Buy European

The fundamental issue is that these days there isn’t European software (and I doubt even American software).

We all rely on a supply chain of software. This open source library from a French guy hosted on an GitHub, this linkable but closed source library for interacting with this piece of hardware, this componed developed by people all around the world and hosted in Germany.

Heck even the Linux kernel kicked out Russian maintainers for this exact reason.

If the S* will hit the fan as the s* promised during election, I expect more and more government mandated backdoors.

Imagine the s*show of log4j but this time in boost or gcc std library made in a way that seems an innocent mistake, hard to trigger and hidden in the changelog and submitted at the same time a legitimate change in the same file happen

"I did this thing" - "is this thing possible?"

Yes, because you literally just wrote that you did it....

For personal reference and for the lazy (i think it's complete, did it in a hurry in a break):

• Notion & Google Docs Alternatives: Capacities, Fibery, Tana, Nuclino
• Zoom Alternatives: Whereby, Jitsi Meet, Senfcall, Vowel
• Slack Alternatives: Mattermost, Element (Matrix), Rocket.Chat
• Gmail & Google Calendar Alternatives: Proton Mail, Tutanota, Mailbox.org, Infomaniak
• Notes & Markdown Docs: Anytype, Obsidian, SiYuan
• Task & Project Management: Fibery, Nuclino

I note that a good portion of these are commercial products, frankly I'd trust MUCH more a FOSS product than a commercial one after so damn many over the years have betrayed us all in the search for profit, if you're gonna migrate to something you may as well go for the FOSS ones that are less in danger of enshittification (not a guarantee but far less of a chance since a fork kills all the walls around a walled garden pretty quickly), even if the FOSS product is not as polished.

I work on Linux. The Linux Foundation is based in America and has recently demonstrated it abides by american law (by kicking russian maintainers).

Is there an alternative?

It's pretty easy if you have an e-mail job, but it's hard to avoid American software with stuff like CAD.

Good overview for awareness. Now add peertube.

It's all pointless without replacing windows, which is impossible if you work in any sort of manufacturing job. CAD/CAM requires Windows (please don't suggest FreeCAD), industrial automation requires Windows, any specialized devices with software control requires Windows.

Heck, industrial PCs by and large run Windows, which is insane to me.

I mean the largest problem in a business sense has always been cooperating with other businesses.
That microsoft excel file your distributor sent you with builtin macros and code that just won't function correctly in libreoffice calc and so on.
It's already a source of friction when university folks in sweden primarily using the google workplace want to coordinate with businesses in sweden that are mostly using microsoft office.
In construction the most common way to coordinate with subtractors is through microsoft teams/sharepoint online, at least here in sweden.