itsmect 5 days ago • 77%
Nice list. I chuckled at the fact that the bitcoin section does not recommend bitcoin :) We're also here on lemmy, if you ever need help or just want to say hi
itsmect 1 month ago • 100%
Fascinating. Thanks for taking the time to type it out
itsmect 2 months ago • 100%
At least the framwork has windows support - I couldn't bear the thought of forcing linux onto people and have them missing out.
itsmect 2 months ago • 100%
You are doing it wrong. Framework is easy to DIY, use that option and bring your own memory and storage. Only get what you need right now, you can always upgrade later when prices come down. Instead of the included charger, get a high quality third party 65W GAN charger. All that gets the cost down to about 1600 with barely any downside. Don't buy a modular device without using the modularity to your advantage.
itsmect 2 months ago • 71%
lol. Look at the current state and trend of tech and tell me with a straight face that it's you who will be getting the innovation. What amazing feature was introduced in the last 10 years you couldn't live without? How much garbage was introduced just because companies could get away with it because the average consumers PC is powerful enough to not notice the spyware/adware/bloatware running in the background?
Yes, buy the new thing. Consume. Trash. Buy new.
I don't even value repairability to save a buck long term. I value it because I know I can get my system up and running again ways before I finish setup on a new device.
itsmect 2 months ago • 88%
They have no build-in ports besides audio on the framework 13. The framework 16 only has 6 expansion bays, nothing else.
itsmect 2 months ago • 66%
Electrically? Yes.
Mechanically the expansion card has higher durability because the force on the USBC is minimized. It's also convinient to have build in "carry slots", so for your standard loadout you don't need to bring a bag with accessories. Compare it to the dongle storage in a wireless mouse.
itsmect 2 months ago • 100%
Agreed. If you buy the minimum spec bare bones version and get RAM and NVME from a third party, the price is somewhat comparative to other MRSPs. If you go for a higher spec or compare to sales prices instead of MSRP you pay up to 50% premium according to my research.
If you however factor in downtime of a broken and non-repairable device, plus the time spend on setting up a replacement, the framework can easily compete if your setup is complex.
itsmect 2 months ago • 100%
The SD expansion card is "comming soon" according to their store page, and they showed prototypes that looked close to production on their youtube channel. My best guess is release in Q4
itsmect 2 months ago • 100%
"Here anon, take this"
itsmect 2 months ago • 100%
You are probably right, and I hate it.
itsmect 2 months ago • 100%
Essential consumer goods have huge markets, and have few differentiating factors. Both of these things are beneficial for mass production, which lowers the cost so much that small business are driven out of the market. And the small business that remain often only resell mass produced goods. Even though WE want essential goods available for Monero, I think it offers buisiness too little advantage in a highly competitive market and the effort required plus legal uncertainty may even drag them down.
If you want Monero adoption, ask yourself: Why would you want to receive XMR instead of cold hard cash for your work and/or goods? The obvious answer should be: Because you can use it for things you can not use cash for! Yeah people of course thing "duh we got the darkweb" and while that's true the market is way beyond early adopter stage and does not really require our attention. I do like to market for internet services (email, vpn, vps, sms verification etc) because it's such an obvious yet still niche use case. It's also a low value way to spend donated money on your foss projects or whatever you do.
Personally I think good markets would be anything that is not illegal, but people still don't want anyone else to know about. If you could pay for tax consultants, lawyers, psychiatrists and similar professions anonymously, I'd bet some people would be willing to pay extra and go out of their way to acquire XMR. And once you can't trade for fiat anymore, the best way to get some would be to earn by offering more generic things.
Yes, in the end it's a hen and egg problem. But I really do believe the least uphill battle is going the "exclusive for XMR" route.
itsmect 2 months ago • 100%
There are plenty of tradesmen working on weekends without reporting it to tax authorities. Common in cities, practically the norm in rural areas. Time spend working doesn't leave a paper trail and whoever hired them can buy all the materials for "personal use". Farmers do need to buy supplies, but unless they have John Deer equipment, the harvest amount will not be automatically counted, and it's trivial to sell some part of it on non-official markets.
I think it all hinges on how fast people get used to using monero "for real" and not only to buy some merch or for other meme purposes. When regulations come down, the people who will be hit the hardest are those bridging between fiat and xmr, because their banking activity can be moderately easy controlled.
Lemmy without federation is kinda pointless. Please look into what causes this issue
itsmect 3 months ago • 100%
vedal is baaack
itsmect 3 months ago • 100%
LPCAMM seems more useful overall as a product.
