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Take my words with a pinch of salt since I am only a layman in regard to technology and I may be using inaccurate terms. Like, you may be right, maybe what I was trying to do was to use the instance, not to install it.
I ditched Microsoft a couple of months ago. Zero issues. You end up adapting and getting by perfectly fine.

2024-05-27 14:52:01

I have been trying to install Nitter for Linux Mint during the last two hours and I have failed miserably.
Still early days for me as a Linux user. I have managed to install most programs and things I have been needed, but this one is something else. I must be constantly missing something in the github repo and cannot find any tutorials online.
Has anyone sucessfully installed Nitter for Linux Mint?
#asknostr #Nitter #Linux

2024-04-29 22:02:02

April health digest: Holy Qur’an edition.
Funny how some of the items that have only recently made it to the health bros’ shopping list are here.
#healthstr #nostr https://image.nostr.build/d339e464d183b767a919f2ab05caca5895776851b74df4bd4ce32bfb4b06558d.jpg

2024-04-27 12:58:01

Can you mute specific posts from people you follow?
There are people who I obtain value from, but who also post stuff I am not interested in, disagree, etc.
#asknostr

2024-04-21 22:59:34

On the previous note, I have become ever fascinated by Saudi Arabia’s leaders vision on how to increase their nation’s prosperity.
Insane achievements already by the fastest ever country to reach G20 status / membership.
Someone will say that they have oil. So do Mexico or Venezuela.

2024-04-21 22:50:47

The UK is in an absolute state. I am not saying this from a bashing perspective about a nation that welcomed me and has given me so much. Rather, from a saddened and frustrated one.
NHS, infrastructure, and society are crum-bling. Country is being taken in all spheres over by increasingly educated, increasingly wealthy, more dynamic and energetic individuals from different countries, especially Asia and particularly global south countries including Middle East and Far East Asia.

2024-04-15 22:55:33

Carnivores can be as dogmatic and painful as vegans…
“Vegans look dehydrated”, “”fruit kills you”, “oats are for birds”.
If you eat anything other than meat or eggs you are an unhealthy NPC.
“My ancestors ate only red meat”.
Brah, whose ancestors? Not mine.

2024-04-15 22:45:04

I know this will age like bread on the counter here, on Nostr. BUT.
“It is from politics to leave politics” or, in other words, leave politics to the rulers and entertain yourself with what concerns you.
It is also from politics to focus on changing oneself. Then on changing your family. Then your community. And so on.

2024-04-12 22:25:12

LOL.
L.O.L
LllllllllllOL
Too true. #note1yzz…prjk

2024-04-12 21:59:48

Post-workout: seven medjool dates and a litre of milk. Feeling invincible.
Carnivores upset because of the sugar in fruit.
Brah, if prophet Muhammad ﷺ ate it and prescribed it, I follow suit.

2024-04-11 21:34:46

Today I learnt the sunnah of drinking water the hard way…
Ibn 'Abbas (May Allah be pleased with them) reported:
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "Do not drink in one gulp like a camel, but in two or three (gulps). (…).

2024-04-11 19:41:51

As a former skinny guy in my preadolescent age, I feel like the slim gene is always dormant under my current body-armour.
In occasions like Ramadan, it comes back and makes me loose weight at lightning speed.
God bless muscle memory and my ability of eating like an elephant. I’ll be back in two weeks, Insha’Allah.

2024-04-07 22:37:32

Tech is FASCINATING 😵🤪
Best time to be alive.

2024-04-07 19:07:48

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Jazak Allahu Khairan 🫡

2024-04-07 12:15:10

Anyone knows a privacy virtual card service similar to @npub1tr4…2y5g Privacy.com but for UK residents?
#asknostr

2024-04-06 00:22:47

Oh man have I milked your privacy guides, @npub1tr4…2y5g.
Nothing but faff-free, to the point, actionable advice. Every day is school day.
#nostr #privacy

2024-04-04 21:36:59

A lot of purple in my phone and computer lately.
#nostr

2024-04-04 18:59:34

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Thank you for the recommendation, Jordan! I am listening to episode one and the speaker already got my attention.

2024-04-04 08:34:04

Love how we have imported the intersexual online arguments about genders and their dynamics from legacy social media into Nostr
Bruh… 🤣

2024-04-04 08:31:30

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Sound and specific actionable advice. I love it.
Just installed Onion Browser for iOs and Orbot. I already use Mullvad DNS and I cannot use privacy.com as I am not a US resident.

2024-04-03 21:57:51

Brave this, Brave that, uBlock this, uBlock, that but I still get raped by airlines that know what condiment I added to my chicken broth last night.
#askNostr

2024-04-03 21:47:38

“Only boring people get bored” is a statement that got imprinted in my psyche the second I heard it.
And now I cannot un-see it in real life.

