10 sats \ 1 reply \ @hodlpleb 7 May \ parent \ on: Living paycheck to paycheck with 80k salary and 1k rent ... econ
Yes, it's largely an expectation that 25 y/o have - "I went to school, I got a job, now I should be able to buy a house, car, doggy daycare, 2x daily coffee, doordash every dinner, etc..."
The world is not fair.
But it is easier than ever to get to the top %.
There is no competition.
I think the lifestyle is a big part of it. People who are 23 y/o think they are losing because they can't have everything they want the moment they want it. Sure, maybe our parents earned more value than we did, but most of us work soft jobs in air conditioned pods. If you actually put in some work, you can get a daily gourmet coffee by the time you are 40, all while not being eaten by a lion.
I mean ... I don't walk around talking about how much money I have in my bank account, why would this change with bitcoin? Maybe because obvious that you have "some" bitcoin, but nobody needs to know how much.
- Geographically distribute your keys
- Multi-sig wallets
- Don't go around talking about bitcoin in public
- Keep a smaller amount in a hardware wallet that you could send if necessary. Enough value to be believable but not your whole stack.
If your wallets and keys are located in different places and you actually cannot send funds without a high level of difficulty, it will reduce the chance that you actually lose funds. Even if you are kidnapped, you need your keys to move funds. If only you know where the keys are, it gives Stacker News more time to assemble a renegade unit of bitcoin vigilantes to come to your rescue.
You can use MQTT to connect devices over the internet, but I think defeats the point of LORA. At the moment I'm finding that the hills in my area are problematic, even for communicating "short" distance. Am hopeful that I can get line-of-sight to my family that is 5 miles away, but we may have to put antennas on the roofs.
Have had some success with giving the kids tasks. The 8-year-old can be hot or cold to these types of things, all depends on the mood. I've found that things like a Lego set can give him a lot focus and put him in a really good mental space - though he tends to reject ideas like "let's make a birthday card", etc. He's very creative, but likes to come up with his own ideas. I'll give him materials, but too much direction tends to derail him.
I will listen to the music when I have some space :-)
I've noticed your other posts about parenting and wanted to say, there is a lot about parenting that is hard, but I hope you can find some joy in it. I really love spending time with my kids - and of course that shows up in different ways and for different lengths of time. Sometimes I just can't take their shenanigans, and sometimes it's a beautiful dance.