Only if you need 2-4 sticks, otherwise they take up too much PCB space. Look at servers and how a good chunk of their volume is filled with dozens of sticks. You cant simply lay them down flat.
itsmect 3 months ago • 43%
Man this job posting is worse then all the garbage that companies put out. There will be very few people who tolerate KYC for non-paying volunteer internet janny job - and those who do should probably never be mods. Good luck tho, you'll need it.
itsmect 3 months ago • 100%
LPCAMM may have better specs, but DIMM requires a smaller area on the PCB and can make better use of the vertical space.
itsmect 3 months ago • 100%
I'm not suggesting to pay one euro each month, I'm suggesting that you treat your lemmy instance as a 12 euro per year subscription. Compared to literally every other service it is basically free.
itsmect 3 months ago • 100%
It's not even expensive. A single euro monthly per user is more then enough to keep instances running
itsmect 4 months ago • 89%
Oh man all the party poopers in the comments. These memes are funny instead of the usual preachy content - doesn't matter if its slightly inaccurate
itsmect 4 months ago • 100%
I have used them back when they cost 3.5€/mo instead of the 5€/mo you pay for mullvad or ivpn. Gave them a try specifically because the support XMR, and it worked flawlessly for each of the 5 (?) payments I made. Service is fine, no complaints, but the desktop app is shit. Can't easily configure local bypass which is supported by mullvad/ivpn. At the new pricing their offer doesn't really make sense anymore.
itsmect 4 months ago • 100%
A slight heating is perfectly normal and nothing to worry about. A microwave is fine tuned to heat food, or more precisely the water within. Other materials such as the glass on the back of the phone also absorb some energy, but only a tiny fraction.
itsmect 4 months ago • 100%
People joke about this all the time, and I here the sarcasm in your comment, but technology has come far since the iphone 6 or 7.
Most high end phones have wireless charging build it. Between the receiver coil and the rest of the phone is a thin sheet of ferrite material to prevent the electromagnetic field from getting to the sensitive electronics. Battery technology has also improved a lot, so much that even relatively cheap phones like the Realme GT Neo 5 charge at 150W!
From the technical perspective the limit is the cable and connector, because there would be too much losses that heat up the cable to dangerous levels and rapidly degrade the contact area in the connectors. Manufacturers don't want to deal with this security risk, not the increased RMA rates within the mandated guarantee period, so they artificially limit the charging rate.
Thing is: You absolutely can charge at higher speeds if you bypass the cable altogether! A microwave outputs usually somewhere between 150W-1000W, so stick to the lower end to be on the safe side. The screen of the phone must face down, because the charging coil is placed on the back. You also must prevent overcharging by setting the timer correctly: If your phone battery has 15Wh capacity, and you are charging with 150W, you must at most charge for 1/10 of an hour, or 6 minutes (less if you are just topping up your phone).
One final note: fast charging does put increased wear on the battery, so I only recommend to use it when you need it, for example when you need to make a flight and are already running late.
itsmect 4 months ago • 100%
I recall one instance where a user only got their coins after contacting people in the community who then put pressure onto majestic bank. Higher then advertised rates also happened more then once.
itsmect 4 months ago • 85%
fuck off. seriously.
THERE IS NO OFFICIAL HAVENO INSTANCE, because no one involved with making haveno is running a haveno network, and not even endorsing one. This is very impotent to mitigate legal risks, because apparently governments pull reasons out of their asses to prosecute open source devs they don't like. Your centralized "fund" shows blatantly that you have no fucking clue what you are doing, and you should not be trusted with an important piece of infrastructure.
If you are looking for a real network, check out the first and only instance of haveno: https://github.com/retoaccess1/haveno-reto
For tutorials on how to use it, check out nihilism's excellent guides: https://blog.nihilism.network/servers/haveno-client-f2f/index.html
itsmect 4 months ago • 100%
I am aware of the basic arguments behind inflation/deflation, and neither is good in excess.
Typically central banks targets inflation of 2% these days, but we all know the real inflation for necessities is far higher (>4%). Inflation disproportionately affects the poorer - rich people have the fast majority of their wealth "stored" in stocks or real estate, which rise in valuation as people rush into these markets to protect the little they have. I'd argue that inflation rates are artificially pushed far higher then is sustainable, simply because those who decide are the same people who benefit the most.
I consider a low but predictable inflation rate about 1% ideal (0-2% is acceptable short term variation) for the following reasons:
- No one has to worry about debasing/devaluing your currency by injecting more supply.
