I don’t shop much but the stuff I’ve bought lately have been European brands and manufacturing. They are pricier than the imports alternatives but better quality so I’m sort of grateful for the opportunity to go for a little better, a little pricier without anxiety about numbers.

I don’t buy much clothes but I’m in need to order some new ones. Zalando was great because of the vast selection of brands - despite them making it harder to filter on environmentally better options already several years ago. Now I don’t want to use them any more. Any suggestions for good, ethical and preferably environmentally friendly online stores for Sweden/EU?

Some preemptive advice if you’re in the market of integrating TTS for some customer or service:

Do not ever use any “humanisation” tweaks. Having a computer voice stumble on a word or fucking cough is uncanny valley and how to make people feel manipulated in one simple trick.

Just don’t. Everybody hates it.

Marknaden löste åter sina egna problem att maximera vinsterna utan hänsyn till något annat.

Another twenty plus years Linux server and devices admin and user that found last year that Linux is finally mature and stable enough to replace my desktop too without having the fiddle with it every once in a random update. It was a decision that I can accept making workarounds for legacy windows software and l can live without other eco system. Yeah, there are plenty of reasons that people are still running Windows and keep doing so.

Don’t make being user of an operating system your identity, people. It’s just as annoying and unnecessary as those Apple fanboys we all know and dislike.

I have an Asustor that is running Debian. It’s just a PC in a NAS enclosure so why should it not.

Sennheiser?

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Because people know Firefox by name and it is good enough for most people. It is better that they use Firefox than not. Mozilla is way more trustworthy than both Google and Microsoft. Not everybody needs to get The Best©® by Nerd Standards™.

“Köp europeiskt” in Swedish, alternatively “Handla europeiskt” that sounds more sophisticated, but technically “handel” encompasses all aspects of trade (buying, selling and trading) while “köpa” is exclusively the acts of buying.

Everything is a commodity. Sucks.

It would be a shame if somebody posted weekly reminders.

I’m pretty certain that the main imports of beef to EU is from South America.

Cyberpunk.

EU saves the American farmers that largely voted Trump into power and that would return the favour by stabbing Europe in the face?

America as a nation would plummet in international relations, politics, trust, banking, markets and consequently in business, trade and economic value like nothing you have seen before. Everything from America would be dirt cheap globally because nobody would want it. Everything inside America would be catastrophically more expensive because the American dollar can no longer buy shit. Germany and everybody else would want their gold or corresponding amount of money but America would be so much in the red by now that even the one percent would experience the ramifications.

I have been banned from subreddits for making fun of nazis, including banter with somebody that self identified as a national socialist. The extremism is beyond acceptable. Bring the clutching pearls.

I switched from Spotify to Tidal last year because the CEO was an arse. My experience with Tidal is a bit hit and miss. At least I got it working ok on my Linux laptop and headless on my media server. How’s is Qobuz on these fronts?