Amex has very spotty acceptance rate in Europe.

Basically most of Jane Street's published code[0] via its dependency on Core.

[0]: https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai/blob/f31661450eb133fe89...

Yeah, but you need to know where to buy it, how to get it delivered etc. Getting a Gameboy Advance cable in Denmark is $18.5 and delivery might take a week or so.

Anyway, the exact charger for a GameBoy Colour doesn't exist as the GBC takes AA batteries and can't charge them even if you connect the power brick to it.

Yes, I agree. It's a bit weird because finally, after decades SEPA ICT is here and could be used to back this thing. It just needs to be more user-friendly.

Polish people have such a fear of Germans, thinking Germans are constantly scheming to screw Poland over. Whereas most Germans barely know Poland even exists.

As someone who has lived in both countries its such a hilarious anxiety.

Indeed hilarious considering my grandparent still remember being put into a german nazi concentration camp.

Germans probably won't attack anyone anymore, that is true.

But Germans making huge mistakes out of misguided idealism is still a problem. And given the size and influence of Germany, the rest of the continent has always to process those mistakes as well.

> As someone who has lived in both countries its such a hilarious anxiety.

What's hilarious about it? It seems pretty well-rooted given the actual history of the two areas.

- 1939: Germany invaded in 1939, officially starting World War II.

- 1941: Germany occupied the rest of Poland after attacking the Soviet Union, which had previously occupied Eastern Poland.

- Teutonic Order/Prussia: Throughout the 13th–16th centuries, the Teutonic Order fought numerous wars against Poland.

- Medieval Period: Records show invasions by Margrave Gero (963), Margrave Odo I (972), Emperor Otto II (979), and multiple campaigns by King Heinrich II between 1003 and 1017.

It’s been barely two generations since the death camps. My grandma, who is still alive, can tell you stories of seeing trains take half her village away.

Intergenerational trauma is a real psychological phenomenon.

A „hilarious anxiety” is an incredibly naive world view.

Isn't this pretty much what Nothing are doing? At least one of their phones has a different battery rating in India than elsewhere, despite containing the same hardware.

Yes, its exactly that Stephen Dolan.

Using Git when it came out would have probably meant to use Cogito, which has been dead for such a long time by now.

Or have bet on Mercurial. Which is also close to dead. Or darcs, which has been big in certain environments and now practically extinct.

If you bought into NFTs when they were hot you would have lost money. Not every new tech is worth investing immediately.

When they were hot is not when they were new.

All of this is true.

Having lived in Germany it's quite different, but I'd argue the centralized handling of the CPR is actually quite convenient and doesn't meaningfully impact privacy. In Germany every authority has its own ID for you anyway (my password manager has a category "Government Primary Keys" for this), however that means that you have to provide all your information from scratch to every authority. This would theoretically lead to more privacy if we lived in 1926, but now computers are ubiquitous and a rogue government (like Germany is close to electing) can just correlate these keys together. Relational databases have existed for decades and JOINS are cheap. Thanks to surveillance capitalism by now we have very sophisticated ways to deanonymize people, the government can just hire someone to do it.

So the privacy in Germany is most often inconvenience for the citizen paired with hardly any privacy gain from a potentially hostile government. At this point I think the better solution is to avoid electing hostile governments. To Denmarks credit, they're currently doing that better than many other European countries.