iamanurd
@iamanurd@midwest.social
- Comment on Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup? 1 week ago:
I upvoted this quicker than I’ve upvoted anything in a while. Well done.
- Comment on How do I start a crypto wallet 1 week ago:
Fair. I wasn’t criticizing you, mainly just posting that for OP. 🙂
- Comment on How do I start a crypto wallet 1 week ago:
Keep in mind that pump and dump schemes always consist of someone getting fucked over. Either you’re getting fucked over or you are fucking someone else over. I prefer to avoid those situations.
I guess to a lesser extent, it’s the core of capitalism.
- Comment on How do I start a crypto wallet 1 week ago:
I hope you’re not looking at trading crypto as a source of income. It’s not. It’s just as easy to lose money as it is to make it. I also encourage you to carefully consider tax implications.
As for the rest, it all depends on what you plan to do, what currencies you want to use, how much risk you’re comfortable with, and your expendable income.
You can create an account on on of many exchanges (Binance, Coinbase, etc) that will allow you to deposit or withdraw US currency and buy or sell many different crypto coins. I believe of these will require you to register an ID (if you live in the US) for reporting to the IRS. Also, crypto exchanges have been hacked and people have lost money, so it’s worth considering how much you are comfortable with leaving on the exchange.
If you just need to receive crypto, or care to transfer your money from an exchange to a wallet that you control, you can use a number of different wallets. There are hardware wallets that you can buy that are dedicated to storing crypto. There are also apps for your phone for multi currency wallets. However you do it, you’re going to want to make sure that you store passwords/seed phrases/etc safely and securely. If you lose your keys, you lose your currency.
Nerdwallet (a pretty great financial website if you’re ever looking to compare banks or credit cards) has a pretty detailed write up on the different types of wallets and how to create one. You can find it here: www.nerdwallet.com/article/…/get-a-crypto-wallet
Good luck!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I play at 1440p, but competitive twitchy games at a super high frame rate. My 4090 does well for that.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had a lot of trouble with both of my last two intel chips. After buying two of their flagship CPUs that were riddled with problems and frequent crashes while gaming, I would wholeheartedly recommend AMD. The switch has been night and day for me.
- Comment on Update on the ["crushed letters" issue](https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36243859) 2 weeks ago:
Super cool to see an update on this. Thanks for posting, since it will help the community!!
- Comment on How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same? 5 weeks ago:
Hey friend, American here. We all feel like that inside, at least a little. I was a huge introvert, and still am to an extent. However, I’ve been forced into pretending to be an extrovert for ages. I need a bunch of time to myself after things like business travel though, where I have to be the other me for long periods.
The only advice I have is: try it out. It sucks at first, but it gets easier. Sometimes you might actually enjoy it.
If you ever need help or want to practice in a judgement-free space, hit me up. My German isn’t so great but I’ve spent some time there.
- Comment on There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic. 1 month ago:
This was me until very recently. I even gave toilet paper away at work when we were short. Bidet seats for the win.
- Comment on How is it to have very bright skin in America? 1 month ago:
Gets me every time too.
- Comment on How is it to have very bright skin in America? 1 month ago:
Depends on the van. Were you offered candy?
- Comment on How is it to have very bright skin in America? 2 months ago:
If the bright color is white, you’re probably ok. I say probably because shit is extra weird right now. As I understand it, the darker colors risk being “deported@ and by deported, I mean being sent to concentration camps in other countries.
I never would have thought the above sentences would be typed by someone in a rational frame of mind, but… here we are in 2025.
As delightful as you sound, my advice would be to not visit us. We’re in a dark place. While I’d love to meet people like you, we don’t deserve it right now. Shame on us.
- Comment on The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback 2 months ago:
Haha, fair enough.
- Comment on The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback 2 months ago:
Can I interest you in a library?
- Comment on I don’t know what to do with this coworker. 2 months ago:
Yeah, I remember a bunch of these posts as well. OP, by all means follow the advice of the people below relating to this issue, but I think you should also take an introspective look at yourself and ask how you can be a better coworker. I don’t think you’ll ever be happy until you do.
- Comment on If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be? 2 months ago:
If I breathe more, would I lose more weight?
- Comment on YSK that if you lose your Social Security Card (USA) more than 10 times, the Social Security Administration will have to, by law, refuse to issue anymore replacement cards, for the rest of your life. 2 months ago:
Wait, I can put physical objects there? I’ve been storing all of my stuff in the real world like a dummy.
- Comment on FTC investigates “tech censorship,” says it’s un-American and may be illegal 4 months ago:
DOGE will soon make cuts there…
- Comment on is it wrong/selfish to cut contact with my trump-supporting father? 4 months ago:
I pretty much did the same when my dad kept trying to push his politics on me during the last trump presidency. It sucks, but at the end of the day I’m a happier person. Hope they get their shit figured out.
Hope you find the same.
❤️
- Comment on Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub 5 months ago:
Indiana isn’t the south, but might as well be. Oh well, at least I have a vpn. (Queue pornhub intro)
- Comment on Just a little guy 6 months ago:
I’ve also been jizzed on as well.
Also by a fish?
- Comment on how did you master splits (for flexibility)? 7 months ago:
I didn’t.
- Comment on Once you pop, well, you kinda stop 7 months ago:
My first thought as well