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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @NothingNewUnderTheSun 10 Feb 2024 \ on: All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro tech
Bugman seems happy with his pod. Reading that makes me want to become Amish.
Left side of the bell curve I think, like the meme. Embrace the grug brain and align yourself with the galaxy brains on the right.
Last thing i wanted to do was put money in a software experiment. Unfortunatly due to central banks and corrupt politicians the desperate choice becomes the only sane one.
Seconded. Fantastic podcast. Covers not only privacy but a lot of the why of privacy including episodes discussing the high proportion of psycopaths in positions of authority etc.
Old thinkpad can be bought for a hundred bucks and upgraded with a 1TB SSD. Battery acts like a UPS and probably performs better and cheaper than raspi. As for why you should do it, you should do it so you can get privacy benefits using your node with Sparrow wallet to verify you own what you think you own and also to help make informed fee decisions running your own mempool instance. Eventually you should also have your own soverign lightning node connected to Zeus so you become your own bank and your own payments processor.
How do Zapps work in Amethyst? I see the lightning button under posts but clicking it does nothing....
There are no ideal solutions but Coldcard is the best imo. One flaw is they are source viewable but not fully foss. Also I don't think it's possible to get a foss secure element. But I believe Coinkite are good actors and really know what they're doing. Check out some NVK podcasts (Bitcoin Review etc) and if you like NVK you'll probably like Coldcard (he owns the company)
Good excuse to ditch Apple I would say. Get a de Googled Android with Graphene or Calyx or Lineage as there are a couple of options now in the F-droid store.