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I appreciate the feedback from everyone who responded about a biz being a sysadmin for people's personal instances of $whatever open source software. I got a lot of pointers to projecrs, some of which are similar and some which have different perspectives. I also heard the idea that if someone is getting into self-hosting, they probably won't want someone else to host nor even administer their servers. I feel like that can help with marketing. For the people who really want to do everything themselves, they can use the playbooks my buddy will publish. Happy to join forces with them and accept quality contributions too. If they ever get tired of being a part time sysadmin, they'll know who to turn it over to. It remains to be seen if I can convince him to give self-employment a try, and if he does, whether he is a good enough salesman to get any clients. He's pretty risk averse and has a stable job, but maybe the freedom will be enough to entice him.

Based on the numbers on 8marketcap, if #bitcoin doubled in price, it'd be more valuable than any single company (assuming they don't go up by *too* much) and still less than ¼ the market cap of gold.

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#meshtastic packets are only 200 bytes. #cashu token is 953 bytes 🤔 Going out of band is cringe. Manually copying and pasting is cumbersome. Using additional software has a lot of friction. What to do...

I know someone thinking about running open source services for people as a business. Do you know anyone who would be willing to pay to have someone set up & manage a Nextcloud server, Jitsi, Matrix, ActivityPub, GitLab, Jellyfin, OpenVPN, BTC/LND, or any other service? Or have "free" services like GSuite, Zoom, and the rest made this business model impossible. Would love to hear people's thoughts on this. It seems like something the world needs, but not sure if the economics work in these times.

vi is such an awesom text editor, it has its own flag! (Yes, I know)

I paid for my burger last night using @ZEUS and a custodial wallet. It said it was custodial right at the top of the UI. I am the custodian. Payment worked on the first try. Much better experience than last month when I tried 4 times and finally ended up successfully paying with coinos via their web interface.

Debian 13 (trixie) release date: still TBA

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I think the movie Independence Day was a great film.

@Daniel Batten What's going on with your website? I tried to renew my subscription at https://batcoinz.com/p/bitcoin-plans but that's gone as is any mention of how to subscribe. I appreciate that it niw seems to work with Tor, but with the contact page saying "example.com" on it, I have to suspect something is wrong

OK, I want to fix my NWC with coinos. I see home, receive, history, send and the hamburger menu... none of which appear to have NWC. Am I missing something here? How can I connect this to Nostr again?

A buddy of mine found a compact disc of clipart from 1995. It had a lot of interesting and strange stuff on there. And they were .eps files (vector graphics) so you could zoom in 32000% and not just be looking at a single pixel. In some ways it's better tech than people use today, and artists got paid for their work (at least, in theory). Fun dive 30 years into the past. 😄

Time to sign off all social media for a while and get shit done. Wish me luck

Put up a #meshtastic node on a wooden lightpole today at a local brewery. 6 dbi gain antenna, RAK Wireless board, huge battery pack and a solar panel to keep it charged. The coverage in the area is *much* improved. Probably got up about 30 feet. Could have easily gone double that if we had a boom lift or bucket truck. But we did the best we could with the extension ladder for now. If we ever get access to better lifts, we can move it up.

I just made a second cutting board by hand. And when I say by hand, I mean using a standard a hand saw to cut the log. It takes literally hours of sawing, and I can't handle more than like 15 minutes at a time. Why am I doing this? My bandsaw only goes up 6" and I just really wanted to make some cutting boards from the tree that grew on our property. I did but a 3 tpi saw, but the blade twists and I don't get a straight cut. The normal 12 tpi saw is wide so it naturally goes straight. I could use the electric chainsaw, but I'd rather have the nice staight cut with a parallel plane to the face. If I was trying to make a living out of this, it'd make sense to hone that skill (or make a jig), but I'm taking the simple, old-fashion approach: hand saw.

Remember that time that American inteligence services were like "Saddam totally has nukes" and then after going to war we found out that he didn't? Remember that time the US was bogged down in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for 20 years, when the mastermind of 9/11 attacks wasn't even in either of those countries? Does any of this sound familiar? It wasn't even that long ago.

Congratulations Americans, you hit $37T (and counting)

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I spent like $2000 USD on ten #solar powered #meshtastic nodes, sold two (will be 3), donated one to charity, published the BOM, and I think I'm going to keep the rest of the nodes. Lost about $1500. Gained half a dozen VERY nice nodes. I'm good with this. I've taken decentralization to heart. Nodes should be built locally. It's not hard to do and any Makerspace will have a soldering iron and 3D printer. I'll build nodes for my local community. If other communities want them, they can build them.

"The guy who was "detained" by the US Marines (hands zip tied) was a U.S. Veteran just trying to cross the street to go to the VA office. 🙄" Via:

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The guy who was "detained" by the US Marines (hands zip tied) was a U.S. Veteran just trying to cross the street to go to the VA office. 🙄 LA ...