Have you tried HERE WeGo, previously known as HERE Maps?

The app started live as Nokia Maps (so Finnish) and is now owned by a consortium of German auto makers (for some reason headquartered in the Netherlands).

I don’t have an iPhone, but according to the AppStore listing the iOS version should include CarPlay.

Depends on where you bank and on what you mean by banking app. There are generally 2 parts to online banking: The banking client and the two factor authenticator app.

If your bank supports the FinTS standard (so mostly German banks), then you can use Saldo for the first part. The second part doesn’t work like that. You’ll have to use the official apps, that aren’t built for Linux. You might be able to run it in an Android container such as Waydroid or AlienDalvik, but that’s usually difficult to impossible to do. Maybe your bank still does 2fa via sms, then you’re good to go. You’re less secure but it works

It’s not European (in fact it’s US American) but PebbleOS was open sourced a couple of months ago as well

I stand corrected

The Linux support of Snapdragon SOCs for desktops and laptops is unfortunately severely lacking. Qualcomm pledged to provide upstream divers, but then the Windows drivers turned out to be a mess and the Linux version had to wait. It is nowhere near production ready. Most of the hardware enablement work is currently as far as I can tell being done by German OEM Tuxedo Computers because they are working on a Snapdragon powered laptop that ships with Linux. But even their work was impacted by Qualcomm stalling (the linked blog article lists Christmas 2024 as their target release date and that didn’t happen).

There used to be a Kodi/XMBC skin for that but development on that seems to have been abandoned years ago.

Depending on your use case Kodi might be a better fit for your HTPC as it tightly integrates with Jellyfin and also has a Spotify plugin. And some skins work generally the way the xmb used to work - they just look very different

Linux is the third option. As far as many normies are concerned the second option is macOS

There are “servers” on Matrix. They are called communities

Here is the relevant part of the documentation for that: https://matrix.org/docs/communities/getting-started/

I’ve never actually used them but in 5 minutes of googling I found ulule. They are based in France and seem to fulfill your requirements.

There is also wemakeit, a Swiss platform targeted specifically at nonprofits. I’ve never used them either, so I can’t tell you how well they work.

I have used Teufel devices in the past and they worked well enough. But I have since switched to a selfhosted alternative. Stupid speakers (in my case old 2nd hand stereo systems), raspberry pis and the Lyrion Music Server.

You get all the benefits of commercial internet enabled speakers (the project used to power Logitechs speakers before they open sourced it) including multi room audio, various streaming service integration (both Spotify and Qobuz are supported among others) and solid app support as well as the privacy that comes from not relying on an external server

The selection prompt exist. It’s just implemented in a way that’s less than ideal. On first start a popup appears informing you about the existence of other UI layouts.

There are just two problems with it:

1. you can’t actually set the UI in the pop-up. Instead you have to click a link in the pop-up which takes you to the corresponding settings page.
2. the prompt shows up after the UI has already loaded. So it doesn’t read as helpful at first glance. To most people, it seems to be an annoying pop-up that keeps you from accessing the app, that you can already clearly see in the background, instead. So they close it without reading it.

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Fun fact: the train pictured here is a Siemens Velaro. That’s the same family of train as the ICE.

It’s the American Pioneer Edition, the variant for the American market, set to operate Brightline West services, but even that one is based on Velaro Novo, a platform designed 100% in Germany.

Edit: Velaro Novo for comparison:

That’s how you get a Boing

https://steadyhq.com/en/ is a German alternative to patreon.

One thing to make your girlfriend’s transition easier: you can reconfigure the UI to be more similar to more recent versions of MS office. The first time you open it, there will be a popup that brings you directly to the relevant settings menu. It’s not one to one but the major options are going to be in similar places after you changed the UI.

BioNTech, the German company that actually developed the Pfizer Covid vaccine, has a bunch of open job listings. So yes, they have a need for people with that skill set. Most of the jobs seem to require German language skills, but not all of them.

And if the most famous German biotech startup is looking for people, then there are bound to be even more lesser known companies also searching.

I agree. On social media they posted this:

Europe is ready to negotiate with the US.

We have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods, because we’re always ready for a good deal.

But we’re also prepared to respond with countermeasures and protect ourselves against indirect effects through trade diversion.

We will focus on the 83% of global trade beyond the US.

Europe stands together for our businesses and with our businesses for all Europeans in the EU and beyond.

https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114297268233791229

Replacement with a different stability.

As the famous quote from Spider-Man goes: “with great power comes great responsibility.” Past WW2 the US acted as hegemon. They where the most powerful country and tried to use this responsibility on the global stage - at least to an extent. NATO, free access to US markets for other countries (though that also benefitted the US because it cemented the USD as reserve currency)

Now the government wants to keep the power but have none of the responsibility. It’s similar to their position on free speech.

To put it an other way: They want to be a bully.