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Weather warning for rain - 3 till 9 pm today...

#madeira

It was a good walk :)

Did you enjoy the food?

But we do need to find a circular route with less road...

😂 oh well, that's some troubleshooting done for the day ;)

And my Alby eventually did managed to pay that phoenix invoice. So all is good 😊

Tried to pay it again from Alby and it showed me this:

But that's probably just because it's already been paid?

🤔 I tried to create invoice in Alby but I couldn't...

So I've created invoice in phoenix and was trying to pay it from Alby but it doesn't seem to work...

It just hangs on payment step... Something is not right...

Looks fine my end.

Can you post some invoice I can try paying from phoenix?

(Connected Alby in amethyst so if I'm zapping I can't choose which wallet to use).

So I went to have a look...

On battery usage per app basis it looked fine:

So I went to check on use time tab...

Suddenly Amethyst is close to the bottom, overtaken by shitloads of processes that I either don't use and I'm not aware that they even being run... Live wallpaper selector? Why would I choose to run it? Or ubiquitous manager service? WTF is that?

It makes me wanna finally take the plunge and degoogle myself...

I was playing around with nostr. Had my original nsec/npub pair generated in amethyst, recently connected it with nostr:nprofile1qqsyv47lazt9h6ycp2fsw270khje5egjgsrdkrupjg27u796g7f5k0spzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vfwde3x7tnpdenkzmnf9e3k75xqss4 and started using alby extension to log in to different clients on desktop.

I've noticed @iris was showing different npub than amethyst - so went to alby and found you can put in different npub in settings - which gave me a bit of head scratching... How does it work? - Can I put any npub there? But eventually putting my npub from amethyst into Alby settings (nostr nip-05) didn't change anything, logged out and in a few times and it still shows different npub.

Same with nostr:nprofile1qqs2rx4daefmcuwjttl0xegx0guh3tps64fq6dhv3nr56aagw2hhxkgprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8xetdd9ek7mpwv3jhvqgjwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhxqgkwaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8xarpddjhjtnwv46qgapzsw - logging in using @Alby shows same npub as iris which is different to the one I'm using in amethyst...

Does it mean that if I'm using Alby as login option it generates new npub once (derived from original) and uses it for any other service? Is it some sort of bug? Or I'm just being stupid and been using two different nsec... I think I might have previously generated different nsec/npub pair with iris on this machine, so I found switch user button and logged in using alby extension. Seemed to work fine.

But it turns out that it (@iris) still treats me as different npub than @Amethyst.

Can someone help me understand what I'm doing wrong? #asknostr

The grass is always greener... Isn't that some remains of fiat conditioning? Because 1 bitcoin is still 1 bitcoin :) No matter where. Or is it just human nature? That we tend to crave others stuff.

That actually making me jealous :)

But we finally have some very much missed rain here, the air feels so much better without the whole construction work dust flying around.

That's cool and all, but hear me out.

After spending couple of years in a motorhome I was thinking - why isn't anyone mining on trucks yet?

They have large alternators, capable of powering whole fridge trailer. And there's millions of them. Sometimes they drive with just normal trailer, so by burning slightly more diesel they could use that electricity to mine bitcoin. Just needs a simple ip68 rated box with miner inside, some 3g modem and it could provide the driver with free internet from the company. Bolt it to the back of the cab and plug in to 24/48V system they run on and that's it.

If you're DHL and running 10s of thousands of trucks daily this should make sense (if it's simple enough plug and play setup). I don't think that by running alternator they will burn much more fuel - in normal car running with AC on will probably cost extra 0.5l/100km. So if the truck does 35l/100km it won't be much difference if it'll do 38l/100km (about a gallon per hour).

To take it further - the trucks could be creating mesh network for cars to use, so one can speed on the autobahn at 120mph and stream netflix on WiFi that would just hop from truck to truck as you pass them. Trucks have much more stable connection to mobile internet because they are slow - but mesh network could inform next truck that you're coming and that you will need those packets. So once you get there your part of movie is already there for your WiFi to fetch.

Just putting it here so maybe someone will pick it up and run with it...

I know 100Acersranch (on twitter) was developing device to power miners with 12V directly from solar instead of using inverters to step up to 230V and normal PSU to step down back to 12V (which most boards use). That could be usable for this application.

Same goes for most cargo ships - shit loads of electricity is being wasted because they haven't got much use for it when under way...

You can see smoke from Ribera Brava fires, hope they'll get it under control soon. #Madeira