I was planning to take a sabbatical year and to help me with the expenses I wanted to rent my house, as I live in a very touristic area.

I don't want to use airbnb anymore, so, is there any European alternative

Inspired by the previous post.

It is important to target American soft power too, especially in comics where US comic books inspire a lot of the big movie and TV franchises.

So recommend your favourite European comics and tell us why you like it.

Relevant communities:

• !eurographicnovels@lemm.ee
• !britishcomics@feddit.uk
• !fumetti@feddit.it

I was thinking of getting something I wear 24/7 for monitoring my heart rate etc. and since I have a samsung phone the default choice was a samsung smartwatch. The other alternatives I found recommended were American (garmin, fitbit, apple...) but are there any European alternatives? I kinda expected europe to lead with this kind of health related things tbo.

On the database website, I didn't see any alternatives to GitHub, or even a category for that I could submit to.

"Software development, collaboration & hosting"?

Here are some:

• Codeberg (Germany, non-profit)
• Sourcehut (Netherlands)
• Launchpad (UK, it's not just for Ubuntu stuff)
• Radicle (Switzerland, peer-to-peer: no central host)
• Free Software Foundation Europe, Gitea instance (non-profit)

Alternative to... lots of stuff: GitHub, Google, Gmail, Google Docs, Discord, Skype, Reddit, Twitter etc

• Disroot (Netherlands, non-profit)

Alternative to Microsoft VS Studio Marketplace (extensions for VS Studio IDE)

• Open VSX (Belgium, non-profit)

Open source alternative to Microsoft VS Studio IDE, with Microsoft telemetry removed

• VS Codium

Are there no any EU alternative to those gaming hardware company? If we start now making GPU and CPU from scratch, how far behind are we?

I was driving and found myself craving some caffeinated soda. Since coca and Dr pepper are now off limits I just downed an espresso and got a (European) ice tea, but I'm wondering if there are actual alternatives

Fellow Europeans!

What I am asking for or proposing is a team of a few people who would work together on creating pro-European content such as propaganda posters, infographics, and videos. It would be great to bring together a few of us who specialise or whose hobby is graphic design or video editing and so on. Working together, our content would be of much higher quality than such made by an individual.

I believe it is necessary to to this in order to fight for the opinion of masses. It would be awesome and it would be an honour to work with such people.

The content might involve, of course, European alternatives, spreading European values, promoting European unanimity, perhaps ideas of federalisation / common army and competences, and much, much more.

I believe that it is crucial to do such things together when encountering the entire new world.

Glory to Europe!

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Culture, and television in particularly in Europe has been quite America-dominated for a while. I'd love to hear what's good from your home countries. If I can make a request, give a short description of the shows that you are recommending, try to sell it a bit, and don't just post the titles. Particularly, I'd recommend:

Matador (Danish, 1978)

This is the best TV series in the history of Denmark, possibly the world. Set in a small fictional town, it takes place in the years 1929-1947, and the changes Danish society goes through at the time. While this is interesting, the real strength is the fantastic characterization, with the show starring pretty much all famous Danish actors of the era, doing their best work.

Whiskey on the Rocks (Swedish, 2025)

A Swedish satirical series about the Whiskey on the Rocks incident of 1981, where a Soviet Whiskey-class nuclear submarine ran aground in Karlskrona. It got a lot of criticism for depicting the Soviet Union as lovable drunken buffoons instead of brutal imperialists, but I found it pretty funny regardless.

Braunschlag (Austria, 2011)

Another comedy. The mayor of the upper Austrian village of Braunschlag ran the town bankruptcy. In order to get some money flowing back into the town, he decides to fake a Marian apparition. The series is generally very Austrian, but fantastic if you like that sort of thing.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/8904498

I'm curious what your stance on using products and services from non-European foundations is.

The discussion on LibreOffice made me think about your acceptance of open source products or free services from no-European, or even US American, foundations (The Open Document Foundartion is registerd germany, though).

Mozilla data privacy controversy aside my thought would for example apply to

• Apache Software Foundation (OpenOffice)
• Mozilla Foundation (Firefox, Thunderbird, ...)
• Signal foundation (Signal)

to name the biggest.

For me the use of non-commercial or even open-source products and services from different non-European countries is okay, as they are funded by donations.

The whole idea of buyFromEU seems to funnel money into the own economy in order to have a strong market, and also to proudly use European products. The above mentioned foundations help to increase data sovereignty and after all break loose from commercial solutions that aim at deep integrations and walled gardens.

Cross posted from: https://feddit.org/post/8903315

Credits: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j6ejgu/european_apps_for_hobbies_2_what_else_can_we/

I've seen people unaware of this feature quite a few times