It won’t happen.trump isn’t the only one to always chicken out. Brussels is quite a reference in that game.

Find an IR LEd pin broach or sunglasses or this:

https://www.popsci.com/technology/camera-shy-hoodie-privacy/

Ah yeah, didn’t quite catch that.

Play services are not necessary to run correctly and effectively android. Notifications can also not be handled by Google (unified push exists), payment platform can also not be google, curve is there.webview: I know at least two other webviewers that can be used, phone projection through USB to an monitor is now within AOSP, or you meant android auto and good news: there is now a way to get it outside of Google and degoogled roms are starting to push it forward.

Android can be OK: FOSS is acceptable as it’s international cooperation that propels it and source code can be reviewed by European cyber security agencies.

Linux is not European because it happened to start there nor is KDE European because it happens to have a german HQ, the code is what matters and the code is written and reviewed by Devs all over the world.

I get your point but It’s the wrong sub. You do understand that this sub is more about buying/using European designed/made things, services rather than just avoiding US GAFAMS products.

Oh… ESA has plenty of heavy lifting capacity and beyond lower orbit. That’s not the limiting factor. Launch base close to the equator and the Ariane 5 series of rocket ( comparable to lift of falcon 9) that was meant to carry the Hermes shuttle. Ariane 6 is coming along nicely. The sat internet Europe is aiming at is not as low orbit intensive as Musk’s endeavour, it’s a mix with geo stationary satellites doing a lot of heavy lifting for non critical latencies and low orbit satellites dealing with triaging to reduce latency for critical uses( in which case the data path stays close to earth ).

As Stallman said: " it’s free as in Free speech not as in Free beer".

Money in FOSS keeps projects going.

But as another said: in the case of LLM agents, monetisation is a way to get the automated skimming out of their lives. It eats resources, time, causes havoc on hosts…

They won’t. BACO.

Cards give access to all your funds, or at least a sizable amount, cards also work without codes, get into data leaks, be used in your name without you knowing.your spending is traced with cards, not as much with cash. Cash is only a fraction of your accounts.

Cash or phones are still more secure than a chip & pin card. I’m afraid cards will go the way of the DVD.

Wero is QR code based.

About the “only run on American approved phones”: not really. They work on most phones (and the number of degoogled OS is growing) and banking apps not using NFC often DO work on those phones. You only need to lock the bootloader, not root and use microg. A few companies now sell refurbished (or even new) phones equipped this way so your average non-techie can buy a geopolitically agnostic phone.

They will still be able to use their credit/debit cards but not the visa/MasterCard part of it, there is a french parallel system that is used by default if the payment is done by a french bank account to another french bank account. But it does block them off the rest of the EU.

Or, simply don’t create value for used pixel devices by not buying them. Buying used phones of one brand will make it’s resell value for up. People like new phones with a good resell value, people buy those phones. Buying a used pixel gives money to Google.

What is so European about Lenovo?

The bunkers they built on Maori land? They offered them to new Zealand, remember? Oh… They really thought private land ownership protected them from the government/ people from taking them back at any moment?

So you pay with your taxes instead of doing it on your own free will this is way crucial, access to all media cannot be considered equivalent to healthcare, basic communication or transport in depopulated areas, and I’m not on the right or even center of the political spectrum.

I understand the state needs to finance at least 1 free media whilst guaranteeing the independence of that media. Bur there also needs to be self financed media, what we need to get rid of is oligarch media (but unfortunately, this one is the most common type of media in Europe).

China isn’t leftist.not even a bit.

Yeah: you are correct. My french wife is also a US citizen and he works in hospitality (nor she or I are loaded). Her tax is high enough here that it annuls any taxes she should pay to the IRS.

Tax is not on the bingo card. What is on the bingo card is that France never never extradited it’s own citizens. And if you are sought after by another country’s justice system, no matter how heinous your supposed crimes (like being an influencial democrat supporter in the current US ), you will be 100% safe on french soil if you are french.