“Awesome UI”

Do you have an example?

Hell, me from Slovakia makes 4.70 EUR per hour.

Though I don’t know about the difference in local purchasing power.

I know, I meant it as if they were to access something.

And you could have BIOS-themed custom recovery.
I am sure it could be done. Just compare the usual volume button-navigated stock recovery with something like TWRP which could really be considered a small OS.

Could be the recovery menu.

My IP is 127.69.69.69

Take that.

I don’t think they block VPNs, they just use Cloudflare which often ends up being shitty. I iust tried 2 servers from Mullvad, and it works fine.
But I think it kept blocking me when I used Lifecell SIM card, like many other websites behind Cloudflare.

At this point if I see CF page I iust leave. It’s not worth waiting to see if the captcha let’s you in (most likely not).

Oh, hey, someone here linked iknowwhatyoudownload.com and I can’t enter it with neither Mullvad nor plain Czech T-Mobile.

I don’t know the specific methods, but 3G, 4G and 5G do authenticate bidirectionaly, just 2G doesn’t, partially why Android now has “Disable 2G” toggle.
Also probably why they said they can downgrade you to 2G to intercept communication.

What’s happening here is probably similar to anyone being able to send Wi-Fi deauthentification frame to your device to disconnect you. Unless you’re using WPA3.

Everyone has different preferences.

My separate debit card and transport card won’t discharge or just stop working as likely as a phone. It also won’t be suddenly affected by bugs, nor will it get slower. Nor do I get Google also tracking every single payment as well.

The only disadvantage is compatibility. So many things, and now even some shops use contactless-only terminals, while I got contactless or magnetic payments blocked. Only chip + PIN.
But anyway, the shop that had to downgrade to contactless only due to increased fees on regular old terminal also started asking people to pay in cash instead, again, due to the fees.

Slightly less related, but what modern day paint has lead in it?

So it can only be used for one thing at a time? (https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iphe89d61d66/ios)

Even my cheap Android phone does this better, although I wish there were more modes like triple, short then long, 2 short then long, or changing action for when screen is locked vs unlocked (e.g. flashlight when locked, toggle VPN when unlocked).
But it’s at least something.

After a year there’s only something about linux-firmware requiring manual intervention.

I thought I wasn’t reading the news in correct place. Manjaro had update snapshot discussion threads, and usually there were things to fix manually. Usually just minor things.

NO fish pics

Are you referring to fishing or phishing?

I think civilization is probably just ending after these last few generations, frankly

Someone’s probably trying to stop that already, in a way. Low(er) sentences for rape and abortion bans. Maybe will be followed by something else, like decreasing age of consent. Or banning things like hysterectomy, salpingectomy, vasectomy.
All the good solutions /s

Germans skip to ich_iel.

I had luck with VNC, although it’s still worse than RDP. There’s also some RDP implementations on Linux that are apparently better, but VNC works well enough for me.
But there’s no sound, I don’t know if RDP has that. I’ve used VLC for sound forwarding. I also tried PulseAudio TCP module, but that didn’t quite work. With VLC I can do lossy compression.

What I wish would work better is X11 forwarding. That could be so awesome, just having the remote windows local-like. But from what I can find, in the past, programs used X11’s drawing features which would save a lot of bandwidth, while now they just draw pixel by pixel.

To give you some idea, I’ve tried it on LAN with gigabit ethernet, ping below 1ms. It would saturate the port and still be kinda slow.

I also found it OK-ish, at least after my usual disabling of BITS and SuperFetch (SysMain now, I think), and disabling auto-updates, I think in gpedit.msc, and using the provided BypassNRO.cmd to create local account.

Alright, maybe not that OK, but after the initial setup it ran fine even on officially unsupported computer made in 2007. Just had to modify the installer by merging W11 image into W10 installer.

Anyway, the Windows store or whatever isn’t that used, and I got tired of updating every random program coming from .exe files. But similarly I don’t like the large hops in versions like Windows 10 -> 11, or similarly with Linux Mint, so I went with Arch.

Anyway, I’ll be a smaller minority. I most liked Windows 8.1. It was really well optimized.

price for a domain name

Or host your own VPN on home network. Or use Tailscale VPN, that also works behind CG-NAT, and can usually get direct connection.

In China, coins and banknotes have all but disappeared

Wouldn’t that mean they’re far more used than ever instead?

8 weeks? Really?

Where I live people usually start going about it in September or October till mid fucking January. Or at least the supermarkets/advertisements start that. Remember Jesus? Time to waste money, give it to us!