Oddbean

Yup. I still use WoS because *<"( the SEC and dumb regulations. It's not hard to sideload and is actually easier, still, than any other option I've come across. Minibits is nearly there, and gives you a bunch of additional functionality with ecash, though, I'm not sure I'm a fan of mints there are use cases where it's actually a good thing. I... Just don't like primal so far. But supposedly it's the easy button since it's supposedly all built in, except it doesn't work often enough. Nostr isn't for those who just want stuff to work, yet. It may never be at the same level as a platform, but that's probably because it's going to be iterated out so fast that regular really isn't a thing.

I never expected nostr to "just work" because it took me more than a year to get on board with it - I heard of it almost two years ago and I knew there was *some* learning curve, but I'm STILL effing learning almost 3 weeks later? That's a PITA. I'll look at Minibits. What's your client of choice then, if you're not into Primal? I'm on desktop most of the time, Graphene OS on Android only when I want to zap something because I hate every signer extension I've tried so far on desktop. Every single one has been crap. Amber is superior on mobile.

I'm using my phone less and less these days for anything except calls. Ever since my eye surgery I can't really read it, anyway. I also don't like the way it affects my posture to use it (hurts the neck). And even after all my eye surgeries are complete, I probably won't bother with it much since I'd need readers to use it and I don't envision wanting to put glasses on every time just to read my phone. Now, using glasses for my PC monitor is another thing, that never bothered me. But I haven't needed to pick up glasses at all since my first eye surgery. Gosh, I sound so old. I'm officially an oldster. #oldstr 😅

I've taken care of the spam with relays, so that doesn't bother me much. I get not wanting to use your phone so much. I'm getting to that point, philosophically but not practically. Yet. One of the opensats projects is a desktop singer. Hopefully that will come to fruition and be useful in a short amount of time.

I updated my relays to the 15 listed by a "highly recommended" by a top user. Remember? So much for that. How'd you get so lucky? You get NO reply guys reacting to your stuff when you open Amethyst? Pfft I have tried 3 desktop browser signers. All of them trash. I would ask them to "remember this action & do not ask again" on certain things, and it would act like I wasn't signed in. Then for things I wanted to do (zap a note or like something), it wouldn't do shit, and not ask. Again, seems like the people who started out last year or earlier just have it made, and have no problems, so every problem a newbie has, "Oh that's no problem for me" and "you're doing nostr rong lol / use a different client dummy," etc.

I'm on two kinds special relays. They aren't open to everyone. They were developed specifically because of the issues that people are having currently. Before I switched over, I blocked the reply guys via word blocking, but that's not as nice as cutting them off at the relay side, for sure. I have come to the conclusion that I do need to run my own relay. I'm not able to do that yet.

No vpn Yes, location always blocked (bro I'm on Graphene) unless I'm trying to use maps or get an Uber. But that doesn't mean the phone doesn't give out a general US location. It's not pinpoint unless i tell it to be. Now I know why people leave after a couple of weeks.