Sheesh! That's all I ever used!

I wonder if this affects older Kindles. I have a lot the 4th generation ones (Kindle D01100 4th Generation, they last forever, not backlit). They're my favorite, and usually available on Ebay for cheap.

And also - yes, annas-archive.org, transfer via calibre, that's the solution.

Why is that? What's the flaw?

Could you clarify a bit - specifically how does using Strike with Robosats work for you? You say "when payment fails"...do you mean you're buying btc, and your invoice, that you submitted to robosats, has failed?

If you're buying btc, and your lightning invoice fails repeated, that can be a huge hassle.

However, using boltz.exchange works really well to get the funds directly into btc. You submit a lightning invoice from robosats to boltz.exchange, and it just works. Every single time, no delay, no resubmitting.

As a carnivore, here's the closest thing I have to a desert - it's an Egg Custard dish that I customized.

Here's mine, very simple:

6 eggs, beaten 2 cups heavy whipping cream

Bake for about 45 minutes until the top is browned and it doesn't jiggle.

This works great as a desert, usually with extra heavy whipping cream poured on top, sometimes a couple blueberries. Other family members will pour maple syrup on it.

The original recipe substituted milk for the cream, and also added 3/4 cup sugar.

I know some kids who went to a private Catholic school, where the rule was - phones are locked away when school starts, and stay locked up until school ends. Public schools have a very watered down form of that, where (depending on the whim of the teacher) sometimes they have to put their phone in a specified location, at the beginning of the class.

Where is this all going to end? Continued shrinking of any kind of socializing?

Or will people/organizations start setting up rules and boundaries, like the Catholic school did?

There's always an explanation, when it comes to why you should part with your money.

I find that an attitude of extreme skepticism when it comes to people trying to sell me crap is very useful.

Another one is cribs. You're not supposed to sell your old crib either, unless it meets the latest safety standards.

Yeah there's a ton wrong with Telegram. Number 1, not anonymous. Number 2, so many scammers out there.

It's hard to get people to switch tools though.

Simplex is an often mentioned. There's definitely some growing pains with that one. And I've never heard of Signal over Simplex - how does that work?

Good resource. I agree with you about hardware wallets being over-hyped.

How does it differ from, say Blue Wallet?

Focus Mate. It's a service that pairs you with a "co-worker". You're both working on (your own) project, but you check in at the beginning of the hour-long session, and both of you say what you're planning on doing that session.

Then at the end of the session, you and your partner check in again, to tell how you did.

It's really useful, it gives some accountability to get going on projects, and get you unstuck. Also when I set up a session for 6.30 in the morning, I'll actually start work at 6.30 in the morning, and I sometimes need a nudge like that.

PPQ.AI It's not exactly subscription, but I use http://ppq.ai instead of ChatGPT. I'm happy with it. Anonymous, pay per query, just like it says, and also you pay with lightning. Lots of different models to choose from.

I'm going to second "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". Has some amazing exercises that'll have you drawing in ways you didn't think you could.

I think you can input all kinds of currencies, but there's very few that actually have offers (USD, EUR, Brazilian Real, and a few others).

Maybe post a question on the telegram channel, or the Simplex chat channel, see what people have to say...

I don't have tinnitus, but I do the Carnivore diet, and listen/read a lot of carnivore content.

Tinnitus comes up occasionally, as one of the many problems that can be healed with carnivore. For instance, in this post, a couple people mention long-standing tinnitus being healed/reduced with the carnivore diet:

I'd do a "try before you buy" if at all possible.

In other words, I'd go find some people in the target professions, talk to them, and see if you could be there assistant for a couple days.

They'd be flattered, and you'd get some great information on what the real day-to-day work is like in the profession.

Other stackers mentioned them in replies to my previous post Cheapest way to put up a very basic website?.

I think I may focus first on getting the copy for my site written up, and then see how easy it is to get the site up. I want to spend a bare minimum of time on this - as little as possible as is compatible with having a good site.

Craigslist does seem to be past its prime. I used it all the time, more than a decade ago. Now there's a lot of junk there.

In this area, all the buying/selling is done on Facebook Marketplace, unfortunately, so that's what I use. Where I previously lived, it was some Facebook Marketplace, but more Nextdoor marketplace.

It seems like a really long time since Craigslist has been very active.

This is going to seem really weird, but honestly after going carnivore I'm not bothered by useless anxiety anymore. Normal worry and concerns yes, and also trying to avoid and fix problems. But not the stomach clenching anxiety. And my mood was improved just generally.

They call it carnivore calm.

Also in practical terms - I would reduce expenses now, if possible. Look at the biggest items on your expenditures, and see if you can whittle away at them. Having a nest egg can calm anxiety a lot. See if you can pick up some side gigs if possible.

FYI - I just bought 20 pounds of ground beef for $3/lb. There are good prices out there if you research and stock up when you find them.

I had a boss once who spent almost all his time on Facebook triathlon sites. It was an open office, and his screen was exposed whenever anyone walked behind him.

It was an open secret, and I have no idea how he got away with it. Actually I think I remember he was good friends with a higher up...a VP maybe. That's probably it.

Funny story about emails.

A long time ago I worked as a contractor for a large tech company. A fellow contractor sent out an email, to as wide of a group as he could - I don't think he could do an "all company" but something close, about half the company.

Anyway, it was about...how someone took the leftover pizza box that he put in the office lunchroom. It was a shaming, "come-on folks, we're better than this" type of post. Very bad judgement on his part, and he was out within hours.

Thanks for the info.

I thought of this because I'd heard that Alex Epstein (author of the book Fossil Future, among others) did something like this, creating a model based on his own writings and other "climate crisis critical" documents. I should look more carefully at that .

When people say paper wallets now, I wonder if they mean just the seed phrase. Because the real old paper wallets - hasn't it been a really long time since people actually used them?