I am the absolute worst #value4value target audience. I am a ridiculously cheap bastard and really hate to spend money. Like ever. I have never paid for subscriptions, I won’t pay for Netflix, or twitter. No cable TV. Won’t pay for Spotify. I torrent music and films and use pirated software instead of paying.

But I have zapped more sats on nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg & nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 than I would ever have spent on corporate media. I have zapped the #nostr client devs and Bitcoin devs more than I ever gave to fucking Adobe in 12 years working as a professional photographer. I gladly donate to nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 more than I’d would ever have let my old fiat bank claw from my grubby fingers in bank fees. I pay for relays, I zap plebs when they make me laugh, or think… or when they post particularly cute cat pictures. I’m willing to pay more for quality wares sold for #bitcoin.

I love the #circulareconomy and I’m not gonna stop. nostr:note1ngt0nklejazs3sgamfsyrld8rc6ecm7089q80se5r4ljp6veztuqw8kn7r

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Same!

I keep surprising the stingy bastard in me, every day.

Isn’t it amazing! 😻 💪

💯🤣

You should look at open source (rather than pirated software). Cheap is fine, but Linux helps your conscience sleep better at night! 😃

Definitely! 💯 I think I’d include that in my idea of what #value4value really is. Rather than pirating I can now support directly the people who produce the goods, services, and software that I use in my daily life. This is the 180° turnaround that #v4v and open source enables.

Agree... zaps are truly revolutionary (and empowering)! 😃

And pirating / torrents ... I've always felt that hurts the artists / developers...and those are the folks that really should be compensated for their talents!

The world is changing...

Yeah I have always been torn! But now I am glad to have a viable alternative and a way to support them directly 🤙

used Windows at work, but always used OpenSource at home, find it way more user friendly and certainly no wasted time booting.

I do think Excel is the only Windows tool I couldn't replace (currently) with open source--the advanced tools (e.g. Power Query) really are a game-changer for analytics...will probably soon have some equivalents in Libre or Open Office, but still...

you could try gnucash for accounting?

No--it's really Power Query that I've used so much I'm now dependent...really opens so many doors for analytics...

But (really) as I think about it, it's Power Query I can't live without (and it's integration with Excel).

As a spreadsheet, Libre Office is perfectly adequate.

Thats because what we are doing is bigger than all of us.

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

💯

It's weird isn't it.

Perhaps its because i can pay using a stupid telegram bot.

Also a bit ironic that i pay for an hour of LNvpn; to access torrent sites so i can watch stuff without paying🤔

If there are subscription paywalls i will still either find a leak, or dont bother most probably.

Looks like someone ran out of sats to zap and found the cheat code to getting others to top them back off.

Well done ya cheap bastard! You win nostr today!

What is paid relays and plebs?

This is the way 🫡

Well said