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The 2 a.m. Rescue

Aug 10, 2025
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Wes performs a 2 a.m. rescue at DEFCON, and Chris attempts to build a Linux desktop using nothing but vibes.

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.005 --> 00:00:05.025 So I was woken up this morning at 5 a.m. by birds screaming over what was inside. 00:00:05.025 --> 00:00:07.505 A barbecue, which, by the way, once I got in there, they weren't going to be 00:00:07.505 --> 00:00:08.805 all that – they weren't going to be that happy. 00:00:08.845 --> 00:00:12.785 But we just moved a bunch of gear into this space, and the birds came down and 00:00:12.785 --> 00:00:13.925 were fighting over it this morning. 00:00:15.005 --> 00:00:18.865 And I could go out there and lift one of them and put them under my arm and 00:00:18.865 --> 00:00:22.285 carry them around like a small dog. They're just these huge creatures. 00:00:23.725 --> 00:00:28.025 And, man, oh, man, I want one as a pet so bad. Train it. Have it go collect things for me. 00:00:28.145 --> 00:00:30.865 Levi's going to get a little jealous, though. You know, watch out. 00:00:43.125 --> 00:00:47.865 Hello, friends, and welcome back to your weekly Linux talk show. My name is Chris. 00:00:48.005 --> 00:00:48.645 My name is Wes. 00:00:48.885 --> 00:00:49.725 And my name is Brent. 00:00:50.225 --> 00:00:55.285 Hello, gentlemen. Well, coming up on the show, I tried to build a Linux desktop 00:00:55.285 --> 00:00:58.225 using nothing but AI text editors. 00:00:58.865 --> 00:01:02.345 I never touched a single config file. I just vibed it all the way. 00:01:02.585 --> 00:01:06.185 But did it work or did the bots break it? I'll tell you about that. 00:01:06.385 --> 00:01:09.905 And then Wes is sharing his tales from DEF CON and Nix Vegas. 00:01:10.165 --> 00:01:12.245 Then we're going to round the show out with some great emails, 00:01:12.445 --> 00:01:15.165 some boosts, some tremendous picks, and a lot more. 00:01:15.285 --> 00:01:18.505 So before I get any further, let's say time-appropriate greetings to that virtual 00:01:18.505 --> 00:01:19.565 lug. Hello, Mumble room. 00:01:20.145 --> 00:01:22.145 Hey, Chris. Hey, Wes. And hello, Brent. 00:01:22.885 --> 00:01:27.985 Hello, hello, hello. Hello. We have a small team in Mumble today. 00:01:28.225 --> 00:01:32.505 I think it's maybe this is the live stream summer doldrums, I suppose. 00:01:32.765 --> 00:01:35.485 We're grateful for everybody that can make it. We're also grateful for the chat room. 00:01:36.145 --> 00:01:39.125 And we're grateful for the friends over at Define Networking. 00:01:39.225 --> 00:01:43.005 Go check out Manage Nebula, define.net slash unplugged. 00:01:43.265 --> 00:01:49.425 It's a decentralized VPN built on an open source platform that we love. It's called Nebula. 00:01:49.625 --> 00:01:53.365 And the entire thing, top to bottom, is open source. 00:01:53.525 --> 00:01:58.125 So you can self-host all of it, or you can have the blissful piece of Manage Nebula. 00:01:58.225 --> 00:02:02.945 And it is optimized for speed, simplicity, and they're using industry-leading security. 00:02:03.385 --> 00:02:06.525 Nebula has a decentralized design that keeps your network resilient. 00:02:06.685 --> 00:02:10.865 If you want to manage it for your home lab or for an enterprise of tens of thousands 00:02:10.865 --> 00:02:13.325 of systems, Nebula is already doing it. 00:02:13.605 --> 00:02:17.885 In fact, Nebula was doing some heavy lifting when you're down there at DEF CON 00:02:17.885 --> 00:02:19.185 slash Nix Vegas, Mr. Payne. 00:02:19.405 --> 00:02:23.085 Yeah, that's right. I mean, what happens when you're trying to host, 00:02:23.365 --> 00:02:27.645 you know, you need to go get Nix packages even when you're doing a proxy or a build cache. 00:02:27.645 --> 00:02:31.105 And you're trying to fight, I mean, not only just conference Wi-Fi in general, 00:02:31.325 --> 00:02:36.125 but a whole bunch of hackers on said Wi-Fi, well, you bond as much as you can, 00:02:36.245 --> 00:02:39.865 and then you use Nebula to tunnel all of that, 00:02:41.073 --> 00:02:46.453 dedicated VPS upstream to just protect things and to make sure you have the 00:02:46.453 --> 00:02:50.553 best possible routing out of there so you don't get stuck in a big Vegas mess. 00:02:52.033 --> 00:02:55.133 That's really cool. And then they could just stand it up like that too. 00:02:55.573 --> 00:03:00.213 Nothing else offers Nebula's resilience, its speed, or scalability. 00:03:00.313 --> 00:03:04.213 And that stuff, it comes in just the network traffic usage. It comes in the 00:03:04.213 --> 00:03:08.093 uptime and the battery usage for mobile devices. It's really fantastic. 00:03:08.113 --> 00:03:11.953 It's why we're switching our infrastructure over to it and also the team behind 00:03:11.953 --> 00:03:15.973 it are friends of the show so go get started with up to 100 hosts absolutely 00:03:15.973 --> 00:03:22.233 free no credit card required just go to defined.net slash unplugged support 00:03:22.233 --> 00:03:26.333 the show and visit them at defined.net slash unplugged, 00:03:28.533 --> 00:03:34.353 all right so just a few housekeeping items before we dig into this uh the boys are remote this week. 00:03:35.093 --> 00:03:42.113 Brent's off in Eastern Canada and taking over a parent's cottage and has a little spot over there. 00:03:42.253 --> 00:03:44.993 Are the kitties with you right now, Brent, or did you leave them somewhere else 00:03:44.993 --> 00:03:45.573 while you're recording? 00:03:45.813 --> 00:03:49.273 I left them somewhere after last week when they had to just sit around while 00:03:49.273 --> 00:03:52.273 I was doing the show. They asked to not be a part of it this week for some reason. 00:03:52.493 --> 00:03:55.913 I understand. And Wes, you're in your hotel in Vegas right now. 00:03:56.033 --> 00:03:58.173 Can you, do you have any kind of view? Do you see anything? 00:03:59.093 --> 00:04:03.233 Well, you know, I do, I do have, I can see the strip. I can see the monorail, 00:04:03.413 --> 00:04:06.893 except I turned off the AC to do this here show. 00:04:07.213 --> 00:04:13.153 So I also closed the blinds to, you know, fight, fight that horrible sky death globe. 00:04:13.573 --> 00:04:18.293 Yeah. So I'm just chilling here. No, I'm not going to complain at all then about the weather. 00:04:18.333 --> 00:04:20.753 It's a little warm today, but I'm not going to complain at all. 00:04:20.833 --> 00:04:21.593 It's nothing like Vegas. 00:04:22.273 --> 00:04:25.953 I also wanted to give a shout out to a project that we love here at the show. 00:04:26.233 --> 00:04:28.593 It's the Podverse Podcast Catcher. 00:04:28.973 --> 00:04:34.453 It's a GPL open source podcasting 2.0 player. You see we also integrated into our website. 00:04:35.733 --> 00:04:39.793 And they're undergoing a big rework. And it's going really well. 00:04:39.893 --> 00:04:43.433 And they're looking for some help with a web app, perhaps their mobile app as well. 00:04:43.733 --> 00:04:48.353 And they let me know that now is the time to engage. Mitch wrote, 00:04:48.433 --> 00:04:50.953 I believe the new infrastructure is powerful and will hopefully be the best 00:04:50.953 --> 00:04:53.153 podcasting 2.0 compatible software available. 00:04:53.233 --> 00:04:57.453 And the backend components are mostly finished and the front-end website is in progress. 00:04:57.653 --> 00:05:00.373 So if you know anybody that could help us, please send them our way. 00:05:00.793 --> 00:05:05.133 So go find Podverse on GitHub. If you would like to help out what I think is 00:05:05.133 --> 00:05:09.173 an absolutely critical project, we need more open-source podcasting apps. 00:05:09.173 --> 00:05:12.633 It's not much of a thing. It really should be. 00:05:14.166 --> 00:05:18.526 Also, call out for a sponsor that wants to work with us to get us to Texas Linux Fest. 00:05:18.746 --> 00:05:23.706 The Linux Unplugged show is looking for someone to help us attend and cover 00:05:23.706 --> 00:05:27.346 Texas Linux Festival, which is October 3rd through the 1st. 00:05:27.726 --> 00:05:31.146 If you would like to help us get there and do some co-coverage with us or something 00:05:31.146 --> 00:05:34.626 like that, email me, chris at jupiterbroadcasting.com. 00:05:34.966 --> 00:05:37.666 And if you want to get there and do a talk or something like that, 00:05:37.746 --> 00:05:42.566 sometimes that helps the old boss, grease the wheels, get a talk in. 00:05:42.566 --> 00:05:44.726 Their call for papers has been extended. 00:05:45.026 --> 00:05:48.446 So you do have a little bit of time still. And it's October, 00:05:48.906 --> 00:05:50.486 Austin, Texas Linux Festival. 00:05:50.826 --> 00:05:57.906 It's one of the high signal, smaller events in terms of like scale or Linux Fest Northwest. 00:05:58.546 --> 00:06:02.486 It's still a good amount. And the signal to noise ratio is really good. 00:06:02.986 --> 00:06:05.146 We've always really enjoyed Texas Linux Festival. 00:06:05.326 --> 00:06:09.326 Oh yeah, we had a great time last time we went. I'm getting excited already. 00:06:09.326 --> 00:06:15.506 And, yeah, you know, I think there's a certain smoky flavor to those Texas-style 00:06:15.506 --> 00:06:17.526 Linux hackers that you just don't get anywhere else. 00:06:21.346 --> 00:06:28.746 Okay, Wes, so you are there in Vegas right now, and I'm just curious about how 00:06:28.746 --> 00:06:32.026 the whole thing went, really. I know you had a talk, I think it was on Saturday, 00:06:32.026 --> 00:06:36.326 and I think you had a chance to meet some folks. Tell us, give us a little flavor. 00:06:36.846 --> 00:06:41.726 Oh yeah okay so like first time at defcon first time in vegas actually somehow 00:06:41.726 --> 00:06:43.906 i've yet to yet to be here um you. 00:06:43.906 --> 00:06:44.906 Are kidding me. 00:06:44.906 --> 00:06:45.566 No wow. 00:06:45.566 --> 00:06:46.746 Did not know that. 00:06:46.746 --> 00:06:49.986 Um but you know overall i gotta say very impressed excellent 00:06:49.986 --> 00:06:52.966 conference and just like super super friendly 00:06:52.966 --> 00:06:57.486 folks i mean i ended up having a neighbor at the hotel in the room with me you 00:06:57.486 --> 00:07:00.346 know we were able to just like walk over together we became friends for the 00:07:00.346 --> 00:07:05.686 the whole conference and of let me uh tell him way too much info about nix so 00:07:05.686 --> 00:07:10.226 first of all just like you know i'm no i'm no pen tester i'm not a reverse engineer 00:07:10.646 --> 00:07:14.366 so i wasn't sure i was coming for the nix subconference we'll get more into 00:07:14.366 --> 00:07:17.386 that but just overall i would say like if you if you are interested if you have 00:07:17.386 --> 00:07:21.566 a budget to come to this kind of thing um much like the vibe at like a at a 00:07:21.566 --> 00:07:23.786 linux fest but at a whole different scale like, 00:07:24.466 --> 00:07:27.906 it's just super friendly and welcoming and so many people are here either their 00:07:27.906 --> 00:07:32.246 first time or their 17th time but uh it doesn't really matter people are looking 00:07:32.246 --> 00:07:35.266 to be friendly and welcoming and make new friends. 00:07:36.503 --> 00:07:39.803 I was really here, of course, for Nix Vegas, which is, I guess, 00:07:39.863 --> 00:07:41.323 the first time they're doing this. 00:07:41.463 --> 00:07:45.643 And it's a community sort of sub-conference inside the larger DEF CON. 00:07:46.143 --> 00:07:48.443 It's a common thing, right? They've got whole different villages, 00:07:48.623 --> 00:07:51.823 they've got sub-treks, and they've got these communities. 00:07:52.243 --> 00:07:55.683 And man, I just, like, huge shout-out to the folks behind all this. 00:07:56.423 --> 00:08:01.803 Many, many of them, but in particular, Morgan Jones, our buddy Tristan Ross, 00:08:01.903 --> 00:08:05.883 who was on the show and was a release manager recently for the most recent NixOS release. 