Do you own a bank account? A credit card? A car?

Your requests aren’t interoperable with the daily life in 2025. Your incredibly niche requirements instead ensures that the general public cannot have access to a usable reasonably private OS outside the hands of corporations.

If you want these requirements you can rip the code out yourself and load it as a custom ROM, stop being anti progress for things as frivolous and solvable as this.

Tap to pay was relatively common even 10 years ago in US cities. I’ve been tap to pay almost exclusively for 5 years.

Mind you the US is BEHIND on tap to pay technology compared to other countries.

Tap to pay with the phone is also much smoother because it emits the NFC signal vs the card which is just inlayed in the card via the chip.

Much smoother process.

The requirements for Linux to have your “needs” would make me not want it,

This is a ridiculous thing to say about something as frivolous and nonmandatory as NFC tap to pay & being able to use a Maps app in your cars dash.

Absolutely must haves for me personally, I use each probably daily. I don’t carry any cards with me and exclusively use tap to pay.

Me when Claude code writes bullshit I don’t need

Thank you, swipe to text got me there lol

I would’ve wouldn’t frame this as the distro is unusable and abandoned.

I’ve been on PopOS for 3 years and haven’t had a single issue even with gaming.

I used to think about this via mesh networks as simply routers, but now with nostr, IPFS, atProto and that new BT messaging stuff Jack Dorsey is on. Technically you could utilize your phone as an access point to the mesh network as you move around the city and load all the comms in the background. The latency would be high, but it could work. Also with 5g tech nowadays long range mesh networks are much more feasible albeit probably expensive for a hobbyist.

This event has brought a lot more class consciousness to the masses than anything else imo.

If you’re willing to use a web app and pay $50 a year. Monarch has been incredible for me.

Do the second and third one have absurd product placement like the first one does? It really took me out of the movie in the first one.

Action, but 1917 has some incredible dark 4k scenes especially if you have an OLED or Mini LED TV

My Dutch Usenet provider has been DMCAing a lot more content lately. Seems EU is putting quite a bit of investment into anti piracy lately.

Bluesky is apart of the Fediverse and the quicker ActivityPub sites accommodate that fact the quicker we’ll have an open internet.

This pissing fight between ActivityPub sites and Bluesky is dumb and doesn’t further an open internet.

Not directed at you but to a lot, go put time into making Mastodon compatible with atProto instead of bitching.

Mastodon is a far worse experience than Twitter and Bluesky, it’s not a 1:1 transition.

It’s been an incredibly slow churn to progress.

The most noteworthy thing at yesterday’s hearing was a report on a Unclassified secret access program - Immaculate constellations which outlines types of UAPs and their behavior. The problem is it’s brought in via an unverified source, either current or former member of the DoD. Also it’s improperly formatted for a DoD doc. But that can possibly be explained via them editing it for public use. Otherwise it was mostly just what’s already been known just told under oath in an official context. It also has a much greater emphasis on USOs(underwater UAPs).

The most interesting and ironclad to come from everything so far has been Schumer’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2024 (UAPDA) which is attempting to get passed with the NDAA (Annual defense act). In the act it lays out the groundwork for UAPs existence and that the government is in charge of both reconnaissance and recovery of them, and most of the secrets are held behind the Department of Energy.

A lot of Chuck Schumer’s comments and amendments play relatively safe though saying “if this exists” then here’s a law. But there was also a lot of work put into a 2023 UAPDA with that NDAA and actually got shot down by Republican military industrial complex lackeys so take from that as you will.

The 2023 amendment was fought over heavily because it required a return of all classified uap biological materials and non biologics to be returned to the US government from private contractors. Which is another big bullet point.

I think the most news we’ll get soon is whether the 2024 version of the UAPDA is included in the NDAA this year.

Democracy seems to be crumbling pretty hard to shitty education systems combined with heavy propaganda and misinformation. I’ve been trying to think of a solution that still allows a proper resilient democratic system to thrive, but I’m not sure one exists.

I’ve been a heavy competitive gamer for 10 years now, kernel anticheat has been an incredible blessing developed these last few years despite every non-player calling it malware. Meanwhile all the consistent players rejoice and newer players don’t have to deal with constantly wondering if someone’s hacking every single lobby.

You can see just how much this has directly impacted high elo League of Legends players via Riots dev blog after their implementation. The most notable:

more than 10% of Master+ games had a cheater in them.

While they definitely do this for handles I’m pretty confident this is also done for DIDs (Decentralized identifiers) and it doesn’t provide a solution if you lose your domain. I think Bluesky (Appview) specifically gets around this by also tying your DID:web to your DID:plc, in case of domain loss. So I think it exists on the protocol but they don’t automatically utilize the decentralization for end-user experience(domain loss) but other appviews can. But I could be wrong.

https://atproto.com/specs/did