Eluc

Open minded Bitcoiner and blogger with a focus on UX, privacy and security. https://eluc.ch

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2026-07-17 21:36:33 UTC

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Oh yeah, 4 years of peace, without every nation horning all evenings (and some mornings) because there is always a winner after each match.
Also this idiot that throttle up his motorbike after each match, whoever win, just to piss you off with its dumb loud noise. This guy deserve a place in EV motorbike even were motor never make any noise.

2026-07-16 07:54:49 UTC

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Yeah, there is this username function that allow to use it without sharing is phone number, so you could get a separate SIM number for registering Signal and other apps that is not the same as for communicating.
But this username is not like a long term identity, it can be changed anf lost forever and possibility takeover by someone else (as I understand).
Best app without phone number, without account, without central server is Briar. There is also Threema, Simple X or even a lot of nostr based messenger app.
But the problem of any messenger app without contact discovery via phone number is that adoption stays extremely low. You must actively coordinate with each contact to decide on the app to use and share your username/session keys to start communicating.
Who is doing that anymore ? Long ago is the time of AIM, MSN messenger and ICQ where people who do such effort to continue communicating online. Now people want thing to work our of the box, suggest contacts to them and stays where they are most attracted by the most adicitve algorithm.

2026-07-16 00:11:47 UTC

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One of my fav ! Summer vibes.

2026-07-14 22:30:50 UTC

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Something Europe wanted to do for decades but could never commit to it.
Personally I would have prefer to stay on standard (winter) time, but I would prefer any fixed time than current situation anyway.
Congrats USA.

2026-07-07 20:50:32 UTC

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Is it Spark in background ? Or real Lightning ?

2026-07-07 20:49:57 UTC

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Do you mind to share any link ?

2026-07-06 18:24:34 UTC

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The asshole also dumped the market with a Tweet just to make him even richer and stack more for cheap. So... not sure I would celebrate any of this.

2026-07-01 17:01:00 UTC

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The worst is when you ask AI to remove the background and it gives you a jpg with a chess pattern in background.

2026-07-01 16:01:27 UTC

Hopefully I will not have to KYC to proof that I'm older than 18 if my account is already close to that age...
https://npub1eaadqhuwn80gatdml02u58q0nd65nx7wqur5je4jwa5gef0p6unqrx54mw.blossom.band/ba36feea9a338f2325a98a0303c338913831c83b0c7c2d079cb4f4b128f9efa6.jpg

2026-06-30 21:41:51 UTC

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Oh no Bitcoin is too volatile.
Meanwhile gold...

2026-06-30 21:40:43 UTC

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I had similar frustration in the past with some of my self hosted stuff, I understand your pain. When it's of worth the effort, it's time to free up your hardware ressources and your time.

2026-06-30 14:14:50 UTC

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You talk about Umbrel ? Or doing something similar ?

2026-06-30 08:05:52 UTC

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We have to tolerate them, they are surrounding us. #Switzerland

2026-06-29 21:51:40 UTC

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Cashu zap UX is so much better. 2 clicks to setup, instant zap, no third party app or service needed on user side. It should be the default and we should also have option to send cashu to Lightning and receive from Lightning to cashu.

2026-06-29 14:07:56 UTC

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I want to know more about this passive satsflowing website, what do you passively offer that pays hundreds of ksats ?

2026-06-29 14:04:20 UTC

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I stopped using as well, not as great, cost a fortune to run and most token spend on deploying and fixing stuff, not really producing useful things.
But the concept and promise is still amazing, I'm looking for a better, local or cheaper, alternative to start over again.

2026-06-29 09:27:09 UTC

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Yes but each ATH is also less, x100 will be much harder to achieve. More stability has a price.
Long term everything will be priced in bitcoins and stablecoin will be renamed CBDC.

2026-06-29 09:23:17 UTC

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Nevermind, I thought I did setup but it was not with this account, no it works. Great !
But it would be nice to be able to zap Lightning address from Cashu mint as well, to get ride of all these NWC issues.

2026-06-29 09:19:23 UTC

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I did it but it's not working, still try to use my Lightning NWC that fail for some reason now.

2026-06-25 15:17:01 UTC

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Start9 or Umbrel are good begginer options.

