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Proton’s CEO supports Trump despite being an EU based company:
HERE We Go? Isn’t that owned by microsoft?
Pretty ironic that the website that created this, buy-european-made.eu, is actually promoting their Reddit community. They should really switch to an EU-hosted Lemmy instance, and also join Mastodon, just like european-alternatives.eu: @[email protected]
This is misinformation. BlueSky is not a non profit. It is a public benefit company. The shareholders still expect profit.
DON’T SPREAD STUPID SH*** LIKE THAT.
What a BS honestly, I am fully anti Trump but this does not help at all. Why? Some examples:
- You think supporting European faschist enablers (e.g. Red Bull) is better than [insert random US company here] is just silly.
- Do your homework: Capri Sun is German, not American, gosh.
- Blueeky is NOT non-profit, stop spreading misinfirmation
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It still helps because you are buying european which is better for europe also you called every single company in the list fascist with this logic, a lot of them arent, idk what redbull did tho.
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It is german but pretty sure its sold by coca cola.
It doesn’t help because most of those “euro” options are publicly traded on American stock markets where the fascists make their money lol. You booked on trivago instead of some other place great now that stock went up and the well invested musks of the world just made some money anyway. Money they will use to influence elections all over the world.
My response to you and the OP is simple: you don’t counter faschist stupidity with stupidity, but with nuance. That’s the difference between them and us, not where you produce or buy.
But its not just about fascism. If you actually want to counter fascism you dont just go “im not gonna buy this product”, you actually have to take action. Anyone thinking a few people not buying a product will change the situation is a bit too optimistic. Even if you stop one of em another one pops up. You have to take action to change the system. But circling back yo buying european its still a pretty good thing overall so that europe can have a stronger economy. Anyone opposing this is like the people who voted for trump becsuse kamala wasnt any better. She was better and she couldve been even better if you voted for her and then protested to make her do what you want.
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Mmm… ditch Garmin, strap a raspberry pi + car battery to your arm, & away you go.
Lol, or get a polar fitness watch instead?
There are so many issues with this, lots of wrong information, recommendations of stuff that’s bad and really shouldn’t be recommended and stuff that really should be there isn’t. Please don’t share it this further, it’s absolutely shit.
TBF, it says “European”, not “good”.
“Perfect is the enemy of good. Please accept this slop.”
“Oh no this is wrong”… proceeds to shit on it, not provide a single example or correction
BlueSky is not owned by a non profit. First row.
I’m not in it but I have been told it’s almost impossible to control the narrative as Muskrat does on Twitter
It is held by a benefit corporation which means they have to, at least pretend, to bring some societal benefit
While AT Protocol is sort of federated in a sense, no one really runs aggregators (which serves half of the role an instance does in ActivityPub) besides BlueSky themselves, so they can still control it if they wanted to.
Also, “normal” for profit companies can also pretend to want to bring good to the world. It’s misinformation because public benefit companies are allowed to collect a profit (post says non profit).
I still believe BlueSky is world’s better than Twitter! But it’s important to be honest about it.
Omg, I’m boycotting USA … since like forever, I’m so sorry, it was totally by accident, thots and players, I hope everyone recovers financially.
Tho the steaming one I do a bit … differently.
(Also just boycott big corpos as much as possible, no matter the region!!)
Food drink and clothing I was never buying either side anyway.
Recently got some new plain cotton t-shirts though. £2.50 each at Tesco so I got 8. Should just about last me to 2030.
This works a bit for Canada too.
I live in the USA and I will buy foreign as much as possible. Until we make it illegal most likely
How can you make appliances list without Miele?
If you are in the market for a vacuum cleaner do yourself a favor, go more expensive and get a Miele, especially if you have some carpets, most vacuums can do a job on hard floors, but damn the difference of vacuuming carpets either a cheap vacuum vs my Miele is night and day.
(Don’t know about the rest of their products, but they are german and a family owned business)
Every student home I’ve lived in had Miele appliances, indestructible like Nokia phones.
True.
But also not really the usual student budget.
I think they mean “rentals for students”
Yes, I understood as such.
It’s balancing between cheap & cheap to replace vs actually good and lasting.
Their washing machines are beasts. In a good way.
Also at least in the UK the best KitchenAid alternative has got to be Kenwood. Love my mixer.
It’s a shame it needed someone like Trump to actually get European alternatives more attention. They needed attention way before Trump.
Also the food and drinks alternatives are a bit odd. Many brands on the European side I don’t recognize, probably because they’re pretty local to whoever made this list.
Yep, several Nordic food, drink and snacks brands there. The burgers at Max are good but I doubt they’ll deliver from Malmö Sweden to Portugal.
The list has it’s shortcomings but it’s a good start.
This list has some issues, Booking.com is Dutch and Philips’ Consumer division is just a name that whitelabels other companies products and is owned by a Chinese investment company.
Booking.com is owned by an American company though
Also, Ecosia and Qwant rely on Bing for their search results I believe
or Google, but they are working together on their own search engine from what I heard
Imo the best European (specifically German) made OS is OpenSUSE. Its Sway spin is the definition of functionality above form, nearly all tools are designed with that in mind and it comes with good defaults out of the box. Granted it also looks amazing if not a tad dated, the unified design and color language however is nice even if that color is green. Also consider donating to the FSFE rather than the FSF.
OpenSuse is kind of a shit show, not to mention the weirdness with the trademark/pseudo-association it has with Suse. I’ve been running OpenSuse on a small production server for some years after migrating to it from CentOS. It’s mostly fine, but I’ve had to deal with some sloppy updates breaking things, and have had to completely disable my automatic nightly backup&updates job because of an bug with the OS that no one seems to have solved yet (there’s a discussion about it from a while back on their forums with multiple reports, but no resolution) . I’ll be switching to Rocky or Alma next time I do major maintenance on it.
Also, unlike most distros, OpenSuse shipped the xzutils backdoor to their users. They quickly retracted it, but still. Not even Fedora did that!
EDIT: To quickly add, I don’t think OpenSuse is terrible by any means, but the bar for Linux distros is quite high these days.
Hell yeah, OpenMeSussy is so great!
Tumbleweed (a rolling release) is so stable I switched my friends & family to it prob 5+ years ago, now I only have to do any maintenance when switching hardware.
I worked with opensuse back in the day on a collaborative Linux effort. What.a.trip.
Wow I hope it works for you and works well. Me, I’ve seen behind the curtain.
What’s wrong? I’m very happy with it
