It's kinda normal to exchange money when you're traveling to a different coutry, it's no more inconvenient than the fact that most international travel destinations in Europe are going to speak a language you don't know. i.e. very inconvenient, but stuff like this is kinda part of the experience when you're travelling for fun IMO. Not good when you're there on business, though.
German Mark was a very strong currency, to the detriment of Germany's very export-oriented economy. Many other EU countries did have comparatively weak currencies, even some of the bigger ones like Italy, but it's a double-edged sword to give up the ability to make your own monetary policy.
Even before we get to whether they care about a woman's status, to even meet a woman of significantly lower status they'd have to do a lot of elbow-rubbing with the lower classes. If you're famous that would honestly be a PITA even if you weren't a complete asshole.
Another neat thing about hydro is that it’s a renewable base load
I think it goes even further, you can even use it as a long-term energy store, entirely disconnected from any rivers, possibly entirely underground which also avoids the environmental repercussions of blocking off rivers and creating big artificial lakes. I feel like this is an underresearched/underfunded field, solar power is kinda desperate for energy storage technologies especially in countries closer to the poles.
The issue with hydropower is that you can only build as much hydropower as your geography allows, and it can come with severe environmental repercussions if you go too hard.
They won the war but failed at installing a lasting regime that aligns with their interests. A decades-long occupation is not generally counted as part of a war.
They conquere Iraq and Afghanistan quite fast, what they half-heartedly tried and failed at was building a lasting regime that they didn't directly control.
Whatever they consider that to be, probably. There's no way that the true name of a trans person would be their deadname, and what about women who take on the family name of their husband?
Most stories are very specific that it must be the true name. I'm also thinking of old real world stories like Rumpelstilzchen - surely the being was somehow being referred to by humans, but you still had to know its true name to "win".
You can get powered speakers without silly stuff like bluetooth, especially if your setup doesn't include a subwoofer. I use Adam A3x speakers (I don't think they even make this model anymore) and an Adam subwoofer, though, because I'm into sub-heavy genres like dubstep.
That said, I wouldn't get new speakers just to be more analog - speakers cost money and you're definitely going to lose money even if you buy used and sell your old speakers.
I think Ardour is the only open source DAW that's actually full-featured, and IMO it's not great for MIDI-based workflows. Huge downgrade from Ableton. That's based on version 5, though, I last used it maybe 2021 - maybe the current version is better. LMMS is worth checking out, but back when I last tried it maybe 4 years ago I couldn't get into it, the documentation was very barebones and like most DAWs it's too complicated to go without.
Bespoke Synth is pretty cool and actually fairly intuitive even though it's way different from a standard DAW, watching half of the overview video on their homepage is already enough to get you going. The name is a bit misleading IMO, it's closer to a DAW than to a synth and you can even use it as a host for other synth plugins that supports both VST and LV2 (in contrast to Bitwig, which only supports VST). It was pretty crashy for me when I was working with external plugins, though.
Imagine Linus Torvalds in customer support :D