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What are your recent buy european wins?
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I’m enjoying Qobuz
I also gave it a try, but had to cancel my plans to switch due to limited music selection and playlists lacking folders.
I am currently trialing Deezer, so I guess that still counts. Also can't do folders for playlists, but basically all my music transferred over.
Deezer is owned by a Russian oligarch. Just something you might want to know about.
I do, but the company is based in Paris as far as I know, so it's European. At least most employees are (probably?) around there, as are the paid taxes (assuming they pay any).
Given my experiences, I don't think I have any other option that wouldn't be just a way worse experience for me. There's a reason in dropping Spotify after all.
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On Linux, it works great for me over my browser, but i recently tried QBZ, and it both works and looks great! And its got lyrics, and other cool audio features like DAC, EXC, and Qobuz Connect that I don't really understand.
not available in Poland sigh
I switched to DeepL
I too switched to DeepL. Also doing the trial period of kagi.com search. Probably gonna buy the "family" plan for me and my dad.
Keep in mind Kagi is US-American though.
Good point, I forgot where I was commenting on.
At the moment I'm doing most of my searches with Ecosia (yeah I know, they use bing and google, but at least they are German and planting trees), its only when Ecosia fails, I switch to Kagi. At this rate it will probably take me a year to run out of the 100 free searches that are included in the trial.
same here, switched to DeepL; then switched to Mistral AI.
Does abandoning steaming/live services and starting with self-hosting count?
Bought a Fairphone 6 (e/OS) and finally deleted my Google and Microsoft accounts.
I now wear sweaters and polo shirts fully sourced from Europe, including the cotton. They're really nice, too, the quality is amazing.
People are also growing cotton in Italy now, so maybe one day we could have cotton that's not only spun in Europe but also grown there. Still, lyocell and flax/hemp would probably be easier.
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Does second hand count? If so, I bought a Bosch laundry machine
Sold stock from ETF which covered US companies.
I'll put that into european funds.
Moved my email from iCloud to Proton. For the next step, it would be great if Proton Calendar started supporting (recurring) tasks.
It does. As in; each other week for example. With start/end date or number of occurrences. Or do you mean something different?
I mean the way Apple implemented Reminders in Calendar. Tasks that recur every (week/month/3rd saturday of the month and so on) that I can check off and then the next one appears, etc.
Got my old PC from 2011 working again, had loads of RAM at the time and runs pretty well now. Put it in the loft and installed proxmox on it. Am now using remote-backups.com from Germany as a remote backup :) for a load of services.
Motorcycle tools for on the road. Both dutch and german. Love them
Which brands please?
Good question :)
German: wera. They are super nice in the workshop and everywhere . Colour coded , super comfortable, smart stuff really. For the bike I got a small “motorcycle” toolkit. With sockets and bits, tiny spanner, etc.
Dutch: eastbound. specific tools for fixing tyres . Lightweight wrench for the backwheel nut (34) and to get the tire off the rim. Very clever designed.
Ah, nice. I have a Wera ratchet screwdriver and it's nice kit
Sneaky Steve boots from Sweden made in Portugal.
Subscribed to inlinestyle.it and have been able to actually use on a daily basis a good 40/50% of the services included in the subscription. Primarily email, personal website, photos, docs and notes. But I also enjoy some PeerTube channels there from time to time.
I just checked their services and while it seems great, the volumes are a bit small, aren't they? I host Immich myself and my collection uses about 90GB. Are the 10 given there enough for you?
I have started by importing my photos from 2020 onward and those consumed 3Gb, but I tend to curate my library so I don't have duplicates etc. And I don't record videos, but only photos. My whole collection of photos on Google Photos was 11GB before I stopped using it.
I think you can get more space with invite codes etc when you invite friends, but I never tried using them
Switched to Aliasvault from Nordpass if that is considered a win
In whose world does a boycott of American goods equal "buy European"? The world is bigger than 2 continents
Likely that the sub is called 'Buy European'.
Yeah, but it's such a dumb impulse that I'd have expected it from an American. As a European it makes me cringe
I feel its more a quirk of the internet, in how things naturally get divided. When browsing the web, you've likely found websites you never heard prior that are really big in other countries. Things just happen to be separated by regions, languages, etc. for purposes of relevance and accessibility.
In our space, things are largely dominated by European and North American influences. Once you cutout the whole USA from that, it's effectively Canada and Europe in this grouping too. I remember back when I was on Reddit, I saw 'Buy Canadian' quite a lot, just seems 'Buy European' is slightly more dominant on Lemmy.
True, I think that's how the world works mostly atm. Even the apps for very basic functions like taxi or delivery etc. are often completely different, e.g., in southeast Asia.
My main criticism is that the buy European movement is again isolationist. Europe is framed as the good/safe harbour (which it isn't) and the rest of the world is excluded because they are evil (which they aren't).
Instead, I think Europe would do good building stronger ties around the world, with African countries, India, Indonesia etc., at eye level, instead of excluding them and thereby excluding itself from the party as well.
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Buying from europe supports our own economy, reduces co2 output on good being shipped around the globe and reduces supply chain risks. Of course there are many other reliable countries outside of europe, but if I have the choice between European product and product shipped across half the globe I know what I'm taking.
They employ people here, pay taxes here and are more likely to actually follow our jurisdiction fully. If I was trying to claim warranty from a company from another continent it might be more difficult
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PixelUnion to save my photos and Euria for AI
I just moved all my photos from Google to Ente to get them out of the US... How's Euria?
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I recently bought a Fairphone 3 and installed Ubuntu Touch onto it, ditching Android entirely! I spent about 3 days working on this and would strongly recommend buying one of the newer ones with Ubuntu Touch pre-installed, I'm incredibly happy with it, feel freer than ever, and Google's however-much-money poorer for not having my data!
Kitchen stuff from WMF! Saved so much money and good quality!
Magic Pages (managed hosting service for Ghost CMS). Ghost is amazing. I thought bloging is dead. It's not. It's intuitive, scalable, natively suppors mailing AND fedi. MP makes it even better.
I signed up as a proof of concept, that this is a valid alternative. But man, did it delivered. It's my first choice now.
Switched from YouTube Music to Qobuz
I bought sneakers from Wojas recently. Polish brand and as I understand it they are produced in Poland.
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