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 been starting each day with 1 hour walks early in the morning instead of rolling out of bed onto ... 
 Love it. I'm super stressed these days but managing to squeeze in a few workouts a week. Don't think I'd be functional without them. Really helps to get moving doesn't it! 
 Is anyone out there?

Been off bitcoin twitter for two months. Finally trying nostr after seeing ... 
 Welcome! Yes you will find good discussions here. You need to curate your feed more, no "algorithm" but I prefer it here. 
 Pushups, if done properly, build core strength too and the kind of people who do those challenges would benefit from that.

Buy yeah, squats are good too.

Personally I like Burpees. Bit of everything.🤼😈 
 In the future, everyone will want to be anonymous for fifteen minutes.

#privacy

https://image.nostr.build/d6be89e834f6354154d444385ce178077a9ace9210f024213bb90b177449708a.jpg 
 I'd love to know whether the "qualified investor" stuff exchanges have to do in the UK now actually stops anyone from buying.

Seems ludicrous and pointless to me. 
 After careful consideration.....
I think I'm on nostr:npub1wq6n8skpdtrhw8hmr00kp2za7a8y97zqngq8jq... 
 I'd go further. Don't trust commercial VPN or email providers and host your own. Low end boxes are cheap and can be paid for anonymously  
 Or just don't use Umbrel, etc and learn how to roll your own. Otherwise you're just trusting someone else anyway, just a different someone... 
 Totally agree on TG. I wish more groups would use Matrix. I know not everyone likes the federated model but in terms of ease of use Vs privacy and control etc it's a good balance and a huge step up from TG/WhatsApp/whatever  
 For fun I'm reviving a 32 bit machine. Any good cli nostr clients? #asknostr 
 Thanks! Will give nostrpy a shot. It's a 1.6ghz netboox with a tiny screen so browser based clients aren't fun to use. But I have gomuks for matrix and aerc for email. Trying to get a full workflow just for fun 😁🖥️ 
 If you like or repost any of my notes you SHOULD get zapped automatically, still testing though s... 
 Which clients do you recommend for Android? 
 Man, I know I'm late to the party here but sad I missed that. I listened to them all the time when I was a teenager  
 OVH are driving me nuts. I know Hetzner aren't crypto friendly. Can anyone recommend a good dedicated server company for low-end dedis please?

#asknostr #dedicatedserver #hosting 
 The "problem" isn't that the LLM creators don't know how to make micropayments. They just don't want to.

Much easier to pretend there are unsolved problems with payment processing and with identifying "who said it first" to know who to pay.

I suspect we'll be seeing a lot more good content behind paywalls as people try to recoup lost ad revenue  
 Agreed there. I remember back in the early bitcoin days it was being promoted as an option for micropayments.

Shame that sort of thing hasn't taken off :( 
 The "problem" isn't that the LLM creators don't know how to make micropayments. They just don't want to.

Much easier to pretend there are unsolved problems with payment processing and with identifying "who said it first" to know who to pay.

I suspect we'll be seeing a lot more good content behind paywalls as people try to recoup lost ad revenue  
 Happy holidays everyone 🌲☃️❄️⚡ 
 i joined nostr today because twitter was down

a beginning of infinity 
 Welcome! 
 Anyone got any opinions on Linode? OVH are irritating me at the moment. #asknostr 
 Ok, late to the part with this one but wow I hate Netplan. Sure, for large networks it might be handy but I just found myself having to fix networking on a machine with no ifupdown for the first time.

Thanks. I hate it.
 
 Neat but open to abuse if you tried to scale it. Would be 20 bots every time :(

I made an advent calendar for friends last year with a similar idea. Each day they click on a door and withdraw some sats.  
 Wondering why I'm getting zaps when I haven't been on here in a bit because I've been up to my eyeballs in work...


AHH... The zaps have as notes 🤣🤔🤣

I needed some loose change to throw around and test my proper nodes so thanks for the spam ⚡🤗 
 Any nostriches use #pinetime smart watch? Curious whether people prefer #waspos or #infinitime #privacy #righttorepair #asknostr 
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 Can I add Western Digital platter drives to that list?  
 Planned obsolescence:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/1953639/western-digital-drives-ask-to-be-replaced-after-3-years-even-without-hardware-problems.html

Also, and this is just anecdotes, but I personally know three people who have had WD drives fail on them this year.

One of my lightning nodes is on a machine running platter drives and it serves its purpose well enough (it's not a routing node, just a wallet for bitrefill etc). I'm more comfortable with it than a raspi anyway :) but I wouldn't trust WD drives for anything important. 
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 I agree. If it was just the relay/key model that was holding Nostr back, the Fediverse would be massive now. But people tried Mastodon instead of Twitter / Kbin instead of Reddit and very few people stayed.

Having to manually curate your feed means it's just less compelling.

I love Mastodon and check it once a day lol. My Facebook buddies have it open in a tab all day. It's addictive by design.