- Nobody "passively" gains wealth by sitting on it.
- If you want to keep your wealth, you have to take some risk and use it.
- Inflation rate is not so high, that you need super high risk investments to keep up, making it more accessible to small players.
- Large player can not as easily game the market by skimming of value from the lower to upper middle class.
Yes, this idea is not without risks. But the way I see it the forced "we have to improve value by 2% every year" exponential grow can only go on so long before we (humanity) hit the finite limits of this planet.
itsmect 4 months ago • 100%
At least with the government you can vote the bastards out.
In theory. In reality all parties serve the same lobbyists.
itsmect 4 months ago • 100%
Continuous exponential growth is actually something our financial system was DESIGNED FOR. It it makes no sense our inflationary money makes no sense.
This is the most hilarious part. One system literally has exponential growth, while the other is literally created to combat this.
itsmect 4 months ago • 50%
>hide money
>bitcoin
If you really need to hide money from your government, pls consider a pocket change amount of xmr in case shtf. Take care brother, don't let the feds get you.
itsmect 4 months ago • 100%
One time phone numbers are another good thing, to avoid the ever increasing tracking we are all exposed to.
itsmect 4 months ago • 100%
Love it for donations. Monero specifically is also super fast: open wallet, scan QR, enter amount, hit send. Easily done in 30s or less.
It's also good for VPNs, because now the VPN provider needs to figure out who owns the IP, rather then looking up the clear name in the payment info. Doesn't make you anonymous, but reduces risk of data brokers buying your personal info.
itsmect 4 months ago • 100%
In most countries it's illegal to purchase or sell non-OTC medicine without a doctors note (buyer) and license (seller). Even if government doesn't care, I'm sure that big pharma would like to keep their profit margins.
itsmect 4 months ago • 100%
nothing-to-hide
In most civilized countries the law is "innocent until proven guilty" - and if I (and the vast majority of people) are innocent, why the fuck is tracking a thing?
itsmect 4 months ago • 100%
My preferred lemmy instance is funded with xmr.
itsmect 4 months ago • 100%
And a deflationary nature is known to cause bubbles.
I mean centuries of inflationary monetary policy also caused bubbles, sooo...
itsmect 4 months ago • 100%
based monerochan pfp enjoyer
itsmect 4 months ago • 100%
I mean they do have good infrastructure anyway, so it wouldn't even cost them anything
itsmect 4 months ago • 23%
That's because it is cruel.
Large numbers always seem terrifying, because our human minds are not made for them. The only way to comprehend them is to compare them to other things - in this case all the ways we humans cause damage to the environment directly. Our suburbs are ecological dead zones already. There is just not much space left between asphalt roads, driveways, and neatly trimmed lawn. It's definitely the cat that goes outside for one hour a day who is the problem. Right next to plastic straws.
The real frustrating thing about all this that the companies that exploit our planet to core keep doing their shit (Noooo you cant work from home for your office job, you MUST commute to the city daily, because reasons!) while we fight with our neighbors about things that don't really matter in the grand scheme of things.
itsmect 4 months ago • 100%
ysk messages on lemmy are not encrypted. Put your matrix username in your bio to enable the "secure message" button (which just redirects to matrix)
As explained in [this post](https://monero.town/post/1499132) I was appointed as a mod of this community without being asked. However I do not really care about the topic myself and would like to pass on the role to someone who does. Besides this, there are no requirements. If you want to take over please comment below and include a single sentence why you care. If I can not find someone to take over by 2024-01-07 I will assume this community is not needed and can be closed.
I made one post, that's it. I never wanted to mod that community and never agreed to it. It seems like the original mod appointed me somehow and then left? If anyone is interested in modding this very quiet community please speak up, otherwise I'll close it by end of year. Edit: If you want to take over this role, please comment on [[Meta] Looking for new mod to take over](https://monero.town/post/1509372)
In the past I’ve recommended sms-activate for easy, quick and low cost phone verification. When you want to log in, they now force you to click on a verification link send by email, meaning you are f’ed if you used a single-use email address. Are there any alternative options that accept monero and don’t have this restriction?
If you want to discuss anything Monero, please feel welcome to visit us. See ya
This is important because this means you can not only re-plant the seeds from your harvest, but also have a legal framework and full permission to do so. Personally I never cared much for gardening, but the independence from big companies makes growing your own food much more attractive.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1167727 > PayPal is Introducing a new crypto currency and you’ll be able to buy, sell, hold, and transfer it in the app. > 1 USD : 1 PYUSD on PayPal
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