0:00

About once a year, so I feel like a

0:02

break out the old invidious shield portable. And.

0:05

It it it still is one of

0:07

the best portable gaming devices I think

0:09

ever made. It. Is in the shape.

0:11

Of a game controller like

0:13

a Fat X Box controller.

0:16

And. Inside their they have a full Android

0:18

Pc with one of their first Tegra processors.

0:21

And. They have a. With. Were get the

0:23

shield them from as a flip up almost like a

0:25

Star Trek communicator style flip up screen. Where.

0:28

It runs Android. And. Over the years of

0:30

are not really getting up to it anymore, but I can

0:32

still run my rom emulate years on this thing and it

0:34

still. Works. I bought this thing

0:36

in two thousand and fourteen. Years

0:39

ago to say released July Twenty

0:41

Thirteen Android Lollipop Five Point one.

0:43

Yeah. And. If they. they issued like

0:45

several updates since then. So in May of two thousand

0:48

and fourteen I pick this thing up and it's still.

0:50

Really? Never been surpassed. By.

0:53

Like just something that you could put in your bag. Has.

0:56

A battery life the last all day? Maybe take on

0:58

a flight? Easy. To use. Plays.

1:01

Classic Games. And.

1:04

Am. I. Thought you know that would

1:06

never. I thought for sure that by boat I would

1:08

just use this until it died and I'd never built

1:10

replace it like the batter would eventually go and maybe

1:12

I could open up. Maybe Knox. It's pretty tight little

1:14

piece of gear. Is. A lot little seems

1:16

and stuff we have to crack open. So. I

1:19

thought okay I'm just gonna drive this thing the ground. It is what it

1:21

is. Until this week. I.

1:23

Have found. A. Replacement for my

1:26

invidious Shield Portable and I think is better

1:28

and has a better screen. It's a it's

1:30

a step up. It's. Cheaper.

1:33

And. I think it's gonna be officially time.

1:36

To. Retire. My. Beloved in video,

1:38

she'll portable them in brand. get the old

1:40

one. Hello

1:54

friends and welcome back to your weekly

1:56

Linux talk show! Hi I'm Chris. My

1:58

name worse than my name is. Oh

2:00

no No has to have your own studio this

2:02

me as it is our scale eve episode and

2:05

we have three wild and crazy topics each one

2:07

of us has brought her own top. the sweet

2:09

the we're going surprised each other with them and

2:11

find out real time what they are with you.

2:13

Then we're gonna wanna hit the road shortly after

2:16

the episode and have all kinds of stuff for

2:18

you so you know what we gotta do is

2:20

we gotta get cr packs and are booze and

2:22

are feedback for we get out a. Gun.

2:25

All the standards dust. Because. It

2:27

is of course. A

2:29

banger of an episode. So before we get of

2:31

their let's say get more into our virtual no

2:33

time appropriate greetings. Mumble. Roots and

2:36

okay Glow! Wanna raise, hello hello

2:38

and good morning to our friends

2:40

at Tail Scale Tail scale.com/linux on

2:42

plugs. Go try it for free

2:45

on one hundred devices and see

2:47

how you can have programmable networking

2:49

that is so fast, so easy

2:52

and very private all built on

2:54

top of a lag. As I

2:56

could use of the noise protocol,

2:59

it is really easy zero configure

3:01

mesh networking for yourself as an

3:03

individual. Or. For an

3:05

enterprise tail scale.com/ When.

3:08

It's unplugged. So. Here we are. We.

3:10

Don't really know we're going to talk about. I know I've I've

3:12

hinted. At. One minus. Ah,

3:14

Boy this and such a cool device. I

3:16

just remembered that the face plate slides off

3:19

of the video portable and you could have

3:21

these alternatives. Like. Stylized face plates at

3:23

you could put on it. I thought I was

3:25

going to be such a big thing style your

3:27

own yet I'm surprises have lost at. Some

3:31

places have taken this thing. What? Branded

3:33

so dang nice to have year of

3:35

thank you. I realize it's to so

3:37

much fun doing this when role in

3:39

the same room so much easier. I

3:41

mean I'd we need more mattresses on

3:43

the walls or for like said trip

3:45

season but this your grace yeah if

3:47

I guess I also realize we don't

3:49

do this enough because there was a

3:51

spiderweb on my microphone. that or what

3:53

about off yeah this morning you remember

3:56

those are guess last week's. Salazar.

4:00

We were pre-recorded for Halloween. Spider OS.

4:04

I feel like the Nixcon buzz in

4:06

the last couple of weeks has

4:08

really gone to the next level. I think

4:11

they're expecting somewhere around

4:13

300 people, which is a

4:15

lot for the first person. And

4:17

I think Nixcon EU or whatever it was, something

4:19

like 200, 150, 200 people. It's

4:23

nice to see people showing up. And

4:25

just in general, I think this scale

4:27

is going to be

4:29

pretty banging. I know there's a lot of fellow

4:31

content creators that we're looking forward to seeing, and

4:33

then just a whole bunch of wonderful community members

4:36

too. I think it's going to be

4:38

a little bit of a who's who at Nixcon for the Nix community.

4:40

That's going to be neat. Good

4:42

buzz. I think there's going to be some stuff for us to really

4:44

kind of observe from a Nix

4:46

community standpoint. We're going to feel

4:48

like real Nix-nobs is going to be great. You know,

4:50

gents, I feel like I've had that treat already from

4:52

my time in Berlin. There's some cool people who show

4:54

up at some of the hacker spaces there that I've

4:57

been to. And I think

4:59

that's something for you both to share in

5:01

that experience. Because from what I can tell,

5:03

the folks who are kind of hacking away

5:05

on Nix-related stuff are just our kind of

5:07

folk. I think so. Except

5:10

for this part. This part, there's

5:12

this, it's me, right? It's me. Maybe

5:14

it's a little bit of Wes. A little bit

5:16

of Bryant. We're going to, there's something

5:18

about us that just is broken. And

5:22

therefore we break other things. Yes. Oh,

5:24

I break a lot. So we are

5:26

planning to make some pretty serious

5:28

upgrades to the Linux Unplugged RSS

5:31

feed as we go out the door this

5:33

week. So we may potentially wreck

5:35

your RSS feed or your podcast client's ability

5:38

to download future episodes. Please don't

5:40

unsub. Just so you know, this is

5:42

coming up. We're flipping the Linux Unplugged feed to

5:44

a podcasting TodoTo feed. And

5:46

we're going to try to do a swap and play so you don't have to

5:48

change URLs or anything like that. What could

5:50

possibly go wrong? We'll find out.

5:53

Why are we doing this? Why do this?

5:56

Are we crazy? Well, we

5:58

plan to have four live on the web. only Linux

6:00

unplugged on the next trip. We're

6:02

not gonna be publishing those anywhere and we

6:04

wanna be able to deliver that in your podcasting

6:07

2.0 apps you're already using. So you'll

6:09

just see it in there is either pending or when it's live

6:11

and you can just tap in and catch

6:13

us as we're on the live on the 12th, the 14th, the

6:15

15th, the 17th. So I

6:17

mean everything works with the feed and live streams. We're

6:21

gonna put those live streams to good use to help inform

6:23

our coverage, which will inevitably be in the

6:25

Linux unplugged on the 17th. And

6:28

we're gonna have a new streaming front end on the web with

6:30

a new test chat experience. I

6:32

don't know if it'll be, well, it should be already, but it's

6:35

all kind of coming together at the same time. So there's a

6:37

lot of moving pieces. And we're gonna test

6:39

this new chat experience to see if we just draw

6:41

in more folks. And if it becomes something that's popular,

6:43

well then we'll probably work on getting bots and all

6:45

that kind of stuff in there. We'll see. The

6:47

back end is gonna be all podcasting 2.0

6:49

RSS feeds and lit so it'll be audio

6:52

and video all in the RSS feed. So

6:54

you gotta get a new podcasting app and you'll, you know,

6:56

then you're set. And help us test it. Yeah, yeah, really,

6:58

because this is something new for

7:01

us. It's using some really, really

7:03

slick stuff that Wes has built behind the

7:05

scenes. Wes gets around to

7:07

applause. He's a legend

7:09

this week. I think we should pull the applause.

7:11

You know, answer the line. All right. All right.

7:14

That's a very good point. But it's pretty exciting. It's a pretty

7:16

big change. If everything goes right,

7:18

you just, all of a sudden, we'll start getting

7:20

new features in your podcast app one by one

7:22

as we turn them on, starting with live support,

7:25

which would be great. Chance in the chat room here

7:27

asked a good question. Are we gonna

7:29

test our website ahead of time to make sure it

7:31

works? I never even thought of that. There

7:34

should be any changes on the website. All

7:36

that'll still be getting fed the way it always gets fed. Because

7:39

they're all gonna just be using the same back end URLs

7:41

and everything. So all that

7:43

should still work. JBLiv.tv should still work. Trigger a

7:45

scrape after we're done swapping things over. We think

7:47

it's working. Yeah. Long term, if

7:49

this setup works, we'll also use it for

7:51

Texas Linux Fest and maybe Linux Fest Northwest.

7:54

So this could be a model that we can reproduce. So

7:57

please do help us test it. Go get yourself fountain

7:59

or pod. are Cast-O-Matic and I think

8:01

Cast-O-Matic does lit and join us

8:03

and help us test it throughout the week. Especially, you know, maybe you've

8:05

been, you haven't had a chance to try the

8:08

live features in the apps yet because we are live

8:10

other places on Sunday, but yeah, not this time. Not

8:12

this time. And of course if you're gonna

8:14

be at scale, we'll be throwing lunch Saturday

8:17

the 16th at 1.30 p.m. at the yardhouse. We'd love to

8:19

have you there and we also have that scale

8:22

matrix chat room and we have some

8:24

more fast stuff later in the show, but let's get

8:26

into our first topic this week.

