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And now I’m reading it in a ferengi voice.

The article (at least the free segment, rest is paywalled) just summarizes the movement. It’s not an indication of the movement’s popularity, just a low effort copycat article.

My translation (focusing on accuracy of the content instead of writing quality):

Hate Trump? Buy European! But can we exist without American gadgets, apps, and products?

A pan-European movement has commenced to boycott American products and services as a reaction to Trump’s international carnage. Many things can be substituted with European alternatives, but the likes of Google, Facebook, or Microsoft are not expecting a crash like what Tesla experienced.

Following Trump’s havoc inside and outside the country, an economic separation between America and Europe is more likely than ever. The economies of western nations have become so codependent that it’s difficult to imagine what life would be like without American products and services. It may not remain fantasy for long: as a reaction to Americans turning their backs to the world, some Europeans started a movement, with a message that can be summarized such: “Buy European, Boycott American.”

Reddit’s BuyFromEU community has grown an audience of over 110 thousand since its inception in February, which is far from either the website’s total number of users or the population of Europe, but the GameStop controversy is proof that such organized groups should not be underestimated.

The users interpret the community’s name in a loose sense, putting emphasis on replacing American products (and primarily services) with alternatives from the EU, Britain, Norway, Switzerland, or even Canada; or even products that are tied to America, but are based on open-source technology or operated by not-for-profit entities. The movement is assisted by several websites, like “European Alternatives” or “Buy European Made” by listing alternatives and opportunities to replace American products.

The rest of the article:

• Infographic presenting European alternatives
• How Europe is benefitting from America, and where Europe does better
• Is there life beyond Google, Facebook, iPhones, and Netflix?
• A black star solution (nb: I have no idea what that means)

The rest is paywalled and I haven’t found an archived version.

DB would be an improvement.

What’s your guess?

ADS-B can be disabled (not unexected for military aircraft) or made private at the request of governments.

It doesn’t work on Wayland. We need to go back.

You wrote an SQL statement?

Just off the top of my head:

State-sponsored higher education that is later paid back through taxes. Free healthcare, also paid for by taxes, and affordable medicine. Decent mass transit, although railways are a disgrace. Labour laws. Paid sick leave and mandatory minimum vacation days. Paid maternity leave, and tax breaks for new mothers.

PM is a Russian asset, but still better than Trump.

There’s only one other that could trump it.

I worded that poorly. The “you” was plural (I want the singular “thou” back) and meant to refer to the people who are losing their shit, not any one individual.

(edit) I also just want to point out that accusing me of being a sexist sympathizer and two hours later posting this shit is real funny.

Depends on the location. House in a European-style suburb (grid streets, mixed-use zoning, good public transit) over apartment, but anything in an American-style suburb (long, winding streets, car-centric, Euclidean zoning) is an instant deal breaker.

I stopped watching TV when my favourite channel lost access to several shows and turned into a TBBT re-run channel. Four. Fucking. Episodes. Every day. The series looped about once every two months.

People are losing their shit, calling for boycotts, and throwing around accusations of transphobia over comments in the source code and a single line of documentation? Seriously? And brigading the developer three years after the fact‽ I was ready to write off Ladybird, but damn, this was taken way out of proportion.

I’m all in for equal treatment, but people need to get a perspective. Such an extreme reaction will ultimately hurt the cause they’re trying to advocate for. Getting bent out of shape and publicly brigading something for every perceived slight, every time someone’s feelings are hurt, or can’t get their way, will get them – and the demographic or movement they represent – labelled as undesirable.

I’m a sysadmin at a university. Fortunately we never used Adobe, and recently ditched Autodesk and Unity for Blender and Godot. Still on Windows, but I’ll take what I can get.

Yes, it runs flawlessly. It was the first game that was made to run on DXVK.

And yes, the Year Age Of The Linux Desktop is already here. Unless you have to use Adobe products, or play a game with some incompatible anti-cheat trojan, there are very few barriers to switching to Linux full-time.

Another one from Saxony.

A man drives his car to the junkyard, looking for replacement parts. He greets the owner and asks:
“Windshield wiper for a Trabant?”
The junkyard owner thinks for a moment, then replies:
“Sure, sounds like a fair exchange.”

In the early 80s, American scientists and engineers produced the smallest precision drill bit ever created. With great pride and fanfare, they sent it to their West German colleagues for study and reproduction.

Just days later, the engineering team received a parcel. In it, a note: “Thank you for letting us test our equipment” and the original drill bit with a hole drilled through its center.