Interesting. Never interacted and didn’t know about them. Now I’m going to keep watch.
this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2025
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I've bought a few things from 45Drives. Pretty happy with them. Good to know they're fighting the good fight.
Uproot Microsoft, Google and Apple from your lives.
I de-Microsofted back in about 2014, the only Google thing I use is youtube but I block all the ads and trackers.
They're going to give a portion of the money they are saving to sponsor the maintainers of the projects they are going to use right? Right?
Was it just me or was the video light on details? It didn't mention how they are deshittifying, what they use, their current progress, satisfaction, and so on. If companies want to leave Microsoft, having some kind of track record of other companies doing so could help.
Some euro cities have taken the plunge also. Mandates of public tax dollars should not fund a private solution, and data sovereignty away from the USA.
The biggest hurdle I see for companies is excel, it is used and mis-used across all industries. Some running entire company production and reporting via macroed excel work books.
All the other apps are easy to find better tools for anyway, but excel has people locked in, making a switch a painful process.
The biggest hurdle I see for companies is excel, it is used and mis-used across all industries. Some running entire company production and reporting via macroed excel work books.
At my first job for a big, publicly traded company ($30B mkt cap at the time) i was shocked that the tool we used for generating POs was this excel sheet that some guy had written 10 years ago and nobody bothered to replace it even as the company grew to be huge.
Its crazy right. One place I was at was using it as a database.. I'm like Databases exist!! Even if you didn't want another software vendor, you could make use of MS Access.
LibreOffice is pretty good. I canceled Microsoft Office365 about 6 months ago and have not regretted it even once.
I left Apple’s cloud stuff back in March, or April and found a lot of Canadian stuff.
I just tried to get a quote for a barebones Q30, it was ~$3400. Wish they would make bigger 45homelab chassis.