Bonus 01: Living in the Shadow of Bitcoin

HAPPY LAUNCH SUNDAY ON A TUESDAY

Couldn't make it yesterday since the storms in my area knocked out the regions electricity. Thankfully I have a portable generator to keep water and fridge running. Maybe it's time to invest in a battery system with an inverter and a bigger generator to keep more of the home running

Another question: as a member who also boosts, do you prefer having income from memberful or as boosts? Say for example I wanted to increase my financial contribution to JB. Is the membership or boosts more effective/easier for you guys to take in?

Show production question for ya: What part of Jb's operations takes the most of your time? What takes the most energy? What is the highest cost? As a member, I want to help offset that some, especially if it is something that I could either help support with time or by helping automate or maintaining some of the infrastructure, etc

Fidgets are a big part of my life, mostly because when you have a 3d printer, you can make your own. I've made probably around 20 infinity cubes for people and then 2 for myself, 1 for work and 1 for home. Look up fidget on printables.com or thingiverse

Time traveller boost for Texas. I’m randomnly working through the back catalogue to learn things as they come up in my setup. Just learnt the difference between Snap and Flatpaks in eps 532, 501 and 499. It’s evergreen content, thanks for the work you put into creating these and the passion in the delivery.

Regarding multikernels Maybe you have a specifically optimized for gaming kernel run on a few cores so that all the gaming tasks have better performance. Wait, if there's a different kernel running on each core does that mean that things like kernel anticheat won't be able to see other tasks running elsewhere? So do you negate the privacy implications of kernel level anti cheats that way? Hmmmm

Split to angerz is failing on fountain

Upper-ed expectations!

Reverse Linux process is restoring a backup. Go in depth about backups

The backwards show idea sounds so fun. All you gotta do is read everything backwards then have Drew reverse the track :P

Thank you for covering all the kernel stuff. I know it's a lot of work, but I love hearing it. That AMD regression in 7.2 would affect me since that's what my desktop runs, so I'll keep an ear open for the fix

I choose to run the Zen kernel on my stuff. Performance babyyyyyy

If family computer counts, the first computer I remember using and learning was a dell dimension 5000. Keep in mind I'm only only 10ish years older than your oldest... Sorry to make you feel old lol The first computer that was actually mine was a custom built machine centered around an A10-7890K because I was too poor for a dedicated video card at the time. This was during high school so what money I did get from the job I had was saved up and I later bought a 1050ti.

For the dumb time machine thought experiment I would back to the era of early steam locomotives so 1880s to early 1920s. I would love to be on a train crew and armed with my current knowledge of how to run one already, I probably wouldn't need to learn too much in terms of being an engineer or even a fireman. Plus it was the old west which is one of my favorite historical eras. Yeehaw pardners

Name for us listeners: Jupiteers. We are pioneers in the FOSS space

Thanks for the explainer on the distros. More questions to follow! +1 for the deep dive on Alby hub.

You asked how we like deep dives like this… I really enjoyed this. I wouldn’t want it every episode, but once a month or quarter would be great. This particular episode was well done and I really enjoyed it. Keep up the good work!

Awesome deep dive. Keep those coming I really like them

Regarding that CTO that got hired in the first story. Sounds like someone had a bunch of Microsoft stock and wanted to pump the value up

The intro song for bootleg sums up my work life pretty good

So Chris, you're in a farm with a barn and a wide open area right? So when are you going to get a ham license? That kind of terrain is perfect to set up a dipole antenna... Well, maybe I'll just have to come out and make it happen. At this point you are 2 years overdue. I even waited a whole year after it was originally mentioned and STILL got both a technician and general license before you guys. Anyway, as we say in ham radio, 73

The split to drew failed in my last boost

Congratulations Alex for figuring out why in the business datacenter we have a few separate SANs, compute hosts and NAS boxes instead of one. All because the department of redundancy department exists. In my homelab, I have found that added complexity can make more headaches down the road when one box gets updated and that breaks a thing or you have to shut everything down because your NAS with all the data needs an update or whatever the case may be

I don't like to acknowledge my birthday in general. I'd rather it not exist sometimes, but I will celebrate everyone else's birthday with great enthusiasm

re: fusion power I'm not an expert, just someone who has been interested in nuclear physics and done some research, so if there's anyone out there in the audience who knows more, please correct me We're actually getting there. ITER is planned to be operational as the first power grid scale fusion power plant in France by 2037, japan has had a working fusion generating station since 2023 called JT-60. So for Helion to be making a much smaller scale fusion generator compared those those projects, I believe it. Smaller and more efficient stations might be the way to go for the future. Would make the power grid more resilient since if there are many smaller systems adding power to the grid, the chance of a chain blackout is less. Also fusion has minimal waste compared to fission. The fuel is deuterium which is Hydrogen with 1 proton and 1 neutron smashed into Tritium which is Hydrogen with 1 proton and 2 neutrons. The most waste producing part is creating the tritium since that involves lithium mining

Thank you for this episode!!!

have a great time at Linux Fest. Do you have any suggestions or old episodes to help new Linux users decide on distros as a daily driver? I’m not a total Linux newbie, have been running a couple of Ubuntu servers and Linux Mint on a laptop for over a year now, but want to set up a Linux desktop as a daily driver now. I’m looking at Pop OS for now, any suggestions appreciated. Thanks from New Zealand!

