Moving Away From U.S. Services: A Few Favorites:

On increasing the price for disrespecting international law and the international community, by changing our choices on who gets our attention and our money.

https://meiert.com/blog/united-states-alternatives/

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Moving Away From U.S. Services: A Few Favorites · Jens Oliver Meiert

On increasing the price for disrespecting international law and the international community, by changing our choices on who gets our attention and our money.

@j9t

Thank you for the overview, Jens.

I fully endorse your recommendations and would like to take the liberty of adding a few more:

1. Signal is known to be a very good solution, but strictly speaking it does not fit your criteria.
2. After two years of experience, I can recommend mailbox.org instead of Proton.
3. And for a specific cloud solution, including notes and chat, I have been very satisfied with filen.io for almost four years.

@j9t

And just in case you don't know it yet, the following website offers a good introduction to finding European alternatives, in my opinion:

https://european-alternatives.eu/de

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@michaelmarek, yes, still using Signal, too, though it has American ties.

I had linked to the European Alternatives site (also another one) from the article, but no harm mentioning them more often 🙂

@j9t

Oops. I overlooked that sentence in the article. 🤓

@j9t

Hello Jens,

Thanks again – I used your discount code for JetBrains, PHPStorm today 👍

As I'm a fan of KirbyCMS and use LaravelHerd for local websites, I needed an IDE that included PHP.

At first, I thought that more than 200 EUR/year for both (WebStorm and PHPStorm) was too expensive...

It took me a moment to find the following information:
https://www.jetbrains.com/products/compare/?product=webstorm&product=phpstorm

Then I went for it 😉

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@michaelmarek 🙏

Didn’t know about this comparison and might just switch to PhpStorm now 😂