2024-04-01 16:46:04

I agree 90 % with this advice.
The internet is a tool; you either earn or learn, or you are wasting your time.
There’s no argument in favour of keeping TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or any of the likes. Let’s go ahead and claim that you use them to learn. Unless posts are giving you new insights and you are further researching about the topic on your own, all you’re doing mindlessly scrolling for dopamine. And unless you are using the knowledge to take action, you are, again, doing it for the dopamine. Real learning doesn’t come from consuming short-format content.
LinkedIn though… Great for expanding your professional network, business, etc.
Now, someone will argue that there are a thousand ways to expand your professional network. Sure, I agree. #note1qqt…f48z

2024-04-01 14:07:08

My approach to health and longevity:
- “I heard that so and so started drinking seaweed juice and improved his health”
+ “what does it taste like?”
Vs.
+ “what other drinks are good for your body and why?”
1. If you want it to taste or taste pleasant go eat cookies.
2. Willing to drink battery acid if it works
The second one is my approach.
#nostr #healthstr

2024-03-30 15:00:17

Smoothie: whole milk, raw eggs, tomatoes, rocket, figs, bananas, raw cocoa powder, turmeric, black pepper, black seed oil, tahina.
Ask.me.ANYTHING.
#nostr

2024-03-29 21:46:32

Friday sweep after reading and executing on @npub14sl…t5d6 guide on “good” Nostr and relays by cloud company.
The house feels 1 % cleaner and tidier.
#nostr #privacy

2024-03-29 21:39:46

Combination of tech-savvy modern life chad and ancient caveman.
#introductions

2024-03-25 13:19:00

Tech engineer at my 9 to 5 job when seeing Brave browser: “what is Brave?” 💀

2024-03-24 19:56:52

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I have seen a note of something before where you exposed Telegram, but I cannot find it.
I have also searched for it on your website to no success.
I am curious to know about privacy and security concerns of Telegram.

2024-03-24 10:51:22

I am upset that I have had to return to conventional toothpaste usage.
A friend of mine, who’s a dentist, told me that at a granular level, baking soda is made up of tons of tiny crystals.
Apparently, those crystals scratch the outer surface of your teeth: the enamel. Apparently also, enamel doesn’t regenerate, or, at least, not fast / fully.
Therefore, once that layer erodes, your teeth feels coarse.
So, yes, baking soda whitens your teeth because the crystals are more effective at scratching than the toothbrush, although at the expense of ruining your enamel.
If anyone knows of a home made (if natural even better) solution, I would be rather happy to listen to it.
#plebchain #asknostr #plebstr #healthstr #note13aw…68jf

2024-03-24 10:32:35

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Thank you for the reply. I download both the checksum and the ISO from the same. For example, I check ISO against checksum from this page, which should be Linux Mint directory: https://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/linuxmint.com/stable/, but the integrity check fails.

2024-03-24 00:43:25

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Telegram web should be accessible through the use of a VPN connection though, shouldn’t it?

2024-03-23 22:53:51

Reaching out to the experts 📢🚨
I am trying to install Linux Mint 21.3 in my Windows laptop. I have followed the installation steps, but I am stuck at the integrity check.
I have downloaded the correct sha256sum.txt and sha256sum.txt.gpg, from Mint’s Heanet Download Mirror and from two different download mirrors (one from the USA and one from the UK).
When I generate their SHA256 sum and compare it with the sum present in sha256sum.txt. results don’t match. Like I said, I have downloaded the ISO images multiple times, from different download mirrors, and these don’t match.
Obviously I have not continued with the installation process, but I don’t know what I am missing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
#linux #askNostr

2024-03-23 15:52:18

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I use this calculator: https://calc.mendrulandia.es/. Note that you can change the language settings.
It tells you a prediction of cleanliness, conditioning, bubbles, persistence, hardness, solubility, drying, etc., based on the ingredients and quantities that you have used.

2024-03-23 15:43:30

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What ingredients have you put into it and what are the ratios? I leave mine to dry for at least two weeks. I make them with olive oil and caustic soda only. Sometimes coconut oil instead of olive oil.

2024-03-15 00:20:17

Brilliant quote. #note150y…p9ee

2024-03-15 00:16:35

Ladies with one post and 5 minutes in Nostr with a higher follower count that I will probably ever achieve 😂

2024-02-18 17:07:43

@npub1f6u…zcka I just created a Proton Mail account after reading your advice in regard to email addresses. Is it recommended to set-up automatic forwarding from Gmail?

2024-02-17 13:08:09

I have come across plenty of accounts of “seemingly” successful / rich individuals, whose posts’ objectives seem to be reduced to only one: to make fun or bring down other people; usually NPC, normies, the poor, the unsuccessful, or all of them. The former seem to have a pathological obsession with the later. Something seems off with these individuals.

