I wonder how repairable and maintainable these will be as compared to EV's from other markets and if replacement batteries will be available as the original ones reach the end of their useful life.
If these concerns end up being valid, and the tariffs are large enough that these cars aren't priced particularly competitively, that'd be enough for this EV consumer to pass it up for his next vehicle. Will be interested to see how it plays out.
Edit: Wanted to say I'm not against Chinese EV's. If it ends up making sense to get one, I will.
"Peak Windows" is a fun one to ponder. I'd probably pick XP for fairly high reliability and fairly low bloat. Or 2000 if taking business oriented versions in to consideration.
You should check protondb and see if your games of choice are supported, if you've not done so already.
I completely jumped ship from Windows the better part of a year ago now and haven't encountered a single game that didn't run, at the least, reasonably well. And usually just fine OOB. Though ymmv of course.
German Bundestag have therefore repeatedly called for state IT systems to be converted to open source software that can be tested by Europe's own security authorities.
The idea of all the governing bodies of an entire continent doing this and collectively giving Microsoft the middle finger pleases me.
Re: cell phone scanning. I've seen these camera based book scanners popping up recently. I've never used one so I can't comment on how good they are, but when I read your workflow it occured to me it was worth mentioning. Here's a search result I arbitrarily picked listing some.
Setting legal precidents and regulating the industry are musts to curb this behavior. But we also have power as consumers. The ol' "vote with money" if you will. There are too many uninformed consumers for this to have a huge impact, but keeping our money away from bad publishers and giving it to good ones will help.
Conky can be used to display text on your desktop, including grabbing stdout from a program. I'm not familiar with calcurse but if it can dump text output of what you want, that could work.
The big caveat is that conky doesn't work with wayland. It's a work in progress (according to the arch wiki, anyway).
Are you using proprietary nvidia drivers? Display issues after switching kernels could be driver related. If so, switch to nouveau and see what happens.
See if the issues persists with another display manager, such as sddm.
Arch requires a lot of effort to maintain.