I’m aped in to real money. I have a lot more hope than most, without counting on politicians. A garden, hunting and fishing regularly, a roof over our heads and our health. And people that love us. Can’t ask for much more.

Nice picks. Maybe some garlic, and beets (love those beet tops!)

Money printer is still gonna go brrrr. Inflation will still be misreported using CPI and be considered acceptable by the normies at 3%. Real inflation will remain at 12-15%. Wages will stay stuck in 2015. Taxes won’t be rolled back. Legislative creep on gun laws will continue. Poilievre talks a good game but hasn’t said shit about stopping the central bank abuse. It’s all still theatre aimed at giving Canadians hope where there is none. I’d leave this country in a heartbeat if I could do so without tearing my family apart. My hope is in stacking sats, growing food, reducing our reliance on the grid, and practicing agorism more and more as time passes.

We are at $0.14 CAD which equates to $0.10 USD. Yeah $0.16 USD is a little steep.

One thing I learned last year is that I could get a reduction simply by calling and asking. My provider jacked us up to $0.32 a year and a half ago with no notice. I called in and got offered $0.16 on a two year contract. If I hadn’t noticed, each of our monthly bills through that winter would have been $1100-$1200!

Two months later I called in and asked for a further reduction and they gave me $0.14 on a renewed 2 year deal non-binding. Which begs the question why aren’t they just offering the best rate in the first place? The rep I spoke to said it’s wise to call in every couple months to ensure you are getting the best available rate.

My buddy that lives just out of town got $0.09/kW-h

Hope this helps.

I sent it to my Dad and he asked me if I just traced it LOL. The old man still is funny as hell

GM

Finally running Linux on a separate external drive. Next step is a dedicated Linux laptop. This is just for testing and to get my feet wet on command line stuff. I feel like I did when I found my first 386 PC and a MSDOS manual in my in-laws’ crawlspace in the early 90’s.

If it’s a Crane it’ll be marked on the base just back from the seat. I happens to all toilets but Crane had a manufacturing defect that went unnoticed for a while.

I honestly don’t get anyone who doesn’t look at Bitcoin and instantly see that the fundamentals of what makes a good money tells the whole story.

Lemme guess it’s a Crane toilet. They had a huge class action suit with the insurance industry years ago because of this. Happens with other makes, but Crane toilets from 1980-95 are bad news. Source: I used to be a PM on insurance claim repairs.

That’s almost inhuman. Shit dude.

Wow those are nice size

And the beautiful part is, all of my BTC stuff and my connection to my node and my Electrum server was unaffected because it’s totally segregated.

Thanks for your input. I finally have a working copy of Ubuntu on a separate external drive so I can get my feet wet on Linux command line stuff and test a bunch of stuff. Before it was all done I had a couple of heart stopping hours when the installer partitioned and overwrote a part of my primary backup drive to use as the bootloader. It also rendered that drive unrecognizable by Windows till I fixed that. Fortunately I had already backed up all of my super critical stuff before I started, and recently burned 20 years of photos onto DVD’s, so everything I lost was just fluff. So I effectively chopped my critical files down to what I really need. From 200GB of crap down to 4.5GB that can go on thumb drives.

Then, I imaged EVERYTHING and made a recovery stick so I can wipe everything and do a total rebuild of the whole system in about an hour of recovery time. But not before I had to run a full chkdsk on my main OS drive. Literally every skill I’ve ever learned about disk management, DOS commands and redundant data storage came into play over what should have been a simple OS install. And I only lost about 20 hours of sleep over 3 days. Looking forward to getting a dedicated Linux laptop so I don’t have to dual boot.

Amazing rip on how Bitcoin is eating real estate as a traditional store of value:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ddn8dvpc4fLZsiOWHYnue?

24.10 just keeps erroring out. I wiped an internal drive a could do without to see if the install would proceed normally. Now downloading an older version 24.04. All I really want to do for now is learn the OS and some command line stuff. It’s been a real time sink so far. Ideally I’d like to just get off Windows entirely and just get a dedicated Linux laptop that’s largely offline for running Sparrow and as a terminal for talking to my start9. It’s been painful so far

https://www.58bits.com/blog/how-create-truly-portable-ubuntu-installation-external-usb-hdd-or-ssd

I tried and it won’t let me set the tags and it’s not showing the main partition as a clickable option as unallocated space or letting me create new partitions like gparted will. Everything worked the first time with gparted minus letting me format the boot loader partition as FAT32 as directed

I’m just going by the most current guide I’ve got. 100MB for Boot, 16GB for swap, then whatever you want for /home. I may just end up going the easy route and installing it on an internal drive just so I can get up and running

I’m installing Ubuntu 24.10 on an external hard drive and when I go to make my 100MB FAT32 partition for the bootloader to reside on, FAT32 isn’t one of the options that is selectable. Just Ext 2,3,4 among others. I’m trying to make a truly portable install but after several attempts I’m considering just flashing the drive with the iso and having a workable but not fully standalone installation. The guides online are just different enough from what I’m seeing during the installation process that I’m burning hours I don’t have on this. Can anyone provide any guidance? I’ve already nearly rendered the external drive I bought useless through various means of manipulating the partitions, and have spent much of the time reformatting that drive and getting it to be detectable by Windows again. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks.

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