bitcoin is a bad currency but you absolutely can buy legal things. like, check shopinbit. there’s also a similar website that buys the thing for you from amazon

I don’t think bitcoin provides much value in itself. Its basically an asset that is hard to make more of, like money or gold, which are also valuable because of this and that gold and specific currencies are relatively widely used.

bitcoin’s supposed added value over money is private digital transactions across the globe in a private way, so that you can send money whoever you want, but it’s not practically private, and has so large operating costs (even just the transaction fee) that it’s not really better than bank transactions.

so in short: its value is in its scarcity, and that you can speculate on it. the other possible advantages are not realized.

since the value is in speculation, the dollar limit is when investors start selling enough of it so that others will do the same out of fear. which is who knows how much. but it’s probably more related to other factors than the dollar value.

wasp nest on a tree??

no, please rather don’t respond, especially not with an image, I don’t want to see it!

oh I did not mean that part, I was quoting it wrong

Expecting government offices to be heavily armed and require going through TSA levels of security. Turns out other countries aren’t police states that treat you like a criminal by default.

lots do but not that openly

edit: strikethrough for wrong quoting

and the summer heat didn’t even arrive yet! what will they do, will they evaporate a few months later?

oh forgot the second part.

first of all. .pub files are not microsoft owned keyfiles, but Microsoft Office Publisher documents. this is irrelevant now, but this is the only connection of microsoft with .pub files

second of all, .pub files can also be OpenPGP public key files. do you use SSH? look into your ~/.ssh/ directory and you will see them there too. also in /etc/ssh/

You can find multiple instances when they are revoked keys and people on stack exchange are figuring out how to update them to use the toolkit after the change.

yeah, signing keys expire from time to time and then they need to be replaced or updated. but these are not per-user, these are public and cannot be kept in secret. this is not a subscription code, not a DRM either, it’s one of those very few exceptions when they are provided for actual security. the packages you download are already signed with the key, if you don’t accept the key your package manager just wont be able to verify if they have been tampered with while in transit. if you don’t accept the key, you can still install the packages, but then you also need to pass the parameter to your package manager that tells it to not verify the packagesthis time, which is 99.999% of the cases a bad idea.

these warnings are interesting, but -Wno-deprecated-gpu-targets makes me think maybe your card is nearing end of support for CUDA. after that youll need to install an old version of cuda manually (or pin the package versions and risk them silently keeping back other packages too)

what card is it?

also, please take screenshots with the system’s screenshot tool because this is so bad. I mean, multi-megabyte screenshots…

also, I don’t understand how mirrors, gcc and clang come into picture. or Microsoft

on my distro its common that all repositories use their own signing keys to sign the packages they provide. this includes the nvidia repository. I think here you are prompted to save their key so that your package manager can accept their packages.

I might be wrong, though. next time you could check what happens if you type N. my expectation is that the package manager will throw errors about unverifiable packages

what kind of key file do you mean? where do you see it?

you can choose whatever email provider you trust, and then they apply encryption on the transport level. but there is often very few phone companies, and zero encryption. they don’t have to install any kind of wiretaps, they can just record everything automatically that passes through

Possibly helped somewhat for older machines where pressing the button made the fans spin for a little, but modern systems are somehow smart enough to not even bother doing anything

is it a good idea to microwave that plastic container, though?

the pin is a per-device thing, you need to set it up first to use it

honestly, with that level of carelessness or stupidity they really shouldn’t use a smartphone

honestly, with that level of carelessness or stupidity they really shouldn’t use a smartphone

that’s roughly what I experience too. It’s like if they would see a colorful pane of glass, but could not make a distinction between the “boxes” on the screen

on the contrary