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The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
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Useful Websites
General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
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:
Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
๐ง๐ช Belgium: https://0d.gs/
๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
Catalonia: https://lemmy.cat/
๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark, including Greenland (for now): https://feddit.dk/
๐ช๐บ Europe: https://europe.pub/
๐ซ๐ท๐ง๐ช๐จ๐ญ France, Belgium, Switzerland: https://jlai.lu/
๐ฉ๐ช๐ฆ๐น๐จ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ฎ Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein: https://feddit.org/
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ & https://suppo.fi/
๐ฎ๐ธ Iceland: https://feddit.is/
๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://feddit.it/
๐ฑ๐น Lithuania: https://group.lt/
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: https://feddit.nl/
๐ต๐ฑ Poland: https://fedit.pl/ & https://szmer.info/
๐ต๐น Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/
๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia: https://gregtech.eu/
๐ธ๐ช Sweden: https://feddit.nu/
๐น๐ท Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
๐ฌ๐ง UK: https://feddit.uk/
Friendica:
๐ฆ๐น Austria: https://friendica.io/
๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://poliverso.org/
๐ฉ๐ช Germany: https://piratenpartei.social/ & https://anonsys.net/
๐ซ๐ท Significant French speaking userbase: https://social.trom.tf/
๐ต๐ฑ Poland: soc.citizen4.eu
Matrix:
๐ฌ๐ง UK: matrix.org & glasgow.social
๐ซ๐ท France: tendomium & imagisphe.re & hadoly.fr
๐ฉ๐ช Germany: tchncs.de, catgirl.cloud, pub.solar, yatrix.org, digitalprivacy.diy, oblak.be, nope.chat, envs.net, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: bark.lgbt
๐ฆ๐น Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
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Oh no! Guess I better continue to use Libre Office instead.
And Collabora Office on mobile devices :)
Sounds like robbery our data. Fact is we hear about data breaches all the time. Don't allow this for your personal data.
The current US admin cannot be trusted not to force Microsoft to handover your data and use it against you.
It will be done before it gets to court.
Thanks, I hate it.
The change is designed to make it easier for users to back up and access their documents across devices
Bullshit. The change is so microsoft can mine more data to feed openai.
Jokes on them, I use AI for all my text writing anyway.
Thatโs clearly for Copilot to scan all your documents for "indexing" without your consent
Is it even possible for regular person to get a an enterprise license of windows?
Seems like of this is intentional to funnel people into OS that spies and steals.
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Try Linux and LibreOffice.
and Collabora Office on mobile devices!
On it
Daily driver for the last 10+ years!
I've heard that there is a mass grave one can visit where you can find information about obtaining and activating enterprise versions.
Goto ebay (cover your mouth and nose)
Is this actually a valid strategy?
Its implied consent just like when a woman looks at you, duh.
Microsoft is steering customers to Linux
and that changes everything
Does not change my opinion :-)
This company is becoming more and more toxic, and everybody should abandon their stuff ASAP!
Yet another reason to use alternatives to Microsoft.
Although it took me forever to switch to linux I switch to libreoffice in the early twenty teens I think. Once you could export to pdf it became the better way.
They did this already with Excel, and broke a lot of macros. Also changed how it could use IE for automation, and of course there's no way to convert it to Edge. If Microsoft didn't have 99% of the business world already tied up in their stuff they'd go out of business soon for the stupid things they break of their own products.
It seems like every new day has a new reason to remind me why I'm glad I ditched Microsoft.
Nice try M$, I completely removed OneDrive from all of my Win11 installs. It still tries to get me to save to the folder that once upon a time was OneDrive by default. Auto save off, and save as on every save and select the folder on my file server.
completely removed OneDrive
Kindly asking for a tutorial.
I was trying to create an Excel pie chart based on a downloaded CSV file. No big, but something I might only need once a year. Couldn't remember the PivotTable params. Search in help. It offers to do it for me. Sure, I think, not realizing it would try to turn on CoPilot, then try to upload the file to their cloud for analysis, then save it to OneDrive cloud.
The only thing that stopped it was that by default the 'auto-save' toggle wasn't on. So it stopped and complained. Killed it and started over, making sure everything was local. Ugh.
Who the fuck uses word except children?
a metric shit ton of businesses.
Like small ones? I've worked for a few corporations, and the only Microsoft products we used (other than the OS) were Outlook and Excel. We were specifically told DO NOT OPEN WORD DOCUMENTS. Maybe that's just me.
Lol what. Every person I know that works in a corporate environment uses Microsoft's entire suite. Never heard of anything else. I don't like it either, but every corporation does it.
What the fuck corporations are you working for? I worked for Petco, Geico, and Spectrum (I'm sorry, I know their services suck). We were taught and TOLD not to do that. We were told IF YOU OPEN A MICROSOFT OFFICE DOCUMENT, IT'S A PHISHING EMAIL AND IT'S GOING TO RUN A MACRO.
Dog, I'm honestly getting pissed off.
i work for a large corp and ms products are forced on us. :/
Damn, same, but not word
I'd bet the majority of office jobs?
Lol. I had this conversation with a coworker. We were tasked with building product documentation and user guide. I suggested we use LaTeX or typst so it looks professional, and follows proper formatting. They want to use word. Word always looks like janky shit, and edits are a disaster even if you follow best-practises
Nowadays it seems like the children are mostly using Google Docs thanks to their time on Chromebooks in school.
A recruiter just asked me to give them my CV in Word because their ATS couldn't hack my PDF resume.
People whose employers retain a Microsoft contract