shortwavesurfer @ shortwavesurfer @monero.town

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Yeah, I guess I should have read the specific article before really commenting on it. However, I generally follow the carriers and several YouTube channels about them, so sometimes information can get a little bit scrambled.

Sorry, I might have come off a bit harsher at the end of that last message than I meant to. I get it so often here because so many people want to just bash crypto without ever thinking about any good sides about it.

I haven't gone that far. It's mainly online privacy I care most about, and financial privacy. I mean... I use lemmy, mastodon, proton, degoogled my devices, run linux, DNS level ad/tracker/malware blockers, use Monero, Signal, SimpleX, have no fb, x, insta, tiktok, etc.

As for the whole fake money thing, anything can be money. It's just what people choose to call money. And since I can use it to buy groceries, and pay my phone bill, and pay my insurance, and buy products I want, it is money. You know the money most used to purchase drugs is the US dollar?

No, but it definitely helps. The primary reason is because I'm blind, and so therefore, if I go into a grocery store, I have to ask for a shoppers' assistant to walk around with me and help me get stuff, which is quite frankly a pain in the ass.

It's really the only one worth using.

We all know politicians have no morals. The reason he changed his stance is very simply because the crypto industry very well could get him elected. Crypto is a growing concern for a lot of people and he has to see that.

Monero is what Bitcoiners thought they bought. It's completely fungible and private just as cash is supposed to be.

I buy groceries with Instacart and have them delivered. It saves me money since I'm not walking through the store and seeing all those items I can just get what I need and so I've done it that way for years

Can I send an envelope full of cash to Amazon to buy a product? Cash is great for the physical medium if you are in person face to face and can exchange a physical commodity but when you need to exchange value over the internet then cash isn't a real option

I don't know. Personally, I haven't dealt any drugs using it. But I have purchased groceries for the last year and a half with it. You have a right to be private with your money. Would you want absolutely everybody knowing everything you spend your money on and when you spent it? Forever? Personally, I don't.

Monero is cash. You cannot see who sent Monero to who or how much they sent. It's completely private. The government has a half a million dollar bounty out for anybody who can break it and it's been out for years because nobody has been able to do so.

I'm quite frankly glad to see this, because that means that the United States will have no ability to ban it, what with the ETFs and everything, and as long as you can buy any kind of crypto at all, you can buy Monero. Also, the launch of decentralized peer-to-peer exchanges is helping to give the middle finger to the government.

Edit: I am getting out of the dollar as fast as I can while there are still fools gullible enough to accept a depreciating currency.

So they had a price lock guarantee that would stop your phone lines from increasing in price. And as far as I am aware, they stuck to that. Some people thought they had that when they actually had signed up before that point. If they had ended up signing up before that point, then they were on Uncontract, which says that they will pay your last month's bill if you decide to leave.

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I am primarily mobile only, but I am also a Linux user on desktop. I just don't use the desktop very often because it's less convenient to have to sit down in front of a desktop or laptop versus just pulling out your phone and checking something. It's more a, it's the device I have and it's always on and I don't have to go anywhere to get it. As I said though, I'm high in both mobile and desktop because I run Linux and know how to use the command line and I flash custom ROMs on my phone and use primarily open source software. I also submit bugs to many open source, desktop, and mobile applications.

I have disability income so I'm kind of in this situation already and what I spend my time doing is contributing bug reports to open source software and answering questions for people on how to get started with different things and just helping the communities in general.

First operating system was probably either Windows 98 or Windows 2000. First Linux operating system was Ubuntu 10.10.

Voice over LTE and high definition calling is actually not the same thing. You can have a voice over LTE call and not have the high quality audio calling. All Voice over LTE actually does is make your call into packets between you and your providers network instead of setting up a circuit like they used to.

But how big is the bag?

At least in the United States, when you call somebody on the same carrier as you, you get that HD quality thing, and that improves the call quality a bunch versus the standard 8KB phone call. However, even still, when you call somebody on another carrier, you generally don't get that high quality call. So it would be nice to get those high quality calls between carriers for everybody before moving on.