Doesn’t look like it’s been calculated. Are you getting any errors in the console?

"I use Alby Hub btw"

is the new

“I use Arch btw”.

File sizes have actually been getting steadily bigger, as compression algorithms are more effective on a large document and the sum total of the data set requires less storage and is faster to query. People storing lots of data on one hosted instance, with one entry point, save money, RAM, computation, and human effort, if they keep the files large.

But a distributed, eventually-consistent storage system, like Nostr, has the opposite problem: it benefits for having lots of little files that are spread around, slowly and thinly, and then gathered and assembled, quickly, when used.

Y'all be up in my feed like

I've been feeling more self-confident about my face, with all of the selfies, so I went to the last birthday luncheon without my glasses on -- and nearly fell down the stairs, because I can't judge distance correctly because one eye is so much stronger than the other. 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

Imagine life without glasses. 🙈

Do you have noticeable physical flaws or disabilities?

Just wondering about the size of the Nostr lazarette.

A few notes. Carrington type events are random. So while we are "closer" to the next event, it is no more likely in the next 150 years as it was in the past 150 years. We always have a 1/150 chance of an event per year regardless of the number of preceding years.

The solar system takes 225 million years to orbit the galaxy.

The magnetic flux of a Carrington event amounts to a few volts per meter. Disasterous for the grid. Manageable for cars and homes, in the noise for electronics.

You'll see data loss, but the hardware will be fine. Consumer electronics are regularly subjected to 50,000 volts in esd testing.

it is a routine thing that already happened several times last year when there was auroras, there was huge problems with internet services losing connectivity and power outages and systems going down as a result, the CMEs that caused these geomagnetic storms were trivially small

this solar cycle, we are in the peak, and likely we will have at least a couple more big light shows like last may in the next two years, and then all will be quiet for another 9-10 years when the solar max hits again

what will happen is that when a "killshot" sized blast hits us and the magnetic shield is weak enough, electrical distribution systems will literally catch fire (this happened in 1859 to the nascent telegraph network), basically every device with an antenna will have the radio fused and many of the power circuits and wiring in general will be overloaded with current and probably a lot of things will even catch fire

if this happens, it will shut down almost all industry for the time it takes to repair all the burned out devices, and if this destroys every electrical device on at least the sun-facing side where the blast comes from, it's gonna put a pretty big ding in everyone's year, or several years, because the repairs will likely take months, and just consider that for the most part, doing those repairs requires functioning electrical devices, and you'll also have the entire transport infrastructure down because all electrical vehicles will be toast and even most gas and diesel burning engines won't work because they are controlled by computers and don't work at all without the computer to regulate ignition timing, valves, and so on and so forth

the other reason why i care about this is i already am aware of the fact that EMF has a negative effect on our bodies by disrupting timing signals than are normally coming from the resonances of the earth's atmosphere, anyway, and i want to reduce my exposure to all forms of EMF, i have earthing mats and try to keep electrical devices away from my sleeping area

there is no question that:

a) the geomagnetic storm effect of solar events are increasing rapidly

b) the magnetic poles of the earth have been moving extremely rapidly for the last 25 years, suggesting something is disrupting the field

c) the geological evidence of cyclic past magnetic pole shifts have happened pretty much like clockwork every 6000 years with extra nasty events every 12000 years, relating to the phase of the cycle, obviously, 90 degree rotation roughly every 6000 years, this is the Yuga Cycle that the hindus talk about, and is the time that it takes for our solar system to make one orbit of the galaxy

d) the size of the solar event that caused the Carrington Event in 1859 is now known to happen roughly on a 100-150 year cycle and we are now coming well past due for another one to happen, and such an event based on the same power of the solar eruption compared to the magnitude of effects of much smaller eruptions measured in the last 30 years suggests that such an event has a very high chance of completely shutting down modern technological industry for probably years, and the number of people who will die of cold and starvation and in the associated weather, volcanic and seismic events that go along with these geomagnetic storms is going to be epic

there is plenty of evidence to support all of those assertions and the prospects are very high either in 10 years or 20 years from now that we are going to have such an event happen and only those who are prepared for it will survive

there was a particularly bad event 72000 years ago that literaly killed all but 5000 humans, and yes, by the way, you are Christian so you know about the Flood, well, that is the level of destruction we are talking about, and yes, you may well be fine because the books record a promise from God to not let this happen again, or maybe more exactly, to evacuate the righteous prior to the next event

but i don't think that anything in this life should be taken for granted and substantial liability falls on us to do the work we are called to do

those who survive will be those who anticipated the kind of changes that would unfold

i'm sure if you want to DYOR regarding the major geomagnetic disaster that is certainly coming in the next few decades you'll agree that there is something going on when people are seeing auroras in arizona from such small CMEs as we had in may, and has happened repeatedly

the obvious answer to the question of how such a big charge of energy lit up the upper atmosphere from a comparatively small eruption should obviously be that the normal shielding mechanism is in the process of declining due to a polarity shift

a lot of people disagreed with noah building a giant boat in the middle of the thracian plain, which is where i'm pretty sure he was, but how did that work out?

