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[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that one is beyond me as well.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 14 points 2 months ago

Sprint would have failed without the merger and we would have had three carriers anyway so it doesn't matter whether they merged or not and in fact it's probably better that they did because it caused T-Mobile's service to improve dramatically since then. I knew friends who had T-Mobile back in 2012 and it was a joke. I had T-Mobile in 2016 and it was only okay.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 4 points 2 months ago

Hey, that's an awesome setup.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 1 points 2 months ago

So much more efficient then.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 33 points 2 months ago

Oh, gotcha. So crypto mining is bad, because he can't make money off of it. But AI is just fine, because he can make tons of money off of it. I understand now. Makes perfect sense.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 40 points 2 months ago

Which is why I've been buying nothing except OEM unlocked devices since 2016 I Payful price for them, but I don't have to worry about leaving my carrier Whenever I want and I don't have to be on extremely expensive cell phone plans either. There is nobody else in my entire life that pays less for cell phone service than I do and I only know one person who pays the exact same and that's because we are on the same plan on our own accounts. Literally, everybody I know in my life pays about four times what I do for cell phone service.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A gunman could walk in with an AK-47 and shoot everybody dead on live tv... Oh wait, you mean what will happen in the debate? Well obviously since it's already over, we know the answer to that.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 2 points 2 months ago

Well, for 20 years we had one space station and now with China we have two and if we eventually start to get commercial stations then we'll start to have even more so more people will be able to go up.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 0 points 2 months ago

Well, I can't help you with the fact that you don't have a whole lot of money to begin with, but as far as the fees and regulations and currency issues, Monero would solve that.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 1 points 2 months ago

I donate sometimes with monero

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 1 points 2 months ago

Actually, I used one of those 5G home internet plans when I used to live in an apartment and they kept raising my rates on God awfully bad cable. And so I told them to shove it. It actually worked out really well. I was a little bit surprised because I had heard that wireless ISPs were not very good.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 5 points 2 months ago

While not outright obvious, the title is technically correct. It is open source money.

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In the book Wade Watts powers his Oasis console and a small heater using a battery that he recharges in a van by pedaling a stationary bike. This seems quite far fetched. The console itself appears to be a thin client with only enough CPU Aand GPU power to render the Oasis and a little extra to contribute to the server for distributed computing if needed. The power needs of such a device are likely to be quite low so i figure a regular smartphone size battery (20 to 25 watts) would be fine. However, the heater is the problem. The smallest electric heater i have ever seen is still 200 watts. A normal human can produce ~100 watts of power per hour according to this site. If the Oasis console uses ~5 watts per hour this would leave him with 95 watts with which to run his heater. That would allow him to run his heater for ~28 minutes per hour and only if he spent the entire previous hour pedaling to recharge the battery.

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