8:28

So each one of us is bringing a topic and

8:31

Brentley, we're gonna see what you have for the

8:33

class this week. Yeah, I hesitated

8:36

a little bit on this one because

8:38

I feel like it's maybe more of a

8:40

ask the class what's going on. I need

8:42

some suggestions here, but I got, I've

8:45

been revamping my

8:47

productivity systems recently and it's

8:52

mostly because I realized that being

8:54

a freelancer for so long, I just kind of like

8:56

get to work. Whenever I feel inspired

8:58

and whenever, you know, usually it's late at

9:01

night as Wes knows very deeply. You had

9:03

a lot of inbuilt flexibility because you didn't

9:05

have to really collaborate with anyone or you

9:07

know meet any deadline beyond the deadlines you

9:09

set for yourself, right? Yeah, so I mean that worked

9:11

really well for me, especially as a creative person, but

9:13

these days, you know doing the

9:15

next cloud thing, it turns out I need

9:18

to be predictably productive, which is a thing

9:20

I never had to do before. So I've

9:22

been looking for some tools to help me

9:24

do that. And one I

9:26

came across actually feels quite inspiring

9:28

to me. It's

9:30

called super productivity, which is hopefully

9:32

aptly named and it's

9:35

been changing my world a little bit

9:37

and for some of you who have

9:40

been using productivity tools for a long time now,

9:42

you might feel like oh, yeah this is pretty

9:44

basic and I'm not sure what this would do

9:47

for me, but man for me,

9:49

it's like been a wonderful

9:51

structure and a way to track

9:53

my time. And so

9:55

that's kind of what I was looking for and I didn't

9:57

think I would find any apps that I was happy with

9:59

that weren't like hosted applications because a

10:01

ton of suggestions I've gotten were like,

10:03

oh we're used to do this, or

10:06

use like, so I've gotten so many

10:08

suggestions of those kind of products, but

10:10

I came across super productivity, which

10:13

is open source, and at

10:15

first I was like no, no, no, like this

10:17

isn't gonna have enough traction to really, you

10:20

know, be a stable application

10:22

that's useful, right? But there's

10:24

something like a hundred and fifty contributors

10:26

to this particular project, and

10:28

that you found something with a community. Yeah,

10:30

that got me kind of my ears up

10:32

thinking, okay, wait a second, there might actually

10:35

be something here, and so

10:37

this application also does some cool

10:39

stuff like integrates github and Jira

10:42

and scaldav open project and

10:44

get t issues

10:46

into your task list, so you can

10:48

have all these other systems that maybe

10:50

your team works with or whatever, but you

10:53

can bring those into your own productivity

10:55

system and overlay them

10:57

on top of, you know, your own

10:59

personal tasks and things like that. So

11:01

some of the ideas in this project are

11:03

really making a big difference in my own

11:06

personal life, but also I just thought there's

11:09

like these communities of these

11:12

super niches, and they're

11:15

crazy active, and so I found

11:18

it really interesting. The next best

11:20

thing is that it is packaged up in

11:22

Nix, which I was like, I'm

11:24

never gonna be able to try this because I'm

11:26

on Nix, and I don't, you know, whatever, but

11:29

I don't have snap packages installed. Yeah, I was

11:31

just that so that blew me away and made

11:33

me realize, oh yeah, Nix packages does

11:36

indeed have a lot of stuff, like way more

11:38

than I expected, so there's no flat pack of

11:40

this yet. There's a snap and a

11:42

deb, and you know, a

11:44

Nix package, and if you don't want

11:46

to go that route, they also have like a

11:49

web way of using it. Yeah,

11:51

a web app. Also Android clients

11:53

and iOS clients, so it's just

11:55

like, Android right here on the

11:58

GitHub page. Yeah, it's crazy mature. And

12:00

so I've been using it for about

12:02

a week now, and it's made a big

12:04

difference for me, at least, in learning

12:07

how to be more stable in my

12:09

productivity, which is the whole point.

12:11

But the question for

12:13

me then becomes, what

12:16

do you guys use? Like Wes, you've got

12:18

a whole ton of daily jobby job things

12:20

you gotta track. Do you have any productivity

12:22

system? I would imagine maybe for those of

12:24

you who've been having to solve this kind

12:26

of problem for a couple decades, maybe

12:29

you're using things like, I

12:31

don't know, a note system that you

12:34

have tweaked for just exactly what you

12:36

need. So I feel like I'm on the start of this

12:38

journey. I'm looking for a guide on what's working for you

12:40

guys. I do like about this.

12:42

Doesn't require an account. That's nice. You

12:44

know, a lot of these things do this kind of level

12:46

of stuff, they require an account. The integration with your GitHub,

12:48

GitLab, and GitT. That makes me

12:50

curious. Yeah. Yeah, so that means

12:52

if you close something out on GitHub, it

12:54

could be accounted for in here. Also, the way they do

12:57

timeboxing seems particularly useful for somebody like you and the way

12:59

you work. It also syncs with

13:01

Next Cloud on the back end, which is a nice thing. It

13:04

can do syncing in a few different ways in different

13:06

places. You have a task manager, Wes?

13:08

I might just have to install this to see if it's like

13:10

one less time I actually have to open Jira up. So

13:13

I have zero experience with things like Jira, but yeah,

13:16

if it can help you, that'd be interesting. Try to

13:18

keep it that way, buddy. Yeah. You

13:20

know, I kind of have a few different methods. There's always the,

13:22

you know, there's a markdown file that I

13:24

have open in VIM. I called it. That's

13:27

a lot of it. I've been playing with LogSeeks.

13:29

Has some time tracking functionality built in and some

13:31

plugins if you want to kind of take it

13:33

beyond that. So I use that for some things

13:35

though. I find the actual note taking part more

13:38

useful for me. And then for personal

13:40

projects, I've had a to-do list subscription for a while,

13:42

which I don't use a ton of, but can

13:45

be nice, especially just for the mobile interface. So you

13:47

can, you know, mostly honestly,

13:49

to track down some groceries I want to buy

13:51

or keep track of like, oh, make sure

13:53

you renew the card tabs. What I like,

13:55

so Brent, what you kind of have here with super

13:57

productivity is... It's

14:00

a it's more than just

14:02

to do it is it's a

14:04

time slicing app where you can slice your

14:06

time up to specific things that you can

14:08

focus on and then track your progress there

14:10

and break those tasks up into a time

14:12

slicing fashion which seems like a very handy

14:14

way to approach to do app. It's especially

14:16

useful maybe if you were in like a

14:18

contracting situation where you had stuff like billable

14:20

hours you really did need to account for

14:23

like what happened in that day yeah yeah

14:25

yeah i see two there's like break reminders

14:27

and anti procrastination feature the also i do

14:29

like the pomodoro method and one of those

14:31

built in. I've been kind of seeing

14:33

it as not just a to

14:35

do list but as a structure

14:37

that i can just throw myself into and

14:39

it's like already all these best practices are

14:42

sort of integrated into the software instead of

14:44

me you know having to pull these or

14:47

have the discipline to integrate

14:50

these into my own little strategies every single

14:52

day is like there's just the structure

14:54

that i can be thrown into and i have no.

14:57

Choice but to just adhere to them and actually

14:59

the super helpful for someone like me who's just

15:02

trying to figure this stuff out for the first

15:04

time. It's the old i'll start making

15:06

blog posts just as soon as i finish developing

15:08

my personal blogging right yes yes

15:10

i like that it

15:12

has you know app for every platform it's got a

15:14

snap as well if you want to

15:16

install it via snap send the you are like

15:18

you said it's next looks like there's a docker

15:21

container available to you go so

15:23

this is this is a really nice it's mit licensed.

15:26

So i think this is a really solid contribution i

15:28

like this a lot kind of like a next level

15:30

productivity app i'll just for what i use just think

15:33

it's called task task.org and i use

15:35

the next cloud. As my

15:37

back end feature and it works

15:39

pretty much like 90% of the time i

15:42

i'll use that and then every now and then

15:44

i'll use like a bespoke to do app like

15:46

to do is or something like a project. I

15:49

just use the app for that project sometimes it is nice to have

15:51

like i know i just pull over here there's no clutter

15:54

to distract me i could go right to that. But

15:56

maybe super productivity fixes that in the way

15:58

i can time box things. Is it designed

16:01

around like a single user or like if say JB had

16:03

an instance could we all be using it? That's

16:06

a really good question. I can tell it is single

16:08

user but Yeah,

16:12

that's a great question. I yeah collaborative tasks are

16:14

always sort of a more advanced feature But very

16:16

but you can pull in like Cal dev Systems

16:19

and stuff like that. So if I guess we had a kid

16:21

if we did some sort of kid So

16:23

I think if you rely on some of these

16:26

back ends, yeah, that might be totally an

16:28

option Hmm, that's pretty

16:30

slick and Free, how

16:33

do they make it? You know how they're making money as a company? I

16:36

don't They have a

16:38

hosted version. It's a great question. I didn't even look for

16:40

that because I don't see I don't see anything But the

16:42

web app, but I don't say you pay for that and

16:44

you know, they have that host web app But I don't

16:46

I don't know I

16:49

this is an area to where I would love

16:51

to solicit some feedback from the audience on if

16:53

they have a task manager That's just enough for

16:55

them. I can I'm looking for something

16:57

that is totally inclusive like this, but also My

17:00

go-to has always been a lean mean task manager for

17:02

a particular project I do

17:04

see they have um, they are enabled with github sponsors So,

17:07

you know if you do find it useful, maybe take a

17:09

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slaps on plot. Mattress.

19:26

Since I've been here the see I feel like I

19:28

had a little bit of a hint of what your

19:30

topic would be. I. Think I know

19:32

at Wess in the area. with feels

19:34

like you to have been secret working

19:36

on a project for a may be

19:38

the last week or two but I

19:40

don't know what that is. It in

19:42

my life and images be one is

19:44

gonna benefit you to. Yeah yeah well

19:46

it's well. tell us about a year

19:48

in it is true. For about the

19:50

last three Sundays after Linux Unplugged Western

19:52

I stayed very late. the fourth of

19:54

negligently suffers of milk words. You know,

19:56

projects you know because we have some

19:58

infrastructure bits and pieces. And.

20:01

We want to move them.

20:03

At. One of the thing that we're starting

20:06

with is one of them are challenging ones

20:08

is remember a January of Twenty Twenty Two.

20:10

When we first started doing Boost, we deployed

20:12

our own local Umbra Bitcoin node and this

20:14

right all in one application. Docker Compose under

20:16

the Hood beats. you. get a slick dashboard

20:18

and a bunch of web apps and stuff

20:20

to install and then everything that you and

20:22

salvia. Their quote unquote app store is really

20:24

a docker container. We've. All seen

20:26

these systems out there and a whole bunch

20:28

of scripts that you occasionally have to troubleshoot

20:31

younger, the heard, and the more you systems

20:33

like this again, gas and just rather be

20:35

just running the core applications myself. And

20:38

this seemed like. A perfect thing

20:40

to next. Could we next this

20:42

system and just get a very.

20:45

Specific. Box that

20:47

is an Mvp. The. Just

20:49

runs really reliable. But.

20:52

Then. Take that as

20:54

a model that we could been deployed

20:56

for Brent and myself and West or

20:58

any the listeners could go grab. And.

21:00

To play their own systems and you could swap

21:02

in the bitcoin demon for. Anything.

21:04

Else your Samba yes, whatever it is

21:06

blacks. It's really about person prescribing a

21:08

system that gets built the way you

21:11

want and creating. Your. Own custom

21:13

in our case Bitcoin know but it could be

21:15

really anything. And you know Humble Humble had been

21:17

pretty great. Think of allowed you to like play

21:19

the up for the ecosystem kind of mix and

21:21

match like oh I just wanna try this app

21:24

for a bit without committing to a but. You.

21:26

Know when we know yet exactly and it's been.

21:28

it's been a while. we're pretty invest in the

21:30

Boost for seemingly only gonna be more so and

21:32

one of the things is right, you can run

21:34

a locally. We. All want to. I wasn't

21:36

super thrilled about setting up Humble in my house. We

21:39

all want to self host or oh noes because it

21:41

can. But we. Don't need that

21:43

solutions anymore. We want something really a

21:45

little more. Almost appliance like

21:47

Enter Knicks Bitcoin which I think you

21:49

first directed us out of from there

21:51

for next project on Get up. It's

21:53

a collection of Next packages and and

21:55

think so as modules. Are. Easily

21:57

installing full featured bitcoin nodes. With

22:00

an emphasis on security there. I've heard about

22:02

this on and off, But where I realize

22:04

there was something serious here is when I

22:06

was visiting El Salvador, There. Is

22:08

a school of college kids are a class

22:10

of college kids about forty kids. And.

22:12

They were all working on creating self

22:15

hosted point of sales terminals for small

22:17

businesses in El Salvador. And the

22:19

first thing they tried to versus really tried was Debbie

22:21

and. Ah, but they had

22:23

issues every time it came to support and

22:25

reproduce ability of the problems like they were

22:27

trying to back of a back of a

22:29

home office or the classroom. Whenever they have

22:31

problems reproducing assume they moved to a boon

22:33

tune in a move to Arch. They continue

22:35

to have the same problem. And. So

22:37

then the professor said. right?

