Trump’s tariffs are destroying the entire economy. Lucid will sell more cars but that won’t stop people from needing cash.

Also outlawing crypto is like outlawing piracy, they cant enforce it

A VPN only gets your crypto out of the country to buy something or exchange for cash in another country. It doesn’t let you get it back in without loss.

But the point wasn’t that it would be completely blocked but that it’s value would crash on the whims of the president. If Monero became harder to use, people would exchange it for a crypto that the president was promoting.

often they don’t even know about it happening.

If you have so little that no one would notice, then cash in a safety deposit box is better in every way. Monero dropped 15% in a day last month. Yes it bounced back but it’s not stable. If you bought Monero 5 years ago, you’d still be at a loss today. If you are looking long term, you might as well buy Vanguard where you have guaranteed long term earnings in exchange for short term volatility.

In the case of Bybit, they had billions in crypto and NK hackers after them,

People get their crypto stolen every single day. It doesn’t make news because it’s only thousands lost. My nephew lost thousands because someone sim jacked his phone.

Crypto is far worse than a bank or cash under the mattress. With a bank, it’s insured and you have legal means of recovery if something goes wrong with the bank’s systems or simple theft. With cash in the mattress, it’s safe for any other than fire. But there’s safs and safety deposit boxes for that.

Crypto is virtual Magic the Gathering cards. There is extreme volatility. You are still exposed to government changes. Tomorrow, Trump could declare Trumpcoin as legal for tax payments and Monero as illegal in the US. This would crash Monero’s price. Flash is about as likely to fail as your mattress is to burn up in an accidental fire so there’s no improvement in physical reliability. Bybit’s cold storage was hacked and they lost $1.5 B.

So you are leaving your laptop behind as the server?

What’s your budget? I’d build a separate server but that’s me. I would think you could get old hardware practically free that would run your services fine by checking Craigslist and your local recycling center.

Yay! I get to repost my comment about Disco Season 5 that got me banned from Ten Forward:

Regarding how the writers failed with their Spore Drive conclusion in Season 5:

The idea of the lone inventor wasn’t even true a hundred years ago. When I took a history of technology class at University over 30 years ago, that fact was driven into us. All discoveries are the result of researchers standing on the shoulders of giants. Destroying all Spore drive research is meaningless because there are hundreds of billions of people spread across thousands of planets. The Federation isn’t even the entire Alpha quadrant so there are hundreds of billions of other people with no restrictions. So someone else is going to almost immediately re discover spore drive because the technology and knowledge base for its discovery are built into society.

I hope the above opinion doesn’t get me banned here too.

They used ceramic instead of original spray painted Styrofoam? Where’s the commitment to authenticity?

I got my Picard tea cups two weeks ago.

I sort of agree but it doesn’t seem that clear. Because in many other instances she risks many to save a few or even one.

The Java edition is in the middle of being phased out

They have been releasing updates with new features to the Java version every 3 months.

but I assure you it will be gone soon.

It’s been 11 years dude.

MS eventually ruins everything. But Minecraft has lasted unshitified longer than some open source projects. I’m not going to stop using Jellyfin just because in 20 years it will turn into Plex.

Minecraft has stayed amazingly unshitified. Microsoft took two paths for Minecraft. They kept and updated the open Java version and developed a completely separate enshitified version that nevertheless can interact with the Java version using free open source server software.

If all products were done this way, the world would be a better place.

I disagree. Gmail is my email provider. I don’t pay for it. (Yeah I know they are taking ad revenue.)

Instance is unnecessary jargon.

With the current Minecraft monthly updates, paper is always behind on the latest features. There are also minor problems that paper introduces with its performance improvements.

Years ago paper was critical for a good Minecraft experience, but a newer PC (newer than 6 years old) runs great on vanilla.

So if you’re planning to have the kid play on Switch or something like that, it’s not going to work.

You can run Geyser (a modified Minecraft server) to let bedrock clients play on your Java server.

I wonder what the Ring wraiths do on their down time? Watch some rugby? Play snooker?

I have a lifetime Plex pass but am still annoyed at having to deal with “recommended” every time a device is setup or reset.

The recommended view is useless and there is no way to make library the default view. You have to reset every source. It makes it incredibly annoying helping my family remotely to get to family videos.

It would be a great troll for Trudeau to require Google and Apple to name America ‘South Canada’ on their maps.

Yes buying back makes investors more wealthy at the cost of the company’s cash. Like I said, it’s similar to a dividend in that the company is giving money to the investors. Instead of cash which is taxable, they are giving their cash in the form of stock value to the investors.

The company does not get any cash from a buy back. They are spending money. The company has less money after a buy back. The market cap is technically unchanged but can go down afterwards because the company has lost money buying back the shares.

Losing money on a buy back is not an example of a company making money from the value of their stock.

Buying back shares doesn’t increase market value. It raises an individual share price. The market cap remains unchanged. Given that they lost money, it can cause the market cap to decline because they have less cash after buying the shares. The company doesn’t get any money.

You claimed buy back was an example of a company getting money based on their stock price. But it’s the opposite. It’s a company spending money to buy their own shares. They don’t get money. They lose money. It’s similar to paying a dividend.

That’s the opposite of issuing shares. They are paying market price to remove shares. So buying their stock and raising the stock price costs them more money when they buy back shares.

When was the last time Exxon Mobile issued new shares? I searched for quite a bit and couldn’t find anything. ( A stock spit isn’t issuing new shares.)

Owning stocks in oil companies has nothing to do with funding oil companies. The money doesn’t go to the oil company.

It’s like buying a used DVD. The film industry doesn’t get any money from your purchase.