Yeah, I'm just hoping to see Linux adoption maybe double or triple. From say 3% to 10% maybe.
I have a friend who is an IT consultant and his policy is to always do extra stuff, because he has found that when he makes the client's experience so smooth and simple, they actually keep asking him for improvements and new more advanced stuff, because they feel they will be able to handle it (with his help).
I'm hoping that MS's latest move to force down the throats of users the most obvious piece of spyware, under the guise of "AI", will actually make a non-trivial portion of the consumers finally shift over to Linux.
Especially if running a local, user-controlled, non-spying LLM is as simple as it seems right now with Ollama, for instance.
And people, on top of that, still insist that relays must become publishers and devoting even more resources to implementing even more complex code to handle "content filtering" and maintaining databases (otherwise, you can't censor). Relays should... relay. That's all.
It should be economical to do, both in terms of cost and in terms of potential liabilities for the relay owner.Also, it should be inconsequential for the network and the protocol if one relay goes offline. They should be almost fungible.
I always argue that fiat isn't going away because it's simply the most powerful tool States have to achieve total domination over their subjects, and that Bitcoin will, at most, become a reserve and store of wealth asset/commodity. Just like there are many other asset classes.
As to the visions of hyperbitcoinization and a big upset and collapse of the system, I simply don't think they're going to happen. The incumbents will adapt and will capture as much of Bitcoin as they can, as we've already seen with billionaires like Michael Saylor. Others will follow, and in the last stage even central banks will hold a piece. The most recalcitrant and close-minded among the elites who refuse to hop on the Bitcoin wagon will simply miss out and be relegated -- in that asset. There is always some attrition at the top.
The key difference though, is that Bitcoin is probably the first asset class in recent history that hasn't been captured from inception by the incumbent status-quo beneficiaries. It's truly something phenomenal, in that it gives a bunch of nobodies the opportunity to position themselves as holders of a significant portion of this asset, ahead of the incumbents.
The weakest among us will sell to Michael Saylor and Blackrock, or will allow their BTC to be seized by their government. A second portion of us will fail to turn their Bitcoin wealth into real world wealth and, sooner or later, their stack will succumb to attrition, either because they fail to understand that Bitcoin, as a non-yield bearing asset doesn't replace itself when you spend it, or because they fail to use it wisely as collateral and eventually have to liquidate their holdings.
The remainder who learn how to use Bitcoin correctly and wisely, will eventually join the ranks of the world's elite and become the new incumbents themselves.
Yes, my outlook is quite cynical. This is my bleakest vision of what's to come. Kind of the worst case scenario for which I prepare, just in case.
I used this following advice from someone here too. Excellent. Super easy to handle and set up everything even for non techies like myself.
Right. Selling for BTC is something I'd very much like to be able to do to... Do you also spend it on buying products and services?
Not a techie and I don't know what any of this means either but I feel a tickle down below too.
But ISPs provide the physical infrastructure for the servers and clients to connect, so regardless of the protocol, I don't think there's a way around them. You can do as much magic as you want with your software -- it still needs to be transported.
Plus (this may be outdate because I learnt it like 20 years ago), there are several layers of ISPs. The local one you're buying access from buys it from a regional one maintaining your state/national network, who in turn buys international connectivity from the Backbone ISPs who lay and keep the submarine cables connecting continents and countries.
I don't use Tidal, but I'm glad to see developments like this on Nostr.
Unlike the common perception in the West, which is an echo of the Boom Era, Japan hasn't really been an expensive place for Western Europeans and even less for US dwellers for the last three decades.
True, this past couple of years it's become even cheaper if you earn in USD or EUR. But it was affordable already (unless you have some crazy notion of buying real estate in Shinjuku or some shit like that).
Lately I've taken up rowing (on a machine) and it's instantly become my favorite way to workout ever, forever more. I can blast it for 30 minutes, almost full body workout, and depending on what I want to do that day, it's just a matter of tweaking how hard I pull, how fast, playing with the damper, etc. It's just awesome.
OK, so on desktop @Coracle shows the pictures. Nostur, which is the client I used to upload them on mobile, doesn't.
You just have to love Nostr.
Or, I was trolling you.
Why does this happen when I upload pictures? There's always some missing 😡
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