Yea I also lived in China for 3 years while doing my masters and OP clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Everywhere takes cards and cash in addition to the digital payments. And no service I used was digital only.

Edit: The only requirement I encountered was a local phone number. Not a smartphone.

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If you’re looking for rock/metal then en.metal-tracker.com usually has lots of flac rips.

Uses the latest tech in linux e.g wayland and pipewire.

Fedora

• it’s up to date
• little to no bloat
• stock gnome shell
• uses latest technologies
• just works