My favorite vehicle door handles were the old style where the unlatching mechanism (plunger) was separate from the non-moving handle used to pull the door open. It just felt like a more durable design.
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Seems like the next natural progression would be for phones to have no internal battery, or one just big enough to function like a UPS long enough for you to swap out the external puck 🤣
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It was brought to my attention yesterday, some of us are under the apparently inaccurate assumption that running a Start9 or Umbrel out of our homes somehow helps future node runners with IBD.
My most recent IBD took over two weeks. To me that's un-[expletive]-acceptable in 2025, not with all the big money that has now come into Bitcoin. You can stick a fat Virginia boy into a metal tube and have him eating authentic Chinese food in China in a fraction of the time it takes to get a new node up and running.
How do we fix this if most of our hardware and residential ISPs can't handle it? Sneakernet? Donations to those with the proper hardware and connections?
Best description of the Canaan Nano 3s:
1) a small heater that can mine bitcoin, or
2) a miner that can heat a small space?
I ask because the intended recipient is an elderly lady with zero interest in bitcoin mining, so she's not going to have any patience for something 'fiddly'.
Freakin' Core vs Knots war will be settled by the time this IBD finishes.
How about y'all figure out a way to disguise blocks as dirty movies and trick the porn sites into relaying blocks.