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submitted 1 year ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

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[–] noverby@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Check out my stack! Any suggestions for alternatives?

https://codeberg.org/noverby/noverby#services

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca [S] 7 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

Looks really nice!

Though Lemmy.world is Dutch and I would suggest Qobuz as a better alternative to Spotify.

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[+] neme@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

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[–] noverby@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Thanks for info! Lemmy.world is updated. Why is Qobuz a better alternative to Spotify?

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca [S] 3 points 1 year ago

Spotify has paid $100m to Joe Rogan and regularly does tax-evasion.

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[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Letterboxd is from New Zealand!

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[–] noverby@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Whoops, it is fixed now

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[–] azthec@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

What's your experience with running /e/OS/ with banking apps and things like that? I've been considering a degoogled Android phone like Fairphone

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