and it would take me a little while to dig up the references but concurrently in other parts of the world at around the same time there was numerous stories of strange people showing up and giving warnings and instructions how to survive

the difference then to now is that we are again in a similar position as those who brought the warnings to the people all over the world, we have the technology and science to understand what is going on and make useful predictions about what to expect

if you read about the "evil sun" stories and people being burnt alive by airbursts from impactors formed subsequent to the massive solar event that caused the Flood you will notice the common thread is that our normal protection from solar energy was basically gone and this led to all kinds of things including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, wild fires, storms, high levels of cloud cover in general, sudden decline in temperatures, failure fo crops

there has been minor events also since then, a notable one was recorded on a runestone discovered recently that discusses the events that unfolded around 500-700AD involving declining temperatures, increased rain, and epidemics that wiped out most of the population

we got such things coming up in the near future and if you want to pretend that the evidence does not point to the idea that we are going to lose the use of electrical technology sometime in the next 20 years in a big way, then, ok, whatever, but i'm just here to tell you that it's coming

i will also mention it's possible there will be an evacuation operation, as this was promised in numerous books of the Bible and apocrypha

i am quite sure that in the next 20 years electricity based technology is going to turn out to be a massive liability

i intend to equip myself with some old school diesel engines and steam powered devices as part of my response to this, i don't think people really have any proper understanding of just how much of a liability electricity is going to be very soon

having this little cat show up and want to spend all his time hanging out next to me is super cool and is making me have thoughts

here i am living on an island, and if i were to scratch together a bunch of money i can probably acquire a boat that is big enough to navigate the route across to brazil and from there up the coast and around and eventually make my way to somewhere in the south of USA an my path to migrating to Wyoming

no decent ship is complete without a ship's cat, you gotta keep them rats at bay and living in a boat, in the atlantic, it will be pretty easy to actually catch and store my own atlantic cod and do like they do here, gut and splay it and salt and dry and it keeps for months without refrigeration

having my own transport and house rolled into one and being in some kind of interesting technical international limbo may have some interesting effects on my mind that i don't quite anticipate yet, but i think this is gonna be a goal for me now... this next year, even if i have to move to another place here to continue along these lines, but to get the cash together to get a big enough ship that i can cross the atlantic in, and keep my cat in

i love this little guy, and i think we are gonna be very good friends

and seriously, memory transfer rate has been above the required for a 30fps GUI if you add an adequate high speed image compression algorithm in the picture... like what is used in RDP and VNC, but with memory bitrates, far higher, and with parallelism easy to maintain that framerate

i mean, it's unbelievable how slow progress has been in this part of computer technology, the absolute worst, yet, it can be done

what's the name of that discord fork that does real time UI streaming? i forget, some dude i know roped me in to helping him do some online test using it to do the answers for him a few years back, i wasn't cool with that but... yeah, parsec

if parsec can do it, the whole industry should be providing systems that can do it

parsec can do it

wayland and macos and windows and all the other gay shit

see, even android has this working, but not the main desktop environments

how does that even make sense?

I mean, I should be able to vnc in to a machine on my account while I is being used by someone else. It works great on the terminal with ssh. GUI should be just as easy.

not sure what you mean, GDM etc have a login screen... you mean such as having two users to one pc, with two monitors and two keyboards and mice?

i think that is theoretically possible, but difficult to set up

removing my other displays is making me have a vibe like, idk, i think i like this

i had a 24" Dell UHD panel back in 2017, and i got very used to it, and was pretty pissed off when i had to leave ti behind in Serbia

i've got a 32" QD-OLED panel now, and it's lovely, and maybe it is a good thing for me to get used to having a single UHD panel, because this thing is a lot less to cart around as i need to relocate in the next 3-6 months one way or another

i mean, just the colour rendition and the energy efficiency...

fuck it

tired as fuck of my games having the cursor fall into other displays and then i click and opa, good thing i'm not playing competitive MP games eh?

it's got so on my nerves that i think it's worth it

just one, good quality display, with 240hz refresh rate

the state of linux display drivers and GUI engines is an absolute travesty, and i personally think this is a direct attack on FOSS and nobody is talking about this, even though it's the elephant in the room for the linux desktop

solution: use the most high res display you can get for your budget, and fuck the whole multi display thing

wayland has fucked that up, completely, thanks, go fuck yourself you fucking glowie cunts

Thanks again for further explanation. Very helpful. Think I’ll go with the sleeve, and I’ve gotta have the eraser side extra on the pen.

I’ve got it in the cart but gonna wait a day or two to decide for sure, Christmas just happened recently after all 😅

One last question if you don’t mind. Nice folio worth spending on? Looks nice (probably dont want keyboard version), but 170 for the nicer one seems steep