@Sunshine I propose to change it: "it's time to utilize digital services you can control"
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2025
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Mistral's Le Chat search is much better than what's listed here.
Thank you, strangely omnipresent being.
I'm trying out Filen to replace OneDrive, but it appears to be completely unusable. When mounted as a network drive it takes 10+ seconds to navigate through each folder, and opening files (for example a 90kb Excel file) takes upwards of 3 minutes. Closing Excel then also takes another minute because it has to communicate with the drive to tell it to close the temporary one and all that. Using the desktop app instead of mounting isn't a viable option because it doesn't let you open things directly, you have to download and save a file, use it, then manually reupload it again.
Is this just how it is? I've found other people with the same issues but can't seem to see any solutions. People have also reported that it's unreliable for backups because uploads/downloads sometimes just stop quietly in the background without telling you. Is this all user error? Are these programs vetted at all before being pushed or is not being US-based literally the only thing that matters regardless of any other factors?
I'll try out Nextcloud and Drime because they've been recommended in the comments here.
Lol at recommending deezer, the company owned by a Russian oligarch with ties to the Kremlin who donates to the republican party
Bbc iPlayer and ITVX should be on there as well. Although these may be UK exclusives.
By that count you could add France.TV and a bunch of others for each country
You should also add Proton Lumo which is O/S and has an app. Also add Proton to Email.
Bandcamp Friday is in two days. Bandcamp (although maybe Tencent or Epic owned) waves their revenue share.
https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays
Bandcamp Fridays will continue in 2025 on the following dates:
August 1
September 5th
October 3rd
December 5th
Bandcamp uses Pacific time to determine when its Friday so always check this site before you do.
If people would watch more Arte and Mubi the world would be a much better place, regardless of (or, in addition to) the changes money flows and personal data usage.
By all means avoid the most egregious, but aren't basically all online services hosted on AWS/Azure/GCP anyways?
Nope. Your feddit is not. The EU cloud services are listed here (and others) are not. Tuta is not.
I don't think any of the alternatives listed here use AWS/Azure/GCP. I did not check the search engines, music streaming, mubi.com, and Collabora.
The only thing I found is that OnlyOffice allows to connect to GCP and AWS (you need to enable it on your own): https://helpcenter.onlyoffice.com/workspace/administration/control-panel-storage.aspx
And Mistral is available on AWS, Azure, GCP, but that's because it is an "open-source" LLM ยฏ_(ใ)_/ยฏ
That's actually amazing, thank you for the insight.
About Mistral:
Critically, Mistral Compute aims to provide a competitive edge to entire industries and countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the entire Southern Hemisphere that have been waiting for an alternative to US or China-based cloud and AI providers. This applies equally to the global entities of US or Chinese companies that want to serve international customers, particularly in Europe, with AI that is operating and running regionally.