Ohh nice 😀 it is so long ago when I last played that 🤯

Gotta get that running on my desktop ASAP to introduce it to my son 🤩

Thank you for the inspiration!

Niiice! Congratulations! 😁

Offline computing?!

But

Why are they doing that 😅?!

Deliberately making lost media only to sell short time a bit more due to FoMO?

We have policy to have an admin account and a normal business premium (with enterprise windows add-on)

So I enroll them to my main 😂 since we have a hybrid setup, I have like 50 dead objects under my account in intunne (hybrid generets a dead object beside the real one during autopilot)

I just switch the primary user in intune

😂it takes a fucking day to install all updates on the new PCs i set up at my workplace and download speed on our side is definitely not the bottleneck

At least it does the heavy lifting in background so my coworkers don’t realise how slow it is, but maybe it is by design, so that it doesn’t impact workflow 🤷🏻

But definitely not what i call “fast"

Umm, no

When I enroll a new device at work I have literally one day only to let it run through autopilot (hybrid setup) let all policies (GPO and MDM) trigger and install all the updates (windows and vantage (Lenovo))

Ironically this still an improvement over the HP devices filled to the top with slop…

But imagine giving such a device to a new coworker 😂 as MS intends you to do with autopilot (i set it up with my account and switch the primary after all updates are done)

Install Linux

Yea, but that is required for paying via QR code as well

Well, you get such cards free if you have an account at a bank

We have a mixed system here, as contactless pay with cards and the local solution using QR Codes came at a similar time, but local banks did block apple pay and other phone solutions (you had to order a credit card from services like boon to use apple pay). Small events or business like shops on farms have just the QRcode, no terminal.

Later, banks allowed apple pay directly and the terminals got an update to show QRcodes. And the local solution allows bank to bank payments in seconds without fees.

These facts and the case that internet connection is pretty good anywhere here, has let, that most people have the local solution and at least a NFC debit card. And since debit cards now can be added to apple pay, many have this too.

Sadly I know no statistics how well the local solution can hold against the nfc payments

What I know is, that nearly zero people pay with cash anymore

Maybe, they are just more competent and their secret operations stay more secret

PostmarkedOS is a bit frustrating as it makes you jumping through many hoops if you want to install anything not 100% FoSS (due to alpine base)

I personally think arch and mobian are the best options right now, using the phosh UI (I like gnome-mobile as well, but it is not as mobile friendly as phosh)

Now to the hardware part, you have basically two options:

1. Use a phone where most drivers are in the mainline kernel, but with bad performance due to weak SoC (e.g. pine phone pro)
2. Use a phone with strong(er) SoC but relay on custom kernel from the phone brand, locking you in place of the version of the kernel they modified (e.g. oneplus 6, I think)

At least this is how I remember it

When we come to App support; you mostly have to rely on webApps for proprietary services like train ticket, uber, etc.

For massages, I would recommend a Matrix server and the various bridges to third party messaging services that exist for it (be aware that some services consider a connection via bridge as incompatible with their ToS and may block you)

Not really in use due to time constraints but i have installed pro-audio, which is a nice collection of linux compatible audio software:

https://archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/pro-audio/

“right to root” would prevent so much eWaste.
I would love a variant that is like, if you stop delivering security and minor fixes/backports to a device, you have to give access to root or better even to the bootloader.

Yess! Indeed interesting, maybe member of german and Austria far right parties use chat apps within scope and fear to get caught doing whatever they do 🤔

Die Partei?

I watch smallant playing this one 😄