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Hi 👋

If I am a iPhone user but completely willing to change over to grapheneos which phone should I purchase?

You need a Google Pixel.

The best choice now is one of the Pixel 8s...there are some security features in those that are new (i.e. not in the 7 series) that Graphene is leveraging, and you'll get the longest support.

Having said that, it's (of course) the most expensive.

I usually go one generation older (so the Pixel 7a is a great choice and is probably your best price point right now..

You may want to wait until the 13th--looks like Google has a product launch scheduled--and once the Pixel 9 comes out, the prices of older phones will drop. And of course Black Friday is also a great time to buy.

BE SURE TO GET ONE ONLY FROM GOOGLE - YOU CANNOT USE ONE THAT IS CARRIER LOCKED (i.e. buying from Verizon or T-Mobile will NOT work)

Check out this page for more info:

https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices

Happy to answer any quesitons!

Chriso🇺🇸🇦🇺🦘⚡️

GM NOSTRVerse, let’s have a great day and learn something.

For ₿itcoin to become a currency, we must spend it. Until now, I’ve used the spend and replace method as a way to grow the network. That’s all about to change. If you’re a nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9 user, you have the ability to load your wallet with fiat, then pay a lightning invoice. While this doesn’t sound like much, it’s really a big deal. You see, when you do this, You never own the sats meaning you don’t have a taxable event to worry about. Strike handles all of this in the background.

I’m sure plenty of you know about this already. But as I’ve learned during my time here, there’s something new happening all the time and it’s impossible to know everything. If this is your first time hearing about this feature, respond to this note with 💥. I want to know if I’m wasting everyone’s time or if I’m providing value.

Also if there’s interest, I’m considering a demo video to show how this works.

PV and Each One Teach One, that’s how we grow the network 🤙🏻🫡

Grea post! And a great idea (never really thought of it that way, but it is indeed true!)

However I think friction is a huge deal these days. While email has remained somewhat competitive because of demand, what about something like smartphones?

There is IOS an Android and relatively nothing in between that doesn't require an engineering degree to use. I suppose that's still two competing markets but 99.99999% percent of smart phone users will have to bow to their will. The other .00001% have said engineering degree and fight hard every day and will be forced to withdraw farther an farther from their peers.

Okay, lets say to want to travel to see a friend, you have a stripped down Android phone. What are you options for GPS that actually work, won't leave you stranded and isn't written by Google?

Is it really competition if %99.9999 of users don't have the skills or the dozens of hours to fight against to be able to break out of the walled garden.

I have to disagree somewhat (but I agree with Despota's comment on friction. Ask an iPhone user to give it up and switch to Android is like taking away their opium. And if they DO switch, they're met with a large learning curve, and a month or two of swearing before they get used to it (or in many cases switch back).

Same with Android really--that side of the fence also doesn't want to switch.

But I disagree with "needing an engineering degree" to use--

Switching to #GrapheneOS is simple (really). Go to https://grapheneos.org/ and click the blue button, then follow the prompts to click the remaining blue buttons. It's a fully web-based install...

As for a GPS that "actually works" you simply download an app (just like on iPhobne or Google). I prefer OsmAnd (although there are others). Download that, turn on location, and you've got turn-by-turn navigation just like Google...simple.

So the options are out there--but I think it's user inertia more than anything else. Most are inherently lazy (how often have you seen folks not even willing to entertain even listening about BTC? Same thing...)

What's that say about Nostr? Maybe folks will end up using one client...but with so much out there, that's like saying "I use a word processor, but I don't want to use a spreadsheet--that's too much trouble"...

But it doesn't mean we don't need spreadsheets...

Folks for years have been saying "when will the next 'killer app' come out?"

Well, you're using it...

And we don't really know what some bright, talented (maybe even a bit quirky or unconventional) programmer wil come up with that no one ever thought of...

(Know anyone like that L?) 😃

GM Nostr!

Happy Wednesday!!

And happy effective Friday (for those in the US)...

And that calls for an extra cup of coffee!!

#coffeechain

Because then they'd implode into one SuperApp. Only separating the data sets prevents this.

Software is a commodity and Nostr makes it even more of a commodity. Add AI and it's over.

Sort of the way an increasing number of chemicals or production is only available from one supplier.

Maybe email is a good comparison?

Currently, GMail predominates--but there are other popular, and (frankly) very good alternatives.

I may be wrong, but I don't see GMail ever becoming the "only supplier"...

(There will always be a better mousetrap)

So it is with Nostr---there may be some "top" clients (eventually) but innovation will preclude there being only one (Highlander notwithstanding).

