Is it time to start an Infomaniak community on Lemmy to post news and Q&A?

I’ve recently picked Infomaniak for my buyeuropean/degoogling process and I think it’s pretty great, but the online dicussion is really limited compared to Proton or Tuta.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62570577

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62570526

I'm looking for an alternative to duolingo, the main appeal for me of duolingo is the gamification of the app as this helps me to stay consistent (so just normal flashcards would not be suitable).

Thanks in advance

Does someone have recommendations for cargo shorts? I need new ones for the upcoming summer. Everything I find are shorts without additional pockets and/or they are to short, I like mine at knee length. Thank you!

This year, I gave 10 euros to Libre Office

https://www.libreoffice.org/

I gave 5 euros to VLC

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

I gave 5 euros to Qbittorent

https://www.qbittorrent.org/

I come from a low-income country. Europeans can afford to give much more.

Last year, the CEO of Adobe earned 20 40 million dollars. He only travels in an armored SUV with bodyguards. He has been described as ''completely obsessed'' about money and power. If he could get away with it, he would probably murder open source developers to send a warning.

Are you happy that people and companies from your community are wiring money to Microsoft for the privilege to use Word™ and Excel™ ?

Are you happy that people and companies in your community are wiring money to Adobe for the privilege to use Premiere Pro™ and Photoshop™ ?

This is money leaving your coun

I work in a store where I walk a lot and make many heavy lifts on a daily basis. And normally i just use regular cheap jeans, but they only last some months before they rip on the inner tights.

So I'm looking for some durable pants that handle friction and sweat in the inner thigh. I was looking at Fjällräven but I have heard they are not that good compared to price anymore. So any recommendations on EU or preferably Scandinavian brands?

Volla phone AMA on reddit right now: https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1k6rmdo/ama_volla_phones/

Volla is a German phone brand that offers an own minimalistic operating system, too. It was subject in this community and there is a chance to ask questions at reddit. AMA started at 15:00.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/32786914

I'm currently looking to replace my in-ears (which are slowly dying) and I have settled on the open-ear form factor. Unfortunately open-ears are not very common, so I've had trouble finding many European options. I'd settle for a European company, because produced in Europe is even more difficult to find.

What I found so far:

• Nothing Open Ear (UK, produced in China)
• Suunto Aqua/Wing/Sonic (Finland, probably produced in China apparently completely Chinese now
• Teufel Airy Open TWS (Germany, probably produced in China)
• Beyerdynamic Veerio 200 (Germany, 85% of all Beyerdynamic products produced in Germany)

Please do not confuse open-back (full-size over-ear) and open-ear (small form factor).

European brands I have checked which do not have open-ears:

• Steelseries
• Bang & Olufsen
• Austrian Audio
• Sennheiser
• Meze
• Fairphone
• Valco
• Fresh 'n Rebel
• Jabra

Brands with open-ears but not European:

• Shokz
• Bose
• JBL
• Suunto (used to be Finnish, now 100% Chinese)

Do you have, use, or recommend alternatives to Grammarly?

If you are unfamiliar with Grammarly, it is a spelling, grammar, and tone checker and suggester. The free tier is very useful.

I looked into alternatives, and what I found is:

Grammarly is a US-based company. For accounts created in the EU or UK, no content is used to train models. Others have a choice. Targeted advertising (email address to unique identifier) can be disabled.

LanguageTool is owned by a German business (GmbH), but operates under an international business called Learneo (Inc.). The privacy policy is with Learneo and does include data transfer to the US. It's unclear to me whether they operate [with the data] in the US or if that is only for specific or secondary operations and support.

LanguageTool uses third-party US analytics (Google Analytics and Amplitude.

LanguageTool is Open Source, but

Dear Fellow Europeans

Any recommendations on where to buy a small number “Buy European” stickers in various sizes and materials that I can stick to my laptop/phone?

I just canceled my Amazon Prime membership, something I was almost afraid of. Phew, it's nice to have that off my back.

I've been shopping less and less at Amazon anyway and barely used prime video, so I'll probably won't even notice the difference.

My TV is not a smart TV but has hdmi inputs. Are there any non American alternatives to the Amazon fire stick?

Not only software and FMCG! Support EU artisans and manufacturers!

I needed to create a wishlist recently, so I researched what websites of this type are managed by entities located in the EU, EEA, UK. Here's what I found:

• favolis.com: BE, Cubro BVBA, BE 0633.839.768
• wishlephant.com: DE, Anika Lindtner and Bodo Tasche, Richard-Sorge-Str. 59, 10249, Berlin
• wishly.de / wishly.uk / wishly.net: DE, Dresslove GmbH, DE300292359
• gowish.com: DK, Gowish ApS, 41284366 / onskeskyen.dk: DK, Ønskeskyen ApS, 41284366
• wishlist.dk: DK, Morten Helmstedt, November 4, 1983, Heimdalsgade 45, Nørrebro
• cherpapanoel.fr: FR, Tilt Studio SARL, 52134798900019
• listy.fr: FR, LISTY SAS, 888083326
• thegoodlist.fr: FR, THE GOOD LIST SAS, 890016769
• lijstje.nl: NL, Digital Intelligence BV, 34121564