. From what I hear, haven't done it myself.

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