DarthCoin ₿⚡️

Then again let's go to basics...

I don't disagree--government has no right to violate you.

But you CAN influence local politics, and if anything is to be accomplished, it HAS to start there...

DarthCoin ₿⚡️

NEVER vote, step out of the system.

Be a sovereign individual not a slave.

Disagree--EVERYONE should vote, as you CAN influence your local elections.

IF things are going to change--it's going to happen locally.

Local influences regional.

Regional influences State.

State influences National.

Good morning nostr, getting my coffeetime in, before i head out to another friend's house to help her get set up with her btc cold storage. After helping one friend recently, that friend recommended me to another friend, so i'll be helping her as well. After that, i have some watering to in the garden areas. Yall have a great Tuesday nostr friends, and remember to do your work with a happy heart. #coffeechain #grownostr #HelpingAFriend

Keep the education going...I wish I had your success...

Not talking about the politicians talking about "the people" who label themselves left and right and the difference between them is no illusion.

Oh absolutely - but they're just "useful idiots" by joining the blue team or the red team.

Focusing on blue/red deflects from the real enemy - the government.

If the politicians can keep the red team hating the blue team it deflects blame from them. Genius move really--people are such sheep.

Rebecca J Hanna

#theftflation

This is called propaganda...

The ONLY cause of inflation is money printing by the government.

Don't fall for the lies...

I hate both the political right and left but the left is just worse.

Right Loses - Wow we need to regroup, learn, change our messaging, do better in getting our ideas accepted, even though some of them are stupid.

Left Loses - iTs nOt fAiR cHaNgE dA rULes sO wE cAn WiN! 😭

It's all politicians...(right and left are an illusion)

Let's review - there are well over 300 million people in the US (IIRC)...(and who knows how many now with all the illegals)

And out of all of those people, we get the two current candidates for president?

Seriously?

And you''d like us to believe that government is on the level, and completely above board?

Government IS the problem...

Yes, our "defense" organizations would not cost trillions & be used to attack & overthrow countries & install dollar friendly disctatorships if not for forced funding. Voluntary funding would likely produce actual domestic defense & nothing more.

Electric vehicles & "green energy" are actually horrible for the environment & would not be a problem without force funded subsidies.

Now I do agree with you...yet (playing devil's advocate for both or us) if we make defense spending a voluntary thing, then in times of peace the funding would likely be low, and then when you need the military (say you were attacked) you likely would be caught without sufficient funding...and no time to build up (even if you could quickly raise the funds).

Not defending the military waste (at all) yet I see in this example something that would need proactive funding. Maybe there are other (better?) examples, but I do think there should be some limited central services...

I do struggle with this though, as I think (almost exclusively) politicians are corrupt, and the tax system is being abused...but I'm not sure we can do away with it all completely....

I always wanted a proper native client on desktop, primal is web unfortunately :(

Oh--sorry--I see what you're saying now!! 😃

Worst thing ever?

Me: chemical warfare

Top comment: my phone doesn’t last very long.

Nuclear, chemical, etc...everything else pales in comparison to AI.

All organizations & "decision makers" should be voluntarily funded. You either support what people do with your own earnings or you don't.

Voting implies that you can be forced to fund something you don't support.

The world will be a better place when everyone realizes that all forms of forced funding are criminal.

So you're saying we shoudl privatize everything? (Not criticising, just trying to understand...)

So we'd have a private military, and people would fund it if they felt it was worthwhile (for example)?

Or with electric vehicles, no government rebates or funding to add infrastructure, just funded if people buy the cars?

yay I finally have a client I can post from on my linux desktop. it's downhill from here.

Primal works for me on Linux...quite well actually.

Fuck voting for anything. Crowd funding some idea might be good, but "democracy" always ends up being stupid & evil.

So what's the alternative? Letting a king make all te decisions?

One of the coolest and creepiest questions for LLM research is how many prompts the LLM takes to figure out exactly who the user is.

Most LLMs can already identify the user's gender, age range, education, and socio-economic status from prompts alone and reply accordingly. Current accuracy is about 80% after 6 prompts.

More interestingly, how should the LLM reply if it wants to trigger the user into revealing who they are so that the LLM can answer questions more precisely.

AI is the most dangerous thing man has ever developed...

Yeah, there's lots of sites you can use for that.

Got some homework to do...but never knew a) sites like that existed and b) it can get complicated! 😃

Damnit I’ve never had a twitter or Instagram so I’m never gonna have one of those pump up moments on nostr for deleting them.

You could sign up just so you can delete it... 😁

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