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@endor

Bitcoin, etherium, monero, etc etc. You have your favorite one. That's not my point. You have bought into a fallacy. I said I could invent a new one every week to make a point about its valueless nature... and your response is about how I won't get rich that way. argh. What does rich mean?

No currency has inherent value. All that matters is that I can use it as a middle man in a transaction of goods and services. Your monera has to be converted into something more common before it can be used for goods and services.

The goods and services are the things with value. I am not interested in holding currency unless the pizza delivery boy will give me a pizza for it. My pizza boy doesn't accept monera, or etherium, or bitcoin.

You want a get rich quick scheme? Produce a real product or service that people need. You won't even care what currency it is traded in.

Use latex.

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@endor Yes you make money mining. That is why people do it. That is the *only* reason people do it. Hence my rant. It does nothing for society except use resources. It doesn't even teach anything since most miners are clueless about the details. They are what we used to call script kiddies. Somebody else wrote the code, they just buy the gear and press play.

See what happens? Somebody like you, who loves wasting your gear mining crypto currency, has jumped into the debate. Soon we won't be talking about resources, science, or technology anymore. The whole thread will be about how much money one makes mining cryptocrap.

Like anything else, it is only worth something if people will trade real products for it. But unlike precious metals or government legal tender, there are infinitely many possible cryptos. It is too easy to invent new ones. I can start a new pyramid every week.

In fact, we can turn the entire planet into a giant Easter Island if we like. A statue for every crypto.

Raspbian on a raspberry pi is a great place to start learning linux.

Or install "GNURoot Debian" on your android phone. It has the apt-get package manager and full busybox tools. bash, gcc, etc. I even installed latex, gnuplot, form, and ngspice on mine (although I had to modify the source code in ngspice to use dumb terminal graphics in plots).

Me: ahh, finally starting to remember this password.

*icoming mail*

"Your password is about to expire. Please change your password by .... or your account will be disabled.
Variations of your last 40 passwords will not be accepted. Please use at least one number, letter, capital letter, special character, fingerprint impression, blood type, and a stool sample."

Me: screw it. I will just let my browser remember my password.

It is ironic to hear drinkers advising somone to quit smoking. I have never seen a drunk person code all night, it just turns them into retards, whereas some of the greatest hackers I know chain smoke at the keyboard. Nicotine helps them think (something never said of alcohol). My advice is to switch to ecigs or start vaping. Plenty of nicotine and none of the negative side effects.

In any case, none of this addresses your original rant, which was about assholes volunteering their unsolicited sage advice about beauty and health when all you wanted was a cigarette. Next time tell them cigarettes help you stay off methamphetamines.

I don't think I've heard of windows. Is it an operating system or just a desktop environment? Hold on.. now I remember.. isn't that the desktop GUI that xerox invented at PARC back in the day? ... or is it that operating system 86-DOS developed by Seattle Computer Products?

I find ubuntu is too fat. Arch with lxde is nice and streamlined. I love it.

I've haven't run into this problem yet with arch no matter how long between pacman -Su