Lots of people do lots of things.

I have a second sim card for my phone. I just turn off that sim when I’m not working, and set my status as away for group chat.

In this context, there isn’t any tangible benefit to having a second phone.

I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s how it plans out.

A regular group chat and another signal one for when you specifically need to talk to OP.

Having two phones absolutely sucks. Didn’t work for me at all.

The flag looks a bit like a disgruntled goose.

If one company is stifling competition, then competitors don’t have the resources required to innovate.

When you look at competitors offerings, you’re seeing the best they can do in a google-dominated market.

Real competition benefits users.

The problem is, if one company dominates search, you have no way to evaluate whether they are doing it well.

Mozilla could do search themselves.

There’s no way in hell I will ever own a toothbrush with any sort of connectivity, but electric toothbrushes really are pretty great. Teeth feel way cleaner.

I’ve heard the sonic ones are amazing because they can clean the pockets between the gum and tooth… never had the money for that though.

Our rice cooker’s only “logic” is a spring that lifts the bowl off the element once enough water has evaporated.

Yeah this is me.

I acknowledge the privacy issues but cash is way too inconvenient.

I’ve never been able to get this to work in a stock debain 12 / gnome environment.

I think you missed the joke.

You’re not just “disagreeing”. You’re trotting out GOP propaganda, much like a bot programmed to do so.

I’m having a hard time believing that you actually believe what you’re saying.

My opinion doesn’t mean much since it’s been forever since I tried any other distro but I’m surprised Debian isn’t on the beginners list.

it might be a bit too involved for an absolute beginner to configure to perfection

I’m not really sure what this means? It might be more accurate to say it’s not the best distro if you’d like to tinker with your desktop experience.

Notably, nothing on the beginners list ought to be run as a headless server, but debian is perfect for that job. The reason I’ve become so enamoured with debian over the years is that I can use it on my desktop and on servers and it’s the same system - everything is exactly where I’m used to it being.

… but how could someone buy a new Audi during a blackout ?

Have you been to a shop in the last 20 years?

I’m genuinely curious how you envisage that everyone could pay cash during a power outage.

Items don’t have price stickers. Cashiers couldn’t reliable total up more than a few items. Customers couldn’t be given itemised receipts.

In an end-of-days style apocalypse, sure trade would carry on, but the existence of “cash” wouldn’t be relevant.

As I started off by saying, this is such a lame reason to argue for the existence of cash.

Because the equipment used to record sales uses electricity.

Do you really think the 12yo cashier is going to get out a pad and pen and rithmatic your purchase?

Well, our own government has never said anything about it. If they did propose it I guess our democratic process would find the best way forward. The same could be said of a great many things that will never exist.

Also collecting taxes ought to be easy and fair. If no one cheats then no one pays too much if they do not cheat. Besides that, there’s plenty of other measures that can be applied in 2024 to diminish tax evasion.

Does anyone actually want a cashless society though?

I don’t carry cash for the same reason I don’t carry my socket wrench. I use it for specific things at specific times but I don’t need it day to day. That doesn’t mean I think socket wrenches should be outlawed.

How often does that happen though?

Or… what if the power goes out, you can’t pay with cash or card.

Honestly if this is the best reason to carry cash then we should be cashless.