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This... I am getting one of these next month. 150g, about the weight of a 300 page pulp paperback, and 300dpi, that's perfect.
I have the Sprawl trilogy (William Gibson) and The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya on kindle, I haven't got around to seeing about how I can download them and not be at risk of memoryhole. The Apocalypse in particular I can see it being banned in the near future because of its' "white supremacy". Cos, you know, just because the nazis were researching it that means I'm a nazi too. lol.
Enjoy your spam reach while it lasts, dickhole.
It's so bad now that I am frequently getting really annoyed by them, and I mainly am searching for technical stuff about Golang.
The number of subjects that are not covered on wikipedia, and the stuff they do have is so fuckin bogus. Wikipedia has just turned into a roadhouse toilet complete with glory hole and complete bullshit scrawled everywhere and the smell of leaking sewer pipes.
Ah, why am I not surprised that kindles are snooping. I knew they most likely had some amount of telemetry and are cross-referencing their data with other surveillance mercenaries.
Yeah, I'm gonna look at this boox I think, I remember seeing it somewhere, I was almost gonna get an ebook reader this month but wanted to avoid any big expenses so I still have money at the end of the month for a change.
This is the most badass mech keyboard:
I have two of them, both with cherry silver keys, and yes I can type very fast on it. It does take some time to get used to it, but I think I have almost got my layout perfect. Just annoying lack of decent keycap labels, and strangely hard to find relegendables in europe.
My only wish is that this keyboard had 90 keys, 3 more rows, so I could have a full numeric keyset on the right, the arrows/pagers are in the middle, which does get annoying sometimes. I will probably reprogram them both at some point if I get some relegendables finally.
I tried Kvass for the first time today.
I did not expect it to taste like it was 90% sugar and only enough malt to make it taste like it has maybe some malt.
Just checked the label. Ingredient after water is cane sugar.
I'm glad I didn't buy more than 2 of them. Alcohol free beer is tastier and less toxic to my kidneys than this.
KURVA!
I'm something of a one-social-network kinda guy, and as twitter descended into the realm of the baphomet logo wearing cantillionare buying it for "free speech" I drifted to stacker.news
But as happens to every social network, the communists, trolls and shitcoin shills are now starting to dominate the conversation and I've just got better things to do with my time than try to read retarded textual diarrhea from idiots.
Nostr is a whole different thing. It's not a social group like centralised networks. You can actually find anything you want to look at, within the realms of the bitcoin/freedom tech space.
The apps still have some way to come to provide good filtering and discovery, but I'm now drifting away from stacker.news - sorry koob and all the rest of you, but I guess also there has been a general drift into nostr by bitcoiners because it's just better, and it's barely near a year old and everything is buggy and that is awesome.
I have no more time left in my life for centralised media, of any kind, no matter how well intentioned.
government subsidies and the will to use the purchasing power stolen from the people against them. But the fools keep giving the money and regard.
It's hard to see but there is one little strip about 2/3 down from the left edge of Bosnia. But aside from beaches and fancy old bridges near them, Croatia is garbage in comparison. I lived 6 months in Sarajevo, it's a nice place. REALLY good beef, cevapi, pljeskavica, and if you ever visit you gotta try Livanski Sir.
This chad is a mouth breather. Not a chad. No manly jaw if you leave it open all day all night. That's why it looks ugly. It literally causes the jaw to gradually fall down and back if you don't keep your trap shut.
I even noticed it happening to me recently and I thought it was just my skin losing elasticity but I was not keeping the ol cake hole closed and breathing properly for a long time, probably almost never when sleeping drunk.
And it's done.
Motorola G51 5G cattle tag is now neutralised and inside a Faraday cage, ready for its liquidation on Monday.
Bloated battery Motorola Defy is now just a backup for my brave Sync and Xapo Bank wallet, nunchuk wallet, though I can't use my tapsigner due to retarded firmware, oh well, I'll use Bitcoin Core 🤣 .
Steam guard is removed and a strong password in place. Phone number is even removed, though I still have a sim in it, in case I forgot something, but already anything that needed my old bulgarian or bosnian numbers, too bad, so sad.
