Imagine all those open source projects or Linux systems, are they also going to pay this tax?

If it was ever about that they would have done this years ago. It's about the midterms.

Unfortunately in times like these, populist parties gain traction. But this is not only on the times but also on the CDU/CSU who didn't really prepare Germany for the digital age.

They were paying huge war repetitions after WWI. So in a way, if they weren't forced to do so, WWII wouldn't probably happen because people would simply not vote for him.

But things were completely different, back then they had hyper inflation.

And right now China is trying to catch up with that technology. They might be lagging today, but they are a huge market, and they will eventually catch up, maybe not completely but enough to be competitive.

Plus their LLMs need a lot less hardware resources for inferences.

Don't forget that all US frontier models are operating at a huge loss, because if they need to charge market rates their market will shrink significantly.

So this GPU crunch is forcing Chinese labs to innovate and find clever ways to achieve higher intelligence with constrained resources.

And cloud and computing cost will only go up now, due to exploding hardware prices, which will make the whole business model of the US frontier models even more unprofitable.

The whole transportation business run on diesel. There are currently no good truck EVs and if there are they will require special charging stations, so it would be very difficult to change to renewables and EV overnight.

We will still be dependent on petrol though, but much less, but petrol is needed in the chemical industry for the production of plastic, for plane fuel, etc.

That's why you should buy physical disks. In the worst case you can re-sell them to someone else.

You know if they were Palestinians they would be promptly shot in the head.

Check the second hand options. I bought a brand new Pixel 10 Pro at the beginning of the year for 600€ from the second hand market from a guy who got it with his contract renewal for free. I think back then the regular Pixel was costing 500€, so I can imagine that you can find a Pixel 9 for 300-350€ in a very good condition.

Thanks for the detailed feedback. I think I am also leaning towards Opnsense right now. I think for a relative newbie like me, that would be better.

I know that I can build and host everything on my own on a pure Linux distro, but I would like to have some life left at the end of the day and not spend days of building testing and debugging network related problems.

By the way another user suggested that with VyOS you can build an LTS target yourself and that they provide build instructions.

That's 10A, not the regular Pixel 10.

I think the 10A can be found at a good discount like 300-350€. But the base 10 and 11 are quite expensive.