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

Actually even for qr codes the pixel count (or rather camera quality) makes a huge difference. Got a new phone last year with much better camera then previous. Suddenly during presentations i didn’t need to awkwardly semi stand up and try to get closer. Just recognized the code immediately

Same for phones. But that’s the norm unfortunately

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

Also, dass jeder der ein Kind bekommt sich auch dafür Zeit nehmen sollte (beide) stimme ich absolut zu. Leider sind halt aber alle Kinder unterschiedlich und ich kann den Vorredner voll verstehen. Was du hier erzählst klingt nach einer schönen Zeit, könnte ich mir mit meiner Tochter aber auch überhaupt nicht vorstellen. Kuscheln und chillen existieren in ihnem Wörterbuch nicht und das erste Jahr hat sie auch nicht allein geschlafen, dh es war 24h jemand bei ihr und nebenbei konnte man maximal Videos schauen wenn sie schläft.

Daran ändern kann man halt nichts, aber da überlegt man sich schon genau ob man noch eins will

I do that sometimes, but only if the person in front of me is driving slower than my cruise control. then i overtake them, during which they obviously have to speed up and when i go back to cruise control speed now I’m the slow one

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

Physical for your main contract, esim for traveling

I had a similar approach until recently: 100€/year +100€, mostly 300-400€ phones for about 4-5 years (so not that many). But my last phone was 500€ and i doubt I’ll use it for 6 years, so let’s see