I hope there’s no Google in my life.

I’m not sure whether it could be worse.

And it still does not support my server.

Not yet.

From one walled garden to another.

A US product run by a couple of billionaires now looks a bit more like another US product run by a billionaire. Yeah well…

Honestly, the EU seems to be not the best place to write operating systems.

The most actively developed version of Plan 9, 9front, is from Germany, but that’s not what most people want to use, I guess. Best I can do is non-American (OpenBSD). I’m open for ideas myself though!

What about OpenSUSE, Ubuntu etc? Both European based firms.

Canonical (based in London) is not really “from the EU” anymore. ;-) No, I know what you mean…

However: Yes, those are European Linux distributors. They distribute an U.S. operating system kernel together with an U.S. userland (GNU), an U.S. init system (systemd), several U.S. desktops (most commonly, Gnome, although KDE is German, at least)…

If you get your Windows installation from an European distributor, is it a European product?

considering their (…) contributor network.

Microsoft has employees in Europe. Does that count? If it doesn’t, why does it count for Linux?

Still, it’s probably off-topic in the “buy from EU” community. No EU products are involved here.

I honestly don’t know (I usually hand-wire my frontends). Sorry.

It is incredibly funny to read that website’s source code:

* @license React
 * react.production.js
 *
 * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.

Worst boycott ever.

FYI, the Linux trademark, the Linux Foundation and Linus Torvalds are U.S.-based.

No. Git is inefficient for small numbers of files. Just do a “find | wc” and/or a “du -hs” in your repository folder. SVN exists for a reason.

Git might be over engineered for this purpose. Maybe SVN?

I keep my server backups on a dedicated backup server.

I run OpenBSD and OmniOS.

Docker does not even work on my servers - wrong operating system, I guess. Docker containers have one more disadvantage on systems where it does work: the contents of a container aren’t updated when the host operating system is, basically leaving 0-days unpatched longer than absolutely necessary.

Also, using a container adds severe overhead.

IMO, Unison is a pretty good software for this use case.

Used FF forever

So you probably should remember the Mozilla FAQ entry that it’s “Firefox”, not “FireFox”; and that’s why they prefer “fx” because “FF” makes no sense. ;-p

Oh no, does this mean that Mozilla doesn’t give a damn about the privacy of their last twelve users? I.e. those who did not see that coming a decade ago?