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The community to discuss buying European goods and services.


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Supports shipping to:

  • Netherlands (no shipping required)
  • UK (no shipping required)
  • Germany
  • Austria
  • Norway (no shipping required)
  • Finland (no shipping required)
  • Belgium
  • Romania (no shipping required)

Non EU:

  • US (hawaii too)
  • Australia,
  • Puerto rico

Here's their promise to never use forced labour for their cocoa.

There's also the Tony's open chain: a pledge by many companies (not just eu, also us) to use only ethically sourced cocoa. The companies are: here

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First time I hear about it

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JustWatch is a kind of search engine that helps you find out which streaming services has particular movies or TV shows. It supports many countries, so if there are local streaming services in your country, they might be included in JustWatch. JustWatch is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

JustWatch has a genre called "Made in Europe". You can find it by first clicking Popular at the top of the page and then Genres in the filtering section. Somewhat confusingly, it includes movies and TV shows not made in Europe. The banner image at the top of the page says "Co-funded by Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of European Union" which might explain why non-European shows are included. But it does contain many European movies and TV shows, and you can filter and sort them to find content that interests you. Check the production country under "About the movie/TV show" section if you want to be sure it's produced in Europe.

PS. This is a direct link to Made in Europe for UK users: https://www.justwatch.com/uk/made-in-europe. It's better if you go through the front page so that the page can detect your country and provide you content tailored to your country, such as the available streaming services.

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/8944947

When talking to people don't forget to mention (or summarize) this overview.

If you are fluent in German (or have a good translator) you might also enjoy his blog and persepctive on data sovereignty.

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Is there a European alternative to Apple FindMy or GoogleMaps location tracking that allows you to share your location with each other?

I would be very grateful for any tips.

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The Adventures of Tintin is widely regarded as a classic of comic art, but some issues are rightly criticized for racial stereotyping and a romanticized view of colonialism. This is hardly surprising, however, as the series dates back to the 1930s.

There are also several animated television series. The best known is a French-Canadian co-production with 39 half-hour episodes.

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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

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Emperor@feddit.uk to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
 
 

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:

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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.

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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:

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

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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?

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