There’s a high risk for sure but i wouldn’t call it impossible.

There’s squirrelmail.

Try posting on mastodon with #fedihire, it’ll get boosted, maybe it’ll help.

What are your pain points and what do you prefer?

I guess the gun crowd is mostly maga and the remaining think there’ll be (legal) justice for him. Someday. Maybe.

I think SEPA mitigates that dependency on Visa/MasterCard. Not being an expert I think the main issue is banks resisting change (and most likely getting kickbacks).

Electronics come from China and Taiwan anyway (i’m considering Intel/AMD CPUs as “advanced electronics” and even on that there are EU-babysteps towards advancing RISC-V).

That seems to be the biggest hurdle: e.g. quite a few EU-countries have paypment processors similar to PayPal but there’s so such solution for cross-border (although wero seems to be used is 3 countries and SEPA instant transfers are a thing).

There’s some push for linux, headed by the penguins, but no agreement on which distro and some even proposed us-based distros for some reason.

Etc.

Slow and unique.

Those gas pipes never stopped being used.

They have been preparing? You sure about that?

Way ahead of you on that…
https://www.goeuropean.org/
https://europeanmade.eu/
https://buy-european.net/
to name a few, plus blogs, lemmy comunities and mastodon accounts…

You answered yourself: ThinkPads. Beware of soldered RAM (and other "improvements) in newer models.