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Eh, I disagree for a couple reasons: ads today are made as obnoxious as possible, linked to inherently anti-privacy tracking, and regularly promoting products that are exploitative. PiHole and browsers like Brave make it an almost non-issue, though, so I don't need to whine too much about them 😂

A little, yes, but I'm not interested in making it my entire lifestyle and personality.

Yes, because it is. I really couldn't care less. It doesn't impact me and I don't have any interest in getting involved in petty bickering over something that has nothing to do with me.

Have you tried setting up Pi-Hole? Takes the DNS filtering to the next level and blocks ads, trackers and gives you stronger controls over all of it.

Do what you will, I honestly don't care either way at this point.

The problem is your definition of what "sound money" actually is. I'd love if you explained your reasoning for believing that BTC is the ONLY sound money in this space.

#asknostr I mentioned a few days ago that I've been having several issues with #Amethyst and now, it seems I'm having issues with zapping people. I added my NWC string to the wallets menu, but I keep getting an error saying I couldn't resolve the address I'm trying to zap to. Any ideas on how to fix this?

I'm not a Monero guy. I'm a guy who uses whatever tools are best for the job. That means some cases are great for Bitcoin, others are good for Monero.

Something I really appreciate about Nostr vs. other social media experiences is that I actually feel like I get some level of engagement here. I don't get much on platforms like X because I refuse to be inauthentic and phony, playing the algorithmic game, entering subscription slavery and KYCing to receive payouts. On Nostr, I don't have to do any of that. I can simply post what's on my mind, have a fun time, and still get a decent amount of organic engagement and occasional payout because of zaps. I really love it here. #nostr #nostrcommunity #socialmedia #sovereign #zaps

Yes, you really should. And there's no reason to believe that BTC is the only "sound money" (an overused term if I ever saw one).

How do people enjoy eating broccoli in any other form than cooked florets (and ONLY the florets)? I certainly don't enjoy biting into my food and getting a tiny plank of wood grinding between my teeth. 🤷‍♂️

Honestly, this just makes y'all sound even more cultish 🤷‍♂️

Had a lot of pain in my adult life but am glad to say I never gave in to either of those. For me, it's God, tea and my hobbies.

I know that some people prefer a high-end agentic approach with their AI, and that's understandable, but for me? For me, Proton's Lumo has almost become my exclusive AI service at this point. Sure, I've had times where I needed to hop over to something a bit more advanced (Perplexity and Grok being my main fallbacks) but for most queries, I've really found that Lumo does everything I want it to, even with its (minimal) limitations on free users. Not quite as ideal as self-hosting but still, having that end-to-end encryption and ephemeral storage is much better than relying on Big Tech. #ai #aistr #proton #lumo #encryption

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So, I found out an annoying thing about older Mac Minis: you can't use Ventoy to install an OS on it. You HAVE to use something like BalenaEtcher or Rufus. For some reason, I could only get to the Ventoy menu if I ran Grub2 but trying to launch an ISO gave me an error talking about Secure Boot (which isn't even enabled). Once I burned a distro to a different thumb drive using BalenaEtcher, I was able to get everything working fine. Not the end of the world but it kinda sucks having to use up a thumb drive for a singular distro install like this. #linux #mac #apple #macmini #homelab

Have I ever mentioned the fact that I absolutely LOVE that most AIs respond in markdown? Makes it so much easier to copy-paste important logs into my AI vault in Obsidian, very minimal formatting needed. #ai #markdown #obsidian #selfhosted