And yet the post you're responding to was specifically talking about "ssh -X," claiming it does not work when it definitely *does* work, and that alone fulfills 90% of people's remoting needs, at least the traditional kind of remoting.

I admit it's kind of neat to fire up X2Go and grab a full desktop on another machine, but ssh -X is far more useful to me, and I suspect to most users. In fact when people complain about the lack of remoting in wayland they often point to ssh forwarding. And for native wayland apps that is lacking still. But any GTK or Qt app currently will run under either remote X11 forwarding, or local native wayland.

Yes it does. I'm running stock KDE on wayland right now on Fedora 40 (so it's even old now) and XWayland is running by default and DISPLAY is set. I am running a mix of wayland and X11 apps, and I ssh -X every day to remote machines. Gnome is the same way.

Why do you say it doesn't work when it clearly does?

And where they go, we follow. Just look at the crazy stuff happening in Alberta now.

I can think of some niche cases where this might be useful(mostly HHD/SSD wear data; though bad actors have been able to tamper with those values without much difficulty); but overall this seems like throwing an awful lot of identifying data and a whole 'trust me bro' shadow subsystem at a problem that the data is unlikely to actually help all that much with.

This will be very good at fretting if the refurbisher swapped out RAM or mass storage; but it's not like onboard diagnostics are all that good at picking up the difference between a machine that has had a fairly hard life and now has somewhat dodgy ports and a bit of uncomfortable flex vs. one that sat on a dock most of its life and got unplugged only a handful of times; any any issue that the embedded diagnostics can pick up can also be picked up without any special recordkeeping by just running the diagnostics when you receive the device and verifying that it doesn't throw any errors out of the box.

If you've already got the trust me bro shadow subsystem I assume it's relatively cheap to propose having it keep more records; but I'm not really convinced of how much value is being added.

Not really, both wechat and alipay have a tourist card option that you can top up with a foreign debit card. It has a 3% fee i believe but then you can pay for things the same way the locals do.

So I guess for illicit transactions we don't want the government to watch, we resort to barter?

I like that the guinea pigs in this "test and learn" strategy are the wealthy celebrities and investors that provide so much benefit to humanity just by being so rich and special. They have found the most rapid and efficient way to turn their excess money into carbon dioxide.

There are countries where the average yearly income is less than four times the cost of a single game. Why do you hate people in poorer countries so much? It is racism, or do you just need to feel superior by making it impossible for them to kick your ass in World of Warcraft?

Or it reflects that reality that some countries have an average annual income of nearly $200,000, and some have and average annual income of $220.

What's the point, since Mars doesn't have a significant enough magnetic field to hold anything resembling an atmosphere? Isn't that the whole reason Mars is the planet it is today? It's dynamo stopped a long time ago.