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Posted by messh 21 hours ago

Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected(shellbox.dev)
261 points | 140 commentspage 3
vagab0nd 16 hours ago|
I'm curious: what's the use case? Usually when I need a server I need it to stay on and have a public IP.
behnamoh 16 hours ago|
I wish runpod.io and others had this feature. I've forgotten to stop my pods a few times and only learnt about it when my balance became $0.
littlecranky67 19 hours ago||
Not sure about the security sandbox, but given that paddle.com (your payment provider) takes 5% cut you could consider accepting lightning (bitcoin layer2) payments. QR code generation for lightning invoice is instantaneous just as payment, and will cost less than 0.1% fee (payer pays fee anyway). But the security sandbox should be solid, else it will be used for illegal stuff.
znpy 19 hours ago|
> you could consider accepting lightning (bitcoin layer2) payments.

uh? i lost interest in bitcoin a few years ago, did bitcoin get actually usable for payments ?

kelnos 19 hours ago||
Not really. I mean, I guess the lightning stuff makes it settle/confirm faster than doing an on-chain transaction, but bitcoin as a store of value is still essentially gambling. So you'd want to immediately sell it and convert it to USD (or a stable coin, I guess), and presumably you're incurring fees at whatever exchange you're using.

5% for paddle does sound like it kinda sucks, but I feel like any lower fee you'd end up paying with bitcoin would get eaten up by complexity, annoyance, and currency conversion risk.

nh2 16 hours ago|||
> 5% for paddle does sound like it kinda sucks

Don't underestimate the benefit of it doing international VAT collection and payment. Especially for small amounts.

littlecranky67 19 hours ago|||
lightning also works for USDT, if you prefer that.
gildenFish 18 hours ago||
Looks cool. You probably need a fyi or faq indicating that how the account system works.
mnsc 20 hours ago||
Is it non-American all the way down?
messh 20 hours ago|
I was born in Argentina, so technically American, yes ;)
WhyNotHugo 19 hours ago|||
Weird fun fact (as an Argentinian who went to school in England for a few years): in English-speaking countries, America is not a continent in the same way as in Spanish. In English they have two continents: South America and North America.

So the word "American" in English does not mean the same as "Americano" in Spanish.

There's really no natural word in English to refer to someone from "El continente Americano", because no such continent exists in English. That's why they use the word "American" to refer to someone from USA exclusively.

unwind 9 hours ago|||
That sounded fascinating as a rather large difference in world view stemming only from using different languages.

It turns out that there are various models for the number of continents, and that is (phew) known in Spanish, too. See the Wikipedia page [1] (link to Spanish version) for instance. This is for European Spanish though, but I couldn't find a version of the page in es-AR.

[1]: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continente#Modelos_continental...

dwedge 9 hours ago||||
I think "the Americas" means the continent(s), and America (to some extent) can mean either but it would feel more like something used as a gotcha at a pub quiz.

You're definitely right about there not being a word for someone from that continent though.

singpolyma3 18 hours ago||||
"American" to refer to USA exclusively does make sense either way because USA shares the continent with at least two other countries no matter how you slice it.
krick 16 hours ago||
You probably meant "doesn't make sense".
singpolyma3 15 hours ago||
Correct
ekropotin 18 hours ago|||
Frankly, the model with the single America continent doesn’t make any sense, because south and north Americas are so different in both geographical and cultural/historical sense.
singpolyma3 18 hours ago||
Continents are about geology not culture
Alupis 18 hours ago|||
Well, North and South America are two different tectonic plates[1].

[1] https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/tectonic-plates-earth

wredcoll 14 hours ago||||
They really aren't, there's no objective way to divide the world into exactly 7 continents (or 6) using geology.
nextaccountic 12 hours ago||
America, Afro-Eurasia, Australia, Antarctica

I can count 4

wredcoll 31 minutes ago||
Based on what?
unmole 9 hours ago|||
Europe says hi.
messh 20 hours ago|||
If it is successful then the next region would be in the US
orliesaurus 17 hours ago||
is there a typo in the title? disconnected takes 2 n (sorry for the nitpick)
gigatexal 18 hours ago||
ALS no mention of GB’s of bandwidth provided.
indigodaddy 16 hours ago|
If it's hetzner then it's probably not something you have to worry about unless you are talking like terabytes per day
solumunus 19 hours ago||
But why? Genuinely want to know what one might use this for. I can imagine it would be cool for a remote dev environment but the selling point would have to be that it’s far cheaper than the alternative.
messh 19 hours ago|
Simpler, easy to use, more enjoyable and fun are also valid reasons
Kwpolska 19 hours ago||
What’s difficult to use in Hetzner or DigitalOcean?
dwedge 9 hours ago|||
Apart from the payment part, this could be used entirely from a machine without a GUI. You can do the same with others using Terraform or aws-cli but it requires setup first.
hrimfaxi 17 hours ago|||
One thing can be simpler than another without either of them being difficult.
knorker 12 hours ago||
What are the legalities of having a cash balance, withdrawable? (So not "credits" or something)

Do you need a banking license, or partner with someone who has?

SuperNinKenDo 15 hours ago||
Cool idea if you have a more specific niche requirement than it would initially appear, but genuinely nice to know this is available if such a use-case happens to cross my path.
andrewmcwatters 15 hours ago|
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