Start9

https://start9.com

Building StartOS, a graphical operating system optimized for self-hosting.

Public Key

npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll

NIP-05 Address

_@start9.com

NIP-57 Address

donate@btcpay.start9.com

Profile Code

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relay.damus.io

ditto.pub/relay

relay.nostr.info

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Last Notes

2024-11-11 18:07:06

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Public Pool is available on the Community Registry: https://marketplace.start9.com/public-pool
It requires a little but of extra setup but works great.

2024-10-31 01:17:52

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So anyone can join this server, not just hardware buyers. For anyone who doesn't see the value or can't justfiy the expense, we have commnuity.start9.com, which will always be free, and I'm sure other community run channels will pop up as well. But we need the paid server to keep out the scammers. Also, people deserve to get paid for their time and effort. The people who staff our channel have families to feed like everyone else, they don't work for free, and shouldn't. $100 for a lifetime membership to expert technical support is the deal of the decade.

2024-10-30 23:06:36

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They will never pay it, because rhe first time they try to scam, they will be removed from the server forever and have to pay another $100 to get back in.
To defeat spam and scammers, you must BOTH control the server AND charge for access. Problem solved.

2024-10-30 23:04:32

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Right? It's a little shocking. And we're mostly doing this to fight spam and scammers, which can only be done by controlling the server and charging for access.

2024-10-30 23:03:44

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If people can't DIY without expert help, we've failed. Also, anybody on Earth can help for free. This is optional

2024-10-30 22:58:54

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It's shocking actually.

2024-10-30 22:56:42

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This is the ONLY way to prevent spam and scammers.
https://njump.me/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq44xkafh8j8hhy79809wsmv0lw46nu4pkwqjyp20ekml80mytde8qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7q2ywaen5te0xekx26rg09j8xun5dpskwmtfwvm82afkw36kxmnywea8wdmrw438quttdpm8s7texa4x76t0vv6r2mttwdergetpvshx7mnfdahz7qpqeanmjyv6wufn20zmcl763u6sqax5ak540lnrh9euttln0zfsgdnqv7g0q9

2024-10-30 22:49:23

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It just doesn't *feel* right. We're trying to protect our community and cusomters from scammers who are abusing them on Telegram.

2024-10-30 22:48:09

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This is totally optional, just if you want lifetime access to on-demand support from technical experts in a safe place with no scammers. Some people see huge value in that.

2024-10-30 22:47:06

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We build free software. This is just for constant and lifetime access to humans who are paid to help. It's also the ONLY way to prevent scammers

2024-10-30 22:45:58

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If you want to keep out scammers, you gotta put up a wall. No other way.

2024-10-30 16:01:50

Today Start9 Support begins migrating away from Telegram and onto a private, self-hosted Matrix. We will cease providing support on Telegram on November 30.
In order to gain access to this community, you will need the Redemption Code included with your server purchase, usually a sticker on the underside of the device. If you do not have a redemption code, for example DIY users, you can purchase one for $100 from our store. This code gets you lifetime membership to the server.
- YOUR REDEMPTION CODE CAN ONLY BE USED ONCE
- DO NOT SHARE IT WITH ANYONE
- IF SOMEONE ASKS YOU FOR YOUR CODE, THEY ARE A SCAMMER
To join the new community, go to https://start9.me

2024-10-25 00:38:35

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Reposting here from X for visibility to others.
Core and Knots necessarily have the same service ID in order to satisfy dependent services like lightning.
Knots is on the community registry, Core is on the primary registry.
Your updates tab shows both registries, so you must have just clicked the Knots one.
It's an unfortunate and temporary UX shortcoming of 0.3.5.1 and will be fixed in 0.3.6 when we expand the versioning system to support alternative implementations of the same services, like Knots and Core.
To switch back to Core, do the following:
1. In the System tab, click the "manage" header 5+ times to enable developer mode.
2. Go to the Start9 Registry in the Marketplace. Click Bitcoin Core. And click "Reinstall".
3. Optionally disable developer mode by clicking the manage heading another 5 times.

