In general I’m all for the digital euro and have been waiting for it for years. One complained i have about the proposed implementation as explained in the video is the limitation of funds and almost coerced linking to a bank account. That feels like heavy lobbying from banks not too loose their business

Nope, works absolutely fine with cable as well. Not sure how it was in the past, but I’m not particularly missing any feature

I can very well imagine them actually gathering all that data, but this list of permissions is something a lot of apps have nowadays. Even very trivial apps. And 99% of people don’t care.

Of course it’s another matter if you immediately have the kgb in front of your door, compared to just getting your data collected and sold, but still

That’s solved now that PayPal (and others?) start including this functionality into their mobile apps. No card reader required anymore

So what you can do hardware wise is either any usff pc with 2 drives (used Lenovo’s are fairly popular), or diy build with an Intel n150 board and some drives. Both are usually very silent since they don’t have active cooling. If you spend the money for ssd’s then it’s completely silent.

Wouldn’t go with off the shelf nas, since it’s a trend to move more and more behind subscriptions and you never know how long you’ll have a feature.

For Software:

I’d definitely go with jellyfin. Plex is commercializing hard.

Remote access is easy and secure with tailscale

For ebooks calibre-web

Music and torrent i don’t know enough to suggest anything

Base system maybe some truenas and all services as containers

We can get rid of DST while keeping that extra hour if we default to summer time, not winter. DST statistically causes many accidents twice a year, because our brains aren’t ready / thrown off their rhythm, so making away with it would have a positive impact outside of not being cranky anymore

Yes, but…

I do agree partially with your statement. But (as always) it’s a little more complicated.

BambooLab was known for their walled garden approach and that they have apple as their idol. So in that sense, people buying it, did so oftentimes willingly and therefore enabled the company to pull these stunts. I’m not blaming the people for going with the most comfortable solution, but that’s usually what you get

I’m sure it gets better now that the nazi party got relative majority in the elections /s

Can only hope nobody wants to form a coalition with them