22:40

You. Guys just go figure out what's gonna work

22:42

best. And whatever you figure out what's best,

22:44

we're going to just put on a piece of hardware and

22:46

that's what we're going to send out everybody to. They tried

22:49

Silver Bullet Train, all these different things. And. In

22:51

the last thing the tried. Was. Next. And.

22:54

They used the Knicks bitcoin project. And

22:56

then it started sobbing. All of their probably have

22:58

no legal education and configuration things they needed and

23:01

then they could also start reproducing problems back in

23:03

the classrooms, make a fixed shipped to the customer

23:05

and get the point of sale device working in

23:07

a couple of hours. And so they came to

23:09

the professor and they said. We.

23:12

Think we've gotten expect one and he said, what

23:14

the hell's next year. You. Want

23:16

to go with what weird nice destroy the we have to

23:18

support now and so they gave him a little presentation and

23:20

they sold them on it and now there is this piece

23:22

of hardware. A. Called the my bonds. That.

23:25

Is in else our you'd other places

23:27

to. It's all next bitcoin and it's

23:29

all prescribed. For. This

23:31

point of sale set a while and. And

23:34

so we thought. that seems like a pretty reasonable

23:36

approach for us. It also kinda felt like a

23:38

nice version of i mean, it's not quite a

23:40

will it Next segment, but I think it's in

23:42

that spirit. But. Was interesting

23:44

because you know our last time around we were doing our

23:47

next clouds up but that's had a module that was just

23:49

right and next packages and think we. So. Far

23:51

most of us have experience using been a

23:53

pretty straight next O s and. There's.

23:55

So much of a mixed bag. it is pretty much everything

23:57

we need has been there. but Next

24:00

Bitcoin, it's its own repo. It's its own flake.

24:02

It's a whole other I mean it all leverages

24:05

nixos technology Of course, but you know, it's its

24:07

own thing and we have to figure out how to

24:09

apply that Yeah, it's sort of outside the standard module system So we

24:11

have to figure out how to bring it in and then

24:13

figure out which bits of it we wanted Yeah,

24:16

I get everything to play nicely together, but I you know

24:18

so far it's been pretty nice I mean you got to

24:20

go get the get the flake or however you choose to

24:22

do it They've got instructions in the read me bring

24:25

that in but then you just make you know in

24:27

your nixos configuration Suddenly you've got a bunch

24:29

more modules and services available that nix Bitcoin

24:32

exports So, you know, you do

24:34

services dot Bitcoin D dot enable equals

24:36

true and boom You've

24:39

got a Bitcoin demon running now. You still got a way

24:41

to go think the blockchain but yeah, you have

24:43

a nice reproducible setup They've got a lot of

24:45

apps already, you know stuff like the mempool. They've

24:47

got ride the lightning They've got you know liquid

24:50

support lightning loop. We've found a lot of

24:52

the stuff that we wanted not a mumbrel

24:54

But a lot not everything. Yeah, and the

24:56

goal here is to have

24:59

something that we can again

25:01

say, okay Brent Here's your file use this

25:03

file and now you have a working system.

25:05

You can imagine this with an IMAP server, right? Here's

25:07

your file you run this and now you have a

25:09

working system We don't just spend an afternoon with you

25:11

like trying to get it all up Oh, yeah first

25:13

I installed this package over here and then I'll make

25:15

sure you change that config setting right none of that

25:17

None of that. It's just ready to go. And then

25:20

the other thing is you're you're safe on upgrades You

25:22

know, you're really pretty much set unless there's a you

25:24

know, a bug or regression introduced upstream

25:26

by the software maker It's

25:29

gonna be such a more solid upgrade process than

25:31

one of these pre-built systems It's managing all these

25:33

containers that have to like do it a self

25:35

update and then do it a Docker compose Pole

25:38

and you know do all these things that under the hood

25:40

that can sometimes go wrong and sideways and it just hangs

25:43

You don't have to deal with any of that, right? Instead.

25:45

You've got like a flake with pins in it You

25:47

just you can roll back if anything goes wrong. It's

25:50

all in get so what happens West when not everything

25:52

is packaged it up As a module which we did

25:54

run into. Yeah. Okay. So For

25:57

the booth specifically there's this great app from

25:59

the podcasting 2.0 folks called helipad

26:01

and Chris you turn on this turned us

26:03

onto this as well and It's

26:06

super helpful especially during live streams because it just pops

26:08

up and makes that fun pew And

26:11

a real-time dashboard. Yeah shows us live boosts

26:13

coming in But it

26:15

wasn't packaged in next Bitcoin.

26:18

So we thought okay Well, we're

26:20

gonna need helipad and actually just a just

26:22

a couple days ago. They finally merged Long-standing

26:26

issue and pull request to add a fancy

26:28

settings page and web web Which

26:30

pretty killer I think for a lot of folks

26:32

because you can get helipad running talking to your

26:34

Lightning Demon and then export That you know anywhere

26:36

else have it send your messages in slack or

26:38

element or whatever. Mm-hmm So this is

26:40

an application we wanted to have on our systems for

26:42

all of us each one of us But

26:45

it wasn't available by the Knicks

26:47

Bitcoin project So we had to

26:49

come up with a way where we could package it ourselves That

26:52

again would be reproducible for everybody that uses this afterwards.

26:54

Yeah, you know, we had a lot of options Because

26:57

it's designed to run on umbral. It's already packaged

26:59

as a docker container. So that's definitely one option

27:01

Yeah, just use a docker container. It's also a

27:04

rust app. So it's pretty minimal We could probably

27:06

just download the binary and run it on nixos

27:08

and it would probably work just fine you basically

27:10

just need the little web root folder with all

27:12

the static assets and a working binary for your

27:15

system and it should work but Either

27:17

of those sounded as much fun No trying to make

27:20

it first-class like what if what do we want to

27:22

fit into this? Lovely little nixb bitcoin ecosystem and we

27:24

want to be able to configure some of the parameters

27:26

And again, we want the the co-host to be able

27:28

to run this without having to go like set up

27:31

a docker container separately And

27:33

that turned out to be a lot simpler than

27:35

I think either of us really hoped for I mean just

27:37

to get started Much like go

27:39

and a few other languages Nick's

27:42

has great support for rust You

27:44

do need to have like a cargo lock

27:46

file available, but they have a build rust

27:48

package function So you kind of

27:51

just don't you yeah, totally rust platform build

27:53

rust package. Oh sweet So here, you know,

27:55

basically you tell it like okay, the name

27:57

is Pelopad. Here's the version I want which

27:59

usually corresponds to like a tag in git that

28:01

you're gonna go download. You point it

28:03

to literally fetch from GitHub, right? Go

28:05

grab it from the podcast index, grab

28:07

the helipad repo, and that's about

28:09

it. We did have to figure out, you know, you

28:12

got to figure out like what kind of build inputs

28:14

and native build inputs. I even, I don't know why,

28:16

but I put in a little work to see if

28:18

it would work on Darwin as well. Well, old Mac

28:20

OSO, that's possible. That was great. It's

28:22

random. But you know, now essentially the GitHub repo

28:24

is our package repo, right? So when they update

28:26

and they release there, we'll get the new version.

28:29

Yeah, we will have to do a couple of

28:31

it, a couple updates because you got to go,

28:33

you know, there's hashes in here to make everything

28:35

reproducible. So you got to go through

28:37

and when they really do a new release, we'll decide,

28:39

are we ready to update? And then we

28:41

can update that package to pull in the latest one. So that

28:44

worked pretty well. And we got ourselves a little binary

28:46

that was built and runnable. But that's

28:48

only half the battle really, probably not even half the battle

28:50

because that just kind of gets us in the next store

28:52

a helipad executable that we could run.

28:54

And we tested that and that was working. But then

28:56

you're gonna also have to go download the web root

28:59

and statefully stick that somewhere. Yeah, that just didn't sound

29:01

that you need to get it to start. Yes. And

29:03

this was one area where personally, I'd had like a

29:05

little more experience with Nick's because I've tried

29:07

packaging a couple things myself just

29:09

for personal projects. And so I'd seem like, okay, you

29:11

can build the package. You got it available for a

29:13

lot of stuff. That's enough. Yeah, yeah. What about having

29:16

a whole gosh darn Nick's OS module? Right? Why not?

29:18

Because that's how everything's done with Nick's Bitcoin. Right. And

29:20

I think ultimately we'd love I don't know if it

29:22

up streams or not, but it would be

29:24

nice for it to take advantage of the Nick's Bitcoin infrastructure

29:26

and sort of seamlessly slot in a mix

29:29

that we really liked a lot of the patterns that

29:31

that gave us. So I thought if we could

29:33

have the exact same thing for helipad. And this is something that

29:35

a lot of other folks who are in their own note are

29:37

gonna want eventually. Yeah, yeah, especially folks interested

29:39

in value for value and boost. Right. So following

29:41

their convention, so sort of just it's just sort

29:43

of slots right in if people are already using

29:45

Nick's Bitcoin. Yeah. And that was so great because

29:47

you know, there are a lot of Nick's OS

29:49

modules out there, but a bunch of them are

29:51

kind of integrated in with Nick's packages. And it's

29:53

just a lot to sort through. I

29:55

found it super helpful that Nick's Bitcoin's totally open

29:58

source. I could just go read some of modules

30:00

for the apps we were already using and

30:02

then kind of copy that pattern and be like, oh right

30:04

that's how they do that. So for

30:06

instance right, we've got a you

30:08

know a big array attached to the thing that we're running

30:11

that's going to store the blockchain and stuff. We wanted to

30:13

make sure that all the state wasn't

30:15

going to be on the main OS disk, it was going to be over

30:17

there. All the other services come with like a data

30:19

dir option so you can make sure it goes and points in

30:21

it. You know, hey all the app data

30:23

live over here. Just emphasize that point. This is

30:25

what makes it so nice is in that config

30:28

that we're setting up, we're setting the

30:30

data directory in there. So when

30:32

these applications get set up, they just are

30:35

configured out of the box for our data delivery.

30:37

This stuff is so nice and when we give

30:39

it to Brent, he just changes that path to

30:41

whatever his data directory is and all of the

30:43

apps, you don't have to go configure each application

30:45

individually. Right. Or you could mount your thing to

30:47

the same full, you have a lot of flexibility.

30:49

But anyways, I didn't mean to interrupt but I

30:51

just want to underscore how freaking nice that is.

30:54

Well and it was it was neat to see how

30:56

it was done too. So a bunch of these, they

30:58

use system D temp files under the hood, which is

31:00

a sort of facility for system D to create temporary

31:02

files, but turns out they actually don't need to be

31:05

that temporary. So you can create

31:07

directories, you can also create sim links. So

31:09

there was stuff in there that we could set up. So helipad

31:11

works the same way it it automatically sets

31:13

up its own storage location wherever you tell it,

31:15

I got it configured so you can, you know,

31:18

in next you can tell it all the options

31:20

you want for helipad and then that spits out

31:22

your configuration file into the next store and then

31:24

it's assembling that into the route where this thing's

31:26

running. I mean, this is all very

31:28

MVP, we basically got it to the stage of like, hey,

31:31

look, it looks like it works. And you know,

31:33

in our actual node config, we could just

31:35

say like, services dot helipad dot enable equals

31:37

true. Surely lots of stuff to improve,

31:39

but it was really fun. And I thought it was a

31:42

nice way to go about learning this stuff in kind of

31:44

a safe environment, and a slightly simpler environment.

