Turning off Icloud completely and relying only on self hosted alternatives, like Immic,Baikal etc.

To give Apple some credit though, they do support 3rd party services pretty well( i.e Cal/Card Dav).

EU has some weak pathetic leaders, but this is a new low, even for them. Bending the knee to the orange pedo is a very weak move.

so refreshing to find likeminded people here.

I use OpenBank and they also provide their own nfc payments app on Android. It’s not a great piece of software, but it works and it successfully replaces Google Wallet for at least this part ( it keeps unselecting your card after every update).

This is a sensible recommendation. Even though I despise windows and Asus has support issues historically ( very lame ones even), the hardware itself is very good and any Linux distro can be easily flashed.

I wouldn’t dismiss the handheld based on a windows review really ( hint : windows will forever suck).

X4’s linux support is such a good thing to have. The engine does struggle with interrupts like overlays or native OS dialogs. It refreshes everything,each time,but it’s a small con.

I have it on my contract free pixel 6 bought from Google store.

I used it in Beta and it’s amazingly stable. Love the game,too bad I don’t have the time or patience to scratch all the cool features and am quite bad it it anyway.

I’ve recently gotten into this and it’s an amazingly detailed game with so many things to offer/handle it’s frankly overwhelming.

A native linux version is amazing and will def wait for the release as I’ve recently started a look run which is pretty good for me,given my limited experience.