Seriously rediculous, most people don’t even know if their card is Visa or Mastercard, nor do they care (because they dont know what they are or what they mean).

(This is from my experience with people i know)

It would likely be the same in the eyes of the payment processor. It technically is the same thing, except you must “top up” your account with money first before buying a game, instead of buying it directly.

Are you smoking crack right now? You sound like you are hopped up on something.

Great

Crazy because every (isp provided) router I have used has these options. They probably aren’t 100% correct all the time, but it would be good enough for children (even though you shouldn’t rely soley on filters to replace watching your kid).

True but 2 > 1

Have to agree with you. If every site just blocked the country with a stupid law like this, then the regular (regarded) folk that are gonna send over their ID the first chance they get will maybe log off their wank station and idk join the cause.

Saying that, at least ppl will be forced to use a vpn instead of sending their id through the internet if they dont comply and just block.

Like how im a really shitty painter, so therefore im exactly as bad as hitler in everything.

If you say so.

Them tryna suck us back into their dysfunctional os, not gonna work on me Mr Micro

I have done no research, but my guess is it will be a waste of money right now. Any existing linux phones are too new for everything to be figured out. Pricing is likely very high for what you get right now too, since they don’t have the scale yet (and probs other things).

I believe they are mostly an enthusiast type deal at the minute.

With some more time I believe they will become very appealing.

Maybe this type of automation could be improved by letting trains handle the long journey part:

Autonomous truck -> train -> autonomous truck

Then, the automated trucks (that could maybe be dispatched from rail networks when you have cargo to send) dont have to do the long distance part. Only the last couple miles each time from train to warehouse and vice versa.

I’m sure there are complications im missing, but at scale this sounds like a feasible plan.

For shorter haul trips though, trucks are necessary for the whole journey no matter what.

Because you are too reliable ;(

If you’re looking at getting a new (used) phone, I would suggest GrapheneOS (the most secure/private de-googled rom afaik).

You need a Pixel phone, the newer you get the longer you will keep getting software updates for the future (if you keep the phone past these many years of support, then I believe switching to a other rom will be required for security patches etc. Each phone is supported until Google stops supporting them I believe). You said you don’t care about updates because you can keep it from connecting to the internet, but it’s a plus anyways.

If you plan on never touching a google service, GrapheneOS allows for that (nothing google by default), but on the other hand, if you need google play, etc for banking apps or whatnot, they have that covered with Sandboxed Google Services (which you can run solely in another user profile on your phone for added privacy).

Anyways, I think GrapheneOS in a great option & their website has much more info if you’d like to continue hearing about it:

https://grapheneos.org/

p.s. you can check their website for how long different pixels will have continued support before (if) you get one (incase anyone else is reading this).

That sounds funny, but In that reality, the government with all its power will find a way in (they probably already have programs (as in departments) for finding their way into other countries tech).

Better to just install a proper de-googled android build (grapheneos, etc) and only use wifi (if data/phone num not needed) for the best odds.

In a couple of years (with more r&d, development and investment) I bet this will change to being use a linux phone.

Yeah here’s to hoping these game devs/publishers get their heads on straight when we all move to linux and stop playing their games because of lack of support.

That’s the thought I use to cope anyways ;(

I’m lucky all the apps I use worked on linux when I swapped over, native or otherwise (through wine).

Sounds like if you fully migrated over, you’d have to give up quite a lot of software and relearn different tools, which is probably close to impossible (given the ones you listed).

Hope the Windows 11 transition is at least a smooth one for you!

They don’t have to, I was simply providing a solution to a problem they don’t have.

If they want to, but can’t because of they decade old configurations, this solution could ease the process or allow them to figure out if it’s even a possibility.

Basically just letting them know they can try it without destructing their existing Windows setup.

Pretty much every online competitive game cuz they all use invasive anti cheats and scapegoat linux as the cheater platform.

CS2 is the only outlier that I know of (VAC is server side mostly & CS2 is native anyways so). Probably some other games that are linux friendly too, but 99% are not.

Slowly switching may be an option for you. You could always dual boot a Linux distro alongside your current Windows install.

Then once you have Linux running with all your apps, etc, you can see what you’re missing from your Windows install and if you can move stuff over, etc.

You could even try it in a VM, see if you can set it up in a VM to how you like first before doing the whole install, may or may not be a bit easier (easier in the sense that you can directly compare whatever you do on Windows with the Linux install in a vm).