First of all I just want to say that I completely agree with all of the technical things you talked about in his question but I think you kind of miss his question.

OP doesn’t wanna be on SS7 (the thing that gives you your phone number), neither do I. I’ve just come to the conclusion that when it comes to infrastructure and paying for your goods SS7 is the only realistic option I have.

There is no distributed communication network anyone can just connect to. And the dream of leaving WiFi access points open for free (or for some kinda crypto-pay, e.g SkyNet) is just a dream, individuals have to invest in it and nobody wants to or take responsibility for it.

Here are some rules:

1. Somebody* has to build the radios and computers that our phones connect to and has to build them all over the world (*doesn’t have to be an individual, could be a company or government)
2. You gotta pay to use it (whether it’s with a billing account where they have your full name and house address, or crypto)
3. It’s gotta be the easiest option

If we can come with a solution that fits these rules we can do away with the SS7 cellular protocol and have a truly anonymous network.

Nix and home-manager, those are the only 2 I have off the top of my head.

Discreet math, Calculus, and Physics change the way I think about code

Convention over configuration feels like such a fight when I’m trying to configure something

We’ll know if he ever finds some funny way to say he’s using Windows… that or he’s genuine and it’s a click bait title, didn’t watch it ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I thought the whole point of android is to be open source. We shouldn’t let Google own it

The problem is that accounts are hosted by their fedi-instance. We need to use cryptography for platform agnostic authentication.

Thank you for letting me know I’m not the only one

I really love my apple track pad on my Manjaro setup. It’s big and smooth and super comfortable. Nobody makes 3rd party USB track pads

I had problems with my bookshelf because when I switch to Linux too.

I had static, audio drop off, volume issues, bad quality.

If you want good sound off of Linux then you have to develop a deep intimate understanding of pulse audio and ALSA. It’s very hard to share the problems that you’re having with audio on web forums, so there’s not much help you can get here. I spent good month or two kicking pulse audio until it worked, you might have to go through the same.

Webpage literally said it was a joke

This

I’ve run Linux on a bunch of different kinds of laptops and the only time that ever actually looks “good” is on a ThinkPad.

I’ve configured my entire interface to provide the most amount of input bandwidth for me so that I never have to wait for the computer to do what I want. I3 vim and vimmium solve my problems

Thanks to you I just found out that I DID enable wake-on-lan a year ago and that there’s another reason I couldn’t do it.

$mod+enter vim enter Ctrl+p [type a part of the name of the file I want] O [write code]