So far the best use for AI is: "Hey chat, I want to tell this person to get bent because there's no way in hell I'm doing that but I can't put that into an email. Reword this draft into a professional tone for me".

Noice!

The price of apathy is to be ruled by evil men. -paraphrased Plato

GM everyone, take your family to church and have a blessed day!

Just restarted my server, can someone zap me and see if Alby Hub is functioning?

Just sent my first transaction using the new setup, time to decommission my first node. I put this together with equipment that I already had and left the DebianOS, I just downloaded the Bitcoin Core program and let it run. This worked great for connecting my own wallet and broadcasting transactions but I was limited by my own technical knowledge of adding more features like a block explorer, lightning, etc. Sadly in 2025 it is no longer recommended to run a bitcoin node on a small device like this because of all the spam/runes/ordinal/shitcoinery on the bitcoin blockchain over the last few years. This is why I run Knots! Say no to spam and make nodes affordable for everyone.

Signed up for X yesterday, already locked out twice.

Look at all the shitcoin #SPAM! My new node's mempool on the right has significantly less spam in the mempool because I'm filtering out non-monetary transactions with Knots.

Another node joins the network. 24 hours later and we are up and running! That was way faster than my previous RasPi. I'll do a comparison between the nodes in terms of cost, features, usability, etc.