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Then don't install those apps? I really don't understand the problem. Smartphones only have the apps we install on them.

> You make them sound like some terrorist sect.

Well, is that entirely unreasonable?

Call me a pedant, but this bugs (heh) me every time someone comes out with "we ran doom on X!" when they're really just using X as a display. Same thing with the pregnancy test a few years back.

The whole "it runs doom" thing is meant to be about actually running the game engine, not getting something to display the output of another computer actually running it.

Discussions like this on reddit/HN always get stuck in this loop of people projecting how things are in their part of the world onto the rest of the world and assuming everyone has the same problems/challenges/tradeoffs.

Maybe this is pedantry, but opendime isn't really one-time use. It's designed to be passed between people many times and spent on-chain once. There's also satscard (from the same company) which has 10 unique "slots" so can be spent on-chain multiple times.

>offline equivalents are more fragile and can’t be used for the same use cases as cash, and anonymity continues to lag physical cash

OK, no argument there.

Plan9 is certainly unique and opinionated. Nextstep/Openstep/WindowMaker and RiscOS are two others that come to mind.

Some people have family or close friends who have copies of our keys to deal with just such a scenario (or to water our plants when we're away on a longer holiday).

Unrelated, but the word knob has a k in it. :)

The "crypto" world is 99% scams and 1% misguided nonsense, I agree. Wrt bitcoin, there are a lot of extremely talented, honest and trustworthy people working on both the technical side and providing services. Look at the projects and people sponsored by Opensats [1] for some good examples.

I know many people will reflexively disagree with the notion that the bitcoin world isn't entirely made up of bros and scammers.

[1]: https://opensats.org/projects

OK, honest question, have you tried it recently? Have you used a modern lightning wallet?

I disagree but this is an extremely funny insult

Lightning has pretty good sender privacy.

If you like this style of UI, check out serenityOS (https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity).

source: just trust me bro

Bitcoin is getting better all the time. There are more people focusing purely on payments in the bitcoin space than you think. The lightning network is halfway usable now, and federated mint type systems (like cashu[1]) are very promising.

[1]: https://docs.cashu.space

We already have this. It's called bitcoin. For offline payments, there's physical devices like opendime and potentially Chaumian mints like cashu.

TFA is about the UK.

The 2004 indie film Primer is a very good take on this.

You hope? Why? How does it affect you?

I understand that a given domain's nuances are often lost to those with no domain knowledge, yes.

Nostr is full of bitcoiners, who hate "crypto block chain" stuff more than the average person.

There are active efforts to bring other groups to nostr- check out nos.social for example.

Apple Notes is actually pretty great.

>(To back this up: Hurd currently only supports the 32-bit x86 architecture, can only use a single CPU core, and is limited to 1 GB or so of RAM. It also lacks support for USB, PCIe, or anything dependent on them.)

Wow. I was aware of Hurd and that it's perpetually not ready for real-world use, but I didn't realise it was that far behind. Sounds like even hobby projects e.g. the likes of SerenityOS have leapfrogged it.

Yes, there's a thread. Yes, X sucks now and doesn't let you view threads without an account. You can use nitter (https://nitter.net) to view it:

https://nitter.net/Johnie/status/1744556503183585471#m

The cooktop has wifi? What could that possibly be used for?

And you can absolutely get your iPhone battery replaced.

The "share" button is massively overloaded on iOS and has been for ages. It does a bunch of stuff that isn't really related to sharing in any reasonable sense of the word. It's really IMO one of the worst UI elements in what overall is a pretty nice and consistent system

I'm always curious - what do you use that machine for? I'm imagining most of the modern web is unusable.

Interesting, TIL, and thank you. I stand corrected (a quick read of https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block would have set me straight).

It's more than that - this particular address is the coinbase output of the genesis block (block 0) and it's literally unspendable.

edit: I'm wrong, see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block