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  • Predicting the future with 100% accuracy is difficult. It’s unknowable if physical money will completely disappear.

    The one thing I hold as an absolute constant, is humans are adaptable, humans will trade and use whatever they can, whatever is convenient, to their advantage.

    Can you trade today, gold for a donut? Yes, but you’re going to put a lot of effort into that trade, just to find a counterparty. And then for the counterparty to verify it’s actually gold etc etc but you can do it.

    Fascist governments like the centralized power, and that includes centralizing money, including peer-to-peer exchanges. So there’s always going to be the urge to control the absolute flow of all money. That being said, not every government has perfect cell phone coverage over their whole and nation, not all of their people have phones, not all of those phones are always on the network. The one thing money needs to do is work even offline.








  • jet@hackertalks.comtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlHow useless are dating apps?
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    I use tinder, it’s been really good for me.

    The key is to use the app that is popular in your location.

    Attitude is a huge factor, think of it just like meeting random people, maybe having great discussions, maybe having an excuse to go to event with somebody, having a good adventure. No pressure no expectations. If you have a plan people love to join the plan. So the initial swipe match game is what it is. You can have a friend with a good camera take some nice photos, you can show interesting places, interesting things, let the app choose your most engaging photo for you automatically.

    When you talk to people find something interesting about them, ask them questions about it, have your own agenda, invite them to events you already have planned and no big deal if they don’t go. Surprisingly most people want to go and see what this cool thing you’re doing is. And then from there you know you can build up.

    The dating apps are just a meeting place of people who are interested in meeting people. If you treat it like that, just like a happy hour, you’re going to have a great time




  • jet@hackertalks.comtohomelab@lemmy.mlNetwork setup help
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    4 days ago

    Depending on your requirements, you can pick up used gear for quite cheap, set alerts on craigslist/marketplace/kijiji. i.e. one access point for like $30 used, and host your own network controller container to configure it.

    If you want a single pane of glass whole network management, its going to be spendy no matter which ecosystem you go with.




  • jet@hackertalks.comtohomelab@lemmy.mlNetwork setup help
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    True, but you can use your gateway to cut off google wifi from google, and still use the radios. No need to buy new hardware.

    Heck, you can put openwrt on some google wifi models https://openwrt.org/toh/google/wifi

    My advice stays the same, work with what you have first, save your budget, then SLOWLY, after doing research, buy one thing, and fit it in.

    Your advice is good if you just want the fastest way to de-google yourself, but i think the OP wants to run a homelab, and learn, and understand.


  • jet@hackertalks.comtohomelab@lemmy.mlNetwork setup help
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    Do one thing at a time, don’t buy equipment unless you have a actionable use case for it.

    Isp cpe in bridge mode

    One of the boxes can be your gateway

    You can keep using the Google Wi-Fi.

    You can play around with proxmox, xen, etc, to run a bunch of containers, or virtual machines, to do different things on your network. I think you can do it all with your current hardware