Handmade gifts are always best. Sounds like you got some thoughtful ones.
Damn, you got in after me, but definitely went in harder. Good vision and follow through on your part. Nice reminder that letting noise and distractions steal your attention has very real costs.
Thanks for what you've done for the space. People who were able to cut through the noise are what finally boosted the signal so it finally got through even my Faraday skull.
I was classy tonight and made garlic butter shrimp to throw on top of Annie's Mac and cheese.
Started 2026 the best way I could think of.
Happy New Year y'all.
And I guess technically, GM 😂
What are your plans with Ubuntu anyhow? Desktop? Appliance type machine? Server?
I actually don't totally hate Ubuntu server -- though I'm less inclined to doing anything using systemd scripts after my battles with it on my Debian system on the raspi for my node...
Glad to share. Looks like I'm probably going to be swapping phones with my wife and installing it on her Pixel 8 and giving her my 10 Pro. One of these days I'll just buy a new phone outright but we've got over 10 grand worth of tree removal to do so a phone is not exactly a priority right now.
Pretty annoyed with Verizon but I really should have known better. Mostly annoyed because I TOLD the guy I wanted to be sure it wasn't carrier locked -- wrong language I now know, but I did specifically say it was because I wanted to install Graphene on it. I'm sure he just didn't know any better but still a reminder of where the buck actually has to stop.
Looks like for listings that's true. I know I'd found public pages for events set up in Club Orange but that was using external searches.
Basically they host events and can manage rsvp's with anyone but discovery within the app by location is subscription based.
Maybe if we decide not to use algorithms, so the bots just slop at each other in the global feed.
Or, you know, use algorithms that don't feed the bots.
If you're gonna make a date out of it, gotta go with at least a stage3 tarball Gentoo install.
Should have asked if he ran Linux or Unix on his phone...
In case it's not clear though I've never used a dating app. They were called sites when I was last single.
I met my wife the old fashioned way: she and a friend woke me up while I was sleeping in a storefront and asked if I wanted to go to a strip club. Never did make it yo one that was open.
Though I do think I have Ubuntu in a chroot on my Slackware machine that I was using to compile the stable version of libbitcoin.
I'd be so sad to hear about the choice of a systemd distro.
And then we could have argued about init systems ti midnight.
Especially not when I find out carrier unlocked doesn't mean OEM unlocked.
Fuck Verizon.
May just factory reset, give the phone to my wife who is also due for an upgrade, and go buy a phone I can own.
Turns our carrier unlocked doesn't mean OEM unlocked.
This is what I get for trusting the Verizon guy. Even told him the purpose was to install Graphene.
And yea, I let him know about my annoyance.
Oh my blockers are on, don't worry about that 😄
That's the sort of bet you had an edge on too. Costs more in fiat if you're right than if you're wrong 😂
Do I succumb to illness and go to sleep early? Or start installing Graphene and stay up likely til sunrise configuring things?
Miso is another great probiotic food.
Just be sure not to cook it.
Miso soup is crazy simple to make too.
There are reasons why perhaps it's not fair to say this would happen with Bitcoin -- it's a lot easier to take custody of spot after all, and very little reason anyone might want to accept a BTC note in place of BTC. The idea that it'd ever trade at par seems pretty unlikely.
But I guess therein lies my disbelief that there'd be much reason to accept a bill of sale in exchange for spot Bitcoin. If interest rates were below 20% for any real size I'd be pretty surprised.
Slight quibble with the Scottish free banking example. While they didn't have a formal backstop, they did appear to rely on the Bank of England for liquidity, much like the American banks in the 19th century, as well as others around the globe.
Got an article here that touches on it: https://mises.org/power-market/rothbard-free-banking-scotland
It is perhaps a stretch for me to say that free banking broke sound money, as a deleveraging event without a backstop can indeed happen and, if allowed to, you are still left with the bullion as total supply.
The issue is, while that's fine in theory, in practice, the inflated supply of credit that traded at par with money did have a devaluing impact on the money itself, as it of course had to. Just like a new deposit issued by JP Morgan increases the supply of dollars, despite the fact that the Fed didn't issue any new reserves, nor did the Treasury print any bills. Perhaps it's more accurate to say that the issuance of credit distorts, rather than breaks, sound money and its pricing in the market, but as far as the impact it has on the value in the marketplace, it seems to be a bit of hair splitting.
Slight quibble with the Scottish free banking example. While they didn't have a formal backstop, they did appear to rely on the Bank of England for liquidity, much like the American banks in the 19th century, as well as others around the globe.
Got an article here that touches on it: https://mises.org/power-market/rothbard-free-banking-scotland
What no bullets, MRE's, and water purification tablets?
"We see you've downloaded a password manager. Given our policy to only allow 5 alphanumeric character passwords that we store unsalted on an AS400, this is in breach of our digital systems usage policy."
