What happened to the good old 1

It just works, there’s no “how”. Take one of the devices outside, connect to the internet, done.

Yeah, it’s absolutely the same. I hope you’ll experience it one day.

No, it’s called a ration stamp

What if a country has money but you also need monthly issued talons to get most goods?

Asphyxiation

Unless you live a very dynamic lifestyle that requires your calendar to be 24/7 synced, you can just use whatever server software you like, make it listen in LAN only, and have your devices sync when they’re at home.

DecSyncCC and Syncthing is another option.

I stay uninformed but in the rare times I want to be up to date, financial news sources are pretty good, they cover world news briefly and their kind of clickbait is easy to ignore - they don’t do rage bait but try to make you invest in something.

Maybe use a filesystem and syncthing this way? https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync

Or you could use the free tier of some PaaS like
https://render.com/docs/free if you prefer a traditional approach. Just remember to make backups, if it’s free it can disappear at any time.

Install dovecot and set up your email client to connect to it. Email is trivial if you’re not sending to other hosts.

Yeah they fucked up v30, i updated from v29 a few weeks back and had to restore it and now I’m back at 29

I love Pirate Bay and torrents, but there’s barely any music there. The rare time I find something there, it has 0 seeds.

Soulseek, on the orher hand…

We truly live in the future. You opened a PR for a Microsoft product.