This was a great read, thanks!

You forgot the secret ingredient: drugs

(Nah please don’t unless you’re with people you know and trust)

No mobile payments, a lot of apps have integrity check which means I can’t really use them, no way to reset the unique device ID sent to apps so they can track you (why am I even using Graphene 🙄?), slow device, annoying to set up things like carplay’s android thingy…

Mobile payments, better UI, all apps working without Google play services… those are the needed things, but they won’t happen anytime soon

And them being in the USA as well

I believe if it was worth it to mine, everyone would do it until it is not anymore, especially in countries where electricity is extra cheap

After testing on my machine, I ended up losing more than 10x the amount I paid in electricity in France. I’m not sure it’ll be better elsewhere. This was at 0.20€/kWh

20€ worth of XMR will still be more than 20€ worth of electricity. It ends up the same.

Additional notes:

The initial crypto should be a relatively famous one with low transaction fees so you don’t lose a lot in the process. The two I wrote are nice.

For swapping, the higher the amount, the lower the fee % will be. Always try trading over $20 to minimize fees.

This is the easiest way.

• Use a centralized exchange (like Kraken, Binance…)
• Buy LTC, BCH, anything you want
• withdraw that
• Swap (exchange) those through a swap service, from the crypto you bought, to XMR.
  • https://trocador.app/ is an exchange aggregator that’s privacy friendly and Monero friendly if you want. They don’t take any cut and you can get better margins this way.
• Optional but I recommend it: churn your crypto by sending all of it to yourself multiple times, waiting a few days between each churn. Easier to do with Feather Wallet on desktop as it has coin control. This minimizes the links to your identity: Monero shines through multiple transactions, but tx to tx can statistically be liked. The more you do, the blurrier it gets.
  • On Feather Wallet (which is open source), there’s a “coins” tab where you can see each unit of crypto you have, and can “sweep output” to “yourself (churn)” easily.
• Spend your XMR, have fun :)

Can’t say about the second like, but reto is quite known and trusted

I disagree with the first part, but apart from that, yea retoswap is reputable

It doesn’t really federate properly

Mining isn’t economically worth it and it’s also bad for your components’ health as well as the environment

What? Two is perfect

Oh I agree and self host stuff as well. But I tried switching to GrapheneOS and I really can’t.

I become the monster 👀

No, not this?

Why Microsoft and not Google?

Idk what’s Microsoft Authenticator. Can’t use another 2FA app?

Sadly I moved away from Graphene because of all the restrictions :(

I sadly believe we’re fucked

But if you don’t play, your pay with convenience and your time. You lose the freedom of installing a lot of apps. You lose a lot :( - to the point where it would make most people give up