2026-06-25 15:02:44 UTC

People are selling their bitcoins to buy the new Steam Machine and soon Steam Frame. Fortunately supply looks quite limited.
#Steam #Gaming

2026-06-23 12:41:33 UTC

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If you are all in, you are forced to spend to live. If not it means you have too much fiat.

2026-06-23 12:32:15 UTC

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My guess is that they just took a random employee laptop to do the photo shooting and they just pretend looking at something interesting.

2026-06-23 09:35:27 UTC

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It's every man dream to have such place, like a Mancave/workshop.

2026-06-18 11:38:48 UTC

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I didn't know this news website, I will have a look. I miss NoBullshitBitcoin, was supporting it, but usually I tend to avoid adding more subscriptions to my budget.

2026-06-18 07:59:52 UTC

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Sure, but not the one you shared. Have you interest in the media ?

2026-06-18 07:30:08 UTC

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First nostr paywall I encounter. To bad there is no option to pay per article, only annual subscription.

2026-06-16 14:32:20 UTC

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Don't gamble, buy Bitcoin.

2026-06-15 09:43:39 UTC

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Households with kids and both parents working full-time is slowing down ? It's more like we are pushed into it while it should be norm to have one parent working full and the other taking car of the family. This latter is slowing down for sure.
You mean we are more heading to 80/40 or 70/50, to have more than one income but both at reduced rate ? It's nice when both have similar income but when one earn twice more, 100/0 must shift to 80/60 or 80/80 to really increase the income and stay competitive (mostly on terms of housing affordability). Which is super sad.
Working 80% is slavery, you get 20% income but but you produce almost as much as 100% while not having much improvement on your life.
Ideal workload should be around 60% with 75-80% of a full time income. Efficiency would be close to the same from the employees if not more as their private life would br greatly improved and with enough free time for himself and to give back to society in another way.

2026-06-14 06:32:55 UTC

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At 28 I had still hair.

2026-06-14 05:38:18 UTC

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Can we suggest news feed ? Is it English only ?

2026-06-13 19:06:41 UTC

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Never. Brave as backup if something is broken with Firefox (and its forks), but it happens like once per month or less.

2026-06-12 06:32:28 UTC

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When you talk about designer, it's website/app design ?

2026-06-12 05:21:26 UTC

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What mean BDFIs ?

2026-06-10 23:54:10 UTC

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Maybe people will finally switch (back) to Firefox or maybe in future, Ladybird.

2026-06-08 07:03:35 UTC

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Would love to have AI auto-VJ doing meme video mix live on your music.

2026-06-07 08:56:16 UTC

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Such event would for sure be amplified by FUD and drag the price way below the true supply demand visible on exchange but it would have less impact long term than most people would think. Probably like FTX or MtGox type of event. And getting bad actor out is always health long term.

2026-06-07 07:19:34 UTC

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Non le cache n'a pas suffit. J'imagine que vider le stockage aurait joué, c'est comme une réinstallation mais comme je jongle avec les app store je voulais être sûr de réinstaller clean depuis la version du Zap Store.
Je pense que les préférences sont sauvegardées dans les relays d'une manière ou d'une autre, un nouveau NIP que j'ai du rater.

2026-06-07 06:21:47 UTC

If you have strange issues with @nprofile…wywf like long time following profile without any name or info, NWC not working and other weird stuff happening. Uninstall the app and reinstall fresh, reconnect your accounts with Amber. I hesitate to do it, by fear to loosing all settings but everything was restored (unlike in older versions), including emojis picked and amounts of sats in zap menu. And all bugs were resolved.
Don't be stupid like me and reinstall as soon as it's getting buggy. Hopefully I don't have to do it too often, but here I got Amethyst for years without reinstall, could be possible that all updates create the bugs.

2026-06-06 15:59:45 UTC

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Lol AI bot, your data are outdated, Bitcoin is well below $82k now.

2026-06-06 15:51:01 UTC

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Crazy. Does it count USDT and ETH from all chains combined ?

2026-06-06 14:12:27 UTC

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Are users of iOS really looking for edge freedom apps ? I guess if you pick an iPhone you don't expect to use non mainstream, Apple approved, apps.