2024-10-25 00:35:07

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I/we have no desire to go after Saylor beyond our initial comment.

2024-10-18 03:27:55

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We have very active support channels on Telegram and Matrix, but it sounds like Bitcoin is in a crash loop. Very likely the hurricane cuased a power outage which caused some data corruption. Inspect the logs to see what the error message is besides the one mentioned above. Depending on what the logs say will determine which Action you should run from the "Actions" menu. No need to reflash StartOS or reinstall Bitcoin...

2024-10-03 03:47:31

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Check out Start9 Pages in the marketplace.
Super easy way to spin up static websites on .onion URLs. Literally just upload your website files, and it's hosted on the Tor network.

2024-10-01 19:51:42

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Talking with their team about it today actually, no timeline yet

2024-10-01 14:38:35

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You can safely click update.

2024-10-01 14:36:47

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Weeks for sure, but that doesn't mean this month.

2024-09-30 17:30:16

🚀 Announcing the offical release of Alby Hub @npub1get…0nfm for StartOS!
Alby Hub offers incredible ease of use for lightning.
On StartOS, Alby Hub seamlessly integrates with your existing lightning node for maximum sovereignty.
https://blog.getalby.com/what-is-alby-hub/
Great video by @npub1rxy…hnp8, though slightly dated already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z1BzwxdP4I
Thank you @npub1s9c…p75j and Horologger for packaging, and to everyone who side loaded for testing.
Source code: https://github.com/Start9Labs/albyhub-startos/releases/tag/v1.10.1

2024-09-30 17:27:53

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Not at the moment, no

2024-09-26 20:56:32

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FYI we just removed NWC from our marketplace because it is deprecated and being replaced by Alby Hub, which has NWC baked in. I do not think the @npub1get…0nfm team will be maintaining NWC as a separate service going forward. They can confirm.

2024-09-26 20:55:33

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It would be very difficult on StartOS 0.3.5.x, but will be easy in StartOS 0.3.6.

2024-09-26 20:54:42

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Clearnet will be possible in 0.3.6, which is currently in Alpha testing and moving to beta next week. It will require using SSH and following a guide. In 0.4.0, clearnet functionality will be moved into the UI, no longer considered advanced.
We will move to 1.0 when StartOS is out of beta, expected next year, sometime after 0.4.0

2024-09-26 20:51:02

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We have an excellent support team in our Telegram channel who can try and help you identify the mistake.

2024-09-26 20:50:06

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Plug in a physical drive, click backup.
If you are trying to back up to a newwork folder and failing, 99% the problem is usually an invalid input, and it's usually the username.

2024-09-26 20:48:20

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No, currently NWC and Alby Hub only supprot LND. We hope @npub1get…0nfm will support CLN in the future too.

2024-09-24 01:16:26

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Probably next week

2024-09-20 16:03:28

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Just polishing, soon

2024-09-18 01:03:13

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Definitely best to wit for official releases. Alby Hub is currently in Alpha testing and is expected to have bugs.
That said, you may have discovered a bug. Any info you can share will be helpful. Why did you have to restart it 3 times?

2024-09-17 01:49:29

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The project is already underway. More info coming soon

2024-09-14 12:15:03

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Jellyfin is already available and better IMO

2024-09-07 14:58:26

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Jump into our Telegram support channel if you haven't already, somewhere there should be able to help you out.

2024-09-06 14:13:09

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This definitely works, I'm personally doing it with GOS. Are you followour guide for this?
https://docs.start9.com/0.3.5.x/service-guides/nextcloud/nextcloud-setup/nextcloud-android
Feel free to jump in our TG chat for assistance.

2024-09-06 14:09:51

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StartOS is Linux...

2024-08-30 04:32:45

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It certainly will!

