An advantage of Tuta and Proton is, that there is a basic free tier. Your Mail is a center-point of your online activity. Hoping it to never happen, if you ever can’t afford the (cheap) price, you won’t lose access to your mail. Which would suck, for all accounts linked to it.

From what I’ve seen, the argon does passive-cool alright too. With Flirc I’d need to keep the mini-HDMI-dongle and buy a separate IR dongle, that takes up a usb-slot and doesn’t have a low-power MCU. My Pi is currently in a no-name passive-case already. Unless I misunderstood you, I don’t see the advantage.

Yes, that’s what I meant by “widevine tax”, the certification is done by Google for a fee.

Yeah, it’s kinda telling, if you look at my prime subscription for example. I can either:

• Hook into the web-service with Kodi, breaking TOS and theoretically risking the account. While Google, missing their widevine tax, limits the quality.

• Pirate the same content without an account, at full 4K.

It’s truly a service problem.

I do have a Jellyfin server, this is mainly about being able to use the subscriptions I happen to already pay for. Decoding on the pi is actually quite decent with hvec and x264.

Like others said, banking needs licensing and licensing costs money. If you already have a bank account, you already trust one party. Ask them if they roll their own app-payment or are already partnered with a service. That way, you can avoid google/Apple and minimize spreading the trust to other parties. My bank cooperates with Fidesmo, for example. Fidesmo then sells wearables with nfc-pay.

I would absolutely buy a Pixel, if only they supported sd-cards. I get that Google is pushing cloud-storage. If I smash my phone on the sidewalk, I still want to have a local storage, I can take out and thus make live backups to. There are just some features Pixels lack and privacy shouldn’t lock you out of them.