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Hey everyone,

Iโ€™ve been thinking a lot about how to help my parents reduce their reliance on American Big Tech (Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.). Theyโ€™re not tech-savvy, and I donโ€™t want to overwhelm them or make them feel like Iโ€™m forcing a radical change. At the same time, Iโ€™m concerned about privacy, data collection, and the monopolistic practices of these companies.

Any ideas? First of all I thought about ecosia, I see that it returns more similar results to google than Qwant.

I want to buy them Threema licence.

I installed Le Chat as chatgpt replacement, moved some documents to Synology Nas

Whatโ€™s next?

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[โ€“] someguy3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Kkk2237pl@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

My mom relies on office documents. We wanted replace office with libreoffice and that was painful for her :(

I gave her laptop with libreoffice and she still prefered to use old laptop with old office license

[โ€“] Undaunted@feddit.org 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

She could try out OnlyOffice. Maybe she's happy with that. At least it looks very close to MS Office

[โ€“] threatcat@infosec.pub 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

โ˜๐Ÿผ this โ€” with OnlyOffice Iโ€™ve had zero formatting differences sharing docx or xlsx files with M365 or Google Workspace. This was using the desktop version. No idea how real-time collaboration is with the OnlyOffice Workspace version, and would love to hear any experiences.

[โ€“] Kkk2237pl@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you, I have never used it

[โ€“] someguy3@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Warning that OnlyOffice is Russian, "headquartered" in Latvia.

[โ€“] someguy3@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Yeah that's tough. Libreoffice is definitely not polished. Two solutions, 1) you can fiddle with the settings to make it look and act more like MS office . With the ribbon instead of the drop-down etc. 2) You can run old office versions for free using Wine. From what I hear, haven't done it myself.