00:08:05.883 --> 00:08:08.783 Also Tom Barrick from Phlox and a 00:08:08.783 --> 00:08:12.323 shout out to Dan Baker who also really helped organize this 00:08:12.323 --> 00:08:15.083 whole thing who sadly got the flu and was not 00:08:15.083 --> 00:08:17.983 able to make it to the conference but still so much 00:08:17.983 --> 00:08:20.723 hard work you know going there and of course Phlox and 00:08:20.723 --> 00:08:24.683 Determinant Systems were sponsoring to help make that possible and because 00:08:24.683 --> 00:08:27.563 these Nix folks are just crazy they also 00:08:27.563 --> 00:08:30.803 got some hardware support from System76 and Ampere 00:08:30.803 --> 00:08:34.263 and Protectly and Next Computing because the amount 00:08:34.263 --> 00:08:37.563 of infrastructure they stood up they weren't just like gonna be at 00:08:37.563 --> 00:08:40.463 defcon they stood up like whole domains they had 00:08:40.463 --> 00:08:43.383 this this impressive nebula infrastructure they 00:08:43.383 --> 00:08:46.723 had powerline networking going they ran a pixie server 00:08:46.723 --> 00:08:51.343 they basically rebuilt all of nix packages and pulled down all of nix packages 00:08:51.343 --> 00:08:55.083 to build a binary cache running on their network that you could get to over 00:08:55.083 --> 00:08:59.483 the powerline or the wi-fi that they were broadcasting and all of that is powered 00:08:59.483 --> 00:09:02.863 by nix and reproducible And they're pushing as much as they can upstream to 00:09:02.863 --> 00:09:04.923 a GitHub repo called NixVegas, 00:09:05.103 --> 00:09:08.423 or the GitHub org called NixVegas that we'll definitely have a link to. 00:09:09.083 --> 00:09:11.843 So they're doing Nebula over Powerline networking? 00:09:13.103 --> 00:09:18.103 Well, I don't know that Powerline was in the path out, but Powerline was a feature that was attacked. 00:09:18.183 --> 00:09:18.563 Love it. 00:09:18.763 --> 00:09:21.723 Yeah, so they could go elsewhere in the convention center, plug in, 00:09:21.783 --> 00:09:24.163 and then Pixie boot, because they were also running a Pixie server, of course. 00:09:24.942 --> 00:09:29.662 Oh, my gosh, that's so cool. So I'm guessing pretty good vibes. 00:09:30.042 --> 00:09:33.622 When we go to these kind of events, especially these more sub-conferences, 00:09:33.622 --> 00:09:37.482 it's a pretty tight crew. Like you say, everybody wants to chat and learn. 00:09:38.162 --> 00:09:42.582 Yeah, absolutely. And also just shout out to them because I got a little sneak 00:09:42.582 --> 00:09:46.742 peek behind the scenes at the first night as they were getting everything set up. 00:09:46.742 --> 00:09:53.002 And I can tell you that, like, they did not have a projector or a screen until, 00:09:53.202 --> 00:09:57.602 like, 1030 or 11 the night before things were supposed to get going. 00:09:57.802 --> 00:09:59.442 So, they were, like, improvising a backup. 00:10:00.062 --> 00:10:04.722 Shout out to Andrew and Anna, who came up with, like, a sheet-based backup and 00:10:04.722 --> 00:10:08.042 went and got a backup projector to try to make that work. 00:10:08.042 --> 00:10:12.062 People like you know chris and rj there's just this whole crew of folks behind 00:10:12.062 --> 00:10:18.662 the scenes making whatever needed to happen happen up to and including at the last minute and then, 00:10:19.442 --> 00:10:23.582 morgan sitting there running everything not only sort of like looking at bgp 00:10:23.582 --> 00:10:26.682 looking glass to make sure that the peering they have on the vps that's doing 00:10:26.682 --> 00:10:30.702 all the nebula streaming has is like optimized but also running an own cast 00:10:30.702 --> 00:10:34.122 server and obs and like doing all the stuff we do all at the same Yeah. 00:10:34.602 --> 00:10:37.222 Right. Because as we know, although at a smaller scale, it's there, 00:10:37.262 --> 00:10:39.302 you have the, you have the networking you have to solve. 00:10:39.482 --> 00:10:42.442 You have the production technology you have to solve them. The audio, 00:10:42.582 --> 00:10:47.162 I mean, there's so much, and I can so, so picture one of us doing like a backup 00:10:47.162 --> 00:10:50.582 run for another solution while we're trying to fix the primary solution. Like, 00:10:51.257 --> 00:10:53.377 You can really appreciate the hustle. 00:10:53.757 --> 00:10:57.757 Exactly. It definitely had our kind of last minute, just figure it out energy 00:10:57.757 --> 00:10:59.777 going on. So I naturally like that. 00:11:00.057 --> 00:11:04.097 Also very cool is Morgan and Tristan worked on an incredible badge. 00:11:04.257 --> 00:11:08.397 You know, like cool, hacky, embedded, styled badges are a big thing at DEFCON. 00:11:08.577 --> 00:11:12.897 And the Knicks team showed up for Knicks Vegas and DEFCON. 00:11:13.157 --> 00:11:17.157 Not only were they able to get the official SVG of the Knicks and Knicks OS logo, 00:11:17.157 --> 00:11:20.277 though um but like you know they got this sent over 00:11:20.277 --> 00:11:23.377 to a lab in um a fab in china 00:11:23.377 --> 00:11:26.397 you know they got it all ordered uh it's powered 00:11:26.397 --> 00:11:29.097 and built by nix i mean there's like key morgan gave a 00:11:29.097 --> 00:11:31.757 great talk uh but like keycads in there they had 00:11:31.757 --> 00:11:35.637 to use something called sv svg to shenzhen all 00:11:35.637 --> 00:11:38.377 kinds of like hacky scripts and adapters to make this thing as 00:11:38.377 --> 00:11:41.097 reproducible as possible so you can actually just go up 00:11:41.097 --> 00:11:44.177 to github and like go get this awesome badge it's 00:11:44.177 --> 00:11:47.037 running um some expressive like risk 5 00:11:47.037 --> 00:11:50.257 chip on there the badges also have 00:11:50.257 --> 00:11:54.337 wi-fi they join a wi-fi mesh and sadly 00:11:54.337 --> 00:11:57.997 there was like a little bug in some of the routing so the sd card doesn't work 00:11:57.997 --> 00:12:03.657 but it was going to be a full nix cache but it can also just be a nix cache 00:12:03.657 --> 00:12:07.897 proxy so you can you can be cloning down nix packages and you can point to your 00:12:07.897 --> 00:12:12.677 badge as a substituter and have it go over the conference like their, 00:12:13.277 --> 00:12:17.517 sub-conference Wi-Fi to get your Nix packages, which is just incredible. 00:12:18.957 --> 00:12:22.357 Holy. You had me at reproducible badge, but that's next level. 00:12:23.617 --> 00:12:26.577 Yeah. And there's a bunch of Easter eggs on there. I haven't even gotten, 00:12:26.857 --> 00:12:29.637 I'm excited to go, I'll bring it up and so you guys can check it out. 00:12:29.717 --> 00:12:32.017 We'll have to plug it in and see what we can do with it. 00:12:32.137 --> 00:12:33.937 I imagine this thing draws attention. 00:12:34.357 --> 00:12:37.757 Yes. So that was what worked out. I was super glad. Next time, 00:12:38.525 --> 00:12:43.885 A, I need more JB swag I can be given out, but then also Nick stuff, 00:12:43.885 --> 00:12:48.685 because once I had that badge, suddenly I found myself being an impromptu Nick's 00:12:48.685 --> 00:12:51.725 ambassador, which it turns out is a role I'm very happy to play. 00:12:51.865 --> 00:12:55.205 So whether it was just hanging out while talks were going on at the edge of 00:12:55.205 --> 00:12:58.725 the subconf area and talking to people wandering by, asking about it, 00:12:58.785 --> 00:13:02.085 or as I'm wandering around at night, at parties, at meetups, 00:13:02.185 --> 00:13:05.545 at events, folks are all like, oh, cool badge, so that's one line. 00:13:05.545 --> 00:13:08.905 But a lot of folks would just be like, oh, NixOS, or I've been curious about Nix. 00:13:09.025 --> 00:13:12.705 Oh, I've really been meaning to learn Nix, especially met a ton of Arch users 00:13:12.705 --> 00:13:16.945 in that camp, where it's like, they just needed a little bit more of a push, 00:13:17.085 --> 00:13:19.105 a little bit more of like, is it okay? 00:13:19.265 --> 00:13:21.445 Is it going to be horrible to try to onboard? 00:13:21.805 --> 00:13:24.705 So the badge was a huge win for me, because I just got to have a lot of great 00:13:24.705 --> 00:13:27.505 conversations, chatting with random people, trying to spread the good word. 00:13:27.765 --> 00:13:31.605 So is this how you ended up getting pulled into a 2 a.m. rescue session? 00:13:31.965 --> 00:13:37.265 Yes, absolutely. So I was, you know, trying to pace myself, trying not to stay 00:13:37.265 --> 00:13:41.225 up too late, but winding down, working on heading back from the convention center 00:13:41.225 --> 00:13:43.345 to the hotel I was staying at. 00:13:43.545 --> 00:13:47.865 And I ran to the gentleman I met that first day, Paul, and he was with some 00:13:47.865 --> 00:13:50.245 of his friends and they were working on a CTF. 00:13:50.605 --> 00:13:54.465 And when I walked over, they'd said something, what really made me stick around 00:13:54.465 --> 00:13:59.385 rather than just saying hi was the combination of WebAssembly and DOS. 00:13:59.525 --> 00:14:04.045 I was like, what are you doing with WebAssembly and DOS? And it turns out that 00:14:04.045 --> 00:14:05.505 this CTF they were doing, 00:14:05.785 --> 00:14:11.265 what they gave you to start was just a Z5 file, which is a game data file used 00:14:11.265 --> 00:14:14.685 by the Z machine, which is a virtual machine for running interactive fiction 00:14:14.685 --> 00:14:17.725 games, like from the DOS era. 00:14:18.405 --> 00:14:18.845 Amazing. 00:14:19.165 --> 00:14:22.225 So you could just play the game, right? So that was one way to try to go through 00:14:22.225 --> 00:14:23.305 the capture the flag event. 00:14:23.725 --> 00:14:27.085 But, and of course, probably I'm sure the folks behind this knew, 00:14:27.365 --> 00:14:32.545 there's a debugger for these game files called Z tools. And so, 00:14:32.865 --> 00:14:35.785 unfortunately, these folks had only brought a Mac with them. 00:14:35.885 --> 00:14:38.145 I think their other laptops were back at the hotel at this point because it 00:14:38.145 --> 00:14:40.665 was, you know, 2 a.m. And they'd been partying. 00:14:41.645 --> 00:14:44.965 So they had a Mac. This thing would not run on a Mac. It would run on Windows. 00:14:45.205 --> 00:14:47.645 You know, you could probably get it running. You could compile it for Linux. 00:14:48.005 --> 00:14:51.985 So they were going down the path of trying to get WebAssembly and DOS so that 00:14:51.985 --> 00:14:54.965 they could upload this debugger and the game file to that, which, 00:14:55.025 --> 00:14:56.725 of course, was just going terribly. 00:14:57.045 --> 00:15:00.505 So I started, like, I don't know, just trying to help. I was like, 00:15:00.565 --> 00:15:03.705 okay, what about FreeDOS? Maybe like we spin up, you know, ultimately UTM, 00:15:03.925 --> 00:15:06.705 which is QEMU, trying to run free DOS. 00:15:06.865 --> 00:15:11.005 And then, of course, then we had to figure out how to actually get the files in there. 00:15:11.165 --> 00:15:16.525 And are you using UTM x86 emulation for this, which is slow as hell on a Mac? 00:15:16.785 --> 00:15:20.205 Yeah, I think so. I don't know which era of Mac it was, but yes, 00:15:20.365 --> 00:15:21.485 presumably that must be it. 00:15:21.665 --> 00:15:22.665 Oh, my God. All right. 00:15:22.865 --> 00:15:25.745 Yeah. So they were finally able to get free DOS to download. 00:15:25.825 --> 00:15:28.725 You know, you still have to somehow they have a free DOS live CD, 00:15:28.865 --> 00:15:32.845 which is almost a thing that doesn't quite compute for me. But it is a thing. It does work. 00:15:33.005 --> 00:15:36.805 And then it turns out there is a QEMU flag that you can just pass through like a fat... 00:15:38.839 --> 00:15:41.679 Format it'll treat it like a fat device to attach but it has 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:44.519 some weird limitations around like being read only maybe and like 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:48.099 only 512 bytes and how do you then you have to make sure you can pass extra 00:15:48.099 --> 00:15:51.959 arbitrary flags through utm so while that was like we were debating that i was 00:15:51.959 --> 00:15:55.559 like okay well let me pull out my laptop uh i know i could at least like make 00:15:55.559 --> 00:16:00.919 a like a loopback raw device that we could format like fat 16 and mbr and like 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:03.779 try to stuff the files and then maybe mount that as a second drive. 