I have a nextcloud instance and I can confirm that the ai features are plugins, and are opt-in (and also pretty cool, as ai feature go)

I think that contradiction is easily resolved when you realise that the eu isn’t a monolith, and it’s three seperate groups doing each of those things (also all the attacks on privacy never make it through, still concerning though)

But for your plan for what payment options you’ll use I think that’s based and you should keep doing that.

I largely agree with you, although the language you use implies other perspectives i dont agree with. Most current CBDC’s suck huge amounts of ass, but i have two reasons i still think the digital euro will be good.

1. A regular credit card has all the issues you described, except the bank, government and an american company (visa or mastercard) have those powers, CBDC’s that work the way you described will only give the government and your bank that power, which still sucks, just slightly less. Of course the real risk is that they use that digital cash to phase out real cash, but that could happen anyways.

2. The digital euro is not what you described, the initiative’s website promises it will be useable offline, as private as cash. Quote: “Even when you use digital euro online, we would not be able to identify you based on your payments.”

I just think the eu has been pretty based lately so i hope it’ll continue

As a french citizen, i reeeeeaaaaaally hope the digital euro will be good, and truly as flexible as cash

The fact they paid to have a custom system built and it’s still proprietary and controlled by a vendor is crazy to me.

Also, hi friendica user!

Basically a video player that’s pretty much on par with VLC, except it has a super barebones UI and is meant to have other UIs built around it

Fair enough

Did you release the code publicly?

New desktop isn’t electron, and of course it’ll need your email, it’s a chat app.

But the real cool thing is that it’s a matrix client (that federates!) and all the bridges are open source, the company maintains most all of the bridges to corporate chat platforms.

Since their first language is German, it might be that they think that they/them is like how it is in German, never used since it’s gendered language, and definitely political in the sense that it’s just wierd to see and making a statement of you use it.

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you seem pretty on track, and being broke i haven’t looked at the expensive stuff you’re considering, so i can’t give you any value tips.

However, i would like to point out that if you’re just going to be hosting minecraft game servers crafty controller is a much easier to setup&use tool than pterodactyl

looks like the total power draw of an n100 mini pc is 8-27 watts total, while the pi is 4-9 watts but it has a faster cpu, better video decode, vastly better gpu and better compatibility, being x86.

Ultimately the decision is up to you, but i think that outwheighs the higher power costs.

as i see it you can get an n100 mini pc with a 6w tdp for as much as a 8-16gb rasberry pi 5 kit

yeah, and mine about ripping dvd’s on a server, if that broke the rules wouldnt this do that more?

You could install android on something, and run one of the open source TV launchers

Yup! And you can just do eject in the terminal to open the disk tray

Are you still hosting it? Have they realised?

it’s integrated into the browser and much more userfriendly than obs