I used to buy Samsung from S1 to S21, then I got a pixel and now the Oppo Find X9 Pro and wow, I forget to charge it. I've had days when I go to sleep with almost 80% battery. The pixel lasted me half day
I built and launched corona.help in January 2020. Almost nobody expected a pandemic, but somehow I thought it was possible and decided to centralize all Covid cases. Just 2 months later it had over 5 million users daily. Eventually Google and other huge companies started doing the same thing and users tanked.
And they're wrong. I'm in Romania, but I use everything in English. Google is mostly in English, but sometimes decides to switch back to Romanian. Pretty decent , right? Until it decides to switch to Hungarian or German for whatever reason, two languages I have nothing do to with.
I signed up on coinmarkercap and used bitwarden to set a 16 words passphrase as my password. Every time I log in I'm asked to change it because it's unsafe.
You described really well the advantages of Romania's lack of regulation. I think that's also part of the reason we have high quality gigabit internet connections for just 8 euro.
Of course, there are also a lot of disadvantages of living here, but it seems like while we're getting closer to Western Europe's standards of living, we also lose the advantages you speak of.
And about freedom, I also think you're right. I've travelled a lot and I'm pretty sure we have much more freedoms in Romania compared to the western part of Europe and most of the other developed countries outside Europe. This also comes with its ups and down though.