In theory, yes.

In practice, most if not all banks in The Netherlands killed their NFC payment module and suggest the use of Apple/Google services instead. I assume this is the same for most smaller countries and banks.

TIL not every country uses NFC for contactless payments.

FYI, metadata of any of those payments are routed through Apple or Google systems. Use a physical card (with or without NFC) instead if you don’t want this.

I have learned about the existence of zram and zswap today, and added a higher priority RAM swap on my workstation to reduce swapping to SSD. Should speed things up even more.

I don’t know what to say. Have you ever done the maths on this?

What are you talking about?

Use FOSS software, and run games using Proton. Doesn’t really matter whether they’re pirated or bought.

Does anybody have examples of popular programming languages that are not targeted to English?

Good initiative, not the best name.

Open Geospatial Consortium (also OGC) is leading in its domain and has been for years. https://www.ogc.org/