Buy European
Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
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Useful Websites
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General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
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Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
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Buy European meta website with useful links: https://gohug.eu/ (relevant post)
Benefits of Buying Local:
local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.
European Instances
Lemmy:
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Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
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๐ฌ๐ง UK: https://feddit.uk/
Friendica:
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๐ฆ๐น Austria: https://friendica.io/
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๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://poliverso.org/
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๐ฉ๐ช Germany: https://piratenpartei.social/ & https://anonsys.net/
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๐ซ๐ท Significant French speaking userbase: https://social.trom.tf/
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๐ต๐ฑ Poland: soc.citizen4.eu
Matrix:
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๐ฌ๐ง UK: matrix.org & glasgow.social
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๐ซ๐ท France: tendomium & imagisphe.re & hadoly.fr
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๐ฉ๐ช Germany: tchncs.de, catgirl.cloud, pub.solar, yatrix.org, digitalprivacy.diy, oblak.be, nope.chat, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat
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๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: bark.lgbt
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๐ฆ๐น Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
Related Communities:
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While I like the idea of an open source printer, there's just no world in which I ever buy another inkjet printer. I print way too infrequently.
There's something about supporting something even if you have no personal use of it.
So yeah I to don't plan to use one, but I support the hell out of anything that busts the balls of big, entrenched and enshittyfied big tech.
Agree, I really don't need a printer at all, but I'm still rooting for the project to succeed
I have apprehensions about it being inkjet as well, but the possibility of not having tracking dots in everything I print is a nice prospect. The privacy factor overrides my desire for laser
Well, this is a disturbing new fact I learned today. ๐
Yes, it's incredibly dystopian, but thankfully open source saves the day again with Deda
It's not clear to me exactly what Deda does to anonymise a document before printing, they talk about masking the dots, but it seems to me that the easiest way would just be to create a list of all possible dot positions, and print a yellow dot on a random subset of them (or, indeed, all of them), so confounding anyone trying to identify the real dots. Ideally this would be a CUPS filter, so you could just set it up once and have all printouts anonymised.
That's also something you can do with Deda. It's a full analysis tool with reading, identification, creating custom dots, and masking dots. So for example, if you use openprinter for something subversive but want to avoid identification due to lack of dots, you could create fake dots to hide that your printer doesn't use them
To evade tracking dots buy a used printer with cash.
Or just buy a black and white laser printer. Can't print yellow dots with no yellow toner, and 99% of people I have ever met who need and use a printer do not need high-quality inkjet color prints, or even middling laser color prints, on a regular basis.
Considering it's open source and on a roll, one could simply print like 1 mm a week and it would never dry out. Or whatever the minimum would be based on current conditions.
Sometimes technological advancements aren't necessarily progress. I may be wrong, but print heads clogging was less frequent and easier to fix when we didn't have picoliter droplets.