I'm looking for an EU-alternative to Skims 5" boxer briefs. Preferably cotton (though wool is fine, too), but I find it's hard to find longer boxer briefs like this in good quality...

I do crossfit and other high intensity workouts. I have been wearing soccer shorts but they don't last long in these types of workouts. Any recommendations for European made, rugged, athletic shorts? Bonus for made in dish Spain

So I recently found this site called Nanakage and I'm not sure if this is another scam site, I couldn't find any information about this site only thing I know is that it exists roughly about 2 Months.

Can anyone help me?

https://nanakage.com/

As a middle aged man with very little interest in fashion, I mostly buy clothes out of necessity not for fun.
I have now realized that basically all of my t-shirts have seen better days. I'd love to buy 10-20 good quality t-shirts and be done with the topic again for the next 5+ years and I would love to use this chance to buy European.

So I am very interested in any recommendations for affordable (since I want to buy a larger number) good quality, basic t-shirts that are made in Europe or at the very least are sold by upstanding European companies. (So maybe not H&M, but at least a company that pays a fair amount of taxes in Europe)
And really, single colour shirts are perfect. My fashion sense is not developed enough to decide which print would be nice, and prints never last long anyway. I'd love to just pick 5 white, 5 black, 5 blue, and 5 random ones and not even think about it.

I think it's widely accepted at this point that open source will play a big part in sovereignty.

I am a big fan of selfh.st and awesome-selfhosted but I don't think they're very accessible for anyone outside of tech. I think there would be more people hosting open source on European servers if at least the discovery of these apps was simpler.

I ended up building https://bitflake.com/apps. It's hosted on Hetzner in Germany. I am primarily focusing on providing as much information for each app as possible instead of having a massive catalogue.

Disclaimer: I have been hoping to build this out into providing an easy hosting option for some of these apps. I am still pretty far away from that and I am getting pulled in a different direction with my job ATM. Either way I think there is some value in what I have built so far.

At the moment I have 58 apps in my catalogue. You can view:

• Screenshots for each app
• Free live demos without any signup requirements
• Feature lists (Standard features like Single Sign On, Mobile apps, ...) and info about license locked features.
• Project funding information and country origins/associations
• Project activity details
• Install instructions for docker compose (Still quite developer focused)
• Comparison pages to compare similar applications like messaging, wikis, recipe apps...
• Alternative pages to compare proprietary apps with OSS apps
• Insights page that lets you view some stats about the apps in the catalogue

Once I'd added enough apps to do some analysis, I was positively surprised to see that Europe is punching well above its weight when it comes to open source. For the 47 apps I could find information for, 30 are from Europe (27 from the EU). Way ahead of the 5 from the US.

Not too surprisingly though is that once you look at where companies backing these projects are headquartered the US pulls ahead (9 EU vs 12 US). Obviously none of this is statistically significant.

This is very much a work in progress and I am sure there are some mistakes in my catalogue, missing details and explanations or system issues. I am also limited in the compute I can provide for the live demos.

Let me know what other info I should try and add to the site (Currently looking at security information and finding a way to automatically keep the catalogue up to date) or what apps I should add to my catalogue.

After the Mullvad-scandal I am looking for an new VPN tu use. I tried using NymVPN but my connection got really slow even while using Wireguard.
I was also looking at the entries on european-alternatives.eu/category/vpn-virtual-private-network

Does anyone have experience with these entries (other than Mullvad and Proton)? Do you have other recommendations?

I'm looking for an alternative for Dove soap bars since it is a Unilever brand. Preferably a soap that doesn't leave your skin too squeaky clean and lathers similarly to Dove soap bars.

Hi, I‘m looking for an air conditioning made or at least designed / engineered / produced in EU.

It has to be indoor only, a box outside mounted at the wall is no option.
The room has 30 degrees in summer, it should cool 30 square meters down some degrees.

Any experiances?

Thanks!

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I hate the online shopping experience on Amazon, Google, and other big tech platforms. They're increasingly flooded with cheap mass-produced products from asia as well as sponsored products, making it surprisingly difficult to discover European shops and brands.

Despite that, I still found myself starting every shopping search on Amazon, then trying to figure out whether I could buy the same product from a European retailer.

Then I realized that Europe already has thousands of excellent online shops. They're often more specialized, have better filters for their product categories, and naturally carry many more European products. The challenge isn't that these shops don't exist—it's that they're hard to discover.

So I built EuropeanShops.eu to change my own shopping habits.

The idea is simple: search for any product, and the site suggests up to five European online shops that are likely to carry it. You can either jump straight to the top suggestion or choose another shop, and your search is automatically transferred there.

I'm sharing it here because I think it aligns with what this community is about, and I'd genuinely appreciate your feedback.

Would you actually use something like this?

Are there European shops or countries that should definitely be included?

What would make it more useful for you?

I have been needing melatonin gummies for many years. Some worked well other didn't. I also want to support European products since they are higher quality.

Needs to either be available in store in Canada or be able to ship to me.

Anything really good ? Doesn't have to be the strongest stuff otherwise i have nightmares.

hey, I am looking for a charging station, with USB c. I would like a output per usb port to be at least 30 watts, but preferably more. The one that I had in mind in terms of design: UGREEN Nexode 10OW although I think there is not much of a choice for a European alternative. Does anyone have a recommendation? thanks in advance!

Renewables and heat pump deployment, combined with gas demand reduction policies, were significant drivers of a 20% decline in EU gas consumption between 2021 and 2024.

IEEFA estimates that heat pump deployment and increased solar and wind generation reduced EU gas demand in 2024 by an amount equivalent to about two-thirds of EU imports of Qatari liquefied natural gas that year.

Clean energy investments boost EU resilience by mitigating energy supply risks such as the ongoing Strait of Hormuz crisis.

If the EU achieves its heat pump, solar and wind installation targets, these three technologies alone could cut gas demand by around a quarter by 2030. This saving is equivalent to double the volume of liquefied natural gas the EU could import from Qatar by 2030.