If you find this interesting you might also like this youtube channel run by a Seattle museum that has a large collection of running vintage telephone central office equipment https://www.youtube.com/@ConnectionsMuseum

Thanks for posting, I've never seen this before and it's absolutely fantastic

This is a great hack to get custom passes/codes into the wallet, and I'm glad the author wrote it up. I may end up doing this myself. That shell script to generate a bmp was wild.

Oh, I've been to that restaurant before --it was fantastic. I had no idea it was worker-owned.

And yes, obviously worker-owned (x) can work. There are many examples among the comments.

It's fairly easy to live without a phone in Taiwan. It's not like China. Most payments in Taiwan are made with cash, EasyCard (or equivalent, depending on the city. It's a prepaid metro card you can use at some stores) or a credit card. Mobile payments tied to your identity (eg. WeChat) are not the norm. You can also use an EasyCard without providing a phone number but then you cannot rent bicycles or recover the funds if you lose your card.

My Taiwanese friends told me about this a few weeks ago, they said that the cell phone is issued by the government.

I've been following developments in RISC-V since I first heard about it a few months ago and I want to get involved! What can I do? I do embedded systems development as my day job and am really eager to dig into architecture and hardware design.

Can somebody associated with the project reach out to me?

The lowrisc project [1] tires to be sort like a hardware linux. They are working on a linux capable SOC and they have a number of innovative ideas you might be interested in.

Maybe listen to this maybe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it3vVtnCYiI

[1] http://www.lowrisc.org/