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Hector E.
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Job applications back in the day: Find an ad in the newspaper. Call the company. Go in for an interview and show them your CV. Hear back later.

Job applications now: Find a post on Indeed. Navigate to a third-party job app website. Fill in ten pages of questions. Upload a keyword-stuffed CV. Click submit. Never hear back anything.

I don't eat beef, except for burgers, steaks, carne asada, ground beef, and shabu-shabu. 🥩

Not dunking on the Wallet of Satoshi guy, but I knew there was a reason to hold off on setting up a custodial Lightning wallet.

Cramer endorsement? Abandon ship!

You'll probably only live to age 99. Ah well

DMs on Nostr not being E2EE by default is terrible. That should be changed.

Hibernation Mode Sherry: now fully charged and ready for action ⚡

Chinese is so hard to learn, but I believe it will be worth it in the end. 日後

The funniest thing about Demon Slayer is how each demon's life flashes before its eyes right after it's beheaded, and these flashbacks sometimes take the majority of an episode to complete.

Can't we bring back supersonic commercial jets for transoceanic voyages? My flight back home is going to take 12 hours. 😩

Govt when you illegally download a movie: JAIL

Govt when it lets criminals get over 800 million citizens' biometrics and personal info: shrug

No, don't sell yet. I'm actually thinking of buying more for myself. However, I do advocate having a balanced portfolio. BTC should not make up the majority of the value of your investments. If it gets to that point, rebalance.

New Steam Deck drops next week. Think it might finally be time for me to get it! I have over 1,000 games on Steam. Mobile PC gaming just makes sense.

90% of proprietary apps: You need to have a phone number to use this app. In other words, you need to pay money and reveal your identity to a heavily state-regulated telecom company first, before you have permission to use this app. Then we'll use your number to track you across *every* app, for intrusive advertising purposes.

Nostr: You just need to generate a keypair on any computer better than a potato, for free, and then you can anonymously post to the whole world.