Luckily there is a finite set of retro games... But then you look into mods and custom roms 😂

Auditioning many keyboards on my new phone, absolutely nothing is as good as SwiftKey. None of the FOSS keyboards have a one handed mode and swipe-typing. WTF.

Gboard is decent, but will not let me set another voice to text service, plus... Google sucks.

This is a huge issue to me.

#randomthoughts #abeaverabroad #fosskeyboardsarenotgreat

Let's talk drugs! I've heard a lot of mixed takes on marijuana and psilocybin, and wanted to share my own recent experiences. 😄

I never touched any drugs, besides alcohol/caffeine/sugar, until my 40s. I prefer to not be impaired or dependent, which is why I quit alcohol and caffeine a few years ago. Now that my kids are living on their own, and I'm retired, I find myself wanting to experience more things in life.

So I decided to try THC & psilocybin.

I can see why people are split on weed. Productivity can go way up or down, depending on the person, the mood, etc. I find it to be fun, but definitely not something I want to partake in regularly. I get way too retarded! 😂

I won't smoke or vape, so I stick with a tiny dose from a tincture. The high can last 6-8 hours in my system, which is a very long time for a small dose. Not something I want to deal with on the regular.

I'm very logical, almost to a fault. Psychedelics never sounded like a good idea, but I decided to try psilocybin recently. I was anxious about what would happen, but I put some music on, closed my eyes, and relaxed.🎶

With psilocybin, I feel like I'm tapping into a part of my brain that I rarely use. My logical thought process is still present, but my creative side takes control. I get deeply introspective. I start writing a lot.

I'm already a huge music lover, but my appreciation for it reached new heights. I experience seeing the sounds. I can fully appreciate the space between chaos and order where music lives. The more instruments the better, which is why I find orchestra music to be the absolute best with psilocybin.

It's an incredible experience that I walk away from knowing myself a little better. The writing is my favorite part, as I'm able to go back and reflect on my thoughts during the experience. To my surprise, it isn't a rambling mess! It's thoughtful, emotional, and honest. I'll even share with others who I directly write about. It's an extremely therapeutic process.

Again, I'm glad I never tried any of these mind altering substances until later in life. Being a fully developed human, and having a better understanding of myself, helps make these experiences stable and beneficial. In my youth, when my self control was worse, I could have ended up going down a dark path if I tried drugs. I'd likely be a very different person today.

I will always prefer to remain sober the overwhelming majority of the time, but I can see the pros & cons of altering your mind. Under the right circumstances, of course! 😄👍

Let me know if you have any questions about it 🙂

GM! Have you had storms too? Here until 5am, I slept badly

Good Morning guys 🌅 🌻

#nostr #zaps #photostr #sats #bitcoin #picture

I've checked the mint, there are quite a lot of pending notes.

I've checked one on lightning node directly and related payment is still in flight.

So it's upon receiving node to fail or complete the lightning payment.

If you pass me melt_quote id, I can check precisely yours.

GM ... We got a big thunderstorm last night. helped cool things off :)

Thank you

Hello Nostr world, good to meet you all. My first post shows an image taken last night of the town where I live in southern Spain, Lanjarón. Storm clouds are building at sunset and hopefully bringing much needed rain to our region

What is the best open end up end encrypted messenger that has a good cli client for most platforms to send messages from scripts?

I currently use signal-cli, but looking for a change.

- signal-cli requires java, quite specific versions and it's hard to install / upgrade on nas devices. I would much prefer a self contained binary (like restic does)

- signal starts requiring captchas, especially over vpn. Not good for scripts

- telegram? Lol. No.

- matrix could be nice, if there is good self contained cli client. I don't need to receive currently, only send. Any tips?

- simplex - after fighting with haskell and not being able to compile it according to instructions neither on macos, nor on Linux. Binaries don't work (mac is x86 only, not arm64, Linux - I don't use Ubuntu)

- session maybe? Is there any good cli?

- I need push notifications to work reliably