BuyFromEU

In less than three months' time, almost no civil servant, police officer or judge in Schleswig-Holstein will be using any of Microsoft's ubiquitous programs at work.

I'm building a small home server, and I'm looking for reliable and affordable storage. I'm looking for an SSD for the main system, and 8TB HDDs for the rest. What options do we have that are European? Goodram seems to be an option for the SSD, but what about the larger drives?

Are there any good single board computers developed/produced in EU or Europe? Something like Raspberry Pi.

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/7861943

Finally found one: https://meaningcrafters.com/produit/powerbank-alex/

I don't speak French but placing the order was quite straightforward. Shipping costs were a bit high, but totally worth it. ~~Highly recommended!~~

Edit: Probably too good to be true, see discussion below...

The posts on both the BuyInEU communities seem pretty serious lately, but after reading latest Derek Guy's (dieworkwear.com) "Excited to Wear This Spring" post, I found Filt - the French net shopping bag manufacturer that makes their bags (and other stuff) in France

https://www.filt1860.fr/en/9-net-shopping-bag

I'm trying to build my latest web project using only European software and services, but there are so many web analytics alternatives. Does anyone have any experience with any of these? Any tips or guidance is very welcome.

For the 'goeuropean-nerds' out there, this is what I'm using for the other bits:

• .eu domain
• upcloud.com (finish hosting company, server located in Frankfurt DE)
• Theia - Open Source IDE
• Codestral (Mistral) AI agent to assist in coding tasks

Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to connect Codestral to any IDE (Webstorm, CZ or Theia) without involving Continue which I''m not sure where they're from, but I'm guessing US...

So any experience in picking a European Web Analytics service?

Does anyone knows and uses an alternative?

Getting an S22+ Ultra soon and as per usually I'm gonna get myself a Flip Case for it! Usually I'd go take a Cheapo one that'll last a Single year until the fake leather flakes off, but that does make me Wonder if there is a Better, European made and actually Quality Alternative?

wow nice! :O

from the site:

TLDR; Multiple countries in Europe are critically dependent on services provided by Microsoft. Querying mail-servers teaches that in some countries, over 70% of all public services rely on this American provider. Europe needs to build its own infrastructure, and open source is the most robust solution.

i searched for https://eu-os.eu/ EU-OS and clicked on the search results that came up. there is a spanish article about this koncept https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_OS here. in there i found this other article. that was funny because these two are nice but i didnt even look for them and just found them. and i dont habla espanol! :)

https://lemmy.world/post/30376256

Over the past few months, I embarked on a rewarding digital journey to move away from US big tech and towards more European [EU], open source [FOSS], privacy-oriented [P], and decentralized [D] alternatives.

I'm sharing my experience here in case it can be useful to others, as well as to gather any additional thoughts or suggestions:

• Desktop OS: Microsoft Windows 11 --> OpenSUSE Tumbleweed + KDE [EU][FOSS]
• Web browser: Google Chrome --> Brave --> Vivaldi --> Mozilla Firefox + Strict privacy settings, uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Conset-O-Matic [FOSS][P]
• Email: Gmail --> Infomaniak Mail [EU][FOSS]
• Calendar: Google Calendar --> Infomaniak Calendar [EU][FOSS] + OneCalendar [EU]
• Files: Dropbox --> Infomaniak kDrive [EU][FOSS]
• Photos: Google Photos --> Infomaniak kDrive [EU][FOSS]
• Notes: Google Keep --> Notesnook [FOSS][P]
• Social Media:
  • Facebook --> Nothing
  • Twitter/X --> Mastodon (mas.to) [EU][FOSS][D]
  • Reddit --> Lemmy (lemm.ee) [EU][FOSS][D]
• AI Chatbot: OpenAI ChatGPT --> Mistral AI Le Chat [EU]
• Videos: Youtube --> Unwatched [EU][FOSS][P]
• Podcasts: Apple Podcasts --> Spotify --> Pocket Casts [FOSS]
• Translate: Google Translate --> DeepL [EU]
• Maps: Google Maps --> Organic Maps [EU][FOSS][P]
• Weather: Apple Weather --> YR [EU]
• Online payments: PayPal --> Revolut [EU]
• Password manager: LastPass --> Mozilla Firefox --> Bitwarden [FOSS][P]
• Online shopping: Amazon --> Cdiscount [EU]
• Travel booking: Booking.com --> Direct booking