31:46

Well, in the opposite of a like, and I

31:48

don't mean to like, hey, it on like the

31:50

free NAS type stuff or the platforms that let

31:53

you deploy, you know, a bunch of apps from

31:55

an app store. But what we

31:57

get with this is we're building

31:59

it up. up instead of building it down. And

32:02

so we're adding individual things that we need

32:04

as we need them and

32:06

nothing more. And to me,

32:08

for something that you want to run reliably,

32:10

securely for a long time, that's

32:13

always, always a better way to go. If

32:15

it's more minimal and you just bolt

32:17

on as you need stuff using a

32:19

standard way that is

32:22

totally scalable, it's

32:24

just gonna, I think, gonna make for a much, I mean, these

32:26

basically are set up once and done. It's

32:28

neat too, because the Nix Bitcoin stuff, obviously

32:30

security is fairly important on your node, right?

32:32

You really don't want folks getting on there

32:34

or stealing your bag. So

32:36

there's a bunch of options in Nix Bitcoin and

32:38

stuff that they just use. So like

32:40

when you're setting up the systemd service for hella bad or

32:43

for whatever, there's some new options

32:45

in there like read-write paths or read-only paths.

32:47

And basically you can tell systemd, when

32:49

this service, I'd like it to have this working

32:52

directory, and then it can only read from these

32:54

paths and it can only read and write these

32:56

other paths. So you can tell it,

32:58

like, okay, you can read from Etsy, you can write

33:00

to this wonder, and else-wise you don't get

33:02

to see squat. Yeah, that's nice. The

33:05

other, the one last part about this that was really

33:08

nice is, you know, we were doing this at the

33:10

studio on a particular machine here, but

33:12

I didn't really wanna like do all the testing and

33:14

dev on that machine. You know, there's

33:16

tail scalers access, it's all fine, but I just

33:18

wanted to play with it a bit on my laptop as I was trying to get

33:20

the module to work. And I wasn't even

33:22

using Nix OS. I was using Katie

33:24

Neon at the time because we were getting ready to

33:26

check out the new Plasma. I installed Nix on there,

33:29

and then you're able to not only build the whole

33:31

Nix OS module, but then in the

33:33

Flake, I just added a Nix OS configuration

33:36

that was pulling in the module I was developing. And

33:39

then from that, it'll just build you a virtual

33:41

machine image, which it uses the Nix

33:43

version of QEMU to run right on my

33:45

name. So I didn't install any VM stuff. It was

33:47

just like- Doing this on top of an Ubuntu base.

33:49

And then suddenly I'm in a Nix OS VM and

33:51

I can see like, oh, did my systemd service render

33:54

out like I wanted it to? Yeah. That's

33:56

so neat. That is so neat. And then like, now once you get it

33:58

working, you go put it on the box. That's just- And then it

34:00

worked, it just worked. Ah, that's so cool. Yeah,

34:03

that's the other thing is you moved to a totally

34:05

different system from that, you know, temporary VM system, drop

34:07

another box, reload and it works. And you don't even

34:09

have to like bring anything, you know, I basically just

34:11

pushed it to GitHub and then went on the box

34:13

in the studio and said, hey, pull in the flake

34:15

from this GitHub repo and rebuild your system. Can we

34:17

just, can we just like soak in that for a

34:19

second? Just put it up on GitHub and

34:21

it's like reproduces it and it works and that is where

34:23

it just seems inevitable that if

34:25

you have a mission critical production app, you're

34:28

gonna want to be able to have this kind of flexibility

34:31

and you know, prescribed deployment. And as with everything, there's

34:33

a ton of ways to do this, obviously a bunch

34:35

of this stuff you can do. Sure, there always is.

34:38

Yeah, but I think there's something about the

34:40

power of combining all these things in one system

34:42

and some of the ergonomics of Nix, like that

34:44

just built in virtual machine setup and that you

34:47

can do it on any system without really installing

34:49

much besides Nix, really kind

34:51

of lowered the barrier to entry and I think up the reward

34:53

a bit. Hmm, now we just

34:55

have to figure out how to do a full migration,

34:57

but the thing that I liked about it is we

34:59

essentially each week solve something and as

35:01

we do that, we kind of unlock that knowledge

35:03

and then we can build on top of that.

35:06

So week one, we weren't installing

35:08

custom apps. Yeah, we were

35:10

just getting to darn think, like is the Lightning

35:12

Demon working or things? Things, we don't know. But

35:14

it's like you solve a problem and you're always

35:16

moving forward. You can always build on

35:18

top of what you've done. Not

35:21

that that isn't how it typically works, but it really

35:23

feels concrete. It's like, okay, we've solved this, now we

35:25

build on top of that because that's a finished problem

35:27

and we can now do this next thing and then

35:29

the next week we solve the next problem. Yeah, and

35:31

I think it's nice just to understand that

35:33

yes, the barrier to entry is high and

35:35

maybe you don't need to build your own custom apps, but

35:38

Alex has been off contributing stuff to Nix packages.

35:41

Once you get over a couple of those humps, you

35:44

can really start bringing whatever you want right along with you

35:46

just like you can with Nix. Okay,

35:48

first of all, this is amazing.

35:51

We've been dreaming about this for like what, a year or

35:53

two? So kudos to you guys

35:55

for doing that and hearing the details

35:57

of it is awesome. I do

35:59

have a... question about Nix Bitcoin having its

36:01

own repo. I'm curious about why

36:03

that is, why the project feels like they have

36:06

to have their own repo versus just using the

36:08

standard Nix repo. Is there a

36:11

particular reason? You know, I'm not

36:13

really sure, but I think part of it is

36:15

probably you can just, you know, uncouple the development.

36:17

Nix packages development seems to go pretty fast and

36:20

there's, you know, all kinds of reviews and awesome

36:22

systems, but I think the stuff

36:24

might be just different enough and they might also have

36:26

some different sort of defaults with eyes

36:29

to security and more integration and stuff. That's what I

36:31

was going to say. Yeah, there's some defaults that they

36:33

change. And I think you're going to see more of

36:35

this. I think Nix Bitcoin and Nixified

36:37

AI are kind of the beginning of this, but

36:39

instead of distros, you know, where we'd see spins

36:41

of distros in the past that were like a

36:43

studio distro or whatever, you're going to just

36:46

see these communities that

36:48

build up around Nix and create like the

36:50

Nix Bitcoin project. And you're going to have

36:52

Nix probably there maybe already be a Nix

36:54

studio project. We should look into

36:56

that. But you know, I think this is going

36:58

to become like the next wave instead of seeing,

37:00

I hope maybe this is me projecting, I hope

37:02

of mine, but instead of seeing new distros pop

37:05

up all the time, which does feel like it's

37:07

slowing down, you're going to see takes on

37:09

Nix that are kind of like,

37:12

you know, a community that comes together with

37:14

a very specific goal and they create this.

37:16

And then you just, I mean, it starts

37:18

as just a basic Nix install and then it

37:21

became a Nix Bitcoin install. Right. We just really

37:23

just added another input to our flake and then

37:25

turned on some more services. Yeah. And I think

37:27

that too helps, you know, obviously before you could

37:29

do all the same stuff, but the flake integration

37:31

really takes the costs of having it as its

37:33

own repo down a lot, I think. So you

37:35

get the benefits of having it sort of uncoupled,

37:38

play with it, especially as early development, you know, you don't want to

37:40

have to, you're making lots of rapid changes and

37:42

then it's still easy for folks to get it.

37:44

I mean, I'd love to see Nix email. It's

37:47

this for an email server, right? Nix

37:50

image or whatever, just all these things where the community

37:52

comes together and they just build this because there's

37:55

so many ways to solve these problems. And the nice thing about it,

37:57

these modules being on GitHub is you can just look at what's going

37:59

on. they're doing and you can adopt some of it or all of

38:01

it or you could bring it in with the point or you could

38:03

just copy the file right and then have

38:05

your own module locally until you're ready to do

38:07

something else but we're all starting from a much

38:10

better place and you know it's going so much

38:12

faster but this is kind of what Docker is

38:14

trying to do right but it feels like maybe

38:16

this is the new way to solve

38:18

those problems well here you're going all the way into

38:20

the application too so not only are you deploying on

38:22

the actual host but you're going into configuring all the

38:24

way into the application and it's kind of all integrated

38:26

too so it's like you know one

38:29

of these services might configure the

38:31

the MySQL that service that

38:33

exists in Nix OS already but

38:36

if you want to then further tweak that that's all

38:38

right in the same area so you can access that

38:40

with directly without having to go to some other file

38:42

so I'll integrate it into one holistic config. collide.com/unplugged.

38:48

Now I bet you have heard

38:50

me talk about collide before I

38:53

think it's kind of a secret weapon would have kept me

38:55

in IT probably for even longer but

38:57

did you hear the good news? Collide's

39:00

been acquired by one password that's actually pretty

39:02

big news since these two companies really

39:05

have a very similar focus in the

39:07

security industry solutions that put users first.

39:10

Now for over a year collide device trust

39:12

has helped companies with Okta ensure that only

39:14

known secure devices can access their data. They

39:17

do this with some really cool tooling and a

39:19

single pane dashboard for all your machines and

39:21

now they're doing it even more with one password so if

39:24

you've got Okta and you've been meaning to check out

39:26

collide now is a great time. Collide

39:28

comes with a library of pre-built device

39:30

posture checks too but of course

39:32

you can write your own custom checks as well for

39:34

just about anything you can think of including

39:37

your Linux fleet all without

39:39

the requirement of an MDM.

39:43

The dreaded MDM. What does a Linux fleet

39:45

do? Well you don't need to worry anymore

39:47

with collide. Also you know really

39:49

handy I know for contractor devices where you

39:51

can't necessarily just install software on somebody else's

39:53

computer and really every BYOD device every phone

39:56

or laptop that happens to roll into your

39:58

company. Collide solves that in Now

40:00

they're doing it with one password. So

40:02

go check them out. They're only getting better.

40:04

Go to collide.com/unplugged to learn and

40:06

to watch that demo. It's a great way to support the show

40:08

too. That's

40:11

kolide.com/unplugged. collide.com/

40:15

unplugged. Okay,

40:19

now I think we come to Chris. I

40:21

have some hints at what you've been doing,

40:23

but actually now I'm starting to question myself.

40:25

I don't know. So what do you

40:27

got for us? Yeah, I used you as a tester this

40:29

morning to just like check, like, do you think this is

40:32

as cool as I do? Because I think this is really

40:34

cool. I gotta give

40:36

a shout out to our buddy Alex who turned me on

40:38

to this. And it is a

40:40

portable game console called the RS36S.

40:45

And it's focused on retro games. You

40:48

can find it for somewhere between $30, $60, or

40:51

if you get the full kit, about $85. It

40:55

is really focused on emulators. So you've got

40:57

a whole list, you know, everything you could

40:59

really think of that is of any kind

41:01

of retro era. And

41:03

that's great for me. Nintendo, PSP, all

41:06

those Game Boys, all that kind of stuff. Where

41:08

it really stands out is its size. It's

41:10

shaped like kind of like a little bit fatter of a Game

41:12

Boy. And its screen. The

41:15

screen is small, but it is a IPS OCA

41:18

brilliant screen. It is, here I'll turn it on

41:20

for you. I did not expect that. It's somehow,

41:22

it looks like a Game Boy, so I thought

41:24

it would just be like a black and white

41:26

screen. I know, right? It really seems like it

41:29

would just be a crappy screen. But

41:31

it is not. It's only 640 by 40, but again, when

41:33

you're playing these ROMs, that's all you really need. It

41:36

has an ARM 64-bit CPU in here, 1.5 gigahertz.

