Omg this looks so good, sadly the food in German ICEs is not this colourful :(

Pretty sure that this commenter makes use of a lot of irony. See their post history.

All of this is confusing af

At least in Germany, at a lot of Rewes (supermarket chain), this is absolutely a thing and very common. You can place the handheld barcode scanners in a specialised holder on the cart handle and then scan as you go, and neatly package all your stuff before going to the checkout and paying at a terminal. If even Germany has got this by now, then every other country on the planet surely does too lol.

Does “European-built” mean a strict “manufactured in the EU” or do European brands in general count? In the latter case, Philips would obviously come to mind, co-inventors of the CD. They made quite high-quality CD players as far as I know. But I don’t know where they were produced.

Can you not just run the curl or wget without piping it into bash, first? This way you could inspect what the script wants to do.