BTC is the ATP of the Internet.

Bitcoin going up is a reflection of fiat going down (in terms of purchasing power).

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Coin on the run.

I think I need to learn more about them because what has generally kept me from investing is the block subsidy halving. I don’t know this as a fact but it would seem like that event in and of itself ends up weeding out company’s every four years. Is that correct?

Been thinking about this a lot. Don’t know what to do with mine. If I managed to move it to BTC I’d have like 95% of all of my life’s earnings in BTC which is likely the play but I still get reluctant sometimes. Also been thinking about buying some MSTR

Thanks to the help of a personal trainer, in the last 3 months I've gone from 28% body fat at 175 pounds to 20% body fat at 195 pounds.

AKA lost 10 pounds of fat while gaining 30 pounds of muscle.

I contracted Encephalitis in 2020 & it turned my life upside down. I was left with a brain impairment & untreatable chronic nerve damage headaches.

I’ve changed from being a high energy extrovert to a struggling introvert. That has significantly impacted my marriage, my physical health & capacity.

I’m still recovering & trying to decide what type of career change is needed to something less cerebral & stressful.

Sadly, I took my health for granted for years & am learning how to move on from this brutal life lesson.

Pro/Con of Linux Distributions from a CypherPunk perspective

Linux Mint:

Pro: Very stable, things are likely to just work. Updates rarely break the system. And installs of Ubuntu versions of software usually work, but you don’t get the slow speed of Ubuntu’s snaps.

Con: Very slow update cycle, so you’re getting security updates last. Some newer software either won’t work or you have to manually get debian packages from their website. You can change the desktop environment, but if you leave it cinnamon then you can’t use Wayland yet. (which is a more secure display protocol)

Fedora:

Pro: Ships with Wayland and SELinux out of the box. This is a pro if you trust the academic research on SELinux but...

Con: The NSA made SELinux and even though it’s open source, how many impartial non-US firms have audited it with enough expertise to really know if there’s a backdoor? My questioning of this will cause controversy, but it’s a fair question. At least be aware if you disagree with me.

Kicksecure:

Pro: Live mode let’s you erase everything. Can be used as a VM or even the host OS. AppArmor is default as is Firejail. Although you could just run these things on any distro.

Con: It’s still debian, so you are getting slower updates. But debian has large software support

Arch:

Pro: Bleeding edge of updates. Huge amount of software.

Con: Updates may break things and require you to roll back things. (Luke Smith has a tutorial on this)

Void:

Pro: Faster and less attack surface by removing SystemD (the startup system for almost every other distro, btw Artix is Arch without it). Void also has a more secure version with it’s libraries (musl and GNU libc). And rolling release meaning faster security updates.

Con: A lot of software is not compatible with the more secure changes, but you can check their website to see which software works on which versions.

Qubes:

This is an OS that lets you run everything in virtual machines with a minimalist hypervisor

Pro: Least attack surface with a Xen hypervisor. Some experts consider it the hardest to attack.

Con: Requires good computer specs, especially for things like fast video. And there’s potential USB issues

(btw an alternative to Qubes is Kicksecure in live mode as the base OS with KVM QEMU machines).

Gentoo:

Pro: Can be customized to the best security settings (think all the things mentioned in this article, SystemD removed, musl vs libc, wayland, ect).

Con: Requires a large time investment to modify these things

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