Playing RDR2 to take a break from Linux course. And trying to make a list of things I can sell to buy some of these cheap sats.
If you have an iPhone just download Orbot. It opens up a Tor connection for any browser.
Libertarianism, permaculture, survival, Bitcoin, finance, truth resources etc
If anyone has a Tor enabled browser and wants to browse the book library I’m building on my Start9 file server, here is a share link:
http://ukl4eyjaegwv5dyygzk7e3rpyllqguoouwgosmmmuygm3diz5qva6hyd.onion/share/3dXKeQ79
Want to supercharge your reading and retention and turn any book, webpage or text optionally into audio content that you can simultaneously read along with or listen to while driving? This app has flattened my learning curve in so many ways:
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/naturalreader-text-to-speech/id1487572960
This movie is one of the best allegories about our power versus that of the predator/parasite/rent seeker class. Every kid and adult should watch it.
There was a warning on GitHub the other day about Vaultwarden not passing a hash check.
The True North Declaration. Written by my good friend and long time mentor as a young man, Brenton Froehlich:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/103ZN1pqIYaL2NcpflJ84drtVrPigeGgW/view?usp=drivesdk
One handy trick I learned was that when you get a new phone with a fresh SIM card, not only lock it with a SIM PIN in settings, but call your mobile provider and get their (usually 2 I think) PUK codes. So if you or someone else accidentally locks out your SIM through unauthorized access or 3+ failed SIM PIN entries via your handset, you can unlock it again. Also in settings, turn on the option that requires you to enter your SIM PIN in order to reestablish connectivity to your carrier’s network when you power down the phone and power it back up again. It’s also a good idea to routinely call your carrier or log in to your account admin page and change the account access PIN.
Write 55378008 on it and turn it upside down.
I’m convinced the Gregorian calendar will one day count the years as BC (Before Christ), AD (Anno Domini or “Year of our Lord”), and AS (Anno Satoshi).
I’d recommend getting a standalone mini PC with minimum 2GB SSD, 32MB RAM, and an i7 processor, wired to the same router as your regular desktop PC. Load StartOS on it and run 3 nodes on it: A Bitcoin full node, a Lightning node using LND, and a Lightning node using Core Lightning. Have the whole setup, including your router and modem plugged into an uninterruptible power supply that will run everything for a number of hours in the event of a local grid issue. Use your regular desktop PC as a terminal to talk to and administer your nodes and the other utilities available in StartOS. You will have to download the security certificate from your node and install it onto your desktop PC and any other devices you wish to use to communicate with your nodes. (ie your phone connected to your LAN or out in the world via TOR.
As far as opening channels, there’s no getting around it. If you want to route successful Lightning transactions, you need the connectivity and the BTC liquidity that at least 3 well funded and connected channels can provide. It’s a little nerve wracking dumping the equivalent of two months worth of stacking into your Lightning node. But as long as you are performing regular backups and recording all of your passwords and credentials in a way that you can’t lose them, it is pretty safe. I am trying to regard the BTC that I use to fund channels and learn the mechanics of the system with as “tuition”. But it’s tuition that you’ll get back, as long as you don’t make a mistake sending Sats to the wrong address or losing physical or network access to your machine. Learning Lightning has proven challenging. I wouldn’t add complexity to the exercise by trying to dual purpose your mining hardware. Good luck. And PS, the Start9 community forums are a godsend. It’s a great company. #start9 #sovereigncomputing
In addition to the reams of material that one ultimately ends up reading and listening to as a result of studying Bitcoin and finance, the biggest positive impact is that “the Bitcoin way” lowers your time preference across the board…You begin delaying gratification and investing in other areas of your life, for larger gains later, as well. Your diet. Your health. Your relationships. It helps you to adopt the mindset of the fisherman who decides to build a gill net and a boat on the shore for a week, rather than continuing to race out into the surf for fruitless days on end with a spear.
This is prior art, not mine. But I am looking at solutions like this now. The problem is that we are paying up to 32 cents per kw/h for power up here.
It’s bullshit that they don’t just allow you to copy invoice links to zap from whatever wallet you please and attempt to KYC data farm you at the same time. No thanks.