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what the fuck. like… we just assumed “google wallet” would work like “apple wallet”, i.e. a totally offline application that doesn't require an account or registration. but it does not work like that, even though both apps allow storing flight and train and concert tickets etc

our principled rejection of apple products on creative freedom and privacy grounds really, really hurts the privacy fan in us because tragically apple product designs in most ways are way better than google's when it comes to privacy, by a really long shot…

but unfortunately the fact apple products literally will not let you do things unless the Eternal Spirit Of Steve Jobs decides they are Blessèd means that, tragically, we have to stop buying them. we need creative freedom including for software and we need expandable storage

but i am typing this on a MacBook (2017, Retina, Core i5, 2 cores, 4 threads, passively-cooled, infamously prone-to-failure keyboard design), on macOS, so you can see that for all my contempt for their walled garden i'm forced to admit i like some of the stuff they do

@hikari the pre-retina intel macbook air works surprisingly well as a freebsd/openbsd machine; i've been curious to try it on a 12" macbook

@joe it runs Ubuntu very nicely if you use Wayland, except that the internal speakers don't work, we suspect for similar reasons to why the Asahi folks had such trouble with that on the M1 MacBook Air etc, but that's pure speculation on our part, we never checked why

@hikari @joe huuh no way in 2017 they already used an ASoC style setup instead of HDA 0.o

@hikari they unfortunately have really good engineers. A shame about that paternalism though.

@hikari do you have any idea of what could be an offline alternative?

@dflxh no idea