I stopped giving a fuck after my first glued phone repair attempt. Until that point it was kind of fun and very rewarding, and the glued ones are just pure frustration. Big tech won, I don't repair phones any more.
Since when keeping the money you earned is "hoarding" and a bad thing?
I think money with expiration period that exists to prevent people from having savings is very dystopian, I don't feel like there is something to explain.
I refer to comment sections under news about going more cashless, for example. Commenters saying it's bad for privacy get downvoted a lot because it's not socially acceptable to say so.
Same in face to face social setting. If you want to take a stand against cashless, it's good to say something else than the privacy mantra, or people stop listening to you.
Just a note, high denominations are not great during emergencies, unless you mean big purchase emergencies. Buying food and gas with high denomination bills may end up in seller not accepting the bill because they have no change. Or happily accepting that bill despite having no change.
For small change, you could take the jar to your bank and make a cash deposit (and see the cashier die inside). In some branches they have machines for counting change.
Taler e-money is issued with a validity period. One month before the expiration date, you wallet should automatically exchange any digital cash that is about to expire for new digital cash with an extended validity period.
Haha no, thanks. I really don't understand why Stallman stands behind dystopian statist money.
Which hypervisor? I tried booting a physical install this year with VirtualBox and two decades ago with VMWare Player and both times ended up with damaged bootloader that was unable to boot from bare metal
I wrote something myself because I wanted PGP support, but saw some apps on Google Play (I've been still using it back then). I can't recommend anything, sorry.
For calls - yeah, tough stuff. I'e been looking to do the same thing you did, and found there are GSM USB dongles (modems) that can work with Asterisk to forward calls, so you'd use a raspberry pi instead of a smartphone. But I never implemented it, people gradually stopped calling me and there was just no motivation.
I doubt the potentially malicious games will have code sophisticated enough to bypass a sandbox, just because majority of users don't have a sandbox for them, and I'm not paranoid enough to fear targeted attacks. Other than that, the game shouldn't have access to my home directory or network.
Amazing, this way I could restrict network access with normal tools like firejail instead of fiddling with Flatpak. I've never heard of this tool before: https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/
It's not inconvenient truth, it's white noise for the rest of the world