Buy European
Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
Rules:
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Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. No direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments.
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Include a disclaimer at the bottom of the post if you're affiliated with the recommendation.
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No russian suggestions.
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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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๐ง๐ช Belgium: https://0d.gs/
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๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
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Catalonia: https://lemmy.cat/
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๐จ๐ฟCzech Republic https://lemmings.world/
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๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark, including Greenland (for now): https://feddit.dk/
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๐ช๐บ Europe: https://europe.pub/
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๐ซ๐ท๐ง๐ช๐จ๐ญ France, Belgium, Switzerland: https://jlai.lu/
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ & https://suppo.fi/
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๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://feddit.it/
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๐ฑ๐น Lithuania: https://group.lt/
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๐ฑ๐บ Luxembourg https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/
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๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: https://feddit.nl/
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๐ต๐ฑ Poland: https://fedit.pl/ & https://szmer.info/
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๐ต๐น Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/
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๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia: https://gregtech.eu/
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๐ธ๐ช Sweden: https://feddit.nu/
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๐น๐ท Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
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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
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Banner credits: BYTEAlliance
American CPU, made in Taiwan, assembled in China, and somehow European tech?
Let me know when itโs a RISC-V laptop made at STMicroelectronics with memory made at GlobalFoundries in Dresden!
The post clearly says European brands.
There is no European-made x86 CPU available.
Sadly GloFo has its headquarters in New York (state) and is owned by a UAE investor. So would you really call that European then?
Besides that it doesn't seem to produce or be capable of producing DDR5 and focuses on logic instead.
Nothing is perfect.
Are these available in the US?
Tuxedo and starlabs both ship to US. First time hearing of slimbook for me.
I genuinely thought that this was a meme about stereotypes around how different countries name products for a second.
Very good list of recommendments, also my choices!
(To be fair, there are more good ones in that thread, but I'm not complaining).
edit: also, there's Novacustom which is Dutch and lets you customise a lot of shit.
Actually had a terrible experience with star labs, not recommended
What happened?
Your link didn't work for me. I had to wait several seconds for a redirect that then said "there's nothing here."
Weird, for me it says it's a blahaj zone link and works
this one uses a feddit uk link - does it work?
How are they in terms of reparability?
I really like the ethos of framework.... alas, they are from the US. But if you are going to buy any US tech, you can't do better than them.
Yeah, I would switch from my Framework to a Slimbook if they offered upgradability.
They could make parts that work to the Framework spec, that is open source, which would he awesome.
Which of them laptops have a track point and three mouse buttons so it can be actually used on the LAP?
I'd love that, but I'd also happily accept two mouse buttons and a normal touchpad over one giant buttonless panel.
How is the experience importing from the UK these days? I have avoided the UK at all costs since brexit. As I didn't feel like possibly having to deal with customs and delays, etc. Is it better now, including automatic taxes? Or best to still avoid it if there is a reasonable alternative?
Man, I really miss when we had home computers to rival the Americans, like the ZX81.
Anyone knows how's StarBook's support and general quality? The Horizon looks pretty damn good, but is pricy, compared to Tuxedo's Aura 14, and Tuxedo has a super cool support app built-in to their Linux distro.
Linux support? amazing, been running Debian on it no problems, everything working out of the box. Customer support? no idea, I had no need to contact them
You have a StarBook? Would you mind saying which one? I was all but decided on a Tuxedo, but then I saw how (seemingly) sexy the Horizon looks, and now I'm a bit on the fence... :D
sorry, I misread, I have StarLabs Lite, not the Horizon. But I am seriously considering upgrading to it
I have a star labs Byte. Itโs an intel n355 that sits under the tv to play emulated games it runs time crisis pretty well :) and it runs jelly fin/sonar etc to transcode stuff to Apple TV. The other nice thing is the bios is open source coreboot. Iโm currently trying to silence the fan which at least is possible because of the open source bios
The biggest down side of my inifintity book is that my right shift key is a painful stretch. Because they use full sized arrow keys and the up takes up the useful half of the right shift.
So half the time i hit up instead of shift and start typing my sentence on the wrong line. Its fucking infuriating.
God knows why they made that choice but next laptop i will be sure to watch out for that