I’ve been using Linux Mint for years and whilst it gets sneered at by a lot of guys who aren’t as scared as me of a Command Line, it really is one of the best starter versions.
Ubuntu was great as well, but I dunno, I think I prefer Linux Mint because when you have a query on how to do something, the explanations tend to be simpler and don’t assume that you have additional knowledge like a typical Ubuntu user would.
You can run a lot of the Linux distros(versions) without installing them (run off a CD/USB), might be worth doing that to have a play around first? It might give you the impetus to move across sooner if you like the feel of it.
I can live with that, and i might manage to unearth a better pc one day, its amazing what people throw out;-)
now if I cant earn by storing and i cant buy bitcoin how would i pay you?
i think its something others as well as myself are going to need an option on
thanks
Well you don’t pay us, you pay the network (sound weird, but true). When you say you cannot but btc, I understand but as @happybeing said you can buy a tiny part (£10 or so). There will be gateways to buy safecoin transparently I am sure. It’s a chicken/egg though I understand, without it adoption could be slow, but without adoption maybe folk will not invest to build it. I am confident it will be overcome though, as buying bitcoin will.
where i live theres no freecycle or anything like it available,
200k return trip to the nearest biggish town I rely on being able to get to the tip and scavenge before anyone else on a good day or before the tipguy smashes things up n cuts cords
though rewiring a cords easy enough.
Ive been doing this and repairing old pcs to give away for a few yrs.
i used to do electronic assembly for a job 20 yrs ago,so replacing components on the oldies is manageable. new microstuff is a bit hmm dammit though;-0
ok, i was unaware you can buy “bits” of bitcoins
i thought the idea of bitcoin was avoiding fees?
oh by banks i guess…bitcoins still gotta make something
no idea what ICO stands for
like ive said elsewhere the entire buy bitcoin thing is so bloody weird and complicated i couldnt cope with it
my brain turns to jello trying to handle it, sorta like hearing banksters describe their cons or enron accounting
i might live in a first world country but i have a near 3rd world lifestyle;-)
our govt taxes and the cost of living here makes sure of that
Mint sarah/cinnamon, was what i bought a cd of as its similar to 7 i was told and i can cope with 7.
installed on a very old hp laptop and sorta looked around
couldnt get mail to setup and yet i use Tbird and its usually a supereasy self do setup, dunno.
think I will have to partition this drive and have another go.
I had my first pc lesson using old macs and command prompts
put me off computers for over a decade!
uploaded susse and ubuntu at different times and couldnt handle either.
some of us just arent wired to suit the way others think//work I guess
a good thing or the world would be pretty boring;-)
1 Bitcoin is made up of 100,000,000 ‘Satoshis’ or ‘sats’, in the early days people would talk in terms of full bitcoins to purchase items, but due to its rise in value, I think you will see more reference to ‘Sats’.
Bitcoin is expensive and slow, I don’t think it will be used in its current form for anything useful to the man on the street.
I think other coins will be used for everyday use that have near instant confirmation times and low transaction fees.
ICO - Initial Coin Offering, basically a pre-sale of coins (usually at a discounted rate) before they are traded on an exchange
There are quite a few exchanges (won’t plug any here) that make it quite easy to get hold of btc then maid. I’m not very ‘technically minded’ either but found it ok to figure out. Might be worth giving it a go again with all the recent developments.
All the items you have listed are interesting and admirable points however only work in a utopian society where you cannot be persecuted for having non “PC” beleifs. Ultimatley the due diligence you are speaking of falls on the consumer of any news or information. Your education is YOUR responsability, just because someone has fulfilled all the points you have listed does not mean you shouldn’t do your own research and arrive at your own reasoned conclusions.
Exactly. Those points allow you to do your own research as far as validating the information and the source of the information. Without them, you never know what level of trust to put into the source the next time you are presented with news. For example, I can’t really get on a plane and fly to another country and do basic legwork-type research every time I am presented with a news item relating to actions abroad. Sometimes you have to place a certain amount of trust in the source of the news. In order to arrive at how much trust you are ascribing to this source you need a history of the entity and verifiable details about it/him/her. The information contained in Source A’s account might get more or less consideration than Source B’s because of the trust level I have consciously or unconsciously assigned to each based on what I know about them and their past reports.
While I agree that everyone has responsibility to educate themselves, it would be yours (and many others also of course) personal belief that it stops at that.
Many others, me including, feel a responsibility for everyone around us, to educate them to the best of our effort.
Now naturally, practicality intervenes at many times (“ah, this is an asshole - skip. Oh, there’s a troubled dark mind - skip”), hoping that there will be someone with good powers strong enough to give them something when you couldn’t.
In a world with many people like this, there will actually be abundant trust, and we will be able to construct very powerful collaborations - like trustworthy news establishments, where everyone is not left to themselves to get the best and most accurate news, but that we actually have a meaningful collaboration with each other to do so.
Although i agree that it does not stop at that, i do believe that it ends at that. What i mean by that is that the final step in any processing of new information should ultimatley be the critical thought of the individual who is recieving the information. Of course part of the accumulation of information relating to the subject being evaluated comes from sources/people that have varying degrees of trust and or “expertise”, but ultimatley as it were “The buck stops with you”, when it comes to making any decissions or taking any actions based on conclusssions derived from that information.
P.S. What is OT? I feel i may also be guilty of it
I guess it’s too early to discuss the details of the farming mechanism, but this has been bothering me.
How does the network know how much resource is available?
It knows how much demand there is (it’s just a matter of how many chunks are stored), but it doesn’t know how much supply is available for future consumption.
I assume the idea of the rate is to provision more supply when there’s not much left and reduce excess spare supply when it would be a waste. It should ideally balance the supply between availability and wasted excess.
How does the network change the rate to incentivise supply (ie resources available) when it doesn’t know what the current supply is?
I wonder if relying on reported size is reliable enough, or maybe would allow a potential attack (for example, lots of vaults being made to report vastly inflated spare capacity) . Better if the network can use trustable metrics.
My non tech lady (she’s very good at answering these tech questions nonetheless) and I came up with a couple that might be used to adjust farming rate:
vault fullness: look at how frequently vaults report they are full and can’t take a chunk. There’s not much incentive to lie about this, and it provides a way, by factoring in node age into the calculations, to estimate if the network has sufficient or insufficient spare capacity. This could be used to decide if farming rate needs increasing or decreasing.
vault satisfaction: look at the number of vaults joining / leaving at various trust levels (ie by node age) to gain a measure of how attractive farming is, and whether capacity is increasing or decreasing, and at what (qualitative) rate (eg high/med/low). This gives you insight into the supply side, in terms of whether the farming rate is attracting capacity or losing capacity. This could be used to determine how fast to be adjusting the farming rate.
Those measures are qualitative, but if they reflect reality well enough, that would be OK. The network won’t need accurate numbers in terms of bytes, but needs to know whether to adjust farming rate up or down, and how fast to be changing it.
PS this thread should probably split to a new topic!
I don’t know if will be some changes with datachain but for now the calculation of resource available are based in the concept of “sacrificial data”. Extra copies of data who serve to calculate the farming rate.
If the network can store this sacrificial data without problems the farming rate decrease. If the network cannot store more sacrificial data, or must use this space, the farming rate increase.