Your PUK is wrong. The PUK isn’t actually checked until you set the new PIN. It’s stupid but it’s been that way since forever, I definitely remember it on my Alcatel OT 302.

So you should definitely find the correct PUK before trying again.

I would call a 19th century book old. Like, no one I know has been alive in 19th century. That’s pretty old by my standards.

Really depends on your age, I guess. For me, anything made in 1990 and later is new(ish) and everything before that is old. I imagine if you were born in the 2010s, even 90s movies feel very old.

Did you miss the “extremely precise” part? So no, not really.

It’s weird how brain works, in my mind Rust is like 2 years old. Similar with Golang. Which is even weirder because I actually write Golang and have done so for more than 2 years.

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Not really. Long time ago I was used to a mouse with ~3000 dpi and after a few years I was extremely precise with it. Also faster, obviously.

Ah, fuck them. I’m not gonna stop using unbackdoored encryption just because they want me to.

I mean, they intentionally and knowingly destroy people’s lives because some poor fella pirated. They try to bully and destroy other companies by claiming patents after the company reveals what their game will be about.

Sure, they’re not the worst company, but I’m not talking about companies that openly profit from war or whatever, I was talking about companies that pretend to be friendly while actively and intentionally hurting people.

Making someone who doesn’t have hundreds of millions pay hundreds of millions for the rest of their lives for sharing a stupid few games online is pretty fucking vile in my book.

But yeah, if I had to choose the vilest company in the category of looks-friendly-but-is-actually-evil, I’d probably choose Nestlé. Though all of the big 5 are also competing for the top spots.

Well, just fuck them. If you want more incentive, just look at how many lives they destroyed in the chase of money. They’re one of the most disgusting companies in the world.

If someone deserves having all their games pirated, it’s definitely Nintendo.

Android is not Linux, it only uses (modified) Linux kernel. Android experience is not transferable to any other Linux distro. While Steam Deck’s is. You’re not saying your smart bulb runs Linux just because it uses its kernel.

Well, we got Steam Deck on that front, so at least there’s something. Not a desktop, but a regular consumer device with Linux is still nice.

Not even close. Most hardware issues I had were with Windows. Additionally, that thing gets slow over time, no matter what you do. If you use it often, it’ll get to an unusable state in a year or two. And you can’t do anything about it except fresh reinstall. It spies on you so much even Google could learn from them. And nowadays it even has ads. You pay for the OS and then you still have ads, classy. And as a bonus, all the spying and ads are so unoptimised that they make your computer slower.

Anyone who uses Finder as a file manager is a masochist. That’s the worst file manager I’ve ever used. And that includes shitty Android file manager which have more ads than file managing capabilities.

Well, that sounds like issues with your specific hardware, because that’s definitely not the usual Linux experience.

Tip for next time: find some distro that has up to date kernel. Ubuntu, Mint and Debian are definitely not good if you have very recent hardware, they stay on old kernels for quite a long time. And drivers are in the kernel.

I have to disagree about Windows being easier, but that’s fairly subjective. What’s 100% objective is that it’s definitely not the reason everyone uses Windows, the reason is much simpler: it came with their machine.

Anyway, I recommend Nobara for gaming - it’s basically Fedora, but preconfigured for gaming and general normal use.

Oh yeah, Windows storage driver issues are great if you need to kill time. Nothing better than your Windows installer claiming there’s no disk. Great in combination with missing touchpad drivers. But hey, at least I found out it can indeed be installed without a working mouse and that includes installing the storage driver!

I said better, not more secure. It’s not as easy to accidentally leak the message. It’s equally easy to intentionally leak it.

I mean, have you ever read anything about any dictatorship?

But if you officially operate somewhere, they can sue you, I thought that was common knowledge?

Anyway, not complying with local laws and operating in the country can get you in some serious trouble. And the trouble will escalate until you comply or pull out of the country.

Kim Jong Un can sue anyone. Like, they can sue Signal if they want. Sure, they have no way to enforce it, but they can sue (and win the case). It’s not like this would be a first, that happened quite a few times. Especially in dictatorship.

There is a reason: you will be sued out of existence. And the bit about North Korea made me laugh, so thanks.