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But the folks above those good ol boys suddenly have a spot light on them, so feel pressured to do the right thing. They get ask by those above them why are they failing.

Lots of countries have small towns, where that doesn't mean it's fine to shoot a daughter. It's an international scandal now, so it's not like they managed to keep it quiet. Everyone, everywhere, can see the disfunction.

I don't think them and you will run the same Linux, but that's ok. Choice is good and kind of the point. :-)

It's called "continuous deployment". It's the latest term for not having the hassle of separating development and production.

I'm not the only one who wants this. All exists in some form already. If it can't be open and secure, it is not secure at all. "security through obscurity is no security at all"

I want to pay for something directly from my phone by transferring to an address. Far better you push a known amount from your trusted device. Right now, it's pull from your card! Basically, right now, every machine you put your card in you are relying on pulling the same number it displays! This only works at all because of the nightmare control of middlemen like WorldPay. They can get stuffed. Try making something that needs payment right now.

You sure you can't do what you need from bash/ssh?

If you only need ssh, anything can be terminal as everything has a ssh client.

With the amount of money in this bubble, it would be better if slowly deflated instead popped.

What I want is a system that is open source, secure and can do p2p. The natural way to do that is a cryptography based approach.

The current national currency systems are closed and as much about gate keeping, control and taking a cut, as enabling payment.

I don't accept the premise that any crypto always wastes energy. Bitcoin is maybe the most energy hungry one but others use a lot less.

Ethereum energy use dropped by 99.84% when they moved from proof of work to proof of stake.

https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption

A national digital currency might work different again.

If this truely works, you could get rid of cash. All that metal and paper and distribution fades out. You could end up using less energy over all.

XP was Tellytubby NT 2000.

Get off American monopoly tech. The desktop is the easiest.

A GNU/Linux desktop has endless advantages and doesn't include the anti-features.

Linux, in some form, runs a lot of your life already, even if you don't know it.

If your a tech, you really should deeply know Linux/UNIX anyway.

Well that also makes my point. If no one knows about the extra gold, it wouldn't effect the price of gold until it was noticed there was more of it. It is about the belief of scarcity, not the scarcity.

I'm saying not all cryptos are as damaging. "Proof of stake" instead of "proof of work", is all about reducing the load. But part of the reason for any mining is so the system is setup to pay those running the block chain. You could just have banks all running it and no payment built in. In fact, if it is for a traditional currency, you don't want it creating money. It's just a representation of it, like paper money. For that matter coins are, the metal is worth less than the value (or the coins get melted).