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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (6 children)

How can you make appliances list without Miele?

If you are in the market for a vacuum cleaner do yourself a favor, go more expensive and get a Miele, especially if you have some carpets, most vacuums can do a job on hard floors, but damn the difference of vacuuming carpets either a cheap vacuum vs my Miele is night and day.

(Don't know about the rest of their products, but they are german and a family owned business)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Imo the best European (specifically German) made OS is OpenSUSE. Its Sway spin is the definition of functionality above form, nearly all tools are designed with that in mind and it comes with good defaults out of the box. Granted it also looks amazing if not a tad dated, the unified design and color language however is nice even if that color is green. Also consider donating to the FSFE rather than the FSF.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (4 children)

This list has some issues, Booking.com is Dutch and Philips' Consumer division is just a name that whitelabels other companies products and is owned by a Chinese investment company.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Booking.com is owned by an American company though

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also, Ecosia and Qwant rely on Bing for their search results I believe

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

or Google, but they are working together on their own search engine from what I heard

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

As a American, I really do love Electrolux appliances.

Also, for headphones, beyer dynamic. Damn they make a great set of cans.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Also, for headphones, beyer dynamic. Damn they make a great set of cans.

Tbf, most great headphone makers are European

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One note on Bosch and the European car manufacturers: They're funding the Orbรกn government among others.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

trying to convince me to switch to BMW. bold move Cotton.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

San pellegrino sparkling drinks are really good.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Owned by Nestlรฉ ๐Ÿ™ƒ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Completely missing are power tools and guns. So please buy Bosch, Festool, Hilti, H&K, Cz., Glock, FN.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact, Hilti, a Liechtenstein company, has 34000 employees. The country itself has 40000 citizens.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I missed the "and guns" part of your first sentence, which made me think, "Whoa, I gotta get me a Glock power drill."

Good to know about Bosch, Festool, and Hilti, thanks for the info. My ancient Dewalt drill just started smoking, so I now know where to look.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

If you want something really good get Makita from Japan. Bosch has two quality levels green is meh to good, blue is very good.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! I'm just a hapless homeowner who occasionally roleplays being handy enough to fix things (though my last shelving unit for my basement came out remarkably level, surprisingly).

(I had actually been hoping to repair the Dewalt, as it's a hand-me-down from my dad (fuck cancer), but I'm pretty sure it'd be a lost cause (the drill is at least 20 years old, probably older, I'm pretty sure I remember my dad using it when I was a kid).)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'm still using my deceased dad's orange drill from the 1970s made by Black+Decker.

Fuck cancer, I concur.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Got me an AMD Tuxedo laptop and some Raspberry Pi's, and my gaming desktop is all AMD too. Fuck Intel and NVidia.

I was avoiding everything made in the States before it was cool

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Isn't AMD also from the States?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I was about to say, pretty sure AMD is more in the states than Nvidia at this point. Either way, both are fabbed in Taiwan. Intel is the only one that mostly fabs in the USA.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

The snacks section could use a lot of chocolates but then again as European it's hard to find American chocolate: Milka, Ferrero Rocher, Lindt, Tony's Chocolonely, Callier... Just to name a few.

I was surprised to see Toblerone on the American side, apparently they're under an American company nowadays! TIL
Also, Logitech isn't Chinese? Huh, TIL as well

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ritter Sport chocolates is a banger.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 69 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Bluesky has to be running a massive propaganda push. I see so many lies saying they are decentralized or like here saying they are a non-profit.

This shit is evil. Whoever is making these fliers is not being honest.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Itโ€™s more important to get people off twitter. Mastodon just doesnโ€™t have the right pull right now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Shout-out to Sharkey! We're young, hip and have reactions other than "heart". Plus, we can talk to Mastodon instances and it all just works. Ever thought what your social network needed was unlockable achievements? We've got that, too!

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