Buy European

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/18447177

This year, I gave 10 euros to Libre Office

https://www.libreoffice.org/

I gave 5 euros to VLC

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

I gave 5 euros to Qbittorent

https://www.qbittorrent.org/

I come from a low-income country. Europeans can afford to give much more.

Last year, the CEO of Adobe earned 20 million dollars. He only travels in an armored SUV with bodyguards. He has been described as completely obsessed about money and power. If he could get away with it, he would murder open source developers.

With very limited ressources, Inkscape, Krita, Gimp, Kdenlive are doing fantastic work, offering alternatives to Adobe.

Please support open source software. You don't have to spend fortunes. Just adopt one software.

FBC: Firebreak is a 3-player co-op game set in the Control universe. It's Remedy Entertainment's (Finland) first ever multiplayer game and first ever self-published title. It will be released June 17 for PC (Steam, Epic), PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Steam Deck support is one of the priorities for the devs. Unless they pull off some nonsensical shenanigans, it should be playable on desktop Linux as well.

The game costs €39.99 for Standard Edition, €49.99 for Deluxe Edition, and it's included in the game passes for each platform from day one. Deluxe Edition contains some cosmetics, and you can upgrade Standard Edition to Deluxe for €10.

There will be free content upgrades and paid cosmetics. Two major content updates are scheduled for this year alone. According to the devs, the game will have none of that FOMO crap that is so prevalent in the gaming world currently. If something is available now, it will always be available. Also, if you have limited time available to play games, this should be a good option for you. There are settings to adjust the length and difficulty of a game.

They streamed a Developer Update yesterday. It has some live gameplay, among other things.

• Developer Update April 2025 (YouTube)
• Gameplay Trailer (YouTube)
• Official Website

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28608340

Lots of open-source (and I think all or mostly European) alternatives to big US tech.

!linuxphones@lemmy.ca

Until you get a chance to leave behind Google's Android operating system completely, here's an article I saw with a few fairly simple things you can do that will reduce (although not eliminate) the ability of Google and others to scrape your data and monetize you.

I already do step 1 (Firefox etc). But looking at step 5, for example, my phone had all those ad options set to "on".

geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/11350215

Volla phone AMA on reddit right now: https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1k6rmdo/ama_volla_phones/

Volla is a German phone brand that offers an own minimalistic operating system, too. It was subject in this community and there is a chance to ask questions at reddit. AMA started at 15:00.

@buyeuropean @ueeu are there any alternatives to imgur?

Right now it's got some songs made by European/Canadian artists, but I am planning on adding more.

Keep in mind this is just for fun, i don't think this actually changes anything. And this playlist is just a thing im making for myself so if you want a certain song in there you can ask me, but I wont necessarily add it.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6k56P2VVwpEqVU7FvgJ2vb?pi=jjnE45T-T-mGy

https://www.protondb.com/app/1486920

the behaviour of European government bonds and the euro over the past month suggests the bloc may well be assuming some of the "exorbitant privilege" the United States has enjoyed for decades as a perceived safe haven and owner of the sole reserve currency.

https://archive.ph/1NMCR

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/339979

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28910932

The research group SECUSO (@SECUSO_Research) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 🇩🇪 (@KIT_Karlsruhe) has an account in the Play Store and F-Droid where you can download lots of privacy-friendly apps