I can't give you a specific economists answer, but a general geopolitical one.

US $ is very valuable because USA rules the seas and the skies, with military and trade. Because USA is a massive economic powerhouse, industrially and specifically military industry. It's also valuable because it is considered a very stable country and currency.

Trump undermines it ALL. An unused threatening jet and bomber carrying fleet just drifting in the Persian gulf able to strike anywhere was worth much more than a failed attempt to overthrow Iran government... A steadily increasing state debt is fine while economy and trade grows and if the debt is taken to increase a country's infrastructure, Trump undermines it with tariffs and "investments" in his ballroom etc.

Bond buyers don't necessarily expect to be paid back. The bond is a tradeable item on its own.

Bitcoin is shit in many ways, but no single orange madman can steer its value like he can the USD. There is imo basically a pretty strong correlation by now between *coin and gold/silver. Both are considered "always valuable", especially in times of geopolitical and economic unpredictability. Bitcoin rises because many people consider it a safe haven. Wether that's really so doesn't matter as long as many people believe it. The same goes for gold or USD: it boils down to collective perception of the item. Trump has been pretty bad news the last 8 months for the USD in that regard. The less people trust in USA as a stable strong country and USD as a stable strong currency, the higher the price of public debt becomes: would you want to loan your capital to Trump and his policies? I wouldn't. High ups in large international financial market players think increasingly similarly.

MSI cubi fanless with KDE Neon autologin to Plasma Bigscreen with Vacuumtube, steam big screen mode, jellyfin... Remote controller is a Rii F8 mini which has a few programmable IR buttons for the old dumb TV.

The future is now...

Ich sehe gar nichts mehr, meine Frau hat die Papierkarte auf dem Beifahrersitz aufgeschlagen, um nach einem Fluchtweg zu suchen

Aber es ist ne Kreisverkehr mit 3 Streife, du bist während das Manövre in der Mitte des Lochs eingesaugt, jetzt sind die abgeholte Pommes schon kalt, die Kinder schreien ohne Ende und du bist nicht sicher was passiert falls du da gefangen bist bis du keine Benzin mehr hast

It should have never been allowed for Facebook to take over WhatsApp and Instagram or Google taking over YouTube... It's the opposite of what capitalism should be according to people who defend it: allowing such mega monopolies destroys the few benefits the free market has to offer. It stunts innovation and encourages enshittification and anti consumer vendor lock-in behaviour

Yes, immich sends all my pictures to the homeserver AND I can immediately see all my partners pictures pop up on my phone. Immich is very cool for that.

I too dislike that immich "scrambles" my pictures. I had it quite well organised over multiple decades (folders per year & location), but how well immich works seems worth losing this idea of organisational control over the collection. The immich duplicate detection for example is superb (it isn't on nextcloud). It for example detects very easily that a 400kb sent or received picture is actually the same as a 4Mb much higher resolution original picture with a completely different filename and different metadata.

I still have my pictures collection organised old school from before immich on various back-up media and the hardest part to me now is deciding to keep that or convert it all to the "immich style" directory... Since it's now very difficult to add new pictures to it without loads and loads of duplicates.

I did find the setting in immich which will somewhat still organise it in folders per month now, but it's not the same, since a month often isn't a logical grouping directory, for example if you go on holiday last week of December+ first week of January: pictures will still be spread across various folders.

My main downside on immich currently is that we can't easily "share" metadata over a few different users (locations added later, recognised faces etc) although we share many faces/locations in pictures... It's a hard choice wether I still want to make the few users all use the same account after all because of that (which will have other downsides like no personal private folder)

Yes filebrowser is ending it's a shame, very simple tool. Copyparty works fine too but too many features I don't need.

I don't have a better suggestion for mobile backup. I only have pictures (immich) backed up automatically. Everything else on my phone would be lost or it already sits somewhere else from the beginning (like music)

Look at dietpi. There is a regular pc version (x86).

Their own "we do it for you" software choice is somewhat limited, but everything is really easy imo. You can always install other things they don't offer, with apt or docker or ... But the basic dietpi system is a super reliable, super lightweight, easy to manage OS.

For the music: dietpi+jellyfin+ tailscale+finamp on phone. Tailscale on phone, point it to only use VPN for finamp. It works incredibly stable and reliable for me. I tried many other "make it work remotely" options first, tailscale is just magic. If it's only for streaming music to your phone, I don't consider tailscale a privacy issue at all.

I suggest to skip the nextcloud. It's a mess. Use immich for pictures and paperless for documents.

If hosting some other files that don't fit those 2 categories, things like filebrowser or copyparty are great. Nextcloud is really quite the challenge tbh and imo not worth the hassle it is for a typical selfhoster... It's hard to get the most out of it. It pays of for medium organisations maybe but not for just you and a few other people...

Mit einem geschätzten Preis von 150 bis 350 Euro pro Quadratmeter für Photovoltaikanlagen in Deutschland könnte man mit 1,7 Milliarden Euro zwischen 4,86 Millionen und 11,33 Millionen Quadratmetern Solarplatten kaufen. Sie sollten jahrzehntelang quasi kostenlosen Strom liefern, und in den ersten Jahrzehnten sogar sehr effizient. Stattdessen subventionieren sie lieber die Verbrennung von 1,7 Milliarden Euro mit ihrer lächerlichen Tankrabatt... Und dann haben sie noch die Frechheit zu sagen, die Energiewende sei zu teuer?

It should be the other way around: if you are really sick multiple days during your vacation, you should get more vacation days because you didn't have your vacation while sick. Since becoming sick right when your vacation starts is a strong indication of being seriously overworked for a long time.

Every time you're about to order from Amazon, first check if what you're looking for is available directly from the producer or at another retailer or webshop.