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No US non profits please. Case examples of selling out: chatgpt, Firefox. Even if we consider the country it’s based and it’s European look at the PEOPLE, their history of selling prev companies and to who? And their ethics who they do business with and if they stick to their word
As an american I am switching to European apps I am disgusted with being an american citizen and if I could I would move.
You can run very powerful llm locally, albeit slowly if you lack GPU power.
Check out Dolphin models you can run on LM Studio
Wait, wasn't Vivaldi bought by a Chinese conglomerate?
Ew, Chromium
And why not DuckDuckGo?
Isn't signal owned by a single company with backend infrastructure all Managed by them and only them?
The current CEO is nice, for sure, but she won't be there forever. Look at what Mozilla just did, this eventually WILL happen to signal too
What alternatives are there form something like signal?
You can self-host Signal, although you’d need your friends to sign up with your server.
What we really need is a federated messaging platform. I don’t think it’s been done yet, but encrypted email efforts are kinda in that direction.
We have email as an example of federated messaging
Where it’s mainly owned by Google and Microsoft
Federated messaging we've had for ages: XMPP
A modern messenger based on existing technologies, including encrypted email which you happen mention: Delta Chat
So your suggestion to "buy European" is to download a bunch of free shit...
Last spring Mistral (free tier) was better for my usage (mainly JS programming) than ChatGPT (free tier). No idea which is better now (esp. after openai launched chatgpt 4, but Mistral improved too) but at least Mistral isn't bad at all.
I don't think I have to elaborate on Linux > Windows. If that's really needed ask for it please. Summary: It's simply better, the times where it was only for nerds are long gone.
Search engine doesn't matter too much. I usually use DuckDuckGo and it works fine (does what a search engine should do without displaying ads, unlike Google).
Signal over WhatsApp also is pretty obvious, but it's the hardest one to change because so many people simply don't want to switch once one thing is running and you want to communicate with those people.
LibreWolf basically is Firefox (which is far better than Chrome in terms of privacy, ad blocking, customisability, ...)
I tried Mistral and it's awesome, I am upgrading to the paid version
For more varied and detailed recommendations, these might be useful:
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop/
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop-browsers/