i hear the narrative. and yes i am sure it is true they are trying. but no, the futurr is not written yet and there is a chance its not going to work out their way. we dont have another shot so we better do the best we can to spread the word and teach people to hold in self custody. its not that we have another option. this is still the besy we have - and narratives lile this, while true, are demotivating

mentally long article woth mentally long quoted articles. imho, one skill is to condense things into precise summary. ...its just the same as writing minimalistic low pevel exact cod vs. piling abstrqctions over abstractions. anyway - finally managed to read to the end. and while the article makes sense and for governments or lets rather say controllers it makes sense to stay in gold and for them really all roas lead to gold, because its something that can inherently not be managed by people, for people and many organizations, apl roads lead to bitcoin and as pressure mounts more ppl will wake up to thos reality and the more familoar ppl get the more moves they have at their disposition and even if coordination is public and slow there is really not much that can be done about it in the long run other than being more repessive and censoring more and more, but as the world connects and young peoppe grow up and are more digitally literate there is essentially no way to stop this train. for now hardware is still protected from ppl self organizing that, but the same was true for software decades ago ...and all we get is more literate and skilled people to join the growing army of resistance. ...anyway, all roads lead to bitcoin is true for everyone but the controllers 🙂

Tone Vays BIP-110 Mecanic Reaction Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGjD-il29_M Worth watching if you saw Tone Vays talk. Especially around minute 8 to ponder whether claimed process transparency does actually exist as claimed by Vays. For many people who never worked in open source it might seem very transparent, but if you did have serious open source experience you definitely notice the stark difference between these claims and reality. In addition a core argument is that knots would mean less devs would work on bitcoin now, thus more centralized, but bitcoin works by nodes running software and that is and stays decentralized - and in addition more implementations means the devs of one implementation plus the devs of another one as well -it means additional developers and more redundancy and options - just like people benefit from multiple brower implementations instead of having just one web browser produced by one team. Surprising Tone's talk makes so little sense - he claims he is sad about what is happening in core and v30, but he is against the decentralized governance process of people posting BIPs and coding open source to give node runners option and let the network decide in a decentralized fashion - very strange, but let me know what you think by posting your own notes here on nostr. I think many people are very happy to have people like with a more public profile to not let certain narratives go unchallenged and spell out what the many of us think. And all the way to the very end, Vays not once mentions what he exactly think is problematic that is in BIP110 ...most have been waiting for him mention it at some point, but it actually seems to be purely a hit piece - something i for sure didnt expect after following is imho valuable interview series over the last month that he did together with

same here. XFCE, but Linux Mint insteqd of ubuntu... but the differences are minor. Just that linux mint works more often out of the box even on exotic laptops ...doesnt matter anymore, because these days its almost alwqys lenovo thinkpads for me and nothing else