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I am writing right now from my degoogled Fairphone 4 running /e/OS.

I would buy again in a heartbeat.

It's definitely not the most bang for your bucks. But it's good enough for any use, it already outlived my last 3 phones, and it shows no sign of giving up (even when I was using the Google infested OS a few months back).

I'd recommend it.

The blog in question has several proposal in that direction, though a little more sophisticated.

He basically says that the EU should fund the development and deployment of certain key services that are technologically feasible and hugely important. Even doing this at a total loss, the benefits would be beyond huge and build the capacity we would need to take further steps.

He lists 7 examples, but I'll give you 3. We need viable, comparable quality, alternatives to:

• GMail/Outlook.com
• Google Docs
• Github

The article is here:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/now-how-to-get-that-european-cloud/

Come on guys, this idea that we can just tell big tech to fuck off overnight is naive even by my standards.

Big tech offers several services and capabilities that are used by european companies and that we just don't have in Europe at the moment, and if we decide to retaliate against them we end up fucking up our own economy just like POTUS is doing.

This article explains the problem:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-european-cloud-ladder/

highly recommend the blog BTW, at least the articles that are not in dutch. He has talked a lot about these issues and has proposals on how to begin to improve the situation without shooting ourselves in the foot.

Can't even tell if serious or what.

Can't you just block if from connecting to the internet at the level of your router?

I think the whole incident was blown way out of proportions and with lack of context, like the one about Firefox TOS.

No it's not, or it would be orange.

Honestly I think I maybe like FUTO better than Gboard. Maybe I've been using Heliboard too long and FUTO feels like such an upgrade...

I think both Heliboard and the FUTO keyboard should work well for you. The FUTO keyboard just works noticeably better, and also has its own voice input.

Both support multilingual typing, so in can also scrivere un po' in Italiano, oder auch ein bisschen Deutsch, without even switching the keyboard's language.

FUTO is a US based organisation, but I don't care and maybe neither should you. Their keyeboard is open source and is so private that it does not even require an internet permission (Which even becomes slightly annoying when you have to download extra dictionaries by hand).

Openboard lives on, in new hands. Look up Heliboard.

That's why any sane person takes the whole "Buy European" as an important element of a buying decision, not the only element.

Vimeo is one of the very few places on the internet where one can get some DRM free content.

Yes they are US based, but I am willing to cut a bit of slack to companies whose business model I don't completely hate. Like Bandcamp.