Somewhat related, I’m surprised Starlink doesn’t seem to accept crypto because it seems like it would be incredibly difficult to pay with a credit card for Starlink service in some of these African countries.

Now it needs to be figured out how to do it in an open source way so that we don’t have to rely on Daddy Google for people who don’t use Google Play Services and all that other crappy shit.

Kuno.anne.media for fundraisers and xmrchat.com for superchats

Ubuntu 10.10 was my first linux. Though 11.04 was released soon after my switch.

My first experience with 10.10 was as a virtual machine on my school issued Dell Latitude D505 laptop with Windows XP, a dual core 32-bit processor and 512 megs of RAM. And boy, let me tell you, it ran like shit. But I knew that it was because I was virtualizing it and didn’t hold that against it.

I can’t remember what it was called, but I eventually installed this OS on my flash drive that was meant to be eco-friendly for old devices. It had a very green wallpaper. And just used that instead of ever booting into windows by changing the boot order and leaving the flash drive plugged in at all times.

Edit: I remember now. It was called Watt OS.

Oh nice. I’ve known about that menu for a while and use it to keep my phone locked as the article mentions. But it’s cool that it’s getting a refresh.

I use a screen reader due to being blind, and this would be incredibly helpful. Mind you, I sure as hell wouldn’t use Windows in order to get it. But if I had the option to do this on Linux, I would totally go for it.

I have not read the article yet, but I will be doing so after posting this. But from what I understand, concentrated cells via lenses already exist. The problem with them was keeping them cool.

Going to go read the actual article now.

Edit: Well, the article was very sparse on details. From what I understand of the comments, what’s really been done here is making cells that can stand the kind of heat that would be focused onto them from the glass.

I want to say I saw a video about this a year ago or so, but it was more solar thermal, where you focus a bunch of mirrors onto a single point high up on a tower, and it’s cooled by molten salt. But as I said, that’s solar thermal, not solar power electricity.

Good point

Oh, you can absolutely do that. There’s a higher risk of it getting lost, and it takes longer, but it’s definitely an option.

Mullvad paid with monero so when the Gestapo starts arresting people, there won’t be records of them paying for it.

Yeah, that’s what it looks like to me as well, but since I’m currently using Zigbee devices, I would need to either move them to a new hub, or get a second cloud connect, ZBT1, so that one could be dedicated for threads and the other could be dedicated to Zigbee.

Isn’t the HA cloud dongle able to do both because they’re on the same 2.4 gigahertz or whatever?

I’ve been slowly making my way into the smart home ecosystem and was incredibly concerned about these not because of paperweight necessarily but because of needing to send data to a company over the internet which might not be available when it’s needed.

So I ended up going with Home Assistant and I’m really happy about the launch of the Works with Home Assistant program with the logo on devices.

Have a look at meshtastic. Yes, you do have to get a separate device, but range on it can be several tens to hundreds of miles depending on the mesh density.

I don’t have a significant need to use a laptop or desktop as my phone is my primary computing device. With that said, I run Mint Debian Edition on my laptop. Just because I want my computer to work when I go to use it, even if it has been six months.

I found out that Fdroid has SFTP servers so you can just open your Linux file browser and type in SFTP your username at your phone’s IP address and get files off of it that way.

Depends on the currency you’re looking at. In Bitcoin and Monero terms, almost everything has gone down in price.

Okay, I will keep that in mind. Thank you.

Now, if only they were officially in the US market, I would absolutely buy one the next time I need a new device. There’s two big problems. Firstly, I can’t guarantee that it’s going to work with T-Mobile US, which is my carrier. And second, if I needed a spare screen or battery replacement or whatever, I’d have to get it shipped from Europe, which is a pain in the ass.

I’ve been using Proton for five or six years, but I’m seriously thinking about switching because they don’t currently support Monero payments.