Still remember installing those j2me games on my classmate's phones. It was a bit hard to figure out and find the right resolutions versions for each phones.
This strategy requires you to be "on-call" for personal stuff. Honestly, I don't want to spend more time on pet projects than I already do. Or cutting some of it away on support instead of spending more on things I would actually be interested in.
And resulting downtime might be even bigger than that with cloudflare.
Pretty sure hetzner is still a lot less in terms of provided features. There are reasons people get "amazon certified". So, aws alternatives are few and require a lot more resources to create and maintain, while alternatives to hetzner would be a lot easier to create, keeping original Hetzner prices in-check with the market.
Answering this question seriously, I'm a programmer / IT know-it-all, and I did it under two hours, which included firing up my own activation emulator, toward which I point my Windows. Now that I have the process down, it's taking seconds for each new Windows.
From what I can remember, there are like 10 various routines for different ways to activate different products and most of the code is just boilerplate, no? You definitely can trace the hwid codepath in a reasonable time.
if anything bad ever happened after using MAS there would be piles of evidence because MAS is brought up every time people discuss Windows license price. Equating piracy to malware is disingenuous and malware is not the only bad factor. If you consider all of them it turns out that there is a lesser chance you'll get screwed if you pirate be it music, movies or operating systems
I am pretty sure all the stuff is optional and the main point is having everything like drivers working right away instead of looking for solutions yourself
That's something most distros do already, or at least try to. Good default setup and working drivers Ubuntu aimed for a decade ago. So that would not be exciting.
Maybe it's more about the willingness to include software other distros see critically and would not include by default, like docker.
I did consider it at some point but not having google wallet(apparently nfc payments are only available via banks' apps there) was too big of a downside for me.
It is Google themselves choosing to prevent GrapheneOS from passing the validation checks required to make GPay work (which is the app that makes the actual payment).
Wallet is there, you can hold digital cards, and transit cards, and your Ikea member card, etc. It's GPay that won't work to do the payment. And it's Google the one being a bully and deliberately making you think like that towards any alternative that's not in their list of approved systems that can be used in your own phone.