41:40

So it's, you know, plenty fast for playing

41:42

these. It has joysticks on it as well, which

41:44

is really neat. A gigabyte

41:46

of RAM. And check this out.

41:49

Dual, this one has dual TF card slots.

41:51

So I've got two SD cards in here. One

41:54

is the OS, so you can reflash that. And one is

41:56

the ROMs. It's about a thousand ROMs

41:58

as things come. that comes with. ROMs

42:00

that I've never even been able to find online, there's

42:02

no way this thing's going to be for sale for

42:05

very long. It's loaded with

42:07

ROMs. So what's the OS like? The OS

42:09

is great. So it's called Arc OS, which

42:11

is based on Ubuntu 1910. Oh,

42:14

of course it's Linux powered, but I wasn't sure

42:16

if it was some embedded thing. No, it's Linux,

42:18

buddy. It's got two USB-C ports on the bottom,

42:20

one for charging and one for actually getting computer

42:22

access too, so you can actually get to it.

42:25

The battery life's fantastic. Today, this morning was the

42:27

first time I've recharged this thing in like two

42:29

days. I think that's what your Linux device with the best

42:31

battery at this point. Yeah. Well, I got it. So that

42:33

way you boys wouldn't be fighting in the back seat so

42:35

I could keep you distracted on our way there. Oh, you

42:37

only got one of them? Well, one

42:39

of you have to just look out the window, I guess.

42:42

You can share it. It's great. It's got

42:44

a little speaker in there, a little 8-watt capacity, a

42:46

little 8-watt speaker, so it's not going to do any,

42:48

it's not going to blow you away. But again, for

42:50

these 8-bit and 32-bit and 16-bit games, it's

42:53

really not bad. And the Arc

42:55

OS UI is really fantastic. I

42:57

was just looking at this, you can actually, oh yeah,

42:59

I'm going to do this live,

43:01

but you can actually open up the back and

43:04

you can take out the battery it looks like and you

43:06

can actually, look at that, you could

43:08

actually, yep, you could swap the battery. Oh, that's

43:10

nice. Got a removable little lithium battery pack. It

43:12

looks like a 11.1 watt hour battery pack. That

43:15

looks pretty standard like you could buy from them

43:17

too. Yeah, it's a real standard little

43:19

$3,000 lamp. I didn't save my

43:21

game. Oh, sorry, Brent.

43:24

Sorry. I have read by

43:26

the community, I don't know if any

43:28

of the audience out there has had experience, but I've

43:30

read that the SD cards it comes with are very

43:32

cheap and they don't last as long. So you might,

43:34

if you get this. Maybe get a premium one. Yeah,

43:36

and you can run it off one SD card if

43:39

you partition it, or you can do the

43:41

dual SD card thing. So did you have to install

43:43

the OS? No. Oh. Comes

43:46

with the games and the OS ready to go and it's got a

43:48

UI specifically done for arcade, Boots right up,

43:50

plays the games, it's got great controls, they feel

43:52

really good. What do you think of the physical

43:54

controls? I Was really impressed. Like I Picked it

43:57

up and I haven't played many of these Game

43:59

Boy style consoles. But. It just came

44:01

supernaturally for a person who's played like

44:03

Super Nintendo or those kind of controllers.

44:05

And what stood out for me was

44:08

the quality of the joysticks. Yeah

44:10

in. A pretty good are they are not

44:12

going to put a bag to go into as

44:14

can try it and ago a good I know

44:16

What surprised me was the triggers in the back.

44:18

yeah one them and find out of that triggers

44:21

back there They were brilliant. He adds a nice

44:23

touch and so for the size like okay it's

44:25

You know it's tempting to compare it to Esteem

44:27

Deck but for the size of this little thing

44:29

that you could just shove a new property from

44:31

pocket yeah. It's like brilliant. I was

44:33

really really press but it's the screen the stood

44:35

at the most each. It's great if you just

44:38

want some kill some time travel. Gaming.

44:40

Or something like that. Oh. The Bury my be

44:42

dead. I just and London and it turned off. By.

44:45

A little bit ah the better we were

44:47

plane at this morning that with in charge

44:49

of much as offer other senses performance and

44:51

scale like what you know what our modern

44:53

well what's the like emulated system limit the

44:55

distinction do I? That's a good question. I

44:58

haven't really posted farts. I'm so much of

45:00

the classics but it does have a Pc

45:02

game emulate are on their to if feel

45:04

faster than the. Group. A

45:06

hit fit my beloved sealed portable. You

45:10

know if linux it's it's less it's either

45:12

A has to do it's not Android with

45:14

the on the play services and all I

45:16

kind of stuff it's you Spc charging and

45:18

my shield is micro so anna that's nice

45:20

to that's ever use B C device I

45:22

got this one for eighty bucks off amazon

45:24

but then i when looked and I found

45:26

it on ali baba. Are. Not

45:29

ali express. For. Ice

45:31

I wanna say sixty dollars. Your screen

45:33

that oaths forty eight dollars as compared

45:35

with the games. With.

45:38

The Games. Forty. Eight bucks with the

45:40

games in there and you got yourself in strong.

45:43

As it is no way this thing last right. Know.

45:45

It. And. i listed it's linux so i

45:47

i alex showed it to me like oh yeah it's

45:49

brilliant outcome guinness off one of those okay so it

45:51

is old man tested clearly but has been kid tested

45:53

yet the kids like it you know that is that's

45:56

the thing is some of those old games hold up

45:58

some of the good ones hold up like the Mario

46:00

stuff and all that really does hold up. Mario

46:03

Kart's on there, you know. I played Star

46:05

Fox, Chris, and you picked it up and you're like, oh,

46:07

wait a second, this looks really good on here. Yeah, again,

46:09

the screen quality is so top notch that

46:11

it gives life to your old games, they're

46:13

just vibrant. Yeah, my brother has

46:16

a Wii that has been sort of hacked

46:18

to have a bunch of these simulators on

46:20

it. And that's what we rely

46:22

on every Christmas when we spend far too

46:24

many hours playing games

46:27

for 30 hours straight. I

46:29

have to say, the experience on this device

46:31

was better. You think so? Oh,

46:33

yeah, it felt smoother, more reliable, like

46:35

I know on his system, because

46:39

you're trying to fight it into a Wii

46:41

interface is really clumsy, but also the emulators,

46:43

they don't have all the right memory or

46:45

whatever to allocate it. And so it was

46:48

a clumsy experience compared to this thing,

46:50

which the menu to go through

46:52

the games was just really nice.

46:54

Yeah, it plays a little theme song

46:57

for the most popular game from that

46:59

console, and it's completely branded. It's

47:01

got the Super Famicom in there, it's got

47:03

the Super Nintendo. So it's even got some

47:05

of the variations of the console

47:07

that maybe didn't ship in your country and stuff

47:10

like that. And you can try a different country's

47:12

version of the ROM. They'll have multiple editions of

47:14

the ROMs on there and things. So they have

47:17

stuff that as a kid I knew was out there, but could

47:19

never get my hands on too, which is kind of a neat

47:21

thing now. But then playing it for, I don't know how long

47:23

I was playing it, because I lost myself, but probably 15, 20

47:25

minutes at least, right? Yeah, dude.

47:28

I took a long shot. That's what I'll say

47:30

on air. And I

47:32

just found it super responsive too. Like

47:34

I quickly, really quickly, even though I'm

47:37

not used to this style of gaming

47:39

console, just kind of got lost in

47:41

the game, and a game that's actually

47:43

quite old and a success, I would

47:45

say. Well, I'm curious

47:47

to what your thoughts are. I was really surprised the

47:49

amount of controls. You got your standard D-pad on there,

47:52

you got your SNES, A,

47:54

B, Y, whatever buttons on there and X

47:56

or whatever it is. And then you've got

47:58

the dual 3D joysticks. plus the buttons on the back.

48:01

Yeah, it's all kind of, at least in my

48:03

opinion, with my hand size, it was all very

48:05

reachable, all usable. Yeah, I thought that was gonna

48:07

be, when you handed it to me, its biggest

48:09

downside was ergonomics. That's what I looked at, that's

48:11

what I thought too. And like especially, I thought,

48:14

oh geez, these buttons on the back, the triggers

48:16

on the back. You're gonna be hitting them all

48:18

the time or whatever. It just seems like they're

48:20

just sort of plunked on there and there's not

48:22

much thought put to this. Like they're even right

48:24

angle, like this isn't gonna work. But

48:27

then I started using it. What's in the hand? And I was

48:29

like, oh wait a second, I actually really like this. What do

48:31

you think Wes? I want a version

48:33

of this that has the old cell phone

48:35

style flip out keyboard or like slide out

48:37

keyboard. Could this screen? You can

48:39

get some like serious remote this that I knocked

48:42

on this thing. It only takes 40 by 480

48:44

but it looks great. Ha ha ha ha. Yeah,

48:47

I mean there you go. I don't know if anybody's shopping

48:49

for a device like that but something you can throw in

48:51

your front pocket or your laptop bag or something like that.

48:53

Real easy to travel with like we're gonna be

48:55

doing. Just seems like a no brainer.

48:57

So again, it's kind of hard to find because

49:00

it's just called the RS36S Retro Handheld

49:04

Gaming Console. And yeah,

49:07

that's it. Different places I've noticed

49:09

come with different ROMs potentially too so look for

49:11

that. Make sure you get

49:13

the one I came with, the one I got off Amazon was

49:15

a little bit more expensive but it came with kind of a

49:17

whole kit. So you're saying the one you chose is better. I

49:19

don't know. Actually, I don't know for sure because I think you

49:21

could probably find the one I got for cheaper. I

49:23

just happened to know mine came with all the ROMs and stuff

49:25

and you're gonna want that. Put it up

49:27

to your mic there. Yeah, so that's the system

49:30

menu and then if you hit the down arrow west, it'll

49:32

switch between different emulators. Oh, I was wondering

49:34

about that, okay. Yeah,

49:37

and then each one plays like a little tune and gives

49:39

you a little themed menu

49:41

or whatever. Yeah, it's nice. On Nintendo

49:44

64? Yeah, yeah. Okay,

49:46

I know what I'm doing after this.

49:48

GoldenEye? Oh

49:51

man, this is brilliant. I think, you know,

49:53

I haven't bought. I think Bass Hunter 64

49:55

is more Brent Speed. Hey

49:57

now. No, I just go outside my friend's door.

50:00

I haven't bought a

50:02

gaming console in a

50:05

like decade, and I am extremely tempted

50:07

by this thing actually. Now

50:09

did you, I assume, but can

50:12

you add your own? You know, if you want a ROM file? Oh, 100%.

50:14

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's I think

50:16

what I really like about the dual ROM setup is

50:18

you can just pop the game ROM out, leave the

50:21

OS ROM going, and then just pop it back in. So,

50:24

Texas Linux Fest is, I'll put links by

50:26

the way to the show, in the show

50:28

in a sec, Texas Linux Fest is approaching

50:30

quickly after scale and starting really

50:32

quick. We had a community

50:34

member reach out to us and

50:36

offer to help bring us down to

50:38

scale, and I'm really excited by this.

