I don’t get the AI hype either. Hallucinated answers and way too much power and water consumption.

It is just not there yet, still everyone is forcing it on us.

Yes, the original post has a lot of corrections :-)

I don’t even see benefits of a Linux being labled european. As long as the source is available, the repositories are accessabile and anybody could in theory build a distribution it should be fine.

That is offtopic 😂

Yea, in hindsight the original (https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1jcr8ks/here_is_the_new_and_improved_guide_to_help_you/) was not worth sharing.

Master Don.

They aren’t readily available though. At least IRIS² should have a date associated: planned for 2027.

Oftentimes they are considered friendly.

And in other communities. Also you misspelled beer.

Well, the flyer originated here: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1jcr8ks/here_is_the_new_and_improved_guide_to_help_you/ but mastodon stands out as it has no commercial driver. There aren’t any ad-services profiling you, so that is a big win for your privacy.

Orion was really well made. It is still beta, but when it is more stable, I’ll give it a second go! 100% recommended.

You can always go with http://grundstoff.net/ to find new brands.

If it comes to jeans, you might want to check out Varusteleka’s jeans.

It isn’t at all. It is closed source powered by an American non-profit organization. You can consider this organization as friendly.

They recurrently said, they would shut the gates if U.S. government/law wants them to store more than metdata (phone number+last activity date) they are storing.

I would be more interested in why they didn’t go with LibreWolf?

You are right, sadly going FOSSS and back again is a German federal government hobby since decades. I hope this time it sticks.

It is basically an open-source prepaid PayPal.

Being prepaid decouples it from given banking networks (just like paypal does).

It is American and a donation based foundation without any commercial interest. It is a meta discussion if they can/should be part of the solution but it just works like the free messenger everyone knows and love.

Would agree, but for many people Signal is the free drop in solution.

Ah. That is why the apps looked familiar. Was this fork quite recently? I still have the older apps installed.

Hi, having an Android phone as secondary, I would say: best would be a custom rom like grapheneos (Pixel only), lineageos or e/os. They come with plenty alternative apps from the getgo.

Second best solution would be to debloat your android and to search for substitutes in the F-Droid store.

But judgeing from the fossify site their apps look modern, well made and are available in F-Droid. Give them a try and report :-)