⚡🖥️ NEW - It is now official that various Windows 11 components are built with WebView2, making them web apps rather than native programs, which causes significant performance loss and system slowdown.

You have to pay FMV taxes for barter in the US

Coordination issue.

Could be solved with crowdfunding-like online pledge?

WHEN 1 million people sign this tax revolt pledge THEN we will act together.

I sold TVs at a Sears back when I was in high school and employees got commission on sales. Back then at least the people selling appliances did alright. Went back after college and it was a ghost town. I imagine they were doomed either way, but always wondered if dropping commissions hastened their demise.

It’s the easiest way out. Slow drain. If we remove our participation in the legacy systems completely they have nothing left to tax, and their power dissolves.

Would you support an AI running the government?

In this scenario all planning / support positions that can be eliminated would get instantly eliminated. With many more possibly gone quickly.

Assume the most “fair” AI. Won’t go into details of how that’s determined but just imagine we picked the best one for the position.

#asknostr

They'll only arrest people with assets. If they have to spend thousands of dollars prosecuting and jailing you, they want their costs covered by your property forfeiture.

For example, the DEA of the 1990's wouldn't bother busting cannabis operations with less than 300 plants. The cost doesn't justify the return.

This means if you rent, and don't have some large, non-secret, holdings, you won't be on their radar.

But which distro? I only have experience with Ubuntu…. (Don’t hate me)

#memes #meme #memestr #nostrmeme #nostrmemes #newyearsresolutions

If I get it running I'll be sure to let you know how I did it.

nostr:nprofile1qqsrg8d45l36jv05jz2as2j2ejfee79xw2fmreqhnl2ttsz5f38u9mcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctckedwd0 uses local LLMs for his image generation, not coding. But he may have some insight.

I’ve been receiving password reset emails lately that I did not request. Stay frosty out there ladies and gentlemen.

Unless you already own the Pis, I would go with a higher quality manufacturer.

Things isolated from all external stress grow weak and die.

Last time I did that was during Covid right when Bitcoin was hitting its local lows. The gold has doubled since then and Bitcoin has 40x’d. Not sure if I learned the right lesson but I learned a lesson.

I’m getting FOMO for Silver. I’m disciplined enough not to chase the rabbit, but I feel the urge. When Bitcoin maxis start feeling FOMO for other forms of “hard money”, you know things are about to rip. When I finally give in and buy a few ounces of physical silver at my local coin shop I’ll let y’all know since that will likely mark the local top in PM’s and a rotation into Bitcoin. 🤣

Communism keeps doing its thing

I think they staged a "quarrel"

Love this. Great personal insight. This mindset has bled down from generations and I think it’s become cancerous, among many other things.

The Retirement Lie Will Ruin Your Life

Retirement, as we imagine it, is a modern myth. A 30-year vacation sold after World War II to make the grind of work seem worth it. But it carries a hidden poison: the belief that work is something to escape rather than something to be fulfilled by.

We are told to endure our 30s and 40s so we can finally live in our 60s. It is the TGIF mindset stretched across a lifetime. If Friday is salvation, then Monday through Thursday, and by extension our working years, are a form of suffering to be endured. Every project becomes a transaction. Every morning becomes a countdown to freedom.

That vision of life leads nowhere good. When you finally “make it,” what is left? Endless leisure sounds like paradise until you realize it starves the soul. Humans are not built for permanent rest. We are built for creation, cultivation, and meaningful contribution.

Look at those who have changed the world. They did not work to retire; they worked because the work itself mattered. They were driven by curiosity, craft, and impact, not escape. That impulse is not rare genius. It is the human default when purpose and effort align.

The tragedy of retirement culture is not that people stop working. It is that they spend decades believing work is something to run from. They hate their jobs, resent responsibility, and dream of quitting until quitting finally arrives and meaning disappears with it.

The answer is not to grind yourself into the grave. It is to never stop engaging productively with the world. True fulfillment comes when we see work not as punishment but as participation in something greater. Retirement should be a shift in pace, not a surrender of purpose.

Some will push back at this idea. They believe that once they reach the goal, they will be the exception. They think the emptiness will not touch them. But look around. The older generation right now is among the most unhappy groups you will ever meet. Now you know why.

If your life strategy is built around escaping productivity, you have already lost. The goal is not to retire. The goal is to find work worth doing until you can no longer do it.

Stop planning your escape. Start planning your contribution. Life begins the moment you stop running from work and start building something that matters.

Now build.

