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I've replaced the title with the description from EU Observer's Toot. I've felt that the question in the title unnecessarily obfuscates the message of this opinion piece.

Heyho,

I am from Germany and currently moving into a new apartment. I am going to throw out my old desk as it is too low and want to upgrade to a height adjustable one.

While IKEA has some options I wonder whether others have recommendations for solid brands to check out.

I really want to use tools like Claude Code or self written agents (LangGraph) with top notch models without relying on US clouds or buying 5-10k€ hardware.

I had a look at Scaleway, IONOS and OVHcloud, but they all only offer the same outdated medium size models like gpt-oss-120b, llama-3.3:70b, Qwen3:32b. Scaleway at least just recently added Qwen3.5:397b.

The best I could find so far seems Nebius. The problem here: they do offer MiniMax-M2.5, GLM-5, Qwen3.5 but again just on US servers. Only the older versions like MiniMax-M2.1 or GLM-4.7 are EU hosted.

Is there just no infrastructure available in the EU to host such models at scale? I really hope that is not the reason.

What do you use? Please help!

Edit: You just now found that Nebius requires Google, GitHub, or Microsoft account to sign up. Sad.

coalition of European enterprises and community organizations today have launched Euro-Office, a solution for editing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, developed as a true sovereign community collaboration of over a dozen different organizations.

Heyho,

I am looking for smart devices - currently interior blinds and lights that support Zigbee - and thought why not take a look at the European market.

As far as I can tell most products come from china, but maybe someone here knows more than me :)

EDIT: So sadly it looks like there is no real european smart home stuff out there.

I volunteer at a very small non-profit (4 volunteers) which delivers food vouchers and clothes to needy people. The software we use is really ancient and isn't going to keep working. I need something super simple to keep a database of contacts (phone # / addresses, date they last received money) and an ability to create delivery lists grouping contacts together. Really super basic requirements. We'll use Microsoft Lists+Sharepoint like I would at work, but need to buy subscriptions for everyone. Just seeing if there are alternatives.

1. Has somebody experience with them?
2. Can somebody say something about the "quality of their engineering"? I am currently getting into microelectronics and wanna learn by examples, but obviously I can't say whether something is the equivalent of clean or spaghetti code

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/buyeuropean/p/1253528/jolla-phone-sep-ii-2026-new-batch-of-4000-phones

The independent European Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone, shaped by the people who use it.

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/10375693

No need for Claude Code, Cursor, or other proprietary American counterparts

Is already hanging there for a while...

Summer holidaymakers opting for ‘more familiar, easy-to-reach locations’ as travel industry counts cost of Middle East conflict

Are there any alternatives to meetup.com? Eventbrite may be one. But I'm wondering if there is something less focused on business.

I want to make some cash transfers to some of the poorest people. The main gang doing this seems to be givedirectly.org , a USAn charity

I might just use them, as that barely hardly counts as using a USAn product. (Not sure if they pay tax to the USA/Israel? Maybe they are exempt?)

But if there's an alternative outside that would be slightly preferable.

Go raibh maith agaibh

geteilt von: https://piefed.zip/c/buyeuropean/p/1180734/bigswitch-eu-european-alternatives-to-big-tech-hosted-on-codeberg

https://codeberg.org/sabrinazaki/BigSwitch.eu

The community-driven directory for digital sovereignty. Discover GDPR-compliant, EU-owned, open-source alternatives to US Big Tech tools.

Ye another thematic website, but this time the list and frontend is open source. That wins sympathy points, but I doubt that the JSON file will scale, and I doubt that we need the third-ish answer to the same question.

Anyhow: give it a try and submit whatever comes to your mind.

"The Swedish government wants to strengthen ties with US tech giants, despite the Trump administration's potential influence over these companies. This is according to Minister for Public Administration Erik Slottner (KD) in Ny Teknik. "What is happening in the US is rather proof that we need to have a strong relationship with these tech companies – perhaps even stronger than we have today. Europe is an important market for them, and they are very keen to have a good relationship with us." He mentions Google, for example, as a partner he wants to continue to have on his digitalization council."

Translated with DeepL (https://dee.pl/apps)

I just discovered Nordwolle thanks to "Lage der Nation" (https://chaos.social/@lagedernation) ! Production is only on-demand to avoid over-production, so it might take several weeks before your order arrives.

They are situated in north-east Germany, where I lived as kid for a long time, which is a region struggling with infrastructure and far-right tendencies.

Nordwolle is a light house of compassion and democratic values in the area! They predominantly employ refugees, make sure they earn a livable wage (16€/h + bonuses), and help with all the bureaucratic nonsense.

I bought a nice sweater from the ESA merch store and now I'm looking for more euro-centric apparel. Give me your recommendations, it can be from any EU country and doesn't have to be state sponsored, but it should be official, no bootlegging. I'm really open to a wide variety of suggestions. European companies, institutions, even will known brands, if it's clearly European I'm interested.

The official ESA store: https://shop.esa.int/