This is an update on my european setup since my last post. Yeah, I know WhatsApp belongs to Meta and is handing over all my data to the US, Israel, Iran, China, the Vatican, and Mars, but for personal reasons, I can't ditch it right now. How can I improve my setup?

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[โ€“] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ditch Uber for Bolt. They're European and pay the drivers a bit better

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Use Bolt instead of Uber. An actual European service from Estonia.Edit: and if you want to be more European in this regard, use your city's public transit. There might be an app for it too.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I'm so disappointed to learn that Europe has Uber

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  • [โ€“] [S] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Actually, I'm not European, I'm Latin American, but I like to make sure the services I use daily are from EU countries, since I really admire their privacy laws. As for Uber, there's not much I can do; I need it to get around in my day-to-day life, and I can't replace it with other apps.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    I know WhatsApp belongs to Meta and is handing over all my data to the US, Israel, Iran, China, the Vatican, and Mars, but for personal reasons, I canโ€™t ditch it right now

    You can y'know.. - Old article, they work now

    Birdychat is from Latvia - Madeometer

    Haiket is from Cuba (I think), - Madeometer

    Both are interopereable with whatsapp while we wait for the others.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Kagi is not European, it's from U.S.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 6 months ago

    Notesnook looks very nice but is Pakistani, right? Does anyone have any other good European suggestions? I've been using Joplin for a while but feel that it's a bit clunky.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Not truly European setup. Besides Meta apps, Play store, Uber, Kagi and Roblox at least aren't European.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 9 points 6 months ago

    it's for reasons like this that I wrote "how can I improve my setup?" at the end of the post, with the intention of having people point out the mistakes and suggest alternatives, not just point out the flawsโ€”that's only half the job you should be doing, bro!

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    You can replace the play store by aurora store, at least try it (I'm kot sure it's always working)

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    I hate heliboard. It's as if the developers deliberately design keyboards that are slightly wrong every single time.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 1 point 6 months ago

    Look, I used to use Gboard, and Heliboard was the one I liked the most (maybe because it looks like the old keyboard I used to use). Heliboard isn't perfect out of the box, but if you take a few minutes to set it up, it becomes perfect. For example, when I install it, the first thing I do is increase the font size to 120%, because I think the letters are too small at 100%. I tried using Futo Keyboard but I thought it was awful; maybe it's partly my fault because I didn't take the time to configure it properly.

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