To be fair, moving money between countries was not trivial before PayPal.

To use Europe as an example, SEPA became operative in 2008, about six years after PayPal first became available in Europe. Before that, all international money transfers had to go through SWIFT and the easiest way was probably to use a credit card (and good luck trying to send money to a someone who isn’t a company with that).

Even with SEPA (or for domestic transfers), PayPal offered superior comfort over entering the recipient’s IBAN into a homebanking software. Processing was faster, too.

Of course these days banks in Europe have to offer instant transfers, there’s a QR code standard to read invoice data into banking apps, and they’re working on a full-blown PayPal replacement to get the last comfort bits down as well. It’ll be interesting to see how that works out.

Es ist nicht so, als ob die CDU jemals auch nur was von VWL gehört hätte. Deren gesamter Kurs der letzten ~40 Jahre ist: “Infrastrukturausbau und Erhaltungskosten sind eine Lüge. Wir geben einfach gar kein Geld aus und wenn etwas kaputt geht oder andere Länder an uns vorbei ziehen, sind die Arbeiter schuld.” (Ausnahme: Für Steuersenkungen für Reiche und Firmen ist immer Geld da.)

Ich bevorzuge sie immer noch geringfügig der FDP, die in VWL kompetent aber aktiv böswillig ist. Aber letztendlich ist es egal, ob Böswilligkeit oder Inkompetenz vorliegen; beide sind finanziell schlecht fürs Land.

Garuda has fans. A bit much for me.

When you take away the garish KDE theme the gaming spin ships with it’s pretty much just an opinionated ready-to-go gaming Arch with a bunch of convenience tools. If that’s what you want then Garuda is pretty neat.

Agreed. Oddly enough, my Meshtastic contacts are much farther away than my farthest MeshCore contacts but MeshCore seems to be much livelier.