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  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nltoBuy European@feddit.uk•Portuguese payment system to integrate with Nordic systems
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    18 days ago

    Every country has different requirements. Cross country digital authentication is already possible thanks to EIDAS, so there’s no need to invent something that’ll suit the least common denominator for all countries like a centralised system would. You use your own government’s login method, and it should work across the entire EU as long as the institutions are following European law.

    You don’t just switch payment providers, though. There’s a lot of auditing and security checks involved in doing anything related to payments, and now you’re coordinating different banks at the same time. Here, the entire country uses one single payment system, iDeal, and that took half a decade to get off the ground and much longer for stores to actually integrate everywhere.

    The bank-run Dutch iDeal payment system seems to be moving to Wero next year, that’s going to be a pretty huge transition. If they can pull that off, that may generate the trust other banks may need to actually put in the effort to integrate that deeply into another payment solution.

    Also, the availability of non-local payment options such as PayPal over whatever local payment systems there are is a positive in my book. I can’t pay online in most European countries without going through PayPal because most of them have their own national systems. Had two German stores and one Danish service not accepted PayPal, I would’ve been screwed last year.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nltoBuy European@feddit.uk•*Permanently Deleted*
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    19 days ago

    The US isn’t an “enemy”. They’re a powerful ally. That doesn’t mean they’re friends. We strategically band together against other world powers like China, Russia, Africa, and more and more India. In the same vein, Hungary isn’t the enemy of the countries within the EU, even though politically they might as well be. We won’t have the luxury of peace and prosperity if we don’t work together with our allies, even when our allies are being massive cunts.

    They’re massive dicks, but until the invasion of Greenland happens (which would be pretty stupid even for Trump, installing a puppet government and forcing an independence referendum would be much cheaper) we’re still better together. Ukraine would be merely the first stepping stone when NATO collapses and without American military support, several Balkan countries might suddenly find themselves in a position to acquire more land if they side with the Russians.

    That doesn’t mean we should let our critical infrastructure depend on our allies, though. Being trade partners is one thing, but being dependent on a mere ally is not good enough, not anymore.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nltoBuy European@feddit.uk•any idea on app to replace waze / apple map that actually work on carplay from EU ? (for IOS if possible).
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    23 days ago

    OsmAnd is Dutch and open source. The lifetime pro version is a little expensive (hosting maps isn’t free, as much as data collection companies would like you to believe that) and the open source version doesn’t have Android Auto because it doesn’t include Google stuff, but it’s not a bad option to consider. I don’t know about the status of open source on the iOS version, I think you need to compile that yourself as there isn’t really an alternative app store for iOS like F-Droid is on Android.

    I believe Sygic is also European (Slovak I think?). They’re not open source but they have much more flexible navigation apps, with a bit more of a polish than thee open source apps I know.

    TomTom has an app and I’m pretty sure they’re still Dutch as well. I haven’t tried theirs, but their maps are the basis for many commercial map providers so I’m sure their app must be fine.

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