Looks like a Hermes agent clone. They even gir the anime styled character. How do they compare? Using Hermes for quite a while now.

Exactly what we did in the Netherlands. Our "CIA", the AIVD, researched the machines and found them susceptible to magnetic "eavesdropping" and therefore not compliant to our voting law. The Netherlands stopped using them since 2009. Source, dutch

If i read the source from NRC correctly (I'm dutch), the disks were already wiped. I think this is a matter of not letting a small incident irritate the orange monkey too much. Let's keep that when it actually matters. Not getting some wiped disk with nothing on it.

Happening now actually, according to this

Logging out and in fixed this for me

Yeah I always hate how companies push you into making a (bad) choice by putting it into a dilemma. There are more possibilities than this.

Happy that you could give her a home!

Maybe Magimix Cook Expert would work? Most external parts are available and for the internal parts you get 30 years warranty.

No issues with banking apps in the Netherlands, Android Auto works!

Yeah so just subjective info, thanks for sharing.

Please elaborate why?

I've been using Surfshark for over 8 years and don't have any trouble like you mentioned. Then again, I have an ISP (Freedom Internet) I trust more than my VPN (even though i've not read anything bad about them) and use Surfshark only for region checks and torrenting on my NAS. I love the apps (for great on all platforms), speed and lots of exit points to choose from.