I’m trying to avoid most subscriptions. So I rent a small VServer and a VPS and run a little Proxmox server in my home. That is around 13€/month, including electricity for the Proxmox server. I could combine them and save a little bit of money, but currently I avoid the hassle of doing that.

But that gives me E-Mail, Nextcloud, offsite backup, a website, HomeAutomatization with HomeAssistant, a PlexServer to stream music and movies, paperless and more. So: Say no to expensive subscriptions, do it yourself.

Yeah and let’s not pretend that everyone back in 2002 was eMuling or torrenting and cracking videos games. I knew so many people who failed at ripping a CD to MP3 or copying it with a CD burner.

• It has the map corpus from OpenStreetMap, so one of the best in the world
• It works offline - just download the desired maps onto the device
• That makes it really, really fast. Google Maps is slower
• You can also use it in areas with bad reception. I’m using it for hiking in the woods where there is no cell phone connection available
• I really like the UI - they are f.e. better at displaying house numbers and street names than Google.
• No ads

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This just shows how Trump completely destroyed normal politics. It does make sense for a country in Ukraines situation to talk to both parties and to get both parties on board. Then the plan could move along regardless of who wins the election in Nov. This would have been possible in the past, with George W. Bush, Obama, Clinton & all other presidents and was actually done for other conflicts and topics in the past. Trump… is special.