Might be worth telling your local shops about it, maybe they just don't know this exists. When I told my mother about the app she liked it so much she talked to a bunch of local shops she's a regular at and a couple of them joined afterwards.
Don't know if it's true for all EU countries but it's very common I think, although "local" elections meaning municipal elections, not the "local" federal elections.
Careful about Heise. Their tech news are probably alright but they also got Telepolis which is their super weird conspiracy nut pro-russian political branch and it's easy to end up reading that shit on their intermixed website.
TBH while Springer's main outlets like BILD are shit, I found politico quite alright so far. I mean whatever news source you're consuming it's important to know where they're coming from anyway. I like politico cause there's no shit paywall and non-enshittified website and also a proper RSS feed, which is super rare these days.
Way better than Google and I especially love that in translatons they also seamlessly convert weirdo imperial units to metric so you don't have to deal with cups and feet or whatever.
Kinda funny because just recently Sweden canceled plans to build new wind farms because they'd interfere with their radars. https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2024/11/11/why-sweden-nixed-new-wind-farms-for-fear-of-missing-russian-missiles/
Haven't used it myself yet so can't talk about it their recommendation algorithm, but Qobuz has been recommended several times here, it's French and apparently has a very good payout to artists per play compared to others.
Regarding prices, one thing to consider is that even if a company has their chips produced in China, they had the costs of design and development, while Chinese just steal/copy those designs and therefore can sell them cheaper. I heard a joke long time ago from some hobby electronics nerd that went like "if you want your circuit board design etched for cheap, just send it to a Chinese manufacturer asking for a quotation, and a few weeks/months later you can buy your own PCB mass produced on AliExpress", and I think that's pretty accurate.
That looks much better, thanks!
TBH I'm quite surprised they even considered showing that propaganda shitshow, they must have completely missed the shitstorms the other film festivals encountered last year.
I'm 100% convinced DOGE will stop this as it is not very efficient use of tax money.