yup, Blink is my primary LN wallet, it's beautiful

I think most people view it as a status symbol and don't think much about its scarcity.

Be your own bank.

I'm currently unbanked due to some life circumstances, and bitcoin is the only way I can save and spend digitally.

I never realized SN had a light mode

آزادی / Azadi

$8.4mil holy shit, and they still think it's a "bubble"

I use a little bit of AI every once in a while, it's pretty useful to get quick explanations and solutions to common problems.

It has also been really helpful for language learning for me, as it can do quizzes, definitions, and so much more, and correct you as you go.

When it comes to programming, it's useful for some common issues, but this is where it can fail. I wouldn't trust AI to lead a whole programming project, I've frequently see it generate broken code but the AI will confidently claim that it's all fine and will only admit the mistake if you point it out, so it's crucial to know what you are dealing with, this is why Vibe coding without knowing any programming is often a bad idea.

played a bit with solana memecoins, lost money, it's stressful, filled with scams, the only ones who profit are staring at coin launches 24/7 and have insider alpha, it's dirty and not worth it.

Termux runs on Android natively and tries to make it behave like a distro with the team packaging a lot of packages for it, they usually have to patch the packages to use termux s PREFIX which is /data/data/com.termux/files/usr instead of /usr

I don't know what the future holds as currently some limitatiation on new android versions breaks termux and so it currently has forced itself on an older SDK version which makes it ineligible for google play (there's an experimental version on google play but the team recommends the f-droid version for now)

Running traditional Linux distros can also be done inside Termux via what's called proot which is like a chroot without requiring root.

That's cool but I wonder about the level of engagement on that platform, are there users actively using it?

I feel like it might be dying, solana not looking good at all

I'm trying to get better at front-end web development, a skill I've neglected for so long. I've always wanted to build some websites as a hobby but struggled to make them look pretty.

ecash looks fun like a gift card thing, but I wouldn't hold them there, I believe you should trust a mint to the same extent you'd trust a central exchange, you never know.

Thanks, this post made me make the move, I tried using Blink and for some reason the autowithdrawal failed, though this made me consider using coinos as my SN wallet.

Linux is the way

damn how come this one is too long? I thought the length was proportional to the amount of sats, but it seems to be the usual amount.

dang already taken in 4 minutes?

Yeah, lightning amazed me, after testing Bitcoin as a payment for the first time long before I knew about Lightning, I wondered, does anyone really use bitcoin for payments? slow confirmation times, and high fees.

Stacker News was my introduction to lightning and I learned so much after joining here, and everything feels a lot better now.

LN invoices expire pretty quickly though compared to e-cash, or am I forgetting something?

I think it would make sense to have a backup of them, and print out some sort of an 'expiration date' where if they don't claim it by then the author should be able to claim it back.