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:07.199 But that's when I finally, because I was kind of getting, you know, 00:16:07.319 --> 00:16:10.259 trying to figure out the whole path they had gone down to get where they were 00:16:10.259 --> 00:16:13.419 in terms of like actually what the problem up the tree was they were trying to solve. 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:17.139 And then I realized that the whole problem was really just trying to get those, 00:16:17.999 --> 00:16:19.139 ZTools debugger working. 00:16:20.779 --> 00:16:26.059 And yeah, that was just packaged in Nix packages. So I could just literally clone that down. 00:16:26.239 --> 00:16:29.259 It took, you know, two seconds. And then I was able to immediately dump all 00:16:29.259 --> 00:16:33.299 of the game data and share that with the team. and then they could start like 00:16:33.299 --> 00:16:34.959 grepping through it, trying to find clues. 00:16:35.239 --> 00:16:37.859 Of course, if you just grep for the word flag, there's like a, 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:40.679 there's an F you in there from the people behind it. Like, of course we wouldn't 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:42.579 just put this in here like that. What are you doing? 00:16:43.079 --> 00:16:46.679 So I don't know how far they eventually got, but I was able to like give them 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:51.159 those text file dumps and at least felt like I was participating and helping 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:53.299 out. And hey, the power of Nix. 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:56.959 I have one question though. Were you out and about at 2 a.m. 00:16:57.219 --> 00:17:00.739 With your laptop or did you discover them, come across them, 00:17:00.739 --> 00:17:05.679 realize their plight go back to your hotel room get your laptop come back and do this. 00:17:06.499 --> 00:17:09.259 No you know so that day not only did I not manage to 00:17:09.259 --> 00:17:12.819 actually have dinner but I did not manage to escape the conference at all so 00:17:12.819 --> 00:17:15.759 I had my laptop from being there during the day and I just never had a chance 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:19.779 to go back to the hotel so I was bopping around having having a couple of drinks 00:17:19.779 --> 00:17:26.739 dancing all with my laptop so oh my gosh that's amazing think that it is uh it is a trooper. 00:17:27.645 --> 00:17:31.985 Yeah, really? Wow. Well, also, before the show started, you kind of teased us 00:17:31.985 --> 00:17:36.265 that you may have heard about a new feature coming to Nix that you are particularly nerded out about. 00:17:36.545 --> 00:17:41.165 Yeah, right. I'm a functional programming guy. I like Clojure and other functional 00:17:41.165 --> 00:17:43.065 programming. And Nix is a functional programming language. 00:17:43.365 --> 00:17:47.205 And one of the things with functional programming languages is you're doing function calls. 00:17:47.345 --> 00:17:50.625 And often you might need to chain some data through a couple of functions, 00:17:50.745 --> 00:17:52.325 right? You call one thing to get your initial data. 00:17:52.405 --> 00:17:55.585 You call another function on that to maybe modify it a little bit. 00:17:55.585 --> 00:17:58.705 And then you finally pass it off to like the final thing that needs that data. 00:17:59.125 --> 00:18:03.805 And with Nix, right now, and in a lot of functional programming languages without 00:18:03.805 --> 00:18:07.185 these tricks, you kind of have to read it backwards, right? 00:18:07.245 --> 00:18:11.105 So it's like it's nested with the last thing, you read it first, 00:18:11.145 --> 00:18:13.785 and the first thing is all the way inside the nesting. 00:18:14.365 --> 00:18:17.485 That can be confusing. If you do a lot of functional programming language, 00:18:17.665 --> 00:18:19.925 you kind of get used to it. But no one really likes it. 00:18:20.165 --> 00:18:23.385 Often you then have to kind of leave more comments in the code to try to explain 00:18:23.385 --> 00:18:27.165 exactly what's going on with the flow. So I had no idea that this was already 00:18:27.165 --> 00:18:32.085 a shipping experimental feature in Nix, and there's an open RFC going for it. 00:18:32.765 --> 00:18:36.705 They're introducing a pipe operator, which just lets you do exactly that, 00:18:36.765 --> 00:18:37.805 except it flips the order. 00:18:38.025 --> 00:18:42.745 So you run, you produce your first data, and then you can just pipe it just 00:18:42.745 --> 00:18:47.705 like you're used to in a good old Unix shell to build a pipeline that looks 00:18:47.705 --> 00:18:50.945 in the proper readable order right out of the gate. 00:18:50.945 --> 00:18:54.165 So it's like a small change on the language, but because this pattern is so 00:18:54.165 --> 00:18:57.645 prevalent basically everywhere, it could be one that would be a huge win for 00:18:57.645 --> 00:19:01.525 readability and hopefully something that makes it easier for folks not only 00:19:01.525 --> 00:19:03.085 coming from other functional programming languages, 00:19:03.305 --> 00:19:08.565 but actually the person who's the steward of the RFC was not a functional programmer before Nix at all. 00:19:08.565 --> 00:19:11.985 And so they were actually doing this just because it made it so much easier for them. 00:19:12.105 --> 00:19:16.425 So I had no idea. Some of the other folks I was chatting with who were definitely 00:19:16.425 --> 00:19:18.425 Nix nerds in the audience also had no idea. 00:19:18.625 --> 00:19:22.345 So yeah, they were also asking for explicitly support. 00:19:22.525 --> 00:19:26.625 Well, I'll link to the RFC in the show notes. And go chime in. 00:19:26.725 --> 00:19:30.385 Go try it out. You can enable it now if you have a new enough Nix with an experimental feature. 00:19:30.605 --> 00:19:33.385 Then they need users to go test it and break it and figure out if it's going 00:19:33.385 --> 00:19:38.385 to work so they can get it across the finish line and shipping and actually ready to go. 00:19:38.565 --> 00:19:42.565 By default well Wes I got to know how was the Vegas experience given it was 00:19:42.565 --> 00:19:46.825 your first time there but also we've heard some things that Vegas has changed 00:19:46.825 --> 00:19:48.985 in a little bit so how was Vegas. 00:19:50.390 --> 00:19:55.470 You know, I have not yet had to get to see as much of it as I would like. It's definitely hot. 00:19:56.150 --> 00:20:02.710 It definitely doesn't sleep. But I like it, you know? There's entertainment wherever you'd like. 00:20:02.890 --> 00:20:04.950 Always something going on. I know that's your style. 00:20:05.550 --> 00:20:09.490 Yes, absolutely, right? There's no problem. I was able to go pick up some good 00:20:09.490 --> 00:20:13.070 show supplies at like 3 in the morning last night when I was getting back to the hotel. 00:20:13.630 --> 00:20:17.490 It is giant, though. So thankfully, the hotel I'm at is attached to their monorail 00:20:17.490 --> 00:20:21.210 system on the Strip. So that helps out a lot because otherwise you really don't 00:20:21.210 --> 00:20:24.250 want to walk, you know, 30 minutes and 106 degrees. 00:20:26.650 --> 00:20:29.270 But I'm excited after the show today. I'm hoping I can, well, 00:20:29.350 --> 00:20:33.630 maybe take a nap, but then go get off the strip, go explore some more of, 00:20:33.710 --> 00:20:36.790 you know, the rest of Vegas. So hopefully I'll have something fun. 00:20:36.910 --> 00:20:39.510 You know, maybe that vitamin D will keep you from getting sick. 00:20:39.810 --> 00:20:45.610 Did you get to bump into any listeners or anybody that maybe you've known from other conferences? 00:20:46.050 --> 00:20:49.690 Yes, I definitely saw our buddy Rob, who we had on the show, 00:20:49.790 --> 00:20:52.990 who helps organize scale. He was here. That was great to see him. 00:20:53.290 --> 00:20:57.070 And I ran into a few folks who've seen other conferences kind of all around. 00:20:57.190 --> 00:21:00.730 But in particular, shout out to Britton, who gave a great talk about Klan, 00:21:01.010 --> 00:21:03.610 which is a cool system we might have to talk more about. 00:21:03.730 --> 00:21:07.910 He's also working on a pretty great looking, like based on his talk and based 00:21:07.910 --> 00:21:11.130 on looking at his Hyperland setup, a very nice Hyperland setup, 00:21:11.250 --> 00:21:15.610 sort of Omarchi style, but on top of Nix, powered by Klan. And I don't know 00:21:15.610 --> 00:21:18.270 that any of that's ready or anything, but something I'm looking forward to. 00:21:18.550 --> 00:21:24.010 And then also a big shout out to listener Lucas, who heard about Nick's Vegas 00:21:24.010 --> 00:21:28.870 on the show and then flew out from Missouri just to come and check it out. 00:21:29.070 --> 00:21:32.410 So super great. 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Just go to 1password.com slash unplugged. 00:24:16.330 --> 00:24:22.450 Well after the show last week kind of just on a whim um i decided to show you, 00:24:23.010 --> 00:24:25.930 a little tool i'd been trying out for vibe 00:24:25.930 --> 00:24:29.690 coding i i thought you know mostly it was just look at how nice the interface 00:24:29.690 --> 00:24:33.530 is it's really pretty i think chris will like it and hey it's packaged in nix 00:24:33.530 --> 00:24:36.430 so we could just give it a try but like we were sitting around you know finishing 00:24:36.430 --> 00:24:40.770 out the show notes i didn't think too much of it but it turns out that little 00:24:40.770 --> 00:24:43.870 event seems to have totally reshaped your week. 00:24:44.710 --> 00:24:48.470 Yeah, I kept playing with it. You know, the first thing when you showed it to 00:24:48.470 --> 00:24:52.070 me is like, oh, this would have been cool while we had the TUI challenge. This is a fun toy. 00:24:53.470 --> 00:24:57.090 And then I just decided to see how far I could push it. And I kind of created 00:24:57.090 --> 00:24:59.970 myself a little mini challenge over the last few days. 00:25:00.150 --> 00:25:08.670 Could I could I vibe code a riced up Hyperland desktop from essentially a base headless Nick system? 00:25:09.290 --> 00:25:12.410 But before I get into all that, I do want to set the tone for a moment. 00:25:13.290 --> 00:25:19.230 Because I realized, you know, we kind of touch on these types of topics once 00:25:19.230 --> 00:25:25.630 or twice a year, but we first started talking about this with no hype in like around 2022. And, 00:25:26.899 --> 00:25:30.259 I couldn't believe it when I went back and looked at our back catalog when we 00:25:30.259 --> 00:25:32.399 started talking about LLMs and this type of stuff. 00:25:32.959 --> 00:25:36.919 And I think we've consistently been really good about separating the practical from the hype. 00:25:39.019 --> 00:25:44.919 And I think it's one of these things where we have very high expectations and 00:25:44.919 --> 00:25:48.659 we kind of miss the trees in the forest, as they say, or whatever. 00:25:49.739 --> 00:25:53.779 And I think because part of it is some of the things we ask these LLMs to do, 00:25:53.999 --> 00:25:55.719 humans are pretty good at already. 00:25:56.579 --> 00:26:00.139 And so we kind of are judging it with a high bar. And so one of the things that's 00:26:00.139 --> 00:26:06.199 in the discussion right now around these LLM tools is can they code? Can you vibe code? 00:26:06.399 --> 00:26:09.219 Can you build application using these tools? And then, of course, 00:26:09.299 --> 00:26:12.259 people build these applications and they're pretty much universally mocked. 00:26:13.239 --> 00:26:16.079 But that's a pretty high bar, you know, because even humans aren't very good 00:26:16.079 --> 00:26:16.879 at developing software. 00:26:17.839 --> 00:26:22.139 And there aren't a ton of great examples online. So if you index the Internet, 00:26:22.479 --> 00:26:23.699 the average is pretty low. 00:26:25.279 --> 00:26:30.399 But I had this theory, and I thought, well, what if I lowered the bar a little bit? 00:26:30.779 --> 00:26:35.719 And maybe instead of trying to build a complex application, what if I just try 00:26:35.719 --> 00:26:37.179 to build some configuration files? 