JustEnoughDucks

It is always great to warn people against bad European companies too. We have plenty of people and companies who are as bad or worse than in the US.

Nestle is objectively one of if not the worst companies in the world apparently devoted to almost exclusively doing evil. Spotify is also terrible, Unilever had done some bad shit apparently, our many of our auto companies are also not good, etc… Many of our companies would literally kill to get American labor laws here and have spent billions Union busting and lobbying/bribing against workers.

Yeah no email provider providers everything that you need I have found 😅

I believe the other sync options like decsync are made for syncing without a server per se.

Tasks.org is great.

It can be synced via Davx5, caldav, etesync, decsync. Also via Microsoft to-do and google if you want to try it out without having to re-input everything before you commit.

Edit: sorry, didn’t see the web client thing. It doesn’t have that. However, you can sync to a computer email client like Thunderbird or evolution and use it there.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

If you have a google account because it contains email history but it sits dormant, logged out, not using google products for years, then it isn’t supporting them with data.

They won’t delete your data anyway or your fingerprint link or tracking data if you delete your account, might as well also have access to it if needed.

No. I am an Electronics engineering and believe me, I try…

Any sort of embedded size-constrained sensing where you need an AFE from maxim/analog/TI. Absolutely forget about it. Even mouser and digikey are export restricting those now. Mouser canceled an AFE and PPG sensor hub on my last order.

RS components in the UK: pretty meh selection MCUs with mostly STM and some outdated AVRs/PICs, missing a lot of key brands in different areas, decent/good for industrial stuff. Pretty much no NXP stock at all (Dutch company). Bad transceiver selection of outdated things. They only get new products like a year later. Good selection of power resistors though. Not good for opamps, but they have a decent Wurth selection of LEDs and Inductors. They are also good for connectors, e.g. they are the only European distributer with Wisblock compatible Panasonic connectors

TME Poland: high prices, better stock than RS for MCUs (EDIT: I just looked and they actually have a worse selection now), but they still only have mostly microchip PICs, only 500 ARM processors so a very limited selection. In general they have a ton of microchip and less of a selection of other things. Chances are, if you found a perfect IC that isn’t microchip, it is a 50/50 if it will be there. I have very often found chosen parts from manufacturer sites and catalogs and built out a design and check by TME and >2/3 of the parts are out of stock or non-stocked. Horrific site UX also. Finding anything is a crapshoot, so use other sites to find them and enter the MPN to check if it is available. They also have a strange selection of passives if I remember right. Like a lot of pieces from different lines, but missing most of the values in the specific manufacturer line.

Farnell: they don’t sell to people without a VAT number in mainland Europe because of some stupid “people were asking too much support” bullshit excuse years ago. They have the best selection of the 3, they actually have nRF MCUs and a decent selection of interfaces, opamps, and ICs like fuel guages. IIRC their inductor selection is worse than others. You can order from UK farnell in the EU I believe. Owned by an american company. They are the only ones with sparkfun/adafruit board of the major distributers IIRC and only a small selection.

Sinuss.nl “alternative” to farnell apparently. Literally 3-4x the price of almost everything. A dirt cheap stm32C011F6U6 that is 0.80€ on all other shops is 3.50€ there without shipping included and the only time I have ordered from them, they messed it up. Stay away!!!

Also, the fucking STM webshop from the European company doesn’t have a warehouse in Europe or east Asia and ships from damn Texas. Getting a sample of a cheap part is like 50€

If I am being honest, we have a TON of electronics and IC intellectual property in Europe, but the manufacturing and distribution of those designs is disgraceful and almost all goes through the US first.

If you are looking for modules and not PCB design: Tinytronics.nl, opencircuit.nl, and kiwi-electronics are the best

Wasn’t the last thinkphone from 2024?

Would be nice, but the last think phone had mediatek instead of Qualcomm so I don’t know if that will be the case (mediatek seems a lot harder to make custom ROMs for and there aren’t too many).

But modeled after the first think phone would be awesome. USB 3.1, wireless charging, decent camera for its time, but no SD card slot or headphone jack…

I just saw someone tested a TEMU $30 hard and soft body armor trying to disprove its claim to be bulletproof and it somehow actually worked up to quite a decent caliber.

There is also a person (I think in America) making their own and documenting the process.

But it isn’t something you wear when not actively in a warzone or searching out a conflict…

Then stop forcing google play services…

A lot of Benelux banks require magisk and hiding that you aren’t using a specific google branded android version if you use a community ROM.

Deepl was the first using an LLM though richt? They have always advertised that it was AI.

OP specifically doesn’t want that if possible.

Or is it a different class of “AI”?

And yet literally the exact same trend is happening here all over Europe: education system decline (less students enrolled in secondary, number of schools declining, teacher:child ratios increasing, increased teachers quitting or burned out), huge increase in fascist and right wing support all over Europe, anti-science and anti-vax movements starting to pop up and grow, huge decrease in union memberships, especially among young people, and worker rights being slowly degraded.

This is exactly how it started in America, and before people say “that is because of american culture and propaganda exports”, that could very well be, but it doesn’t change the fact that it is happening here and the same trend of people becoming more uneducated and dumber is happening. In 20 years we will be as dumb as america if the trend accelerates.

Plus, with the rise of corpo-fascist movements in the EU, people are already stupid enough to vote squarely against their own interests to spite someone they hate.

Thanks. Eternity hasn’t been updated in 8 months, so maybe it is a bit buggy. I will go delete the extras.

True, but they have tons and tons of american investors and partners. They are firmly in that grip and also a shit company partnering with military surveillance tech as well as trying to stop paying their artists by stealing their work and making AI slop with it.

Nestle is also European and yet one of the worst companies in the world.

Just because a company is European, doesn’t mean they aren’t a horrible company that nobody should support or buy a single thing from.

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This was literally started on January 1st this year on github.

This has to be mostly vibe-coded right? Or is it just a UI right now and not functional.

Switching my electronic component choices for PCBs to STM, NXP, Nordic & ublox (these 3 have the best MCUs), Wurth, and Infineon. Then as second choice Rohm, Toshiba, Panasonic, JST.

Sadly, only american companies currently make new AFEs, especially biomedical.

TPM chips are not a mythical thing that only Google makes.

STM makes the ST33 series of TPM that I would trust a hell of a lot more than google to not have a dozen government backdoors.

Microchip, Analog Devices, Infineon, NXP, and onsemi also make TPM chips of varying security levels. Infineon is the premium TPM maker with the highest security if I remember right, a German company.

The issue is they are 3-10€ for the chip alone, which is a significant BOM cost, and it takes a lot of very specific knowledge in firmware and software to actually implement and google probably keeps the android integration methods very hidden. It is very much an intentional vendor lock out.

It is literally no more secure than any other email. Almost all emails support E2E encryption with passphrase, and any email that can use IMAP can through clients too.

The problem is that 99.99% of emails (not counting deltachat) have no way of utilizing that, so it is just as insecure on Tuta as anything else, just better marketed.

Bancontact/payconiq uses it is the background now, apparently

So all of Benelux and a lot of France and Germany use it for webshops as bancontact/payconiq is integrated into webshop payment platforms using shopify🤢 and others.

Mollie directly can use and accept Wero and is also an option that many webshops use as a middleman and is fairly web builder-agnostic