It is NOT a benefit. It’s a huge impediment to adaptation as digital cash.

Oh you paid a bill? Now you have to wait 20 minutes to pay the next bill…

Going to the market to buy multiple things? Better have a coffee between each store. Forget something and need to add one more item? Sucks to be you

The trade-off is reasonable, but it is not a strict benefit,

We asked Microsoft not to take photos of our app, and they super promised they wouldn’t

If all user generated content goes into a Blockchain how do you keep the ledger from exploding in size? If each node has to host the content of the internet then nodes will be huge and expensive

My default is set to 1 week.

Enough for conversational context

All of my signal conversations have auto expiry

Do people really use their conversation logs for things? Are you often searching your conversational logs?

Outside of corporate compliance issues I can’t imagine the workflow for most people

And protestors and whistle blowers and human rights reporters

True.

Red blood cells, and 5-30% of brain cells utilize glucose exclusively.

However, the external requirement for glucose is zero, the body will make its own glucose for this purpose. This is how you can sleep at night, your body is running on fat while you sleep, and the liver is producing glucose via gluconeogenesis.

Paper - Confronting myths: relative and absolute requirements of dietary carbohydrates and glucose as metabolic fuels. - 2024

Factorio will do that to a couple

You are commenting on a lemmy.world community, but your connecting to sh.itjust.works, who then talks to lemmy.world. Your VPN isn’t connecting directly to lemmy.world

I believe Lemmy.world blocks VPNs. You could try a different instance which doesn’t have that policy