Oh, also, I slightly updated my website for the first time all year. I do still intend on getting back to creative writing at some point.

Michael of St. Joseph

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Getting a girlfriend (now, my betrothed) has been a very welcome detour!

Slow day of IT work, so I dusted and re-thermal pasted my personal laptop. It has been overheating lately, and yeah the paste was crusty. Hopefully it is buttery smooth now. Also, I had some crashing issues on FreeBSD so I switched back over to my normie Zorin OS (I quite like it tbh). Crashing may have been related to the overheating... but 2 weeks of fighting to set things up and work out the kinks was enough learning for me!

I hadn't messed with #Ditto a whole lot, but the #Monero integration got me curious again. I had been meaning to look into #XMR and I didn't feel like setting up a separate app. Now I don't have to. I'm still interested in Alex's Nostr operating system project, preferably when there's a pre-compiled ISO to test sometime!

Trinity Blood desktop enviornment . . . 🔥 View quoted note →

The Knots fork to me represents the departure from what Bitcoin is VS the idealized image of Bitcoin certain maximalists had in mind. Sorry for being a heretic, but I don't think Satoshi was some kind of altruistic libertarian prophet sent down from on high. I like Bitcoin because it's better for now, not because it is going to save the world and usher in a utopia. If Bitcoin has design issues (like miner centralization, node implementation centralization, privacy concerns, etc.), that means Bitcoin even it its purest form has some end-stage problems. Same thing with miner rewards once all of the coins have been disbursed. Even with all of that in mind, it is better. And people you don't like will recognize it as better and put influence on the network and the protocol. It's also possible, in fact likely, that Satoshi was someone(s) you probably wouldn't have liked either. For me, this isn't enough to move away from what momentum we have right now.

Also, after a week of tinkering in my spare time I got #FreeBSD setup with a desktop from scratch and most of my files transferred over from a backup. Was it worth it? Well, depends. The laptop is much faster, and I learned a ton, and I'm excited to embrace the less chaotic nature of FreeBSD compared to Linux. However, I definitely didn't need to go through all this trouble lmao

Hey you know how people love citing 1984 all the time? Well, the whole LG TV spyware fiasco is *literally* 1984 lol

I would love to use @Fountain but their Amber signer integration is broken on Android

@Nostrich is my new favorite desktop Nostr client. And... @Zap Cooking is my new favorite mobile client? I did not expect that, but it is super slick. 👨🏻‍🍳

The more I think about it, @jack has a point with the Bits/Bitcoins/Sats argument. The unit bias scares off a lot of vulnerable people who would otherwise most need Bitcoin. It keeps things abstract, distant, and unobtainable. It obfuscates the fractional nature of Bitcoin and its use as money even for the smallest of purchases.

I've been so busy lately it's been impossible for me to write and nearly impossible to read. It's been a good kind of busy, but I hope things calm down soon.

As much fun as NGU is, I find the conversations much more interesting when the number goes down.

#Microsoft putting "Ask #Copilot" above "Copy" when you right click in #Outlook has me feeling a certain kind of way