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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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:

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| | 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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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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