Received my last watch today, and yes, I do plan for it to be the last for me within forseeable future. The phlog post is coming on Monday. I surely am going to have a lot to say about this watch. However, the mere fact that the rechargeable battery there is supposed to last for 20 to 40 years does say something about how quality gadgets really should be made as opposed to what we have on the mass market.
Stay tuned.
I mean, mp3s are usually not recompressed by any CDN, so the question is whether or not the excess is truncated.
Now try the same with mp3 files.
I daily-drive Arch on my main PC which happens to be a NUC/nettop, and Alpine Linux on even weaker machines, even a rooted Kindle (in chroot).
They run Faildows and still think a VPN will protect them from anything. Let that sink in.
Modern rule of thumb: avoid any brand, thing, technology, person or movement that has a cult-like following.
A famous saying can now be surely updated:
If you think that Bitcoin/Web3/AI/Nostr is the solution, then you don't understand the problem.
Some free speech is freer than other, it seems, if one puts enough resources into it.
Those who shout the loudest (e.g. with a gov't sponsored botfarm) will always mute the voices of sanity.
I've spent enough time on unregulated media to confirm this: where the mainstream propaganda is silent, "anti-mainstream" and equally absurd propaganda rises.
Nostr doesn't seem to be an exception as of now.
The internet 1.0 was designed by real engineers, not hipster cryptobros who don't know anything lower-level than JSON and websockets and piggypack off the ready-made inventions taken for granted at OSI level 7.
Remove internet 1.0 et voila, Nostr, at its current state, is nothing. Recreate all the levels and then you'll be able to call it like that.
Tell this when it's able to function *without* the internet 1.0.
I mean, if it was truly censorship-resistant, the files would go to the note body itself, not to a third-party uploader service.
For the context, the previous post was about Citizen PMD56-2951 I still haven't got, but I have got a Pixel Tablet and the first thing I did was installing GrapheneOS on it. Luckily, this is the instance where there's no IMEI to change and where rooting isn't so relevant for me.
"Aren't you afraid to experiment with such expensive things?"
"No. I'm afraid to have them and not be able to experiment with them"
Halving-shmalving. Your privacy has been cut in half, then again in half, then eaten and shat out a long time ago.
How much more arrests, seizures and restrictions before people switch to privacy-first cryptocurrencies once and for all?
But of course, sheeple will continue using their #1 fiat in disguise (removed from its original vision as far as possible) and think that it makes them free to any extent.
Holy fuck, that would have never happened if they ran something saner, like a Monero node.
Again, let me repeat: too many people are proud of creating problems themselves and then heroically overcoming them.
By the amount of shit its fanatics talk about everyone else, Bitcoin is the OG shitcoin.
For any open social platform to get on par with the proprietary ones, a simple change is necessary: people need to start talking less about the platform itself and more about real life.