Besides Bitcoin, what are some other trends that you've caught onto early before they took off?
Any past trends or future ones that you've adopted now?
"AI" lol
Sovereign individual. You can't fully use Bitcoin / be a bitcoiner if you are not also a sovereign individual.
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Of course you can.
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Ditching seed oils
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Graphene, maybe? The one I'm most proud of is watching Breaking Bad from episode 2 of the original run first season.
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I'm also a happy GrapheneOS user.
I've been running it for about a year and it's been great. I've discovered many Open Source applications that make my life easier and I don't even need big tech any more. I don't even have the Google service compatibility layer(or anything related to it) installed.
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I don't even have the Google service compatibility layer(or anything related to it) installed.
GMS!

Android xposed was way early. I guess their privacy modules were amazing! Even before GrapheneOS. I still miss it!
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You're way ahead of me. I'm also going the non google route. I am finding Obtanium really helpful. Please post any good software suggestions!
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Here are some useful applications:
Aegis Authenticator is a free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens for your online services.
AntennaPod is a podcast player that is completely open. The app is open-source and you can subscribe to any RSS feed. AntennaPod is built by volunteers without commercial interest, so it respects your privacy while giving you full control.
A simple calendar with events, tasks, customizable colors, widgets and no ads.
A Loyalty Card & Ticket Manager for Android
Easy and quick contact management with no ads, handles groups and favorites too.
Sync your contacts, calendars and tasks. Get live-access to your WebDAV Cloud files. All-in-one CalDAV/CardDAV/WebDAV solution for Android
Fully featured, privacy oriented email app for Android
An open-source keyboard for Android which respects your privacy. Currently in early-beta.
A premium app for managing and editing your photos, videos, GIFs without ads
Loop Habit Tracker, a mobile app for creating and maintaining long-term positive habits
Enabling communication between all your devices. Made for people like you.
OpenKeychain helps you communicate more privately and securely.
Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists based on top of crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data.
RHVoice is a free and open-source multilingual speech synthesizer.
A open source run tracker
A material designed music player for Android
Minimalistic audiobook player
A Material Design Weather Application
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Thanks for all this great information!
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Just realized this might be useful to other people as well, so posted a new topic with it
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Good idea. I zapped it to get it rolling. I betvyou get a lot of useful replies.
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In short everything from https://f-droid.org is good!
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Yes, degoogled phone in general
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i started playing minecraft very early on
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Alpha?
I remember when it was just trees, dirt, stone, and zombies, but man was it immediately addictive!
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sometime in beta, i started right after they added beds
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I was using MP3s way before they were mainstream, my friends were asking me where did the music come from...
I was also doing my first web ads when CDNOW was a thing, I was getting many free CDs from them and lots of credits, Amazon bought them soon after:
In April 1998, during the dot-com bubble, the company was valued at over $1 billion. In July 2000, it was acquired by Bertelsmann Music Group for $117 million; shortly thereafter Amazon was contracted to operate the website.
Maybe a few other things I forget...
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Privacy? I still remember my IRL friends saying to use things like FB, snap, Insta, Twitter etc!
Tried educating them but failed at it :( Like about data brokers, using custom ROM, about giving permissions etc.
But now some are realizing about it now!
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same. I tried and left the big social networks years before my peers. attempt to preserve my privacy as much as possible:
  • ask who is called if someone calls and asks for me
  • fake number for all rewards, or no rewards
  • unique email per service
  • block js by default
  • block entire CIDR blocks etc
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MP3. I had Winamp running in early 1999, blew people's minds. Had a 2nd Gen iPod too, I remember being told how dumb I was for spending that much on a music player.
Avoiding seed oils and sugar is another. I made the switch 10 years ago. I have maintained a weight loss of 40% over that timeframe, so I think it works.
And now bitcoin! I get a lot of the same feeling from bitcoin & Nostr. It's why I'm so bullish.
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-Internet (been on it since the time you had to write the dial-up command for your modem); -3D printers (my first one was still an MDF kit thing);
Guess that's it.
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Ideas
Some trends I was in on before it was cool: libertarianism, Austrian economics, anarcho-capitalism, peaceful parenting, anti-IP, stoicism, veganism, decentralized networks.
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Apple products but I'm mostly just vulnerable to their marketing I think.
Maybe standing desks?
I think I'm mostly a post-hype, pre-peak adopter.
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I was the first person I know to start using Brave browser.
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PC at home in mid-1990s (it wasn't mainstream thing at least where I live), Internet at the end of 1990s / early 2000s (the same).
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Mostly using Tor for basic surfing.
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The Internet, in the early 90s.
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The first Real Estate Corporation of People, out of ugly moguls and evil magnates. 😁
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I predicted the Ukraine invasion
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I'd say the odds are small that Russia will invade either Poland or the Baltics, as it would trigger Article 5 and NATO would step in. What I expect is that Russia will hold on to the territory they have now in the Donbas, Kherson and Zaporizhia (plus Crimea) and possibly conquer the parts of these regions they don't possess yet.
I see Poland taking part of north-western Ukraine (Lviv oblast, Volyn Oblast and possibly more) and Hungary the part of Ukraine with a large Hungarian minority (mainly Zakarpattia Oblast). Romania will probably take (part of) Odessa Oblast. What's left will be the new post-war Ukraine, if there's an Ukraine at all.
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odds are small that Russia will invade either Poland or the Baltics, as it would trigger Article 5 and NATO would step in.
Russia don't have enough available troops and equipment currently to even try to have a fight with Poland currently. Unless you are talking about nuclear war.
I see Poland taking part of north-western Ukraine (Lviv oblast, Volyn Oblast and possibly more)
I think you see it totally wrong. Every nation in region have had past conflicts. Even Baltic states between themselves. But things have changed. Currently Poland is one of biggest supporters of Ukraine in this war against Russian aggression.
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As to your first point, we both say exactly the same thing, I just gave a different reason as to why Russia would not invade, so there's no disagreement there.
As to your second point, you're right that every nation in the region has had conflicts with neighbors. What you seem to forget, however, is that the borders have changed after almost every conflict throughout history and to think that we are special is, in my view, naive.
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It was before Helsinki Accords that most of the signatories try to follow, as it's not worth having small regional teritorial gain at a risk of losing some territory elsewhere. Border changes in Europe afterwards has happened by either countries uniting (Germany) or splitting apart (Yugoslavia, Soviet Union). Except for what Russians do.
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I think so because of the historical ties these countries have to the mentioned regions and the respective minorities (Hungarian, Polish etc.) that live in these regions. Apart from that, I think it's just a matter of opportunism and the fact that almost any war in history has ended in a similar fashion.
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Yeah, anything can happen really, lots of unexpected things have happened in the course of this war, but I wouldn't be surprised if this takes place.
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carnivoure. its just as good as bitcoin
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I've been mining PI for several years now
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Nothing comes to mind.
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No Microsoft anymore, FOSS only
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Where's my data uploaded? It's Centralised or Decentralized, Question that? And you will see thatsygone be a trends next year. #nostr is just the beginning
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