What you do is you just allocate an amount per month that you use to buy Monero with. And you start using it as an actual currency. When you use it, you replace it, etc. If you wanted to, you could also earn it by selling goods or services for it, such as on https://xmrbazaar.com/

I like it

That’s 22 minutes of my life. I’ll never get back. But at least it’s interesting that somebody that popular has decided to go to Linux. On second thought, it wasn’t 22 minutes. It was probably more like 10 because I always use 1.5 or 1.75x speed.

That’s the one. It just would not come to me in the moment. I don’t have GAPPS or MicroG installed on my device at all. My view is that if an app won’t run without it, then I didn’t need that app to start with.

Edit: Not having those is basically an immunization against crappy apps that want to steal your data and mine you for profit.

GAPPS have Google Play services and the other one that I can’t think of the name of right offhand mimics play services. I don’t need play services for anything since I run open source software on my device and have not had a Google account in over two years now.

Please keep in mind that this is after tax incentives. So let’s just assume the tax incentives are zero and call it 27,000 just to be on the safe side.

I just started using it myself here very recently and so far I’ve only set up one automation but it is very useful. What I am truly excited to see is the Works with Home Assistant program badge. That way I can look at a device that I’m interested in and see whether or not I should spend my money on it. I don’t want anything to do with a device that I need a fucking cloud account for.

Oh, your computer is just a baby. I’m running a third generation Intel Core i7 in my laptop running Linux Mint. LOL.

As a screen reader user, I welcome new open source text to speech models.

Lightning is a steaming pile of horse shit. Anyone who thinks lightning is peer-to-peer is totally fooling themselves.

Ask duckduckgo for “Monero”. You are welcome

This was an interesting read. Also, if you’re willing to put up with some sacrifices, disabling Google Play services on your Android phone, or installing Lineage OS without Google services at all, will make your phone both run faster and have way better battery life. As an example, I own the Oneplus Nord N20 5G, and when I pulled it out of the box, it was super laggy and awful. And by installing Lineage OS on it with no Google Play services, it works fabulous.

If possible drop element for SimpleX. Key management is much much easier to prevent loss of chats and metadata is properly encrypted. In element, your message may be encrypted, but the time that the message was sent at is not encrypted, any reactions to that message is not encrypted, who you sent that message to is not encrypted, and who that message is from is not encrypted.

You’re already only using the account once per year. Just bite the bullet and delete the entire thing.

Possibly. Briar is mobile only as far as i know

I do believe it does have a desktop client.

Oh, i ditch family and friends who dont respect my personal data. Though its signal primary for me

Nostr relays over tor with snowflake proxy

True. Matrix is more for that. Or possibly SimpleX.

Use Mastodon. You can use a server outside of your country. And even if your country attempts to find the operator, 10% of their global turnover of zero is still zero.