My local library. I get books, eBooks, audiobooks, movies, tv shows, music and games from there. While I’m there they provide free water, wifi, power outlets, ac/heating and a public living room with comfortable armchairs. All that for like 50 bucks a year.
Local libraries are great!
Bought a cable from Fairphone marketed for long life, and it broke when it really shouldn’t have. Sent an email about it to Fairphone and they shipped me a new one right away alongside information about how to recycle the old one.
Nice!
Received the new jolla phone 2 during october and loving it so far. Is it perfect? No. Is it for everyone? No. But its refreshig to own a phone that feels like you own it instead of being a product.
IKEA’s smart home lights, sensors, and buttons seem really good! No issues with them so far after a month of use
IKEA does have some nice stuff. Though a lot of the furniture is cheap MDF sadly. Not like you could get real wood for their prices though.
I’ll start with IVPN (based in Gibraltar, so I guess technically they are European). Straightforward approach, the thing just works.
I shortly wrote a bit more about it on !privacy@programming.dev: https://old.piefed.zip/post/1959962
Koofr insted of Dropbox. Privacy-friendly and easy to setup.
I made a switch a few months back!
SUSE moved SLES to use NetworkManager. It’s just so much easier to do networking for me 😂
i set up filen for filemanger on android 2 days ago
my netcup vps has been running smoothly since i upgrade 2 months ago, and before that the old one has been running smoothly for >10years
Minecraft
Pinephone 4, got it second hand earlier this year. Dutch company IIRC.
Do you mean Fairphone 4?
Pinephone 4 does not exist as far as I’m aware, and Pine64 is not Dutch. Fairphone is great though!
Hah yeah fairphone 4, to be fair I do also have a pinephone though.
Can’t say I haven’t been tempted by Pinephone myself! It seems like people have a harder time recommending them though. :)
Best computer I have ever been able to fit in my pocket. Not so great at being a phone though.
If you want a computer that can sometimes do calls and SMS but not very well, its great. For the price I think its a fairly low spec too.
CMP outdoor clothing. Bought a pair of hiking shoes and a fleece jacket recently for week of hiking and can only recommend them. Their products are well priced and have good durability.
And taking about footwear, I have to mention Leguano barefoot shoes. Pricy but worth it in my opinion. I have no idea how they manage to get the sole so thin but robust enough that I can easily walk over rough gravel.
