Buy European

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/9164648

Mooorrre!

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/9153969

In Germany it's 7,13 € per month.

Since I'm careful about the services I use, I switched my phone keyboard to Typewise, a Swiss company.

They have an AI assistant function with OpenAI, is the data subject to Swiss or American regulations?

Santé, prost, cheers, and Na zdraví!

There have been a few times like this but I ran into it again today. I need to buy a simple custom cork for a project and I just sought a native vendor, pretty sure that I wouldn't find one.

Lo and behold, I was wrong. I found two Finnish sites selling cork products. But something doesn't feel right. Maybe it's the amount of products, there's too many - what would have to be a fairly small producer wouldn't have that large of a catalogue, I don't think. I read their About Page and it's just some fluffy "we're a family business" bit with photos that just look like random buildings. No place names, no people.

Their contact page points to Poland: Nowosolska 12 60-171 Poznan, Poland

Okay so we have an address but it really doesn't seem like a manufacturing place, it looks like a warehouse (sorry for Google). Their site doesn't have any info about where their products are produced etc. though they fluff about "high quality portugese cork".

It feels like an European front for a Chinese manufacturer.

I had the same experience looking into a cosmetics line from Flying Tiger / Normal stores. I dig into the brand and just find some random address in Denmark that doesn't seem to have anything like a factory in it. See: https://www.sence-essentials.com/, https://www.brandfix.dk/ or https://www.karium.com/ for a similar thing in UK. And at least for the latter product, I have the handcream that says "made in UK"... but I am very doubtful because I can't find any information about the manufacturing. Everything on their site is just marketing fluff. Linkedin is a bit better but because their sites are so... insubstantial I don't feel confident in the Linkedin either. There are no people on their sites though (besides what could just be stock models), maybe at most some name for a "contact us" person. At least when I check for example, Lumene, which is an established finnish cosmetics brand, I can take a look at their page and see pictures of what look like a real store, with real people, and I can see their factory at the street view with brand logos etc.

Am I just being kinda overly critical and paranoid or are others noticing this? Between Shopify sites that pretend to be small artisans just reselling Temu junk and AI generated webpages I've become really doubtful of every product that doesn't have very transparent production process with real names and faces attached to them.

Edit: Also yes btw, doing this type of digging is annoying and time-consuming. I want more rigorous labeling standards.

Credits: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1ja8qxn/went_to_my_local_supermarket_today_germany/

Credits: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1ja7rcr/my_local_grocery_is_removing_lays_chips_for_brets/

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It's not European (yet?), but Canadian. Well worth a look. There's even an Obsidian community here on Lemmy.

After having used Chat GPT for a while to just check it out, I had decided to not use it due to the high water consumption and me not really needing it for a while. Now that I had discovered the Buy from EU movement and am dual using Reddit and feddit right now, I decided to check out EU made AI solutions and the most promising for me right now is Mistral Le Chat, even though I will probably only use it occasionally just like Chat GPT. I am still glad that I support a european made solution and alternative to not give money, or in this case, revenue from data selling to a literal fascist billionaire...

I was thinking about getting into cds since the songs I want aren't available on Qobuz to buy and the art would be cool to have on a case.

Hello there 👋

I am following the path of decreasing dependency on US products myself, and I was wondering if there is any real alternative for bandcamp? Meaning, the one that would be a proper marketplace for niche music creators, that would allow DRM-free downloads and streaming at the same time.

Bottom line: I do want to pay for music I like to support musicians, though I want to do it in a way that would allow me to listen to their work in a way I like the most.

I break and drop and lose sunglasses constantly, I have to buy 3 or 4 new pairs a year so I'm not interested in buying anything expensive. Until recently I bought some Chinese 5 euro crap but I would prefer to buy 10-15 euro EU made crap. Is there anything like that available?

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A note! the desktop field is completely optional! You can install any other desktop you like, but the listed are the "main" ones, usually recommended by the distro.

Linux Mint

• Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
• Experience: Simple
• Desktop: Cinnamon

Best distro for beginners. has two versions: One based off of ubuntu (default), and another one debian (recommended, LMDE)

https://www.linuxmint.com/

Ubuntu

• Country: Britain 🇬🇧
• Experience: Simple
• Desktop: GNOME

Good distro, but has some controversies. Though it's the most popular beginners distro by far.

https://ubuntu.com/

EndeavourOS

• Country: Netherlands 🇳🇱
• Experience: Intermediate
• Desktop: KDE/GNOME/XFCE

My second favorite :) Arch based, easy installer and updater, friendly community and beautiful themes. I recommend this distro if you are into arch based distros without wanting the painful part of it.

https://endeavouros.com/

OpenSUSE

• Country: Germany 🇩🇪
• Experience: Intermediate
• Desktop: KDE

It's mainly built around using the GUI, with tools like yast. Uses KDE.

https://www.opensuse.org/

Manjaro

• Country: Germany 🇩🇪 / Austria 🇦🇹 / France🇫🇷
• Experience: Intermediate
• Desktop: KDE/GNOME/XFCE

Added because of popular recommendation. I recommend EndeavourOS more, since manjaro has a... history.

https://manjaro.org/

NixOS

• Country: Netherlands 🇳🇱
• Experience: Advanced
• Desktop: KDE/GNOME

My personal favorite <3 Great for servers. It's not for the faint of heart, though hah. It's an immutable distro, where there is no package manager, or manually modifying config files; your entire system is created with .nix files, not commands. Reproducable.

https://nixos.org/

Arch

• Country: Canada 🇨🇦 (Yes yes, it's not european but how can you not mention arch???)
• Experience: Advanced
• Desktop: None

Most popular distro for dedicated users, and for good reason; bleeding edge, full power over your system. Though you have to manually set up everything, from internet to your deskop environment.

Void

• Country: Spain 🇪🇸
• Experience: Advanced
• Desktop: XFCE

Great distro if you want something like arch, but without systemd or slightly more stable (Also, musl support). Obscure but amazing.

https://voidlinux.org/

Debian [Honorary mention]

• Country: Global 🌍
• Experience: Intermediate
• Desktop: KDE/GNOME/XFCE

An honorary mention. Isn't suited for everyone, but is the golden standard for servers, and the grandfather of a huge family tree of distros.

https://www.debian.org/

VanillaOS [Honorary mention]

• Country: Global 🌍️
• Experience: Advanced
• Desktop: GNOME

VanillaOS is a debian-based immutable operating system, which can install packages from any other distro and is very hard to brick.

https://vanillaos.org/

That should cover a lot. Please heed the desktop warning, and please correct me/comment suggestions. This is not perfect, so please do criticize where possible c: