absGeekNZ @ absGeekNZ @lemmy.nz

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Online EFTPOS is only a thing for some banks. Not universal like card based.

Universal online EFTPOS and a version of paywave, and I'd almost never need a credit card.

Alternate, alternate headline.

EFTPOS still refuses to pull head out of own arse, won't offer competition to price gouging Visa. Even though consumers would flock to their service in a heartbeat.

Tell me you are not in New Zealand, without telling me you are not in New Zealand.

A few years ago, I installed mint 21.1 on my mum's old NUC; a 2013 model; was running Win7.

I said, it doesn't meet the minimum for Win10, so it was either buy something new or try Linux.

Just got back from visiting them, I updated it to 21.3, still running fine. It still does everything they need.

Mum even said, "it always just works". A great endorsement, as a non-technical user mum needs a no fuss distro, mint works so well in this regard.

Reasonable to avoid travelling to or transiting through the US currently, and for the foreseeable future.

That's how I found out also.

The finger is not a problem, industrial accident can explain that easily enough.

But why is he wearing someone's hand at his belt?

Politics can be really cool.

But, currently politics is very much not cool.

But what if I really like Linux

Valentina Tereshkova

I was going to ask the same.

Those goals are not even that "out there", but to play the devil's advocate here for a moment.

Is it because your family know you, and you tend to flit from one "big idea" to the next, and they are worried about you putting in a lot of time and effort, to then get bored and move on to the next one. Or perhaps you have always been an outdoors kinda person, the idea of you sitting in front of a computer for hours on end, just is way out of your "normal".

I'm not saying they are correct, but if they genuinely care about you, maybe ask why they think it is a bad idea.

In saying that, maybe they are just cunts.

There are so many variables, like an you just out of school or university, are you mid career on your 40's and looking for a change, are you recently retired and have always held an interest.....

I think the centimoochi is my new favourite measure.

1 cmooch (pronounced 'smooch')=0.11 days/2.64hrs/9504s

3 days = 0.273 Scaramuccis or 0.068 Trusses

The republican adminstration really is at the forefront of these new units of measure.

Weird, I have 100's of thousands of files synced.

Been using it for years.

Linux, windows and Mac in the circuit. Never a problem that wasn't user error.

Philosophy.

Ask it to act as Socrates, pick a topic and it will help you with introspection.

This is good for examining your biases.

e.g. I want to examine the role of government employees.
e.g. when is it ok to give up on an idea?

I started on Ubuntu, tried 8.04 and went back to windows XP, tried 10.04 and stayed.

20.04 was my last Ubuntu, bounced around for a while, but I have settled on Mint. Been running it for 3 years now.

Mint isn't too fancy, it is just there and lets me get my work done, very much the way Ubuntu used to be.

I'm running the 6.14.2 kernel, to get the latest drivers for my RX 9070, I'm playing around with local AI.... Mint isn't fancy, but you can do almost anything you want.

that is exactly what Syncthing is, my desktop to my server to my laptop to my phone....

Syncthing!

I don't even know what to compare it to, I have been using it so long.

Na, peas and gravy is great.

You are cooking them too long.

They are edible raw, so you only need to heat them through to go with your hot meal. They should still be firm and sweet when cooked.

Literally 2 min in boiling water, 3 if from frozen.