I didn’t really have any reason to listen to them because I already do not buy a new phone every year and keep them for as long as I can.

This exactly, as long as your phone has at least one frequency band of the provider, then it will at least connect to their network and allow you to access data. Calling seems to be a whole different thing, though, because it requires something with IMS.

Well, 2G and 3G are being shut off in the United States as well. I believe AT&T shut down their 2G network in 2017 and shut down their 3G network here recently. And T-Mobile in the United States shut down their 3G network in 2022. And while their 2G network is still currently running, it won’t be forever. I believe Verizon is also in the process of shutting down or has already shut down 2G and 3G as well.

I actually may have this problem eventually in the United States as well, because I’m running a OnePlus Nord N200 with lineage OS, and it does not seem to be capable of voice over LTE while running lineage OS, but will work fine with voice over LTE using the stock ROM, which I refuse to use. Right now I either have to be within range of Wi-Fi or if I place a call my phone falls back to the 2G network in order to place the call and then flips back to 5G when the call ends.

Edit: on T-Mobile. I do not believe it will work on AT&T at all, and I have not tested with Verizon, so I’m not sure.

Edit 2: I think voice over LTE could be made to work properly because I’ve seen other lineage OS devices that work fine with it. So it must be something with this specific ROM.

By the way, I am not sure if it is a standard function of lineage OS, a standard function of Android 13 and above, or something with lineage OS on my specific OnePlus device. But I am able to limit my charge to 80% and it will never charge above that unless I turn it off. I bought the phone brand new and have been using that function since day one and it works extremely well.

I just haven’t really seen it brought up as a point of discussion.

That is kind of my thought. Phone technology doesn’t change drastically within two years and a car does not change drastically within two years.

Good points

Edit: Though there was the point in the early to mid-2010s where hardware was improving so rapidly that it would have been infeasible to not replace it as soon as possible.

because no one accepts monero offline.

With the XMRBazaar map this may change

I think it’s actually been around for three or four years, but I didn’t start using it until the Reddit API stuff last June (2023).

Look into Monero. You get the benefits of digital payments, but you get the privacy of cash.

Since taxation is theft, the proper thing to do is evade taxes.

Thankfully, Monero denies nobody

Nostr and mastodon

Thats my hopes anyway. Humans have allowed the existance of tyrants for far to long

With Monero as a currency, governments will not exist because they will not be able to enforce taxation and nobody will accept their fiat money as valuable.

Actually, yes i would. I dont want dollars and only keep enough around to have liquidity. (About 10% of my net worth).

I think that’s what you’re missing. Crypto is a currency. It is meant to be used in transactions for buying a car or buying a house or buying groceries or buying a pet or buying a computer. It is a currency and is used as such. To be fair, Bitcoin has failed as a currency because it’s traceable, which is bad for a currency, and it can’t do enough transactions per second without extremely high fees. And those two things together have caused it to fail as a currency. Monero, on the other hand, does work as a currency, because it’s not traceable. So no, not satire at all.

Monero is also just quite a bit easier since it is on layer one where lightning is a layer two solution and introduces more complexity.

How do you figure? A completely digital irreversible payment system is worth a lot in today’s day and age? Also, I just read an article that was talking about a small town near the Arctic Circle that was heating their city hall building and the stuff with mining instead of oil boilers. Plus, it could replace the global banking system with all of its buildings and employees shuttling back and forth to work, etc. And it’s also less energy intensive than heavy industrial processes that use high temperature heat, such as glass making. Also, it allows for new electricity sites to be made over capacity in order to grow with a local area and still have a buyer willing to take as much electricity as possible until it’s needed by somebody else. And then they can just easily shut off temporarily.

Overall, mining is probably more of a net positive than a net negative.