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What are some good nostr desktop apps? #asknostr

Replying to Avatar Gigi

It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

And now please log in to watch this video. I'm also on the long journey back to irc, RSS, TUIs and self hosting where possible. Accessing the normal web to get stuff done is getting harder every day while using a VPN. It's not only about Captchas, recaptchas, checkboxes, IP blocks and whatever other things they throw at us, but also about getting accounts blocked or closed because of using them even when the use of the VPN was indispensable. And sometimes they even freeze an account because you accessed it like they mandate from the clearnet but bc of accessing it from a location where you haven't asked for authorization beforehand. It's completely getting out of control.

I just turned it off. Couldn't even sync my own profile anymore.

Yes, still have some devices left. Everything takes longer with 26. It drives me nuts. Lockdown mode in a family setup is also pure pain.

It's a piece of crap, but you'll have to jump to it anyway if you stay with apple. No reason to wait.

Maybe, it's just about letting people experience that they do. Most still believe this does not happen. Eventually, this will leed to more self censoring, which is certainly part of it.

I hate booking flights. Is there any project disrupting the space?

If memory doesn't fail, my last mobile with removable battery was the first Motorola RAZR in aluminum. Before that I had only Nokia and they survived everything and I never lost one, bc the where big and couldn't just slide out of the pocket. Also there was the matrix model 🤣

nostr:nprofile1qqs83nn04fezvsu89p8xg7axjwye2u67errat3dx2um725fs7qnrqlgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcsrhspy obsidian is throwing a hash mismatch while updating.

2fiat looks quite expensive, but maxswap is also not cheap. Nevertheless, interesting options. Does anybody know if maxswap supports 3d secure or whatever that is called and what are the currency conversion rates?

The updates are not worth it anyway. I'm hoping for some cheap pixels for my kids tho. The 6a are showing their age. I whished they still hat the headphone jack. They are losing the usb-c dongles like every couple of month.

It's loading so slowly, it results in a slow motion clap 🤣

I simply followed the install instructions of the projects I settled on. There where no big roadblocks. I mean, nothing a short search wouldn't answer. Probably a bit of luck, and nothing exotic on my set up.

The stats and logs are not that useful, but it does it's job very well. I would also recommend this. Another option is NextDNS, but it runs in the cloud tho. A solution if you don't want to run and maintain another device. I use it while traveling.

They removed that option already, but not for everyone. Just a matter of time.

2x omakub, 1x omarchy, all on framework 13" Intel gen 11 and 12. No problems so far and is quite nice. You'll have to tweak a bit bc of his choice of default installs like hey for email or chrome for browsing

PHP reading db connection from a plain text config file saved in wwwroot was a thing. Right next to it, a phpinfo file to get alle details about the server configuration.

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I used them all and will continue to do so.

The pixel 4a is still one of the greatest smartphones out there