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Jolla Phone update: 6000 preorders passed, new details of hardware unveiled in c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca

[–] darko@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago

I'm waiting to see Jolla and HMD Global joining forces and forming a decent size European mobile manufacturer

Taiwan, Poland sign drone deal to build non-China supply chain in c/europe@feddit.org

[–] darko@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

To be fair, if you don't want to buy Chinese motors, then the only option is the US. Maybe Taiwan, but that I would not call a very secure supply chain either. Hard to believe but there doesn't seem to be a single manufacturer in Europe that produces drone motors

*Permanently Deleted* in c/europe@feddit.org

[–] darko@feddit.org -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hungarian here. I hate Orbán. But calling anyone and everyone a fascist just because you don't like her/him is turning this platform a joke

Cloudflare goes again in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] darko@feddit.org 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Downdetector was down again for a while. The main news site in Hungary wasn't, seems like they got rid of cloudflare completely after the last outage.

First made in Europe PCB prototype order sent! Let's see how @aislerhq works, happy we have an European alternative at decent price. in c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

[–] darko@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm quite new to this field, but I found eurocircuits.com before that seemed European. Is that a different service?

How good are Amazon online shopping alternatives in your part of Europe? Have they improved since the beginning of the year? in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

[–] darko@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

In Hungary: Allegro, Alza, Emag. Alza has next day delivery, Amazon doesn't

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] darko@feddit.org 83 points 1 month ago

Funny when downdetector is down because they use cloudflare

European drone recommendation in c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

[–] darko@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Parrot 🦜 is french and they should have something similar

New AI made by Proton: Lumo in c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

[–] darko@feddit.org 27 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I get the FOMO about having their own AI, but in my books making Drive usable and having a Linux app for drive would be way higher on the priority list. Get the basics right first.

The Magic Earth application now comes with a charge in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

[–] darko@feddit.org 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This price point makes me wonder what the purpose is: do they really have such a large user base that their 1 EUR/year subscription will add significant funds to develop the app further? I doubt. In which case the only effect will be to lose users who refuse to pay. Disclaimer: I use their app for navigation and I quite like it

Unprecedented Linux Growth in Europe Amid Windows 10 End-of-Life in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

[–] darko@feddit.org 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Would you mind sharing why Linux is not an option? I'm planning to switch a fintech team of 20 to Ubuntu and wondering if I missed anything when doing the PoC

If you want more European customers... Ship within the EU... in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

[–] darko@feddit.org 6 points 6 months ago

I've got mine on https://www.gentlemanstore.hu/kiegeszitok-1/ It wasn't more expensive than buying direct

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Equal opportunity for Linux - let us choose at the checkout what operating system we want for our laptop (backtoeu.eu)

submitted 7 months ago by darko@feddit.org to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/11958306

As we all know, the EU loves regulation, sometimes even overregulation. One area where I feel that regulation would help is computer hardware sale. When I want to buy a laptop and I visit the online retailers, normally 80% of the laptops come with Windows, 10% Linux and 10% Freedos or without any. I would very much welcome if the EU made it mandatory for manufaturers to offer the choice of OS when buying a new laptop. Just like you chose the color, how much RAM you wanted, SSD size, you could also chose what operating system you want it with. As part of that, manufacturers would be obliged to send a fix donation after every sold piece to the corresponding Linux distro team, which would help the chronic underfunding issue. Not sure how much the manufacturers pay for Windowsfor the license, but theoretically the Linux equivalent machine should be cheaper even after the donation. Any views are welcome.

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Equal opportunity for Linux - let us choose at the checkout what operating system we want for our laptop (backtoeu.eu)

submitted 7 months ago by darko@feddit.org to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

18 comments fedilink

As we all know, the EU loves regulation, sometimes even overregulation. One area where I feel that regulation would help is computer hardware sale. When I want to buy a laptop and I visit the online retailers, normally 80% of the laptops come with Windows, 10% Linux and 10% Freedos or without any. I would very much welcome if the EU made it mandatory for manufaturers to offer the choice of OS when buying a new laptop. Just like you chose the color, how much RAM you wanted, SSD size, you could also chose what operating system you want it with. As part of that, manufacturers would be obliged to send a fix donation after every sold piece to the corresponding Linux distro team, which would help the chronic underfunding issue. Not sure how much the manufacturers pay for Windowsfor the license, but theoretically the Linux equivalent machine should be cheaper even after the donation. Any views are welcome.