I provided a link to an article on Yakihonne about the wonders of Bitcoin miners opening up electricity networks in rural areas, and the link opens the global feed. That's another potential orange pill ruined.

Tip of the week. It is a good idea to stick a nail in the tip of a nozzle to keep the contents airtight and the nozzle re-usable. It's not a great idea to use a wooden stick instead of a nail in a tube of refractory cement. Ask me how I know!

Who would want to grow up being that kid. It must be so lonely when you finally realise almost nobody on earth goes through life like that.

There's#paint roller sleeves and there's paint roller sleeves.

Do the chemists a favour and try match the right roller sleeve to their paint.

These are mini rollers. The black foam one, the red crushed pile one and the polar bear on the end are 4.5" only, as far as I'm aware.

There are 9" versions of the others and a couple in 14" and 18" too.

If you are painting walls and ceilings, use a mini and a matching larger roller sleeve together. Not only does painting speed go up a level, but the quality of finish too. That's nirvana.

Yet despite these products being around for so long, if you check the paintwork on walls, they are probably rolled to varying degrees of good. But around most door frames, you still see brush marks where the painter didn't use a matching pile mini roller to get right up close to the frame.

Does that aesthetic detail matter in the scheme of things? I'd argue it is quicker for the painter -

- one pass around the frame with a brush, a straight cut but not too concerned about it laying down perfectly

- pass the mini roller over the brush marks to remove the tramlines AND create a 4.5" band of paint around the frame.

- no holds barred now to use a matching 9 or 14" sleeve to roll out the main wall without any concern for getting too close to frames

so yeah, if you value time by money, which is the whole point of #bitcoin as money, it locks in the value of the one thing we don't have much of, time, this little detail is well worth aspiring for.

"Them" are really saying they couldn't achieve what you are proposing to do. "Them" are about the last people you want to take advice from. "Them" would still be living in caves if it weren't for those who ignored their downer views.

My new website is bilingual and it's not easy. But it is inconceivable to trade in a country and not be fluent, at least on paper.

It is hard to shout louder on paper when Johnny Foreigner no speako the lingo. I say this as a Brit who cringes at the appalling attitude towards language of many Brits abroad.

I attended a seminar many years ago presented to UK businesses by a linguistics professor. If you think English is the Lingua Franca of the world, think again.

With apps with AI there is zero excuse for lack of imagination to remodel or restore an existing building. The excuses are running out fast.

It is always easier ( read more profitable) to build from new, and a diminishing pool of skilled labour to think outside the box to problem solve, just adds to the focus on new.

Value for Value is going one direction only, but I don't think it will be adopted as quickly as it should.

Just been to watch a local sporting event and told it's enforcing a 5€ admission fee. I paid it under duress and watched the worst sporting event imaginable.

Having been charged entry, I didn't spend a penny more on lottery tickets or drinks.

As a result I spent less overall than when there was a zero entry fee, and having paid, I was not OK with the crap spectacle. No drinks and no lottery to divert me away from the rubbish value of the admission fee.

Value for Value is perfect for building. Not sure what works best after the service or product has been perfected, but as it's early days, that's not a concern right now.

I like that analogy. Makes sense

It does look good 👍 Teak is an incredible wood. In the boat world it is the premier choice for decks. Silver is the natural colour of weathered teak You don't stain it or sand it. To maintain it you wash down with salt water and leave to dry. Just below the surface it is oil oil oil, so sanding literally removes it's preservative property. Different strokes.

An amazing and Id say shocking history of religion and geo politics. The vast majority of people on earth still have a lot of work to do on tolerance.

I found you in the end, but it's not ideal.

Thanks, I'll have to look into your points to understand better. Especially the lightning addresses linked to own domain.

Could #citrine please provide backup instructions so dumb newbies like me can actually set up a relay on android phone when the slick info dialogue boxes don't work. Thanks.

Hey #asknostr, can someone weigh in on my lightning wallet experience?

I set up #Phoenix wallet as it sounded as close to a hardware wallet as a lightning wallet could be. Still rug pullable but less so than most.

Is that an accurate assessment?

Using Phoenix I learnt a lot about opening channels and liquidity, which is hidden from view on every other wallet I have used. So that is useful. And I can't imagine more than 1 in 100 noobs bothering to go that root.

Another observation, it seems to be more expensive to make transactions than on the usual non custodial wallets. Is this a fault with my setup, or is an advantage of non custodial providers that they can provide a cheap service because of scale?

What's up with Bolt 12? Phoenix offers a permanent Bolt 12 lightning option which sounds ideal for businesses. But I used Muun, blink, Speed wallet,Yakihonne and no go. Am I early or has that innovation moved on?

Coinos has a really slick set up for a permanent lightning address for a business website. I have gone with that for tip payments and will move any balances across to Phoenix for "self sovereign storage". Is that the way?

Thanks

Falang is a very well considered multi language plugin for #wordpress

Complete control of translated versions of original posts, IE you have the option to keep Google Translate well away from your website.

But it isn't perfect, at least not in my experience.

I am looking for a wordpress #Dev out there who knows their way around WP to solve a few small issues.

Don't shoot me, I have a ghost site on npubpro, but no way could I get my head around setting up the WP equivalent site on nostr. One day. #asknostr

This super simple hand sander revolutionised the #painting industry. Not just because it works so well, but because it is the Trojan Horse to demonstrate to skeptical tradesmen and -women how good #Abranet abrasives are with a dust extraction system.

A 20€ sander attached to a bog standard vacuum cleaner almost certainly paved the way for a lifetime of #Mirka and #Festool power tool purchases.

Yes it it's an abrasive net, Abranet from Mirka. It is an open weave fabric that works with a dust extraction system.

It comes in all sorts of formats to match a multitude of hand sanders, orbital sanders.

It started life in Mirkas automotive product ranges, but what do you know, painters of all strokes can use it. From 40 super coarse through standard residential painter grades 80, 120, 240, 320 on to the 000's for polishing with abrasive pastes.

Now you know :)

It's a tacky rag for removing dust

Nostr has a problem. Whilst the npubs are unique, the usernames are not. Who's going to bother to check the Derek Ross list to find the bonafide one? I had a good question too.

I'm OK with the sound of crickets when posting on Nostr about #paint, #kitchenpainter #decorator... In 2009-10 I spent 12 months religiously writing 3 blog articles a week describing the work my company was doing. Nobody read them. I was on Twitter and had very few followers or interactions. Then the following 6 months interest rose very slowly, picking up a few regular readers. By 2012 I "owned" all the search terms I wrote about and I had quite a vibrant Twitter account. The business took off. Online contacts became real world contacts. And being successful online looked so easy once it had that momentum behind it.

But we all know it's not easy, even though the strategy ( for those not willing to buy success) is simple. Keep on keeping on being helpful.

At some point every post I have published on Nostr will get read, a lot, which is why I put effort into them now for nobody to read. Nothing wasted but. #marketing is hard.