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[–] gooeyglob@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

This is a bit of a hack, but while you wait for a new drive or laptop, you could install Linux onto a thumb drive and run it from there.

When you use Rufus to write the image to the flash drive, it should give you the option to create a persistent storage section with a slider to say how much of the drive to allocate to that. At least this should keep Microsoft from destroying the data on it, lthough it will probably ask every time it starts up whether you want to format that drive.

This way you can just use whatever your BIOS boot key is, probably something like F12, to boot onto your Linux and keep it away from Microsoft :)

[–] gooeyglob@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These replies are mega cope. It's not slightly incorrect, just incorrect or very lazy. It's mentally exhausting to try and read this way, and they do not capitalize beginning of their 'sentences', nor 'I', etc.

Writing in this way does not make one come off as the next e. e. cummings, they just look very uneducated.

[–] gooeyglob@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (9 children)

"Turns out we're both teachers." Posts a 90 word run on sentence.

We are all doomed.

[–] gooeyglob@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it is bad. But don't write off cryptocurrency forever because of it. Ethereum used to be Proof of Work also, but made the transition to Proof of Stake, which has basically had no issues or exploits and reduced electricity usage more than 99%. Most modern chains like SOL and BNB happily have completely abandoned the antiquated PoW mechanisms.

What crypto needs is regulation and enforcement (and a better use case than just number go up); unfortunately under Trump the US will possibly get the former, certainly not the latter.

Maybe 2027 I suppose.

[–] gooeyglob@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Honestly this seems a little excessive, BUT there is one important thing you can do to prolong your rats life and that is to always have two or three. Sorry if you already know all this, but just in case: Rats are very social and help each other's physical and mental health; we might think we can provide enough social contact for them, but they just need at least one other rat in their life to be happy. IMO It's best to just start with 3 from the same litter (in case one dies on the younger side).

This is the real cost IMO, as you need a decent sized cage to be able to give them some room to move around, as well as lining, toys and food. This should usually be the majority of the cost of ownership.

Truthfully most rats are fairly resilient, the hardest thing to deal with its that their lifespan just doesn't compare to other types of pets. 3 years is really the max you're looking at and we've had many barely make it to 2, so really you need to plan for end of life care and burial or cremation costs and the occasional vet visit, which very a lot by region.

If you have a VCA or a local vet who specializes in rodents (cause trust me, we've had bad vets who accidentally did more harm than good) you should be able to get an idea of costs for a tumor removal should one occur, unless you just want to put them down once it starts hurting their quality of life. This is much easier said than done because they are such sweet animals.

For us in central MA, for our least healthy rat is around $800 for a tumor removal (which has already come back about 6 months later, so another $800 upcoming), and end of life stuff usually is around $200-250. I hope this helps!

[–] gooeyglob@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Bitcoin is basically only mined via ASICs now. You can still mine something like ETC but honestly chains have (rightfully) been moving to far more efficient consensus using Proof of Stake.

For the amount of electricity you would need to mine a meaningful amount of BTC, you'd be much better off buying spending $50 or $100 worth of BTC or ETH every week. Either hodl or DCA sell when prices bounce up.

[–] gooeyglob@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

I will miss her so much!

[–] gooeyglob@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

They are beautiful! My wife loves Dumbos, we've only ever had one but he is indeed adorable.

[–] gooeyglob@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I've felt that way for a long time. It's done all that I need and more since about 2003.

 

Beans is our only adorable dumbo ear of the four boys, but out of the blue he started attacking his brothers, especially his almost twin (sans ears) Frank. When there's blood, we separate of course.

Interestingly, after introducing the new bedding they have calmed down, or maybe it was just a temporary issue. Glad to have our boys all back on one cage!

[–] gooeyglob@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is a fantastic creator, very happy to be supporting them on Patreon. I think this might even be hotter than the nude version.

 
[–] gooeyglob@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yes you'll fuck things up. Don't keep anything remotely important on it and screw around with it. That's how you learn. Blow your install away intentionally, try a different distribution the next time. There's a lot more variability between distros, and more customizability compared to Windows too.

If you want to learn something new and different anyway. It's definitely not like Windows except at the most surface level; you can get by in the GUI for almost everything until something goes wrong, but that's exactly when you want to have been learning cmdline stuff, so you can try to salvage it.

[–] gooeyglob@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
 
 
 

Short version: Everyone who had basically any assets on Ethereum at the time of PulseChain fork (~may 2023) got a PRC20 copy of all their ERC20 tokens on PulseChain. However, because they are not backed by their Ethereum-equivalent assets, they are not worth nearly as much, but many DO have significant value!

Some early question to decide if you even care at all:

  • Specific coin holders, including WBTC (currently trading for about $150), and HEX (still only about .015, but more valuable than it is on Ethereum currently!) should probably consider getting set up on PulseChain, or if you are absolutely set on bailing, swapping for an ETH-stablecoin-equivalent (e.g. 'USDC from Ethereum') and bridging them back to the ETH chain.
  • If you mainly hold stablecoins (USDT,USDC,DAI) you do not need to waste your time, since PRC20s are not backed by their equivalent assets on Ethereum.
  • ETH is also a special case - because it was turned into an airdrop of sorts for sacrifiers for the original PLS launch several years ago, that asset turned into equivalent PLS, meaning it is effecitvely worthless. So if you have only ETH, you also do not benefit from this at present.
  • Other coins have various values on PulseX DEX .

If your asset is currently not worth much, you benefit from just keeping this information in the back of your head, as in a year or five it may become more valuable.

Anyway, if you want help claiming those assets, even if you just want to sell them and get the heck out of dodge, I am happy to advise in the comments of this post (and not in DMs, see below for why that is)

You will have to buy a miniscule amount of PLS in order to move your assets (earlier today a swap on PusleX was about 5000 PLS ($0.50), and if you decide to bridge back to Ethereum, then you will have a tiny amount of PLS to start the bridge, and then a standard (for Etherem anywya - probably between $3 and $20) on the Ethereum side to bridge the assets to Ethereum. You can probably see why PLS was created, since fees generally are a fraction of on ETH.

Folks including myself have offered this sort of help before on reddit, but this is inevitably seized on by DM scammers. You are welcome to view my reddit posting history before deciding whether to trust me. You should of course always follow standard procedures for keeping your crypto safe: never share your seed phrase or backup key with anyone, no matter who they claim to be, or what company they are affiliated with.

Thanks for reading this, and if you have questions, please just ask in the comments.

 

Keep DCAing friends.

 

I wonder what the angle is here - Are there folks who know about something as complicated as WBTC on Ethereum who haven't already formed an opinion about Pulse/HEX?

Hmm

 

This is probably precipitated by speculation on WETH (the PRC20) which is effecitvely the same as PLS.

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