KetoManx64

Not all that different from losing your physical wallet with your ID and debit card or giving your bank info to a Nigerian Prince.

Pick your poison, do you trust corrupt institutions or yourself more.

It comes down to how much you trust the government, central banks, and the institutions of power, especially post Epstein and COVID.

It's a flex when you compare it to a government based currency where the bank or government can freeze your bank accounts or just empty it. Plenty of stories from The USA and Canada from the last decade of that very thing being done.

Well you wouldn't use Bitcoin itself to exchange on, you'd use side layers like Lightning payments for the near instantaneous exchange which then gets aggregated into one of the upcoming blocks.

MasterCard was around in the 1950's, in 2026 they do not still use the same method of exchanging money as they did back then and have had to make big changes to their systems as time has gone on, Bitcoin does the same thing except it's not controlled by a banking cartel but by all it's userbase.

Classic case of "The company is paying me and I don't have any real work to do so let's create some so I don't actually have to do anything actually useful"

Very interesting! I'm going to have to test if I can switch my Asahi ALARM M1 Macbook to official repos. I know when I use the AUR for packages, they typically have both x86 and aarch64 paclage instructions, maybe 10% or so don't and then I just clone the file and add it in manually.

Go ask 100 people what operating system they're using and if they do say windows, ask them what version.

And then on the next Windows update they will all be turned back on again.

I use GLM 5.2 through open router, and it's much much less expensive than Anthropic/GPT5.5. I do app development with it and I spend maybe $0.20-$0.50 per task that I work on expanding the app where Claude sonnet will come out to $1-2 for the same work, and Claude Opus $5-10

Didn't Garmin recently change the terms of their deal and put the API behind a paywall?

I've been using chezmoi + Syncthing for about a year now. I don't want to have to manually git commit + push + pull everytime I change a config file, so I just sync the chezmoi directory between all my devices (around 8 total). I also have a dedicated VM that I use as a central Syncthing node, and on there I have a script that pushes the chezmoi directory to my Gitea instance on an hourly basis. I then ignore the git directory in Syncthing so only the VM has the git repo and the other devices don't waste space storing/syncing it.

Maybe once every 2-3 months I will need to go back and find a previous version of a file.

Rest in Peace. I switched from OnePlus to Google Pixels once they started locking down their phones and making it harder to unlock the bootloader/restore the stock ROM. Sad to see them go, but not unexpected.

This is why I'm still on X11, the lack of deep level accessibility/automation is still a big hurdle when it comes to Wayland.

I'll take a run-of-the-mill democracy over that, thank you very much

I for one am completely sick and tired of 45% of my income getting stolen through taxes to support programs that the majority votes for. When someone who pays no taxes at all, or receives welfare has the same voting power as you, the system is broken.

No defense of any kind. What do you need to defend from? If there are no taxes and no tax base to take over, why would a country have any interest at all. And if they do, an anarcho capitalist society treats the threat like it should honestly be treated: Target the leaders of the country that initated the threat, not the cannon fodder soliders from the middle class that are sent to fight the wars.

Let's have no countries anymore! Maximum freedom for all citizens! Great! Except the freedom for people from elsewhere to move around - including to your area.

Why would people move in if there is no government welfare and the community doesn't offer them jobs or services or even want to do business with them?

what about when you become poor Well, you obviously do the same thing as society currently does for unplanned future issues, you buy an insurance policy that covers you in events of unplanned economic hardships.

No taxes. Great! So, how to fund roads, telecom infrastructure, healthcare etc? Private enterprise?

You go around and find investors to invest in the construction project? Or you just go into the community and gather the money to build the roads/infrastructure? None of this stuff is build by the government, it's all done by private companies, the money is just forcefully taken from everyone through taxes and then half of it is eaten up by beuracratic nonsense.

I am not. School teachers are predominantly women (around 90%), single parent homes are primarily run by women, women play the largest roles in the raising of children in genetal, and also make up about 35% of domestic abuse reports (not accounting for all the cases where men are too ashamed to report the abuse).

Women commit just as much sexual abuse as men, it's just not talked about by society.

Worse than the child abuse scandals of goverment: - public school teachers sexually abusing their students - The Epstein files ?

Suspects were captured on camera footage before destroying the devices, yet remain unidentified publicly.

Not sure where you got "faces"

The Libertarians seem to either genuinely not care about the rest of the world or, more often than not, seem to be naive about how life can be for the less privileged

No, they just put boundaries on what services they want handled by the government. Government programs are the least efficient and most wasteful way of getting a job done, and there are endless examples of this.

Churches were historically the places people went to for assistance, and churches held people accountable and would push them to fix their underlying issues. Government programs have none of this, you can keep making the same bad decisions and nobody will hold you accountable and the benefits will keep coming in.

I wonder if anyone at microsoft is feeling at all worries about news like this, or if all the people that would have worried about stuff like this have been let go and replaced by overseas workers

Agreed. Having worked around unions while doing IT in the manufacturing industry, I had much better bargaining ability and got much bigger raises and flexibility as an individual than the union employees.

Well, yeah, the majority of people back then died around the age of 30 because they were out hunting all day and got infections and died from lack of medical care. The average human from that era did not die from red meat consumption. Red meat is the most nutrient dense food you can eat and studies saying otherwise or saying that they increase your body acidity or lead to worse outcomes have been consistently disproven.

Capitalism: > an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market

Any semblance of capitalism we have is a shambling corpse barely getting around. Do you know who pulls on all the strings of our economy, gives out student aid loans to kids who just barely graduates high school? Who controls market interest rates, and gives massive multi billion dollar contracts to Companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Facebook, Google, Microsoft? Who approved of the printing of the 50% increase in the dollar supply in the last 5 years?

Take a guess. I'll give you a hint, if you don't pay them on a yearly basis 30-50% of your paycheck, you go to prison.

Do you eat the same amount of pasture raised red meat as your ancestors did 5000 years ago?

Going to try this prompt out within OpenCode, thanks for the share!

When an ant colony has damaged ants or isn't making enough ants it's just better to mass import ants from another colony.

Yeah, because the solution to all the corruption is just more taxes and giving politicians more power and money.

Most of the AI companies have OpenAi compatible API's, so you just get a subscription from another provider and change the URL that your LLM Agent Harness uses to talk to the AI.

I use OpenRoutet which lets you switch between providers (Anthropic, ChatGPT, Z-AI) whenever you want. Sometimes I'll have two different models from different providers evaluate each other's answers.

As in the government takes it out of your paycheck automatically, and you'll go to prison if you refuse to pay it?

So you're just making the money that you are forced by the government to pay or face going to prison into a virtue.

Do you actually put any of your own money to help support children/sick individuals other than just getting the money forcefully taken from you and being told that it's totally going to the kids/healtchare, while 50% of it gets burned up by government beurocrats?

How much of your money do you spend on paying for kids school lunches, paying medical bills of terminally ill kids and paying off the student loans of graduates?

It's very easy to say that someone/some oeganization's wealth should be confiscated, yet I have yet to see those proposing it actually putting any of their own money where their mouth is.