i ran earlier today. it’s x11

Thanks, just tried it. seems to work well enough

Just tried sunshine/moonlight. seems to work well enough, thanks

Yeah it’s KDE Plasma which still used X11 by default.

I’m currently trying to get sunshine/moonlight working as others have suggested

Nah, Labeling them as “terrorists” is disproportionate.

Criminals, yes. Terrorists, no.

The definition of terrorism under british law can apply to basically any protest group and if applied retroactively would drag things like the suffragette movement under the umbrella of terrorism.

This move is an assault on all of our freedom of speech

Not just a ship, The flagship of the black sea fleet.

Pretty sure they’ve wiped out a third of the fleet so far

2 l8 m8

4th time he’s escaped death

Yeah only sources i can find reporting on this right now are ukraine ones so their description of him will be fairly warm.

Still they’re not wrong. he is a volunteer, and he is an activist. Whether putting drones in the hands of the AFU makes him a legitimate target or not is largely moot. It’s a good thing he survived, and it’s a good thing a traitor failed and will rot in prison

gotta look on the bight side. he’s alive, will recover, and it’s been a very good day of fundraising for the sternenko fund

Also some traitor will spend the a long time in a Ukrainian prison after having failed in her mission.

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Spark plugs hit home. The back 3 in my Lexus are a real pain in the arse to get to. they’re iridium so they dont have to be done as regularly but when they do it’s a good few hours work even for a professional

He’s got work to do on his side considering he’s basically ignoring the 1st Amendment and deporting political critics

pretty sure it’s already available without perscription.

My ex just walked into a pharmacy once and asked for it.

I’d like to see Ukraine get Crimea back but it’s never going to happen. not without russias complete collapse at least

When i stay stabilize i don’t mean it will stay the same for ever. it will just become less volatile the more it is uptaken. Value should continue to go up as the total supply is finite but should do so in a more predictable manner similar to gold. Of course this requires it’s widespread uptake as a currency.

Unrelated note: part of why humanity stopped making our money out of precious metals was because the metal was worth more and more while the dollar held steady. So people started shaving the edges off silver coins, and then recievers had to start weighing money at the time of transaction (which slowed it all down). Making money fungible was a huge advantage for commerce.

I’m not sure that’s really analogous to bitcoin, sure you can spend subdivisions of bitcoins but you cant shave sats off and still pass off a shaved bitcoin as a full one. a bitcoin is a bitcoin and a bitcoin with shaved sats is a bitcoin minus those shaved sats.

The lighting network feels like a tab at the hardware store where anyone can skip town anytime they want.

except with the lightning network, if your customer “skip[s] town” with lightning you can take the tab (channel) to the bank (blockchain) yourself and still get your payment. Opening a lightning channel requires staking the value of the channel up front. you can get unspent sats back but once you’ve made a transaction on the network then those sats belong to the person who you sent them to. You can try and close a channel with an older version of the channels ledger to try and “revert” the payment but there are mechanisms in place to stop this. if someone does that to you you can just broadcast the up to date ledger to the network and then you get everything in the channel including unspent sats as a penalty.

at least that’s how i understand it

It’ll settle eventually

the lightning network still uses the blockchain, just less. it’s acts like an immutable public bar tab you can’t default on. once you have spent enough with another person that it is worth them conducting the transaction on chain then it does it. usually when fees are low too.

That is an extremely simplified explanation of how it works though, it is more complex than that.

Edit: another analogy i have just read is it’s like cashing in at a casino. you put some money in the house (the blockchain) and get some chips, you go in and transact with loads of people, then when it’s advantageous you can cash out and get your BTC on chain; to the house that is two transactions, cash in and then out, rather than a transaction for everyone you exchanged with on the network. that’s probs a better analogy than the bar tab one… but again, oversimplified

bar tab is more accurate, casino is easier to understand.

the actual functionality doesn’t really matter to the layperson though. basically, you put some of your bitcoin on the network (minimum amounts apply), and then you can spend that with very fast transactions and low fees. when you’re ready you can send what you have back to the chain

i got back into bitcoin recently and decided to move the contents of my old wallet to a new SegWit one and look into using lightning.

To open a lightning channel i have to stake £170 up front though which is crazy, how are people in poorer countries supposed to do that?

or even here. poverty is on the rise, a lot of people are living hand to mouth and just having that kind of money lying around isnt a thing.

i like the idea of bitcoin but i worry it doesn’t scale well.

Add to that that virtually nowhere accepts it. The value of bitcoin comes from its use as a currency. if it doesn’t have that then it’s entirely speculation.

oh well, i have £2k in there and i’m not turning it back into fiat. I’ll spend it if i can or ride it all the way to 0 if that’s the way it goes

edit: if BTC does hit $1m a coin as the hodlers hope then that would amount to $2000 to open a lightning channel (or more realistically $2400 as electrum wouldnt let me open a channel with the supposed minimum 0.002 BTC, i had to make it 0.0024). I hope that the minimum amount to open a channel will be updated long before that happens though, but i guess we’ll see

I used mine for a few months for work. only problem i had with it was it struggled with multiple external monitors. i got it working but i had to fiddle with xrandr everytime i docked it and put it into desktop mode

This was a couple years ago now though, it might be better now.