I understand the inflation argument, but what gives crypto any value other than a) a relative value which is based on fiat currency anyway and b) the faith of the userbase in it?

Have you paid for a service that uses AWS though? Youay never know if you’ve funded the big A.

“creature with eyes can see, more at six”

There’s plenty of privacy respecting non-proton options that don’t involve trying to set up your own mail server.

They’re not wusses, they were just biding their time to unveil their true selves.

It was built with AI, so articles will scream about it being a triumph of whatever engine made it.

It’s very easy.

Chrome let’s you do “install” websites to home screen, Firefox allows saving shortcuts to home screen.

The annoying thing is that you can’t save them to the app drawer (at least on vanilla android), so if you have a clean home screen you have to sacrifice that.

I used it decades ago (using the CLI installer for a Sid install I eventually fucked up beyond repair) and it was okay for a slightly tech savvy teenager, even then.

I suspect a lot of these issues are down to hardware compatibility more than anything else.

Ditto, I used it on my eepc 701 way back when. I miss that sort of computing experience!

Bunsenlabs is the successor to crunchbang.

Crunchbang was amazing, but it’s sadly no more. Development stopped on it some time in 2015 I think.

Bunsenlabs is a direct successor to it, and should be good on OP’s system.

And why does where you swipe down on the notification bar change what’s shown?!

I have to use an iPhone for work and I don’t understand a vast amount of the UI choices - and that’s before data fuckery.

It’s not a government body, so it can’t be official. The closest it gets is unofficial mouthpiece for the British Establishment™.

The BBC isn’t a government body and isn’t funded by taxes, it’s primarily funded by the license fee (and selling broadcasting rights overseas).

The internet has royally fucked the funding model - as everyone and their mum has equipment capable of receiving live broadcast tv, but unless it becomes an official government mouthpiece it’s unlikely to become something we pay for out of taxes.

Fair enough - I didn’t realise it was for visa requirements until I read the rest of the comments; my bile got the better of me…

I’ve worked for Fraser Group (in a very different capacity) and you absolutely have dodged a bullet; they’re an absolute shit show and are responsible for a large amount of the enshittification of the UK’s high street.

The owners are shitbags and the rest of the hierarchy takes notes and shit downstream.

It smacks of elitism, that’s all.

The OS is simply a means to an end. If Linux offers a way to do what they want in a way that is less hassle, and it meets their needs, then that’s a good thing.

They shouldn’t have violated the ceasefire by returning to Northern Israel Their Homes a DMZ.

/s, obviously I hope.

customizable and configurable

Whatever you think of OPs proposed use case is definitely falls under the above.

It’s this kind of 1337 h@xor approach to the OS that makes people feel like it’s unapproachable when that’s so far from the reality these days.