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601: Taming the Demons
By Jupiter Broadcasting
Aired Feb 10, 2025 · 1h 8m · Last boosted Feb 13, 2025
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It's week one of our FreeBSD challenge, and for one of us, that penalty Windows install looks uncomfortably close! Plus, Zach Mitchell joins us to update us on Planet Nix. Sponsored By: Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links:<...
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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.
Josh FabeanApr 19, 2026
21k I've wanted to boost more often but money has been tight. However I recently switched jobs and will most likely more than double my income and a lot of that is due to Linux and self hosted knowledge that I grew over the past years for work and while listening to your shows. This podcast has also made we push harder into holding bitcoin than ever before. So a big thank you for everything!
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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 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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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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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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SiiireMay 5, 2025
4k What do you guys think about HexOS?
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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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thomatoMay 19, 2025
2.2k 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 !
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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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SiiireMar 7, 2025
2k No accounts unless its absolutely needed! (ie emails). I encourage everyone to browse their password managers and delete accounts they don't need anymore. I've deleted about 40 of them in 2024
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thomatoApr 10, 2025
1k Not really enjoying the extended US politics arc of the show. I'll be tuning out for the near future, and will check in again after the US has calmed down a bit. Thanks for the first year of the show, which got me back into bitcoin.
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thomatoFeb 13, 2025
1k Nice song!
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Josh FabeanFeb 22, 2025
500 They're trying to fill Fort Knox real quicx
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SiiireFeb 13, 2025
200 22 years? See. This is why I failed math 😂
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Daemon update time! Last Saturday night, I sat down to install FreeBSD. I haven't done so since 4-dot-something, but I'm sure it'll be easy. I'm a NetBSD user after all! The FreeBSD installer is not as easy as Net's. I eventually gave up trying to get zfs to boot on my T440p, and started thinking about Comic Sans. Didn't boost in last week out of shame. This week I tried on a new machine (a more modern thinkpad). Got root on ZFS working, thankfully, which for me is the whole point of trying FreeBSD. And eventually X11, KDE, and sound. I still can't get my preferred keyboard layout, though. I went for syncthing in a jail to get 7 points instead of just 2. I also did a fresh install of my favoured NetBSD, which I don't normally run as a desktop. I have to say, getting a graphical environment working was easier. In general, I find the NetBSD installation process much more pleasant, though I'm of course more familiar with it. Wes might enjoy looking at the NetBSD boot process. It's wonderfully simple. You can even get root on ZFS, though it's a manual process that makes for a slightly janky boot procedure -- no worse than how Linux boots, though! https://wiki.netbsd.org/root_on_zfs/ For scoring: 6 points for: FreeBSD installed and online, audio recording (will send link later), and syncthing 15 points for: syncthing in a jail, firewall configured, and I also installed a NetBSD desktop. I don't think I'll keep the FreeBSD installation, but I am going to keep NetBSD on this laptop. It not only suspends (FreeBSD could do that), it even resumes! But in general, I'm sticking with Linux as a desktop.
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I'm running my framework 13 laptop plus two stacked ultawides everyday, each ultrawide is 3440x1440, that's normal right?
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Great to hear about some FreeBSD experiences!
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Ok I give up. Well I mean I don't. Like DJ Khaled famously said on Hot Ones "I promise you if I stop, it doesn't mean I gave up. I'm gonna teach you something today. We can't play ourselves. We can't hurt ourselves. We can't hurt our health. Now you see, that's the key."
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No way! Xorg didn't work because the root account was not in the video group. Which is insane as root should have access to everything