Weird. Works for me without issues (Firefox on Android)

How come? I only can see a controversy from 2022 about hosting RT, and they have since suspended bussiness in Russia. I couldn’t find any other connection.

It’s quite a repetitive thing, but arte.tv has quite some content made from European perspective. mubi.com has arthouse cinema with global coverage, and Europe may well be the most vibrant place for arthouse cinema (though international production and audience is a very distinctive trait of arthouse).

Most of the time I go to a cinema I see this network at the intro - www.europa-cinemas.org Local, indie cinema, even if you watch at home most of the time, might be a great place to look for interesting movies. Some of them also play classics (I know BioRio does it in Stockholm)

I’ve sometimes been sometimes watching “TLDR Europe” and “EU Made Simple” for EU news. They are on Youtube, but I believe there is a PeerTube copy now (would appreciate a link).

News is easy: The Guardian, Deutsche Welle, Le Monde, France24, all have fully working sites in English - whatever suits you.

From podcasts one of the things I’ve tried is the award-winning Living Planet podcast from Deutsche Welle: https://www.dw.com/en/living-planet/program-19028671 Kinda in similar mood, but more hippie/way-out/thought-provoking is “Forest of Thought” based in Uppsala, Sweden: https://forestofthought.com/

In general, I am not sure if “alternative to” approach works for culture. European culture is markedly different from American. At least for me, it is one of the reasons to stay in this part of the world.

I think this is what OP meant. Regulation can also come from lobbying. (I.e., it is a tool, that can be used for good and for evil.)

Yes, and Blik also has a contactless option which you can use instead of a card for in-person purchases!

Do we want tech giants, though?

If people would watch more Arte and Mubi the world would be a much better place, regardless of (or, in addition to) the changes money flows and personal data usage.

About Mistral:

Critically, Mistral Compute aims to provide a competitive edge to entire industries and countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the entire Southern Hemisphere that have been waiting for an alternative to US or China-based cloud and AI providers. This applies equally to the global entities of US or Chinese companies that want to serve international customers, particularly in Europe, with AI that is operating and running regionally.

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-compute

Nope. Your feddit is not. The EU cloud services are listed here (and others) are not. Tuta is not.

I don’t think any of the alternatives listed here use AWS/Azure/GCP. I did not check the search engines, music streaming, mubi.com, and Collabora.

The only thing I found is that OnlyOffice allows to connect to GCP and AWS (you need to enable it on your own): https://helpcenter.onlyoffice.com/workspace/administration/control-panel-storage.aspx

And Mistral is available on AWS, Azure, GCP, but that’s because it is an “open-source” LLM ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Though, honestly, the numbers are sick and it is probably a BS pledge. You can find a good breakdown of the infeasibility of the energy imports here: https://archive.ph/GBv9T

An idea for 600Bn€ investment in the US: Buy back the European subsidiaries of US companies. (At a lower price if we do not buy from them or invest in them in the meanwhile)

Great search, thank you!

When you make a CitizenWatch article into a meme (congrats OP):

https://citizenwatchreport.com/sp-500-just-hit-an-all-time-high-meanwhile-60-of-americans-use-afterpay-for-groceries-first-time-homebuyers-have-fallen-to-24-from-50/

One buttock XD

Smart! I use Joplin and Koofr for shorter notes. Switching to LibreOffice Writer from Word, and shared files, for longer texts. But all depends on how you like to write ¯_(ツ)_/¯

https://koofr.eu/blog/posts/how-to-backup-your-joplin-notes-to-koofr

Nice, but still, use GOG when possible:

https://www.gog.com/

LanguageTool as cloud storage?

BTW, Grammarly is a sad story. They started out in Kiev in 2009, and sometime in the 2010s, they moved their headquarters to San Francisco. Idk if they gave official reasons.

How has LanguageTool been working for you? We have very similar journeys - the only other difference being that I used Firefox before, so I stay with it for now - but the move away from Grammarly I could not (yet?) make…

The list, sent to EU member states and seen by Reuters, pre-dates Mr Trump’s move over the weekend to ramp up pressure on the 27-nation bloc and responds instead to US duties on cars and car parts and a 10% baseline tariff.