Looks very complete, another alternative can be nextdns (I use that myself, and it's only $20 USD a year, almost free if you never hit the quota).
https://nextdns.io/
Thank you. This is the kind of information I need to make it better :-)
This is a fast phone with a modern Gpu (Adreno 730), it should run much better than on my devices. Perhaps it's because I haven't released Android 13 version yet? Are you running Android 13 by any chance? If you'd like you can check by clicking on the Settings, then on the very bottom click on "About phone" then on "Software information". There should be "Android version" in there.
Short interesting story:
My mom is an Architect, one day when I was about 8 or 9 she said: don't be an Architect, you won't get paid fairly (developing country).
It got burned out in my mind, like a command. And slowly moved to "Don't do art stuff". I stopped drawing and started using computers more and more.
Only in my adulthood I started to explore Architecture, and ooohhh boy, I freaking love it. And I would have loved worked with my mom, taking clients, etc.
So, just be careful on what you say to your kids about a career, or how you say it.
I'm not complaining btw, just a fact of life from a very simple comment mom made one random day.
Same story. Don’t be a graphic designer, they said. Well, now I have a designer’s eye but can’t put words nor shapes to it. Also suddenly this passion for calligraphy and typography hit me in mid twenties? Is that what they call… a calling?
That's a calling for sure, is where you mind sees it self finding a conduit for self expression.
Do try it! It's a beautiful art form!
And don't have to drop everything to make it, it can be a hobby (for now), but try it.
The romanticize take is a calling for life. But we humans are changing machines, and what's true to some it can be so different to others.
I had "burst of interest" to make fermented food in 2018-2019, like a crazy fever to understand kombucha/sauerkraut, etc. I freaking love it.
Now in 2022-2023 it's the compost calling. A compost is so simple, but if you want it to have it in the shortest time, with the best quality, and without any stench, you actually have to put some thought into "what goes into it".
Anyway, silly examples but hope that helps in some way.
It's funny how an offhand comment can turn into personal dogma. One day driving through a beachfront town I asked my mother what job you had to do to buy one of those beachfront mansions. She joked "nothing legal!" I'm sure it affected my views on wealth for a long time.
Any insight on how this part happened? As a total layman, architecture strikes me as only 10% or so art in the painting sense of art. It could be more if you also consider e.g. software design to be an art, but at that point most things are art.
The article claims that WU's fees in El Salvador average 10% of the remittances. You can read about my experiences with bitcoin vs. WU in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27448744.
> the charges are ten dollars or so, that's bearable.
Sorry, but no that's an extraordinarily privileged take. $10 is a lot of money for just transmitting some USD. And it goes a long way in El Salvador. I highly doubt the average remitter is sending more than $500/month, so it represents a 2% tax. I only consider $10 an acceptable fee if I'm sending tens of thousands of dollars.
There isn't any currency conversion because El Salvador's official currency is USD. Assuming it's WU on both ends there's no settlement risk. It sounds like pure greed.
Well the main one was just learning, know more people and I thought I would learn how to start or make my own company.
Look, the best part was knowing a LOT more people, learning from them, and just getting all that business stuff/crap/insights...
But the single best and most important advice I could give some one that doesn't want to take a full MBA, it's:
1. Learn finances, OMG, just do it. Loan payments, ballon payments, how interest works, credit lines, bonds, leisures, etc. Just LEARN IT, its really usefull, no matter how, just learn it and really well!
It's one of the single most important things you could learn as an adult.
2. Learn Marketing. Not just the social media crap, but the "Emotional Branding" stuff. OMG, GO GO GO. Learn to creat "experiences" with the senses, to manipulate prices, learn the marketing lingo and feel the bliss of learning how to sell your producs.
DO. IT. NOW.
Anyway, I'm getting my degree in about two weeks. It was hard. It was fun, and actually cheap (third world country yey!).
