The EU has more controls on personal data than the US. It's been that way for a very long time. The US has no GDPR.

I don't think there is anything DB2 or oracle can do that postgresql plus maybe some proxy or app setup can't do, with equivalent performance and far lower cost. Can you give examples of why anyone needs the big money databases?

It sounds interesting to have an e-ink display as a monitor What do you use it for? Documentation? Do you find it's really better for reading from?

I'm pretty sure both X11 and Wayland are fine with that setup. I use different sizes external monitors all the time.

You run Windows and it blue screens. You run Linux or FreeBSD on that same hardware and it doesn't panic or log anything that looks like hardware issues, it runs for years without issue.

Yes ECC RAM solves random bit flips, but they happen so infrequently they can't be the cause of every Windows BSOD.

It's possible. The Chinese are working while the US is distracted with internal issues.

If China win it will be because NVidia didn't sell them GPUs so they built their own. Don't think they can't.

The US isn't in some magic permission where it wins everything. Remember the US lost the space race and only won round 2 by sinking massive amounts of time and effort into it.

The classic sour grapes reaction. You can't do it, claim it's rubbish anyway.

Windows has been vastly inferior tech for at least 20 years now. It's not technology that keeps Windows going, it's something else.

Marketing, business, advertising, dirty tricks against their competitors, and talking MBA types into working against their employers are Microsoft's strengths.

A pig butchering scam is a very specific type of scam. It's not remotely like this.

This is the state holding the paper and giving you a token to represent that that you can move about quickly and easily. Just like banks do with digital accounts, only faster and cheaper.

I do wonder if these angry old men on slashdot are the same bright eyed optimists from years ago, just older and jaded.

Well I was thinking about using this for the kind of amounts I now use contactless bank cards for. This is far more secure than contactless bank cards.

Beside you can choose your own wallet. Pick whatever one you feel safest with.

I've literally been buying groceries and restaurant bills with my phone for years now. So has everyone i know.

For small transactions phones are fine.

I expect prices to rise about 5% to 10% for everyone else and maybe 3% to 8% for people using this, assuming it actually takes off. At best this can reduce transaction costs, it won't offset tariffs related price increases.

Retailers will be incentivized to encourage consumers to use it so both sides will benefit.

That's why this is available on the blockchains with cheap transactions. It should be well below a cent per transaction.

The difference to the US consumer is that it's actual money though, not debt. You need to have it before spending it.

Do you really think credit card rewards are free? The retailer is paying 1% to 3% fees to accept your payment. They put your price up 1% to 3% to cover that.

Personally I'd rather not pay that extra to begin with.