I have a separate, no-data SIM in a non-smartphone that I take with me sometimes.
calls and text only. your whole mindset changes when that's all that's in your pocket. It's kind of shocking
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good idea, i need to do this.
I use Tello. $10/month. a little steep but feeds worth it those days.
there are also the privacy SIM things that I haven't tried yet
i have this tiny thumb-sized phone that i could use for that but nobody ever calls me anyway haha... no point in paying for a second sim when i can just not take it with me.
it will be a happy day when insecure sms based auth dies altogether, i tend to try and avoid it, even TOTP is more secure
maybe some day the normies will finally learn that proprietary software can be hacked, and that's the secret reason they make it secret.
hopefully. what's the tiny phone? sounds cool.
also I didn't realize who you were until I saw the end of your pubkey. that's such a great trick - I wish I had done that. too late now
ah, it's never too late but it does take time to move to a new identity, in the sense of keeping your followers... i should really make a binary release for my vanity key miner, it's pretty fast, can get a 5 letter key - start, end, or anywhere in the key in about 15-60 minutes, or so, depending on your hardware
when i made the miner in the first place it took days to generate it with the slow signature library i was using, i basically made a pact with myself that i would stay off nostr until i had this new key... was a funny time... october 2023...
if I could get a really good vanity key I might take the follower hit. if they really like me they'll come along, and if not then I don't need em
https://github.com/mleku/x-realy/releases/tag/vainstr-v1.0.0
if you are running any recent linux this binary should be the ticket. you can see here an example of it generating a key:
?jwt=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJnaXRodWIuY29tIiwiYXVkIjoicmF3LmdpdGh1YnVzZXJjb250ZW50LmNvbSIsImtleSI6ImtleTUiLCJleHAiOjE3NDg2Mjg0MDcsIm5iZiI6MTc0ODYyODEwNywicGF0aCI6Ii8xNDY3NTU2MzQvNDQ5MzQxMzQwLTc4MTgyZDBjLTM0NTYtNDM5NC1hMzg4LWJkMTE0YTk2MzhhNy5wbmc_WC1BbXotQWxnb3JpdGhtPUFXUzQtSE1BQy1TSEEyNTYmWC1BbXotQ3JlZGVudGlhbD1BS0lBVkNPRFlMU0E1M1BRSzRaQSUyRjIwMjUwNTMwJTJGdXMtZWFzdC0xJTJGczMlMkZhd3M0X3JlcXVlc3QmWC1BbXotRGF0ZT0yMDI1MDUzMFQxODAxNDdaJlgtQW16LUV4cGlyZXM9MzAwJlgtQW16LVNpZ25hdHVyZT03MTQ5YjAwNzlhMDRmYTE2YzIyMDUwNTA5ZjI5YTcxYTZiMjg1ODNiZGQ0ZTU0MzZhZGY1MWZmNTJmYzQzNDRlJlgtQW16LVNpZ25lZEhlYWRlcnM9aG9zdCJ9.uu7IjisMQIFod8QNe9781sTxGxLHpzAj5j3Turfnnco
i used the btcd btcec secp256k1 library before, and it took like 3 days... now as you can see, a key with merely 5 letters potentially not even a minute on hardware like mine (which you can see in the image also what it is)
There is also a gpu miner https://codeberg.org/alex0jsan/noclvag
oh, the tiny phone... was just some silly thing i found on amazon... it has an old school white OLED display of like 10x2 characters lol, the buttons are really small but it's usable, and so small it could even be a key fob.