Although its origin is from the US, you might be interested in the PineTime by Pine64. They build all kind of FOSS-centric hardware devices and personally I really like that approach. But compared to all the other brands it has probably less features and isn’t as fancy.
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And there we are with another Amazon with all the nasty business practices. I think it would be inevitable in this era and economy.
Probably true. If we had a more left leaning economic system, it could be the job of the government to regulate these things. To uptain a healthy competition, that companies aren’t expanding more and more and if they do, to split them up into smaller parts.
If you only use the digital services of your library you may also sign up in a different city. I was member of the Berlin library for a couple of years because it had the best overall service for me but never lived in or close to Berlin.
That’s also a valid perspective. Still, I don’t like the idea of shipping numerous items separately. From my perspective, it wouldn’t necessarily need to be a megacorp. There could be like a big warehouse that is provided by company A. Within that building there could be shelves or departments owned by different suppliers. Then there could be yet another company that picks the goods from all the different suppliers, puts them in a box and ships them with a - once again - independent shipping company.
It’s somehow like the concept of a huge shopping mall, just without access for end customers but only for mail order. For end customers it would be similar to the ‘Amazon Prime’ experience, maybe not as fast and maybe more expensive but IMO it doesn’t need to be a single legal entity to provide such a service to consumers.
For bigger purchases I found it pretty easy to get rid of Amazon. Clothes and electronics I mostly buy second hand on Vinted or Kleinanzeigen (German Craigslist). If I need something new, there are usually plenty of alternative shops for everything. It’s the small stuff that bothers me. If I buy a ~5€ article online from a specialized shop, the shipping costs double the price and if you have a separate (often oversized) box to dispose afterwards.
Jitsy is great and there are plenty of freely accessible instances, often hosted by universities. Can recommend it for private and business purposes.
Good hint. In case of my sample shopping list, they have only the laces (quite nice ones though) but will keep them in mind for the future.
Is there a better German platform for audio books though? Sure, you could buy physical CDs and rip them but that’s extra work and IMHO not ideal from an environmental perspective.
I used OverDrive in the past when they still offered plain MP3s but its successor Libby isn’t for me. I’m forced to use their app, I have to block the audio book for everyone else, have to rush through as I can only borrow it for two/four weeks etc.
For audio books I can recommend Thalia.de. They offer a monthly subscription plan (‘Hörbuchabo’) where you pay 7,95€ for one audio book per month. All audio books I’ve been looking for so far were included, even those that sell for 40€+. You don’t need an app, all downloads are plain MP3s without DRM that you can keep forever and the subscription can be cancelled any time. If you don’t get an audio book in one month, you’ll get credits, so you can get two audio books the month after.
Overall, a very fair deal from my perspective.
The items above reside on my shopping list for ~2 months and I’ve been to EDEKA, Kaufland, Rewe, Globus, Decathlon, Hornbach, DM, Rossmann and Reno in the meantime. :-D I guess it also depends on the specific store, the season and some luck to get what you’re looking for. My local EDEKA e.g. did have these flavor drops in the past and DM typically sells sun sticks in summer. But if I couldn’t pick specific items after some time, I usually go online to get them out of my mind.
Will check out bol.com, thank you! :)
Thanks. Galaxus.ch (the Swiss version) seems to be pretty close. They indeed have vanilla drops (even from multiple brands), shoe laces in 140 cm (even though unfortunately not green or yellow) and sun screen sticks.
Their German version of the shop unfortunately seems to sell mainly electronics.
Which ProShop are you referring to? Proshop.de seems to be also mainly electronics.
3·2 days agoInteresting that Tesla is the king of fast charging, despite the technology being objectively worse in a fast charging application.
As far as I know this no longer the case for several years. Hyundai, Porsche, Audi, Zeekr, Volvo, Kia, Genesis, Nio, Lucid, XPENG, Maserati, Mercedes, BYD, … all offer faster charging speeds than Tesla. If you sort descending by charging speed on EV database, the first Tesla (model 3 RWD) appears only on page 14.
They are still among the most efficient cars however but also there, you’ll find good alternatives like the Hyundai Ioniq 6 (for model 3) or Ioniq 5 (for model Y). I think there’s also some very efficient models from BYD but apparantly they’re not listed in EV database (yet).
2·3 days agoWieso kann die Pizzafliege die Gedanken der Königsfliege hören?
*Hulu is not European.
Danke, Geizhals kenne ich. Das ist genial, wenn man Elektronik kaufen und anhand bestimmter Merkmale filtern möchte. Auch die Warenkorb-Funktion ist genial, um für eine Zusammenstellung verschiedener Artikel einen Händler zu finden der alles anbietet oder zumindest die beste Kombination mehrerer Händler.
Für viele andere Kategorien ist Geizhals meiner Meinung nach aber kaum zu gebrauchen.
Suche ich beispielsweise nach iriedaily (Berliner Klamottenmarke) in der Kategorie Sweatshirts, so finde ich einen Treffer und das ist ein Pullover von Adidas, bei dem iriedaily nur mitgewirkt hat.
Bei Idealo sind es 493 verschiedene Modelle.
Gibt’s eigentlich auch schon eine Shop-übergreifende Suchmaschine, die neben dem Preis auch Aspekte wie europäische Herkunft, Nachhaltigkeit etc. berücksichtigen? Ich nutze momentan meist Idealo (immerhin aus Deutschland) oder Google Shopping, wenn ich einen Händler für etwas suche.
Bonuspunkte wären, wenn auch Gebrauchtkaufportale (Kleinanzeigen, Medimops, Vinted, eBay) mit in die Suchergebnisse einbezogen würden.
3·3 days agoIch bezog mich mit meiner Aussage auf diesen Abschnitt…
Auch in Nordrhein-Westfalen könnte es Fehler zum Nachteil des BSW gegeben haben. Die dortige Landeswahlleitung hat die Wahlleiter in 64 Wahlkreisen gebeten, bei der laufenden Überprüfung des vorläufigen Ergebnisses „ein besonderes Augenmerk auf die Stimmenverteilung des BSW zu legen“ und diese bei Unregelmäßigkeiten einer erneuten Prüfung zu unterziehen.
Das habe ich zumindest als unabhängiges Thema verstanden, was nichts mit Bündnis Deutschland zu tun hat.
Wäre schon irre, wenn das BSW mit so viel Verspätung jetzt doch noch über die 5% Hürde käme… Bei 0,03%, die fehlen, liegt das ja durchaus im Bereich des möglichen.
Did you check the Fritz Repeaters (e.g. 2400 or 1200 AX)? They have a ethernet port, can be configured as a WiFi access point and IMHO do not look too bad.