And here's the list of things I couldn't let go of:

• Mobile OS: iOS | I have a business iPhone which is also my personal phone
• Messaging: WhatsApp | The network effect is too big here: family, friends, local businesses, etc
• Streaming services: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ | These come basically for free with my ISP and are too convenient for the moment (esp. w/ kids)

Wero is a payment service aiming at providing a digital wallet. According to the cited article, Revolut -- a UK-based digital bank -- partners with Wero. This might be a good accelerator, as Wero was perceived quite sleepy in the past few month.

The British neobank Revolut is set to become a partner of the European payment platform “Wero”, making it the first major fintech to join the European Payments Initiative (EPI). Although Revolut will not initially become a shareholder, it plans to offer Wero as a payment option for its customers. It is a so-called “scheme member”. Up to now, EPI has mainly involved traditional banks such as Deutsche Bank, Postbank, savings banks and cooperative banks. Revolut is now bringing a breath of fresh air to the project and the pressure on other banks to implement e-commerce solutions around Wero more quickly is growing. Revolut is known for rolling out new services quickly. The partnership could therefore significantly speed up the European payment project.

Translated with deepl.

Source, German article (citing Finanz-Szene portal): https://stadt-bremerhaven.de/revolut-steigt-bei-europaeischer-bezahl-wallet-wero-ein/

Here is the announcement video: https://youtu.be/q85lZdNStGs

After 2,5 years of intensive research and programming efforts, the entire Openwebsearch.eu project team is excited to grant access to its pilot of the first-ever federated pan-European Open Web Index (OWI).

From June onward, commercial and scientific development teams of any size as well as interested individuals are welcome to access and make use of almost a petabyte (and growing) of open web data under a general research license or – upon request – under a designated commercial license as well.

Given that the European Commission has launched the InvestAI initiative to mobilize €200 billion of investment in artificial intelligence, the Open Web Index comes with perfect timing.

The OpenWebSearch.eu consortium actively calls early adopters to pioneer innovative projects surrounding vertical web search, argumentative search, LLM applications including RAG and more.

“The OWI symbolizes a first step towards true European digital sovereignty and is a fundamental step in paving the way for a comprehensive open European AI landscape.“ says Community Manager Ursula Gmelch and further:

“Our goal behind this initial pilot phase is to onboard a range of projects from diverse domains to get early feedback in. We look forward to users confirming the quality and value in current functionalities and/or helping us pivot in such ways that real market demands can be met and further expanded upon.“

An official kick-off event will be hosted on 6 June from 10 am to 12 am CEST via Zoom.

Registration to the event is open under the following link:

https://cscfi.zoom.us/meeting/register/eATIpDQ5TZidh4Jzkim6FQ#/registration

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Probably like many of you i switched to Linux. I first used it in 2012 when i heard about it in School. Back then i used Ubuntu, but could not figure it out how to play my Games on CD, DVDs and Steam so i switched back to Windows.

Over the Years i often tried it out again but had various problems with it.

Now, thanks to the Trump Donald, i have a real reason to no longer use Microshaft Proudcts. Our Boycott!

So far i tried Linux Mint, KDE Neon, Kubuntu, ZorinOS, PopOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Gnu Guix, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch, Antergos. That is over 10 years.

What i found out:

• i dont like gnome, i find the ui weird. xfce is too cobbled together imo and ugly, lxqt too.
• i like kde and budgie
• im currently on kubuntu and gnu guix :)

Im too much distrohopping bevause of small annoyances. its not a good time spent! lol