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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monero.Town is back online!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Ick, cloudflare. Hopefully we can find a better one that is more alligned with our values
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Much Money Do Americans Have in Their Bank Accounts in 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I mostly follow the Dave Ramsey every dollar plan. So I have my budget worked out in such a way that once I’m done paying everything and moving money around, my bank account has like $5 in it that’s just there to absorb any weird charges I might forget about. It doesn’t normally happen, but it helps to have it just for that reason. I also have a specific amount that I put into my savings every month and the vast majority of my money I take out of the fiat system entirely every single month.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
None that I’m aware of. I guess it’s possible, but I have not seen it be the case yet.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s also used to buy baking pans, dough soap, coffee makers, and toasters. Xmrbazaar.com
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Firefox gets tons of funding from Google, and their code is quite frankly humongous. From what I understand, it’s extremely hard to get the gecko web view engine to work. In another browser, unless it’s a fork of Firefox, unlike Chromium where you can just redesign an entire browser around it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨T-Mobile In Trouble After It Decides To Build Cell Tower That Is 'Not Safe' For Residents⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Fair enough, there’s some really golden information in this thread.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨T-Mobile In Trouble After It Decides To Build Cell Tower That Is 'Not Safe' For Residents⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
What about those military things that they use to disperse crowds? Where it makes you feel like your skin is cooking, but it’s actually not. I feel like that uses high power and high frequency radio waves to accomplish that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨T-Mobile In Trouble After It Decides To Build Cell Tower That Is 'Not Safe' For Residents⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The higher the frequency, the worse that is. So standing very close to an HF antenna that only broadcasts up to like say 30 megahertz is different than standing next to a 700 megahertz cell phone antenna, which is different from standing next to a 2.5 gigahertz cell phone antenna. The reasoning for that is due to power levels and wavelength of the radio signal itself.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨T-Mobile In Trouble After It Decides To Build Cell Tower That Is 'Not Safe' For Residents⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You know, that’s a good point. I didn’t even think of that. But you’re right.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨T-Mobile In Trouble After It Decides To Build Cell Tower That Is 'Not Safe' For Residents⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Mind crossposting this to !t_mobile@lemmy.ml?

Also, they will lose. The FCC has said that the companies can build towers where they are needed for coverage. They might have to make it look like a tree or something, but they cannot be rejected from building it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I actually prefer to buy mid range phones that are brand new instead of buying phones that are itineration or too old just because I know that with a new device the battery is new and I treat my batteries very well like only charging to 80% and so on. So I’m a lot more likely to buy like the Pixel A series or like the Motorola G series and such than I am to buy the latest Pixel flagship or whatever.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, that one is beyond me as well.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Sprint would have failed without the merger and we would have had three carriers anyway so it doesn’t matter whether they merged or not and in fact it’s probably better that they did because it caused T-Mobile’s service to improve dramatically since then. I knew friends who had T-Mobile back in 2012 and it was a joke. I had T-Mobile in 2016 and it was only okay.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Hey, that’s an awesome setup.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World’s 1st high-temperature superconducting tokamak built in China⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
So much more efficient then.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Oh, gotcha. So crypto mining is bad, because he can’t make money off of it. But AI is just fine, because he can make tons of money off of it. I understand now. Makes perfect sense.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Which is why I’ve been buying nothing except OEM unlocked devices since 2016 I Payful price for them, but I don’t have to worry about leaving my carrier Whenever I want and I don’t have to be on extremely expensive cell phone plans either. There is nobody else in my entire life that pays less for cell phone service than I do and I only know one person who pays the exact same and that’s because we are on the same plan on our own accounts. Literally, everybody I know in my life pays about four times what I do for cell phone service.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA selects SpaceX to build deorbit vehicle for International Space Station⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Well, for 20 years we had one space station and now with China we have two and if we eventually start to get commercial stations then we’ll start to have even more so more people will be able to go up.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU’s ‘Going Dark’ Expert Group Publishes 42-Point Surveillance Plan For Access To All Devices And Data At All Times⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The only way to deal with this is to break the law on mass. If 99% of people break the law, then they can’t enforce that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California says AT&T can't shut down copper DSL network⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Honestly, it might be worth doing a cost-benefit analysis as to what kind of finds they might get if they just said fuck you and did it anyway. The price of fixed wireless is much lower since you just have to run the fiber to a tower and make sure that that tower has backup power.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I didn’t say it didn’t support network accounts, but you have to have a local account set up to sign into those network accounts. You can set up your computer fully without being connected to the internet and it won’t give you grief about it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Switch to Linux where all accounts are local accounts.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a failed Reddit alternative⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Lemmynsfw
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a failed Reddit alternative⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
And we will still be here when Reddit finally does implode. Either from high interest rates and not being able to raise money or whatever we will still be here.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly $109 million in deposits held for fintech Yotta’s customers vanished in Synapse collapse, bank says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This is what happens when you give third parties access to your money. Use Monero
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World’s 1st high-temperature superconducting tokamak built in China⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Who knows, commercial fusion power might actually be less than 50 years away now. LOL.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
My guess is because they did all the pirating for you so you didn’t have to worry about dealing with the technical hurdles of doing so.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s sad that these people got taken down. Maybe the next people to do it will do it for my country that does not have extradition with the United States, so they would be safe.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Wasn’t this rejected once already? Perhaps if they wanted to do something useful, they should pass something that says that if something is majority disliked twice or something, then it should be withdrawn and not proposed again for at least 100 years.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumers are so demoralized by inflation and high rates they've given up on saving for the American Dream and are spending money instead, economist says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I can understand why they are doing it. However, I would advise doing it correctly. Don’t put yourself in financial stress. Just to spend money. But if you spend money now, then you have things that will actually be worth something. And you can pay it off with inflated money later. So you get the best end of both deals. As an example, if I wanted to, I could borrow $5,000 right now because the payment on a $5,000 loan would be $100 and I can easily afford that because I have a budget and know where my money is going. So I could take that $5,000 loan and buy gold with it, thereby keeping an asset that holds its value and doesn’t inflate away and pay the loan back with increasingly worthless fiat currency.