2024-02-09 21:26:19

I while ago, I read on a newsletter that I am subscribed to, that no real learning takes place from consuming short-length content. I will save you from reading the reasons given by the author; I will only say that I very much agree. That is a big reason for my social media usage decline: I have always used them as a complementary learning tool. At the same time, whilst I have not actually properly learnt anything, social media has pointed me me in the direction / revealed to me a lot of topics that I may or may not have discovered with the help of those platforms. There is also the fact that a lot of people who I follow post exclusively in those mainstream platforms. Those two are the main reasons why I am reluctant to give up X.
*Back to workout*

2024-02-08 23:02:31

I love the democratic aspect of Nostr; tons of avenues to gather feedback from users and improve the place.
BUT ☝🏼
I also think that of a hundred people, 75 have no clue what they want and they say they feel this way. 10 people are equally clueless, but feel that they have to say something. The remaining 15 do know what they want and express it. I believe the market is in those 75 plus 10.
Although at the moment it very much feels like the audience is vastly made up of developers and technology / Bitcoin enthusiasts, that would represent those who know what they want and claim it. The rest, like me, who have landed on Nostr by accident, seem like the minority.
Speaking for myself, doing an honest introspection, I don’t know what I want from Nostr and the clients. I may know in the future.
In conclusion, happy to see it evolve and where everything leads, under the command of the much cherished and knowledgeable developers.
Food for thought.

2024-01-18 18:15:46

Excerpt from The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. https://image.nostr.build/9d763e592fd524cbeb4d9ec839825a741b4b2b5380e4e101d83d7a9e7a50a1f7.jpg

2024-01-17 15:58:52

Home made toothpaste recipe:
~ three tablespoons of baking soda.
~ three tablespoons spoons of extra virgin coconut oil.
Some claim that the sweet spot is 3:2 in favour of the oil. That’s up to you.
Then, add a few drops of essential oil of your preferred flavour if you need to. https://image.nostr.build/ac176a93e434edeb2f8f201f4d89c8e6294b625e93bf301da9213d3f5deb6aac.jpg

2024-01-16 19:17:14

Damus scroll experience is a delight now!

2024-01-15 21:12:07

I’ve seen @npub1f6u…zcka being recommended by another account I follow in one of those gratitude posts. Best follow of 2024 so far. Packed of actionable advice.

2024-01-15 21:02:38

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What is a good messaging app for this purpose?

2024-01-12 21:08:20

And this happens when I try to download @npub1ex7…vyt9 from the app store… https://image.nostr.build/59ca20d9bfff1743a49324a76dfd0d081904d457042a4596f1d5d03110b14cdf.jpg

2024-01-12 21:03:13

Anyone else having this issue when registering with @npub1cas…dg5l https://image.nostr.build/006fa6417aff191bebe881bf6e9bf22d896e8fb3aac9ee535bcb4619e40f7478.jpg

2024-01-12 21:02:38

Anyone else having this issue when registering with @npub1cas…dg5l ?

2024-01-11 18:21:45

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Like, man, they truly leave you feeling better than what you were feeling before the interaction. And it can be something as little as giving the way and smiling at you

2024-01-11 18:20:01

Yo, every single muslim I have interactions with is such an excellent individual when it comes to manners and etiquette. Just reporting.

2024-01-10 22:29:10

https://image.nostr.build/987f000bccf5722ee9f6eb610a26ef8a6f6b1e6a648bec9189bafc2a93907861.jpg

2024-01-09 23:28:19

Do we know if Ian Carroll (@cancelcloco in X) is on Nostr? The guy is bullish on protecting and supporting small businesses against mega corporations.
It just occurred to me how it ties with lower time-preference, lower consumerism, and bigger reward for quality/usefulness.
As we all know, small businesses usually mean more expensive products due to them not enjoying the benefit of higher margins through the different tactics and resources that mega corporations employ to achieve these.
But maybe this means that, because you will spend more, you will try to make better choices, you also have less spare to over consume and you stop where it’s adequate. By buying better you may be more mindful about the future prioritising something for how healthy it is / how useful it is / how long it lasts / etc. and in this way be investing somehow into the future. Being less discount-y of the present.
Hopefully that makes sense. I’ve been giving it a try so far this week and avoiding mega corporations in favor of smaller businesses where possible.

