I try things on the internet.
rarely, shit just works.
Sorry, shitposting is a hard habit to break. These are the first two legit definitions I found when googling. I guess I keep forgetting that W stands for Windows and that sysadmins still administer windows machines, and that windows has server products. You see, after NT, I went to linux and forgot about the windows world with the exception that I need the computer for games.
I am not very familiar with the West Salem Foursquare Church or the Washington State Fusion Center. Could you be more specific?
Can you fish an antenna outside your window, and have a few hundred dollars to spare? You might get better signal with a booster. I use one from surecall on my car and it fills in the gaps in coverage well. Not sure if I get 5g or not, but I get adequate cell service. I think they have ones for the home, ideally with a directional antenna and mast. At that point, you should have great 5g, but your mileage may vary.
maybe then you want to try manually falling back to LTE. from the docs:
LTE: This setting should only be selected if experiencing service issues in locations that offer multiple network types and only LTE is needed.
the phone does it when you set it to automatic. but you haven’t set it to automatic, so it sees 4g and 3g and says “nope, my user would rather have no service than 4g or 3g service”.
you may want to get a UPS for your modem and wifi. a nice 1000watt UPS should give you a few hours of internet when the power goes out.
The phone is trying this on it’s own but you are preferring not to use it, instead preferring 5g networks.
Honestly you should probably just let the phone do its thing. Various bands have various capabilities. 5g is very fast, goes through concrete but doesn’t travel far (even via air). LTE has more bands in lower frequencies than 5G does IIRC, and lower bands travel greater distances and serve more customers. Phones automatically try to use the 5g signal, falling back on 4g, then 3g, 2g… the reason the feature you enabled exists is when there are stronger 4g signals that are getting picked up and there is still a 5g signal within range. In your case I doubt the 5g signal is in range.
Btw, your pixel should be using wifi calling at home, which uses the internet and gets as good of a signal as your home wifi does.
Notice how it says “home gas” on the side? That’s because this stores a gas, possibly propane. This isn’t a generator by itself. Where are these hooked up to?
It looks like you’re in south florida? Home gas seems to be a propane or natural gas delivery company.
Obsidian
Of course it is. Why would anyone want to use emacs? Also why would anyone use spaces instead of tabs?
Over-under ftw!
I take it you pay taxes on your monero, then?
Bro, you are literally giving tips on how to money launder, and poor tips at that.
You seem to want to be caught by police, so you do you bro.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15334570
Sending coins to yourself, aka churning, might not work so well after all, according to the latest MRL report. They say: " We at the Lab previously thought that one possible solution to knacc’s described attack would be churning, where one sends funds to oneself multiple times before using at a merchant. Unfortunately, this leads to chains of self-referential transactions, which leave an undesirable and identifiable statistical signal. "
buddy, crypto uses cryptography. you aren’t putting extra crypto on top of that. give me a break. how would the network handle your transactions?!
decoys are obsfucation and obsfucation isn’t security. I am not the first person to say this; go read krebs on security. I got that memo years ago.
you are increasing your privacy in one very small and tiny way: you are making it harder for newbs to easily follow your transactions. are you concerned about newbs discovering your transactions or literally anyone with any sort of programming background.
keep in mind that the cryptography you are dealing with here has to do with accessing your funds (moving or receiving) via your wallet, that’s what crypto does. by making decoy transactions, you are actually painting a big target on your back, sort of the opposite of privacy. you’re associating your transactions with decoy transactions, which means it is more likely to get noticed.
seriously kid, go read up on how a linked list works, or a tree. it doesn’t matter what you do to try to obsfucate your transactions; if they worked on the chain, they are very much traceable.
but do give me a whitepaper or example transaction to look into. I could use a laugh. and maybe consider stopping painting a target on your back but hey… you do you man.
then why are you churning bro? if you don’t want privacy what is the point of even trying to fake privacy by obsfucation?
privacy is a form of security my guy.
I use Monero as a currency, not for trading and betting. You’re not doing the same? Great for you, but don’t say it can’t be used like that.
I don’t use XMR, period. But that’s not the point here. The point is you’re just describing L1 networks, not anything that’s special about XMR.
