shame :( I like Fedora…(It’s what I use) these surveillance laws are helping me pick my OS, so that’s the bright side

Can you clear Nazis out of a Nazi bar? Yes

No. if it clears the Nazis it then has the ability to clear the Anti-Nazis, you can’t always have your cake and eat it

Bitcoin is POW and gives no value in return

says who?

Etherium is better imo too but still no privacy.

ETH is a centralized mess, It’s non government CBDC basically

The main problem with monero is that running a pruned node needs like 80Gb of storage.

Yes, small price to pay if you want true privacy

Grin/Mimblewimble might also be cool but I haven’t looked into it too much yet.

I haven’t looked into it much either, just learned it from you, it does look promising, take a look at ARRR, the problem with all these privacy focused coins is lack of adoption and they get delisted off exchanges due to government regulations

so you admit it’s worth something, interesting!

You don’t watch a whole lot of news! do you Mr Wayne?

I would say it’s the branding, Manjaro is a good name for a distro, and it’s known for making Arch stable… It was loved once for a reason

based on your post history, you ought to know the meaning of this meme… unless you’re playing a game here

well well well, this is news to me… but c’mon it’s like an abuser decided to be nice for once xD (not enough)

No, I don’t care about the downvotes, I can just agree with the group and get upvoted, so Idc about upvotes either

I’m not fragile to the point where I can’t stand by my opinion, I do even when I’m the only one holding it, but then I think what’s the point (since I’m alone), why even bother!

I’m sensitive to echo chambers (I don’t mind them as long as people are aware they’re in one) but I’m really sensitive to group think, and I like to be that 10th guy who disagrees with the other 9, I like to be the devil’s advocate, especially in political discussions, but do people get smart and see thru that? can’t they see they out number me? and i could never win against 9 people?!! but the bigger disaster is that even the mods join the group think and remove entire threads, why? because there’s only one in thread who’s making trouble!

I should make it clear I don’t go around and disagreeing for the sake of it, but for those instances that everyone is agreeing on something, there needs to be an opposition, concerns, questions… etc otherwise this place becomes much worse than Facebook

I would contribute my thoughts if I saw that people were willing to engage in civil discussion, but 5 out of 10, they’ll attack my character, and it doesn’t have to be a heavy topic, I once asked why do people here seem to dislike emojies? and 30% of the comments were about how subhuman I’m for focusing on such silly topics (I’m certain they can’t handle my heavy topics, I got a feeling) ¯_(ツ)_/¯

conclusion: it’s a waste of energy to disagree with 9 people, (one of them might be a mod) when you’re alone, 1v1 fair, 10v10, 3v10 even… all fair… 1v9 is not (add toxicity to it, lack of communication skills… etc) it’s just not worth it to engage

Meanwhile Discord in it’s entirety is unencrypted

Group think: I rarely comment here because of that…

The problem is that they’re basing their new infrastructure on a token that they control, that is also based on a blockchain that isn’t neutral as they claim (Ethereum was 70% pre-mined by it’s developers, how is that neutral!)

also NFTs aren’t even Crypto in my view, they never took off, they never gained momentum, no one looked at them… well… some NPCs did… whenever someone mentions NFT just know they’re trying to sell you something that they can make out of thin air, that’s not how value works…