Call Microsoft about a bug and tell me how well their support works for you.

Pretty well, actually.

My bank requires a second factor for everything done over the web instance. That second factor is either an app or a hardware token generator you have to buy seperately.

Deal. That’s worth like 10 bucks.

Transaction number. It’s a second factor for authentication of basically everything you want to do while banking online.
Most people use a phone app for it (which doesn’t reliably work on degoogled and rooted phones), but you also have the choice of buying a dedicated TAN generator device, so people without smartphones can use online banking.

Things I need from the Play Store are:

• Banking App
• Banking TAN App
  I downloaded them using the Aurora store and although they complain about missing play services on every startup, they work without them.

Things I don’t need, but use (installed in the same way and run without play services):

• App from my country’s train service
• App from my carsharing service
• Netflix
• Spotify
  I could run those in a browser, but I don’t see what the big difference would be. They run without play services.

So luckily, in Germany, you can live without Google. Nothing actually requires it.

I discovered yesterday that Windows has a command line package manager in Powershell that can install, uninstall and update basically every software you might ever want to install on a Windows PC.
winget search ""
winget list
winget upgrade

Today, X is like the horse and buggy proponents, claiming the car isn’t feasible cause you can’t get gasoline in every town.

You don’t know what your ISP-provided router does exactly. It may let some traffic through from the outside. It may get an over-the-air firmware update or config change at any time from your ISP. It definitely has well-known, unfixed vulnerabilities.

Also, if you rely on NAT, you have to have 100% trust in all devices that are inside your network.

Thank you for your valuable contribution.

It’s not the app, it’s the lack of volunteers mapping addresses in the US.
Don’t pull your hair out, install StreetComplete and take a walk around your neighborhood.

And if you find that fun, editing Openstreetmap in the browser isn’t all that hard, either.
If you add addresses you are missing, you can increase the apps utility for yourself directly. Pretty fun seeing the stuff you entered appear in the map. And it doesn’t require any coding skills.

Something you can’t do with missing info in Google Maps.

I trust my government more than a bank, though.
If you’re American, I don’t expect you to understand.

Source: Your ass

And without the 2026 year

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

Holy shit, thanks!

Linux will be there for people who choose to dedicate hundreds of hours a year to the hobby of computers.

And my grandma. She’s been running Linux just fine for the past 3 years. I don’t think she even knows what an OS is.