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This got way longer than expected but the tldr is: foreign exchange is super complex and depends on a lot of factors which don’t matter to you as money user. I tried to give a few examples below. Plus: You’re mixing up two very different concepts: Fiat evaluation and purchasing power. First, money; “More worth” is a natural instinct but doesn’t reflect how the money market works: it’s a question of how much of that money is in circulation as well for example: 1107650 CHF Million 19396,90 USD Billion (Source tradingeconomics.com ). So while it’s the CHF is slightly over value when compared one to one the picture is different when you look at total money available. Then you look at production capacity, glue creation and supply and demand for those currencies. All of this will flow into the price. The minimum wage discussion is a completely different one: here you need to compare minimum wage to the purchasing power of the area you are looking at and take into consideration how the tax and financial situation changes to be able to compare it. There’s for example concept called big Mac index which is a crude way of showing the difference: how much does MacDonald’s charge for their bullshit? They are everywhere and quite good at finding a acceptable local price. If you want to dive deeper a key word to look for is the Gini Index with which the wealth distribution is quantified. I’m not good enough to explain it well though. Now for the colors: design of money is the job of the nations (or unions) main bank to decide usually. The US seem to have the creativity of a washed down rock while others are more creative. The Euro money for example is designed with guardrails by each member country but color, size and form are fixed and optimized to be easily recognized even with various visual impediments, which I personally really like.

Same: but it DOES make a difference that’s why I answered it. Target group is not necessarily the poster but other readers - this foundation is cumbersome but awesome, I want to spread positivity where possible :)

Yes because a) they are the biggest authority on these licences in the world, b) have many lawyers at hand actually and c) are the ones who can significantly damage your brand. Imagine someone with a lot of friends, lawyers and money telling you “be careful, pal”.

Oh I completely agree with that, just the jump to “a flawed model leaked” is too far. There’s already enough crap to mock, no need to make up additional stuff.

It’s bullshit. What leaked was their commandline tool source code ( clause cod) - very juicy in itself but has nothing to do with their models.

This would only be correct if this would be an exit node, which it isn’t. This extension is not about personal gain but supporting people who can’t enter the your network due to their local legislation. Your fingerprinting argument only works for exit nodes - there you’re be absolutely right though!

For users yes for developers, as much as it saddens me. No. Ubuntu for example started the discussion about what they need to do to show their the demanded effort was being put into. It’s the devs that are put at risk here - and I dare say by design. If this just correlates or is caused by the support from the big OS corporations one can only speculate. My speculation is: at the very least strongly influenced.

There is no hard definition within the laws so this is all speculation. This means that there is no technical answer because the question in is core is a legal one. Your TV for example can have a browser without problems. You can have an integrated board that runs a full Linux without you being able to touch the underlying OS and let that start a browser, too. You know those tv screens that show you traffic into it flight plans at the airport? Those are often full Linux computers set up exactly like that. In short: we’ll only know when the law is actually being tested. It’s written in a way that I as layman could talk and software and even most hardware into it’s definition, it’s absolute bullshit…

I don’t think it’ll come globally at all - even the most crazy laws I’ve read so far target “only” OS vendors. If it comes it’ll be regional only as manufacturers will be hell bent on not losing revenue in the rest of the world. Keep in mind that age verification needs to be done on a local level as there is no universal level of what is an acceptable method.

Yes, it is private by technology: GPS and other systems working the same way are passive, similar to receiving a radio signal. You’re receiving the signal of several satellites at the same time and your device calculates your position based on those signals. You’re basically getting “I’m satellite cool boy and at the next beep it’s exactly five past nine” all the time - only with a bit more precision. Your device does rhen the actusl position calculation locally. Fun fact! Geo positioning is one off the few things where we need to apply both general and special relativity for real world effects: the effects due to the satellites speed and high distance to earth (and therefore the reduced effect of gravity) cause a significant shift in the speed in which clocks run on those satellites compare to Earth. As we use the exact time to calculate distance and with that position this would cause a huge drift otherwise!

Ah but this means if I can’t control the client (i.e. because I’ve setup a streaming server) then it’s not a solution for me - but I’d I do then this is the cleaner one because it doesn’t reencode the files. Understood, thank you!

I might have a mistake in my thoughts/knowledge: This would be a playback tool dependent solution though, right? Because then it works be not something at least I’d want. Am I overlooking something? (Except the obvious “keep the original” aspect)

If I understand you correctly: You want to be able to record one computer with another one on a system level (the BIOS-party that comes before any operating system is loaded). Although this is not Linux specific: your best bet is a video capture card as you've suggested already. Anything else would depend on your bios supporting remote access which is not exactly the same (my server bios for example can expose a website where I then can configure it from within a browser. The problem with video capture is that you'd still have two controls: one for the client and one for the host. Depending on what your final result should be it could be actually easier and cheaper to just get a stand for a smartphone and record it from there and then crop it precisely. You then have to only worry about light reflecting.