Can you pay your rent with XMR? No. Can you pay for a meal down the street with XMR? No. Can you buy some physical item that you need for every day life with XMR? No. Can you pay your rent with XMR? No. Can you buy virtual goods with XMR? Yeah, probably. Can you buy anything you want with an app/service/offramp that converts your XMR to fiat and pays the vendor in fiat? Yeah, most likely, but then you’re using XMR as more of a savings account with variable interest.
Can I walk over to a BTC atm and purchase bitcoin in cash? Yes! Can I buy virtual goods with BTC? Yes! Can I pay for some physical goods with BTC? Yeah, maybe kinda, but also maybe not due to US laws and retailers wanting to comply with US tax code. Under the table? Sure, but that’s true of any crytpo or really anything. Find a cool rock? Trade it for drugs! Idk.
Not the most fair comparison but my point is that XMR and BTC function the same as far as it goes being a “currency”. The only functional difference between the two is that one has more adoption, which is just a product of popularity and time. This may change for XMR. may change.
Cryptocurrencies were first made as currencies, as their name states.
And they still are? This a weird angle. I think you may be looking at a very narrow version of currency. I’m calling currency anything that can be traded for goods and services, ideally something that’s more useful than just trading it for more currency of a different type (convert to fiat).
But then, trading you are doing, are you not? Each time you buy XMR, you buy it in fiat, which is a trade. You then trade it back to fiat, which is another trade. The cryptocurrency is volitile, so timing it is important and now we’re betting.
I’ve never talked about security…
No, you’ve talked about hiding your transactions, which … is security. Security in your peice of mind that your transactions are private. Security by way of obsfucation, which isn’t security as I’ve explained.
There’s no obsfuscation… only decoy transactions.
You mean decoy transactions which are meant to… obsfucate the true transactions? That’s obsfuscation.
Look, I’m not a cop but I write code. An investigation would start with a real transaction that was flagged, likely via some automated means. If I were tasked with hunting this down, I would just need to write a script to do so. You’re honestly making me want to give this a try, so if you feel you can point me in the direction of a good example that I could use as a challenge, let me know. No promises for any result any time soon but it would be fun to try to understand. My gut tells me that it’s not only possible, but very easy to do.
Granted, as a human with only web based tools, it’s near impossible, I understand what you are saying. But, some humans code…
Can it run crysis?
Privacy, anonymity and fungibility
That’s L1 networks for you.
This is not the case with XMR… your coin is now untracable.
Security through obsfucation is not security. You’re describing a situation where an app (one that either hasn’t been written yet or is written but you don’t know about yet) can reverse the transactions you’ve done. Sure, it’s not as simple as going on etherscan and looking at a wallet, I guess… but that’s not nearly the same.
Blockchain is a ledger. A ledger is a record of transactions. In order for the network to work, that ledger has to be verified. If the network can verify who has what in what wallet and where the money went, so can a purpose-built application or script.
…churning is controversial…
I’m going to guess that’s because it probably isn’t security and comes at the cost of greatly increasing the size of the ledger, all so a script has to take a few more CPU cycles to get the information.
Security through obsfucation isn’t security but it does make you feel more secure because it’s harder for you to understand. When’s the last time you calculated a crypto transaction by hand? There’s a reason we let computers do this work.
BTC is known to have been a source of trouble when the coin you can get in swaps or exchanges can have a background of being stolen…
Which network…? Because it sounds like you’re just describing L2/L3 networks in general. That was kind of my whole point with this… Once you go to L2/L3, it doesn’t really matter if you have BTC or XMR or ETH, because as you put it yourself “the coin you can get in swpaps or exchanges can have a background of being stolen”. I don’t know if that’s what happened in my case, I just know one day I woke up and all USDT (a fairly well known coin) on Polygon was gone. My point is, that could’ve been XMR and it would have likely happened the same way.
My larger point is… what good is money if you aren’t going to use it? Is it the L1 XMR network which earns you money or the DeFi options on L2/L3? If you’re just looking to HODL, then pick a coin on any L1 network, and don’t leave that network, and then I guess convert back to fiat some day or find a niche retailer. Otherwise when you go to L2 / L3 or do any of the “dAPPs” your precious XMR may be taken.
I love not having features!