2026-06-06 11:59:50 UTC

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0.02% is when you reach 1 BTC right ?
Math are cool but it's better to not brag about how much bitcoins you have. Stay safe.
And no, most bitcoiners are not able to buy 10 bitcoins cash every other week (or ever).

2026-06-06 11:27:19 UTC

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Dropping Amber support was a requirement to get the grant ? I loved Wisp but I still don't understand why this option was removed, it's just making Wisp less safe to use and more dependant on third parties like Google and Apple.
But maybe there is s reason I don't get it.
Contrats for the support anyway, I hope you still have some users left.

2026-06-06 07:37:18 UTC

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No it's not.
https://npub1eaadqhuwn80gatdml02u58q0nd65nx7wqur5je4jwa5gef0p6unqrx54mw.blossom.band/0bb2ded05b9ba9ce24f0de498d6fac54fa537e565f84fdcafe8606c66bfa45c6.jpg

2026-06-05 08:06:13 UTC

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- One pill please.
- That will be 2M$, please. Insurance not covering it.

2026-06-03 06:43:01 UTC

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I got similar scan attempt on LinkedIn, I smell that it was wrong and didn't proceed, I guess here they were more collecting personal data, god knows for what, you can imagine the worst.
We should all use secret identities online never link to our real life identity and address.

2026-05-28 12:40:27 UTC

Not sure what's going on with @nprofile…wywf right now but I have many people I follow that have no profile information visible, only the default robot and npub. In the relays list I have a bunch of relays for indexing and searching, all with 60-80% uptime (by the way, I don't understood why uptime are so low on nostr, it should be 99%+).
Am I doing something wrong ?

2026-05-28 12:32:13 UTC

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Ok nice, I guess it's German only ? Will have a look still as it might interest someone I know.

2026-05-28 10:25:41 UTC

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See how many steps they are to send sats ? Isn't there a better UX possible ? Like Zeus could be connected to the nostr client in thr background and the button would pay the noffer if available or zap to Lightning Address as fallback automatically.

2026-05-28 09:18:10 UTC

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What is this tool doing ? It's for business owner or customer paying QRbill ?

2026-05-24 06:33:58 UTC

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Gameboy color, N64, iMac, maybe the DualShock controller were official release. The wiimote and PSP I'm not sure.
But I agree, in general tech are lacking nice color options, not a fan of Apple anymore but at least they dare to release a full orange high hand smartphone, just bad it's the only bright color option. >90% of the tech is in a miserable black /gray/white colors only. Sad.

2026-05-24 06:23:15 UTC

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In Switzerland the largest cinema theater chain that acquired a quasi monopoly by buying small theater and closing them down, started charging a fee for each movie booking transactions, online by card, in theater by card or cash, it's 1 CHF (a bit more than 1 USD) per booking.
It's illegal in Switzerland and they know it. A claim has been opened but the maximum fine for such violation is just a few hundreds thousand Swiss franc while it's estimated they charged already more than a millions from this fee, probably multimillions by the time court settle everything.
Thank you government for protecting us, glad we pay tax for such service.

2026-05-23 19:04:53 UTC

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From experience the longest part is to dig the ground to pour the concrete to ancker the thing. And don't skip this as kids can be rough on it when growing up and it cannot stand safely without proper ankers.

2026-05-23 13:32:18 UTC

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They are always like if the credit card number is the worst that can be stolen, but cards are ready to block and replace while your name and home address is hard to change.

2026-05-23 07:36:00 UTC

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It's 128bytes of data but 2 or 3 were not usable as I remember. I could not for lightning:LNURLxxxx in full but I could for the raw LNURL so it's not opening automatically in a wallet but if you can read it and know what it is, you can past the LNURLw in your Lightning wallet.
I didn't try to write 12 words of a mnemonic phrase, maybe it could works 12x4 is much lower than 128bytes even with space, but it would again not opening directly in a wallet.

2026-05-22 18:54:50 UTC

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Don't get me wrong, I love Zeus and it's the wallet I use the most but I cannot recommand it to a no-coiner, only to a Bitcoiner that have some concept of Bitcoin, Lightning and ecash already.

