I wonder what's causing the exorbitant fees in L1. I've been meaning to get more sats but I really don't want to have it sit on an exchange for more than it needs to be.

Lately, I've been hopping around various Nostr clients trying to find the "right one" for me. I think the one that takes the cake, at least for now, is Lume. It's a desktop microblogging client that just gets the UI/UX for this kind of thing right. Anything else that I've used is either too cluttered, too disjointed or just plain missing some key features. Lume isn't perfect either. The most recent non-alpha update: 3.0.1 is agonizingly slow on my laptop for some reason and it frequently just dies with an odd error. That said, I'll probably end up opening an issue on the project's Github page since I care enough that I want it to be developed into a proper and stable Nostr browser.

Are there any websites similar to Monerica for Bitcoin? Just a simple directory of the services and products that I can buy using Bitcoin?

Lume is quite a nice client for browsing Nostr stuff. Though there are instance where it just dies.

Okay, so I think my Nostr relay is now working properly. It's a bit janky but it'll gonna do.

I'll just redeploy a local Nostr relay on my humble virtual server and call it a day for this.

Alright, I just reinstated my old website to a new machine. Funny since I lost the original HTML for it so I had to use the Web Archive to get my single page static site again.

It seems that you can do NIP-05 verification using Tailscale Funnel.

It's been a while since I last checked Nostr. Looks like things have changed quite a bit, interesting to see it develop.

Testing again.

Testing.

RETEKESS V115. It's a good, all-in-one pocket radio that is light and easy to use. It can also do shortwave similar to the TECSUN 9012 which makes it really nice if you're into that. It also has a built in microphone which can record decent audio as well as the ability to record radio programs straight to the SD card. A small, handy device. It's cheap too. The only downside that I see is that it's just not pleasant to go through the bands. It doesn't have a scroll wheel which I think is a shame. But hey, it works and cheap.

I've been dabbling on a lot of RHEL lately. Overall, it's quite nice to use. It's not exactly minimal and compact like OpenBSD but for stuff that needs to run Linux, it's pretty good.

TECSUN R9012. This is one of the best "bang for buck" portable radios that you can get today. It doesn't have all the fancy features that some of its contemporaries have but it makes up for it by only using 2 AA batteries. Since it's as basic as radios go, it also means that any battery that you put in it will go a long way. I've been running my R9012 on a couple of cheap batteries and it's still perfectly fine after a month of intermittent running.