I enjoy the AI subject matter and the way you cover it. I’m fairly new to the Linux and FOSS world and now I have to weave AI into it all, so I appreciate the way you bring it into the Linux ecosystem, give examples of practical use cases and also potential hooks to be aware of. AI is here to stay and everyone needs to understand how to use it, so leep the content coming, that’s my vote.

I think you guys are balancing AI and non-AI topics very well. I can definitely tell there is a lot of work put in each week to keep topics fresh and highlight the lesser hyped things. Keep it up

I officially volunteer to help with bluevault. Sounds like something I've been wanting to do for a while and rust is my preferred language. Send me a message on matrix or signal if you want to discuss!

Regarding your question, I love UniFi.

Chris - stay nostalgic and put your BlueVault disks in here: https://amzn.to/45BWovK :)

Backblaze B2 of backups is the way, imo.

I absolutely agree with you Brent. Why do I compromise experience and use Firefox? Because it is not chromium and I strongly dislike the mono browser culture we have. At first I was disgruntled with the changes Mozilla was making but I value rallying behind a different browser engine than chromium and if my anonymized data is what it takes to help offset the cost of making one, then I guess I will just have to live with it. Which is why I am watching Ladybird very closely and have seen decided to support them financially. Have fun at SCALE!

If I were Linus, I would change the version of the kernel to 7.0 and all subsequent kernels would be 7.X forever. Why? Because why not, I'm Linus. In all seriousness, I do not know enough to make a good decision regarding the direction the kernel should take or what adjustments to make. That is why I'm not Linus...

My 2 sats on the video podcasts: I listen to audio only because I don't want to have the extra distraction of watching. I intake information quite well from an audio medium and even though you offer the video I never use it. Keep doing audio, y'all are fabulous at doing so

I'm jumping on the annual themes idea with you. At work, "optimize what we have to make the most of it". Outside of work, I think it will be "building for the future" meaning financially, relationships, knowledge and skills for self repair and maintenance, and other things of the like.

There might also be a lack of staffing angle on all this flock stuff. Police officers are in high demand, at least here in the midwest. Many people don't want to be police officers anymore because the media blasts them for anything they do. Now this might be just in my area but the small rural towns have been becoming increasingly bigger targets for crime by the big city gangs because they can get away with it and then disappear being way outside the jurisdiction of the rural towns

Wanna change perception of Linux? Get younger people, or influencers of younger people, to talk openly about non-niche topics and how they personally **prefer** using Linux to do them.

As of September 24, there’s an open PR for nextcloud30 … I’m just itching for some of the new features.

We’ve been using a Zero Water pitcher for a long time and am really happy with it Chris.

Let’s get Jeff on to the show! Question wise, @npub1awyzkzakt… mentioned an AirTag alternative… what options are there in this regard? Also, is there an easy way to see this alternative’s location on a map?

IVE GONE TO PLAID Little bit behind, but I just converted my desktop pc to NixOS. I used nix to build a custom installer ISO so that I could verify everything was hunkydory before doing the needful and having disko wipe the popos install

Boring tech corner was not boring. Quite enjoyed that

I have a lot of similar ability for monitoring with the Unifi dream machine, but I might still set this up... Good find Mr Fisher!

Belated boost for this, and other episodes. So much of what Dash talked about resonated with me. Running multiple nodes, disappointment in Bitcoiners and looking for answers somewhere else. Thanks for the thought provoking conversations Cody.

Boost for the road! I’d like to hear your opinion on Open Source LLMs. If an LLM is Open Source, how much can we know about the security and telemetry of that model? If the source code is visible and we can audit it, can we be reassured of what’s being logged or used for training, or is it still a black box? I’m having a debate with a friend at the moment, he says that LLMs are black boxes, even if they are Open Source. What say you?

Belated boost for the last few episodes. Thanks for the useful and thought provoking content. Where else can I find Mishima Yukio, Taiwan and Bitcoin Policy in NZ on the same stream!

I tried learning nix in the past but got distracted. Going to try again and use it with my code projects