100: The Market Fit

New challenge idea. Replace has many daily tasks as you can with a TUI. There is a TUI for audio bookshelf,email, calenhars, file browsers, nostr, github, text editors, music, and many more. Is 2025 the year of the terminal? I think the hardest part would be using them enough to find out if it really is better than just firing up a new browser tab. Thanks for all the great Linux information!

I really enjoyed both the eBPF show, and the coverage of the Rust/kernel mess a couple weeks back. Hope you lads had a great time at Scale !

We went deep on this one. Let me know if we over did it?

Hearing about the state of the engine sealing, here's some sats for an MQ-7 so Brent can get carbon monoxide monitoring going

Test boooost!

Trying to prep for TUI challenge I've been trying to find a good way to watch YouTube. All the YT TUIs seem to be based on invidious which gets blocked all the time. So I created my own based on YT API and will just show you a list of videos by your subscriptions in the tui, not real YT subs, then open in MPV. This saves so many gigs of RAM. https://github.com/fabean/ytviewer

Imho we have let the crypto skeptics get inside our heads. I think as a community we should lean into the fact that boost are powered by bitcoin. As a small business, I’m grateful to have support in a hard asset. It’s helped me fight inflation and keep my head above water. Bitcoin is an intelligence test, and I don’t need everyone in the world listening. I want a great audience, not the biggest audience possible. These are things we should lean into as a podcasting community trying to offer an alternative to mainstream crap. Go Podcasting!

Just wanted to say I really appreciate the work you guys do behind the scenes for the us Podcasters out here! Also +1 to the idea of putting an on-chain Address in the funding tag. I’ve definitely heard from a few listeners that would support via onchain, because that’s where they already have their stats.

How does Nebula compare to Tailscale for the purpose of isolating a server running OpenClaw (or Hermes) in a network? Ive built a plan to isolate a small server inside my LAN so that I can experiment with agents, one item on the plan was creating a Tailnet with only the devices I want the agent to connect to. Can I do that with Nebula? How would that differ from using Tailscale? Thanks!

I did appreciate the RedHat coverage, though it left me feeling down (their fault not yours) ... and apparently uninspired to boost!

I use KeePass with syncthing and it works great for my needs. Love the Gnome Commander pick, and it's a nice little bit of nostalgia remembering when Gnome initially shipped Midnight Commander as their file manager.

Something seems to have gone wrong with my Daemon update boost, which shows as anonymous on the fountain fm website. That was me, thomato

Daemon update time! Last Saturday night, I sat down to install FreeBSD. I haven't done so since 4-dot-something, but I'm sure it'll be easy. I'm a NetBSD user after all! The FreeBSD installer is not as easy as Net's. I eventually gave up trying to get zfs to boot on my T440p, and started thinking about Comic Sans. Didn't boost in last week out of shame. This week I tried on a new machine (a more modern thinkpad). Got root on ZFS working, thankfully, which for me is the whole point of trying FreeBSD. And eventually X11, KDE, and sound. I still can't get my preferred keyboard layout, though. I went for syncthing in a jail to get 7 points instead of just 2. I also did a fresh install of my favoured NetBSD, which I don't normally run as a desktop. I have to say, getting a graphical environment working was easier. In general, I find the NetBSD installation process much more pleasant, though I'm of course more familiar with it. Wes might enjoy looking at the NetBSD boot process. It's wonderfully simple. You can even get root on ZFS, though it's a manual process that makes for a slightly janky boot procedure -- no worse than how Linux boots, though! https://wiki.netbsd.org/root_on_zfs/ For scoring: 6 points for: FreeBSD installed and online, audio recording (will send link later), and syncthing 15 points for: syncthing in a jail, firewall configured, and I also installed a NetBSD desktop. I don't think I'll keep the FreeBSD installation, but I am going to keep NetBSD on this laptop. It not only suspends (FreeBSD could do that), it even resumes! But in general, I'm sticking with Linux as a desktop.

