Non-U.S. Alternatives List

[Jasper]

A collectively curated list of non-US-based alternatives to popular services, because it is time to prioritise our privacy, security, and digital sovereignty.

If you use a US-based service, your private data is NOT yours.

The US PATRIOT Act lets the government access your data WITHOUT your consent—no warrant needed. Yes, even if you're not American.

The Five Eyes Alliance (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) means that if one country gets your data, they ALL get it. Your info can be passed around intelligence agencies without you knowing.

Even if you use a non-US service, you’re NOT safe. If the company has servers, offices, or employees in the US, it can be legally forced to hand over your data to the US government.

Big Tech is NOT your friend. Companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon comply with these laws and give your info to intelligence agencies on request.

Once your data is in their hands, it NEVER disappears. Even deleted files, old emails, and private messages can be stored, recovered, and used against you.

Source:

https://github.com/anitwek/alternatives ... me-ov-file

[Grey]

Yeah, we can really find everything we want on github right now. Even strange and interesting things

I've talked to various people about this topic. They usually answer, "Let the CIA be watching me, not the FSB". I think it's the same in other countries, but on the contrary.

And again. It seems that the compilers of the list say that the US allies will give them EVERYTHING. And then, for example, in the Commerce section there are Japan, Poland, Germany and the UK. This is a vicious circle from which there is no way out anyway.

France (or Germany?) seems to be in the first place there in terms of the number of services. It is strange that there is still no logo with the image of Alain Delon from the movie The Black Tulip It's a good movie, by the way, I watched the other day out of nostalgia.

[Jasper]

@Grey

Pssst.............. don't tell anyone!!

[Grey]

Pssst.

This is another nostalgia From ZX Spectrum:

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[Jasper]

@Grey

BBC Micro games archive:

https://bbcmicro.co.uk/index.php

[Grey]

@Jasper
I was offered a part-time job. Guard the agricultural base outside the town for a week, then rest at home for two weeks.

In order not to worry about Internet services and in which countries they are located, I just took an old phone without Internet

Now it remains to decide how to deal with boredom. Tablet running on Android 6.0 (but with a square and "correct" screen: 7.85 inch 1024x768 IPS 4:3)... Or Raspberry. Both devices have 128gb memory cards packed to the brim with retro games
Raspberry has an artisanal Recalbox. There is a Lemuroid on the tablet.

[Jasper]

@Grey

Congratulations on the work

Can you recommend an emulator for Android 5.0 ?

I did investigate the link for Lemuroid to see if any of their earlier releases was compatible.

[Grey]

emulator for Android 5.0 ?

Some time ago, I stopped looking for a multi-system emulator for Android below 6.0, because it just seems to be hopeless.
Besides the need to install certificates, there are many other obstacles.

But if you need a good ZX emulator that even works on a coffee maker , then here's for the fifth and even fourth Android: Unreal Speccy

[Jasper]

@Grey

Thank you

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@Jasper
I was offered a part-time job. Guard the agricultural base outside the town for a week, then rest at home for two weeks.

In order not to worry about Internet services and in which countries they are located, I just took an old phone without Internet

Now it remains to decide how to deal with boredom. Tablet running on Android 6.0 (but with a square and "correct" screen: 7.85 inch 1024x768 IPS 4:3)... Or Raspberry. Both devices have 128gb memory cards packed to the brim with retro games
Raspberry has an artisanal Recalbox. There is a Lemuroid on the tablet.

Maybe an old laptop and some version of John Biles's TeenPup > LegacyOS, https://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_Legacy_OS, one of which is a gamer version. John Biles created beautiful Puppys, packed with all the applications a Teenager --or for that matter, anyone-- would want including wordprocessing and graphic applications. I thought he had stopped developing being satisfied that the then available versions could do just about everything except access the web safefly. But searching for their link on archive.org I discovered that John's still creating but now using antiX as his base, https://archive.org/details/puppy_linux-_legacyos_2023. See also, https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=11743. New version is a 3.2 Gb download. Hardly a Puppy.

[Grey]

Maybe an old laptop

Thank you. But I've already changed my mind about taking a 17-inch laptop with me. It's too bulky I need a small device without a keyboard with bluetooth joystick control of ALL programs.

I have another problem. The tablet has an LxReader, the direct successor to CoolReader. It's just that besides the old games, I want to read. And Recalbox on Raspberry doesn't contain a reader. As a result, yesterday I spent a lot of time compiling the entire Recalbox, which took 70 gigabytes and 6 hours The process was completed successfully. I even understood what was going on there, but... There is still no reader there And if time and health permit, I really want to cram CoolReader and UnrealSpeccy in there.