I've been using my Galaxy S22 since I got it late 22 without a Google account. I did set up a Samsung account, but have no Google account. It's working fine, but obviously I can't install from the play store and I'm not sure how much good it does since all the underlying Google stuff is active. But getting on with getting the phone up and running without having a Google account was easy.

It's for the pearls like this, though nowadays far and few between, that Slashdot is still worth reading. Thank you for recounting the story, and much more so for your insightful actions back in the day.

It could still be true yet deceptive:

1) You clearly know nothing about RMS. 2) I've only ever paid for free software. 3) How many people work on the Linux kernel as pro and how many as hobbyist?

If you only know about software from vendors, writing software to sell it, maybe you should look around more?

But he doesn't think programmers can work for free. If you think that that's what he thinks, I'd like a link.

Too bad, I liked the idea of seeing you in front of your display watching a movie in the terminal with mplayer using aalib...

Considering the mentioned Alpitronic is a two times 25kWh charger, some of the bad things a hack could allow is to charge for free. That would probably provide a nice incentive to fix the bugs...

Most routers run some form of Linux to have the Windows PCs of normies hide behind them...

I just don't like the idea of dying, man. If you ask me, it'll be the last thing I do.

Similar boat, .... All the strength and energy to your wife and you!

Anyhow, all kinds of treatment are fair game if you're a certain distance along on a path with lots of rain and little sunshine. Well, as long as they're actually perhaps maybe possibly functional.

However, trash vermin talking hope with pseudo science such as Dispensa with his quantum field nonsense is really terrible, and it catches desperate people so badly, in Basel, Switzerland, he filled a hall of 2000 people (even 2 days in a row iirc), selling out in a day or so for 500 or 1000 CHF per person. Yes, that's a cool million plus for an afternoon blabbing nonsense....!

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Of which Linux has quite a few, alongside some dysfunctional ones, but I'm not so sure about MacOS; on Windows, use KDE-mover-sizer to get the right behaviour, it will (usually?) even let you move unfocused windows, something that is not normally possible on Windows.

That explains you being here, but then what explains me here...?

Indeed. Further than 3m is already quite far. Diopters are actually the value of 1/(focal distance in m) so if your eyesight needs a correction of -0.5 your natural focus is at 2m. Most people don't actually put on corrective eyewear for such mild cases.

Good point and thank you for making it. The parent poster however will not be swayed, his past experience, how true and unfortunate but perhaps also how dated, keeps him not believing that others have an easier time at it. My wife uses Linux since 24 years. I admin, obviously, but actually after setting things up, don't have much to do.