BTC Postage bug report: I. email isn't listed as a required field on the registration page, but it is. II. When email is omitted, no errors are shown. It effectively refreshes the page leaving the user to wonder WTF just happened. Not sure where to send this, but these should go into your issue tracker so they can get fixed.

Not sure where to send feedback for takemysats, but hopefully this message makes it to someone who can put these issues in the backlog. A. pictures can't be uploaded then creating a store B. After adding a product, it took me back to the products page which said I didn't have any products. It updated later, but it was alarming to appear as if it had post all my work (again) C. When it did appear later, it said thenprice was 0 sats (I sure hope not!) D. When adding images, you can drag pictures for the main image (good), but if you drag pictures for variants, it loses all changes and navigates to the file:// of the image. E. My shop didn't show up on the front page with all the other shops F. I can't view my product listing to make sure it shows up properly G. Can't set up fixed-price shipping options without having a BTC postage API key. H. Is the categories section supposed to be blank on the product creation page? If so, why not just remorlve this section until there's something there?

On my mind: sm I a producer? Have I ever been? In the past: I ran a sofware security practice. I provided services, but all the companies I helped produced software (and sometimes hardware). Now: I contribute to many open source projects. I write scripts to make self-hosting easier and repeatable. I make open source hardware, but I don't play salesman, so most people don't know about it. I don't think that really counts without the sales pipeline. It's not making people's lives better if it mostly just sits on the shelf. I feel like I need to partner with a salesperson who can tell people about the cool shit. Not people who don't care about open source tech, but self-hosters who want their life to be easier and/or more secure. Then we cold both go from non-producer to producer.

1 peck of apples: - is a quarter bushel - weighs about 10 lbs - dehydrates down to just under 1.5 lbs In this case, I used Granny Smith apples from my local orchard. No acid or other anti-browning ingredients, no preservatives, just apples. Costs: - 3 hours on my time - $20 in apples - $1.5 in power - $1 in gas money - some wear & tear on the dehydrator And that's why I only make them for me and my household instead of trying to sell them. People who want dehydrated apples can either make them themselves or pay $1.50-2.50/oz. Even at minimum wage, my costs would be $2.81/oz. I do it because they're delicious, and I want to be more self sufficient. I'd be able to make these without supply chains, a motor vehicle, or even electricity if it came down to it. I do buy the el cheapo apples from the supermarket sometimes, and that makes it a little cheaper, but I also want to make sure my local orchard stays in business. So I'll make mine and you can make yours. 🙂😋 Like tips & pics about dehydrating? Encourage me to post things like this more often. 🤙 #prepper #prepping #homestead #homesteading #DIY #food #dehydrated #apples

Tonight, we ball

@kidwarp Do you set an alarm clock to wake up at a particular time every day?

Unsolicited feedback about @beejay Her jerky is good and she has good support after the sale. Story time. A while back I bought some jerky from her, mainly to support a fellow midwesterner who is actually making things. My Nostr DMs never received, but I placed an order by email and that worked fine. When it arrived, I wanted to share it with the household, but someone here has food alergies and an ingredient was "soy sauce". Uh oh. Does it have BHT, disodium EDTA, MSG? No idea. But I hit up beejay and had an answer within minutes. None of that junk was in there. Just real food. So we all got to enjoy the snack. I'm usually very cost concious, so I go for the least expensive option at the grocery store, which is a fraction of the cost of handmade jerky. But if you want the high end stuff, try beejay. She's the real deal.

OK. So someone explain it to me like I'm 5. The big tech companies have been holding the US stock market up for years now. They are all heavily investing in AI and their value is based on expectations of huge breakthroughs which will enrich the lives for everyone. Some people say it's all hype, hopes snd dreams and when people figure that out everything comes crashing down. That's easy to understand. But what if these rich dudes like Zuckerburg and Altman and the others are right? They make a machine that can do things better and faster than humans. No need to keep paying the workers anymore. Great. Mission accomplished. How do they turn a profit at that point? If people are out of work, who is going to buy the output of the AI? Other rich dudes who already have their own AI? Governments? Is so, where do they get the money? We all know printing it isn't going to work, and if it's just going to taxes and then backto the companies, I don't understand the point. Where is the money supposed to come from? It just doesn't make sense to me. Give me the straight dope here. Teach me something.

