These are audio podcasts, not video, and it did work. Mind you, I couldn’t have anything else going at the same time, but it did actually work.

400kbit/s is surprisingly usable. I’m able to use my podcast app at 1.25x on 256kbit/s so with near double that i’m sure I could use it on my standard 1.6x that I like to use.

Oneplus nord n200 the device was released in 2021, but I purchased it brand new in the box in 2023. So I’ve had it for three years, although it’s a five-year-old device.

That idea of a 5% discount doesn’t sound like such a bad idea.

Something tells me the article doesn’t understand the way Bitcoin works. A transaction takes 10 minutes to clear on-chain, unless you’re using the lightning network, and the lightning network is fucking terrible, especially for high-value transactions like this. Because you can be rug-pulled. That and you can’t send high-value transactions on a lightning network because every link in the chain has to have the proper amount of liquidity to make that transaction occur.

Richard Teng?

True, a place like Iran could keep it untraceable, although they would have to take some extra care in order to do so. But for your average person that’s not being looked at by a nation state, it is much easier to remain untraceable.

Oh, if they demanded Monero, people would figure out how to get it.

Honestly, the biggest mistake they’ve made here is that they’re not demanding Monero instead.

It takes 10 minutes to get a single confirmation, but I’m assuming that it takes more than 10 minutes for a ship to transit this waterway, so it wouldn’t matter.

Correct. Monero would be untraceable.

Well, thankfully, since on peer tube, your video is shared between all the peers currently watching. If your video gets super popular, your connection isn’t actually hammered all that badly due to the fact that other peers are also supplying bits of the video for people.

As for the storage though, that’s a very good point.

PeerTube has entered the chat

Speak for yourself. I find quite a bit of joy in “I told you so”.

Meshtastic is great for this. I have a meshtastic node that is also a 10,000mAh backup phone battery. Just running it as a meshtastic node lasted 50 days on a single charge. And while I’ve not done another complete drain test on it again, I know for a fact that it lasts over 30 days every single time I charge it.

This is the only correct response. Middle finger.

This would not have affected me since I use Lineage OS without Google Play Services, but I am now more seriously than ever looking into using a Linux phone like Postmarket OS.

Yes, I am more seriously than ever looking into using Postmarket OS.

I think the 24 hour wait is at least a sensible alternative. Anybody who’s going to be seriously installing apps on their devices like this is probably going to be using Lineage OS or Graphene OS or /e/OS or something like that anyway. And in that case, they will be using AOSP and not be subject to this because they’re not running a Google certified device.

While I’m not particularly happy about this change, I think it could be way worse.

Something tells me that Google drastically underestimated the amount of pushback they were going to get when they announced this. I mean, very drastically underestimated.

I haven’t read the article yet, but I’m about to. But no matter what, I’m still looking a lot more seriously into Linux on mobile, such as PostmarketOS than I was before.