Not knowing much about Serbian smartcards, but I had done quite a bit with smartcards in Linux before.

Have you seen this project? https://github.com/ubavic/bas-celik … looks to be cross-platform and do what you’re saying. Though you’d probably need pcscd, pcsc-tools, and possibly other similar packages, depending distro.

It’s wt.exe. You should just be able to run wt.

I’m doing my part.

I set up bazzite in a VM and passed my GPU thru it.

Now I’ve got a nuc clone in my office with bazzite on it as well and it’s just a moonlight client. But it’s silent. Or damn close. The GPU is two floors away, I hear nothing!

That was two separate downloads, too…Nvidia-gnone and gnome-standard.

I was on Nobara a couple months ago and liked it…but a colleague piqued my interest on immutable distros and now here I am.

And she did, last time we flew. Domestically. Which is absurd.

No other real reason to make a special trip to the RMV just to upgrade the license. Certainly not to pay a fee to get it and still keep the same expiration date on her license. So not even extending it.

It isn’t “normalizing” to acknowledge what reality is

Ahh, but what if reality isn’t normal?

Name another point in human history where our identities, our habits, our routine, our very movement within our states borders…was a fucking commodity, with chunks owned by the government and curated by the richest people in the world.

I’ll wait.

And don’t say the slave trade because that’s just admitting that we aren’t free people.

To be fair, if a child dies…if it wasn’t in a car crash or a school or accidental shooting, it was probably because of people like this CEO.

If our people weren’t completely fucked the 2nd amendment would have been involved by now. Followed by a whole lot of the 5th.

Me, personally? I’m invoking the 21st.

And the VIP lane on the highway is a private road?

Whats next, HOV Lane brought to you by Carl’s Jr.?

Stop normalizing the surveillance state. It’s not a good look.

Dude it was hard enough for my wife to get a new ID (not REAL) when we moved from RI to MA.

I do all the bills and handle all the finances. My credit was better (now we are about equal) and so all the utilities and most the credit cards are in my name. Not to mention most of them are paperless.

At the time, I think she was also still on a cell phone plan with her siblings.

So, like, absolutely no official-enough mail coming to our house to her name. And they need 2.

What, exactly, is the purpose of an ID, and why does it need my SSN and two pieces of mail? How does that identify me, as a person, any more than a supporting document like an existing US Passport? If I qualified for a US Passport, why the hell do I need so much more on top of that for just a state issued ID.

The whole thing is a scam to bully minorities and put an additional burden on traveling for low-income families. I wonder how many people are missing flights to some important and unexpected event (i.e. a funeral) because they never fly and never had a reason to get a REAL ID.

For that matter, I’d really like to know what TSA gets out of a REAL ID that they don’t get out of a regular license, for domestic travel? They don’t care about my proof of residence, they only care that the name matches the boarding pass and the face, and isn’t Islamic or otherwise off-white.

Some Earth benders Geologists can manipulate metal tho.

Looks like a jackdaw to me.

Don’t forget CAFE abuse. It incentivizes the boom of CUVs and SUVs we have now, and makes it challenging to have a good coupe/sedan platform. Pretty much killed the 3-door/5-door wagon, imo the superior car.

I’m skeptical of what your parent is saying…sounds quite like the adenochrome conspiracy theory. But at the same time, it’s quite likely that the POTUS would get on medical trials if something seemed both promising and relatively safe.

With this particular president…I wouldn’t put it past him to obtain some unethical treatment (such as proposed in the adenochrome conspiracy theory, but probably not actually adenochrome).

I’m all for the differently-abled having the same opportunities as everyone else, but this seems like a poor condition for the “leader of the ‘free*’ world” to have, right?

Say what you will about Trump, but he delivers on his campaign promises. Albeit with a monkeys paw.

Of course, his supporters thought he was exaggerating or talking hyperbolically. They believed him when he claimed to never know about Project 2025. And maybe he really didn’t, who knows. Its pretty clear he doesn’t know wtf he’s doing or even where he even is most days. He talks out of his ass constantly. But they find that endearing, I guess.

Its funny, the same people worried about a shadow government, rounding up citizens for FEMA death camps, poisoning our water supply, etc…elected us a guy who did and does all those things. Proudly, even.

Personally I think a political leader, while they should be likeable (I mean, that should be a bare requirement to even get anywhere in politics in the first place), they should also be composed, professional, respectful, and even if they disagree with you, do so receptively and constructively. He is none of these things, and they think that makes him great. Really it just makes him a baffoon and makes the entire country a laughing stock.

Yes. Water is most definitely not rated for sub-freezing temps.

Though the stronger stuff helps clear ice off your windshield faster…especially on those mornings when you’ve got that smooth sheet of ice that doesn’t want to be scraped.

I definitely recall talking to someone at Cisco TAC (or maybe Fortinet…but most of my dealings with FortiTAC lately are with the same groups of people…you get to a point in understanding the tech that only certain people can help you…) who has a “villainous” middle-eastern name.

There’s likely more than one though.

Democracy is broken.

It worked when everybody had the same information and we worked from the same facts (and only people who looked and peed like me could vote…but that’s besides the point).

But when the majority is uninformed or misinformed, the whole thing breaks down.

We are amidst an actual information war, where objective facts are in the crosshairs, and our wonderful media institutions have determined that only sharing part of the facts and filling in the gaps with strongly-worded and thinly-veiled opinions yields the most clicks/views/whatever, and in return, more money.

Society is fucked at this point.

Yeah but police follow the money until it gets too hard to pull people in (or someone on the force is protecting them).

So usually they just take your basic B&Es and corner street dealers and shoplifters and leave it at that.

Nobody ever asked why the criminals chose a life of crime.

Nobody goes after the employers that are paying slave wages, training employees how to sign up for welfare, or getting their employees to work off the clock.

The welfare one especially. People get mad at welfare recipients and not the people that put them in that position. Welfare is subsidizing the Walton’s more than anything. They could afford to pay their employees a living wage, but why would they when they can pay the minimum and working-class taxpayers can pay for the rest. Dumbass redcaps should be shunning Walmart, not sucking its proverbial dick.

I had to rent a car from Enterprise during a mild snowstorm.

I picked it up the night before and brought it home (work paid for the rental, I didn’t want to put miles on my car).

They had filled up the wiper fluid with water, so my wipers wouldn’t work. Frozen solid.

Swung by the rental agency on the way to my trip to complain and swap out the car.

Next car was fine for like 30 minutes but then it stopped working again. Frozen solid.

I guess some idiot decided to top up all the cars with water. Which doesn’t work so well in the wintertime.

ETA: for those who don’t know driving in the snow…you often need wiper fluid. Especially when the road has a mist of salty, sandy water on it from melted snow + sand/salt trucks.