As someone who lives in Europe and has fulfilled, as any other fellow citizen my age my service: what are you on about?

Being dependant on Russian allies (what the US became) and their tech IP for protection is not bearable and IS the way to war against our interests, it has already started in Ukraine.

Independence and having a deterring army is what guarantees peace on our mainland and territories.

Quobuz has been decent to artists so far (that’s why they have many indie labels signed up)

…in origin, now owned by US/Russian corp.

Does the llm search itself for subsidiaries of the brands on the PDF on the net? Because it could then be a good use of AI to find the one you stumble upon in the millions of brands big players have participation in…

Wero is great but it only works within the SEPA system (it’s pushed by the ECB and all the major European banks) using the free instant wire that we all enjoy by EU law as a backbone and escaping the VISA/MasterCard world.

But I think what OP is looking for is something that can be used in shops in Canada, the UK, Switzerland etc… Without being an EU use only thing. And unless suunto makes a suunto pay on the model of Carmin Pay, I don’t feel there’s much going on as far as payments at any shop accepting NFC payments goes.

In a perfect world, yes. No one in the current administration and no GOP member in congress wants it, hell, the supreme court might even revoque it if suggested because Vladimir Vladimirovich, our dear leader would not allow the orange governor of neorussland to do it.

It’s called One Web by Eutelsat. Same latency and reliability, but less Mb/s about 70 Mb/s (and does it matter much for the few Kb packets to relay small amounts of data?).

Second hand, eBay?