I’m no expert, but I don’t know if I agree with the premise that Linux desktop is secure via obscurity. Linux is probably the largest effort to create a secure OS, and the Linux desktop benefits greatly from that effort.

OpenBSD has an excellent security track record and is regularly updated, I’m not sure if I believe that its security is “outdated.”

Happy anniversary!

Cake Wallet has made Monero accessible to so many more people and is my mobile wallet of choice. Your passion for Monero shows, hopefully Cake Wallet and Monero will keep improving and bring cheap, trust-less, private payments to even more people.

Honestly yes. Restricting centralizing pools is similar to restricting centralizing ASICs.

I don’t think anything is “needed.” Monero is a currency, ideally it will be used for everything a currency is used for.

As long as you restrict RPC on 18081 its fine to externally bind, 18089 is just an indicator that its intended for public use.

Edit: Looks like my monerod isnt letting me externally bind to 18081 like it is 18089, maybe you’re right or I’m missing a command.

I agree with @shortwavesurfer@monero.town, what I need in a Monero wallet is good send/receive and maybe an optional fiat api. I feel like all the other online services might as well stay in Cake wallet with the “bloat” coins. I feel like most users that would rather use a Monero-only wallet over multi coin would agree with the sentiment.

Appreciate the work you do.

Then everyone needs to download and make an account on said app, they already exist and none are unanimous.

Everyone has a phone number that gets used for auth and other things. If that system doesn’t change then RCS is way better.

Never looked into it, what’s so bad about RCS besides it being proprietary? Way better than SMS in my experience.

RCS seems to be pretty openly licensed out to other OEMs, definitely a lot better than iMessage.

It’s still proprietary though, a far cry from something like Matrix.

Yes, but nobody uses the alternate chains and the coins become effectively worthless.

Nice. In the rare chance that you haven’t heard of GrapheneOS, now you have.

Did you get your phone from your carrier? In addition, some brands do that with cheaper phones. Can buy unlocked phones.

Maybe try Google Pixel or iPhones that have terms against pre-installing shit.

You’re right about most things, and Linux/VR support is often a deal breaker for me so I rarely use Epic. But you really think its that unusable? I’ve heard mostly positive things from my friends. I don’t care how or why they’re giving out free games but its a huge plus. I just really don’t understand all the hate.

What’s so wrong with Epic? I prefer Steam but Epics client has a better UI, I haven’t found any problems, and deals seem better than Steam, especially with free games.

XMPP’s current server implementations may be better, but I feel like its something Matrix will match in the future. I’m not very well educated on the topic, but Element being generally user friendly and having lots of features similar to Discord brings a massive audience to privacy respecting, federated, encrypted messaging which is a huge advantage for being able to message regular people. If Matrix’s server matures to the point of XMPP in the future (and clients if they’re not already), would XMPP have any advantages?

Apparently the replacement parts for their phones are significantly cheaper than almost every other manufacturer. (I have just been hearing this so I don’t know for sure if it’s true, correct me if I’m wrong.)

Overall their phones seem to just be to a high standard. 5 years of support and other components that make them the choice for GrapheneOS (Privacy/Security focused rom that has greatly contributed to upstream Android)

Interesting video. One question from someone who knows nothing about Nostr: If Mastodon “banning” is a problem, how does Nostr prevent csam etc? Do you only see content from people you explicitly sub to?

I live in a US suburb, electricity is thankfully cheaper than most places. As detailed in my first post, I could’ve cut a lot more corners to cut down on costs.

I think electricity is a major factor though, roughly 1/4 of my earnings go to it. Many places have much pricier electric which will easily add years, if not making roi impossible.

Oh yeah, I wrote a service to change the LED colors based on system temperature so I could easily tell if xmrig crashed or something, but I think the breathing orange just looks better. I then had the idea to have the LEDs dim if CPU temps dropped but it was a lot more complicated that simply changing colors.

Let me know if you know openrgb-rs ig

Thanks!