I find spending a bit more on batteries goes along way. Although the nominal voltage and size may be the same, better batteries have lower internal resistance, ie provide the same current with less voltage sag. This prevent the low bat detection from tripping prematurely.
I prefer public discussion. If you must reach me privately, please send me a simplex invite, the lemmy chat is not encrypted.
Centralizing control over food supply in a monopolistic company that sells the seeds it a terrible idea. You don’t want to give a bunch of shareholders control over global food supply.
The technology could improve lives. But not in the hands of Monsanto. Not even if you are buying their product. Nor if you are supporting them on lemmy out of all places.
Batteries have one advantage over over supplies: extremely low noise. Even an good LDO will bump up the noise floor, and a cheap lcsc part will do so too. Plus you’s want a reasonably low dropout and quiescent current, which also increases price. Maybe 10ct in volume is reasonable for such a part - and yes, that will absolutely eat the margin
What is your target audience or use case? Because the obvious choice would be illegal items, which are excluded by your TOS. And while privacy enthusiasts are willing to spend extra, your asking price is too steep for casual use.
I noticed the pricing page is entirely dollar nominated, with the only payment option listed “cash on delivery”, listing a bunch of typical payment options. Monero is only mentioned as a feature on the usage and FAQ tab, and both are easy to miss. Initially I wondered why you were posting here if you only accept paypal and such.
Don’t dry filament in the oven. Simply put the filament spool on the print bed, set it to 60°C (PLA) or 70°C (PETG) and cover it with a cardboard box to trap the heat. Poke 3 holes in the box to lead damp air escape. Let it cook for 2-4h, then flip the spool and wait for another 2-4h. Store in air tight container with some silica gel to keep it dry.
None of the high end chips were made in Chinese fabs, and the device barely qualifies as a “laptop” besides the form factor. For some bizarre reason they used a USB5744 USB 3.2 5Gb/s hub chip, which tells me the following:
Unless We get better close up tear down photos, this devices primary purpose is propaganda
People who have to use the best tools, use the best tools. In other news: water confirmed to be wet
Good advertising on your side
The minimum security deposit is small enough to not be a problem in most cases. If you give away anything of value online, put a public donation address alongside it. If you don’t you can join #getyourfirstxmr:monero.social and offer a low value deal in exchange for eg. gift cards.
Seen your meme during my lunch break doom scrolling on another site. Happy to see you are here on lemmy too!
Nice list. I chuckled at the fact that the bitcoin section does not recommend bitcoin :) We’re also here on lemmy, if you ever need help or just want to say hi
Fascinating. Thanks for taking the time to type it out
It’s worth it for the dry storage and automatic loading alone. Printing multiple objects one after another on the same bed and same print job, but with different materials is also a great feature and huge time saver for small parts. For actual multi-material prints the best use cases are imo writing into the first layer with a different color or using 2 different non-adhering materials for a thin layer between supports and the part. All of these things require very little filament changes and significantly improve the usage experience.
You are probably right, and I hate it.
Get a QR code scanner that shows you the raw data without connecting to the internet. Binary Eye on F-droid is pretty good. If it contains a link, and you click it without precautions, don’t tell me I didn’t warn you.
Stickers are available on monerosupplies.com, including an option to donate or receive donated stickers if you can’t afford any.
Essential consumer goods have huge markets, and have few differentiating factors. Both of these things are beneficial for mass production, which lowers the cost so much that small business are driven out of the market. And the small business that remain often only resell mass produced goods. Even though WE want essential goods available for Monero, I think it offers buisiness too little advantage in a highly competitive market and the effort required plus legal uncertainty may even drag them down.
If you want Monero adoption, ask yourself: Why would you want to receive XMR instead of cold hard cash for your work and/or goods? The obvious answer should be: Because you can use it for things you can not use cash for! Yeah people of course thing “duh we got the darkweb” and while that’s true the market is way beyond early adopter stage and does not really require our attention. I do like to market for internet services (email, vpn, vps, sms verification etc) because it’s such an obvious yet still niche use case. It’s also a low value way to spend donated money on your foss projects or whatever you do.
Personally I think good markets would be anything that is not illegal, but people still don’t want anyone else to know about. If you could pay for tax consultants, lawyers, psychiatrists and similar professions anonymously, I’d bet some people would be willing to pay extra and go out of their way to acquire XMR. And once you can’t trade for fiat anymore, the best way to get some would be to earn by offering more generic things.
Yes, in the end it’s a hen and egg problem. But I really do believe the least uphill battle is going the “exclusive for XMR” route.
There are plenty of tradesmen working on weekends without reporting it to tax authorities. Common in cities, practically the norm in rural areas. Time spend working doesn’t leave a paper trail and whoever hired them can buy all the materials for “personal use”. Farmers do need to buy supplies, but unless they have John Deer equipment, the harvest amount will not be automatically counted, and it’s trivial to sell some part of it on non-official markets.
I think it all hinges on how fast people get used to using monero “for real” and not only to buy some merch or for other meme purposes. When regulations come down, the people who will be hit the hardest are those bridging between fiat and xmr, because their banking activity can be moderately easy controlled.
Yeah just say you accept either prepaid with Monero (XMR) or using the cash-on-delivery option. A link to getmonero.org in the FAQ would be appreciated, but is not required.