50:41

You mean bring us down to Texas Linux Fest? Oh, Texas

50:43

Linux Fest, yeah, sorry. I got everything, everything running together right

50:45

now. They're Sinaire Cybersecurity,

50:47

and they're based out of Texas, and they

50:49

reached out. Donald is a longtime listener, he's

50:52

been listening since like Linux Action Show with

50:54

Matt. What? Wow. Yeah, and he said we'd

50:56

love to get you guys down here, so

50:58

they're gonna help get Linux

51:00

Unplugged down to Texas for

51:04

the Texas Linux. What? That's amazing. As

51:06

they put it. And I'm, you

51:08

know, and I think we're gonna, we're gonna have a chance to

51:10

go out to dinner with the Sinaire guys, and you know, learn

51:12

what they do and meet them too, so that should be really

51:14

good. They're also contributing to Texas Linux Fest

51:16

itself as one of the contributors and sponsors of Texas

51:19

Linux Fest. Oh, great. So they're really, you know, they're,

51:21

you know how these stories go. They say they listen,

51:23

they, we help them. I think they

51:25

give us too much credit, but they want to, they wanted to,

51:27

you know, return the value and send

51:29

us down there. So you can check them

51:31

out if you were looking for a cybersecurity

51:33

company. It's scinay.com, sinaire.com,

51:38

and they're helping us get to Texas Linux Fest. Go say

51:40

hi to Donald. Really

51:42

looking forward to that. We're, we're still working through

51:44

like who we have somewhere for Jup's

51:47

down there that's near or in Austin. I've

51:49

gotten a very generous offer outside

51:51

of Austin. It's about, I think

51:54

it's 20 miles. Not sure if that's a great

51:56

idea for going to a conference every day. So we

51:58

are looking for a place where we can park a... big old

52:00

RV for a little bit if you're listening to have

52:02

something and we'd love to get down there early for

52:05

the eclipse too And you know, it's getting

52:07

expensive So if you haven't booked your travel yet listeners do

52:10

it because the eclipse is raising the rates

52:12

or book after the eclipse Mm-hmm, but

52:14

it's yeah, it's not gonna be cheap It's

52:17

not gonna be cheap and I would imagine you got to

52:19

look at that schedule closely because I was looking at flying

52:21

in The you know a couple of days for

52:23

the eclipse and the rates just skyrocket, but

52:26

just think about the barbecue thing and

52:31

now as the French say it is

52:33

time for the boost sure

52:35

is and VT 52 is

52:37

coming in once again, and he

52:39

is our baller at 62,222 sat

52:47

And We We

52:49

all I think giggled when we saw this first

52:51

link that he sent in he says Nick's OS

52:53

on free BSD and he sends Us a link.

52:55

It is a thing Nick's BSD

52:59

Nick's BSD is an attempt to make

53:01

a reproducible and declarable BSD based on

53:03

Nick's OS You know what what

53:05

took them so long in theory a lot of

53:07

this work could be you know any BSD of

53:09

it so far It's a free BSD focus. They've

53:11

got a fork of upstream Nick's that allows building

53:13

packages for free BSD There's a fork

53:16

of Nick's packages and then there's Nick's

53:18

BSD, which is basically the equivalent of

53:20

Nick's OS Seems like I mean a

53:22

nicely laid out project here They've got a great read

53:24

me that kind of talks about like what is this

53:26

thing and how likely is any of this to ever

53:28

Make it back upstream which some of it seems like

53:30

it could Maybe there's hope

53:32

mmm, and then he sends 60,000 sass

53:35

to say if rust has

53:37

its own cool sound bite Then is

53:39

it perhaps time for new and

53:41

Nick's OS to have its own maybe some ideas like a harmonica

53:45

riff Maybe some chanting

53:47

monk monks or just yelling

53:49

one of us one of us if you're unfamiliar you

53:51

can look for that on YouTube Maybe something else he's

53:53

looking for suggestions, but he says we need a Nick's

53:55

OS sound bite something declared. What's a declarative sound bite?

53:58

Oh? I have the. So

54:00

how do you live with the restaurant? Ah,

54:02

Well West. Hired a intern to run the sound

54:04

board and he brought it in and it was

54:07

extremely inappropriate. but we'd pay the licence or keep

54:09

and center. So

54:11

so sorry that that be fired december guy

54:13

and kept out the clips. Yeah I mean

54:15

we pay for the clamps. But. We

54:18

never pay the sound border hybrid

54:20

sarcasm comes in with forty two

54:22

thousand Sat see on the ultimate

54:24

question. From. The Podcast index

54:26

been I'm not seeing a message. You will

54:28

appreciate that value and support hybrids. So.

54:31

Nice when I say I reject him. And

54:33

listen, we know is out there still. It. Out we

54:35

don't hear from sir to worry a little bit. Ensign

54:39

next posted in a total of

54:41

twenty one thousand, two hundred and

54:43

twenty two sets over to boosts

54:45

B O S T using some.

54:47

Greetings. From England. I'm a long

54:49

time listener. First time boost? Hell

54:52

no Thank you. Knicks Unplugged! Oops

54:54

Rely on ah ok we deserve

54:56

that is my favorite technical of

54:58

podcast so it's about time I

55:00

support with some say oh there

55:02

you have regarding fountain I really

55:04

want to use it with Android

55:06

Auto Body experience is not great

55:08

for me. The tabs along the

55:10

top showed no items for every

55:12

category. On. The rare occasion as

55:14

well, my content shows up. But.

55:16

Struggles to play even if the

55:18

episode has been downloaded. also. Eat.

55:21

More characters, Her. Boost.

55:24

I can't remember if I've you've done

55:27

this before, but I'd love an episode

55:29

on how the Jb audio infrastructure is

55:31

said. I'll specifically how you got such

55:33

good audio quality from remote participants and

55:36

is Reaper doing all the heavy lifting?

55:39

Either way, I. Use bar with board

55:41

matic nine or backups and people subjects with

55:43

genius scan on my our own Chris you

55:45

are unknown Rating is that the new on

55:47

the media get an interim head down and

55:49

next got array of We have a couple

55:51

things going on here so number one yep

55:53

Fountain Android Auto mushroom of the no items

55:55

as a new one for me so I'll

55:58

report the i mean knicks are seen. But

56:01

yes, that's new to me. That's not

56:03

your experience. Know. If. You say

56:05

we use of this morning but I she can

56:08

get my years became abundance. I didn't specify Css

56:10

as fast as I gave up us be a

56:12

such a. Bastard. But

56:14

will follow up on that. I'm now

56:16

you question about audio quality. And.

56:19

Remote host. I. Mean, Honestly, we

56:21

have to have a lot of credit to Drew. Yeah.

56:23

Yeah, yeah, a lot of goes to Drew.

56:26

We've hired a professional editor. Who's.

56:28

The best in the biz So you know he's got

56:30

two lane and techniques that he's developed over the years.

56:32

That is where every time we asked about a he's

56:34

found some new better to any. the why are so

56:36

it. the stuff just gets better and we don't have

56:38

too many were yeah yeah we've basically we set. You

56:40

know we try to get good local quality audio arm

56:42

and we tried to best we can do that. Drew

56:44

really comes in and save the day. Usually I joke

56:46

with him that I. I call it running through

56:48

the wash yeah were sent to do. We ran through the

56:50

was because he just clean the right up. I'm

56:52

really appreciate you following up to on your back

56:55

of strategies if you do have the characters when

56:57

you boost and to include how you doing backups

56:59

these days were keeping track of this. And.

57:02

The people, a sense of x and genius can. That.

57:04

Could be. Acted be

57:07

really, really good. I like

57:09

that idea lot. Thank you Crags! Proceed to support. Thanks

57:11

for taking the time to get and I'll set up

57:13

to. I know that their initial setup is the tricky

57:15

spot. But. Now that you've got it, Of

57:18

hear from others I also

57:20

realize hear that this is

57:22

sort of a postcode boost.

57:24

his location included here of

57:26

western Texas on have I

57:28

could not pronounce any of

57:30

that super the western part

57:32

western writings off Oswestry. Success

57:35

for five society suffer

57:37

from. From. Prior Extra

57:39

Extras: Trump Trump Prior. As

57:42

I hope we got that right. craig. Totally.

57:44

Non. You. Know is that even Craig's that

57:46

the pronunciation? Oh no I look at these days when

57:48

I go classes are so hard to pronounce, but then

57:50

go take a look at a few names on the

57:52

Washington state map and try to pronounce other. They're just

57:54

as wild in I did. You get used to me,

57:56

grow up with them and they just seem normal to.

57:59

Listen. to just come in with 2500 sats. A

58:03

little bit of a hot booze right there. I'm

58:05

coming in hot with the booze. He says, okay,

58:07

I'm finally testing out fountain. Hey-oh, there you go.

58:10

Good job. Now, I

58:12

know some of you have had issues when importing OPML, because

58:15

the reason I know this is I was

58:17

talking to the fountain team, and I'm like,

58:19

you know, what are, like, the top issues?

58:22

And seriously, one of the top, top problems

58:25

that people have is OPML, because

58:27

the different podcast apps, they

58:29

follow the OPML standard, but they implement it a little bit

58:31

differently. So you just have all of these edge cases.

58:33

Come on. I know. I

58:36

know. But, Jeff, let us know how it works when you're,

58:38

when we're doing the lit stream. You could be our on

58:40

the boots ground tester, okay? You're a lit guy.

58:42

Sounds good to me. Jeff's going to be lit. Thank

58:44

you, Jeff. Jordan Bravo comes in with 11,101 sats and says, ah,

58:46

this is for you, Brent. I

58:50

tend to use my keyboard as much as possible when

58:53

I'm using the computer. I've tried a lot of fancy

58:55

ergonomic keyboards, but in my opinion,

58:57

the absolute king, the king, is

58:59

the glove 80, the morgo. Is

59:02

it expensive? Absolutely. But nothing

59:05

else comes close in terms of

59:07

comfort, quality, and features. Wireless split

59:09

ergonomic keyboard. You know,

59:11

oh, this thing looks cool. Glove

59:13

is a great name for a keyboard. How have I not

59:15

thought of that? Whoa. Chris, this would

59:17

be such an upgrade for you. I know. You

59:20

were saying just this morning, your keyboard's starting to repeat

59:22

characters and such. Maybe you need an upgrade. It's like

59:24

a multi-layer keyboard. I also like this because it probably

59:26

scares away anyone else from even trying to use your

59:28

keyboard. You don't have to lock your screen

59:31

anymore. Nobody else is going to try. IT approved. So

59:33

what's fascinating about this keyboard to me, the

59:35

glove 80, is that it's like, I

59:38

always forget, but it's concave? Or it

59:40

looks like a gate park? That

59:43

is the opposite of what I thought would be

59:45

an ergonomic setup. I figured, sure enough, you'd go

59:48

the other way, like a dome over the deck.

59:51

So I'm loving this

59:53

exploration of weird and wacky and wonderful

59:55

keyboards. Are you down for spending 399

59:57

US green? What

1:00:00

is that even in Canadian? It's too much. Like

1:00:02

$500 in Canadian? Yeah,

1:00:04

probably. Whoo! That's starting to

1:00:06

be an expensive keyboard. Well, if you break it

1:00:08

down by hour of use... Oh yeah. Over time,

1:00:11

I think you're doing pretty good. What's the price

1:00:13

per keystroke? When's the last time you threw out

1:00:15

a keyboard? I still... I never,

1:00:17

I never get it. I

1:00:20

think it's okay. I think it's going to be just fine to spend a little

1:00:22

bit. You'll use it for a while. Deleted boost

1:00:24

in with $12,345. So

1:00:27

the combination is $12,345. That's

1:00:30

the stupidest

1:00:33

combination I've ever had in my life! I

1:00:35

suspect the reason that the AI episodes

1:00:38

don't hit that hard is

1:00:40

that the Linux community is filled

1:00:42

with people who are extremely independent.

