• commander@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Switch to Linux. Don’t use Microsoft email. If possible don’t use MS Office and if you currently need it, encourage Libreoffice, OnlyOffice, etc

    • JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Regardless of current politics, this is great advice anyways for a lot of people. These alternatives are very user friendly now a days, including many Linux distros. They will do almost if not all what a user needs. Few exceptions.

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        For Europeans the illusion American reliability is rapidly fading as well. If BDS is not a good angle consider cybersecurity as well.

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      One small problem: some services won’t let me change my e-mail for dumb reasons, thus I’m struck with MS for now.

      • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
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        In the past when I’ve had to migrate emails I’ll set up automatic forwarding for anything important like that. Then switch the services you can. Idk if something like that could work for you and it is admittedly a bit of a pain to keep track of. Could limit MS influence on your stuff though