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  • shekau@lemmy.today
    1·
    8 months ago

    DDG is also amazing, although yes its not European but its open source and is not affiliated with any other search engine

    • bettertecheu@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      8 months ago

      DDG has open sourced a bunch of projects, but I don’t think their actual search engine code is open source. And they use Bing results.

  • pathos@lemmy.ml
    2·
    8 months ago

    Linux Mint is better for average person. See Linus’ comparison video.

    Also, Floop is a fork of Firefox by a Japanese dev that removes old compatibility libraries to make its performance up to 30% faster. It should run on any machine bought in the last 10 years. It’s only missing DRM, so you can’t watch Netflix on it.

    Papago is a nice complement to DeepL. It’s Korean.

    Changing your machine’s DNS should also be mentioned. AdGuard is from Cyprus. I personally use Cloudflare though. NextDNS is from US by two French devs. Quad9 is Swiss.

  • Renohren@lemmy.today
    6·
    8 months ago

    Read, and already done all that.

    I suggest you add another link: donate to projects you enjoy via Liberapay (or switch to helping projects and creators you enjoy through this rather than patreon/paypal).

    Also

  • Lazycog@sopuli.xyzM
    5·
    8 months ago

    Nice resource!

    I have to say I really like the idea of TLDR page. This is my first time bumping into a website that has a dedicated TLDR.

  • lazycog@feddit.uk
    5·
    8 months ago

    I know it’s kinda obvious in this post (lemmy username), but due to our rules:

    OP could you add a disclaimer in your post body that this resource is owned by you :)

    Edit: Thanks OP!

  • MoonlightFox@lemmy.world
    3·
    8 months ago

    I like it. Keeping it simple, with sensible opinionated defaults. I don’t necessarily agree with everything, but the choices is in no way bad.

    Can I recommend that you make it FOSS, so that there can be discussions on what to add, why something was added/removed etc? Privacyguides have a good system for this 😊

    Also the links that are :visited are dark purple and not very visible anymore. Consider a brighter colour

    • bettertecheu@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      8 months ago

      Also the links that are :visited are dark purple and not very visible anymore. Consider a brighter colour

      I don’t see what you are seeing. On which page and with which browser?

      • MoonlightFox@lemmy.world
        3·
        8 months ago

        Nevermind, it appears that the links follow the color of the section. Seeing that purple is hardcoded in my head as :visited 😅

        The colors for the links on several of the pages still have too little contrast in my opinion.

        Browser is the chromium based Vivaldi

  • huppakee@lemm.ee
    3·
    8 months ago

    Switch to HERE WeGo for your mapping needs. Read more here.

    I tried them and was pleasantly surprised, also tried a bunch of OpenStreetMap based options but they work better for browsing than navigating in my opinion. Especially for looking up public transport options HERE WeGo does a much better job.

    • CrowyTech@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      I’ve switched to HERE for navigation too. I’ve used Citymapper for public transport both at home and on holiday and think it’s great.

      • huppakee@lemm.ee
        2·
        8 months ago

        Nice suggestion, I’ll keep it in mind when I find HERE or Organic Maps lacking. Tried to look into their business model, which seems to be advertising and selling tickets but they are very open about it which I like. Unlike here, which give me the ‘everything is free and we’re not gonna tell you how we can afford to do that’-vibe.

        I see it’s from the UK so if you want @bettertecheu@lemmy.world, you could add it to the overview.

        • bettertecheu@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          8 months ago

          I will look into Citymapper. Thanks.

          HERE is owned by a handful of billion euro companies, like VW, BMW and Mercedes. My guess is they don’t need to make money on their consumer apps, but use them to improve their data for their in-car products.

          • huppakee@lemm.ee
            1·
            8 months ago

            Yeah, what I think too. Rather support FOSS but in this case an eu corpo just does a much better job. Kuddos to you for taking in all these suggestions here, keep up the good work!

  • letzlo@feddit.nlEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    For cloud PaaS solutions, you are missing two of the most attractive offers in my opinion, namely Scaleway and Upcloud. They are not “direct to OpenStack” solutions which is not necessarily a disadvantage cause OpenStack isn’t that user friendly. But they seem fresh and offer plenty, with Scaleway doing lots of features and Upcloud being more flat, also regarding pricing.