00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:42.559 You know, what if I try to just generate some YAML, or a Docker Compose file, or Nix, and so on. 00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:46.319 And so that's where I started with Crush. It's like, well, I don't need to create 00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:49.259 an app. I just, I want like a config template to start with. 00:26:50.178 --> 00:26:53.878 And I started building on that idea. And what I realized, and I'm curious what 00:26:53.878 --> 00:26:56.458 your thoughts are, Wes, is I have a theory. 00:26:57.058 --> 00:27:00.238 And that theory goes that this stuff is a little bit easier. 00:27:00.238 --> 00:27:01.938 It's a little bit simpler of a language. 00:27:02.218 --> 00:27:06.958 And there's probably more examples of it online that are better on average than, 00:27:07.058 --> 00:27:11.958 say, maybe code that these models have been trained on. So it's like it's indexing text. 00:27:12.438 --> 00:27:16.018 And this stuff is just a little more straightforward. So maybe these LLMs are 00:27:16.018 --> 00:27:20.538 just perhaps a little bit better at generating config files than application code? 00:27:20.918 --> 00:27:24.158 Yeah, I mean, I think the limited scope definitely helps, right? 00:27:24.298 --> 00:27:29.738 You're not trying to create a sketchy dating app so people will upload all their 00:27:29.738 --> 00:27:33.938 ID pictures that you leak out on the internet or whatever. You kind of have some nice bounds. 00:27:34.378 --> 00:27:39.458 There is a schema. When you go to try to rebuild or build whatever, it can shout at you. 00:27:39.578 --> 00:27:42.498 It can tell you what's wrong. not always with the best error messages, 00:27:42.518 --> 00:27:45.338 but often with a good error message or at least good enough, 00:27:45.438 --> 00:27:49.038 you can pipe that back in and get some suggestions on what to do next. 00:27:49.158 --> 00:27:52.618 Because, yeah, you're not trying to architect a giant distributed system with, 00:27:52.618 --> 00:27:56.598 you know, a Rails application and JavaScript and how do you figure out the right 00:27:56.598 --> 00:27:58.918 security and protocols and database and caching. 00:27:59.138 --> 00:28:01.978 Like, it's a better scoped problem. 00:28:02.458 --> 00:28:06.958 Yeah. And so, gentlemen, this was my hypothesize, is that perhaps this would 00:28:06.958 --> 00:28:10.218 be something these things would be better at. And I sort of got to this after 00:28:10.218 --> 00:28:11.238 playing with this crush tool. 00:28:11.498 --> 00:28:14.018 But I wanted to know how good. 00:28:14.618 --> 00:28:18.198 And I thought, well, how can I figure out how far somebody could take this? 00:28:18.558 --> 00:28:22.158 Somebody who's looking at this as a system administrator or somebody building 00:28:22.158 --> 00:28:25.618 a Linux box, not somebody trying to develop an application, not somebody that's 00:28:25.618 --> 00:28:28.998 trying to create, you know, some sort of wild out there AI app. 00:28:29.238 --> 00:28:32.098 I'm just trying to manage a dozen config files on my box. 00:28:32.418 --> 00:28:35.998 And so I took my existing Nix OS system that I have at home. 00:28:36.995 --> 00:28:42.115 And I essentially commented out everything but just the really base boot to 00:28:42.115 --> 00:28:45.275 a terminal, hardware setup, you know, left the file systems in place, 00:28:45.315 --> 00:28:48.595 but essentially just stripped it all the way down. 00:28:48.935 --> 00:28:53.035 Which, by the way, is so great to build a load into a previous version when 00:28:53.035 --> 00:28:56.875 you screwed something up, fix it, and then try it again and try it again. 00:28:57.015 --> 00:28:58.455 Like, I cannot tell you how great that is. 00:28:59.035 --> 00:29:01.415 Yeah, it's like, oh, I deleted too much in that build. 00:29:01.595 --> 00:29:08.075 Nope, nope, nope. So I stripped it down, got it essentially headless, 00:29:08.255 --> 00:29:13.775 and then proceeded to vibe code, at least attempt, 00:29:14.055 --> 00:29:19.095 a complete Hyperland desktop with riced out way bar and settings, 00:29:19.295 --> 00:29:21.895 custom key binds, theming, and more. 00:29:22.055 --> 00:29:26.235 And I quickly discovered I needed to SSH into this thing because I have this 00:29:26.235 --> 00:29:31.155 wide, ultra wide screen and Crush was horrible on there because it's on the terminal. 00:29:32.155 --> 00:29:35.195 But using it i was able to build a real basic config 00:29:35.195 --> 00:29:37.975 through through an ssh session running crush on that 00:29:37.975 --> 00:29:40.935 local box i was able to build out a basic 00:29:40.935 --> 00:29:44.595 config that i never wrote myself and what it really did is it i told it what 00:29:44.595 --> 00:29:48.115 i wanted and it went through and it walked my config and said well okay i'll 00:29:48.115 --> 00:29:51.775 re-enable this i'll re i'll re-enable this and i'll add this package and i'll 00:29:51.775 --> 00:29:54.815 re-enable this and so it was really intelligent about well if i already had 00:29:54.815 --> 00:29:58.235 it in there it would just uncomment it for me oh you already need you you already 00:29:58.235 --> 00:30:00.235 have this and it's fun, right? 00:30:00.335 --> 00:30:04.295 Because you pointed a directory, it scans that directory, it indexes everything 00:30:04.295 --> 00:30:06.235 and it has kind of a cool look to it. 00:30:06.555 --> 00:30:09.635 I mean, I thought it looked really neat. Brent, maybe you thought it looked, 00:30:10.715 --> 00:30:14.215 I don't know, like it was trying too hard, like an 80s retro computer interface. 00:30:14.375 --> 00:30:15.655 I know you had a chance to play with it. 00:30:16.555 --> 00:30:19.735 I actually appreciated how it was kind of active. 00:30:20.055 --> 00:30:22.255 You know, you were doing something, if you were waiting for it, 00:30:22.315 --> 00:30:27.535 it had this sort of, I don't know, animation, but it wasn't over the top or it was super annoying. 00:30:27.695 --> 00:30:31.815 It was just like, things are happening so surprisingly i liked it. 00:30:31.815 --> 00:30:37.415 And it lets you switch between multiple models it supports open router as well 00:30:37.415 --> 00:30:42.875 which is what i was using um so that's kind of nice did you accomplish anything when you tried crush. 00:30:42.875 --> 00:30:45.835 I attempted something a different 00:30:45.835 --> 00:30:52.735 direction than you i attempted to um pull the irc feature out of our jb website 00:30:52.735 --> 00:30:56.075 because it's a thing that i've wanted to do for a while but I haven't sat down 00:30:56.075 --> 00:31:00.155 and actually did it it didn't go so well for me but this is the first time I 00:31:00.155 --> 00:31:04.055 try to you know vibe vibe so maybe that's on me sometimes. 00:31:04.055 --> 00:31:04.715 The vibe isn't. 00:31:06.104 --> 00:31:11.664 I do want to call out that the folks behind this, the Charm slash Charm Bracelet 00:31:11.664 --> 00:31:13.884 team project, I don't know the full details. 00:31:14.324 --> 00:31:18.184 But I mean, not only did they make it super easy to try with all kinds of Nick's 00:31:18.184 --> 00:31:23.484 instructions and other distributions on Crush here, but it's all powered by 00:31:23.484 --> 00:31:27.404 Bubble T, which is a powerful TUI framework written in Go that they make. 00:31:27.504 --> 00:31:31.464 And then it powers other stuff like Gum, which is a tool to, 00:31:31.604 --> 00:31:35.824 you can call out to Gum from shell scripts to like make fancy looking interfaces. 00:31:36.344 --> 00:31:41.064 They've also got VHS, which is a CLI home video recorder for your terminal. 00:31:41.284 --> 00:31:44.204 And they've got Glow, which is a tool I've used all the time because it renders 00:31:44.204 --> 00:31:46.304 markdown on the command line that looks really nice. 00:31:46.464 --> 00:31:50.184 So like, it's very cool to see them continue to advance and Crush is a very 00:31:50.184 --> 00:31:53.304 impressive tool powered by some really good primitives. 00:31:53.604 --> 00:31:57.564 And it is slick looking. It really is. And what's neat is, of course, 00:31:57.624 --> 00:32:00.424 this is designed to look at a project directory for software, 00:32:00.544 --> 00:32:05.684 but it treats the configuration directory like a project. And And then it understands my system. 00:32:05.724 --> 00:32:08.404 It understands my sub configuration files, my includes it. 00:32:08.544 --> 00:32:13.144 It knows I'm on a flake based system. Like it gets my box. And then so everything 00:32:13.144 --> 00:32:15.624 it's doing is with that context and that understanding. 00:32:16.903 --> 00:32:20.143 That's powerful. That's really, really powerful. And I'll come back to that later. 00:32:20.343 --> 00:32:24.123 I do wonder, just because you mentioned, which you said you were using Open 00:32:24.123 --> 00:32:28.163 Router. Were you using a variety of models or did you just stick with one model for this? 00:32:28.563 --> 00:32:32.183 I did end up changing it. So I'll mention the model I use later, 00:32:32.403 --> 00:32:34.843 the second model. But I started with Claude, which seemed pretty good. 00:32:34.983 --> 00:32:39.163 And it's nice because with Open Router, as you probably could explain better 00:32:39.163 --> 00:32:42.943 than me, Wes, is I've just put the credits in one place and then it kind of 00:32:42.943 --> 00:32:46.063 divvies it out depending on which model I select on the tooling I'm using. 00:32:46.063 --> 00:32:49.643 And you've been telling me to do this for months so I finally went and funded 00:32:49.643 --> 00:32:54.983 an Open Router account and then yeah I selected Claude through that and I think 00:32:54.983 --> 00:32:57.383 it's one of their later ones that's available. 00:32:57.743 --> 00:33:00.523 I have a hard time differentiating all the model names to be honest with you 00:33:00.523 --> 00:33:01.703 it's kind of ridiculous the branding. 00:33:01.983 --> 00:33:05.543 Yeah it's getting confusing but you're totally right Open Router is just a nice 00:33:05.543 --> 00:33:08.823 little service that sits in the middle so you pay them instead of having to 00:33:08.823 --> 00:33:14.303 pay like six different folks and then they basically proxy to all the various 00:33:14.303 --> 00:33:15.563 different LLM providers. 00:33:15.803 --> 00:33:19.243 If you spend enough on credits, you get some free stuff. You can choose Claude 00:33:19.243 --> 00:33:23.323 or GPT or Gemini or DeepSeq or open source ones. 00:33:23.883 --> 00:33:29.523 And then it implements like an open AI style API. So it's super compatible with a lot of stuff. 00:33:29.783 --> 00:33:35.503 So I was surprised how simple it was to get a basic desktop without ever writing 00:33:35.503 --> 00:33:36.843 or touching a config file. 00:33:37.223 --> 00:33:41.323 But it was really basic. It's like, you know, all the little, 00:33:41.483 --> 00:33:45.923 because Hyperland is what you make of it. It's very, very simple by default. 00:33:46.163 --> 00:33:48.523 And so, you know, you got to rice it up, as they say in that community. 00:33:48.803 --> 00:33:51.723 And there's lots of little iterative changes that you want to make, 00:33:51.803 --> 00:33:54.123 and you want to make them quickly. Because one of Hyperland's cool features 00:33:54.123 --> 00:33:56.623 is that it auto-reloads when you change the config. 00:33:56.883 --> 00:33:59.923 And that's, you know, when you're making little tweaks to your bar or this or 00:33:59.923 --> 00:34:01.403 that, super great feature. 00:34:01.823 --> 00:34:05.603 And you can move quickly if you have the right tooling. 00:34:05.903 --> 00:34:09.863 And so this is where I decided to step it up. For the first time ever, 00:34:10.123 --> 00:34:14.403 I tried out the Cursor AI Code Editor, which is a fork of VS Code. 00:34:14.763 --> 00:34:17.943 I know there's others out there like Void, although I think development is paused for the moment. 00:34:18.857 --> 00:34:22.877 Similar to Crush, you know, in VS Code, you point it at a directory. 00:34:23.677 --> 00:34:27.217 So I could point it at my Hyperland, my Waybar, my style sheets, 00:34:27.377 --> 00:34:30.197 everything that makes up a Hyperland desktop configuration. 