2024-08-21 15:33:24

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What do you mean by local emails? You mean running your own SMTP server? That is very difficult to do in a way that will actually result in emails being received to inboxes. Email is largely a captured protocol, and it is no longer feasible to run your own SMTP server and expect clients to permit emails from that server. We plan to offer Mail In a Box at some point, but it will probably only work for certain use cases. Meaning, many people will not receive the emails you send them.

2024-08-21 15:27:31

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2025.
But router demo vid coming next week.

2024-08-09 00:47:19

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https://router.start9.com
We haven't advertised yet because next week the crowdfund will conatain a video clickthrough of the amazing UI!

2024-08-04 00:46:15

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The newer 7B models like Llama3 or Mistrel work great on well-resourced devices like the ones we sell.
No real harm in running it alongside Bitcoin and Lightning, but you also don't have to. It's your server, only install what you want.

2024-08-01 17:36:36

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Most likely this is an issue with the graphics driver. Which ISO did you flash? Many screens will need the "nonfree" ISO to work properly.
May I ask why do you have screen connected? Except for flashing firmware and extremely rare debugging purposes, there is absolutely no reason to connect a monitor. servers are meant to run headless (mno screen/monitor).

2024-07-13 18:54:12

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Hardware raid setups work fine, because StartOS still sees it as a single drive.

2024-07-12 23:09:58

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Defintely on the roadmap, but not in the next 12 months

2024-07-10 21:02:13

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Would love to see Primal caching on StartOS. In the meantime, noStrudel is quite amazing and already available. It runs a caching service and works well, even over Tor.

2024-06-29 01:30:03

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What would it mean to have StartOS on the Alby marketplace? You mean like an affiliate marketing thing? Alby team is well aware of StartOS. If they choose not to support/recommend StartOS, not much we can do 🤷‍♂️

2024-06-25 00:15:02

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I like this idea, will look into it.

2024-06-24 14:29:25

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What do you mean "broadcast everything manually"? When you create a note, it automatically gets broadcast to all your connected relays, at least the ones that permit writing.
What exactly are you trying to do. I think there might be some confusion about how Nostr works.

2024-06-24 14:27:29

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A relay only knows what it learns from clients. Relays do not talk to eachother like they do it Bitcoin.
You can't just spin up a relay and expect it to know anything.

2024-06-16 22:12:56

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Don't use a monitor? Servers usually run headless.

2024-06-16 22:11:54

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No, don't think we're too welcome in that community.

2024-06-12 11:03:14

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Bisq is available on the beta registry.
https://beta-registry.start9.com

2024-06-09 19:13:02

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Phone is a few devices down the list haha. But we have a new device coming later this year ;)

2024-06-07 15:54:02

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Yes

2024-06-05 00:45:09

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Can you be more specific. What use case do you have in mind?

2024-05-29 22:19:10

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Have you tried putting back in your pants then tacking it out again?

2024-05-29 22:18:02

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That would be for the xpriv, no? You said you want the xpub

2024-05-29 20:59:02

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You are the first to ever ask for this, curious what your use case is.
I believe this can be done from the CLI using dumponchaindescriptors command.
You'll need to SSH into the server and access the CLN container.
https://docs.start9.com/0.3.5.x/user-manual/container-access

2024-05-29 20:45:21

Added to our product listings.
https://image.nostr.build/ec313d4d5fb173b58453c4b7cb8162eed90d1f8f918673aa3306a847a38fa8a0.jpg

2024-05-24 18:38:21

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We didn't know Shopify did this. Fixed.

2024-05-24 18:37:51

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Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. We use Shopify for this store, and they do this by default. I have enabled the feature that allows visitors to opt out.
https://image.nostr.build/cb15baaec78c2d84c3f695f0a8ae53423d1d187c49f871eef80b754c88f3ab39.png

2024-05-24 18:18:34

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Do we? Defintiely not something we were aware of. We use Shopify for our fiat e-commerce store. Maybe this is some default or Shopify itself doing the tracking. I'll look into it.

