shortwavesurfer @ shortwavesurfer @monero.town

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Gotta say, I love the play on words for the username.

"Lawsuits for 500 Alex"

Japan actually has more of an excuse for this than somewhere like the United States or Russia, just simply due to its size. AM radio is pretty much required in countries as large as the US or Russia. Sure, maybe there should be fewer AM stations with more power, but AM should not go away entirely.

There's a good chance the answer is probably no.

I couldn't even give you a time estimate, but I know the answer is far, far too much.

You're right, I should clarify better. When I say open source, what I mean is totally open and totally free to contribute to, like the MIT or patchy licenses. Source viewable is a whole different can of worms and not what I mean, so I should be more specific in future.

Oh, absolutely, that's true. Definitely smaller projects have less audited code, and even bigger projects can have bugs. Heart bleed ring a bell, LOL. However, when open source software has a bug and it is discovered, it is fixed by somebody in record time, whereas in closed source software, you don't know that there is a bug that can be exploited and it definitely won't be fixed until it's reverse engineered or something or exploited.

Yes, of course. However, when it's open source, at least somebody is capable of checking those things, even if it is not you. Somebody in the community is capable of doing so.

And this right here is why you use open source apps.

The answer to that is obviously going to be Monero.

Run Linux as your host operating system and run Windows in a virtualized environment such as VirtualBox. That's how I made my transition. I was Windows only and barely started playing with Linux. Then I installed Linux entirely and put Windows on a virtual machine. And now I don't even have the Windows virtual machine anymore.

Interesting idea, but the removal of perfect forward secrecy and Stuff like that is just a no. I have it just to play with, but nothing serious. I use SimpleX and Signal, and Matrix.

Okay, I see I have never used a regular one. I think I read to use XC by default. Somewhere. And so that's the one I've always used. I've never even downloaded the original one.

Keepass or keepassxc? Xc i think is a community fork.

I agree, the wall paper is actually really nice. The rest of the system, not so much.

I have never had this happen to me thankfully but I absolutely go out of my way to make sure the device is unlocked before I ever lay hands on it and if it's not for some reason I will absolutely return it because I flash lineage as soon as I get a new device. What I've found myself doing is buying new mid-range phones instead of used high-end devices. So I often find myself with like OnePlus Nord or Moto G or Pixel A or something like that.

Slightly off topic, but I absolutely hate AO3's formatting. I much prefer fanfiction net.

Those burgers all finally caught up with him after all these years.

Nope, it sure doesn't. You know why? Because I don't use windows. That's why. Haven't used Windows on a daily basis since like 2018 and have no plans on doing so ever again.