Are you looking for consumer or enterprise products? I’ve bought a two unit mesh set from Cudy, it’s a spin-off from TP-Link.

Sinkin’ Park

Well yeah but I was talking about fixing their domestic issues

It’s funny how Democrats pretty much lost the election on the take that they aren’t much better than Republicans on issues that matter.

I kinda feel like it US politics was less like a talkshow where people just tell buzz words at each other but would actually have debates about things that matter, they wouldn’t be in this mess. But apparently that’s not what the American people want, so…

He makes a valid point until he starts naming examples of preventable deaths on US soil, like gun violence, lack of access to proper healthcare, domestic violence, infant mortality…

I didn’t downvote but I will add a note to Tony’s.

First of all: I applaud their mission and every company in the world should be working without slavery of any kind.

Because Tony’s is so open about their sourcing and making a big deal about being 100% slave free, they are an easy target for organizations checking their claims. There have been a couple of moments in time where Tony’s has been challenged, the most recent one being 2021, where they have been removed from the list of ethical chocolate companies by the American company Slave Free Chocolate, because they collaborated with Barry Callebaut.

Now, to expand on ‘collaboration’, here: Tony’s buys their cocoa very transparently, from farmers who do not employ children, paid or otherwise. Then, to process this cocoa they need an efficient factory and they use one in Antwerp, Belgium. This factory also processes the cocoa from Barry Callebaut.

Tony’s doesn’t really care, of course, about being taken off the list by this company. They know they are ethical enough by their own measure, which is still leagues ahead of most.

Source in Dutch.

The point here being that one might read one headline or the other, refuse to go into any depth and form their opinion. Now any time they read Tony’s all they remember is ‘they are not as holy as they make themselves out to be’. Hence they’ll just downvote this any time they glance over it.

Or it might be Big Chocolate, idk.

Owned by Russian dissidents who have long since left Russia. Most of the data centers are in the Netherlands, near the AMS-IX.

It’s true that you’d have to start a secret chat in order to be end-to-end encrypted and this is a huge design flaw.

I run Home Assistant in my house and it tracks my location and my wife’s.

Besides that one can use Telegram but the opinion of Telegram changes more than the weather.

If you want bang for buck (we need a euro saying for this, effective euros?) I can recommend Inventum from the Netherlands. If I need household appliances they’re usually the first one I check for country pride reasons.

Yes by a company called HMD. They actuality continued the vision of Nokia and I think what they’re doing is pretty good. They make a lot of feature phones and I owned the Nokia 8 which was pretty good for the money.

I feel like he doesn’t really understand most of what is happening but he just says the first thing that comes to mind when he hears stuff.

This is something happening in Europe as well though, you’ve probably noticed it if you follow Dutch politics. There are these people who just yell out stuff that sounds pretty good but once action has to be taken, they find out it’s never as simple as they’d imagined it to be. The end result is they get nothing done and their disillusioned voters are too stubborn to admit that they were susceptible to populism.

A Nothing phone with a custom open source OS will do a lot of good. Commented from my Moto edge 50 neo with the original Android on it lol

Boldking sounds right up your alley. From Amsterdam.

EasyToys is a really big one from the Netherlands.

I’m hooked on Paradise

Edu Imbernon is nice. He released another track called Paradisio a while ago, solid banger

Matrix: Revolutions. I didn’t even see the fourth one.

Definitely house, preferably owned. I rented my previous apartment and had to run a lot of jobs through the landlord. Now, if something goes wrong or if I want to hang something with screws, I can just go ahead. And I love having a back yard. Front yard meh, just work, no joy.

Downside is that my house is not exactly well maintained and it was built in the sixties. So I’ll need to invest in some stuff in the next 5 to 10 years.

I’m currently going though the books and from what I can tell, Harry especially takes issues with some teachers. He hates history and doesn’t understand divination but he’s fine with charms, defense against the dark arts and even potions once Snape no longer teaches it.

It’s just that during the lessons she describes, they usually have stuff like Quidditch or Voldemort stuff going on so they don’t really pay attention. They also don’t like doing homework so they let Hermione do it for them. And they still did pretty well on the OWLs so all in all, I think they were fine with class but by and large, she just doesn’t really write about classes that went their regular course.

Nokia has one. Technically it’s Finnish but there is some Chinese money involved.