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[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

As an expat, the availability of physical American products in the UK is limited, so the digital services have been on my "screw the Yankees" list:

| Service | Alternative | |


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| | Amazon | Just buying shit from other sites | | AWS, Azure | Self-hosting, and kicking up a fuss at work to push us out of the cloud | | Microsoft Windows | Linux baby! (To be fair, I was already on that train) | | Google | DuckDuckGo, though it's still american, I can't find an actually useful non-US search engine | | Android | I might make the jump to Graphene or e/OS for my Fairphone | | Steam | GOG |

I'm also avoiding US brands at the grocery store, but that's probably easier here than back home.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How do you find the correct sites to buy whatever specific shit from?

Do you do any streaming? High seas for that, I guess?

[–] GrackleBirb@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

CBC Gem, Crave (owned by Bell), Britbox for shows - Qobuz for music (Fully French owned unlike Deezer which represents itself as French but is 45% owned by an American investment firm that donated to Trump's campaign), and yes the high seas for what you can't get at these places.

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