I'm running my framework 13 laptop plus two stacked ultawides everyday, each ultrawide is 3440x1440, that's normal right?

Ótrúlega skemmtilegur þáttur! Mér finnst þetta Value4Value fyrirbæri ótrúlega áhugavert og bitcoin opnar svo marga möguleika á að nýta það eins og með notkun leifturnetsins. Þannig hér kemur smá v4v á ykkur herramenn🧡

Excited for the conversation that took place on sessions recently; Simon Dixon vs. Jeff Booth. Excellent signal, I am always confused why Simon does not get more exposure. I would like to see him on Citadel & TFTC. It was a welcome white pill, a masterclass from Jeff. We are winning. Marty, can u get Doomberg on TFTC?

Haha, Gay Keepers!

Thank you for your time and education. Your PoW is my motivation.

Looking forward to the SCaLE and Planet Nix coverage! Here's some sats to help with the travel. If you see any of the nix/bsd people down there, I'd love to hear about it. I find that particular combination intriguing. Wechsel sounds insane, but then I've done exactly that in the past with a Perl script.

Yes! Cedric, this was my favorite episode so far.

To everyone out there having a hard time right now, hang in there. Your families need you.

"There's kids listening!" Yeah, 40 to 60 year old kids. 🤣

Congratulations on 20 years of podcasting, Chris! Thanks for the van tips. I'll look first at monitoring internal temp, and freshwater temp and levels.

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.

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!

So excited about LIT support in Castamatic, great work!

Happy to help test / transition things at Jupiter Broadcasting as app’s transition off the Alby API. After listening today, my biggest concern would be losing the info in the TLV record. And how to handle the transition in our value tags.

Killer value to the community this week in taking time to talk patiently with Rob at Libsyn. Good work! Really been enjoying the board meetings recently. Happy belated birthday Podfather 🍻

Sending a little love from the new Fountain update! 🫡

Kept listening and heard that you also noticed 👍

Lads, I think you missed some boosts last episode. At least mine and m00ninite's show up in Fountain but seemed to have missed your bot. The headset sounds good to me! For the TUI challenge, I think sixel should be allowed, since it's something that real DEC terminals did. Otherwise I vote no for external graphics. Also, what about another bonus challenge to do social media from the TUI. toot for Mastodon is great, for example

(Typo correction : *bad attitude)

I agree we need a good modern in-kernel filesystem. I'm also still frustrated at the bzf attitude of the kernel devs wrt zfs. If they'd embraced it as an external project with a special status, the fs story would have been so much better

Jumped ahead to listen to 626 and 627 whilst catching up. Throwing in some support !

I love that ThinkBox case! I wish I'd known about it back when I could afford 4 HDDs!

Could you give us some beginners tips for trying OpenClaw. In a FOSS way, what’s a safe way to play with this without losing the farm. I was thinking of spinning it up on an old Raspberry Pi 4 I’m not using. How do you think that would work? I’d like to play around with this but aren’t quite ready to unleash it on my main computers. Thanks.

I'm simultaneously sick to death of hearing about AI, and enjoying LUP's AI coverage. You all are on a very, very short list of exceptions, because you strike a good balance. Both in terms of the amount of coverage, but also in being neither cheerleaders nor thought-free haters. I'm pretty much aligned with Brent, and like he clearly is, I'm enjoying hearing Chris and Wes's AI adventures

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.

Marty, please get Lyn on to discuss these talking points. Or Doomberg

Minor time-travel boost from episode 657. Thanks for putting in all the time and effort for the planet nix and scale coverage! Picking mtr in 2026 is hilarious, but it's still a great tool

I'm looking forward to hearing your reports from RedHat Summit. I've started the TUI challenge early because I'll be on holiday most of next week. I'm having a blast, and it reminds me of how much I enjoyed using Linux (and BSD) back in the day. My write-up which I'm updating as I go along is at tui.chef-li.eu

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!

Long time listener, first time Booster! Love it!