Cool. Will open a channel after I get Tor set up.

And if I have set up backups and tested them, I'll make bigger channels.

I think we should still be pissed about the government nosing in our medical records and dividing us into special treatment groups based on medical records during covid.

What has me mad at people still complaining covid is that they don't care about protecting my medical records from the government. They aren't standing up for the next group getting their medical records raided but they are still complaining no one else stood up for them.

Anyone willing to let me open a small (50K sats) outbound chanel to them?

I'm still trying to do this self-hosted lightning node thing.

Still not keen on putting a lot of money on the line.

Want to mesh with other plebs instead of just routing to a big player like a reasonable person would. 😝

Which flavor of Linux do you recommend for an average windows user?

Good news #FOSS friends: there will be an abundance of cheap or free hardware available this year as Microsoft drops support of it.

This means you can scarf up those machines, put #Linux on there and give them away to friends and family.

Some of them might never touch it, but most will try it out and some might like it.

There's lots to like:

- Don't have to sign up with a website to log into your local computer

- No invasive telemetry watching everything you do

- No trying to sell you stuff

- Much less expensive than buying a new computer

- Probably faster than a new computer with Windows 11

- Can come with LibreOffice, CAD modeling software, Steam, whatever web browser you want (even Microsoft Edge!), music and video players, an email client so you don't even need to open a browser to check your mail

cashu is built on LN so they'd have all the extra LN management cost and the cost of the headaches and time spent, for very little gain. while XMR is a breeze and just works. if there was on-chain ecash that would make more sense for their models, but then they could be ecash mints of both btc or xmr so at that point they still wouldn't be replacing Monero

Ketones - most powerful, natural anti-inflammatory there is. Just gotta get into ketosis to make them yourself. All that is needed is a change in diet.

If you have a service that you'd like to monetize with micro payments, run your own mint on top of your Lightning node.

It's easier than writing an accounting system from scratch and the implementation weight on the backend is virtually zero (have I been paid? Ok!). The complexity is offloaded to the client side. For that, we have a bunch of libraries that help you integrate a simple Cashu wallet into basically any frontend you'd like.

I totally forgot to mention an accidental byproduct that's totally not the point of it all, promise, which is insane privacy.

Nostr is ham radio I say.

Which kind of brm was it?

Yes.

Do you have a car ? Do you buy Alcool ? Do you go in bars Do you carry a firearm ? Do you rent cars ? Do you have a bank account ? Do you fly ?

Lol no. You just need to show an ID. Which is perfectly reasonble in the current context

open source is the default. hiding your code is the deviant form of expression.