I’m disappointed. I thought you figured out how to have a decentralized scoring system 😃

never heard of nushell, but sounds interesting… but it’s not default anyhwhere yet. I’d go for bash, perl or maybe python? your comments on zfs make a lot of sense, and invalidate my respective thoughts :D

your first two points can be mitigated by using checksums. trivial to name the file after it’s checksum, but ugly. save checksums separately? safe checksums in file metadata (exit)? this can be a bit tricky 🤣 I believe zfs already has the checksum, so the job would be to just compare lists.

restoring is as easy, creation gets more complicated and thus prone to errors

having a support subscription, means being entitled to support… you were entitled ask the time.

I guess it’s just different business models - it’s cheaper to always pay in contrary to only pay when you actually need support…

subscribed

as I’m just playing chess, I assume hardware is of no importance 😃

maybe I’m just used to the practices in my field if business. if you don’t pay for your enterprise firewall support, and then want to update, you’d have to back pay the missed months at least…

I’d not be surprised if they stopped allowing this, as it clearly is a loophole… guess it depends on how many people do this.

see, that’s the difference between us. I’m an absolute gamer with 14.000 played games on my phone . I’ll check the hardware requirement of [li]chess and will consider 😃

that’s perfectly fine of course, and I did not evaluate OPs phone, the price or anything beyond the subscription model as such.

actually makes me reconsider my phone choices… I’m currently on pixel, but hardly use any features besides ‘good camera’ and a bunch of apps that might require Google (banking mainly)

but it’s easy to calculate and compare with other offers. it does not stop working without subscription, which is the case with many other subscription models. actually I think it’s reasonable, as it also provides an incentive to continue supporting old models to the company and properly reflects the economic facts surrounding the product.

like, if you buy Samsung or whatever, this cost is also part of the price. if you lose or brick your phone, you still paid for updates you’ll never have the chance to install.

but of course it’s important info one should be aware of when buying this phone