Hell yeah. Also have a look at XMRBazaar.com where you can buy and sell legal goods and services directly for Monero. X premium, Spotify, Canva pro, laptops, houses, cars, etc. are all on there and many things are priced directly in Monero.

Ubuntu 10.10 was my first linux. Though 11.04 was released soon after my switch.

My first experience with 10.10 was as a virtual machine on my school issued Dell Latitude D505 laptop with Windows XP, a dual core 32-bit processor and 512 megs of RAM. And boy, let me tell you, it ran like shit. But I knew that it was because I was virtualizing it and didn’t hold that against it.

I can’t remember what it was called, but I eventually installed this OS on my flash drive that was meant to be eco-friendly for old devices. It had a very green wallpaper. And just used that instead of ever booting into windows by changing the boot order and leaving the flash drive plugged in at all times.

Edit: I remember now. It was called Watt OS.

Then they have to take all those people to court one by one, which wastes their own funds. And as they lose, because those are just regular people, then other people will start asking what the hell they’re doing.

I use a screen reader due to being blind, and this would be incredibly helpful. Mind you, I sure as hell wouldn’t use Windows in order to get it. But if I had the option to do this on Linux, I would totally go for it.

Which is why I hold it as a long-term store value. The harder they regulate it, the more the strizend effect happens.

I want them to be fucking terrified. I want them to wake up at night in cold sweats screaming their fucking heads off because that’s how afraid they are. I want them to have stress-induced heart attacks caused by Monero.

That would be success to me.

While that is a possibility, there are a lot of incredibly intelligent people who do their absolute best to make sure that that does not happen.

And just like Bitcoin, upgrades are only deployed after they have been thoroughly vetted and torture tested to hell.

Considering I’ve lost all faith in fiat currencies, including the US dollar, I no longer measure my net worth in it, this would be quite good for my gold and monero holdings. Because those are stable assets, not controlled by the whims of any central bank or government.

I have not read the article yet, but I will be doing so after posting this. But from what I understand, concentrated cells via lenses already exist. The problem with them was keeping them cool.

Going to go read the actual article now.

Edit: Well, the article was very sparse on details. From what I understand of the comments, what’s really been done here is making cells that can stand the kind of heat that would be focused onto them from the glass.

I want to say I saw a video about this a year ago or so, but it was more solar thermal, where you focus a bunch of mirrors onto a single point high up on a tower, and it’s cooled by molten salt. But as I said, that’s solar thermal, not solar power electricity.

Good point

Oh, you can absolutely do that. There’s a higher risk of it getting lost, and it takes longer, but it’s definitely an option.

Mullvad paid with monero so when the Gestapo starts arresting people, there won’t be records of them paying for it.

Yeah, that’s what it looks like to me as well, but since I’m currently using Zigbee devices, I would need to either move them to a new hub, or get a second cloud connect, ZBT1, so that one could be dedicated for threads and the other could be dedicated to Zigbee.

Isn’t the HA cloud dongle able to do both because they’re on the same 2.4 gigahertz or whatever?

I’ve been slowly making my way into the smart home ecosystem and was incredibly concerned about these not because of paperweight necessarily but because of needing to send data to a company over the internet which might not be available when it’s needed.

So I ended up going with Home Assistant and I’m really happy about the launch of the Works with Home Assistant program with the logo on devices.

Have a look at meshtastic. Yes, you do have to get a separate device, but range on it can be several tens to hundreds of miles depending on the mesh density.

I don’t have a significant need to use a laptop or desktop as my phone is my primary computing device. With that said, I run Mint Debian Edition on my laptop. Just because I want my computer to work when I go to use it, even if it has been six months.

This is good because it’s a very universal band but it would probably be better to use higher frequencies such as the 2.5 GHz band or C band. The reasoning behind this is that C-band frequencies are physically smaller radio waves and therefore are transmitted with higher gain from the same physical antenna. It also makes the hardware that needs to go on the actual satellites smaller because it’s a higher frequency.

The problem is, at least doing it on C-band would not work for older devices, because devices only started getting C-band fairly recently, where they’ve had 1900 MHz for years and years.

I have lost all faith in fiat currency, and so I only now hold Goldbacks and Monero. If I need fiat currency to pay for something, I can easily get it using one of those two currencies that are stronger.

Edit: pretty sure i struck a nerve. After all, how dare slaves have thoughts of their own

I’ve been using Proton for five or six years, but I’m seriously thinking about switching because they don’t currently support Monero payments.

Honestly, maybe I’m old fashioned, but I just use the AOSP contacts app on the phone and then export a CSV file and keep a copy of that in my database on KeyPass.