Interesting, I’ve never seen or heard of that before…

I have a e14 Thinkpad…with 8gb soldered ram

so I put a 16gb stick in

What?

Oh yeah, that’s a “home phone” or a “landline phone”. But these types of phones cannot receive SMS messages so they don’t solve the problem.

I don’t know what a “small fix phone” is, but the phone is not the problem. The problem is basic services that require a phone number as part of your registration.

Yes and no. You can try and go without a phone number but I’ve found that to be literally impossible. Or you can change your phone # periodically, that’s what I do.

My point is changing providers is a fruitless endeavour. Your phone number is probably sourced and sold several times/day. Switch carriers and they’ll do the same thing. Why? Because no one will stop them, and most people don’t know or even care, so why wouldn’t they? And your phone number is already out there anyway, there’s no taking it back.

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Get a mini PC with Intel N200. $200 more or less. Install your preferred Linux with KDE Plasma Bigscreen. Use Waydroid and Aurora Store to install streaming apps. That’s the best I got.

I wasn’t suggesting they leaked only partial phone numbers?

Doesn’t matter what phone company you have, Whatsapp already has your phone number and they allow anyone to scrape it.

But really there’s so many different ways they can get your #. No way to stop that realistically. I change my phone # every year or so.

Anyone can access 3.5B phone numbers on WhatsApp. Meta says this is not a problem and phone numbers are “basic publicly available information”.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/18/whatsapp-security-flaw-exposed-3-5b-phone-numbers-including-yours/

https://tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurity/articles/3-5b-whatsapp-numbers-were-131821434.html

https://techlore.tech/whatsapp-leaked-3-5-billion-phone-numbers-surveillance-report/

Have you tried looking for the driver for your wireless card?

unless you have the web page pulled up and are looking at it, it will show you as Away instead of Available.

Mine always says away. It’s none of your business where I am or what I’m doing. Send me a message and I’ll get back to you at my earliest availability.

But there is also a Teams for Linux app on Flathub that might solve that problem.

Most workplaces have switched to the cloud model. Google workspace, MS Teams (or w/e they call their work ecosystem?), Salesforce, etc. Pretty much everything these days runs in the browser. And fortunately almost all browsers run on Linux.

That being said, yes, they may provide hardware, and expect you to use it, and they probably wouldn’t allow for you to modify it.

The process is the same, even if the file paths are different. Being different does not make it inferior, or any less “ubiquitous” or “feasible”.

Windows users seem to want to just buy, have, and use a computer

That’s just not how I would describe Windows. It’s more like a digital bilboard with spyware that also runs programs. It actively prevents you from just using “your” computer.

You mod games on Linux the same way you mod them on Windows.

Not going to speak to Bandcamp, specifically but generally anytime you create an account, all of your activity then becomes associated with that account. In the case of Bandcamp? With a properly aliased email address? Should be fine.

Yeah I used it. It’s not nearly as versatile.

Anytime they’re not printed. If it’s not printed, use a link. It makes no sense. I cannot scan a QR code on my phone with my phone.

I tried COSMIC for a couple months. It was very cool. But I just can’t get by without GNOME’s overview.