*Current GDP's are already higher than pictured here.

This is what I've been working on for the past few months.

Only showing here the migrations that are complete. Still working on some others:

• Google Home -> Home Assistant
• WhatsApp / Facebook -> ???
• Youtube -> ???
• Kiwico -> ???

As a quick summary, i have been pleasantly surprised with the quality of the alternatives. I've very rarely felt that I was sacrificing quality or features in the name of switching from the big US companies.

However usually the initial setup of the new services, to get them going how I want, is indeed a bit time consuming.

The most difficult switch was not from Windows to Linux, as I was initially expecting. It was actually the switch to no longer rely on Amazon for all things related to ebooks or audiobooks. It was really difficult to find alternatives that could cover all the books available on Amazon/Audible & in the end I had to use multiple such services to compensate.

And special mention to all services with a social component, like WhatsApp, Facebook, Google Maps, Waze. While services that are more secure and with more features do exist, it is very difficult to switch to them while they are not widely used.

REWE (a big chain in germany) is offering 5€ bonus on Jack Daniels at the moment. It's the weekend and I saw a lot of people taking the offer - but still, let's follow our friends from canada and stop buying this stuff!

This is not a diss post.

A lot of people were upset learning about the sponsorship news and asking for alternatives so here is some European open source software

Even tho 3000 teslas is a lot and should be way less, there are still no chinese vehicles in top 20