2024-01-09 21:10:02

This may be a push to cut X off for good 🤣 #note1vk6…lj4f

2024-01-09 21:07:28

A work colleague gave me this mug as a gift during Christmas. Favourite mug of all times. https://image.nostr.build/5a26aee37091e5b2092d415887f455aca2f83961e06b0ca594cf42eec6c9e6bf.jpg

2024-01-09 20:57:29

On the brink of removing my account in X, but the fear of missing out is big on that one.
Never had this issues with Facebook or Instagram.
Damn, Daniel…

2023-12-18 18:51:26

My fiat bank sends me this. We will see, we will see 😂 https://image.nostr.build/0c30f636f4826cbcd4817c730e6638dda35e6f7c0e6d494ef4d4dd27e3770ea0.jpg

2023-12-16 17:24:30

I have just noticed the significance amount of storage space that Damus takes.
Does anyone know what kind of documents and data the client stores in the phone?
The app’s size is only 13.5 MB, yet documents and data is 2.3 GB. I have only been using the app for a few weeks. https://image.nostr.build/e21f3d2fe7428c8981c6ca3d705e888c4b211a1b87d8aa8888d427912a8e961f.jpg

2023-12-11 23:09:40

I am reading bitcoin and money related content and books like THERE IS NO TOMORROW.
I need to start stacking sats 3 hours ago. https://image.nostr.build/3f7293b53192bc6f047d94ce54323d9e91e78cc72cf99895d15b3ce09d2ecc61.jpg

2023-12-06 23:52:40

From The Ethics of Money Production. I will bring it up at the dinner table during Christmas when the family teams up against me after, once again, feeling the urge to voice my views on health and nutrition, and their current state under government/ mainstream advice 😂 https://image.nostr.build/ff4750f4a2e0749ffdee90cc80591937d92c5a028c920f5f8d4e009305a334b7.jpg

2023-12-06 23:34:37

Incredible the amount of unrelated individuals working in the background to make #nostr and clients better.
Seeing updates everyday, new features, and just fellas running their own services for the benefit of all.

2023-12-06 20:26:13

I keep reading that even after 10+ years later, those of us who are just entering the world of bitcoin are early / on time.
At times, judging by the myriad of resources available in the form of bogs, podcasts, books, interviews, etc, I feel like it is the opposite. It feels like I am late, and that I am playing catch-up!
However, I want to and like to trust those who would say I am on time. I like to stay optimistic.
For the moment, waiting to get The Bitcoin Standard, The Bullish Case for Bitcoin, and Ethics of Money Production delivered.

2023-12-06 16:06:11

Could someone send a small zap to test my wallet? As little as 1 sat will do.
#nostr #grownostr #plebchain #bitcoin

2023-12-06 11:58:37

Right… I have some questions about relays: do I have the ability to choose to read from a relay, to write to it, or both? And if so, how do I do this? Does the selection of either of the three scenarios mentioned above happen automatically when I connect to a given relay?
#nostr #grownostr

2023-12-05 23:36:57

https://image.nostr.build/0ab67a58a2055ea375cce3e0c14c3d8c7336b04d749b3af0337cfe2b3dd1e4b8.jpg

2023-12-05 21:17:00

I am beyond fascinated with Nostr protocol and Bitcoin. I cannot stop learning about it.
I have discovered so much in the past three days and found it so easy that I am compelled to take action immediately. At the same time, I am conscious that I may be being naive or oversimplifying things and that triggers an internal warning. It tells me to exercise caution. That feeling gets amplified not only because I am new to this world, but also don’t come from a technical background (tech / software/ etc).
I guess I need to learn the “don’t trust, verify” concept more in depth and start applying it.
But I want to get hands on as soon as possible.

2023-12-05 20:32:59

Last week I started learning about Nostr and using different clients.
To be honest, even more so that the decentralized nature of the protocol and all the other benefits / characteristics, the one that attracted me the most was the absence of an algorithm and advertisements.
In such a short of time, I am experiencing first hand the difference in energy, mental sharpness, focus, and even mood vs. using mainstream social media platforms.
It is true that big platforms drain your energy, both mental and physical, drive people into negativity spirals, outrage and polarization.
Quite the opposite of this and Bitcoin’s community, which prioritizes, encourages to drive your attention, energy, and time towards productive purposes, growth, the “proper” ways.
I read recently that Bitcoin changes you and I believe it. New mental paradigms, more responsibility and accountability.
It feels more natural, more true, more beautiful, more satisfactory.
I am looking forward to becoming increasingly orange-pilled.
Thought of the day.

2023-12-03 23:02:41

Extremely digestible and fun to read for absolute newbies like me.
I feel like, for pre-coiners, bitcoin can be a daunting topic that can be easily ignored and put aside for later due to the “novelty”, complexity (?)), etc.
This book is great for giving you context and overall knowledge about bitcoin, so that you can understand what is going on next time you read that note, blog post, etc.
Thank you very much for writing the book in a way that has made me enthusiastic about the topic and eager to learn all about it. #note1spf…duss