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.

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.

I’ve noticed over the years it ebbs and flows with the broader “societal mood”. People are much more on edge nowadays for rightful reasons, but it creates a pretty toxic environment on the internet.

Im thinking of the fork the devs of the programming.dev instance were trying to build, it was PHP. Can’t remember the name, then this and Pixelfed. I don’t know if favoritism is the right word but I do feel like 3 projects is a lot for the current ecosystem lol.

Certainly an interesting decision.

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.

A huge aspect of this is ranchers not cycling their land and allowing it to regrow native grasses properly, which does end up running into the land use problem again. But right now we’re very unoptimized with land regrowth and there’s a huge difference that can be made with just properly handling the land and to stop ranching in literal deserts.

Unfortunately until they implement a For you algorithm across all instances and abandoned their archaic hashtag following system I will not be re-attempting

I tried moving to Mastadon first a few years ago and it was a pretty shit experience, Bluesky however has stuck in my app rotation pretty well.

Let’s not kid ourselves the user experience is much much nicer on tiktok than on Mastadon.

can you say the same about your $150 BT buds?

Yeah actually my Jabras are probably pushing 5-6 years right now. Maybe slight reduction in battery life but I never wear them for extended hours anyways.

I thought I was going to be that way with the 3.5 mm jack but once I bought a pair of Bluetooth headphones I’ve been chilling, they’re really good nowadays unless you’re going full audiophile with .flac files

not including the one picture of the protocoll/network topology

This is a solid one from their wiki

Yeah I think we’ve been having on off discussions about ATProto’s place in the Fediverse here for probably 2ish years in multiple threads.

Looks like today the crowd has finally more sternly come to a decision lol. I think there were threads last year here around this ATProto with a lot better nuance and discussion, but Bluesky has been getting a lot of hate and misinformation thrown at it from this pocket of the internet lately, which is somewhat disappointing since they both the pocket should operate symbiotically.

Possibly a sign of newer Lemmy users though which is good regardless.