1:00:44

That makes them prone to being suspicious of

1:00:46

cloud and, yes, AI. Even when

1:00:48

done locally, I don't think AI would

1:00:50

survive the digital doomsday or a

1:00:52

government internet shutdown. I

1:00:55

won't speak for everyone, but I'm close to buying

1:00:57

an RV and just living off-grid. Hey, is that

1:00:59

a shot at me? Is that a shot at

1:01:02

me? Poor compliment. I don't know. But wouldn't you

1:01:04

want an all-answering, all-knowing local LLM in that RV

1:01:06

to help answer your questions when you're off-grid? Like,

1:01:08

imagine you hurt yourself or you got some sort

1:01:10

of medical problem. Well, they have

1:01:13

these LLMs that are specifically trained around

1:01:15

medical issues. And I find this

1:01:17

to be fascinating. Sure, it might hallucinate a disease that

1:01:19

doesn't exist, but you don't know anymore. Or

1:01:22

you have to argue that you're not actually seeking medical advice with it

1:01:24

for five minutes before it gives you a straight answer. But

1:01:27

I actually think there's something to the

1:01:30

local. So one of the things I've been

1:01:32

using a local – I've just been seeing how useful they are.

1:01:34

And I tried out

1:01:36

using an LLM to help

1:01:38

me plan for scale. And I said – and what I

1:01:40

did is I said, we're going to be doing several live

1:01:42

shows. There's going to be three of

1:01:44

us. We're going to need a mixer. We're going to need microphones.

1:01:48

Give me a parts list of everything I need

1:01:50

to pack that includes all of the cables and

1:01:52

accessories that make all these things work. Quartermaster IT.

1:01:55

And it just gave me an Itemized list. Okay, You're

1:01:57

going to need the XLR cables. You're Going To need this cable.

1:02:00

Need to power cables Think the U S B

1:02:02

C device agreed years bc charger you my wondering?

1:02:04

a battery bank and it's helpful Rec: I was

1:02:06

having a hard time getting my had wrapped around

1:02:08

that problem. I. Didn't need to go.

1:02:10

Did. Did it said I've done it Absolutely. But.

1:02:13

My, it's a little boost and when it's local when

1:02:15

it's nothing new data somewhere in the cost to use

1:02:17

in it suddenly are a lot less. isn't isn't. So.

1:02:20

I think if you are skeptical I think the point we were

1:02:22

trying to make a couple episodes ago. Is.

1:02:24

There's utility here that we think is worth your time

1:02:26

to learn more about. Don't stay ignorant to it. But.

1:02:29

You can do it without having to go

1:02:31

live off the t of a cloud service.

1:02:34

And let's let's may be show that there

1:02:36

are people who are interested in the stuff's

1:02:38

There's motivation out there to keep this developing

1:02:40

before. it also turns to assess only one

1:02:42

more user for two one three eight four

1:02:45

three age with ten thousand fifty one Sats

1:02:47

kind of says the same thing. I'd definitely

1:02:49

enjoy the episode about local as so. Please

1:02:51

keep coming. Up with. A quite

1:02:53

the same thing I think. a slightly different. Analytical

1:02:56

previously I don't have the priest was really enjoyed the episode

1:02:58

but I'm glad to know he did and is good to

1:03:00

get feedback on it. You. Know bread.

1:03:02

They also mentioned in this boost that they've

1:03:05

been running be cash F S flow, little

1:03:07

be Kashiwazaki although they say they have to

1:03:09

do like a manual mount. At.

1:03:11

Boot. Are due to some previous limitations

1:03:13

I think with the Vm they're using I think

1:03:15

there's also no I'm in up because of as

1:03:17

does some weird fancy new stuff and not all

1:03:19

of the tool support the like if you have

1:03:21

multiple this and that have to specify that on

1:03:23

the command line but. Thank you for

1:03:25

trying and reporting back. They have a question for

1:03:27

us. They're looking for a new single board computers.

1:03:30

They. Could do maybe even local A I

1:03:32

run some V and like Windows and Android.

1:03:35

Perhaps. Could. Do contain this for some

1:03:37

of us and they'd like. Good wife I am blue

1:03:39

tooth of us be ports they look to the Orange

1:03:41

Pie five. Powerful, But expenses.

1:03:44

Might. Struggle Battery Life or Pi Zero

1:03:46

Three Raspberry Pi Zero to the Gp

1:03:48

when for. Powerful, But expensive there.

1:03:51

They want something that is sort of between a

1:03:53

small bore computer and are orange Pie five plus

1:03:56

or zero three. And.

1:03:58

are you something that's a powerful to run a

1:04:00

few local services like AI, I

1:04:05

don't know if there's anything besides,

1:04:10

I mean, honestly, local accelerated AI on a small

1:04:13

boss? I

1:04:15

think you want a Mac mini. Could

1:04:22

you do something like an O-Droid with an

1:04:24

Nvidia card speed but you don't need

1:04:26

it since you're just doing offloaded compute? I

1:04:30

don't know. Maybe somebody could help us in the right direction. I

1:04:36

wouldn't mind building something like

1:04:38

that myself. One

1:04:40

thing you could do is offload your tasks, the AI task to a service

1:04:43

provider that you trust. That

1:04:46

just gives you GPU compute or something like

1:04:48

that. What

1:04:51

you yell at comes in with a row of ducks. Oh,

1:04:56

from Breeze. Neat. Okay,

1:04:59

we're being linked to the OSS document scanner,

1:05:01

which has been my go-to document scanner since

1:05:03

using Graphene OS. Okay, all right. So hearing

1:05:05

from a Graphene OS user, very good. It's

1:05:09

on IzzieDroid, Google Play, and on GitHub. It

1:05:13

just looks lean and mean. This kind of seems like maybe the obvious place

1:05:16

to start. It's

1:05:19

good, but this is just an open source on-device

1:05:21

document scanning app, which I've been looking for something

1:05:23

to take pictures of receipts and whatnot when

1:05:25

we're on our scale trip and our Texas Linux

1:05:27

test trip. We're trying to replace scan

1:05:29

bots if you have any recommendations, but this looks really good.

1:05:33

OSS-documentscanner. Writing that down. And

1:05:36

we'll have a link in the shout-outs. Yes. Thank

1:05:38

you very much for the Boost, idiot, and for

1:05:40

that link. Appreciate it. Thank

1:05:42

you. just

1:06:00

a little back-end thing we have to update

1:06:02

to get them into Fountain. Then

1:06:04

you'll be able to see all of them. Southern Fried

1:06:06

Sassafras comes in with 4,444 sats, because it is a bunch of

1:06:11

ducks. And you know,

1:06:13

we have, look at all these people are reporting, he

1:06:15

says, he wants a feature added

1:06:17

to Fountain podcast season. So I'll write

1:06:19

that down. I will, oh, he

1:06:21

says, nevermind. I figured out a way to solve that

1:06:23

for, probably. Okay. Well, there you go. He says

1:06:26

he did enjoy the LLM topic. He

1:06:28

says it's pertinent to a future project that he's

1:06:30

working on. And he's training a local LLM on

1:06:32

the internal knowledge base and documentation. I bet we're

1:06:34

going to see a lot more of that. That

1:06:37

seems useful. Right? Imagine

1:06:40

for new employees and stuff coming on board. It

1:06:43

makes me think too, it's kind of applying the same

1:06:45

benefits we get from open source software, where

1:06:47

you can just use it without having to ask for permission. I

1:06:49

mean, you know, ask permission where it makes sense or it's required

1:06:51

or all that, but like I can imagine you want

1:06:53

that functionality. Like, okay, well, now we've got to go get some

1:06:55

sass and I got to get my boss to approve it. And

1:06:57

then they had it, IT proves it and then accounting reproves and

1:06:59

it finally gets authorized. And then two months later, we've got it.

1:07:02

Or if you had, you know, the gumption, the

1:07:04

know-how, the access to the tools, you

1:07:06

could just start doing it and test it out and see if it's even

1:07:09

worth doing it yourself. Red

1:07:11

five comes in with a row of ducks. For

1:07:14

a document scanner on Android, I use

1:07:16

open scale. Okay. All right. Use paperless

1:07:18

share to send the scan document over

1:07:20

to paperless and GX for OCR and

1:07:23

safekeeping reference paperless shared to kind

1:07:25

of bridge them together. I haven't heard of that one.

1:07:27

Yeah. Written that down too. You guys. Thank you very

1:07:29

much. We're going to be set. We can

1:07:31

each try one of these on our, that's a great

1:07:33

idea. Chris, would you send me your notes after the

1:07:35

update? Okay. Scan them up. My scribble. Yeah. Well, whatever.

1:07:43

Well, Vaymax sent us 10,000 Satoshi

1:07:45

through fountain. Thank you. That's great. Coming in

1:07:47

hot with the booth. Here's another one for

1:07:49

the fountain team. I mainly listen to podcasts

1:07:51

in the car over Bluetooth on the pixel

1:07:53

seven. It is maddening when one to two

1:07:55

times in about a 30 minute trip. Fountain

1:07:57

will simply crash. That is a memory issue.

1:07:59

you're on your device I believe. I

1:08:01

think that might be with that is on. I was

1:08:03

looking at another issue similar to that and it could

1:08:06

be. The. Your system's run out of

1:08:08

ram or you may have some in the background is

1:08:10

eating up because. You're. Either pixel seven

1:08:12

and I ran over time but I am running

1:08:14

through this process been very interesting because you start

1:08:16

to see some similar issues in there and I

1:08:18

think that is a low memory condition. I could

1:08:20

be wrong with the be benefit to whatever they

1:08:22

you know going in and say like don't optimize

1:08:25

this app for fountain perhaps. Oh yes, that's

1:08:27

probably great idea. I may have done that a long time

1:08:29

ago. I don't know. I. Am very

1:08:31

very excited about the future of

1:08:33

podcast apps. And. I think the

1:08:35

fountain team you know they're they're small team but

1:08:37

are they move quick Note: Canyon and there you

1:08:39

know they have been in their answering. All.

1:08:42

Of these, they can. That's impressive directly. In.

1:08:45

Fountain so that's really great. So yes but a double check

1:08:47

and and then follow up and let me know there are.

1:08:49

They. Max. Could. Be some memory

1:08:51

management issues there. This is something you'd everly

1:08:53

run into if are you using Android Auto

1:08:56

as well and then if you use Bluetooth

1:08:58

to do the audit, the audio portion. All

1:09:00

of that. Consumes a surprising amount of

1:09:02

resources, Bearded. Zero.been comes in with

1:09:04

a lucky six thousand six hundred and

1:09:07

sixty six that most of us are

1:09:09

that's a bunch of.after a loss or

1:09:11

it's a treasure, he a be any

1:09:13

gave us some great feedback on dynamic

1:09:16

playlist or he talks about how cool

1:09:18

is this. he sets a playlist for

1:09:20

like to be specifically I'm on or

1:09:22

off news family add exercise. And

1:09:25

we have not met when the littlest movement like the Dad

1:09:27

pods. Puts. At on stuff

1:09:29

I hadn't even thought I'd just like

1:09:31

Donald listener thought yeah, I'm like such

1:09:33

a basic. That. Is such a

1:09:35

great cool. a cool way to do it. He says

1:09:38

it's a disgrace like you to listen to the ladies

1:09:40

Npr little just play the next B B C episode.

1:09:42

Just keep on listening. Or he's

1:09:44

in a that newsy zone. Anyone That right? You're

1:09:46

in the new zone. Seems. especially if you're

1:09:48

doing dishes or towards these you know one have to

1:09:51

the pull your phone back out here switched to whatever

1:09:53

sex yeah when i kind of place to what i

1:09:55

was saying last episode where i often read to my

1:09:57

podcast when i'm in a particular moved in is so

1:09:59

nice memories like pre filters. I'm going to give

1:10:01

thought to this. You

1:10:03

know, also you could have like a road trip playlist. I'll bring it. Hmm.

