Hi,

for those who have Kindle at home and don't want to use Amazon's Infrastructure I prepared this blog post which describes how to jailbreak your Kindle and install open-source software on it :)

After you are done you will:

• have KOReader installed
• be able to load epub books into the Kindle via email
• create epub books from browser tabs

Post here: Kindle Jailbreak

I believe that if you already have Kindle laying around it could be beneficial to use it without Amazon software instead of buying Kobo/another alternatives. Or course - don't buy a brand new Kindle just to do the jailbreak, you can invest your money to a different company

Currently, we already have some companies that offer us privacy-focused products, such as Proton, Tutanota, Mullvad, and others, but a short while ago I found one that I've never seen anyone talk about called Ice Privacy. From what I've researched, they've been on this path since 2019 and currently have two services. The first is Ice Drive, a cloud drive that gives out 10GB for free (although I heard they reduced it to 3GB) and focuses on privacy, with features like end-to-end encryption and two-factor authentication. They store your files with zero-knowledge encryption, and they also offer lifetime plans. The other product is Ice VPN. I admit I haven't researched this one as much, but from what I've seen, it's a VPN that promises to keep as little user data as possible (something like MullvadVPN), and the data they do obtain is stored with 256-bit encryption. Their company is located in Gibraltar (a British Overseas Territory located in Europe), which has good privacy laws. The point of this post is to ask you guys if you've ever heard of Ice Privacy? I understand that when it comes to privacy, it's good to choose companies that have been on the market for a long time and have the trust of their customers, but for a company to grow, someone needs to take the first step and use their products. I'm not saying we should just go out and use all their products and join the company's ecosystem, but rather that we should add it to our arsenal of defense weapons regarding privacy. The only thing I didn't find interesting is the fact that they don't have Mastodon accounts or a community on Lemmy, and although they have subreddits for IceDrive and IceVPN, they aren't mentioned on the company's website (that is, if they are actually official).

Knowing this information, will you give them a chance? If you've ever used any of their products, what did you think?

Links for those who want to know more about the company:

Company page: https://ice.gi/

IceDrive privacy policy: https://icedrive.net/legal/privacy-policy

IceVPN privacy policy: https://icevpn.com/legal/privacy-policy

Nice to see, how the score comes together.

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

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/27528031

English:

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https://feddit.org/post/25004491

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.