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Welcome to BuyFromEU—a community committed to supporting European-made products and services! Whether you're searching for locally crafted fashion, innovative technology, delicious food, or professional services, this is your space to share, explore, and promote businesses that strengthen the European market.

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submitted 2 weeks ago by tfm to c/BuyFromEU
 
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/9301725

While I find the wiki-style site for European alternatives ( https://www.goeuropean.org/ ) very helpful and have started using it fairly regularly, I feel like it misses an option to just look up a brand or company and easily find out where it's from. Maybe that is already an option and I haven't found it. If so, please point me in that direction.

If not, what I would hope for, is a quick and simple place to check if a given brand or company is perhaps American owned (or more generally where it's profit ultimately goes). For example, I seriously doubt my mother in law would be able to know that Toblerone is an American owned brand. The current wiki pre-supposes that users already know this.

The average EU citizen is in his mid 40s and likely not all that tech savvy. Purchasing power skews towards older folks anyway, so it should be a goal to get this demographic on board. Does anyone have a starting off point where one can easily find the information on a specific company or brand on the go? Could something like this be added to the current site ( https://www.goeuropean.org/ )?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/41819102

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/31644916

recable is handmade for you in Merseburg. We only produce what is in demand to avoid electrical waste. We source all individual parts from within a 500 km radius - with the exception of the plugs. Our CO₂ footprint is about half that of standard USB cables. You can read more about this here.

https://en.recable.eu/pages/recable-usb-ladekabel-nachhaltigkeit

https://www.recable.it/pages/co2-bilanz

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/26944520

Just a quick reminder to those looking for web services alternatives based in EU - there's a quite an easy way of self-hosting it all by yourself and remain fairly independent of any 3rd party decisions to monetize, move or shut down services, or use your private data:

  • The cheapest EU & Co based Virtual Private Server (VPS). Could cost you up to 5 bob/month.
  • Linux OS of your choice (I'd personally recommend Debian since CentOS is now gone and its alternatives for servers are not well established yet). Free.
  • ISPConfig hosting control panel. Free and somewhere EU based as I understand it. I've been using it on and off for about 15 years.
  • Your own domain name. Try to avoid *.zip one for your email server... Let's say that will set you back by up to 20 bob/year.
  • A step by step tutorial on how to set it all up. Encryption, spam filter, antivirus, email fetching and webmail all come free!
  • (Optional) You probably will need to ask your VPS provider to open certain email ports for you.

That's it - you have your own little hosting set up, which you can use for your websites as well! And whatever else more advanced you may want to try in the future! Add a couple of your friends and relatives with their own domain names into it - and you may even be in profit!

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/41797803

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submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by tfm to c/BuyFromEU
 
 

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/1842

Meta, Google, Amazon: Soll Europa US-Tech-Konzerne zur Kasse bitten? Trumps Zoll-Hammer befeuert die Diskussion um eine Digitalsteuer. Was dafür spricht - und was dagegen.

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cross-posted from: https://szmer.info/post/6667862

I am not related in any way with the company, and I am looking forward to it: the phone promises to be a good e-ink smartphone, with huge focus around conscious usage.

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cross-posted from: https://biglemmowski.win/post/5842702

Germany is financing Ukraine's access to a satellite internet network operated by French company Eutelsat, Reuters reported on April 4, citing Eutelsat CEO Eva Berneke.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/41721606

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/31591172

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cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/europe@feddit.org/t/2009546

use your voice

If you are concerned about people being influenced by Russia, the US, and China, be it via Facebook, Reddit, TikTok, local ads, or whatever else, if you are concerned about that friend who suddenly started spouting anti-EU rhetoric from Youtube, if you're unhappy with how the EU and member states have handled it so far, this is for you.

EU citizens can respond and it would be in our interest to do so too.

It will take 10 minutes if you're quick, longer if you want to leave comments on each point. There are 4 points with up to 4 sub points, each comment can be 3500 characters long.

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submitted 2 days ago by tfm to c/BuyFromEU
 
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/10203711

Was ist eigentlich dieses Reddit? Gibt es aber auch hier: !buyfromeu@feddit.org

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/31396291

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/31399365

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submitted 4 days ago by tfm to c/BuyFromEU
 
 

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/92331

"It's just possible that you, a sentient being with active sensory input, have cause for concern about the security of data hosted both in the United States and by Microsoft. GitHub has been ubiquitous and indispensable for technologists. But maybe it's time to reconsider that status."

https://taggart-tech.com/migrate-to-codeberg/

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/41547642

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The EU Open Source Solutions Catalogue is now live (interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu)
submitted 4 days ago by tfm to c/BuyFromEU
 
 
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/31412344

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27875856

A self-proclaimed data enthusiast calling themselves ‘ThinkingOne’ has made a huge database containing 201 million pieces of user data from X freely available. The data is said to have come from two previous leaks and includes email addresses, locations and profile data of users of the social media platform.

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