You load 16 tons, what do ya get?

This is the knife I use to open up packages I didn't think it'd work well, but its been great

The bifold door kept falling and injuring a housemate. The broken part (foreground of photo) is probably from 1962, when the house was built. It doesn't have a part number. We don't know the manufacturer. Even if we did, we don't know if the company is even still around, let alone selling replacement parts. So I modeled a replacement and printed it. About 90 minutes later (one print), and the door is fixed. Tolerances were off, but redrilling the vertical hole fixed that and I fixed the model to match what worked in practice. #3Dprinting #DIY

Greetings Mortals #GM

Is there any information about the details of how it will work when square starts accepting bitcoin on their retail payment systems? 1. Will everyone be able to pay via lightning by default? 2. Will the merchants just get fiat in their account by default? And if so will they even see how much money is coming in via bitcoin?

If anyone doesn't understand why I'm so ampped up about building a simple shed: 1. I'm an overweight computer geek, so it's a physically difficult task for me. 2. I'm a software security engineer, so while the plans all looked great in FreeCAD, seeing it actually work out in practice is exciting. It's an experience I'm not used to. 3. I'm going to get my garage back, as it won't have all the things that should be in the shed plus the lumber need to build the shed. 4. I'm going to get my electronics lab back, as there are currently bicycles in there which should be in the aforementioned overflowing garage. 5. I'm going to be able to combine the arts & crafts area into the lab to make it a nice little makerspace at home. This will free up the craft room to become a guest bedroom. So yeah, I think this is going to be a substancial improvement to our household.

Insurance companies have an incentive to get you to spend more money on health care. It's the only legal way they can increase their profits (which are restricted by law AS A PERCENTAGE of payouts, so more payouts = more dollars for them). That makes all the difference. If insurance companies got paid to save money, they would have clamped down on the $50 fee for one aspirin. Because the cost of insurance is basically unaffordable, I tried switching from health insurance to Crowdhealth this year. I was nervous at first but it's worked out great. I get the same care I got before, but pay less money. It's a lot easier to afford healthcare when the monthly bill gets reduced by over $1000! Some prescriptions actually cost me less now than when I had insurance. If you are in a similar situation, I'd highly recommend checking into Crowdhealth. If you go with it and want to save $99/month for the first three months, use my referral code: LOLHAX Feel free to ask me questions here too.

@ManiMe have you been getting my DMs? Xan you see this post. Amethest seems to be u reliable when it comes to DMs ever since they added 20 different types of relays for inbox, outbox, shoebox, drafts, and all the other complicated stuff. DMs wormed fine 100% of the time for me prior to those updates. I'm sure it still works fine if you're a nostr developer, but not for the average user.

I wanted to share my thoughts with @Bitcoin Beans and the rest of the world on my household's chocolate powder purchasing decisions. All dollar prices here are in USD. We pay $5.60/lb for 100% cocoa powder and have no idea about the heavy metal content. The brand that got good marks with their chocolate bars in terms of heavy metals is Ghirardelli, and their cocoa powder goes for $10.59/lb on sale ($14.12/lb for people who pay regular price). We don't actually know the heavy metal levels on this product, but we're making an educated guess that they use their own cocoa powder to make their chocolate bars. So that's what you're up against. Sell for under $5.60/lb and dominate the market. Price it over $14.12/lb and see if it sells. Personally, we ain't rich, and we consume far more cocoa than average. That's why we get the cheap stuff. But if you can do like 10 lbs shipped to the USA for 100K sats, I'll commit to it right now (as long as this year's heavy metal tests look good). What I'm saying here is that I'm willing to double my costs in order to directly support a small farmer who actually tests their crops. 🤙