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To be fair (no pun intended), Fairphone also sells Fairbuds, which have a replacable battery (and replacable everything else)

To be fair, in this case Microsoft is not to blame. They were forced by their government.

Which means we should switch to European companies not out of revenge at Microsoft, but out of the necessity to have digital sovereignty.

Agreed, I also use their code suggestion model instead of Github Copilot since a while and it works nicely

This is the (mostly) correct answer.

An additional aspect, you may have DSLite, so you share your IPv4 with other people. So it was them that downloaded the movie and series, and your ISP knows that.

Then again, the horror stories about Germany are true (depending on which exactly I suppose), but yes you’ll only get a lawyer letter in the mail if you download very popular torrents of popular movies that just got released.

And even that just for the production companies that care to employ the “lawyers” who do this kind of stuff (WarnerBros is one of them)

From my very quick research, OEDIV seems to mostly offer managed hosting for IBM, SAP and Microsoft services, with tech support, setup help etc.

StackIT from Lidl is a more general cloud offering, for instance offering more customisable options (like barebone VMs) for the companies that want to do things themselves

But they don’t. Organisations seem to be unable or unwilling to have a presence on multiple sites, or at most they seem to choose either X+BlueSky or X+Mastodon

Using US search engines underneath is what almost all search engines do, including Ecosia and Qwant. Until next year at least, when they will hopefully finish their own search index.

Otherwise, valid question

Embarrassing if true. And one more example of why we need a stronger unity, more cohesion, in the EU. Because otherwise big countries can just target one of us specifically to blackmail us.

Not to defend them, but almost every single rich person lobbies for less property and inheritance taxes

Your mistake is that you assume there’s a rational reason for the level of tariffs in the first place - they use a nonsense formula based on trade imbalance

True, but 40% is definitely not small either

Recently switched from FolderSync to Syncthing - using Syncthing-Fork on my android smartphone.

Was easier to set up than expected. If you have lots of devices, read up on the introducer feature, it makes the connecting all devices to each other more convenient.

I recommend activating the time schedule feature for Android Smartphones to save battery, mine is set to run for 5 minutes every hour.

Sadly owned to a large part by an american investment company

What do you use for music then?

This really could use some EU regulation. But probably not a very simple issue (especially the cameras I believe)

I think it’s not a distribution really, more of a set of layers on top of a distribution. Like a blueprint for how to setup a distribution for government use in a standardised way. Or sth like that, I didn’t really understand it completely.

Also making our governments dependent on a US organisation seems like a very bad idea, even if it is Ubuntu.

It’s a PayPal alternative, but developed in tandem with most European banks. That way, it will at some point also be used as backend for your normal debit and credit card payments, instead of VISA / MasterCard. If I remember correctly.

If AirVPN supports OpenVPN (it probably does), there is a way to have an OpenVPN connection that is not actively used unless you specify it for the app which you want.

For instance with qBittorrent you can select to use the VPN network interface in the settings. This has the nice advantage that it also acts like a kill switch.

It is a little bit finicky to set up for the average user, but if you have some basic tech skills it should be easy with the right guide. If you’re interested I canl try to find it.

Tricount is Dutch

Apparently the founders have 44% of voting rights. So not even the majority anymore…

Tbh I don’t think it’s possible to have a promising AI startup in Europe without American investors yeeting their money at it. We probably need to limit this legally.