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A lot of money goes to the US in IP licensing and services. We could make a big difference there.

My software has been free free and open source for years though I still pay money to Gaben.

If creatives can’t use FOSS for some reason there are some alternatives to Adobe. Davinci Resolve is supposed to be excellent and is from Blackmagic who are Aussie(Melbourne) and have a lot of other cool high end gear. The Affinity Suite was from the UK but got bought by Canva who are Aussie founded(Perth) but not sure I would trust them and they look to have a lot of US VC. Also in the creative area Røde Microphones are Aussie(Sydney) vs Shure from US.

I stopped all payments on Paypal and closed it but I had been meaning to do that for ages for other reasons. Amazon Prime went - they are a shit greedy anti-union, anti-Australian company anyway. No loss. Most streaming went over the last few years due to the great enshitification.

I am sure a lot of supermarket products are US owned but thankfully fuck all is made there.

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Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
So you’re saying sail?

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Gnugit@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Have you found a PayPal alternative?

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- shirro@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Not really. I was only using it as a visa alternative for some online payments so it was redundant. PayPal runs scams like Honey and was founded by Nazis so they had to go. Unfortunately visa is also US controlled but it seems the lesser evil until I find something better.
  
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- Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  What’s your use case? I haven’t used it to give/receive money ever since payid became a thing, instant and secure.
  
  For more secure payments than giving out your card details you have options like Revolut that can create temporary digital cards, and bank of Melbourne has a digital card with a cvv that changes automatically every 24 hours, but still let’s you set up subscriptions/recurring payments that don’t break like Revoluts temp card would.
  
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  - Gnugit@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I have a super small ko-fi page that I sell products from.
    
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- gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Wise might work for you. They’re a UK company I believe. Not totally sure if they’re 1:1 on features with PayPal as I hardly ever use PP but they probably can do pretty much the same things. In my experience the service is very good and also very cost effective, at least when it comes to transferring money overseas.
  
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