2024-05-18 14:05:18

Server Ones are back in stock
...again
https://store.start9.com/products/server-one

2024-05-10 03:54:57

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Yes, LND is something you can install on StartOS. But the whole point of StartOS is to automate the syadmin skills that prevent people from running servers and nodes. Everything you just described to him is just a button when you run LND on StartOS.

2024-05-10 03:42:00

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Core lightning does not do this? https://docs.corelightning.org/docs/backup

2024-05-10 03:36:40

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This post is wildly incorrect. Have you ever used StartOS?

2024-05-10 03:35:23

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Lol just click "Properties" in LND and copy/paste the LND Connect string...

2024-05-10 03:32:23

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You can not. VPN functionality will be possible in 03.6 but not before.

2024-05-10 03:31:48

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This is not possible until 0.3.6, because CLN on StartOS does not have a port on the LAN. All hostname resultion is done using HTTPS and SNI. 0.3.6 gives services a unique port, so you will be able to use a VPN or even set up a clearnet domain. So only Tor for now.

2024-05-07 13:34:27

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All the services we support can be found on our GitHub.
https://github.com/Start9Labs

2024-05-06 13:01:21

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WHat hardware is this. Most units we ship don't hvae WiFI, and WiFi is being removed as a feature altogether soon.

2024-05-03 20:33:35

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Yes, email is also particularly captured and generally required using one of the big SMTP servers if you want any hope of your emails reaching inboxes.
Here's a good article on it: https://blog.lopp.net/death-of-decentralized-email/

2024-05-03 20:29:40

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Hang in there, everything you want is coming. We're doing it right while still moving as fast as we can. We shoud be out of beta in a year or so

2024-05-02 17:00:08

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We will be moving to SimpleX once multi-room communities are supported. Coming this year.

2024-05-02 16:58:52

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We have stock

2024-05-02 16:58:23

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Yes

2024-04-29 18:24:46

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Server One has a more powerful CPU.
Server Pure is completely open source with corboot firmware and IME disabled, great security profile.

2024-04-29 17:22:37

🚀 The Server Pure is back in stock!
- Open and Secure: coreboot firmware + Intel Management Engine disabled
- CPU: Intel Core i7-10610U
- Memory: up to 32GB DDR4 RAM
- Storage: up to 4TB NVMe SSD
https://store.start9.com/products/server-pure

2024-04-29 17:22:09

🚀 The 2024 Server One is now available!
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5825U (more than 3x as powerful as the Umbrel Home).
- Memory: Up to 32GB DDR4 RAM
- Storage: Up to 4TB NVMe SSD
https://store.start9.com/products/server-one

2024-04-26 17:39:57

Self-custody is a hill to die on.
But so is self-hosting.
Intermediaries: you will deputized, or you will be destroyed. Maybe not today, but they're coming for you.

2024-04-26 02:07:08

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Samurai was self-custody. Disintermediation equally important.

2024-04-23 03:16:09

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You can just close the lid, it should continue working just fine.

2024-04-18 01:55:23

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Horrible problem for us lol. Back in stock soon!

2024-04-16 22:45:38

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Fixed

2024-04-03 22:52:45

Mañana a las 3:30pm ET (UTC -4) @npub14hz…2r7l estará en el podcast Lunaticoin, para hablar sobre Start9.
¡Sintoniza usando el enlace de abajo!
https://www.youtube.com/@Lunaticoin/streams

2024-03-20 14:05:25

ℹ️ Bitcoin on StartOS now exposes config options for permitbaremultisig, datacarrier, and datacarriersize.
These options afford users greater control over their mempool policies in order to filter certain kinds of transactions.
https://github.com/Start9Labs/bitcoind-startos/releases/tag/v26.0.0.1
⚠️ Due to a bug in StartOS, it is best to stop the Bitcoin before performing this update.
If you update Bitcoin while it is running, it may get stuck in "Stopping" status. If this happens, just restart the server.
❤️ Thank you to the various community contributors who PR'd these options into the service codebase.

