Oof! I’m currently speechless. I need to research and digest this.

Not sure how it works globally, but in most western countries, If you’ve put your state-issued cash in a bank technically it’s not yours anymore anyway. Read your terms and conditions. You’ve handed it over, either in person or digitally, and declared you no longer own it and is now the property of the bank. You literally consent to it not being yours anymore. They are not holding onto your money for you. When you ask for a withdrawal or purchase something with a card they honor the request by issuing you their second layer corporate credit in good faith, because it would all fall apart if you stopped giving them your money. They do this to protect themselves if they ever become insolvent or the market crashes. Legally they owe you nothing because you “gave it to them”. These changes were implemented around the “Global Financial Crisis”. To allow them to get away with these changes most governments have a law that says they legally have to provide you with a paltry amount if the bank becomes insolvent for any reason. You could have a million dollars in the bank and if they fail they only legally owe you the $1000 or whatever the amount your government has stipulated. That million is “their” money. You gave it to them!

So anyone upset about this new law, and you should be, and not upset about your bank should do some research. You’ve already consented to the money not being yours.

Here’s a link to better understand money. There’s more than one type of money. https://brettscott.substack.com/p/casino-chip-cashless-society https://brettscott.substack.com/p/the-luddites-guide-to-defending-physical-cash

Bluetooth can be managed with systemctl and bluetoothctl.

https://www.makeuseof.com/manage-bluetooth-linux-with-bluetoothctl/

In my experience I find just running bluetoothctl to enter the interactive mode easiest. You can enter commands without prepending bluetoothctl. You can use help at any stage. So you want to use systemctl to make sure Bluetooth is running, then enter bluetoothctl. Make sure the device is discoverable and pairing is set to on. Start your [headphones/whatever] in pairing mode and run devices. When you see the device run pair <numbers/address>. Only use the numbers. You may have to go into settings and select the device in the sound applet.

My situation doesn’t require a logout timer, but if I’m walking away from the PC I just use the shortcut Super + ESC. Alternatively, there’s many ways you can create a basic Bash script that when invoked times down to a systemctl suspend command. Or possibly the hybrid-sleep option could do what you want. See systemctl -h for possibilities.

Blanking the login screen is something that will be implemented shortly. Maybe I’ll work on a script for that because it annoys me too. Fortunately I rarely use it. I’ll repost if I do this.

I really don’t think the two years people are saying in this thread is realistic. The hard work and core is written. What is there is stable. I think they will get this completed much sooner. They do have a hardware business to support after all.

I’m using it every day now. I have one machine installed with the 24.04 ISO and it’s working fine. There’s some TODO items to come which I understand will be added by Alpha2. With a little command line knowledge COSMIC is perfectly usable now and is stable.

For secure private transfer use the Warp flatpak in Linux and Worrmhole William in Android.

That’s a lot of progress! Worth the read.