If you get too picky you will never find anyone. Loneliness can be worse than setteling for good enough. There is of course too bad, and this is all personal, but there are too many different things to look at to demand perfection in more than a couple places. Which things you demand is up to you of cousre.

“you’ll settle for whoever’s around” is a compelling argument - if whoever is around happens to be good enough. Sometimes she is (I’m assuming she for discussion) good enough and so it doesn’t matter. Also we have established living in the sticks is important (otherwise move to the city), and so you need to settle for someone who is willing to live in the sticks - that someone is likely already living in the sticks. Beware, I know more than one person who was burned on a relationship where she (in the cases I personally know it was she, but no reason it couldn’t be he) was excited to move to the sticks - until she discovered how far it was to everything she liked about the city and the relationship wasn’t worth that cost to her.

There are few places where the waitress sets you up. However that is more likely to happen in a rural area: everyone knows everyone, and they “want” to help each other. In cities everyone knows you also know people they don’t and so they are somewhat less likely to do this (it still happens)

Remember out in the sticks there is only a few people - but they have less options and so they are more likely to discover you. Have lunch at the local cafe and the waitress will try to set you up with the one single person in town. In a city that won’t happen. Of course if that one single person is worth your time isn’t something I can answer, but your odds of getting a first date are higher anyway.

You are starting from the wrong side - what do you want to do? Where are the problems in your life? Is there someplace/thing where a small screen or camera would help if only you had it? Lights/devices you want to control from a location where this is no switch?

I put a weather station on my home assistant dashboard - but it turns it is never the forecast I need so I google the weather anyway. So from my experience the mini weather isn’t worth it. (I do use my dashboard for other things worth it, but it is a 20 inch monitor visible). Reports are other people in the world have and love their weather station display, ymmv.

Don’t forget to ask your family/roomates. They may have an issue that you don’t see.

I use grocy for chore /task management. Then home assistant to put it on a dashboard that looks nice. I’m not totally happy but it is the best I’ve found.

It has been around long as I can remember, and I’m in my 50s…

The shoes part is because if someone breaks some glass and are in process of cleaning it up when you walk in they are worried they could get sued for you stepping on it. It isn’t clear how realistic this worry is. Anyone can sue for anything though, and even if the law/facts are such that they would clearly win they can still spend millions on lawyers to win that case. No shoes is a bypass - if you drop your case we won’t press criminal trespassing charges against you.

I don’t know what the shirt thing is about. The US culture allows topless men in public, but not topless women in general, but some people are still offended by topless men so I guess. I do recall back when I worked in retail a few people did come in without a shirt and we asked them to put it on (when it was obviously tied around their waist) or told them to take their order to go - it wasn’t a big deal.

The hard part is putting in the time to practice every day. You can’t learn music without many many hours of practice. This is something only you can figure out, so while your question is good, I can’t answer it for you.

Don’t overlook lessons. They are generally fairly cheap. Lessons give you a set of songs to learn that you have a chance at (many songs are too complex to play at an acceptable level - there is a reason everyone starts with Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: Mozart wrote it to be an easy first song), choosing good songs is often hard at your level. Lessons also give you half an hour of practice a week (at the lesson) and generally the embarrassment of having to tell your teacher you didn’t practice gets you another half hour! Lessons also force you to admit you did really bad in some section and go back and redo it instead of moving on. There is nothing about lessons you can’t teach yourself - but most people will not do the above things and it greatly limits their progress.

Before choosing an instrument, remember one of the fun things is to play with others. Thus finding a group you can play with is a useful thing. This can be hard - some groups are jerks to anyone who isn’t a master (if you practice 8 hours a day you can join them in as little as 3 years, but most of us will never be good enough) - but others are very nice to beginners. If you find such a group ask them what they need, sometimes they will know that some sound is missing and so you have reason to learn that, and since the sound is missing they will be even more welcoming of you because even when bad you can have enough good moments that add to the group sound.

https://acoup.blog/2019/06/28/collections-oaths-how-do-they-work/ has a very interesting discussion and you should read it all. Not everything applies to modern world but the majority does

It works if you believe your religion. If you are a roman swearing by Jupiter you are asking Jupiter to strike you with lightening if you lie - and as a believer you honestly think that will happen. since most people are christians they swear on the bible knowing they are asking to go to hell if they lie - even if otherwise they are good enough to be forgiven. Muslins generally swear of the quarn - to similar reasons (i’m not clear on what muslins believe happens if they lie, but they believe in it which matters)

of course a large number of people are not religious these days - so this is often pointless.

Depends one where you live. In the US where I live until you get to $50/person or more all restaurant meals are exactly as your parents say - reheated in some way. Even at that high price level many of the meals are the same reheated things the cheaper ones are serving with better arrangement, but at least then some things are cooked yourself.

You live in Europe - there are some great restaurants there that are cheaper. However there are also a number of reheated garbage just like we have in the US.

It isn’t hard to learn to cook for yourself, and once you do it is hard to see why people pay so much money for just garbage food. But people do all the time and don’t see anything wrong with it - some even call it good.

Fad. Someone started doing it, and it caught on so no everyone does. The iPod started the iEverything phase. A local car dealer near me uses NameTube.com because they decided they needed a website about the time youtube got a lot press. There are many more things over the years that became a fad for a while, and there will be more.

Unions work depending on how ‘in it together’ you feel.

If you resent the people standing around doing nothing they start to fail. If you resent the people who do worse work than you for the same pay they start to fail. note that on an assembly line the above isn’t possible in the first place - which is why they work great there. (Bus drivers and police are also not really measureable like that)

I had a few cousins who took and finished all my grandma’s unfinished quilts. They were already into quilting though. YMMV, but it is a good example - if there is someone who can understand/take this over give it to them.

There would be so much other news that this slow-new-day story wouldn’t be covered by anyway. Assuming it even moves - the idea that at 0 it is too late and so it can’t reach zero because nobody is left to move it is reasonable.

The most common tactic these days is raeio ahead and some other cop throws a tire puncture device in front of your car. You won’t go fast with flat tires. They have to be careful not to get other cars but otherwise that is safest for them.

It is stupid to die with money in the bank. You don’t know enough to plan this out exactly though, so the real goal is minimize the money left, but don’t run out before you die.

The first question is what is your situation like.

How is your retirement savings plans? 6 figures at 25 is a very good amount of savings, 6 figures at 60 is a terrible retirement account.

What is your education like - this will buy a good college degree, which tends to pay off very well in the long run for young people. (but only if you pick a good degree and study)

Make sure you have a good amount of emergency savings. 6 months living expenses is the general rule of thumb. You never know when something bad will happen in life - but bad things happen to everyone and savings it a useful way to ride it out.

Once the above is done:

Will a better living situation improve your life more than something else? You could go on a cruise every year with that money instead (I picked something wasteful that some people like, others hate). You could buy a really nice piano with that money. You could do lots of other things. Buying a better flat is one good option, but it isn’t right for everyone. There is no universal right answer here, only right for you, so you have to decide (and understand sometimes you will be wrong)

depends on your applications. Some are fine on 1gb. Some run short on 8gb. I’m under NDA so I can’t say more.

In a car they are only putting in what thay need. The ram is soldered in so it can’t fall off when you hit a bump - that or complex/expensive fasteners.

infotainment is effectively a pc. How much ram would you expect in a pc running all that? Everything else probably isn’t much, but that system will have a lot. Often the backseat has sysems which need more.

Green is a myth. (I’m colorblind)