Support your local small businesses so they don’t go bankrupt. Purchasing anything from Europe will have you pay tariffs to support the orange guy’s administration. Oh yeah - vote so the current admin gets weaker.

Other than that - I have limited sympathy for the country that voted in the current chaos willingly making the world unsafe and trying to throw the victim of military aggression (Ukraine) under the bus. And that is coming from someone who is half American with relatives living in the US.

Add to that - assuming cell phone coverage at the time of purchase.

I haven’t seen a retraction. In 2024 there were articles where the CEO basically doubled down on the decision to remain, making Ritter Sport a hard no for me.

Except that the video was done by NRK - Norwegian national TV. All the Nordic countries can be brutal at heckling each other - all in good fun.

Yes, although MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL are the more robust options.

For personal use. As someone who has all my non-trivial creations, including dot-files and scripts I replicate between machines, in repos since CVS has a thing it’s a habit. Version control. This stuff is mostly private but not secret, why should I have it public?

Edit after spell check.

Without knowing what ypu plan is in detail, here’s one example of a plan for a NAS…

• Flash your SAS card or get an LSI card you can flash to IT mode.
• Install TrueNAS Scale and set up your ZFS volume with your existing SAS drives
• If any drive fails, exchange it for a SATA with at least the same size and re-silver.

You wouldn’t need to exchange all of them at the same time as long as the one you are swapping in can hold all the blocks the old one did.

Switzerland is contradictory in many ways. At the same time as they go for on-prem or sovereign cloud (laudable), they are passing laws that chase away privacy first companies such as Proton (less than optimal).

Yeah, your data is taken hostage. When cancelling the subscription it’s a good idea to delete everything manually before the account expires. Even if you can’t guarantee Dropbox haven’t just flagged the files as deleted, it signals intention. I did this when migrating to pCloud and haven’t received any reminders from Dropbox.