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Failed wheat harvest which caused a bread shortage.
Bread was a staple food in 18th century France.

I'm not quite sure if it is similar to the rice shortage in Japan today however. When the French couldn't eat bread in the 18th century they went hungry, but when the Japanese today can't buy rice they can just buy a different carb.

Its the difference between barely scraping by on bread, and being inconvenienced by not being able to buy cheap rice.

I had the same experience with Spotify recently, but apparently they are Swedish.
There is low-key quite a few large European tech companies that are easily assumed to be American.

OP's question is for "single board computers developed or produced in the EU or Europe" though

The Raspberry Pi foundation is headquartered in Cambridge, UK.

https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_Foundation

Not sure if you are looking for a Pi replacement specficially, but if your goal is only to buy European, the Raspberry Pi already has you covered

Somehow I don't feel easy with Europe buying American gas at this point. Trump could simply shut down the gas supply on a whim just like Putin did in 2022, and then we'd have another energy crisis on our hands.

America is an unreliable trading partner.

Instead we should be doing everything in our power to build down our gas and oil dependencies as fast as possible. And in the meantime we should be very picky about who we buy gas from.

Lobbying is just a group of people representing the interest of that group to their representatives. A gay rights lobby group would also be lobbying the government if they advocate for better rights for LGBT people.

The issue isn't so much the fact that lobbying is a thing, but rather the methods (read: bribery) that some lobby groups engage in.

I have 24TB on my own server, and another 1TB (split halfway between me and my boyfriend) that comes with a Proton account I pay for.

The 24TB was about € 200 per drive, built out over several years.
3 x 8 TB + 1 x 8 TB for parity makes about € 800 total. The other hardware was leftover computer hardware I had lying around, so in total I think the server cost me about € 1000,-

I pay € 180 / year for Proton for two people, which is € 7,50 per person per month. That includes a mail server, 1 TB cloud storage (500 GB per person), VPN, password manager, etc.

It's a French initiative, so it makes sense that their share of the vote is outsized compared to the other countries.
The organizers are likely not sitting idle at home.

I've been keeping an eye on it off and on over the past year. The sudden speed at which the petition is going has gotten me quite hopeful that we might make the threshold of 1.000.000 signatures.

Yesterday we were averaging about 12.000 signatures per hour.
Currently we seem to be averaging about 20.000 signatures per hour.

It's getting so much attention that the website appears to be suffering a natural DDOS 🏳️‍🌈

The problem in this case is the Google Play Store, not Android.

Google is blocking Nextcloud from updating their app on the Play Store unless they remove this vital permission. But nothing is stopping Nextcloud from making their app available on third party app stores with the approriate permissions.

If you download the app from F-Droid instead, it should work correctly.

That is not to say that what Google is doing isn't monopolistic. I'm just pointing out that you can bypass this restriction by not using their app store.

Would be a noble goal to bring obligations closer to something voluntarily taken and not just obedience.

It may be noble, but it is also a bit out of touch with reality.

When you participate in society (even if it is something as simple as buying groceries at the supermarket) then you have to follow the rules of that society that you participate in. We have decided together as a society, democratically, what those rules are.

You can't then say "I'm not playing by the rules" and expect people to just accept that.

Edit: Fixed a typo

This group calls themselves Reichsbürger, and from my understanding it's essentially equivalent to Sovereign Citizens in the US.

Installing a monarchy may be the stated goal, but it is not in itself the reason why people join this group. Rather it is about illegitimizing the current government so that they (supposedly) do not hold power over you.

There are various reasons why people would join a group like that, but a common one seems to be that they are running away from the consequences of their actions in one form or another. If the government is illegitimate, then the pain their society imposes (e.g. unpaid fines, mounting debt, etc) is also illegitimate.

The reason for the government's illegitimacy is irrelevant. All that matters is that the state should be illegitimized in some way.