Thank you

^ This. Easy to get, easy to install, works like a charm and the license is "perpetual" you won't need bother with it ever again.

So ChatGPT, DeepSeek and Claude, the rest is residual. What a shame. Mistral Vibe deserves better recognition.

Better late than never.

And we need more. We don't need to start from scratch, at least on the designs.

We had ARM, still a British company but externally owned. We can also work on improving and building on top of RISC-V. For many use cases, you don't need "flagship" chips, and having your own reduces your dependency since they can't cut you off completely.

I don't understand how people can stand this sort of software (or quality of software). The only explanation is they are hostages of the situation.

Step by step. I'm doing my part, you should also do yours.

Here are a few suggestions of where to start on a personal level (difficulty: easy):

• Search: Ecosia, Qwant
• Browser: Vivaldi
• Email: Tuta, Proton, Mailbox, Infomaniak and hundreds of others
• Messaging: Element or any server/app with the Matrix protocol
• Microblogging: Any European instance of Mastodon
• PC operating system: Linux Mint, OpenSUSE
• Mobile Devices: Fairphone, Volla, Jolla
• AI Chat: Mistral Vibe (ex le chat)
• Music: Spotify
• Office suite: LibreOffice
• Collaborative office tools: CryptPad
• VPN: Mullvad
• Discussions/Communities (alt Reddit): Any European instance of Lemmy

You don't need to change all at once or even pick one of the suggestions, but start using European tech gradually.

The French can sell their wine to the rest of the world. Ignore the orange man, he has no legitimacy to interfere in the French internal affairs.

Don't use Chrome

They did you a favor. Stop using that crap.