But keep your eyes on it and don’t write it off. I don’t know how old you are, but it’s still likely to end up the most effective choice for you at some point in your lifetime. Certainly in your children’s.

Oh yeah, for sure, I keep an eye on all these types of things because at the end of the day, I’m a cheap bastard, and love long-term savings. I am going to go with the option with the highest positive expected value for me, but heat pumps are not there for my climate just right now. I’d be more then willing to convert over if that ever changes.

Right but efficiency doesn’t mean it’s better. Electric heat has always been 100% efficient, but that has not made it the most cost effective nor the best solution over far less efficient means of generating heat either. Efficiency isn’t the only factor. The debates and critisms here are valid from what I’ve seen.

Personally, I’m not sold on them… maybe if I lived someplace warmer but living in Wisconsin, they are not for me. I’ve also seen that they require a lot more maintenence and are much less resilient compared to furnaces and central air units. I’ve watched plenty of installation and repair videos on them. Even the HVAC guys have issues with them in these terms.

I probably haven’t thought if it for like 10 years myself but this post reminded me of it. I remember maybe 15 years ago using a portable version of it on a USB drive, and it was amazing.

Abiword is FOSS and would be my choice over Wordpad anyway.

No thanks, I’ve had two videos get strikes and removed by them. One was a video that showed people how to remove the FireStick stock launcher and replace it with Wolf Launcher so you could use a clean, ad-free launcher like Simple TV Launcher. And the other was just a video that walked people through using ReVanced Manager. I mean, I get it, it’s their platform and they can choose what gets broadcast on it. And I’m also not entitled to them hosting a video that walks people through cutting out their revenue stream. But I read the policy they cited me breaking, and you would have to apply a very vague interpretation to say I broke it.

I would rather not support Linus.

You have got to be trolling.

Do you use Android? Chrome is the native WebView that a good chunk of your apps use.

Wait… so you are talking about webviews when I was talking about the actual browser? Lmao… talk about a false equivalency.

This is got many advantages and many disavantages. If you dislike it, fair enough - but let’s not pretend this is unusual or somehow unjustifiable.

I’m talking about forcing the actual browser installation. Nothing you said has countered this, Android doesn’t force Chrome to be installed for webviews in applications. The webview class is nothing close to being a full browser, and certainly doesn’t require a browser to be installed to use it. If anything, that is an example of the right way to do it… having a separate class, that is not dependent on the actual browser installation.

Yes, please go on, I can’t wait to hear more of your ridiculous takes.

And the web browser being an integral part of the OS is a fucking joke to most of us.

If you’re actually thinking about switching… LineageOS has been tried and true for a very long time now. That’s what I’m running. And you can flash Magisk if you want on it.

Cake Wallet is available for Linux since May of this year, but it’d probably be better to install Feather Wallet in TAILS.

That actually sounds pretty awesome in terms of not having big risk and being easy enough that someone like me can pull it off. But does just moving it to another wallet make it anon?

(non-anon wallet) => transfer A => (anon wallet)

You have the idea, that’s all you need to do, the only thing I will add is that I would also recommend using sub addresses on each of the wallets. It’s not a good idea to use the same address over and over if you are going to do future transactions.

Also… maybe a dumb question and I know this is completely different but i’m used to having tools like ipleak.net to check for dns leaks and stuff like that. Is there a way to check if your current wallet is anonymous or can be traced back to you?

Setup your first Cake wallet on your phone, without regard to being anonymous, as you are funding it with a known account like zelle or whatever anyway. Then boot into TAILS and set persistent storage with a Cake Wallet that you create in there, that will be your anonymous wallet, and then you can fund it from your known wallet. That TAILS Cake wallet will then be anonymous and you will not need to worry about tracking or fingerprinting in TAILS while you are connected to TOR. Just make sure not to accidentally identify yourself through other means.

Yeah, you would look at the list of vendors trading with cash, and then choose one that you like. Check reviews.

does that mean i can only trade other crypto for it?

Not sure what you mean exactly by this, can you rephrase that?

like i have a credit card and cash but no crypto, no wallet, etc currently…

You are going to need a wallet regardless of how you fund it, I would recommend Cake Wallet.

so that only leaves cash and it sounds like you are supposed to put actual paper cash monies in an envelope and physically mail it out? doesn’t that mean if you mailed like $50 or $100 or whatever, that it could get lost in the mail and you’re just fucked and have to eat it?

Yeah, there is a little bit of risk to do it this way. You would want to make sure that you can’t tell it’s just cash in an envelope.

Also, doesn’t post office requiere a return address? i thought they refuse to mail without that cz of bombs/hatemail/etc? Am I wrong about that?

You can write anything you want on the return address though, it doesn’t matter. Obviously again, if it does get returned, you’d lose it. And that is the risk you take for being completely anonymous this way.

Alternatively you could use a known account like paypal or zelle or cashapp to fund an initial wallet but then you have to make sure to send it to another XMR wallet so it’s anonymous.

Get XMR like the other person said if you want anonymity.

https://agoradesk.com/

Pay by cash, or if you buy it with a known account then send it to another XMR wallet afterwards.

He still has the ear and backing of the CEO, so I’d say stick around, but if that changes then I would be looking to bounce the fuck on out of there.