00:34:31.157 --> 00:34:34.917 And then I could ask questions against that configuration. So I could say, 00:34:34.997 --> 00:34:37.197 for example, what key got, did I bind to Firefox? 00:34:37.417 --> 00:34:40.237 And it would, it would tell me, but I, I could also ask it, what can I do? 00:34:40.637 --> 00:34:43.097 What, what, what, what software is missing in order to accomplish this? 00:34:43.757 --> 00:34:46.397 And as I started to use it, I started to 00:34:46.397 --> 00:34:50.017 realize that you can kind of build a plan with this thing and then they'll go 00:34:50.017 --> 00:34:54.377 and it'll execute through all of them and you can even let them run on their 00:34:54.377 --> 00:34:58.397 own on the command line with your user privileges including running the build 00:34:58.397 --> 00:35:04.057 tests checking the output when the when the build fails resolving those problems 00:35:04.057 --> 00:35:06.057 and then building again until it works. 00:35:06.057 --> 00:35:09.897 It's kind of wild right like i mean don't maybe don't give it access to your 00:35:09.897 --> 00:35:13.877 production database just yet but like yeah i mean that's where i think the kind 00:35:13.877 --> 00:35:17.557 of the agent side of stuff right like you not only does the lm generate the 00:35:17.557 --> 00:35:21.357 plan but then like it will actually step through and execute all that and then 00:35:21.357 --> 00:35:23.997 collect more data to keep this the feedback cycle going. 00:35:23.997 --> 00:35:29.397 And then gives me a summary of what it did formatted a markdown which is great. 00:35:29.397 --> 00:35:33.157 Right yes of course right turns out these lms they are good at summarizing so. 00:35:33.157 --> 00:35:38.117 And and because all of this is just text files it's really pretty simple but 00:35:38.117 --> 00:35:43.177 also the way cursor works is as it's going it's showing me a diff of what it's 00:35:43.177 --> 00:35:47.737 adding and removing and I can approve each step or I can deny a step or I can stop it. 00:35:47.917 --> 00:35:51.137 Right. That kind of critical human in the loop step, you're still in control, 00:35:51.377 --> 00:35:55.197 especially because, you know, despite how much Brent and I try to lecture you, 00:35:55.357 --> 00:35:57.257 you know, you don't always put all of your stuff in Git. 00:35:57.417 --> 00:36:00.117 So it's kind of nice that you get that extra diffing that you, 00:36:00.337 --> 00:36:01.937 you know, so you don't have to go full tool. 00:36:02.197 --> 00:36:05.957 You guys were ringing in the back of my head, though. So what I did is I took 00:36:05.957 --> 00:36:11.657 all my config from like my Etsy Nix OS and I staged it in a config folder in 00:36:11.657 --> 00:36:16.297 my home directory so i had this working against that and then when i was done 00:36:16.297 --> 00:36:21.197 and i was satisfied i would just like a monkey on the back end cp all the files over and then build, 00:36:21.997 --> 00:36:26.997 so you know it was so i wasn't letting it just run wild on the bear system i 00:36:26.997 --> 00:36:29.657 did move them over and then i would kind of like check it and then deploy it 00:36:29.657 --> 00:36:32.437 and cursor because the time i was using it which was uh. 00:36:33.737 --> 00:36:36.537 August 7th 9th 8th whatever they had 00:36:36.537 --> 00:36:39.197 free gpt5 integration and it's funny because i've seen 00:36:39.197 --> 00:36:43.837 a lot of people crapping on gpt5 this weekend but i definitely noticed a step 00:36:43.837 --> 00:36:51.277 up in the thoroughness because they can research so if you have a model that 00:36:51.277 --> 00:36:55.277 can can do a lot of things and that's one of the things gpt5 can do is it can 00:36:55.277 --> 00:36:58.437 do research and the other type of stuff whatever so i could tell it, 00:36:58.637 --> 00:37:03.777 I want a super riced out Hyperland theme that has my current IP address up in 00:37:03.777 --> 00:37:05.417 the Waybar, my CPU, my GPU. 00:37:05.557 --> 00:37:08.417 I want my network stats up there. I want the current weather. 00:37:08.517 --> 00:37:09.937 I want a clock with a calendar. 00:37:10.357 --> 00:37:13.437 Also, I want you to make sure that all of this works with a dark background. 00:37:13.617 --> 00:37:17.157 And by the way, I don't have an NVIDIA GPU. I have an AMD GPU. 00:37:17.557 --> 00:37:21.457 And keep in mind, I'm also on NixOS. So we have to work within these limitations. 00:37:22.357 --> 00:37:26.217 It then kicks off a research job. It cites 16 different sources. 00:37:26.677 --> 00:37:31.057 It reviews them against my current configuration. It then proceeds to modify 00:37:31.057 --> 00:37:33.017 those configs to enable them. 00:37:33.137 --> 00:37:37.197 And then if I need to install a package, it updates my configuration.nix. 00:37:37.837 --> 00:37:43.397 It runs a build test for me, make sure that works, and then also gives me an 00:37:43.397 --> 00:37:45.277 output of any additional software I need to install. 00:37:45.337 --> 00:37:47.837 And I can either have it do it or I can do that. I just had it do it. 00:37:48.477 --> 00:37:53.117 I mean, you can really get moving here because I don't know anything about Hyperland. 00:37:53.697 --> 00:37:56.737 I don't know the names of these tools, these modules that you can put up, 00:37:56.837 --> 00:37:59.117 and there's scripts that you can write. I don't know any of this stuff. 00:37:59.217 --> 00:38:01.997 I don't know what launcher people like because there's multiple launchers. 00:38:02.237 --> 00:38:05.597 Right. That's really sticking out to me. I mean, just like, right, 00:38:05.637 --> 00:38:07.977 you were able to say, like, I want a RICED configuration. 00:38:08.057 --> 00:38:11.817 I want something that's going to look nice like the folks over on Unix Porn Share, right? 00:38:11.937 --> 00:38:14.697 Like, without having to have a super concrete list. 00:38:14.717 --> 00:38:18.017 I linked Unix Porn. I linked some GitHub's in there for it to go check. 00:38:18.617 --> 00:38:21.957 But that's, you know, it's one thing to know exactly what you want and then 00:38:21.957 --> 00:38:23.277 try to get these tools to do it. 00:38:23.377 --> 00:38:27.097 And it's kind of the next level up when you can just be like, I have a high level goal. 00:38:27.257 --> 00:38:31.037 I'll know it when I see it. But otherwise, like I need you to suss out what 00:38:31.037 --> 00:38:33.617 the even the possible steps are to try and get there. 00:38:34.393 --> 00:38:38.533 Well, here's, and tell me if you think this is true. Here's why I think I was 00:38:38.533 --> 00:38:42.193 having kind of a success after success for a while. It was going really well 00:38:42.193 --> 00:38:46.113 because everything Nix configuration is text-based. 00:38:46.373 --> 00:38:50.193 Everything for configuring Hyperland is text-based. And most of the stuff that 00:38:50.193 --> 00:38:53.033 makes like the Waybar modules work is just bash scripting. 00:38:53.373 --> 00:38:53.573 Yeah. 00:38:53.853 --> 00:38:55.853 So this is like, this is its power zone. 00:38:55.993 --> 00:38:59.653 It totally is. Yeah, you're able to turn so much of this stuff into, 00:39:00.033 --> 00:39:02.893 you know, it's captured, it's declarative, it's right there. 00:39:02.893 --> 00:39:05.793 And lots of people are pushing and sharing it on the internet. 00:39:05.813 --> 00:39:10.173 So you have a good training base and you have the native medium for these tools. 00:39:10.353 --> 00:39:12.473 So they don't have to go that far to be able to affect these changes. 00:39:13.133 --> 00:39:17.273 I mean, I'm not kidding. I'm saying like this first initial success I was having, 00:39:18.133 --> 00:39:20.433 happened in like the span of maybe two, two and a half hours. 00:39:20.593 --> 00:39:22.613 I probably started around 8.30 a.m. 00:39:22.793 --> 00:39:26.913 And by 10 a.m., I'm like, I can't believe how well this is going. 00:39:27.693 --> 00:39:31.953 And I started, I was actually, I got back to work. I had things humming by 1.30 00:39:31.953 --> 00:39:35.933 p.m. I had things humming to the point of where I was getting like that, 00:39:36.093 --> 00:39:38.253 oh, no, I think I'm falling in love with this. 00:39:38.373 --> 00:39:41.713 I think I'm going to have to change all my systems feeling. You know that how I get, right? 00:39:41.873 --> 00:39:47.213 Like, we got to change the studio out. We got to change my workstations out. Like, I got to switch. 00:39:47.433 --> 00:39:52.113 I mean, I was really quickly beginning to even develop muscle memory for my hotkeys that I set up. 00:39:53.233 --> 00:39:58.353 So it took an LLM to get you finally, after years and years of the audience, 00:39:58.553 --> 00:40:00.693 trying to get you to a toiling window manager. 00:40:01.413 --> 00:40:01.673 Yeah. 00:40:01.893 --> 00:40:02.073 Huh. 00:40:02.653 --> 00:40:09.973 That is that is true that was 1 30 by about 2 p.m. it was literally all gone, 00:41:46.311 --> 00:41:50.391 This is when it really hit me, like, I didn't know how I had built this, right? 00:41:50.571 --> 00:41:54.871 And not only that, but my documentation at best was a couple of the prompts that I had saved. 00:41:56.291 --> 00:41:59.351 Right, you had some intent, you had whatever the diffs were, 00:41:59.351 --> 00:42:02.871 and how much you could remember of your vibe high. 00:42:03.251 --> 00:42:06.731 Yeah, and this is right where it's like, suddenly, do you have the tools to keep going? 00:42:06.851 --> 00:42:10.151 Can you get yourself to a state where you're like, well, I've made myself a 00:42:10.151 --> 00:42:14.771 mess here, and it's almost there, but I don't know the right levers to push to keep going. 00:42:15.131 --> 00:42:15.451 Yeah. 00:42:15.731 --> 00:42:18.511 You had this all committed in your Git repo though, right? 00:42:18.771 --> 00:42:21.911 Okay, I admit, I should have. That would have helped the situation. 00:42:21.911 --> 00:42:25.151 I at least would have, you know, had a sense of like, okay, I could go check 00:42:25.151 --> 00:42:26.591 what happened over there and roll back. 00:42:26.711 --> 00:42:30.671 But no, and I started thinking like, am I going to, am I going to like try to 00:42:30.671 --> 00:42:31.551 figure out the differences? 00:42:31.771 --> 00:42:34.511 Am I going to swap the files? Is there some, but then I started thinking, 00:42:34.611 --> 00:42:35.531 well, maybe there's something broken. 00:42:35.911 --> 00:42:40.611 Do I try to rebuild this prompt by prompt? And then like, will I get a different 00:42:40.611 --> 00:42:42.111 result? which, by the way, I did test. 00:42:42.271 --> 00:42:46.251 And yes, I do get different results sometimes, like when I'm ricing out the 00:42:46.251 --> 00:42:48.491 way bar. It depends on what I emphasize. 00:42:49.331 --> 00:42:54.251 If I emphasize large text or certain style things, it's interesting what kind 00:42:54.251 --> 00:42:55.091 of differences I can get. 00:42:55.471 --> 00:42:59.131 So I wasn't sure what direction I was going to take. So I fired up cursor. 00:42:59.531 --> 00:43:02.471 I explained what had happened, that I'd done a NixOS rebuild, 00:43:02.491 --> 00:43:05.931 and I came back and I was essentially at a stock Hyperland desktop with like 00:43:05.931 --> 00:43:07.751 the Omnicube background. 00:43:08.151 --> 00:43:12.591 And I'm sitting there looking at my screen, I've been realizing I have been 00:43:12.591 --> 00:43:15.791 working at this since about 8 a.m. It's now two something. 00:43:17.151 --> 00:43:19.331 I need to just get up and get some air. 00:43:56.123 --> 00:44:03.163 Yeah. So one of the things that we did, the LM and I, is we converted this into a multi-host setup. 00:44:03.383 --> 00:44:09.283 And so each individual host of mine has a subfolder with its own config. 00:44:11.083 --> 00:44:13.643 I forgot. I forgot we did that. 00:44:14.303 --> 00:44:15.383 Oh my gosh. 00:44:15.383 --> 00:44:17.103 Yeah so i. 00:44:17.103 --> 00:44:18.163 Love this journey. 00:44:18.163 --> 00:44:21.403 I know so but what's great is the 00:44:21.403 --> 00:44:25.523 machine didn't and it explained to me what's going on and it's like would you 00:44:25.523 --> 00:44:29.263 like me to just take care of the deploying and staging and then building and 00:44:29.263 --> 00:44:33.463 i could just do that if you would like i'm not kidding you and i'm like yeah 00:44:33.463 --> 00:44:39.383 why don't you go ahead and and just handle this for me uh because i'm clearly going to screw. 