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Szewek

@ Szewek @sopuli.xyz

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I am still in it for a wonderful green future. Nature and wildlife, but also useful, accessible tech, art, and urban planning. Polish, living in Sweden. I love living in the EU and the values it represents. Fascinated by and open to the rest of the world.

Picture: "Blue Coat", Paul Klee

  • OneDrive Alternative

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  • I've been using Koofr and I am very happy. It works smooth and fast, they have great blogs for more custom stuff. Backuping local folders is very easy, I also got to replace Google Photos with it (2 in 1!).

    Nextcloud seem to be a standard for many things. I've barely used it, you would need to choose a provider, maybe it would work with Hetzner. I think Nextcloud requires more work to set up than Koofr or OneDrive, but is more customizable.

  • Why settle for an American dialect when you could be speaking a European made international language?

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  • Drones almost fully made in EU (no Chinese components)

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  • Okay, that's even worse than I thought.

  • Why there’s no European Google? - And why it is a good thing!

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  • I get your point. But any collective myth will overlook a lot reality. Americans actually help each other and organize themselves in their communities, despite the hassle culture. Chinese had many failed attempts at dominating industries. Many Russians actually prefer a calm and good life to the glory of their country.

    In a way, a myth is more about what we want to be than what we are. Or, the part of ourselves we are proud of.

    The choice is ours. We simply need to choose whom we admire. Whom we want to recognize as successful. Whom we aspire to be when we grow up. We need to sing the praises of our true heroes: those who contribute to our commons.

    It could, obviously, just be international. There are people giving away inventions to mankind all around the world, though not equally distributed. But there is a window of opportunity for big part of Europe to embrace these values as our, though not exclusively our. The local aspect is beneficial, since it gives the universal values a sense of belonging and strong institutions.

  • Drones almost fully made in EU (no Chinese components)

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  • I'm not that good with Middle East politics. How bad is that?

  • Drones almost fully made in EU (no Chinese components)

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  • Pick European Chocolate

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  • I mean, I guess the non-dark ones may well be great as well, I just eat mainly dark chocolate ¯\(ツ)/¯

  • Pick European Chocolate

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  • Or... Garant. They have surprisingly good chocolate, especially the dark ones with raspberries or cranberries are delicious.

  • Pick European Chocolate

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  • Haribo and Chupa Chups now make chocolate?

    (BTW +10 respect to Tony's for actually carrying about the sources of their ingredients).

  • Why there’s no European Google?

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  • We often hear that Europeans don’t have, like Americans, the "success culture." Those examples, and there are many more, prove the opposite. Europeans like success. But they often don’t consider "winning against the whole society" as one. Instead, they tend to consider success a collective endeavour. Success is when your work is recognized long after you are gone, when it benefits every citizen. Europeans dream big: they hope that their work will benefit humankind as a whole!

    Simplistic (Europe and USA are non-homogenous), but this simplicity is needed to build a positive myth. And a positive myth might need a region, a culture, and institutions willing to stand for it - however universal it is.

  • Why there’s no European Google?

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  • I agree and appreciate the article a tonne.

    And I think it is more to the point, and less naive, than might seem after the first reading. The issue is the reliance on Google (sorry, Alphabet), Facebook (sorry, Meta), Twitter (sorry, X), Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. Thinking we need European Google or Microsoft to solve is a failure of imagination. We (largely) have the technology to do it differently. What we lack is the will to do it differently.

  • Friends tell me Fediverse is the Esperanto of social media

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  • And Esperanto-speaking engineers?

  • Friends tell me Fediverse is the Esperanto of social media

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  • This should have more upvotes. It is truly the social of media.

  • Why there’s no European Google?

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  • Almost everything Big Tech does could be solved with a protocol and diverse server providers. Prove me wrong.

    (I mean, what Big Tech does for its presumed users, "the common people"...)

  • Friends tell me Fediverse is the Esperanto of social media

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  • Friends tell me Fediverse is the Esperanto of social media

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  • Name the best US to EU switch you have made so far

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  • Yes! The US economy relies so much on overinvestment. All the American giants and startups had international investment fueling them for years before they made profits. The dollar relies on everybody securing savings in US treasury. The less of it the better.

    And my diversified European, Latin American, and Asian stocks slap as well (⌐■_■) I need to get more stuff from Canada!

  • Best Calendar apps?

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  • Check out this thread and the analogous thread on !buyfromeu@feddit.org. In brief, I decided on DAVx5 for synchronization, Nextcloud for storage, and Etar. I also downloaded Thunderbird to have a desktop synch. It took me longer to figure out which apps to use based on all the comments + my subscriptions than to set it up.

    If you don't have Nextcloud, you can easily just make an account with them, and get much more than enough storage for a calendar.

  • Best Calendar apps?

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  • Thanks! I got Etar and DAVx5, though with a Nextcloud server.

  • Best Calendar apps?

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  • Thanks! I got DAVx5 set up now (⌐■_■) And trying out Etar as well!

  • BuyFromEU @feddit.org
    Szewek @sopuli.xyz

    Underappreciated EU suppliers lead the semiconductor equipment market

    www.yolegroup.com /strategy-insights/underappreciated-eu-suppliers-lead-the-semiconductor-equipment-market/
  • Buy European @feddit.uk
    Szewek @sopuli.xyz

    Underappreciated EU suppliers lead the semiconductor equipment market

    www.yolegroup.com /strategy-insights/underappreciated-eu-suppliers-lead-the-semiconductor-equipment-market/
  • BuyFromEU @feddit.org
    Szewek @sopuli.xyz

    European companies dominate wind turbine manufacturing outside of China

    www.woodmac.com /press-releases/2024-press-releases/global-wind-oem-marketshare/
  • Europe @feddit.org
    Szewek @sopuli.xyz

    European companies dominate wind turbine manufacturing outside of China

    www.woodmac.com /press-releases/2024-press-releases/global-wind-oem-marketshare/
  • Buy European @feddit.uk
    Szewek @sopuli.xyz

    European companies dominate wind turbine manufacturing outside of China

    www.woodmac.com /press-releases/2024-press-releases/global-wind-oem-marketshare/