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
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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
Graphene, maybe? The one I'm most proud of is watching Breaking Bad from episode 2 of the original run first season.
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.
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!
Here are some useful applications:
Aegis.
AntennaPod
Simple Calendar Pro
Catima
Simple Contacts Pro
DAVx5
FairEmail
Florisboard
Simple Gallery Pro
Loop Habits Tracker
KDE Connect
OpenKeyChain
Organic Maps
RHVoice
RunnerUp
Vynil
Voice
Geometric Weather
And of course, Open source lightning wallets with on-chain support
Thanks for all this great information!
Just realized this might be useful to other people as well, so posted a new topic with it
Good idea. I zapped it to get it rolling. I betvyou get a lot of useful replies.
In short everything from https://f-droid.org is good!
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GMS!
Android xposed was way early. I guess their privacy modules were amazing! Even before GrapheneOS. I still miss it!
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Yes, degoogled phone in general
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Sovereign individual.
You can't fully use Bitcoin / be a bitcoiner if you are not also a sovereign individual.
Of course you can.
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Ditching seed oils
i started playing minecraft very early on
Alpha?
I remember when it was just trees, dirt, stone, and zombies, but man was it immediately addictive!
sometime in beta, i started right after they added beds
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!
same. I tried and left the big social networks years before my peers. attempt to preserve my privacy as much as possible:
etc
Anarchy
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:
Maybe a few other things I forget...
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Ideas
Some trends I was in on before it was cool: libertarianism, Austrian economics, anarcho-capitalism, peaceful parenting, anti-IP, stoicism, veganism, decentralized networks.
-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.
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.
I was the first person I know to start using Brave browser.
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).
Mostly using Tor for basic surfing.
The Internet, in the early 90s.
The first Real Estate Corporation of People, out of ugly moguls and evil magnates. 😁
carnivoure. its just as good as bitcoin
I've been mining PI for several years now
CNN+
Nothing comes to mind.
No Microsoft anymore, FOSS only
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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