2024-03-14 14:29:43

🚀 Announcing FreeGPT-2 for StartOS!
This service replaces FreeGPT, which is no longer on the marketplace.
FreeGPT-2 combines two open source codebases and programs into a seamless, self-hosted, sovereign AI chatbot experience.
- Open WebUI: a self-hosted, multi-user, feature-rich, and user-friendly WebUI for various LLM backends, including Ollama and OpenAI. As the web interface for FreeGPT-2 on StartOS, Open WebUI just works as part of your self-hosted Ollama backend! https://openwebui.com/
- Ollama: the engine under the hood, providing the models, inference, and APIs for interacting discovering and using the latest LLMs: Llama 2, Mistral, Gemma, and more! https://ollama.com/
🙏 Thanks entirely to the teams at Ollama Open WebUI, as well as K0gen who put the pieces together, FreeGPT-2 on StartOS represents the cutting edge of open source, self-hosted AI experiences.
FreeGPT-2 source code: https://github.com/Start9Labs/freegpt2-startos/

2024-03-08 19:23:11

🚀 LNBits v0.12.2 udpate is now available for StartOS!
This release includes important auth features!
Source code: https://github.com/Start9Labs/lnbits-startos/releases/tag/v0.12.2.1

2024-03-03 04:44:36

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We tested it, and it did not work. When we find some time, we will produce a build for the Pi 5.

2024-03-03 04:19:40

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This is very detailed and thoughtful, thank you!

2024-02-29 22:01:43

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That's why we exist :)

2024-02-20 19:56:21

Mutiny @npub17p5…xe4n v0.5.9 is now available for StartOS.
https://github.com/Start9Labs/mutiny-startos/releases/tag/v0.5.9

2024-02-18 15:47:23

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You want the non-free for a Macbook

2024-02-16 03:37:21

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Yes, you can use the search funcationality.

2024-02-14 14:07:29

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You create backups, then you can store a backup in a separate location. It's a simple feature in StartOS.
In StartOS v0.4.0, you will be able to automatically create backups to remote locations.

2024-02-13 22:28:20

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Sounds like your Tor Browser privacy setting are too high or your Internet connection is terribly slow. You would know best which one.

2024-02-13 22:25:55

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I have no idea why we are not listed there or how to fix it.

2024-02-13 17:58:55

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How is flashing StartOS to a piece of hardware any more than flashing Ubuntu? In fact, I'm pretty sure StartOS has less bloat than most distros.

2024-02-13 17:57:32

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I'm not sure you understand what StartOS is. It's just an open source Linux distro with a better GUI for self-hosting than Debian, Ubuntu, and other Linux distros. Nobody is "serving" you software. Everything is 100% open source and sovereign. You're just saving time and hassle by using a Linux distro that is purpose built for self-hosting. Ask Evgany and the SimpleX team if hosting with StartOS has ANY sovereignty drawbacks.

2024-02-13 17:43:07

🚀 noStrudel is now available for StartOS!
noStrudel is an elegant and powerful Nostr web client and PWA.
We ❤️ this service.
Thank you @npub1ye5…knpr for building noStrudel and packaging it for StartOS. Thank you @npub1s9c…p75j for helping.
Hosted preview: https://nostrudel.ninja/
Source code: https://github.com/Start9Labs/nostrudel-startos/releases/tag/v0.38.3.1

2024-02-02 16:33:49

🚀 Announcing Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) for StartOS!
🛠️ Built by the incredible team at @npub1get…0nfm
📦 Packaged for StartOS by @npub1000…dej0
🔌 Connect your favorite Nostr client and ⚡️ away.
https://nwc.dev/
Source code: https://github.com/Start9Labs/nostr-wallet-connect-startos/releases/tag/v0.4.2