Witziger_Waschbaer

Same boat for me, works great! I got the NFC Yubikeys which work fine with Android.

If you are interested in the Germans public sectors open source developments check out openDesk: https://www.opendesk.eu/en

If you want to know more, also take a look at openCode and ZenDis, the (kinda) government institution behind it.

Did you, by any chance, ever wonder, why people deal with hunger instead of just eating cake?

Can you link me to what model you are talking about? I experimented with running some models on my server, but had a rather tough time without a GPU.

Shockingly, several things can be bad at the same time. What do you think will happen to places that already tend to struggle with heat (like quite a few places in the middle east), if they get even warmer? What will happen to the people that live there? Will they be able to move to colder places? Or will they simply run into borders? Borders, which are protected by more and more money and weapons (and drones controlled by AI, funny, huh?)?

I think there are still quite a few people who are above casual racism, so you might be wrong.

It was a thing in Germany as well :)

My NAS encrypts my Backups and transfers them to some hetzner webspace on a server in Sweden. For email and day to day cloud usage I use mailbox.org. They are from Germany and put a focus on privacy and security, yearly payments are no problem.

Put looting the east via Treuhand on that list...

I think you are missing the point I'm trying to make. Glorifying a system can never be the answer. It isn't for the US (as we can all prominently see right now) and it isn't for China. Or any system, country, whatever. There will always be drawbacks and things you won't know about. Keeping a critical eye on the status quo is the only way to develop a better future in any system. By just blindly praising it, it will turn sour at some point. The relatives you visited too will tell you about their daily troubles living within their system, if they have the feeling they can do that. Not american by the way. From a country that has a history of quite intense surveillance, if that gives you a hint. Maybe that's part of what makes me critical after seeing the billion electronic eyes of Shanghai. A system that afraid of it's own citizens can't be perfect.

My washing machine is around 25 years old. Not giving it up till its absolutely done haha. But since parts are relatively available, it might just be a few more years.

Talk to people that live within the system is all I can tell you. I can absolutely understand the frustrations with the US, but China isn't perfect either. The culture is less openly confrontational, but money still plays a very important role. Carrot on a stick goes a long way.