00:44:39.443 --> 00:44:42.423 Up and from that point forward it did all 00:44:42.423 --> 00:44:45.303 of it it i let it i let it do 00:44:45.303 --> 00:44:48.323 the config changes i let it copy over. 00:44:48.323 --> 00:44:50.963 My configs once i you know did a quick review and then 00:44:50.963 --> 00:44:54.143 i let it do the the rebuild and i. 00:44:54.143 --> 00:44:58.063 Let it determine when it should just do a nix os rebuild switch or when it should 00:44:58.063 --> 00:45:01.563 do a nix os rebuild boot depending on the significance of the change and how 00:45:01.563 --> 00:45:07.523 fast it wanted to test its considerations yeah it's crazy so this was i i recorded 00:45:07.523 --> 00:45:11.703 one more clip sort of later on in the evening just sort of capturing my reflections on the moment. 00:46:22.421 --> 00:46:26.701 It was sort of blowing my mind. I even had a hard time sleeping that night because 00:46:26.701 --> 00:46:33.041 I was just running through how I just built a full desktop system. 00:46:33.261 --> 00:46:35.081 And yeah, it took me a while, but I was playing around, right? 00:46:35.241 --> 00:46:39.341 I mean, it actually worked. There was a moment where everything went sideways, 00:46:39.341 --> 00:46:41.841 but that was kind of because I was trying new stuff too. 00:46:42.901 --> 00:46:46.121 I was shocked that I got this far. Now, there is stuff that's not great. 00:46:46.941 --> 00:46:49.421 I went through this morning. I was looking at the config files. 00:46:49.541 --> 00:46:53.161 There's some areas where I was trying different things, and it's kind of sloppy 00:46:53.161 --> 00:46:56.281 about how it commented a few things out. So it's messy. 00:46:56.961 --> 00:46:57.241 Yeah. 00:46:57.341 --> 00:47:00.321 Yeah. I mean, it's not bad. I think you could clean it up pretty quickly. 00:47:00.521 --> 00:47:02.981 But I looked at it and I was like, oh, that's not how I would do it. 00:47:03.101 --> 00:47:07.181 I am kind of curious in that regard. Like, did you hit, because what I'm picking 00:47:07.181 --> 00:47:10.841 up, and I found this when I started kind of trying vibe shelling and stuff, 00:47:10.981 --> 00:47:15.901 like, I mean, the vibes are good, the vibes are bad, but it is really like the vibe. 00:47:16.361 --> 00:47:19.181 It's not just that you're riding the vibes. Like, it gives you vibes, right? you were 00:47:19.181 --> 00:47:22.661 feeling super empowered and a little down at one point i'm 00:47:22.661 --> 00:47:25.401 curious though like did you run because we're not just trying to sell 00:47:25.401 --> 00:47:28.741 cursor subscriptions of course no i don't uh you know unless they want to reach 00:47:28.741 --> 00:47:32.361 out um uh but like did you run into any points where like you just were hitting 00:47:32.361 --> 00:47:34.841 your head against the wall or it was hitting its head against the wall because 00:47:34.841 --> 00:47:38.361 sometimes you can get down loops where like the ai is confusing it and if you 00:47:38.361 --> 00:47:41.581 don't have enough context or your own like escape hatches to tell it like no 00:47:41.581 --> 00:47:44.521 you've gone down the wrong path here that isn't going to work. 00:47:44.521 --> 00:47:49.041 Ah yeah i'm glad you asked this yeah one time only one time but one time. 00:47:50.286 --> 00:47:53.186 It just got in this crazy loop of like, okay, I have to figure this out, 00:47:53.246 --> 00:47:54.626 but then I'll figure this out, but then I'll figure this out, 00:47:54.666 --> 00:47:56.206 but then I have to figure this out, and then I'll figure this out. 00:47:56.366 --> 00:47:59.306 And it was like these three things, and it went, and it went, 00:47:59.346 --> 00:48:01.486 and it went, and it went, and it went, and I just eventually had to abort, 00:48:01.546 --> 00:48:02.626 and I just kind of restarted. 00:48:02.786 --> 00:48:03.526 Yeah, that makes sense. 00:48:04.046 --> 00:48:06.986 Again, I'm not trying to sell any particular product, and I would love to know 00:48:06.986 --> 00:48:08.066 of free software alternatives. 00:48:08.586 --> 00:48:11.746 But one of the things that's handy about Cursor is you can give it particular 00:48:11.746 --> 00:48:14.726 config files as context, GitHub repo links as context. 00:48:15.246 --> 00:48:19.206 So you can get back up and running pretty quickly after something like that happens. 00:48:19.206 --> 00:48:21.926 I'm also curious because i was 00:48:21.926 --> 00:48:25.526 running into this where it's like especially with those like when that's happening uh 00:48:25.526 --> 00:48:28.266 suddenly i was like becoming more keenly aware that 00:48:28.266 --> 00:48:31.786 like right i'm every time it's doing this i'm paying 00:48:31.786 --> 00:48:36.026 for that unless i mean either in power and you know the gpus you've bought if 00:48:36.026 --> 00:48:39.746 you're doing it self-hosted style or in credits or you know whatever so i'm 00:48:39.746 --> 00:48:43.806 curious did you get any kind of rough spend because it's you know if it if it's 00:48:43.806 --> 00:48:48.326 three or five or ten dollars that's different than if it takes you know 30 to get. 00:48:48.326 --> 00:48:51.126 Yourself a desktop no no it was like eight bucks uh when 00:48:51.126 --> 00:48:54.306 i used open router is all i spent when using crush plus i 00:48:54.306 --> 00:48:57.686 did a couple on yours so i think i spent like 10 cents on your account right 00:48:57.686 --> 00:49:00.346 but uh when i switched over to cursor and this was 00:49:00.346 --> 00:49:03.866 kind of a cheat and i'm really glad you brought this up cursor was 00:49:03.866 --> 00:49:08.466 giving away gpt5 access for the weekend they might still be doing it oh yeah 00:49:08.466 --> 00:49:14.366 so i essentially just went for it i just went for it i mean hours i was like 00:49:14.366 --> 00:49:19.446 i'm not going to stop because it's basically unlimited and so yeah that was 00:49:19.446 --> 00:49:21.626 i love that you're essentially you're. 00:49:21.626 --> 00:49:26.166 You're sucking up that vc money to build uh free and open source desktops keep doing it. 00:49:26.166 --> 00:49:29.346 It does make me think how great would it be if you could accomplish this with 00:49:29.346 --> 00:49:32.026 a local llm like that imagine if you could have a local llm that could help 00:49:32.026 --> 00:49:35.906 you build these setups right because we're we're dealing with you know nix and 00:49:35.906 --> 00:49:40.566 yaml and hyperland configurations and css files and bash script that's the entirety 00:49:40.566 --> 00:49:41.806 of it it's really approachable i. 00:49:41.806 --> 00:49:44.426 Mean and they're getting better and better. I think that's the future. 00:49:44.686 --> 00:49:49.406 And I wanted to try this because Oma Archie impressed me a lot, 00:49:49.426 --> 00:49:50.806 but I'd like to have my own take on it. 00:49:52.469 --> 00:49:56.049 Here's what I ended up with that I like. You know, the cons were I think some 00:49:56.049 --> 00:49:57.489 of the configs could be cleaned up a little bit. 00:49:58.129 --> 00:50:02.769 But what I liked is, one, I could generate reports against my configs. 00:50:03.329 --> 00:50:07.449 So I had to generate me markdown tables of all my custom keybinds so I can do 00:50:07.449 --> 00:50:08.729 a little printout of that. 00:50:09.329 --> 00:50:12.509 And you can just ask it things about that, which I found to be really fascinating. 00:50:12.749 --> 00:50:18.229 And at the end result, I got a rolling flake-enabled NixOS system using the 00:50:18.229 --> 00:50:24.049 Zen kernel with all its optimizations, ButterFS-based file systems with auto-scrub enabled. 00:50:24.649 --> 00:50:28.789 Nick Store is auto-optimized, and it also does auto-garbage collection. 00:50:29.469 --> 00:50:34.349 ZRAM is set up. I have auto-BPF tune enabled, auto-tuning the system on demand. 00:50:34.829 --> 00:50:38.269 And it's a collection of what I think are some of the best-in-class Linux desktop 00:50:38.269 --> 00:50:46.189 applications, riding on a totally rad Hyperland setup that I am very, very into right now. 00:50:46.289 --> 00:50:49.729 I mean, really love this setup so much. I think this is my new setup. 00:50:50.569 --> 00:50:55.829 And in hindsight, I wouldn't start with a naked MVP system, especially if you're 00:50:55.829 --> 00:50:59.189 doing it on a declarative system and you have a high-res screen. 00:51:00.849 --> 00:51:04.949 Just, you don't need to. I was doing it as an experiment and looking back at 00:51:04.949 --> 00:51:09.129 it, I should have just started with the desktop I had on there and then just done this. 00:51:09.329 --> 00:51:13.249 Ah, you like overly stripped it back thinking like that would make a cleaner, 00:51:13.489 --> 00:51:14.589 easier experience probably. 00:51:14.729 --> 00:51:17.489 But it turned out to be a little counterproductive. I suppose especially, 00:51:17.669 --> 00:51:21.829 maybe that is true in other systems, but with Nix, I guess it's like it matters less. 00:51:21.989 --> 00:51:24.409 So if anybody out there is running Hyperland or has done this type of stuff, 00:51:24.749 --> 00:51:27.929 I'd love some advice from you. What to do, what not to do, what I should look 00:51:27.929 --> 00:51:29.349 into, because I'm a total noob. 00:51:30.369 --> 00:51:33.789 But Rofi is such a cool launcher because it's also a file browser, 00:51:33.789 --> 00:51:38.209 and it can also give you a dictionary of all your keybinds, but it's also a 00:51:38.209 --> 00:51:39.789 very fast application launcher. 00:51:40.209 --> 00:51:43.149 And because Hyperland doesn't really choose anything for you, 00:51:43.289 --> 00:51:48.289 I'm kind of picking and choosing. So I have Kate and Dolphin from Plasma, 00:51:48.289 --> 00:51:51.909 and then some of the apps I'm using are GTK apps from Gnome, 00:51:51.989 --> 00:51:55.149 but it's all running so smoothly on Hyperland. 00:51:55.389 --> 00:51:59.669 It is what I've always wanted in terms of performance from the Linux desktop. 00:51:59.669 --> 00:52:05.029 That smoothness and responsiveness with a hint of modern animation that isn't gaudy, 00:52:05.129 --> 00:52:10.649 but a level of customization where I can do things that take extensions in Gnome 00:52:10.649 --> 00:52:15.569 that are really straightforward like Waybar modules in Hyperland that aren't 00:52:15.569 --> 00:52:16.949 going to break every time I update. 00:52:16.949 --> 00:52:20.569 And so it's this it's this combination of 00:52:20.569 --> 00:52:26.129 really practical key binds and navigation with really good tiling that's working 00:52:26.129 --> 00:52:31.369 for me way better than I ever expected with this curated setup kind of going 00:52:31.369 --> 00:52:34.669 out there and asking the internet like what are some of the most popular things 00:52:34.669 --> 00:52:39.529 what are in vogue right now in hyperland and bring it into my setup for me and. 00:52:40.849 --> 00:52:46.089 I think my biggest takeaway from this is, say what you will about these LLM tools. 00:52:46.809 --> 00:52:51.609 I never wrote a single line of any config file of any of this. 00:52:51.749 --> 00:52:55.109 I never touched a CSS file. I never touched my Waybar config. 00:52:55.329 --> 00:52:56.869 I never touched my Nix config. 00:52:57.149 --> 00:53:01.129 I didn't make the changes to make each machine have their own subconfiguration. 00:53:01.509 --> 00:53:04.289 I didn't make the changes to have a declarative Hyperlin setup. 00:53:04.509 --> 00:53:07.689 At one point during it, I realized I could do that, and it did all the refactoring 00:53:07.689 --> 00:53:10.669 for me to make Hyperlin declarative on my Nix system. 00:53:10.849 --> 00:53:11.549 That's awesome. 00:53:12.009 --> 00:53:14.709 Yeah. And I didn't, I just told the machine to do it. 00:53:15.049 --> 00:53:17.569 I mean, there was literally a point where I was just like sitting there sipping, 00:53:17.709 --> 00:53:20.649 sipping on a drink and just watching the machine go and doing little checks 00:53:20.649 --> 00:53:23.989 on it and approving things and okay, go for it or asking other questions. 