I mean, it's crazy expensive, people or paying 1500$+ for the appartement and the spot, but maybe the physical building/house is just worth shit and we all pay only for a "spot" with or without a complementary housing on it.

They show up with the satoshis statue at McDonalds to pay in "sats" but when they figured out that's not the right way, they throw it in the lake.

Sure, I totall agree but as my local fiat shitcoin things I need or want to buy are priced in CHF and if BTC is not beating it, I don't have the inflation edge effect (and still we have inflation).

I have shitton of stuff I should probably sell for BTC but I can't do it.

No it's USD and EUR which goes down forever. BTC failed to beat CHF for 6 months.

HFSP Sometimes it's a bit sad to know that so many people will realize the value of Bitcoin way too late and in the meantime wealthy individual, private companies and governement are securing shitload of sats that will never be available back for common mortals.

Great to see self-custodial wallet with PoS mode since Breez is no more supported and Misty Breez lack the PoS. Ideally a good merchant Bitcoin PoS should have: - Keypad - Items list - Discount input - Tips input - Tax management - Easily extractable accounting, like in csv - easy access to last invoice pending or paid, to double check that an invoice was paid properly and show it to the customer if it failed. - employee mode (invoice only), ideally usable from multiple separate devices, for each employee or each cash point. - refund management (ideally locked to work only from manager device or with a PIN) - Contactless boltcards support - Bolt12 support for paying using a fixed QR code sticker - Onchain support as an opt-in option (that can be limited for amount above a certain level), zero conf as opt-in. (If you have to pay for an hotel, or service, waiting some hours for confirmations is not issue, of course for paying ice cream you want Lightning only. Also I would love that Lightning wallets could have a mode with a short timeout, like if payment is not confirmed within 15 or 30sec, you get a failed payement screen and you are 100% sure that it can never get confirmed beyond the timeout. Sats stays at customer wallet (or get auto-refund). This is one of biggest downside and main serious issue I had while paying with Lightning for a couple of years. PoS give a timeout or just quit the invoice and then payement pass 10min later while another invoice was paid (possibly not in Bitcoin), then you figure it out when you are away from merchant that you paid twice for your goods. Not sure if this can be solved by PoS wallet only, customer wallet, both or if changes must be done at the Lightning protocol level. But this must be solved for Bitcoin mass adoption.

I build a small custom NAS with 2x20TB HDD in raid + SSD for nextcloud files and other apps and I maxed out everything in a couple of years only. I have to check now if I can fit 2 more 20-24TB drive in this compact beast, theoritically it could as I kept spare 3.5" slots and SATA input but I remember it was full of cables everywhere when I assemble it so it might be challenging. If I had a house with a large basement I would just get a server rack and stack HDD like crazy. Unfortunatelly (or fortunatelly) I cannot currently, it must fit in a furniture under the TV so I might need to delete some movies and series I will for sure not watch again, if possible easy to find ones first.

Highest quality is probably by downloading lossless compressed files (legally or not), some artists also sell 96/24 audio files which are much higher quality but it's rare and must be produced accordingly. Easiest and cheapest legal way is still ripping CD's but it's time consuming. I'm more into conveniance than highest quality but I want to make sure the source is decent at least, like 320k MP3 or 192-256k M4V (but I prefer MP3 only), from YouTube it's usually m4v 128k at best, so maybe like mp3 192k I would guess but I'm no expert.

Where do you get no car and good food in France? Only people living in Paris or another big city center will give up on a car and mostly because the trafic is very bad or that they cannot afford it (or both). While good food in France is a myth. Sure if you eat at a five stars restaurant you will have good food and good sevice but you pay a lot and can afford that only a few times per year or less. The rest of restaurants are terrible and service is shit most of the time. Sorry to break the myth. Go to almost any restaurant in Italy and you will eat very well for a decent price. (service might be good to average but usually not as bad as in most place I visited in France). Also food at supermarkets in France is also not great, big chains are fighting like mad men for a few cents extra margins and quality is often last of their priorities. But this is also not getting better elsewhere to be honest, maybe slightly better in Germany and a bit better in Switzerland (but you pay for it).

Down the rabbit hole.

See which can of shit happening where we have no possibility to say anything:

Yes, they all check price online now, almost no chance to get a good find. 15-20 years ago I use to go to second hand shop and get out with a bag full of old Nintendo games for 50 bucks. Now you can barely buy 2 average games in loose for that price, at least in my country.

I totally agree and it's the best time to get DVD/BR and CD, they are mostly free or super cheap if you take the time to look for it. However video games are super expensive, at least everything Nintendo is overpriced as fuck. Thus what is the right price to really own something today? I'm sure there will be a resurge of demand for DVD and CD, some titles might become harder to find and price will rise fast. But for me the main issue is space, I leave in an appartement in a city, I have already dozen of large boxes full of video games and DVD, one box of CDs.

True and sad. I'm not a person who naturally smile but I try to force myself as much as possible to try to get others to smile back, like at employee at shops and restaurant, person sitting in front of you in transport... But the problem is far beyond that. #Switzerland, like many other countries went from peacefull and easy life to ultra competitive and price crushing, but not exactly the same way as EU zone and other countries with high tax and high inflation. Despite our higher salaries and official low inflation rates, it's getting harder and harder to get good jobs, to get a raise or promotion, lands are maintained artificially scarse and housing price are skyrocketing, thanks to super low mortgage rate that just help rich (high income) to borrow more and put pressure on the market for buyers. This induce also a step rent cost increase, while we have still fraction of percent in vacancies putting also a lot of pressurer for tenant. Both scenarios push pressure on families forcing both parents to work more to increase the houshold income while heavily relying on public daycare with always much lower offer than demand or private that cost more than the second income usually (but you need to justif high income to qualify for a rental or mortgage). On top of that health insurance cost are increasing at 5-10% per year. Both housing/rental cost and insurance cost (close to 50% of an houshold costs) are of course excluded from inflation prices. To make if worst as our fiat currency is (one of) the strongest in the world and our housing market is one of the best investment vehicule, this just make it worst for average Swiss people and those who live in the country with average to low income. Politically it's also not so great, we get vote less and less for important decisions and more and more for meaningless decisions or for choosing option C or D when more people would like A or B which are not a possible option. Politics are being infliance by EU and we pay for their bad decisions and government indirectly, it's take it or you life and interaction with EU will get sanctioned in many ways, a bit like Brexit with UK. And if you want to leave the country you will never find a place where the quality of life and security is similar while retaining similar available money after all mandatory tax and cost deduced. So you have to sacrifice something (secruity, quality of lige, available money to save for retirement...) on top of the sacrifice of leaving you beloved ones, family and friends behind. Which is too much for most people. So yes, I understand that Switzerland is getting toward depressionland. Hopefully there will be a way out but I don't see how currently.

Yes but quality is not great from YouTube usually. I have try Lidarr to automate a bit the work of getting and sorting new music but it's barely working if not completely broken. I don't know an wasy way to get, retag, rename and sort music easily. Once sorted my media center server (Jellyfin) is quite good at indexing and streaming the content.

That's silly, people who bought even 10 BTC like in 2013 will no buy island with a fraction of it in 2028. And return will flattern. Don't fool new comer into thinking it's possible. Maybe they will buy a small house or some land in remote area but there will be no news about it.

TL;DR: Due to departure of 2 majors contributors, they pause the project, any new release or update and recommand anyone migrating to another OS until it's back.

What 0 balance experience? You mean Samourai stopped working and need the sats to be migrated? Nothing was lost I hope.

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