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

Yes, and framework seems to push exactly there

https://linuxgizmos.com/metacomputing-launches-45-tops-arm-linux-ready-pc-powered-by-cix-cp8180/

👀linux on ARM Laptop?

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

Was born, or it’s light reached earth?

Additionally, sanctions on Iranian oil was lifted as well. Even more money for Iran…

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/20/politics/iran-oil-sanctions-lifting

And lemmy…

Hmm, interesting…

But we learned now, that your desktop somehow isn’t reaching your DNS (pi-hole) until restart of Network Manager

So next thing i would do is traceroute and dig on your desktop while it is not working, to see what DnS is used in this state

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)

😮🫣 yea, makes totally sense to take alcohol and tobacco under the same umbrella as firearms and explosions 🤯

Do you see the dns calls in pi-hole when it is not reaching its destination?

“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.

“Senior” is implying exactly that, I thought…

My friend is sole IT guy for two production lines, managing security, multiple production buildings, redundancy, sensor lifetimes, emergency concepts etc, he has one colleague managing the human IT part

Like he manages all the machines and the other one all MS-Shit

It is always very interesting listening to his stories about managing multiple production lines where it costs so much if the machine is not running for some time

It is about producing chocolate, lol

Piracy preserves media.

Piracy preserves art.

Piracy makes sure, that future generations still have access to the creations of humanity.

Data hoarding is a service to the public.