I'm with Brent's brother for naming the van. How great would it be when it crossing the border for its name to change from something gratuitously rude, to confusingly French ? Allez Jean-Claude !
21: Bigfoot As a Service
By Jupiter Broadcasting
Ep. 21 · Aired May 14, 2025 · 1h 19m · Last boosted May 19, 2025
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We rescued a van that should've stayed retired, dodged cops and fuel leaks, and learned why outsourcing navigation to ChatGPT was a terrible idea. Plus, Angela's double-ply crisis. CALL 1-774-462-5667 Boost This Episode: Grab Sats with River!⚡ Strike Makes it Quick it Grab Sats in 100s of Countries Boost with FountainBoost from the Web: Web Boost Links: Roadtrek brochure PDF1991 Roadtrek Versatile Dodge B250 Tour - YouTube1991 Dodge Ram Van Roadtrek Price ExampleToilet Paper Thief - YouTubeThief steals Toilet Paper GMU - YouTubeAkron woman charged after pet raccoon found wi...
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thomatoAug 13, 2025
998 (Typo correction : *bad attitude)
thomatoAug 13, 2025
1k I agree we need a good modern in-kernel filesystem. I'm also still frustrated at the bzf attitude of the kernel devs wrt zfs. If they'd embraced it as an external project with a special status, the fs story would have been so much better
thomatoAug 13, 2025
8k Jumped ahead to listen to 626 and 627 whilst catching up. Throwing in some support !
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thomatoJan 15, 2026
2.2k Just food for thought. I do wonder what the eventual effects might be for bitcoin, hopefully positive!
thomatoJan 15, 2026
2.2k Welcome back for the new year! Whilst I prefer the shows not focused on US-internal politics, I know there'll be some of that, it's only natural for a US based show. If we're talking about the US Fed, though ... what do you think about the NY Fed holding 7000 tonnes of gold on behalf of foreign governments ? After invading Venezuela, the US might be able to steal its bitcoin reserves, or maybe not. The gold in NY is much easier to steal. If I wanted a sovereign reserve, I know where I'd look!
thomatoNov 4, 2025
5k Love the track! Nice pick, Chris. Filoxera: love it
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thomatoApr 23, 2026
3k This seems a very accurate description of btc to me, and also one which depends on two things: btc being hard money, and btc being usable as money for trade.
thomatoApr 23, 2026
3k Trying to keep it short: Money used for Money-Commodity-Money trades is capital. This is how an industrialist uses money. Contrast this to the Commodity-Money-Commodity use of money by say a poor farmer.
thomatoApr 23, 2026
3k It's interesting that you ask if Saylor is downplaying btc as an asset, when the clip you played has him describing it as capital. In classical political economy, capital is a specific role played by hard money.
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thomatoMay 12, 2025
1k Kept listening and heard that you also noticed 👍
thomatoMay 12, 2025
12k Lads, I think you missed some boosts last episode. At least mine and m00ninite's show up in Fountain but seemed to have missed your bot. The headset sounds good to me! For the TUI challenge, I think sixel should be allowed, since it's something that real DEC terminals did. Otherwise I vote no for external graphics. Also, what about another bonus challenge to do social media from the TUI. toot for Mastodon is great, for example
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thomatoMay 25, 2026
9k I did appreciate the RedHat coverage, though it left me feeling down (their fault not yours) ... and apparently uninspired to boost!
thomatoMay 25, 2026
998 I use KeePass with syncthing and it works great for my needs. Love the Gnome Commander pick, and it's a nice little bit of nostalgia remembering when Gnome initially shipped Midnight Commander as their file manager.
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thomatoFeb 24, 2026
22k Looking forward to the SCaLE and Planet Nix coverage! Here's some sats to help with the travel. If you see any of the nix/bsd people down there, I'd love to hear about it. I find that particular combination intriguing. Wechsel sounds insane, but then I've done exactly that in the past with a Perl script.
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thomatoApr 14, 2026
21k Happy episode 100! I hope the show keeps being worth you making it, because I sure appreciate listening to it. Banger of an episode 99 too 👍
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thomatoJan 27, 2026
20k Congratulations on 20 years of podcasting, Chris! Thanks for the van tips. I'll look first at monitoring internal temp, and freshwater temp and levels.
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thomatoMar 20, 2026
12k Minor time-travel boost from episode 657. Thanks for putting in all the time and effort for the planet nix and scale coverage! Picking mtr in 2026 is hilarious, but it's still a great tool
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thomatoMay 23, 2025
12k I'm looking forward to hearing your reports from RedHat Summit. I've started the TUI challenge early because I'll be on holiday most of next week. I'm having a blast, and it reminds me of how much I enjoyed using Linux (and BSD) back in the day. My write-up which I'm updating as I go along is at tui.chef-li.eu
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thomatoMay 15, 2026
5k I'd bet Saylor's selling btc is because of whatever Galaxy Brain thing I don't understand that separates what he's doing from a Ponzi scheme. But if it's not that, maybe it's simple? Buy low sell high, and he's betting against a hot bitcoin summer?
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thomatoApr 19, 2026
5k I love the episode 666 daemonic challenge plan. One idea for a challenge would be to run Linux binaries or even a Linux container. I think Brent in particular might enjoy NetBSD on some dumpster hardware. It can run on remarkably small machines!
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thomatoFeb 14, 2026
5k I love that ThinkBox case! I wish I'd known about it back when I could afford 4 HDDs!
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thomatoJun 8, 2025
5k Thanks for the great coverage of RedHat summit! I'm looking forward to finishing the TUI challenge in sync with the rest of you.
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thomatoMay 11, 2025
5k Hearing about the state of the engine sealing, here's some sats for an MQ-7 so Brent can get carbon monoxide monitoring going
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thomatoMay 9, 2025
5k Thanks for the good coverage of what's going on in btc core. This is the sort of episode I appreciate with the show
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thomatoMay 3, 2026
2.2k Loved the LFNW coverage! I've got DragonflyBSD and OpenBSD both downloaded. I've never run either of them before, so let's see how this goes. 666 devil horns etc etc
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thomatoApr 25, 2026
2.2k Hope you've been having a good Linux Fest. Looking forward to hearing Sunday's show, and finding out if Brent made it!
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thomatoApr 12, 2026
2.2k I'm simultaneously sick to death of hearing about AI, and enjoying LUP's AI coverage. You all are on a very, very short list of exceptions, because you strike a good balance. Both in terms of the amount of coverage, but also in being neither cheerleaders nor thought-free haters. I'm pretty much aligned with Brent, and like he clearly is, I'm enjoying hearing Chris and Wes's AI adventures
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thomatoFeb 14, 2026
2.2k I don't see any reason why btc couldn't stay under the cost of mining a coin for quite a while. The miners with reserves would keep going, and the small ones wouldn't make it. But my prediction is that it doesn't stay below $60k for long, exactly because this idea is widespread and people will start buying again if it does
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thomatoFeb 8, 2026
2.2k Loved the discussion of all the bots and especially the talk with Abe
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thomatoJan 25, 2026
2.2k Loved the This Old Network segment! I'd be curious to hear if Brent's started to automate his van yet. Mine is completely un-automated and I'm not sure where to start
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thomatoOct 23, 2025
2k I've been enjoying the balance of the show recently, keep up the good work!
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