Well I hope you will be able to recover that friend. Stay positive.
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Trying to 🙃 it doesn’t look like it saved. Running a node is HARD!
that's why I haven't got into managing a lightning node much.
LUCKILY the sats aren’t gone. I think it’s smart to run a node just to get an idea for how it functions. I swear I’m learning something new every day
I have a lightning umbrel node and a separate Bitcoin core node runding on a windows mini PC that is dedicated just to running the node. I connect my on chain wallet to my stand alone core node on my windows machine. And I just mess around with my umbrel node for learning. But I don't keep many sats on it yet.