Dude why are you being so hostile for no reason ?

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.

There are other Appviews on the atProto that have chosen not to implement checks that have full access to Bluesky posting/data.

Do you use Claude Code? It’s the only time I’ve had 90%+ success rate.

Do you use Claude Code? It’s the only time I’ve had 90%+ success rate.

Do you use Claude Code? It’s the only time I’ve had 90%+ success rate.

The only accessible data come from mistral, most other ai devs are not exactly happy to share the inner workings of their tools.

Important to point out this is really only valid towards Western AI companies. Chinese AI models have mostly been open source with open papers.

It also has a very flexible “thinking” nature, which means far far less tokens spent on most peoples responses.

What’s up with ActivityPub projects being beholden to PHP. Not even pitting languages against each other, just interesting that most new projects nowadays will choose something like Typescript + React but fediverse tends to favor PHP.

This was the case a year or two ago but now if you have an MCP server for docs and your project and goals outlined properly it’s pretty good.

A lot of this comment hinges on your belief that US women are not intelligent enough to to understand that exploitation and manipulation. Knowledge has progressed a lot in the last 20 years. Look at the under 18 and 20-24 age groups

There are much better examples of the subjugation of women in the US right now than to pin the societal oppression on US’ fostering of an anti intellectual society.

The freedom of both women and the general public is not solely dictated by healthcare and the ability to attain higher education.

Does a free society cut off country wide access to the external internet?

Iran is actively lying to its citizens saying they destroyed the US base in Qatar and there was minimal damage to Iranian nuclear facilities. Both outright lies. This is not a free golden society.

How many women are persecuted from laws around the head dressing and other clothing related issues.

Boiling womens rights down to they can become an engineer and have good healthcare is laughably pathetic and on the verge of being a conservative talking point I would hear on fox news in justification for stripping away more rights. Pinning the struggle of US women against Iranian women is an incredibly pathetic mindset that only fosters negativity.