By gekko513
Pretty sure Qwant just uses Bing's index for search
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2025
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Same goes for Ecosia though both are now creating a European search index.
They're working on European search indexer along with Ecosia
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Mmm... ditch Garmin, strap a raspberry pi + car battery to your arm, & away you go.
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Thank you - from (sadly) an American
Imo the best European (specifically German) made OS is OpenSUSE. Its Sway spin is the definition of functionality above form, nearly all tools are designed with that in mind and it comes with good defaults out of the box. Granted it also looks amazing if not a tad dated, the unified design and color language however is nice even if that color is green. Also consider donating to the FSFE rather than the FSF.
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Don't forget A.G. Barr for drinks, Iron Bru, Rubicon
The buy Canadian Facebook group if you Facebook is full of great alternatives. Yes Facebook sucks the rigid cock of Satan, but it is very useful.
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Is any 7-11 still US? I thought 7&I holdings here in Japan bought it all.
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Shop at Aldi or Lidl (German). Although Asda isn't owned by Walmart any more, so I think British supermarkets are all pretty British again, apart from Safeway but I haven't seen one of those in a long time.
why not just tell people to shop local? do other countries just not have domestic chains anymore?
i know switzerland has coop, and last i checked there's a who series of cooperative grocery stores throughout europe..
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Check out my stack!
Any suggestions for alternatives?
Looks really nice!
Though Lemmy.world is Dutch and I would suggest Qobuz as a better alternative to Spotify.
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For clothing id probably recommend thrifting. But I love this list.
I live in the USA and I will buy foreign as much as possible. Until we make it illegal most likely
I am becoming convinced I should migrate my private mail to another service hosted within the EU. But my god do I not want to deal with migrating mail.
Itโs a process.
You just create a new address (or point your existing one to the new provider) and slowly migrate
I degoogled my crap 5-6 years ago and I still have a handful of sites sending mail to my @gmail address because they donโt allow changing your address at all ๐
streaming: the right side, most of those are country specific.
I've barely seen any of the drink alternatives (unfortunately).
Besides Redbull, which I don't drink, I've seen fritz cola, but that's usually at 2-2,5x the price of a coca cola. As an alternative that really stings.
Water
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