ABluManOnLemmy

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[–] ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nl 3 points 2 weeks ago

There is MoltenVK for running Vulkan apps on macOS, and also Asahi Linux has a standards-compliant Vulkan implementation natively

[–] ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nl 2 points 2 weeks ago

It can possibly run Asahi Linux in the future. I had the same idea

[–] ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nl 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, they have a right to vote in the state they last lived in (or, if they never lived in one, perhaps the state their parent last lived in?) but unfortunately Puerto Ricans can't vote in presidential elections.

[–] ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nl 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'd say normally yes, but Italy has abnormally cheap data plans. Local data is probably going to be cheaper than eSIM apps in this case. This might also apply to traveling to other places in the EU (buying an Italian eSIM - but check that it can be activated outside of Italy first)

[–] ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

"wears her seatbelt"?

[–] ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nl 14 points 1 month ago (8 children)

They now built a bridge that allows drivers to avoid the border checks by staying in Croatia

[–] ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Guard is 121.5 isn't it?

[–] ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is this exclusive or inclusive of the energy tax? IIRC that's about €0.15/kWh in the Netherlands

[–] ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nl 15 points 2 months ago

"🇮🇪".reverse() = "🇨🇮"

[–] ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ja hoor, ik heb het succesvol gedaan met Mullvad VPN. Je kunt ook Nederlands roaming gebruiken

[–] ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nl 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There may be some situations where this makes a lot of sense, particularly involving currency manipulation. For example, in Argentina, the official exchange rate was much less favorable than the actual (black market) exchange rate. Monero could enable someone to sell at the more favorable exchange rate locally, rather than relying the transfer provider in the source country to do it.

However, it's important to consider potential market effects if this is done at scale. For some people, it could work, but probably not yet on such a large scale.

[–] ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nl 2 points 6 months ago

There's at least a decent chance that Monero may actually be a better store of value than the destination currency would be and the receiver might just choose to keep it in Monero instead of converting it to their local currency.

That could make sense if Monero was a widely accepted currency for goods and services in the destination country. However, as far as I know, it usually needs to be converted to fiat currency for this.

So you would purchase Monero peer-to-peer in your country send it to them and if they need to exchange it when they get it they can choose when to do so and how much to convert.

Sure, P2P is the ideal without KYC, but if used at scale, this is going to eventually lead to an increase in value of Monero in source countries and a decrease in destination countries, especially since P2P exchanges are usually local in nature and less liquid than centralized exchanges. There would be heavy sell-side pressure in these P2P exchanges, whereas likely not nearly as many people would be buying Monero there. The spread between the buy price in developed countries and the sell price in developing economies could exceed 6%.

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