Worst case scenario I can turn it on and use it, but its hydrogen-inflated battery makes it a little unsafe to charge, and it's a heavy thing, the modern version of the brickie phone. My kindle account is on there so when I get a second hand one sometime soon, I don't even need this phone to spend gift cards, literally will primarily be to check my bank balance once in a while.
I mean, not that I really care that much about kindle, but I'm never gonna forget they made Nineteen Eighty Four disappear from people's kindles. That is WAY too fascist for words. I'll try to get a kindle with no radio in it, if such a thing exists and still can be found.
When these pigs are clearly catching our conversations on these devices, and probably listening in on my keyboard tapping too, and feeding the ad topics on the Samsung UHD TV downstairs that could only have come from bugging our conversations, I'm sorry, that's just a bridge too far.
Getting rid of it altogether is not really an option at this point, but it's taped up, and when not in use, in a Faraday cage, and its only use case is accessing banks and the odd online account, and as an automatic backup for my browser data.
It's really obvious that banks and their owners are doing their best to maintain as much population still carrying around phones they are all starting to hate, but this is the slimmest tether they have on me now and I'm ditching it altogether if I can do my grocery shopping with bitcoin->gift cards where I'm going next, which is most likely possible, either that or there will be some other way. There's bitcoiners where we are going so it should be aight.
Phones are now on my shitlist, and I'm gonna like living without them.
So, for whatever reason, though this motorola defy's NFC is flaky and the device has unlocked bootloader, it can be "rooted" with magisk, it was, but I uninstalled it, and anyhow, Xapo app installs just fine on it. But for whatever reason, Revolut app isn't appearing. So I'm gonna have to put away the nunchuk wallet and coinkite tapsigner... I have bitcoin core installed anyway! And synced!
Yeah, the G51 is going to be sold for whatever they will give me for it, probably not much but idgaf, I want this 5g nephilim shit outta my life.
I only need to get a small epaper reader device and I can even just use that for gift cards at the local supermarkets.
ooh I'm looking forward to monday.
BYE GOOGLE!
yeah I'll just tape mine and keep it in a box and make it a rule to hold a decent chunk of my money as cash so I can leave it in the box. And put a decent sized banknote in the box so when I forget to do a sell on my monthly payment of sats, I have something to tide me over until then.
Cos it looks like revolut is gonna be a problem on this bloated battery phone. for some reason play store is not showing the app.
God, I had dreamed about not having one of these things and this bullshit is kinda annoying lol. But if it must be cash, cash it will be. Xapo card is from a Gibraltar bank so it should be no hassle especially from here in UK for cash withdrawals, and later, I'll be back in EU, it will be ok for that too. Outside the EU holy moly they charge a lot. In bosnia, it was 6 euros to do a cash withdrawal, flat rate.
yeah, currently I have to deal with needing a phone app installed to use my xapo and revolut bank services. So the bloated old Defy will stay, wrapped in foil, in a steel box, wrapped in some cloth to further dampen its sound absorption, and the mic taped shut, cameras taped.
Still may need to deal with this shit some further but yeah, I want this out of my life, and the radio frequencies out of my space.
Oh crap I just remembered I engraved an email address on it.
Never mind, it's an expired domain anyway, as of today 🤣
I just realised the only 2fa my phone does any more is steam guard.
The thing is in ok condition. I'm gonna ditch it. And my other one with a swelling battery, drop it at a charity shop.
Literally just need to reorg my paper password backups.
I am done with this phone shit.
We know that they are listening in on them. Just yesterday we briefly talked about the price of gold, and my friend said that later, on YouTube, all these ads trying to sell him gold.
Just the latest in an unending stream of ads appearing that only related to things not being put into the phone or search engine.
Gonna get rid of this crap on Monday.
Ah yeah, actually, maybe to trade in for a second hand ebook reader. I almost forgot I'd started reading regularly again. The phone is so heavy for this task. My fingertips are already overworked from typing. Holding the phone for hours is not ergonomic.
PSA: zaps on nostr must pay into wallets that are permanently online, or the zaps will fail.
Wallets that provide LN addresses must be always online. You can run your own, if you are running your own LN nodes and channels, of course, but there is no asynchronous payment method. All nodes in a path for a payment must be online in order for the payment to work.