The fact it has been attempted and rejected multiple times and has to be proposed under different guises supports the idea that the EU is not actually friendly to the idea of backdoors to encryption, and, as you just pointed it out, it is the meddling of lobbyists and nationalists that keeps the proposal coming back.

Europe… the guys that want backdoors into all encrypted communication

Europe… the guys who rejected a proposal to put back doors into all encrypted communication.

If you have a subscription from another EU country then it must work in every other EU country even if subscriptions aren’t offered in that country.

For example, I’m in Ireland and Sky has exclusive broadcast rights for F1 here. So what I did was i used a VPN to create an F1TV account in Portugal. Once the Portugeuse subscription is active it just works as normal in Ireland and I don’t need a VPN any more for normal use.

I did this about 2 years ago and just set the Portuguese subscription to auto-renew annually and I haven’t had to use a VPN at all in those two years.

If i go travelling outside the EU I use my own VPN server at home. By connecting to my home network via VPN, F1TV thinks I’m watching from my home network, which means i can watch F1TV from anywhere in the world.

So? Both of Irelands leading political parties since the foundation of the state are centre right. There has never been a non-centre right party in power.

When have they not been?

Because of this the American Service Members Protection Act

The act gives the president power to use "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court.

This authorization led to the act being nicknamed “The Hague Invasion Act”, since the act would allow the president to order military action in The Hague, the seat of the ICC, to prevent American or allied officials and military personnel from being prosecuted or detained by the ICC.

The subsection (b) specifies this authority shall extend to “Covered United States persons” (members of the (“Armed Forces of the United States”), elected or appointed officials of the United States Government, and other persons employed by or working on behalf of the United States Government) and “Covered allied persons” (military personnel, elected or appointed officials, and other persons employed by or working on behalf of the government of a NATO member country, a major non-NATO ally including Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Argentina, the Republic of Korea, and New Zealand).

I have also decided to pull out of the Irish presidential race.

I have a 64GB Crucial SSD from about 2010 that’s still going.

I use it as a boot drive for a Pi instead of using a microsd card.

Before anyone says “you put all your eggs in one basket,” let me be clear: I didn’t. I put them in one provider, with what should have been bulletproof redundancy

Tldr; “I didn’t put all my eggs in one basket. I put them into multiple smaller baskets and put those into one basket. That’s still more than one basket right? …right!?”

Use a reverse proxy in a DMZ. You can use something like Bunkerweb + Crowdsec to give you a WAF and dynamic IP blocklist in front of your web service.

I’ve been running Home Assistant (HAOS) on Proxmox for years with no issues. It doesn’t need to be on bare metal. VMs work fine.

They collect them. And when they have enough they can trade them in for a large stuffed animal.