I sandbox Steam itself for simplicity. My experience with Nvidia and Wayland has been good. I simply exposed /dev/nvidia*, a few networking-related files in /etc and system binaries like /usr.

Dedicated hardware is definitely the most secure option, but realistically it is even less convenient than a separate user. You can't realistically play graphically intensive games on a Deck, and separate workstations are very unaffordable at the moment.

That's nice, but a cell phone isn't a viable gaming platform for anything but very basic games. And Android, at least in its typical Googled form, has its own set of problems; it's a privacy nightmare.

True. How viable is steam on Qubes?

thats why btc/monero is not as great as a lot of people think.

ethereum has stablecoins and dex swaps so you dont have to do p2p once you have any tokens in the ecosystem, all you need is some eth to pay gas fees. and its the only crypto project i trust completely.

for privacy theres railgun and aztec, both have canonical bridges back to layer 1 and enough users to give you correlation resistance. tornado cash has compromised governance but i dont think the core contracts are broken so you can use that too, just be careful when you deal with americans because its illegal there.

kinda ironic that bitcoin is designed to be as trustless as possible but you need to trust third parties with you money a lot of the time because the core protocol is too simple for its own good.

>Monero could of helped, although its not easy to transfer BTC to Monero without P2P

It's really not hard but it probably gets much harder to transfer tainted Bitcoin. Trocador.app aggregates various no-KYC CEX swaps and is regarded well in the Monero community.

As we can see from the various Monero pumps, which often stemmed from cleaning coins. Thieves don't want to sit on the Bitcoin so they drive up the price of Monero selling it fast.

Yeah P2P is more technical. Hopefully with Serai we can get a good UX decentralized exchange.

Swapping into fiat is a different beast.

Making it possible to identify a user is incompetence, exactly because of legal issues like this. You don't run a service that accepts crypto for gift cards and then keep information on file that identifies the buyer personally, that's just stupid. But then again, you don't illegally obtain crypto and then give out your info when you go to use the illegal funds, that's just stupid as well.

Is P2P that big a deal? I swap coins on Bisq all the time. It's super easy to pick up and use if you already have the BTC. The biggest obstacle is obtaining some BTC in the first place when you don't have any yet. Once you have enough for the security deposit, you can buy/sell or swap thousands of dollars in funds at a time.

crime has short term certainty with long term uncertainty. a legitimate job has short term uncertainty with long term certainty. its stupid silly and dangerous way to view it as an escape from your current job situation.

I don't know why people keep whining about job markets. I'm currently working 3 different remote jobs each past 200k/yr point

my total salary is close to 800k. if one of them fires me i can easily hop to another job. I've been doing this for well over a year now and everybody is happy.

there's really no need to justify criminal behavior when legitimate options are in front of you and you are too lazy, weak willed to see the upside.

None of my peers went to any school of note, nor did I. A fair bit of community college, some lower ranked state unis, and one guy did a bootcamp.

All well above 200k.

A silver lining is that at least a lot of these AI generated malware and phishing scams are easy to disrupt with mild white hat skills. Often the people behind them lack the knowledge on how to prevent themselves from being disrupted by said white hats.

The most laughable I've seen was a scam that put a captcha on the frontend to stop me from flooding their free email system on the backend and rate limit them. However, the captcha was clientside only, so I didn't even notice until I looked to see if they rotated emails, but also the captcha was a textbox with the code set as the placeholder.

Truly the pinnacle of vibecoding a scam.

If you expect it to be easy like a handout then thats the wrong attitude because then everybody would be doing it so already this points to lack of context and self awareness. If you are getting paid $200k/year, you have to be willing to see it from the other side of the table, what are you offering really?

It's also not as hard or dire as you think it is but without knowing more about your situation or what you tried, its pointless because I suspect that its going to just turn into a moping session.

I am working on 3 remote jobs that pay over 200k/year, it takes time and effort, and yes it was relatively easy for me but not in the way that you think it should be.

Claude get me a job that pays $200k/yr. Make no mistakes.