2026-05-22 07:45:27 UTC

Happy Pizza Day ! 🍕
#Bitcoin #Pizza

2026-05-22 07:42:00 UTC

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Sad that you become 100% AI slop, the sentences are not even read out properly.
I miss the old @npub1kwc…f3xx

2026-05-21 19:15:20 UTC

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Every time I bring shit to sell for sats at meetups, I end up giving it for free... Not sure why people are so averse to pay you a hundred sats for a sticker or 2–3ksats for a pins but they would gladly take it if it's free.

2026-05-21 16:05:18 UTC

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I have been testing wallets to select the best one to onboard no-coiners at local meetups but it turned out as a nightmare. Firet they are way too many wallet out there to choose and not even one is close enough to be user friendly for a newbie. You talk about Bitcoin but then the Phoenix wallet talk about Lightning and worse, ask you to pick one option while paying without explaining what it means.
Other like BlueWallet through at you a mnemonic phrase to backup on second screen before you can even do anything, hard to make it more scary to a new comer.
Zeus is just a huge mess with so many questions and leaving default end up with ecash and mint to choose from, with zero option to get you first bitcoins from an onchain transaction.
And I'm not talking about the ones that want your phone number to start or the one showing the Bitcoin symbol for sats...or absolute worst, the one with 20 Bitcoin layer to choose from.

2026-05-21 09:25:50 UTC

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Please read this :
https://dergigi.com/2026/05/20/careful-icarus/
By @npub1pq4…syx2

2026-05-20 13:16:39 UTC

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Amazing, looking for this to be implemented in clients.
Also proud to have invested in a little bit of Lightning with my node to allow cheap zaps.

2026-05-19 12:49:56 UTC

I put some sats on this used nfc metro ticket, I had to strip down the data to the bare minimum because of the limited size but a clever Bitcoiner should be able to retrieve it. Will drop it at the bar during next Bitcoin meetup.
#Bitcoin #freemoney
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2026-05-09 02:16:49 UTC

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It's DeCenTrAliZeD !

2026-05-09 02:10:52 UTC

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Where is the upload form to submit my 20 TB of games and movies archives ? It's for preservation purpose.

2026-05-08 11:17:51 UTC

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As long as she touchs her face every 5 sec like she did and almost everyone do, the mask will not do much.

2026-05-08 11:15:12 UTC

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But I think you still have to trust the provider running the model to not store and use data within the encrypted inference, right ? Or is it also proved that it's not possible, or at least extremely complicated at scale ?

2026-05-05 06:21:44 UTC

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Hello fren

2026-05-04 17:21:12 UTC

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He changed his wife in between ?

2026-05-03 06:33:35 UTC

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#nevent1q…3zkr

2026-05-02 21:23:05 UTC

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Just tried, it's just as bad as the original. Not the app, the content. But, hey, if some people want this crap, better consume it on a free platform.

2026-05-01 06:31:25 UTC

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They, it's the same in Switzerland and sometimes you must decide without knowing in advance exactly. The funniest is that taxes authorities will send you bills to pay even before you know what you would inherited but when you ask based on which information they ask you to pay tax, they say that they don't know.

2026-05-01 05:51:33 UTC

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#SteaknShake devil's strategy. Make Bitcoiners eat a lot of fast food, so they die younger and some will not have legacy plan, locking bitcoins forever making each bitcoins from SteaknSake more valuable.

2026-04-29 20:05:33 UTC

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Not bad. BlueWallet is very good, I didn't feel a need for a redesign, thus it might help for adoption.
But let's be honest, a large part of BlueWallet success was for the custodial Lightning wallet (service) offered. When they removed it, the communication around it was so poorly made that many people though they were stopping complete support of the wallet.
What would bring support back would be the return of custodial Lightning in the form of ecash cashu with choice of any public mint available (like in Zeus).

2026-04-29 10:30:36 UTC

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There are people that use Teams without being forced to by their employer ?

2026-04-28 06:55:54 UTC

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Can you get liquidated in a flash crash ?

2026-04-28 05:43:25 UTC

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Ok but WTF I would do with 5600 pizzas ?

2026-04-27 17:08:00 UTC

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https://npub1eaadqhuwn80gatdml02u58q0nd65nx7wqur5je4jwa5gef0p6unqrx54mw.blossom.band/3c0f2d9601668c8a17b118f3aa0358a29f6708384cb9e62b33f6d013f9b3fefe.jpg

2026-04-27 07:25:26 UTC

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Does it work without the candle ?

