For what it's worth: there's a huge difference in SSDs. This BX500 for instance:
I found out the hard way how sneaky drive manufacturers are nowadays, after I bought a 2 TB HDD that drops to kilobytes per second when filling the last 20%. With this SSD it's not that bad, and for your purpose you'll probably never notice it, but it is something to keep in mind. I now only buy disks that can sustain their performance until they're full.

I've never liked Apple, and I don't like Windows, so I've been using Linux for a long time. I love it, and can only recommend to get used to using the command line (and vi). I still prefer the console for most file operations, it's faster and much more powerful than the GUI.

And yet, you're still shitposting. Your mistake was joining Bitcointalk to spam hoping to earn money, while clearly you're too stupid to understand what you're doing.
You've created 88 posts and have 43 posts left. At least 40 of  your posts were deleted by Mods. You should have been banned by now.

I wouldn't trust a site that gives such a terrible estimate.

For password strength, it helps a lot to have many rounds of encryption. Keepass back in the days allowed to manually set the number of rounds. If it takes 1 second to unlock your data, it also takes 1 second for each try. Brute-force resistance is one of the great things of BIP38 encryption. I'd love to see a similar standard for encrypting seed phrases.

That's a good point. If you need technical support, you shouldn't use an (unmanaged) VPS. And managed servers are a lot more expensive.

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He's whitelisted now.

This reminded me of theymos' post when he introduced the DefaultTrust changes:

That's correct for small transactions. However, for transactions with many inputs, the minimum increase to use RBF will be much more than it costs to slightly increase the fee by using CPFP.

All I can see is transactions <2 sat/vbyte are getting confirmed. If it gets dropped, raise the fee a bit. If it doesn't get dropped and doesn't confirm, use CPFP. Or just go for 2.1 sat/vbyte now, it's still less than 1 mBTC for 400 inputs.

I know nothing about "Bcoin", but I know a thing or two about consolidating small inputs. You should read that topic.
One way or another, having 400 inputs will create a large transaction. If you can get away with 1.1 sat/vbyte, it's not that bad, so you'll have to time your transaction a bit.

Since you asked: I use Tor. The most annoying thing on TalkImg is that direct links to an image don't work.
Given my experience with cheaper servers, I doubt trippling server costs is necessary. Ninjastic.space for instance works fine on Tor, and I think it still runs on this package. My guess is TalkImg is much less demanding in resources, since it doesn't have to search through huge databases.

Instead of wasting planks (and needing a bigger garden), you could simply use 2 different planks: 201 cm long means 1, 199 cm long means 0. The top and bottom will be uneven, and you don't need to follow any pattern. Recovering your seed phrase is as easy as measuring the length of 256 planks. You can plant nettles to discourage curious seed thiefs. Let's say you need it nettle seeds.
You'll need to maintain your fence though, once the planks start rotting your bits become inaccurate.

I'll allow it

I recently tested it: the more cores I use for sorting, the more RAM it takes. I tested the difference, and reduced the sorting to only 2 cores. It writes a lot of temp files (on HDD) with 32 GB RAM. I guess I could use 128 or even 256 to speed this up, but I update the large file once a week, so it doesn't matter that it takes a few hours.

Thanks for the offer, but I'm good for now. This server takes about 12 TB of bandwidth per month.

If you want to find a good use for your server: how about using it to run your own block explorer (mempool.space clone) or Electrum server?

Activity is like posts, if you delete enough posts, your Activity drops.

Only 128 planks? I was thinking of 256 (+1). But you can of course use the bottom for data storage too.

Here, people manage to sell their lack of craftsmanship as a style, so the totally uneven fence doesn't have to have small differences. It can be huge gaps.

The problem is that my wife will want to decide on the colors, and it's not going to be random. And if I let my daughter have her way, we'll end up with a pink house.

Says the guy who created 6 topics in 2 hours.

Doesn't this get much worse when Cloudflare goes into "full DDOS protection"? Without Tor, I also get the "Checking connection" page when I click "All". But when Cloudflare is going nuts, I get that page a lot more.

I thought I covered that when I mentioned backups:
Or just duplicate the exact same fence pattern elsewhere. You now need a vacation home too.

You're assuming I'm using the existing fence as a source of randomness. I was thinking of creating the random string first, and then using a new fence to store the bits.

While you're at it, you can do a similar thing with bricks in your wall

When the bounty was doubled, it was worth about $1000. When the topic was created, Bitcoin was worth twice as much (and I think the bounty was 1BTC back then).
There are more forgotten topics with high Bitcoin amounts, but still, $1000 would be nice too

Wouldn't a much better solution be if your computer doesn't do anything without your approval? I know USB is designed to be "Universal" and "plug and play", but it's much safer if your computer doesn't start anything when a connection is made. Manually mount a drive when you need one.

Isn't this a movie thing? Someone plugs in an USB stick, and all data on the screen starts animating towards the stick

I still prefer to stop physical access at a much larger scale, for instance with a lock on a door. Once they've gained access to your computer, you're kinda too late already.

QR-codes are limited in size:

I thought resetting passwords by removing the CMOS batteries was something from last century.

If the separation between users on your OS is so crappy you have to worry about hardware being added, there's a much bigger risk coming from anything they download from the internet.

I wouldn't count in dollars, but in Bitcoins. And I remember the days in 2017 when each (legacy) input added about 1 mBTC to the total fee. No matter what the Bitcoin price is, that's a lot, and 1 or 4 inputs would make a huge difference.

My take: It's a lot like cash money: $5 is convenient to buy a coffee, but it gets annoying already to pay for groceries for the week. Paying with a $10,000 bill would raise questions, and I wouldn't want the barista to know I own those ancient bills. So a bit of everything works for me.

Disclaimer: I've never seen a $10,000 bill. I do own a $10 bill though.