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  • Most people lock their phones with biometrics which can be legally compelled from you.

    If you use a password you can refuse to provide it.

    If you’re living in a world where the police are willing to literally drug and torture you then your digital security requirements are beyond the scope of what you can get from social media and you should assume that everything you do is publicly known.







  • Yes, that’s just extra reasons why the USD is more valuable/more dominant/used as a reserve currency.

    The point was that saying Bitcoin doesn’t have actual value because it doesn’t have a military isn’t true. You can see the actual value on any exchange, just like every other currency. The value of a currency is related to its use in trade, even countries without a military have currencies with value.

    The fact that the USD is more valuable or used as a reserve currency doesn’t mean that other currencies (including bitcoin) don’t have value.


  • The military and police is not what gives currency it’s value. A country’s currency is valued based on it’s usefulness in the global economy, not based on how many ships in its navy or planes in its air force.

    We know the value of a currency based on the exchange rate to all other currencies, which you can see at any exchange.

    Similarly, Bitcoin’s value is based on how useful it is in the global economy. We know the value because we can see the exchange rate to all other currencies on any exchange.

    The only real difference is that fiat currency is a database of money backed by a bank, protected by police and the military while Bitcoin is a database of money backed by mathematics and processing power.

    It’s silly to argue that Bitcoin doesn’t have actual value when you can simply look at an exchange and see the trade volume and price to know that that isn’t true.


  • Your things may be owned by root and have unusual permissions.

    So, to make your NTFS drive be owned by your user and group and to set the permissions you can:

    # Change owner to user:user
    sudo chown -R username:group your_directory
    
    # Change permissions to default (typically 755 for directories and 644 for files)
    
    # For directories
    find your_directory -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
    
     #files
    find your_directory -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;