Kartoffeln is just short for Kartoffelnachtschattengewächs, so it doesn’t really count.

Fun fact: Einwohnermeldeamt is the shortest German word beside “Ja”, “Nein” and “Wadenbeinfraktur”

Our (privatized) mail service offers an identification process to third parties where you either walk into a post office with your physical ID card or you make a video call with a call center and show it to them. I don’t think they transmit any more data than “over 18 yes/no”. So while data hording might often be the reason, I don’t think it’s the only one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah that was the language barrier speaking. ID of course. You know you can get a new card at your local Einwohnermeldeamt (for a fee)?

It’s called AusweisApp:

https://github.com/Governikus/AusweisApp/

The German passport ID card (and I’m sure many others) has a NFC chip in it and you can use it with an open source app to securely prove your identity online. In cases like this, the only information pulled from your ID would be “over 18” or “not over 18”.

It’s one of the few things my government did right in the digital space. And yet almost nobody in the private sector uses this. I’m tired of being asked to upload a photo of my ID for age verification.

Yes I do. I want an actual smart TV with a practical, open source, TV-optimitzed Linux OS. It’s not that software on a TV is a bad idea in itself. It’s how it’s ruined by for-profit companies.

I just enjoy games more on my Deck. The controller is by far my favourite, I can resume where I left in a second, I can take it everywhere, the OS is completely out of the way unless I need it.

I have a reasonably powerful gaming PC but haven’t really used it in the past few years because of Steam Deck.

So long as it runs at a stable 30 FPS I can tolerate the limited performance.

I understand the sentiment though.

Why would I want a x86 machine if all I need runs so well on my Pi and uses like under 5 Watts?

Nobody knows if this company will be around in a year. The watches will continue to be usable and versatile. The ring won’t.

It’s only half localized though, the actual path is still called program files. It just displays the localized name. Which is somehow even worse.

In my country I don’t need to file taxes at all unless I’m self-employed. As an employee I can do it voluntarily to profit from tax reduction for stuff the government has no data on, eg. how long my commute is.

Those contribute to Linux, but not Desktop Linux and not at all gaming on Linux.

Trackpads give options. Sure most first person games have controller support. Coming from mouse and keyboard, I still can’t stand playing those with a stick though. Trackpad + Gyro is an absolute game changer, I prefer that even over a mouse now.

Yeah he could hand over a couple billion dollars, that would make up for it.

The first one was a collaboration with HTC I believe.

I’ve been using that on a Pi4 for years and it’s really good!

“There’s a lot of tiny magnets inside” is no explanation at all!

Is it? My instance only has a handful of users, but it runs on a Raspi 4 and RAM or CPU are never a problem