It's becoming increasingly bizarre to me that virtually all journalists will absolutely refuse to mention Google Play and iOS exclusivity. Has anyone figured out why that is?

Ich habe keine Debit Karte, weil meine Bank mindestens 2€/Monat mehr als für die EC Karte für eine VISA fähige Karte will und ich es nicht einsehe, das zu zahlen.

mfg Tanja Gotthelf

Europe fears that the disabling of the systems of, for example, Mastercard and Visa can be used to put political pressure on the continent. European banks believe that Wero should become the European alternative to this.

If google and apple remove the european banking apps from their stores, there is no official channel to get to wero anymore. The google play store and apple app store most likely has the ability to uninstall apps without user interaction too.

People who don't like this dependency in the first place will not be using wero anyway.

Am I just living in a different reality to everyone else?

und giropay ging auch im browser.

Signal does not care about anyone who does not use android or ios and offers no official way to create an account without them. I wouldn't call that accessible.

Because I can log into the sync feature without the browser logging me into every single google service automatically with the same account.

Also the Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension.

The arch wiki says

Warning: As SDDM will be treated as a separate window by KWin, logging in will close the window. Therefore logging out or switching user will present undesirable behaviour.

What exactly does this mean?

A mass-adopted Taler-based payment system would also require mobile support, which would be gatekept by Google/Apple.

I can use the Taler firefox addon literally today on my Shift 6mq with postmarketOS with no compatibility layers.

Yea the UI isn't great, but it already today is usable everywhere where firefox is usable, and unlike Wero, the client source code is available and the UX can be improved independently.

I'm not on Signal because Signal thinks you should only be able to create an account on an android or ios device so I respect their wishes and don't create one.

What if health insurance paid for necessary taxi rides? Not every mobility impaired grandma is lucky enough to have family members to be their personal chauffeurs.

I used it once to use the in browser bug report thing to request that they support immersive WebXR on linux.

That's why Taler has native apps in the google play store, the apple app store, fdroid and a direct apk download. And still it does not prevent me from using it on other devices like Wero does.

It's so strange to me that so many people get forced to play the recorder for a while in school, yet basic education of the musical world is completely absent. Perhaps taking the kids to a few different kinds of concerts would do away with such weird takes like "but fans of the recorder say the instrument's reputation is undeserved". Music schools for example like to do outreach concerts for kids where they show off and explain instruments etc.

On the topic of recorder performances, people like to criticize the recorder player in the youtube comments, but I like how the group Red Priest interprets and performs music.

Red Priest - Spring

Red Priest play the Hoxne Music Festival 2010

Did we finally find the guy who unironically thinks APIs should be copyrightable?

For the Index and 2.0 Basestation it's supposed to work for a while now https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux/issues/320#issuecomment-1835581128

There is zero support for Taler in the EU. They are currently raising money for creating an institution with the license to handle real money in the EU. The GLS bank in Germany was supposed to work on it, but reportedly they stopped their pilot project because of unspecified concerns. Taler is only actually running with real money in Switzerland.

As the copyright owner you can do whatever you want. You can make your code gpl and give (written) permission to only blizzard to use the code under a different license.

You'd need a CLA for potential contributors though and I have no idea what courts think about it (not a lawyer, not legal advice).

I live in germany. Every single time I take a longer trip, I look for overnight train options. I have never in my life used a sleeper train because they either don't exist on that route or are so much more expensive I'd rather do the less comfortable option. I would love to love sleeper trains.

Not the most comfortable but if you get one with usb-c pd charging, there are quite a few powerbanks even with 100+ watt now.

I use kde wayland and I have cheap monitors with small vrr ranges. Games with fps drops and stuttering cause the monitor it's on to flicker. A lot. So I leave vrr disabled.