Happy anniversary!
Cake Wallet has made Monero accessible to so many more people and is my mobile wallet of choice. Your passion for Monero shows, hopefully Cake Wallet and Monero will keep improving and bring cheap, trust-less, private payments to even more people.
Spotify is horrible quality for 2023
To my surprise, even Spotify’s standard (not high or very high) is extremely difficult, if not practically impossible for the average consumer to differentiate from lossless (on better than consumer grade hardware). Upon hearing this, me and several friends decided to test it for ourselves by taking lossless files for several songs and resampling them to the same codec and bitrates that Spotify’s standard quality uses, then ABX testing the before and after with Foobar’s ABX and exclusive mode plugins (also tried the popular comparison website, but that’s apparently less accurate). One of my friends had access to a college studio, I have a dac and sennheiser, and the third had sony wxm4s. To our surprise, none of us could consistently differentiate the two. Its not perfect considering we didn’t grab the outputs directly from the streaming platforms, but that would’ve added extra variables like volume normalizing (louder sounds better).
Our conclusion is that the quality “difference” is likely placebo and probably a waste of bandwidth.
I don’t think anything is “needed.” Monero is a currency, ideally it will be used for everything a currency is used for.
As long as you restrict RPC on 18081 its fine to externally bind, 18089 is just an indicator that its intended for public use.
Edit: Looks like my monerod isnt letting me externally bind to 18081 like it is 18089, maybe you’re right or I’m missing a command.
I agree with @shortwavesurfer@monero.town, what I need in a Monero wallet is good send/receive and maybe an optional fiat api. I feel like all the other online services might as well stay in Cake wallet with the “bloat” coins. I feel like most users that would rather use a Monero-only wallet over multi coin would agree with the sentiment.
Appreciate the work you do.
Yes, but nobody uses the alternate chains and the coins become effectively worthless.
Seems like they’re building other things in rust, about time for the server? Seems like bloated servers are the biggest downside of matrix. Does anyone more educated on this topic know why it’s not a thing?
XMPP’s current server implementations may be better, but I feel like its something Matrix will match in the future. I’m not very well educated on the topic, but Element being generally user friendly and having lots of features similar to Discord brings a massive audience to privacy respecting, federated, encrypted messaging which is a huge advantage for being able to message regular people. If Matrix’s server matures to the point of XMPP in the future (and clients if they’re not already), would XMPP have any advantages?
Moderation might be an issue with such a platform, who’s responsible for cleaning spam, csam, etc? Giving someone that power will centralize the system anyways. The current federated system works pretty well in my opinion.
Companies can choose who works there just as people can choose who to work for. If companies don’t like what an employee is wearing then they can fire them, and if people don’t like what a company isn’t allowing them to wear they can quit.
Interesting video. One question from someone who knows nothing about Nostr: If Mastodon “banning” is a problem, how does Nostr prevent csam etc? Do you only see content from people you explicitly sub to?
As others have said, check out the windows guide on gupax.io. Come back if you have any more questions
VPNs can be a tool for privacy but 99% of the time someone is tricked into thinking it’s antivirus by a nordvpn ad
Waiting for Spotify lossless to ditch flacs, I really want to like Tidal but I’ve had major issues every time I try and stick with it.
YouTube sound quality is poor, and 99% of your bandwidth being devoted to video is wasteful. Just use SoundCloud or something. Better yet revanced patched YT music or xmanager Spotify.
Edit: or better yet vimusic
Personally, I don’t want a huge hole in my phone and case that I’m never going to take advantage of. Wireless headphones with noise cancelling and such are far more convenient when outside than the open backs I use at my computer. The DAC in most desktops suck so I use a USB-C to 3.5mm anyways, makes it really easy to plug into my phone if I ever needed.
Just my opinion for my situation, but I would honestly rather buy the same phone without a headphone jack than one that did.
In my experience, Wayland has been the one that “just works.” No disabling compositing, higher than 60 refresh rate on my monitors, screen share portals, and a few other things that annoyed me about x11. From what I hear, x11 is ancient and wasn’t designed to be used as it is today. Waiting on a couple features but never had any stability issues, hopefully more app devs realize it’s existence and switch from x11 like all it’s devs did.
Printer support on Linux is honestly better than Windows.
Would love for more Monero software to be written in Rust. Hopefully some good can come out of this despite the controversy.
I’m no expert, but I don’t know if I agree with the premise that Linux desktop is secure via obscurity. Linux is probably the largest effort to create a secure OS, and the Linux desktop benefits greatly from that effort.
OpenBSD has an excellent security track record and is regularly updated, I’m not sure if I believe that its security is “outdated.”