00:53:24.789 --> 00:53:29.369 That part was really powerful. As far as like these companies go and the resources 00:53:29.369 --> 00:53:32.129 they use, those are all things we're going to have to sort out. 00:53:32.229 --> 00:53:36.069 But I think we have to not discount their capabilities when you lower the bar 00:53:36.069 --> 00:53:39.349 of the task a little bit to something that's a little bit easier for it to handle. 00:53:39.349 --> 00:53:43.469 So if you wanted to create the next mobile app, like Wes is saying, that's a big ask. 00:53:43.549 --> 00:53:46.149 But if you wanted to generate a riced out Hyperland desktop, 00:53:46.509 --> 00:53:48.269 that's actually within its capabilities today. 00:53:48.889 --> 00:53:52.989 And because it's all just written in text, I can just go through it and learn what it did. 00:53:53.169 --> 00:53:56.329 I read my next config, I read the Hyperland config, the Waybar config, 00:53:56.389 --> 00:53:58.489 and I'm done. And I understand what it did. 00:53:58.729 --> 00:54:01.429 I think this is kind of the similar scale, like when we were at the Red Hat 00:54:01.429 --> 00:54:04.669 Summit this year, right? We saw Lightspeed really being talked about as like 00:54:04.669 --> 00:54:06.509 a command line tool you can use. 00:54:06.649 --> 00:54:10.709 I think it's that same kind of idea, right? Like maybe it's not architecting 00:54:10.709 --> 00:54:14.369 your entire OpenShift cluster, but it can definitely help you troubleshoot, 00:54:14.729 --> 00:54:16.669 work with text files, modify them. 00:54:16.789 --> 00:54:20.169 And then, you know, you layer on more declarative stuff and it just gets better. 00:54:20.469 --> 00:54:24.109 But I think you knew I was going to ask this, but you didn't know the full reason. 00:54:24.209 --> 00:54:28.309 While I was playing Nix Ambassador this week, I was actually, 00:54:28.409 --> 00:54:31.329 because you had already like, you'd been teasing Brett and I in our private 00:54:31.329 --> 00:54:34.329 chat, just sort of about what you were working on, how excited you were. 00:54:34.529 --> 00:54:38.449 So I was actually using that as a selling point to Nix. I was like, yeah, well, I'm here. 00:54:38.649 --> 00:54:43.049 My buddy back home, he's got himself a vibe-coded, super shiny desktop. 00:54:43.329 --> 00:54:46.969 And I know at the end of the week, if he just pushes that up to GitHub, 00:54:47.269 --> 00:54:50.549 I'm going to be able to just totally clone and copy it. And that's one of the 00:54:50.549 --> 00:54:52.109 reasons I was telling people they should try Nix. 00:54:52.549 --> 00:54:53.749 Oh, the pressure's on. 00:54:53.969 --> 00:54:55.189 Are you willing to share? 00:54:56.129 --> 00:55:01.929 Totally. Yeah, let's do that after the show because I would also like a set of eyes on these. 00:55:02.169 --> 00:55:05.029 I mean, who knows? Maybe there's something in here that's awful. 00:55:05.029 --> 00:55:08.469 I would like people to review it and boost in some suggestions for improvements 00:55:08.469 --> 00:55:12.589 or fixes or additions or things to make Hyperland even more enjoyable. 00:55:13.629 --> 00:55:16.069 So, yeah, I'd love to get it up there. I might put it on my GitHub, 00:55:16.129 --> 00:55:17.609 I guess, and we'll put a link in the show notes. 00:55:17.949 --> 00:55:18.269 Perfect. 00:55:18.669 --> 00:55:20.269 All right. You talked me into it, Wes Payne. 00:55:24.404 --> 00:55:29.004 Unraid.net slash Unplugged. Go unleash your hardware, check out Unraid, 00:55:29.124 --> 00:55:34.104 support the show, and celebrate Unraid OS turning 20 years old. 00:55:34.344 --> 00:55:39.724 Can you believe it? What a testament to them. 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Appreciate you. 00:58:09.755 --> 00:58:15.275 Well, Brent, we had a listener, Aaron, write in, and he says, 00:58:15.475 --> 00:58:19.515 Brent and I were trying to get a flake going where one config file has multiple 00:58:19.515 --> 00:58:23.775 host names in it so we could have one file for all the store computers. 00:58:23.935 --> 00:58:26.235 If any of you have any examples of this, we'd appreciate it. 00:58:26.275 --> 00:58:31.355 The goal is to have a different hardware config automatically detected to automatically 00:58:31.355 --> 00:58:34.895 format the disk, also have different host names for each computer they want set. 00:58:35.055 --> 00:58:38.595 We're trying to manage these machines from a distance using SSH over tail scale 00:58:38.595 --> 00:58:42.515 for updates, installing printers, and simple troubleshooting when employees have issues. 00:58:42.775 --> 00:58:46.575 So you want to essentially have a system that figures out its host name and 00:58:46.575 --> 00:58:47.915 all of that and configs itself, right? 00:58:48.135 --> 00:58:51.015 Yeah, I thought, what the heck, anything is possible with NixOS. 00:58:51.275 --> 00:58:56.795 So this is actually a little ask for my brother here, who has a few stores with 00:58:56.795 --> 00:59:01.955 a few simple computers. They're just being hosts for employees who are just trying to use a POS. 00:59:02.975 --> 00:59:08.295 And I thought maybe, well, it was over the Christmas holidays when I was feeling 00:59:08.295 --> 00:59:12.595 all jazzy, about Nix OS that all these computers can just kind of be the same 00:59:12.595 --> 00:59:14.035 and have really the same config. 00:59:14.035 --> 00:59:20.195 That's a huge benefit and just be deployed from the comfort of the couch at home. 00:59:20.475 --> 00:59:23.975 Yeah, I need to go into the stores to, you know, update these things. 00:59:24.215 --> 00:59:30.315 So I was trying to help him get a nice little Nix OS config ready for these. 00:59:30.495 --> 00:59:33.735 But I have to say, I hit the edge of my 00:59:33.735 --> 00:59:38.515 knowledge in nixos and i'm learning a ton so we use disco to try to get all 00:59:38.515 --> 00:59:43.715 the disks identical which worked amazingly we use nixos anywhere with nixos 00:59:43.715 --> 00:59:48.155 factor to get things automatically detected and deployed and so we learned a 00:59:48.155 --> 00:59:51.615 ton over that christmas break when we deployed all this stuff why. 00:59:51.615 --> 00:59:54.475 Are we just hearing about this now what is going anyway go on. 00:59:54.475 --> 01:00:01.175 I know right but we hit a bit of a brick wall in trying to make all of these 01:00:01.175 --> 01:00:05.095 configs into one that we could just deploy by calling a host name. 01:00:05.515 --> 01:00:10.615 So that's where both my brother Aaron and I are saying, hey, dear community, 01:00:11.697 --> 01:00:16.417 Where do we go now? How do we do this? How do we deploy this in a way that is, 01:00:16.417 --> 01:00:19.557 you know, future intelligent and also best practice? 01:00:19.777 --> 01:00:22.157 Yeah, I'd be curious, too, because I've got plenty of machines myself. 01:00:22.377 --> 01:00:26.197 I'm just wondering if there's a, do you have any code anywhere folks could look at? 01:00:26.297 --> 01:00:29.317 Because sometimes that can be helpful to get an idea of exactly like the state 01:00:29.317 --> 01:00:31.637 you're at now and then like where you're trying to go. 01:00:31.637 --> 01:00:34.517 Boy, this guy, this guy with the put it up on GitHub. 01:00:34.897 --> 01:00:38.977 Please put all of your things on. That's actually a great idea, 01:00:39.177 --> 01:00:44.177 Wes. I have been scared up to this point to deploy any of my configs to GitHub 01:00:44.177 --> 01:00:46.637 because I don't trust myself to keep myself private. 01:00:46.797 --> 01:00:50.137 But maybe you can have a look at it and we can deploy something up there just 01:00:50.137 --> 01:00:55.277 so that folks can have a look, see what kind of mess we've created and try to help us clean it up. 01:00:55.677 --> 01:00:57.957 Yeah, exactly. You know, we could do some filtering or whatever. 01:00:58.037 --> 01:01:00.297 You don't have to share all the private details, but just to give it a rough 01:01:00.297 --> 01:01:01.557 idea of like where you're at 01:01:01.557 --> 01:01:05.197 so that we don't waste time suggesting stuff that might not be relevant. 01:01:05.397 --> 01:01:09.557 Though I am curious, maybe you'll have to try after the show uh i wonder how 01:01:09.557 --> 01:01:12.997 our friends the uh so-called thinking machines might do with this one. 01:01:12.997 --> 01:01:19.377 That is a great question i had not considered trying that but it's worth a try, 01:01:20.597 --> 01:01:24.777 so if anybody has any suggestions we'll have a link to that and uh please help 01:01:24.777 --> 01:01:27.317 us we're deep deep in it now. 01:01:27.317 --> 01:01:33.477 Well it looks like we got another email this week this is cool because apparently 01:01:33.477 --> 01:01:38.157 there's someone taking our podcast around the world as they adventure. 01:01:38.157 --> 01:01:41.037 There's a little note here hey there just wanted to say thanks 01:01:41.037 --> 01:01:44.097 for making such an awesome linux podcast i'm 01:01:44.097 --> 01:01:47.017 currently cycling around the world right now in china headed 01:01:47.017 --> 01:01:52.197 towards mongolia and your show makes the long hours on the road so much more 01:01:52.197 --> 01:01:57.437 enjoyable you probably already know this but your podcast is truly global i've 01:01:57.437 --> 01:02:01.617 been listening to it across many countries in central asia already keep up the 01:02:01.617 --> 01:02:06.237 great work and thanks again cheers from javier that. 01:02:06.237 --> 01:02:07.737 Is so cool thank. 01:02:07.737 --> 01:02:10.757 You so much for writing in um amazing. 01:02:11.557 --> 01:02:16.077 Yeah keep us posted and keep spreading the word too that's great thank you everybody 01:02:16.077 --> 01:02:18.157 who wrote in linuxunplugged.com contact, 01:02:23.158 --> 01:02:27.278 And, of course, you can send a message into the show and support this here show. 01:02:27.558 --> 01:02:29.938 And we don't have a baller this week. 01:02:30.238 --> 01:02:34.718 You know it's going to be a rough week when our top boost is WH-2250, 01:02:34.958 --> 01:02:38.678 easy for me to say, with 5,000 sats. 01:02:40.378 --> 01:02:43.418 He says, Chris, now that you have Music Assistant connected to Home Assistant, 01:02:43.558 --> 01:02:48.018 the next step is to trigger albums, playlists, and books with NFC tags. 01:02:48.258 --> 01:02:50.138 Oh, I'm going to pause right here, WH. 01:02:50.918 --> 01:02:53.758 After the episode, I was thinking the same thing. I've got a bag of them. 01:02:53.918 --> 01:02:55.958 And I do that now for certain lights. 01:02:56.478 --> 01:03:02.698 So at night I can just like swipe an NFC tag. But this is a great idea for albums specifically. 01:03:02.958 --> 01:03:05.798 And I think it's actually pretty spouse approval factor high. 01:03:06.038 --> 01:03:09.618 I wouldn't say extreme, wouldn't say best, but it's high to medium. 01:03:10.018 --> 01:03:13.958 He goes on to say, I printed a one-fourth scale milk crate to hold my LPs and 01:03:13.958 --> 01:03:17.758 scan what I want to listen to. Oh, that's so cool. 01:03:18.158 --> 01:03:18.598 Brilliant. 01:03:19.038 --> 01:03:22.458 You could create a miniature bookshelf of your audio books and set up a physical 01:03:22.458 --> 01:03:24.758 digital library. Oh, my gosh. 01:03:25.538 --> 01:03:29.858 If I had the space. That's a really neat idea. I have been very successfully 01:03:29.858 --> 01:03:31.998 enjoying Music Assistant. 01:03:32.398 --> 01:03:35.258 Last night, thankfully, there were no kids in the rig. 01:03:35.398 --> 01:03:38.918 I hit the book button, and for the first time, and I had been playing music 01:03:38.918 --> 01:03:41.278 a couple hours earlier on all the speakers, for the first time, 01:03:41.518 --> 01:03:44.498 even though my automation system played specifically on one speaker, 01:03:44.718 --> 01:03:46.858 it played on all the speakers in the house. 01:03:47.178 --> 01:03:47.618 Ooh. 01:03:47.618 --> 01:03:50.718 Which if you know the kids are trying to sleep at that particular time would 01:03:50.718 --> 01:03:55.698 have been that would have been an automation faux pas it was no big deal for 01:03:55.698 --> 01:03:58.798 us because we were the only ones in there but oh man i was embarrassed for a 01:03:58.798 --> 01:04:00.618 second so i gotta track that down. 01:04:00.618 --> 01:04:13.498 Mjvc boosts in with 4021 sats and um yeah uh across uh four boosts here regard 01:04:13.498 --> 01:04:17.158 first one regarding manuals and generally tracking of assets, 01:04:17.418 --> 01:04:20.118 I highly recommend Homebox. 