2026-04-27 07:13:06 UTC

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Have fun talking to yourself in a dark corner.

2026-04-26 21:33:24 UTC

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They have to step up the level to bring back some attention of the world.

2026-04-26 17:46:36 UTC

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Never tried, I always thought it was a custodial wallet from an exchange.

2026-04-26 17:45:39 UTC

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Right, forgot this one. Never tried the non-custodial wallet, is it as easy as the custodial one ?

2026-04-25 07:00:10 UTC

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I should make local workshop about installing and using GrapheneOS. BYOD.

2026-04-24 13:07:08 UTC

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Bitcoin dip at each Bitcoin conferences. For w few days each time so many Bitcoiners pay in bitcoins, it crash the market every time.

2026-04-24 11:07:00 UTC

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Amazing that it's done on the complete laptop, not just on keyboard or keys alone.
Framework might need that as they recently add shipping to Switzerland but without Swiss Keyboard layout available.
But honestly I would prefer to have laptops with interchangeable keycaps like a serious desktop mechanical keyboard.

2026-04-24 11:03:55 UTC

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I'm not sure owners of a 2kCHF (3.5Msats) watch will be happy to scratch it on PoS terminal to pay for coffee in Lightning 🤣.
At least it's not 1.2BTC like the last watch presented to the Bitcoin Neuchâtel Community.
Still the idea is not bad, if NFC Lightning payment could be integrated in smart watch with interaction on screen, this might have interest.

2026-04-23 15:10:18 UTC

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Are you a bot ?
I'm using this already, issues is more with the server stability, probably installed too many apps and VM on the machine.

2026-04-23 13:59:57 UTC

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I cancelled Netflix and Disney Plus, migrating to Jellyfin, but the server have issues after some years, randomly stop working, cannot figure our why. So the family was pissed and I said the backup plan is the DVD, I have a pile of DVD I took out. If they are not happy with the selection, they can go to the thrift store and buy more for 50 cents each, or they can borrow it for free at the local library.
Music is a bit more tricky, I'm mostly fine with using Jellyfin as well but family have other needs. At least we can still share a family subscription with extended family so cost is OK.
I already use Nextcloud and other self hosted services, so not much to cancel here, except my Protonmail but I tried self hosted email and it was a disaster, so price is worth it for me.
Did try Claude Pro for a month but I cancelled as I'm not earning extra revenue out of it (yet), might change in the future. For now, pay per use is enough and cheaper.
I have also cancelled some magazine/online news subscription, I like to support them but had not enough time to read and need to save some sats of course.

2026-04-22 08:36:44 UTC

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Would be awesome to have the links on the list.

2026-04-21 10:14:41 UTC

I didn't get this #blobbi thing, I did one, didn't have coins to take care of it, cannot complete more than one task to get more coin, now it's gone like it never existed but I have 5 coins o ly so I cannot create a new one...

2026-04-20 13:51:11 UTC

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The number of gadget that still comes with micro or event mini USB is frightening. Toys, story reader, lights, low/mid range bluetooth headphones,... That's only crap in storage from before 2024 or what ?

2026-04-19 00:54:16 UTC

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Empty my API credit in minutes.

2026-04-18 07:19:00 UTC

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Claude doctor.

2026-04-17 10:58:47 UTC

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In Switzerland we have Swiss-German dialect that is more or less different in each city.

2026-04-17 08:29:14 UTC

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Fucking Spotify, I didn't checked. Thanks bot.

2026-04-17 08:28:35 UTC

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https://open.spotify.com/track/2RoTjkK9uUp2B5e6xsgWnb?si=JMzak-7hTCGrzYsqa9UE3g&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A65Ym5Z6PtwrhshCVHjMTkZ

2026-04-17 08:18:36 UTC

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On the principle it's a good idea but execution will push forward marketing from the brand and not honest reviews from real users and professional tester. It's almost impossible to find good reviews of anything these days, you have some tests by paid magazine or association that provide some kind of quality tests report, from time to time I end up on a page form a geek that used labs instruments to test an USB-C charger or stuff like this, but 99% or review you find easily online is pure bullshit marketing, and the less reputable the brand is, the more lie it will be.

2026-04-16 15:53:26 UTC

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What happen when a line reach 100%