Amazon (retail): Target, Walmart, and BestBuy. Prices are the same as Amazon, selection is just as good, and it's much easier to return products. Infiltration by rotating throw-away Chinese brands is minimal, and the "in-stores" products are a good indicator of quality.
AWS: Unfortunately haven't found an alternative for this. Most people I work with demand a major cloud. Mostly we use Azure these days because the UI and DevOps integration is much better.
Google Search: They're all terrible, including Google. Google is the least-bad for me. I find the others unusable. I wish we had something better for this.
Gmail: You use Yandex? If leaving the US for mail, I would never go to a more authoritarian country... Fastmail is good in the sense that it works well and isn't ad-supported, but being headquartered in Australia is a problem a lot of people have.
Google Docs: Unfortunately, there are no great options here. The combination of best features and least-bad company seems to be Microsoft.
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(Caveat: I'm in a major US city)
Amazon (retail): Target, Walmart, and BestBuy. Prices are the same as Amazon, selection is just as good, and it's much easier to return products. Infiltration by rotating throw-away Chinese brands is minimal, and the "in-stores" products are a good indicator of quality.
AWS: Unfortunately haven't found an alternative for this. Most people I work with demand a major cloud. Mostly we use Azure these days because the UI and DevOps integration is much better.
Google Search: They're all terrible, including Google. Google is the least-bad for me. I find the others unusable. I wish we had something better for this.
Gmail: You use Yandex? If leaving the US for mail, I would never go to a more authoritarian country... Fastmail is good in the sense that it works well and isn't ad-supported, but being headquartered in Australia is a problem a lot of people have.
Google Docs: Unfortunately, there are no great options here. The combination of best features and least-bad company seems to be Microsoft.