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xoffeemuffins23··on The only way of being anonymous in Sweden is illegal?
Also a bit remarkable is that your social security number (personnummer) is not only used to identify you with official and government services, but also with every company you might have a customer account with. It consists of your birthdate and 4 numbers (which some people use as their pin code on their devices).

On the other hand there's 2FA: when identifying to a service (like when calling customer support) you're asked for your personnummer, after which you have to open an app on your smartphone to verify with a 6 digit pin code.

The trust in eachother went pretty far apparently, where garage sales sometimes just meant an open barn with a notice. Things for sale would have the price + an account number to make the payment to. (But haven't come across this myself yet, times are changing)

xoffeemuffins23··on Investing in lighting did great things for my mental and physical health
Using a zig-a-zig-ah stick in combination with a raspberry pi 3/4 running zigbee2mqtt is surprisingly stable, compared to the slightly cheaper alternatives [0] and works quite okay in combination with home assistant.

But to be honest I'll be looking into getting a Home Assistant Yellow as well as this seems to be easier.

[0]: https://electrolama.com/projects/zig-a-zig-ah/