Yes but this is a simple migration away. The system itself and its adoption are far bigger barriers.

AWS

Also, when Wero started, Trump hadn’t started to set the world on fire yet, so the geopolitical angle was far less pronounced. Until Jan 2025, hosting an EU service on AWS was not controversial.

Which does nothing for point of sale at present, it is only vaguely ‘planned’.

In Europe we didn’t really rely on credit cards for online payments anyway. It was an option but far from the only one. The problem was just that each country had their own system which was a PITA. Wero unifies those. Handy for webmasters, but geopolitically not a gamechanger.

The big problem is PoS payments where MC/Visa are king and basically have a duopoly. I don’t know why Wero didn’t start with the elephant in the room.

Yes… When please :(

No Linux as such was not, by the time Linux got popular the big multiuser systems were on their way out. I still worked on those in college. But they were SGI, HP-UX and Sequent. Especially the latter were huge systems.

But these fields were just a clone of what was in the original Unix systems.

My OS should have no details on me besides the account name which didn’t necessarily correspond to my real name.

It does have some old fields for location etc but those stem from the times of massive multi user systems.

Depends on your distribution obviously. They don’t all have the same naming. It sounds like a Debian derivative here of course but there’s still many of those.

But it’s normally a meta package with a huge amount of packages, you’ll have to list them individually unless your distro has a meta package with a specific minimum install or something.

But anyway look in the package catalog for your distro, it should be in there.

And WeaponG’s solution is really great if there isn’t a minimal package.

Ehhh one thing I’ve learned over the years, it doesn’t matter how much storage I buy. Within a few weeks it’ll be full.

We do have rolls royce of course… They should be able to cook something up. And CFM is half French.