Buy European

I made my first order on otto.de a few days ago. I even installed their app, as I had Amazon app before, so it is easy to see my orders and invoices. It worked excelent, I found what I needed. What I was pleasantly surprised with, was that I did not need to enter a payment card. I just made my order, things came in 2 batches, different days, and I have about a month to pay them.

When I went to pay them, you have the option to pay each one, or all of them at once. I chose all, I’ve got a QR code, scanned it with my bank app and made the transfer. Painless and not using anything US made. Well, the phone I am on and the iPad…but you know what I mean, no VISA/Mastercard, etc.

And from what I heard, they have stricter rules of who can be a merchant on their website, compared to Amazon.

Creator: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1jk70cz/i_built_an_app_to_check_if_a_brand_is_based_in_eu/

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/54806

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/54802

1. Electrical machinery, equipment: US$1.2 billion (35.4% of total exports)
2. Pharmaceuticals: $405.6 million (11.7%)
3. Books, newspapers, pictures: $344.3 million (9.9%)
4. Fish: $211.3 million (6.1%)
5. Mineral fuels including oil: $186.4 million (5.4%)
6. Machinery including computers: $150 million (4.3%)
7. Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $108.9 million (3.1%)
8. Toys, games: $105.9 million (3.1%)
9. Rubber, rubber articles: $96 million (2.8%)
10. Miscellaneous food preparations: $93.3 million (2.7%)

I was under the assumption that Raspberry Pi was a US based company, but I just found out they are European and almost all made in Wales.

It’s probably the most European computer you can buy, with a massive following of enthusiastic developers creating alternatives for all the cloud services we are trying to stop using.

This has confirmed my choice to try and replace the US based cloud services my family and I are currently using.

It's important when we decide to Buy European to look at who owns the companies headquartered in the EU. Do we want to support authoritatarion governments?

Two years ago, a Portuguese businessman with good Hungarian government connections bought the Euronews TV channel. Direkt36, together with Le Monde and Expresso, found out that a large part of the money was provided by a Hungarian state capital fund and a long-standing player in the government propaganda machine.

Exposed: Orbán’s Inner Circle Linked to Acquisition of Major European TV Network

https://e.foundation/e-os/

https://community.e.foundation/t/list-release-plan-for-e-r-on-new-and-supported-devices/33802

I've been working for a few years in the field. All the places I worked at were using those two, getting partnerships, certifications, etc.

The ranges of services they offer is quite crazy. Performance monitoring? Here's a tool. Certificate management? Here's a tool. DDoS protection? Here's a tool. All of them integrated and accessible via command line interface.

AWS and Azure built their expertise over decades, and have financial and technical resources that any European company can only dream of.

Those two platforms are just very good at what they do, it will probably be difficult for a European alternative to emerge. The financial investment would need to be substantial, and the European platform wouldn't probably reach maturity before a few years.

Thoughts?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27384100

The global backlash against the second Donald Trump administration keeps on growing. Canadians have boycotted US-made products, anti–Elon Musk posters have appeared across London amid widespread Tesla protests, and European officials have drastically increased military spending as US support for Ukraine falters. Dominant US tech services may be the next focus.

There are early signs that some European companies and governments are souring on their use of American cloud services provided by the three so-called hyperscalers. Between them, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) host vast swathes of the Internet and keep thousands of businesses running. However, some organizations appear to be reconsidering their use of these companies’ cloud services—including servers, storage, and databases—citing uncertainties around privacy and data access fears under the Trump administration.

“There’s a huge appetite in Europe to de-risk or decouple the over-dependence on US tech companies, because there is a concern that they could be weaponized against European interests,” says Marietje Schaake, a nonresident fellow at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center and a former decadelong member of the European Parliament.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27366664

I made this so people can choose their own brands and adjust language and text so the message can be spread as widely as possible. For many countries the default suggestions are good, but for some you'll have to work a bit to fill in appropriate text, products to avoid and alternatives. I upload improvements to the site several times weekly.

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/53569

Shoutout to u/Visara57 on Reddit

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/9775324

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/41271371

There are a few US websites that allow you to upload your art and then it can be sold as a poster, postcard, on a cup, t-shirt, etc. all on the same website.

Is there something like that that is European? At least for posters...

Meine 2Cents zum Thema @buyeuropean und @buyfromeu. Ich find die Bewegung super. Wisst ihr wie wir dort noch drive reinbekämen? Mit einem Tariftreuegesetz: dann dürfte die öffentliche Hand nur noch Firmen (Egal ob Dienstleistung oder nicht) mit Tarifverträgen beauftragen.

Das ist für die Meisten US Firmen ein Riesenrroblem. Das wäre ein konkreter politischer Ansatz.

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What you think about this operating software? Pretty niche still, but if its alright maybe we could take the next step and use a almost open source os?

Is there a online shopping platform that is EU based? Have you used any or heard of cool related projects?

Also the platform being privacy oriented would be a big plus.