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What are your recent buy european wins? (piefed.zip)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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[โ€“] 24 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Iโ€™m enjoying Qobuz

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Deezer is owned by a Russian oligarch. Just something you might want to know about.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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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    • [โ€“] 14 points 7 months ago

    Does abandoning steaming/live services and starting with self-hosting count?

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    [โ€“] 13 points 7 months ago

    Bought a Fairphone 6 (e/OS) and finally deleted my Google and Microsoft accounts.

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    [โ€“] 10 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Got myself a Tuxedo Aura 14 which I'm enjoying.

    Also, kinda, just bought four vinyls of Wardruna (Norwegian band) from a Swedish store.

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    • [โ€“] [S] 18 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I switched to DeepL

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    • [โ€“] 9 points 7 months ago

    Sold stock from ETF which covered US companies.

    I'll put that into european funds.

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    [โ€“] 8 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I now wear sweaters and polo shirts fully sourced from Europe, including the cotton. They're really nice, too, the quality is amazing.

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    • [โ€“] 14 points 7 months ago

    same here, switched to DeepL; then switched to Mistral AI.

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    [+] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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    • [โ€“] 7 points 7 months ago

    Does second hand count? If so, I bought a Bosch laundry machine

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    [โ€“] 6 points 7 months ago

    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.

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    [โ€“] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Motorcycle tools for on the road. Both dutch and german. Love them

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Which brands please?

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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 โ€œmotorcycleโ€ 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.

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    • [โ€“] 4 points 7 months ago

    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!

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    [โ€“] 4 points 7 months ago

    Switched to Aliasvault from Nordpass if that is considered a win

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    [โ€“] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 7 months ago

    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

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    • [โ€“] 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Bosch made in West Germany

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 7 months ago (4 children)

    Which products do they still make in Germany?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    Not sure. This one is 2nd hand. Absolute beast

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I have a big angle grinder from 1884. Think its from Germany IR Switzerland. It still works like a charm

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    • [โ€“] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    PixelUnion to save my photos and Euria for AI

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I just moved all my photos from Google to Ente to get them out of the US... How's Euria?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 7 months ago

    It does the job honestly. It's not the best out there obviously especially for coding but for me it's good enough most of the time. Regarding Ente, don't they have headquarters in the US? I love what they're doing though. I ise the 2FA app and the recently released Ente locker

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    • [โ€“] 3 points 7 months ago

    Sneaky Steve boots from Sweden made in Portugal.

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    [โ€“] 2 points 7 months ago

    Kitchen stuff from WMF! Saved so much money and good quality!

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    [โ€“] 2 points 7 months ago*

    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.

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    [โ€“] 1 point 7 months ago

    I bought sneakers from Wojas recently. Polish brand and as I understand it they are produced in Poland.

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    [โ€“] 0 points 7 months ago

    I Wanted To, But IT Seems To Be Unavailable On My Country.

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    [+] -13 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    In whose world does a boycott of American goods equal "buy European"? The world is bigger than 2 continents

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  • [โ€“] 19 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Likely that the sub is called 'Buy European'.

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  • [โ€“] -5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, but it's such a dumb impulse that I'd have expected it from an American. As a European it makes me cringe

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [โ€“] 1 point 7 months ago

    It's not entirely excluding the rest of the world simply because everyone knows there's a ton of shit we just don't make anymore at scale in Europe. I think there is a bit of economic protectionism to it because it carries the idea of bringing some industries back to provide work for Europeans but that's hardly a bad thing.

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