I’m not really invested in Cosmic, I’m happy with Hyprland and will continue to use it.

I do think they did a REALLY nice job with the tiling. I don’t think you can find a more intuitive and user friendly tiling window manager. Something that’s not absolute barebones out of box and can be configured entirely with a GUI. In that regard it does bring something to the mix and is very very welcome.

I received my invite today as well (Portugal). Overall here are my first impressions:

• Interface is very clean, but lacks a Dark mode
• You can import wallets by seed phrase only
• Buying bitcoins redirects you to a broker’s website, it’s not as seemless as I’d like. They ask you for all sorts of personal information, which I guess is industry standard, but it’s a third party service
• I tried making a 50 euro purchase, but after a few hours I got an email saying it was canceled, no reason provided
• You can’t sign messages to confirm the ownership of your wallet, which is required by some brokers
• This service is marketed as exclusive to users in the Visionary plan. I’m in the Proton Unlimited plan. It’s unclear what’s going to happen to my wallet once this beta period is over. Am I going to lose access to my bitcoins? Some functionality? The Proton support just told me “Please be advised that Proton Wallet is only available for users on our Visionary plan at the moment”, which doesn’t fully clarify it.

This is really nice for games optimized for the touch screen such as Football Manager or Magic the Gathering. Holding the deck with one hand and playing with the other is uncomfortable after a while.

Thanks for remembering me! I ended up getting a pillow for iPad.

This looks like a much, much nicer solution. Unfortunately shipping to Portugal alone is 71 euros making this a truly unreasonable price for me. Hopefully they get really popular and come to Europe!

I’m always wary of buying second hand phones. How healthy is that battery going to be?

Here they are discounted a lot, very often in the 40 euro range (new)

But 5 bucks discount is nothing, you can get so much better in other venues.

How do you like Nostr? I have a friend that’s really passionate about but I just don’t get it.

In Portugal we have a couple of these stores but I really don’t understand how they stay alive. I went there once with a sealed 60 euro, recent, game for a console I didn’t down. They offered me 15 euros and were selling used copies for 55 euros. Why on earth would I buy or sell for those prices?

We used to have GAME stores everywhere and they occasionally had really nice deals. I loves those stores, it’s a shame they went bankrupt.

I feel like the first week is actually the hardest. Then I start getting excited when I improve my times or distance and it becomes so much easier.

My problem is that vacations and winter really ruin my motivation. Who wants to run for an hour when it’s pouring rain or freezing outside?