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#AskNostr #Ask_Nostr Does anyone know a good alternative to Timeshift on Ubuntu? It doesn't work properly on either my Ubuntu machine, or the Linux Mint one. I'm running bareback, which is never a good idea with Linux...

Douglas Murray tells it. It's possible to be European, to agree that a Trump presidency was and is a necessity for the US and for the world, to even agree with a lot of what he wants (or says he wants) to do, with a lot of what he actually does, and even understand that there is a lot of rhetorical bravado and a language specific to him that must be correctly interpreted, not overblown and overreacted to... and still think Trump, like the MAGA movement at large and a most conservatives and libertarians in the US, are simply WRONG about Ukraine. It's the same in Europe with the "new right" movements. Which I know have historically cozied up to the Russian regime. From all sorts of random small neonazi groups, to many current "alternative" parties that are reaching seats of power. Some have undoubtedly been funded by Putin, and all have been ideologically fed by him. The victims are Europeans, who are caught between the blatantly anti-European, anti-human technocratic Corporate Estate mainstream regime upheld by Brussels, and an equally anti-European and anti-human old style in your face fascist regime upheld by Moscow. The US should know better and avoid such unnecessary false choices, and keep MAGA out and safe from becoming a classic example of the Soviet-era useful idiot. https://nypost.com/2025/02/20/opinion/putin-is-the-dictator-and-9-other-ukraine-russia-war-truths-we-ignore-at-our-peril/

My Bisq offer is still untaken, and there aren't even any rational sell offers either. Super bizarre situation, never experienced this before. So I have decided to give Robosats another chance despite the insane, completely unjustified premiums... and I can't get it right. I have accepted an offer, bonded a few thousand sats as deposit, and when I submit my LN invoice to receive the sats I'm buying, it just sits there doing nothing. It doesn't stick and it keeps saying waiting for buyer's invoice. This thing is expiring in a couple of hours. Basically, I've lost my deposit, haven't I? nostr:note1jddgvr3wknwmfsjhpjm0vmn2txhn999q59r3hudx2jc35rlv745q69xu9h

Europoor, or environmentally conscious? IYKYK

I don't even need to check the prices to know that BTC must be going down because I put out a buy offer on Bisq on Friday and it's still there. And I just pegged it to the market price, 0% discount/premium. My previous purchase was during a couple of days that we went up, and it was a matter of seconds.

It's come to a point where 80% of the work emails I get contain "AI-driven" in the subject -- and I simply delete them without further analysis. I'm actually about to set up an inbox rule so I don't even see them anymore.

By the way - what in the motherfucking fuck is this? What?! I know he is not a bitcoiner and doesn't get it at all and has no plans to use it as a hard reserve asset in Argentina. But seriously what the actual fuck happened here.

I just came back home from a business trip to Lithuania - this was before Vance's speech. MAGA people have no idea how determined people are up there to never give in a inch to Putin, and how deep and irreversible their hatred for Russia is. They're more than ready and willing to get into a hot war against Putin, and know that the rest of the Baltics, including Finland, as well as Poland, feel the same. I have always defended MAGA's position that the US should stop paying for NATO and that Europe must get its shit together and protect its own borders. This is also the sort of jolt that we need to rebuild our industrial capabilities. I doubt very much Trump is willing to go as far as totally getting out of Europe, but if he did it would be a blessing in disguise. The unfortunate consequence is that as we are already seeing, Trump causes a deep rejection among the European populace. So, far from causing a generalized change in leadership in Europe, he will contribute to consolidate the current one. The Eurocrats and their media cronies are gloating like ever with their phony condemnation of Vance's speech, which is a true oxygen balloon for them. Ditto for Musk. If they wanted to give the AfD in Germany "one last little boost" to win, to give an example, they've achieved the exact oppoaite. Same in France if they hoped to get rid of Macron any time soon.

So a few months ago I extensively documented here my days-long struggle to get my bitcoin node up and running on an old laptop with Ubuntu 22.04 -- mainly due to a mix of Bitcore's incomprehensible retardness in making one's life difficult if you want to use an external drive to store the blocks, and Ubuntu's retardness in forcing Snaps down users' throats. Then there's the usual problems with Linux, like not having Logitech drivers for my mouse and keyboard, and being force to find a way around it (Solaar). Having to edit multiple config files to get simple stuff working, like my VPN, and so on and so forth. Incidentally, I also completely switched to linux on my "main use" box, in this case Mint, because I got PTSD with Snaps and Ubuntu, and it's a lot worse in this sense. I had to roll back the kernel a couple of weeks ago because HDMI support is completely broken. I haven't been able to fix a weird issue with bluetooth headphones that causes my audio to play **faster** (not slower) than video (probably also an HDMI/graphics card support problem). My wired connection randomly drops and I have to restart to get back online. Voodoo black magic to make mouse and keyboard buttons partially work. Four times I have had to deal with boot problems. The first time, the computer would just be caught in a loop unable to boot AT ALL, just straight from BIOS to black screen, so I had to make a live USB on the other computer, and go from there. The other times, the kernel just broke on me but I was able to just go initframs manually from Grub and let it fix itself. Not that I would go back to Windows ever again. Not happening, ever. But as much as I have been able to deal with all this stuff, I can see how none of my friends and family would be able to, even if they wanted. Anyhow, it's been a while since my bitcore machine on Ubuntu has started to complain that I should update to 24.04... and I'm scared shitless by the thought.

A couple of comments about today's market dump: 1. Oh, the sheer RETARDNESS of dumping Nvidia stock due to the DeepSeek CCP psyop, when admittedly DeepSeek has been trained using... NVIDIA CHIPS. If anything, DeepSeek proves that Nvidia chips can do even more than previously thought, and consolidates their monopoly. 2. The sheer stupidity of those babbling on about wHErE's YouR raTIoNaL INveSt00r n0w, EH? all over the internets. "Rational" as in the much touted "rational actor/investor" doesn't mean "an actor who never voluntarily incurs a monetary loss when making decisions in life". It simply means an actor who makes decisions based on their SUBJECTIVE self-interest IN THE MOMENT. I've never found much use for this concept, other than to cause me to look at actions I cannot comprehend and make an effort to try to put me in the other person's shoes and see the world the way they see it and try to make sense of their calculation, which is NEVER numerical.