Washing machine, part 2: I straightened out a hose that looked like it was pinched, and it doesn’t seem to be leaking anymore 💪🏻 I’ll test it with a load of laundry tomorrow—I’ve had quite enough of floods for one day! On the bright side, I did find something rather unexpected inside the machine… my USB drive, which had been missing for a month! I’ve spent the last month searching every single corner of the house for it… and today, the mystery is finally solved: it was in the washing machine… It suffered the same fate as my wireless earbuds; I just hope it’ll be in better shape once it’s dried out. Note to myself: Never let my partner start a load of laundry again. Every single time, he grabs a sweater I hadn’t planned on washing, doesn’t check the pockets, and I end up with tissues and small electronics in the wash… #nostrfr ⁠#lostandfound

Well, the washing machine has broken down. I can’t afford to buy a new one. Could this be a good opportunity to develop some appliance-repair skills? In reality, it’s looking like a lot of trips to the laundromat. I tried opening the panel underneath, but everything is so tightly secured—clearly designed to keep ordinary people like me from taking a look inside! 🫩 I guess I won’t be turning into a washing machine mechanic today… #diy #repair #nostrfr

GM 😃 My coffee and I are wishing you a sweet and funny day 😆 #coffee #gm

Fiat, Bitcoin, Lightning: did we just move the vampires? 🤔💭 Lately, I’ve been having some bitter thoughts about where all this is heading. Whether we use fiat or bitcoin, I feel like we always end up fattening the exact same corporate mastodons. Let’s look at the reality of the whole chain: • On the mining side: The myth of the average user finding a block at home is gone. It's all massive industrial data centers raking it in. • On the Lightning side: It’s the same story. Liquidity giants, already loaded from the start, dominate the major routing nodes with sometimes abusive fees. Since they own the main highways, everything goes through them: we’re getting vampirized. • On the State and tax side: And that’s not even counting the law. In France, for example, the slightest purchase in Bitcoin (even without going back to fiat) is theoretically subject to capital gains tax as soon as you exceed €305 in annual spending, with a 30% hit. The tax trap closes on us either way. In short, we decentralized the protocol, but we just recreated ogres and recentralized capital. So... what do we do? Is there even a way out? Honestly, I don’t have a miracle solution. I just feel like we're going in circles: between mega-hubs stuffing themselves at the network's expense and the State watching our every cent, the math just doesn't add up. Deep down, it’s hard not to be pissed off at this endless greed. When you see ultra-rich people always wanting more, while their descendants for the next 100 years couldn't possibly spend it all even living better than 70% of the planet, you wonder what the point is. It feels like we're just fuel for a machine that stacks up capital for profiteers. How do you guys analyze this situation? Do you manage to not feel trapped, or is this just the common fate for everyone? #Bitcoin #Sovereignty #Capitalism

Sometimes, picking up the brushes is just a matter of nostalgia and a desire to give a lovely handmade gift to a child 💛 #artstr #watercolor #art

GM ☕️ Have I ever told you that I love coffee? This morning, it feels like my coffee loves me back 🥰 #coffee #gm

How much practice took place between these two paintings? The answer is simple: one Inktober! In 2024, having started with watercolors only a month earlier, I decided to take part in Inktober with some friends. I set myself a constraint: I would only create monochrome watercolor pieces, and I wouldn’t reuse any of the paint from my pans. I drew the same sketch—a titmouse—twice, painting one version just before Inktober and the other just after. By removing color theory from the process, I was able to get a feel for how water behaves and to explore each individual pigment in my palette.

Hello Nostr community! 👋 / Version française plus bas 🇫🇷 Quiet observer until now, I'm taking the leap: my NIP-05 is validated on my domain! 🥳 (Celebrated with a proper double cappuccino, of course ☕). I'm a mom, introverted, and a jack-of-all-trades, fueled by caffeine: shifting easily from coding to music (instruments & singing), from Linux/VM admin to gaming, and from running a Lightning node to visual arts. Attached is one of my watercolors from a past creative wave 🎨 ⚡ Current focus: Bitcoin & Lightning infrastructure. My node's direct address (`coffee@evalexa.fr`) doesn't handle Nostr Zaps (NIP-57) or memos yet, so I'm using a temporary Speed address while I work on my next challenge: making my address 100% Zap-ready! (I'm going to need a lot of coffee for this ☕⚡) 📌 A quick heads-up: I'm the opposite of a daily influencer. Wild by nature, you won't get spammed by following me! If this mix of code, art, music, gaming and coffee speaks to you, say hi in the comments! 👇 --- 🇫🇷 VERSION FRANÇAISE 🇫🇷 Bonjour la communauté Nostr ! 👋 Observatrice discrète jusqu'ici, je me lance : mon NIP-05 est validé sur mon nom de domaine ! 🥳 (Célébré avec un bon double cappuccino, évidemment ☕). Au quotidien, je suis maman, un peu sauvage, et touche-à-tout boostée à la caféine : je passe facilement du dev à la musique (instruments & chant), de l'administration Linux/VM aux jeux vidéo, et de la gestion de nœud Lightning aux arts visuels. En pièce jointe, une de mes aquarelles d'une précédente vague créative 🎨 ⚡ Mon focus du moment : infrastructure Bitcoin & Lightning. L'adresse directe de mon nœud (`coffee@evalexa.fr`) ne gère pas encore les Zaps (NIP-57) ni les commentaires, j'utilise donc une adresse Speed temporaire le temps de relever mon prochain défi : rendre mon adresse 100% compatible ! (Je vais avoir besoin de pas mal de café pour ça ☕⚡) 📌 Petit avertissement : je suis l'antithèse de l'influenceuse qui poste tous les jours. Un peu farouche par nature, vous ne risquez pas de vous faire spammer le fil en me suivant ! Si ce mélange de code, d'art, de musique, de gaming et de café vous parle, venez me dire bonjour en commentaire ! 👇 #introduction #plebstr #bitcoin #lightning #selfcustody #nostr #dev #artstr #music #watercolor #gaming #coffee #france