And they’re right to see it as one. That was actually going to be my whole explanation. It’s just a computer that only really does one thing.

I’ve never personally had an unpleasant encounter with a TSA agent. I’m really against the patriot act as a whole though. I’ve definitely traveled with some people who got pulled aside for quite some time, and they did always happen to have brown skin despite not being criminals… Might have always been a coincidence, but also might not have been one.

Oh!!! I forgot to share that part. I had a whole rap prepared to get past TSA. I was actually kind of excited to talk with them about it. Alas, they didn’t say boo-hoo. It was a very anti-climatic moment. I guess it’s good to know that they’re not too paranoid or dystopian on the electronic freedom device front.

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Great idea! Auto donate to specific stackers that you want to see post more.

I’m with you too. Nothing wrong with cowboy credits in my book. It’s just…welll…if they are shit, they’re shitcredits not shitcoins. :) and stacker news improvement proposals should DEFINITEY be called snips!

Should PRs to stacker news be called snips?

I just read the post today from the guy that called cowboys credits shitcoins and I couldn’t help but think, “sn needs snip 177 to retitle cowboy credits as shitcredits instead of shitcoins.”

I was trying that actually as my last resort. I never got the miner to recognize the hotspot as a wifi network in the time I had to work on this. Thats part of why I’m sure someone more tech savvy could have figured it out though.

Exactly, I think at that stop there were just too many unknown unknowns for me to really justify plugging it in for any period of time. I was hoping to show her the setup the next morning and discuss as she was an avid bitcoiner and probably would have considered heating the rooms like this, but I had to hit the road before that opportunity emerged.

Nice! Yeah, the one I was traveling with only drew 140 watts when it was blasting, so it wasn’t like plugging in an s9 or anything like that.

The last bnb I stayed at had a space heater that actually drew 1000watts, so I would have felt justified using even an industrial one (I mean an old one like an s9) to heat that room. By that point in time, I had given away the miner though, so it was a moot point.

Yeah really, I was about to pose this very question.

I grew up really close to Middletown, OH (the planet of 80s Middletown ha to be easy one of the best parts of the book that the movie ignored) in the 1980s and 90s and the whole pizza place/arcade setup was one of the defining social pastimes of my early years.

Awesome!

I used to love this company back in the day and thought they had gone down hill a few years back. I’m so convinced they’re going to be on a big comeback after today.

We just got back. Dude, so impressed on every level. Also, looks like they’re just going to lean in hard on this clientele now.

I also am on a, “slow painful uninspired journey learning to program,” but have to say that my experience with the plebdev course was the exact opposite. It was radically exciting and really educational! I have to admit that I haven’t done much with it recently (just because of life and stuff), but, I was AMAZED at how @bitcoinplebdev bent over backwards to make sure I got the most out of the content. I took the courses before he did the new site, but there were even kinks he was working out then, when I brought those to his attention, every time I got a HUGE in-depth lesson (sadly some of which I’ve forgotten) on what was going on (usually an update by some library that was part of the lesson), and how programmers work through that stuff.

I don’t mean to downplay your frustrations (seriously, not trying to be rude), but I would absolutely downplay your warnings. The plebdev courses are AMAZING, even with some kinks due to its progressive nature.

Slide trombone!

Yeah, some of the time when I played with George, Kash Waddie (one of the guys that did the same journey from James Brown to p-funk) was still on drums part of the show. I’ve only met Bootsy a couple of times, but he was real cool.

I’ve got a great Catfish Collins (his brother) story from when I was with Stone City Band, but it’s longer than I got to share right now.

Another wild thing about Bootsy is, he’s done all of these little things in pop culture that are just like little dabs here and there. For example, he’s the singer in that Fatboy Slim song that we all mainly remember because Christopher Walken is flying around a hotel lobby.

I didn’t think of that! Great idea!

For any curious, I wrote them via signal and explained in a follow up email that I don’t have WhatsApp. I’ll let you know if they send me the invoice there or come back with a different plan.

I really appreciate all the advice and feel more confident in my conviction to avoid WhatsApp.

I’m not sure I actually know anyone in person that uses it.

In general, agreed, but these guys have a public face and I’m relatively confident bad reviews are enough to keep them honest.