I'm looking for an Adobe Acrobat alternative, or PDF-editor, that is capable of:

• marking text;
• adding text;
• adding comments (like one would do in MS Word);
• adding a signature (in some way);
• preferably, but not necessary: the ability to recognise text in files where the text is not selectable (i.e. one can copy text from an image file that was saved as a PDF, like some printers do when scanning pages).

Does anyone happen to know of any European or Open Source alternative that fit this description? I have sworn to never again install any Adobe software.

Small list to start

• 🇫🇮Tove Jansson
• 🇫🇷 Eric L'Homme
• 🇫🇷 Pierre Bottero
• 🇧🇪 Emile Jadoul
• 🇧🇪 Mario Ramos
• 🇸🇪 Astrid Lindgren
• 🇩🇪Torben Kuhlmann
• 🇫🇷 Gilles Bachelet
• 🇮🇹 Geronimo Stilton's team
• 🇪🇸 Meritxell Marti
• 🇳🇱 Dick Bruna

Hi all,

I have my professional math webpage set up on Google Sites (i.e., I used the editor there, and it is hosted on their servers). Now I would like to change this. So could you recommend any similar services? That is, a service that will allow me to design the webpage (preferably free, but some small fee is also ok - I don't need fireworks there, just good-looking personal webpage) and host it?

I'm trying Lunatask. It's a one-man project, and the author is from the Czech Republic. The software looks interesting, complete, and visually appealing. It also stands out from a privacy perspective, offering end-to-end encryption.

https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/pricing-hosted-matrix/

The plan tiers are little pricey so it would be best suited for a business.

• https://ulisses-us.com/games/tde/
• https://branwensbasar.de/
• https://www.animaproject.studio/eng/tabletop-rpg/

Posted to r/BuyFromEU.

Here are links to some of the brands mentioned in the comments:

• https://www.devold.com/en-gb/
• https://www.norlender-eu.com/
• https://www.janus.no/en
• https://www.brynje.no/gb/en

Credits: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j9g5h8/i_left_dropbox_as_a_heavy_user_of_15_years/

I had everything in my Dropbox: all my legal documents, my work-related files, my photos from the last 20 years, and things people sent me that I want to look at again when I'm 80… I literally had my life stored in it (and of course locally on two machines and a extra backup disk). I also accessed it almost daily via my phone and uploaded files from my phone.

So, I tested several services in the range of ~100 Euros a year with at least 1,5 Terabytes:

Jottacloud:

• Good Desktop Client (Win & Mac)
• Very good iOS App
• Good service
• Pricey (144 Euros for unlimited storage)
• Downside for me: it doesn't automatically convert photo uploads from my phone to JPG and doesn't store them in a folder I choose – plus, the price is high.

Filen:

• Good Desktop Client (Win & Mac)
• Rough iOS App
• Good service
• Okay price (108 Euros for 2TB)
• Downside for me: the rough iOS App didn't have a document upload with a scan function.

Nextcloud:

• Good Desktop Client (Win & Mac)
• Good iOS App
• No dedicated service; it's Open Source, so some tinkering is required since you manage the hosting yourself.
• Weird price range (Hetzner, the cheapest host by far, offers either 60 Euros for 1TB or 200 Euros for 5TB, nothing in between).
• Downside for me: the price range.

kDrive:

• Good Desktop Client (Win & Mac)
• Very good iOS App
• Amazing service, document editing included, etc.
• Amazing price (60 Euros per year for 3TB)
• Downside for me: none.

So, I chose kDrive, even though I'd love to use Nextcloud because it's Open Source and you can choose your own host. If I needed less than 1TB, I'd definitely choose Nextcloud.

And it should be said that all the services I tested offer free options with a few Gigabytes, if that's all you need.

• https://dodosocks.com/
• https://www.spendwithukraine.com/fashion

Boosting my own toot 🤞

I thought it would be nice to hear about everyone's favourite European content creators. (Not for self-promotion)

Platform doesn't matter but if you know a good channel on peertube etc. even better.

How is this relevant?

Content creators often discuss and review products and services. They are the first stop for many people when they are looking for information about something. I think it's important to grow viewership for European content creators which in turn would grow demand for more EU wide product reviews etc.

More than a commercial point-of-view – news, travel tips, culture and just daily life are things we should conciously share and take an interest in here in Europe. Again, build an EU wide viewership and a feedback cycle for European content.

So who do you follow? Who's your local authority in insert hobby here?

Matrix is an open-source decentralized E2EE messaging protocol.

Here are the european instances you can sign up at:

🇬🇧 UK: matrix.org & glasgow.social

🇫🇷 France: tendomium & imagisphe.re & hadoly.fr

🇩🇪 Germany: tchncs.de, catgirl.cloud, pub.solar, yatrix.org, digitalprivacy.diy, oblak.be, nope.chat, envs.net, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat

🇳🇱 Netherlands: bark.lgbt

🇦🇹 Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee

🇫🇮 Finland: pikaviestin.fi

For desktop use Element

For mobile use Fluffy Chat

Let me know if I missed any instances and I will be sure to update the post.

It looks like Cloudflare Inc is the 1st (American), 4th is DigitalOcean, then there are some servers hosted on Amazon, Oracle, Google... Maybe I understand something incorrectly, but I'd like to avoid those hosting providers. Also I don't get this frontend, backend thing, but apparently there's difference when it comes to interpreting hosting providers. Anyone can help?

• Ritex – Made in Germany 🇩🇪
• MY.SIZE – Made in Germany 🇩🇪
• Vitalis – Made in Germany 🇩🇪
• Manix – Made in France 🇫🇷
• EXS – Made in UK 🇬🇧

Related 13 minute video presenting the guide: https://youtu.be/Gj6HqWCdk3s

Post on Reddit by the author: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j95cew/the_ultimate_guide_to_an_open_source_life_i_spent/

I have an idea.

This is a very interesting movement. I think one thing we can all agree on is labelling. So let's start a campaign mailing to people in power: we want a label.

Rules:

1. Every week everybody taking part writes 1 Mail to 1 group of people. For example: Week 1: Supermarkets Week 2: EU Parlimantarians We agree on the group by a weekly Poll. You can choose between the highest voted ideas of last week.

2. Every Mail has to contend one reason why you want a EU Label.

I want to use this post to discuss the idea and rules.

If you agree I will post 2 posts weekly:

1. Poll and suggestions for next week
2. The day i will after the topic of said week and ask you to comment your text ideas 2.1. in the following days i comment on the second post with a text I used.