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by 202508042147 9mo ago
> Look after your toys better. Lesson learned, at least for me. I am in the process of moving everything digital to Europe.
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by 202508042147 9mo ago
Besides the military-industrial complex, I am very happy to see Europe develop its own digital systems. That way we won't be totally dependent on Google, Microsoft, AWS, OpenAI, Apple, Visa, Mastercard etc.
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by 202508042147 9mo ago
And the fees you pay go, in part, to fund the American War machine that is now threatening Europe. As a European, I don't want to fund your war machine.
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by 202508042147 9mo ago
For pharma there are, most of the time, alternatives. There is no alternative to Visa/Mastercard in Europe. It's an American duopoly.
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by 202508042147 9mo ago
There's galaxus.com
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by 202508042147 9mo ago
They should add EU membership as alternative to CUSMA. I really like the idea!
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by 202508042147 9mo ago
And a second non-subjective and very important reason is that at any moment the US government might decide that the data we entrusted their corporations with is no longer ours and we need to part with it. It will be used for AI training. Al
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by 202508042147 9mo ago
To me, a very non-subjective reason is that the money I'm paying for these services will go to people and companies that share the same values and the taxes on the said money will be used for our common defense instead of being used to
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by 202508042147 9mo ago
Hetzner might be a good choice to keep things together, as we're already using some services from them.
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by 202508042147 9mo ago
+1 for Wero! Unsure where I can see their timeline.
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by 202508042147 9mo ago
I haven't looked into this yet, so I cannot recommend. I'll work my way through the list here: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/domain-name-regist...
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by 202508042147 9mo ago
One obvious thing missing from any of those lists: Visa and Mastercard alternatives. This is the protection money that is never brought up by the US officials when they say that America was paying for our security.
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by 202508042147 9mo ago
Doing my bit: migrating my small company's db this weekend from AWS RDS to Hetzner VPS + volumes. Fingers crossed! Already done: replaced SendGrid with Sweego. Later: move domains from US registrar to EU based. The difficult bit is the
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by 202508042147 1y ago
I stopped speaking with my high-school friends in my 40s. I had realized at some moment that I didn't enjoy most of the discussions that we were having. I still met them and talked to them, thinking that that's still "friends