Best of luck avoiding all of the system level packages that just shim a snap.

Use Fedora if you dislike snap. Canonical has made their stance clear and are hostile to users for a long time now on this matter.

Sounds like a great mistake for Google to find a way to repeat. Why innovate when you can abuse users and hide behind "complexity" as "plausible deniability"?

You'll all keep using them either way.

Are there newer numbers?

I use wormhole, warp, etc. They are available on many platforms with FOSS licenses with very limited centralization.

You can go to an ATM and purchase a coin and use a DEX to convert almost instantly.

wouldn't that defeat the privacy purpose? wouldn't someone be able to see that it was your card in the ATM, when they traced back the monero as exchanged for a coin that was exchanged for your fiat?

ETA: just to be clear - that's a genuine question. I don't know much about monero, so if it really is possible to have untraceable money, that seems like a prudent investment for precaution. I've just always assumed that digital money is inherently traceable, so I always assumed genuine privacy is a mirage. I assume I'm wrong about that, somehow, so I'm curious about the mechanisms of that anonymity.

The DEX will likely leak the fact that you received the monero, but after that there is no more paper trail. So you can spend it as you like.

so would that be a feature of monero-to-monero transactions? I'm still confused as to how it would actually be anonymous? like if I used another coin to exchange for monero, that's obviously traceable. so then I use monero to purchase something else which I then sell for other monero (or I just trade monero directly? if that's possible?). and I'm to believe that there's no way to trace that back and say "okay, monero from wallet X was traded to wallet Y" or whatever other intermediate steps (like"monero was spent on X from wallet A, and then X was resold using monero from wallet B")? like, assuming they don't get in to my wallet, no one would be able to track down a transaction on the chain to a wallet? Or they would be able to track it to a wallet, but they couldn't tie that wallet to me for... some reason?

sorry to ask, but the website seems very light on any actual technical detail about how they are achieving their privacy claims - at least in terms I can parse to make them understandable to me.

The flagged post in reply to you is correct. Each transaction is buried in one time addresses and decoy addresses.

very cool, thanks! And since I can't respond to that poster, I'll say it here: thanks for that detailed answer! That definitely seems like a pretty anonymous system. I'm convinced that monero is a pretty private coin!

There are many crypto ATMs that accept cash up to a transaction limit.

Very intersting. A compression strategy that uses the model itself as the dictionary.

X as a platform is dead. It's all bots and engagement farming. Just disengage.

Ollama works very well in Linux on my AMD hardware. I have a 6800 XT which isn't even originally supported by the ROCm stack in some ways and it "just works" for a ton of very nice models, especially if I seek out quantized versions of the model.

There are also a lot of men with voice changers in CS2 now, for whatever reason. I have been playing a few times and then the "girl" cuts their voice changer and starts yelling at some guy hitting on her, etc. Very strange to witness when you're just trying to find out if this round is a buy round.

With LLMs, this has become commonplace. Most folks don't realize how far real time video/audio generation has come. You should never ever trust the sound of a voice or a video call, pictures on a screen, etc. it can all be faked.

Behind every virtual "thirst trap" is some dude in another country hoping to scam some sucker out of money.

EDIT: oh and to be clear, I've no issues with meeting folks online. I met my spouse online a couple decades ago, and we quickly moved it offline.

I also know folks (guys) who run hobbyist setups that stream on platforms and pretend to be attractive young ladies. The voice quality is very believable, and the video is approaching realistic. With a bit of doctoring, it looks completely believable...and we are talking about the widely available stuff, NOT the stuff available behind closed doors.

What I am trying to say here is don't treat a relationship as real until you meet the person in real life and build an actual connection.

I am so confused at why people are doing this. I mean, are they just doing it "for the lols" or are they raking in suckers from the gaming communities?

I keep a voice button bound to toggle on and off all comms, also known as a "clutch key", and usually in these scenarios I keep comms off quite a bit because there is a lot of non-game chatter and I tend to only talk during freeze time - since outbound voice still works for call outs. I'm just really bad at listening to people while I am trying to focus and it frustrates me to die because of lack of game sound awareness. So, I don't know if these are the same games where people are trying to beg for skins, etc.

People are downvoting you, but I can literally pay for my meal using CashApp at a diner in the middle of nowhere using Bitcoin.

You're paying for your meal using USD, surely?

Is that bitcoin you're paying for your USD with on-chain, or is it just sparkling PayPal Account Balance?

Nope, those are BTC transactions using Lightning. It was rolled out relatively recently but is live.