The minimum security deposit is small enough to not be a problem in most cases. If you give away anything of value online, put a public donation address alongside it. If you don't you can join #getyourfirstxmr:monero.social and offer a low value deal in exchange for eg. gift cards.

Seen your meme during my lunch break doom scrolling on another site. Happy to see you are here on lemmy too!

There is a UFS-II specification and even a PCIe version specifically for micro SD cards. It was all planned out, and it would have been trivial to tell consumers: "Yo need card with more contacts as shown in picture". But no, the biggest manufacturer of flash storage is samsung, and they decided they'd rather sell higher storage capacity phones as a premium. Easy to do when you're the second biggest manufacturer of of phones and apple already paved the way.

Nice list. I chuckled at the fact that the bitcoin section does not recommend bitcoin :) We're also here on lemmy, if you ever need help or just want to say hi

Fascinating. Thanks for taking the time to type it out

At least the framwork has windows support - I couldn't bear the thought of forcing linux onto people and have them missing out.

You are doing it wrong. Framework is easy to DIY, use that option and bring your own memory and storage. Only get what you need right now, you can always upgrade later when prices come down. Instead of the included charger, get a high quality third party 65W GAN charger. All that gets the cost down to about 1600 with barely any downside. Don't buy a modular device without using the modularity to your advantage.

lol. Look at the current state and trend of tech and tell me with a straight face that it's you who will be getting the innovation. What amazing feature was introduced in the last 10 years you couldn't live without? How much garbage was introduced just because companies could get away with it because the average consumers PC is powerful enough to not notice the spyware/adware/bloatware running in the background?

Yes, buy the new thing. Consume. Trash. Buy new.

I don't even value repairability to save a buck long term. I value it because I know I can get my system up and running again ways before I finish setup on a new device.

They have no build-in ports besides audio on the framework 13. The framework 16 only has 6 expansion bays, nothing else.

Electrically? Yes.

Mechanically the expansion card has higher durability because the force on the USBC is minimized. It's also convinient to have build in "carry slots", so for your standard loadout you don't need to bring a bag with accessories. Compare it to the dongle storage in a wireless mouse.

Agreed. If you buy the minimum spec bare bones version and get RAM and NVME from a third party, the price is somewhat comparative to other MRSPs. If you go for a higher spec or compare to sales prices instead of MSRP you pay up to 50% premium according to my research.

If you however factor in downtime of a broken and non-repairable device, plus the time spend on setting up a replacement, the framework can easily compete if your setup is complex.

The SD expansion card is "comming soon" according to their store page, and they showed prototypes that looked close to production on their youtube channel. My best guess is release in Q4

"Here anon, take this"

You are probably right, and I hate it.

Essential consumer goods have huge markets, and have few differentiating factors. Both of these things are beneficial for mass production, which lowers the cost so much that small business are driven out of the market. And the small business that remain often only resell mass produced goods. Even though WE want essential goods available for Monero, I think it offers buisiness too little advantage in a highly competitive market and the effort required plus legal uncertainty may even drag them down.

If you want Monero adoption, ask yourself: Why would you want to receive XMR instead of cold hard cash for your work and/or goods? The obvious answer should be: Because you can use it for things you can not use cash for! Yeah people of course thing "duh we got the darkweb" and while that's true the market is way beyond early adopter stage and does not really require our attention. I do like to market for internet services (email, vpn, vps, sms verification etc) because it's such an obvious yet still niche use case. It's also a low value way to spend donated money on your foss projects or whatever you do.

Personally I think good markets would be anything that is not illegal, but people still don't want anyone else to know about. If you could pay for tax consultants, lawyers, psychiatrists and similar professions anonymously, I'd bet some people would be willing to pay extra and go out of their way to acquire XMR. And once you can't trade for fiat anymore, the best way to get some would be to earn by offering more generic things.

Yes, in the end it's a hen and egg problem. But I really do believe the least uphill battle is going the "exclusive for XMR" route.

There are plenty of tradesmen working on weekends without reporting it to tax authorities. Common in cities, practically the norm in rural areas. Time spend working doesn't leave a paper trail and whoever hired them can buy all the materials for "personal use". Farmers do need to buy supplies, but unless they have John Deer equipment, the harvest amount will not be automatically counted, and it's trivial to sell some part of it on non-official markets.

I think it all hinges on how fast people get used to using monero "for real" and not only to buy some merch or for other meme purposes. When regulations come down, the people who will be hit the hardest are those bridging between fiat and xmr, because their banking activity can be moderately easy controlled.

vedal is baaack

LPCAMM seems more useful overall as a product.

Only if you need 2-4 sticks, otherwise they take up too much PCB space. Look at servers and how a good chunk of their volume is filled with dozens of sticks. You cant simply lay them down flat.

Man this job posting is worse then all the garbage that companies put out. There will be very few people who tolerate KYC for non-paying volunteer internet janny job - and those who do should probably never be mods. Good luck tho, you'll need it.

LPCAMM may have better specs, but DIMM requires a smaller area on the PCB and can make better use of the vertical space.