1:10:06

Just thinking about this. He

1:10:08

also said on the topic of local AI,

1:10:10

upscale that's U-P-S-C-A-Y-L

1:10:15

uses local AI to upscale your images.

1:10:17

It does a decent job and it works with

1:10:19

AMD and Nvidia cards. So it looks like this

1:10:21

is an app for good news slash Linux and

1:10:24

maybe the Mac, I'm not sure. Yeah,

1:10:26

if we can get the barrier to entry for

1:10:28

these lower, that definitely seems like one that a

1:10:30

lot of just regular old computer users could totally

1:10:33

use. This would, I don't know

1:10:35

if I've installed any AI app via

1:10:37

Flatpak yet. This could be the first one,

1:10:39

it's on Flatpak. Okay. Upscale, we'll put a link to that in

1:10:42

the show notes. I

1:10:44

see our booster here asked a little bit

1:10:46

about boosts for the members feed too, which

1:10:48

we did a little research into, but it's

1:10:51

not solved yet. We are working on it. It

1:10:54

is in the work queue. Yes,

1:10:56

upscale, upscale. I've

1:10:59

been thinking guys, just one thing before I

1:11:01

move off the upscale thing. I

1:11:04

think we're pretty soon gonna see these apps are gonna

1:11:06

be really, really good at upscaling lower res video and

1:11:08

stuff like that. And I wonder if we're not gonna

1:11:10

be able to take some of our, maybe some of

1:11:12

our really old OG cell phone video and

1:11:15

run it through a system like this and bring

1:11:17

it up to the next level so it looks good on modern

1:11:19

displays. Finally unblur big foot. Maybe,

1:11:22

maybe actually it's funny you say that. There is

1:11:24

unblurred AI footage of big foot going around and

1:11:26

it just really kills it. It's

1:11:29

such a dude in the suit. It's so awful when

1:11:31

you clear it up. That

1:11:33

whole like blurriness really adds to

1:11:36

the effect. And the shaky and the. Yeah, yeah. Pressly

1:11:39

We PhD comes in with 2,669 cents.

1:11:43

Hello and thank you. The most frustrating

1:11:45

thing about the call to regulate AI is

1:11:48

that they did not care when it

1:11:50

was major companies using exploited data that everyday

1:11:52

people were tricked into handing over to

1:11:54

train the models. But as soon

1:11:56

as the everyday person has the ability to speak

1:11:58

truth with satire using those same. tools, the

1:12:01

hammers begin to come down, proving

1:12:03

that our elected representatives don't represent

1:12:05

us, the people. Hmm. Yeah,

1:12:08

you might be onto something there. Yeah, because there was lots

1:12:10

of, you know, discussion about building these AI tools for a

1:12:13

long time. We never heard anybody screaming about regulations

1:12:15

then. But then chat GPT comes along.

1:12:17

Yeah. I think I made it real for a lot of the

1:12:19

folks. Yeah. Mm

1:12:21

hmm. We'll see. Yeah, that

1:12:23

might be it. It's just to became a real tangible thing. Well,

1:12:26

the galactic starfish boosted in 8,996 satoshis. B-O-O-S-T.

1:12:33

Here's three rosettes plus a few

1:12:35

ugly ducklings for some set splits.

1:12:39

Regarding fancy fountain features, granular

1:12:42

playback speed and silent skipping. Yeah. I

1:12:44

use both on a tenon pod and

1:12:47

it cuts down my listening time to

1:12:49

an amount manageable in my life as

1:12:52

an avid podcast listener without changing

1:12:54

the listening experience drastically. What

1:12:56

is granular playback speed? Is that like 1.23 per second?

1:12:59

Yeah. Maybe like a smooth slider instead of just like 1.5

1:13:01

or 1.25 or whatever. Yeah,

1:13:04

interesting. So you could custom set it to

1:13:06

the pod. Right. I mean, different

1:13:08

speakers probably are, you know, clear or less clear at

1:13:11

different ratios. Well, they give an example here. It feels

1:13:13

unnatural to me to hear my podcast hosts at 1.25

1:13:15

speed over my usual 1.1 time speed.

1:13:21

Yeah. 1.1 times. Is

1:13:23

that any more worth doing? I guess it is. I guess. But

1:13:27

I have tried that, the silence cutting

1:13:29

and it to me, I

1:13:31

feel like I get stressed out. I

1:13:33

start listening because everybody seems like they're talking really fast. Right.

1:13:36

There's no breaks. Yeah, calm down. Well, I find at least

1:13:38

for some of the podcasts that I listen to which are

1:13:40

pretty information dense, I like the time

1:13:42

to let my sort of neurons catch up with

1:13:44

the information that's coming in. But

1:13:47

if that's what it takes for the starfish to listen, I

1:13:49

appreciate it. I think you go back to starfish. I do want

1:13:51

to say I was playing around and trying something out on antenna

1:13:53

pod the other day and I don't know when it happened, but

1:13:56

gosh, does antenna pod look great? I mean, it

1:13:58

feels like a much fan. app that I ever

1:14:00

remember it feeling like and that we have that

1:14:02

as a sort of base podcast app on Android

1:14:04

is great. Yeah it is. Yep

1:14:07

and maybe one day we'll get a few more features.

1:14:09

I'd love to have a list support would be great.

1:14:12

Gene Bean comes in with a row of ducks.

1:14:16

Well on the will it nix. Did you guys decide

1:14:18

to try out own tracks? You suggested

1:14:20

that before. Totally understand if not. Just

1:14:22

wanted to follow along on the trip. We have

1:14:24

tried own tracks. We did not try to nix it this

1:14:26

time. Maybe we have

1:14:28

time for the Texas Linux trip. Yeah there's been too many

1:14:31

things in the cooker for this one. Yeah we've been working

1:14:33

on some big stuff on not only we've been doing the

1:14:35

migration setup that we told you about but Wes

1:14:37

has been working like I said earlier in the show on re-plumbing the

1:14:39

RSS feed stuff and so it's just kind of been on the

1:14:42

back burner. But maybe I do

1:14:44

think too like you know the own track setups we've had

1:14:46

in the past were also kind of

1:14:48

slap dash and we didn't actually keep them around

1:14:50

necessarily. So like if we weren't going

1:14:52

to nix something having own tracks solidly in nix would

1:14:55

be pretty nice. Yeah. Then we could just deploy

1:14:57

it when we need it. Rolled gold

1:14:59

comes in with a row of ducks. After

1:15:02

bouncing off the ducks a few times I

1:15:05

decided to just pull the darn trigger and

1:15:07

install nix OS. It turns

1:15:09

out that reading the comments and the default configuration

1:15:11

dot nix was the perfect amount of ducks in

1:15:13

context for me to have that

1:15:15

aha moment. I still don't understand

1:15:17

most of the jargon. I mean I think we're on that

1:15:19

boat too. But I've been

1:15:21

swapping desktop environments all afternoon just because

1:15:24

I can. It is fun. It's very

1:15:26

cool. It's like it was never there.

1:15:28

It's like never there. Clean. Just gone.

1:15:31

Fresh system. Well thanks for telling us about

1:15:33

your experiences there, Gold. And good luck. Chime

1:15:35

in again sometime in the future when you've

1:15:37

played even more. Yeah. Let us know how

1:15:39

it goes. Yeah. Yeah. I do want updates.

1:15:41

Thank you everybody who boosted is below the

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2000 set cut off as well. We got

1:15:46

all your boosts and we have read them

1:15:48

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1:15:50

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you everybody for the support of this production. We

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1:16:01

us and your sats are sending us

1:16:03

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We didn't think it was possible. Pretty incredible. You know in the

1:16:08

past we would have had a sponsor, we would have had a

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big you know big old agreements and now

1:16:12

we're just doing it with the

1:16:14

sats from our audience directly and we hope to return

1:16:16

you the value. Thank you everybody. Go grabs a new

1:16:18

podcast app and tries out fountain or pod verse or

1:16:20

something like Castomatic and now would be a great time

1:16:22

because we are going to be rolling out new features

1:16:24

for those apps. More things coming but

1:16:26

we're starting with livestream support and I think that's a

1:16:28

big one and thank you also to

1:16:31

all our sat streamers. You don't always get a direct

1:16:33

shout out but we're monitoring, we watch it on the

1:16:35

daily dashboard as it comes in and it's a big

1:16:37

part. It actually brings that total up even higher and

1:16:39

so you guys out there we see you and we

1:16:41

really appreciate you. Thank you everybody and

1:16:43

we also appreciate our members. It's a whole lot of appreciation going

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1:16:48

really rewarding. Thank you everybody. Now

1:16:52

the pick this week was almost my topic

1:16:54

but I just started using it and I felt

1:16:56

like I needed more time with it to cook.

1:16:59

It's called any type and

1:17:02

it is going directly after Notion.

1:17:04

Are you familiar with Notion at

1:17:06

all? Yeah. This is an open

1:17:08

source free alternative that you can

1:17:10

use to keep

1:17:12

track of your tasks, your ideas, documents, workflow.

1:17:15

It's all local. It's

1:17:17

end-to-end encrypted and it uses P2P

1:17:19

syncing. So you sync between

1:17:22

the applications directly. So no sync service

1:17:24

required in theory. Right. Future versions will

1:17:26

have collaboration. They don't have that now

1:17:29

and they use an interesting concept for backup.

1:17:32

The entire notebook is generated from

1:17:34

a 12-word seed phrase, kind

1:17:37

of like a Bitcoin wallet. When you

1:17:39

restore, you restore that seed phrase and

1:17:41

it somehow restores your

1:17:43

notes. I haven't got, like I said, I've just started using any

1:17:45

type but it's really for anybody

1:17:47

that's been tempted by Notion but doesn't want

1:17:49

to, you know, subscribe to Notion or doesn't

1:17:51

need what Notion offers. You could

1:17:53

find it at anytype.io and

1:17:56

of course they got a client for all the various OSes. Obviously,

1:17:58

or else I wouldn't tell you about it. And I've

1:18:00

really kind of just started to scratch

1:18:02

the surface, but I can see the utility

1:18:04

in it I think I think it could be useful

1:18:07

I was experimenting with again taking notes for

1:18:09

the trip trying to figure out if

1:18:12

this would be a way to store that stuff

1:18:14

this looks Surprisingly polished already. I mean I assume

1:18:16

it's early days But I mean they've got apps

1:18:18

for the mobile platforms and a bunch of stuff

1:18:20

on github a really nice website I think they

1:18:22

pivoted so I think they were maybe and I

1:18:24

again I'm really new to all this but I

1:18:27

think maybe they were they were solving

1:18:29

another problem So they have this tech built and

1:18:31

they pivoted to a notion alternative So they

1:18:34

kind of had a lot of the lower

1:18:36

level foundation built and now we have

1:18:38

this any type dot I oh if you want to

1:18:40

check it out. I've been enjoying it again I've only been using it for

1:18:42

a few days, but I've liked it a lot That's

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it for us though if if you'd like to support the

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1:19:12

if we're gonna see it scale come up and say hi, don't

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be shy and don't forget about our lunch We'd

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love to see you there. Just all come again.

1:19:18

We'll bring that I'm gonna bring the RS 36s

1:19:21

or whatever it is with us. We'll bring

1:19:23

the tuxedo machine We'll try the tuxedo on the

1:19:25

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1:19:27

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1:19:32

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