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As another German, I can confirm that the "first e in mesmer" way is how Germans would pronounce it. See for example 11seconds into this German video also officially from SUSE's YouTube channel - a SUSE employee and German native speaker who is moderating a series of talks is using that pronunciation.
It's just a tiny mistake that most Germans are used to hearing Americans make all the time (see also Porsche which is also not pronounced porsh, nor por-shay, but porsh-eh) and will politely ignore, but since this aims to be an educational video, should be pointed out to be slightly incorrect
That's great, thx. Hence, in German it's suse and in English it's officially susa.
LOL so they have just given up :)
At least porsch-ee makes sense given English pronunciation, Susa just sounds random
You largely make it up to them with your "hello together" though!