583: Nix on Easy Mode

I have a nearly four years old Huawei smartphone. The battery still lasts two full days, the camera is great and the form factor is just perfect. Unfortunately, it no longer receives Android updates. Being stuck on Android 10, apps like Slack started to nag me about the end of support in a few months. So what does it take for me to change my phone? Probably just a few more decisions by tech leads, about how much time they want to invest in old Android versions. It's a shame that we live in a world where software dictates when my phone is "broken" and not the actual state of the hardware.

Team Toronto (matrix) + support for health insurance and time off!

No message, just a boost!!

Fountain + Nostr + BitcoinWell, some KYC issues and some nuance, but, the SATs are flowing now. To time off, health insurance, and many more episodes. It was lovely to meet you all in Toronto, and everyone else who was there! Team Toronto!

Hi! I'm a long time Mac guy but I'm slowly but surely moving over to Linux. I'm in the market for hardware and would love to know if Brent has any thoughts he could share on the Framework 13 he's been using. My old setup was to use a MacBook Air as both my desktop and laptop by pairing it with a display when at home. Is there any reason why a Framework might not be up for this task? Is it capable of being a daily driver? Love the show. I'm so glad I found this podcast and would love to see a Texas meetup 🤠

No message. Just felt wrong missing a week to BOOST.

Team Toronto (matrix) + support for health insurance and time off!

Finally chiming in with some SATs, small, but, here! In the words of other boosters, BOOOOOOOOST

Nevermind. Found the answer to my question. The key is the ‘spread’ that an exchange uses. Paying 2 fees with Strike or Cash could end up being cheaper than 1 fee from an exchange that doesn’t force me to use their custodial wallet.

Just got my hardware wallet. Is there a way to purchase bitcoin/sats directly to the device. If I purchase with Strike/Cash/etc., then transfer to the hardware wallet address, won’t I pay 2 transfer fees? If there’s a way to avoid one of those fees, I’d love to know.

Heard it on the This Week in Bitcoin podcast.

First, enjoy the vacation, it's well deserved. Second on Ace's thought on the Amazon coin, I agree with his assessment but I think the real play will be the interest. They will treat the Amazon coin like a gift card where you deposit money with the company and redeem it later, and in that in-between time the company is accruing interest. Starbucks is rivaling some banks with their gift card interest bearing holdings and I'm sure Amazon is not far behind them.

What hurricane? Thanks, Mike, for sacrificing your prep time for us listeners. We don’t deserve you!

I hope everyone is safe and healthy! Remember, you didn't lose any good people over a week off or whatever was said last week. Things ebb and flow. Take care of yourselves and the community will help take care of the rest. I am looking forward to the next episode when you are both in good places and have the space to think about Coder!

Let's raise those sat totals!

I noticed that the “Activate Linux” project has a NixOS flake: https://github.com/MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux

An app pick to make you laugh: https://github.com/Anupya/dadjoke-cli

What you guys are doing is incredibly inspiring. Thank you. 🔥🙏

YEET!!! Shayne describing this project has me salivating. Really looking forward to a public release! I’ve recently implemented a few tailscale-sidecars myself. I’d like to further expand my network with a sidecar per service, but the pain of changing all my compose files and ensuring functionality is a hurdle too high at the moment. Also, thanks for all the great content from 2024. You guys are seriously so influencial. I look at my tech stack nowadays and I see your fingerprints all over it… Tailscale, nixos, ZFS, Bambu p1p. All that’s left is for me to set up home-assistant! Thanks again!!

Team Toronto (matrix) + support for health insurance and time off!

Team Toronto (matrix) + support for health insurance and time off!

Why did the immutable operating system go to therapy? Because it was feeling a little "unchangeable" and needed to work through some "persistent" issues! But in the end, it just had to "commit" to being itself and "roll back" its anxiety!

I love the new Members Stream! Getting further insight into the show's topics really completes the podcast experience.

+1 for the newbie video. Would love to see it too! My spending sats are held like this: streaming sats go to Alby (because I listen in Castamatic); boosting sats are in Fountain. Still working on my holding workflow. For now, I’m just stacking them in Cash.app and Strike.

42 seems like the perfect episode to boost for the first time using sats sent from my self hosted alby mode hosted on my start9 pure to my fountain wallet. Sorry I've been away and unable to boost but start9 had a sale going and I was stacking every day I could to take advantage of it and then I ran into some technical difficulties during my server setup, let's be honest mostly between the keyboard and chair. Good to be back and self sovereign. And I'm honor of episode 42, don't forget your towel!

Boost!

I was pro Bitcoin prior to this, but operation choke point was what turned me into a Bitcoin hardliner. Also first boost from my start 9 Alby hub connected to fountain. It took several sessions with ChatGPT to figure out the issues but if you're reading this then it finally worked.

I have ADHD and use podcasts and audiobooks to help me focus at work, video just distracts me and so I never use it. That being said if others would like video I'd have no issue with it so long as you remain an audio first show. I've given up on a few long time listens due to the hosts moving to a video first mindset and making the audio a waste of time to listen to, I'd hate to see that happen to TWIB. tl;dr: Video is a fine addition, as long as you keep an audio first mindset.

While I do believe that the establishment Democrats are anti-bitcoin, I don't think the El Salvador investigation is just about the use of Bitcoin. While I'm sure the use of Bitcoin is a factor it may just be a convenient way to mask their true intention of driving a wedge between El Salvador and the current administration over the migrant detention center. Then again this is the Dems we're talking about so they may just have their "Bitcoin bad" blinders on and are just taking any opportunity to attack Bitcoin.

Congratulations on episode 60!

Wicked good show. Have a good trip. No spam on the chain.

Production funding boost.