I grew up going to Roman Catholic Church. I went through all the motions but understood none of the meaning. I’d constantly ask my mom why I had to do all of the “stuff” and confess my “sins” to some stranger in a confessional booth. It felt hollow and mechanical. I left that tradition the moment I turned 18, determined to forge my own path.

But life has a way of humbling us. I got married at 20, had my first son at 22, and despite my best intentions, I found myself repeating the exact patterns I’d grown up resenting. Generational brokenness is devastatingly real. Another son came two years later, and after 10 years of marriage, I was spiritually and emotionally bankrupt. I’d sit alone some nights, confronting the uncomfortable truth that I’d become a narcissist. Everything I did seemed to revolve around my own needs and ego.

During this season, my wife started attending a non denominational church (Baptist roots). I was working weekend graveyards, so she took our boys with her. Honestly, I figured they’d all be better off without me there anyways as I’d wake up and marinate watching football all day. But over several months, I watched something remarkable happen to my wife. She became more patient, more sacrificial, more joyful. The change was so profound it got my attention in a way nothing else could.

God was working on my heart, creating a curiosity I hadn’t ever had. My wife had been quietly collecting Christian books, and I found myself drawn to Lee Strobel’s “The Case for Christ.” I devoured it in two days, and couldn’t put it down. The historical evidence for Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection was overwhelming. By the end, I was convinced not just intellectually, but in my soul: I was a sinner desperately in need of rescue, and Jesus Christ was real.

That realization changed everything because I knew it had to. If what I’d read was true and the evidence said it was, then this wasn’t just interesting information. It was the most important truth in existence, with eternal consequences.

In the many years since, God has completely reoriented my life. Through reformed theology, particularly RC Sproul’s teaching, I discovered that the dead saints often speak more clearly to our current struggles than most contemporary voices. Reading the Puritans and reformers showed me that God’s sovereignty and grace aren’t abstract concepts, they’re the foundation of transformed living.

The truth is, I didn’t choose God. He chose me. While I was spiritually dead, consumed with myself, He pursued me with relentless love. That grace has transformed my marriage from the inside out, revolutionized how I father my sons, and given me a brotherhood within the body of Christ I never knew I needed.

Now everything I do flows from that love. Everything I do here on Nostr is through that love. Not perfectly, but purposefully. I’m the same man, but I’m not the same man.

If you’re reading this and something resonates, don’t wait. Pick up a book. Ask the hard questions. Examine your life honestly: Are you just happy, or do you have joy? Happiness depends on circumstances; joy transcends them. One is temporary satisfaction; the other is eternal security.

I promise you, investigating the claims of Christ will be the most important thing you ever do. Not because I say so, but because He is who He says He is. And that changes absolutely everything.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Potentially multiple offers?! Or from 1 employer?

Dead serious. I can never understand why we value one human life over one other. I don't get it.

💯. if there is no God over the state, then the state has been made god.

There seems to be some confusion as to what Start9 is/does. Calling us a "node in a box" implies a complete misunderstanding as to what we do.

1. We build StartOS, a free and open source Linux distro optimized for self-hosting. You can download it for free and flash it to most computers. There is zero loss of functionality doing it this way.

2. We sell and warranty quality hardware at a competitive price with StartOS preinstalled as a means if funding development, rather than rely on charity like most open source projects.

3. We provide world class customer support for StartOS, our hardware, and 25+ software applications.

4. We love Bitcoin and express our opinions about it.

May I ask your wife’s take on her brother?

Yes, definitely it's something unsolved in this rushed race to adopt AI recklessly

Too clickbaity title. I’ll not click.

Hot take of the night

Bitcoiners spend way too much time trying to "orange pill" others

First off, everyone discovers Bitcoin on their own - no one is immune from this.

Instead, we should be focused on the people who want to learn Bitcoin and can actually grow the network.

Let me explain.

When we are talking about growing adoption - take nostr as an example

I first heard about nostr from nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpr9mhxue69uhhxetwv35hgtnwdaekvmrpwfjjucm0d5q3samnwvaz7tmswfjk66t4d5h8qunfd4skctnwv46qz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshgjtu6

I don't have a clue how many I've onboarded to nostr since then - in the hundreds for sure

That's how true adoption grows - speaking to people who are open minded and want to learn

The close minded people will get here eventually but on their own terms

Fuck em

Focus on those who want to be here

Having bought a new one a couple months back, they are getting expensive af.

#cables #memestr #memes #i4n