https://archive.ph/e0bZK In low income neighborhoods they make it easy to turn money into bitcoin but with high transaction costs and hard to turn the bitcoin back into cash. It is not a perspective that had occurred to me before.

https://kmr.annas-archive.org/blog/an-update-from-the-team.h...?

Data is working on Vodafone mvno. Can't call Out or text, Can't make calls On o2 or EE either. Edit EE working. Edit all mobiles now seem to be working OK.

Worse for television I have a PVR so I fast forward through the TV adverts... YouTube is about the only place left I sit through video adverts.

And long before that Warren Buffet talking about only backing companies who have built a competitive moat.

Survivorship bias perhaps but kudos to a car lasting 34 years in a marine environment. That is impressive.

Mothers mac mini 2014? Slow as a dog, 30 second pauses, became unusable. Extremely tricky to reach the 5400rpm hard disc. Found a third party adaptor could bodge an nvme under the easily removable base flap. Suddenly transformed it to a fast nippy useable machine. (She paid up for the 8gb ram originally). But still rather annoyed that Apple essentially crippled their own product and it could only be fixed by chance. Wasn't a cheap pc...

I think they are all lucky it doesn't say "android and ios only" like many gadgets these days. Desktops are dying, I feel old...

If you are young and give the silence a decent go it's OK to fall back on a book after a bit, or if you are too young to read yet, quietly working on some lego under your seat will not bother anyone. Adults are a little trickier but comtemplating a bible or Faith and Practice works. And, you know, it is meant to be voluntary.