Right? Cut the weed, booze, or video game purchases, and donate to a good causes instead like FOSS or journalism.

Curious, do donations count as tax breaks? Or only recurring subscriptions? I also want to donate, but am waiting for more information.

We should change the laws to deal with this guy, and to provide a permanent solution.

I use Bitwarden because it’s free and they support FOSS.

I do plan on trying 1Password at some point, but its expensive.

Something like this might help you setup Nextcloud via Docker, and also other services https://github.com/mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook

Exactly. I would connect FOSS software I have it I ever want an external AI and it was available.

Concerning a Chatbot, I really wish they had one. The best I could do is connect something like AnythingLLM, Open WebUI, Goose, Zed if they support it.

I was considering sync.com, but after seeing Facebook ads for it, I decided to not give them my money if they’re going to pay for Facebook ads. I would still use them over Google or Apple Cloud though.

I would like to try Windscribe at some point, and also 1Password, whatbox.ca for seeding.

GrapheneOS is Canadian. I’m hoping to buy a Fairphone 6 at some point, and put Graphene on it

https://www.clove.co.uk/collections/mid-range-smartphones/products/fairphone-gen-6

Wealthsimple Tax (free)

CohereAI instead of MistralAI whenever I can.

Qobuz is partially Quebec invested.

On Bandcamp Fridays, where Bandcamp takes 0℅ of the revenue and gives them to the artist, I include well deserved Canadian artists – especially since I’ve been boycotting Ticketmaster and their large quantity of subsidary companies.

Using interac when I can. Will even message Canadian companies if I can pay via interac e-transfer instead. Its been warmly welcomed so far.

https://patrii.cloud/ has been e-transfer by default,

a bike shop in a remote province was willing to do e-transfer.

Some other hosting providers https://colocataires.dev/

Tailscale VPN is Canadian and has a free tier.

voip.ms is Canadian if you wanted a cheap phone number over voip.

That is not working either. And it doesn’t seem to be so much of a piefied problem. It seems to not paste the hyperlink with the display name anywhere except if I use Libreoffice.

I use the web app for Qobuz, and it looks and feels like a regular Qobuz app.

The seller said he replaced the Joystick with hall effect sticks so it might be fine. I think I’m going to buy it and try it out. I’m curious anyways how this will run, and it’s cheap from seller that repairs them.

Canada is hungry for alternatives.