01:04:20.398 --> 01:04:24.098 I use it to track where things are, where they should be. You can also associate 01:04:24.098 --> 01:04:28.898 manuals, price, warranty, info, maintenance, all that stuff. Wow. 01:04:29.538 --> 01:04:32.398 Yeah, it looks good. All right. Taking a look at that. Thank you. 01:04:32.898 --> 01:04:40.358 Re-Homebox continuing here. Also, a system I've developed is to use a random base 36 ID, e.g. 01:04:41.218 --> 01:04:44.958 X2GS as an example here, to refer to boxes, bins, etc. 01:04:45.538 --> 01:04:48.438 This frees me from trying to pre-sort things e.g. 01:04:48.498 --> 01:04:52.878 All cables should go into this box when i want to find the cable or random accessory 01:04:52.878 --> 01:04:57.798 i just look up which bin it's in so you can stop caring about having perfectly 01:04:57.798 --> 01:05:02.398 sorted labels for stuff and just let the computer do it wow that is clever that. 01:05:02.398 --> 01:05:06.878 Is and also smart because i use my label maker so infrequently that between 01:05:06.878 --> 01:05:12.098 times like the batteries are almost dead so it's always like just on the edge yes i go to. 01:05:12.098 --> 01:05:12.878 Use it this. 01:05:12.878 --> 01:05:13.498 To be a lot better. 01:05:14.358 --> 01:05:21.798 They've also sent in for our binary boost, and they did send a binary sub boost here, a 1-0-1-0-sats, 01:05:23.520 --> 01:05:27.660 I wanted to browse using parts of the binary solo from Flight of the Concords. 01:05:27.840 --> 01:05:30.480 So we've got a link there. Maybe we can go check that out after the show. 01:05:30.620 --> 01:05:35.440 Thank you. We always love links and ideas for that. And Flight of the Concords are just great. 01:05:36.440 --> 01:05:40.520 And then one last boost here. Finally, regarding note-taking. 01:05:40.780 --> 01:05:48.540 A few months back, I switched to ForresterNotes.org. It generates static websites that is, to me, 01:05:48.860 --> 01:05:52.980 kind of like Obsidian if it were to embrace hypermedia and designed by formal 01:05:52.980 --> 01:05:55.800 methods and programming language people. 01:05:56.380 --> 01:05:59.620 And then, yeah, we've got a link here we'll include in the show notes. Fascinating. 01:06:00.040 --> 01:06:04.620 That is interesting because often I would like to just share a really basic 01:06:04.620 --> 01:06:08.740 website with the wife or a note if she just needs to review something for working 01:06:08.740 --> 01:06:09.600 on something with the RV. 01:06:09.940 --> 01:06:12.740 That's an interesting idea. Thank you. So that's fosternotes.org. 01:06:12.840 --> 01:06:14.520 We'll put a link to that in the show notes. 01:06:15.320 --> 01:06:18.840 Well, we have a boost here from Wine Eagle, 6,000 sets. 01:06:22.000 --> 01:06:26.400 It's across a couple of boosts first starting i understand that zfs being out 01:06:26.400 --> 01:06:31.100 of the kernel is more risky to my boot process but not to my data integrity 01:06:31.100 --> 01:06:34.400 and that's why zfs replication exists, 01:06:35.120 --> 01:06:39.940 that guarantees zfs provides our light years ahead of butterfs butterfest send 01:06:39.940 --> 01:06:46.960 is a week compared to the sanoid stack unlike my arch dkms days nixos also provides 01:06:46.960 --> 01:06:51.580 some nice guarantees I like Butterfess running on a fresh kernel and getting 01:06:51.580 --> 01:06:54.860 bit was probably not a great idea. 01:06:55.100 --> 01:07:00.080 Combus got me to triple boot my MacBook back in 2007 in seventh grade, 01:07:00.260 --> 01:07:02.500 but ZFS got me into self-hosting. 01:07:03.100 --> 01:07:08.380 It's home for me now, and I suggest Nix OS users make three separate datasets, 01:07:08.840 --> 01:07:13.100 one for slash Nix, slash home, and of course, the root. 01:07:13.260 --> 01:07:18.220 So backups avoid the Nix store. also shout out to breeze for not even needing 01:07:18.220 --> 01:07:23.000 an email super duper no kyc and go podcasting. 01:07:23.740 --> 01:07:25.960 Oh i don't have the podfather clip but uh, 01:07:29.752 --> 01:07:32.552 I think that recommendation of three separate datasets for Nix, 01:07:32.672 --> 01:07:34.352 Home, and Root is clever. 01:07:35.012 --> 01:07:38.772 So all my home systems are ButterFS for the data and the root. 01:07:39.172 --> 01:07:45.212 But here at the studio, we're running Arch with the LTS kernel and ButterFS 01:07:45.212 --> 01:07:47.692 on the root and then ZFS for the dataset. 01:07:48.092 --> 01:07:51.632 And that's a really great combination too. And then you don't really have to 01:07:51.632 --> 01:07:55.712 worry about, you know, some sort of regression hitting the most recent kernels 01:07:55.712 --> 01:07:57.052 because you're on an LTS kernel. 01:07:57.612 --> 01:08:01.952 So you can have both. It can be peanut butter and jelly, and that's just delicious. 01:08:02.472 --> 01:08:06.592 Yeah, also, big shout-out to Breeze, B-R-E-E-Z, a great way to boost the show 01:08:06.592 --> 01:08:09.032 without having to switch podcast apps and no KYC. 01:08:10.032 --> 01:08:13.432 I'd also just point out that for folks, Wine Eagle here mentioned Sanoid, 01:08:13.552 --> 01:08:16.112 but on the Butterf side, there's also projects like Butterback, 01:08:16.152 --> 01:08:17.692 which add some of the same functionality. 01:08:17.812 --> 01:08:20.812 I'm not going to say they're equivalent or anything, but there are some options 01:08:20.812 --> 01:08:24.672 there, some improvements around the sound receive stuff, and just more automation 01:08:24.672 --> 01:08:27.372 on top of the tooling that exists for Butterfess natively. 01:08:27.912 --> 01:08:32.952 Mentad's back with a row of decks. I think I was also hit by that Butterfest bug. 01:08:33.092 --> 01:08:38.312 I had hard powered off my Steam Deck running Bazite, then it wouldn't boot or even mount afterwards. 01:08:38.652 --> 01:08:41.152 Fortunately, standard Butterfest file system fixes brought it back. 01:08:41.372 --> 01:08:45.052 I don't think this will change my use of Butterfest, but it was definitely a shock. 01:08:45.652 --> 01:08:50.192 That's a great in-the-field report. Thank you so much for sending that in. 01:08:50.592 --> 01:08:51.772 Sorry you had to go through that. 01:08:53.152 --> 01:08:57.692 If you feel like sharing, I would be curious to know how you rescued a Steam 01:08:57.692 --> 01:09:00.492 Deck. Did you plug it into like an external monitoring keyboard? 01:09:00.932 --> 01:09:05.612 Did you boot it somehow? Did you have like a dock to share that USB-C port? 01:09:06.272 --> 01:09:09.592 That just seems like that's sort of a worst case scenario. Like I was picturing 01:09:09.592 --> 01:09:14.472 my desktop or laptop where it's pretty easy to pop in a thumb drive and, 01:09:14.532 --> 01:09:15.632 you know, I have a keyboard hooked up. 01:09:15.792 --> 01:09:19.192 So Steam Deck is a little more challenging. Good job. Well done on getting that 01:09:19.192 --> 01:09:20.292 fixed. Thank you for the boost. 01:09:20.492 --> 01:09:24.492 Yeah, how much of the Steam Deck, you know, controls interface work when you're 01:09:24.492 --> 01:09:30.292 in an emergency rescue in it ramfs i don't know fuzzy mistborn comes in with a row of ducks, 01:09:31.839 --> 01:09:37.179 Regarding those Ikea speakers, unfortunately, Ikea and Sonos have now ended 01:09:37.179 --> 01:09:39.879 their partnership and the speakers are discontinued. 01:09:40.139 --> 01:09:43.019 Given Sonos' good history of device support, I'm sure the speakers will continue 01:09:43.019 --> 01:09:47.619 to work for a while, but you'll probably need to buy used ones going forward, just an FYI. 01:09:47.919 --> 01:09:52.659 Also, for podcasts and music assistant, check out G Potter Sync. 01:09:52.759 --> 01:09:54.199 It can even run in Nextcloud. 01:09:54.619 --> 01:09:57.959 Yeah, how about that stack? So you get Nextcloud going, then you get G Potter 01:09:57.959 --> 01:10:00.219 server going, and you connect that to music assistant. 01:10:01.919 --> 01:10:06.159 So regarding those Ikea speakers, which we linked last week, you can still get them. 01:10:06.439 --> 01:10:11.579 So yes, Ikea low-key announced in May that they are discontinuing that partnership. 01:10:12.059 --> 01:10:16.139 And it's sort of a bummer because these speakers are essentially, 01:10:16.399 --> 01:10:17.959 the Sonos equivalent is $300. 01:10:18.419 --> 01:10:22.559 And these speakers are under $200, but they have the Sonos guts in them. 01:10:22.659 --> 01:10:26.539 And the nice thing about that is, is it's all local APIs. So Home Assistant 01:10:26.539 --> 01:10:31.959 should still be able to continue to control it unless there's some massive iteration that I don't foresee. 01:10:32.279 --> 01:10:36.499 But because those speakers don't require the cloud service, they don't even 01:10:36.499 --> 01:10:39.219 require the app, probably beyond initial setup. I'm not sure. 01:10:39.859 --> 01:10:42.999 So I had my wife buy two of them. So she bought two for her clinic. 01:10:43.499 --> 01:10:48.039 And she's liked it so much at home that she's asked for a music assistant setup for her clinic. 01:10:48.219 --> 01:10:53.419 And we're going to put a couple of these speakers in. And this is how long she's had a clinic. 01:10:54.359 --> 01:10:59.199 She's going to finally retire her CD player It's like one of those little portable CD player boomboxes, 01:11:00.442 --> 01:11:04.422 And that's how she's done like the lobby kind of like, you know, 01:11:04.522 --> 01:11:07.162 the music for a decade plus. 01:11:07.442 --> 01:11:09.342 And so we're transitioning her to a music assistant. 01:11:10.182 --> 01:11:13.042 I'm going to give her a couple of buttons to press to, you know, 01:11:13.102 --> 01:11:14.462 play different types of music. 01:11:14.882 --> 01:11:19.862 And then I'm also going to experiment with a Zigbee based. I couldn't find a 01:11:19.862 --> 01:11:22.002 Z-Wave version. A Zigbee based volume knob. 01:11:22.402 --> 01:11:25.982 So a physical knob that she can turn to increase and decrease the volume. 01:11:26.202 --> 01:11:27.182 That seems killer. 01:11:27.662 --> 01:11:32.782 Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. My advice, Fuzzy, is if you can find those IKEA speakers, 01:11:32.882 --> 01:11:36.742 which we have linked in episode 626, get them while you can. 01:11:36.962 --> 01:11:40.502 You can find them used on eBay, but they're not much cheaper. 01:11:40.842 --> 01:11:43.242 And who knows what people played through them in the past? 01:11:46.302 --> 01:11:52.122 Well, Gene Bean boosted in a row of ducks. He's replying to a question we asked 01:11:52.122 --> 01:11:57.242 in Linux Unplugged 624, the one we talked about tiny PCs. He says, 01:11:57.322 --> 01:12:01.062 hey, I don't use the Etsy's directory for my Nix configs at all. 01:12:01.242 --> 01:12:05.682 I have my Flate cloned under my home directory and include a shell alias for 01:12:05.682 --> 01:12:09.182 updating in my config that references where I checked it out. 01:12:09.802 --> 01:12:14.342 Here's the alias I use on NixOS and a little variant for macOS. 01:12:14.342 --> 01:12:17.782 Any links to a GitHub blob that you can have a look at? 01:12:17.942 --> 01:12:21.682 I would like Gene's eyes on mine because I'm doing that now, 01:12:21.682 --> 01:12:27.422 too, as of, you know, this weekend. but maybe i'm not doing it right so if you 01:12:27.422 --> 01:12:29.922 have a chance gene to look at and let me know i'd appreciate it. 01:12:29.922 --> 01:12:34.382 Yeah and gene's using here um you can specify a dash dash flake argument when 01:12:34.382 --> 01:12:38.802 you do your rebuild and then you can just tell it you know whatever directory you store your flake in. 01:12:38.802 --> 01:12:43.902 Thank you gene nice to hear from you brewer seth is here with 4 242 syats, 01:12:45.962 --> 01:12:50.342 ice is longtime linux and homelab tinker but a new listener hey welcome aboard 01:12:50.342 --> 01:12:54.202 and thank you for boosting you got me into bitcoin and lightning through your 01:12:54.202 --> 01:12:59.742 value for value agus advocacy never had a reason to explore crypto bitcoin before 01:12:59.742 --> 01:13:04.182 this week's project is a self-hosted albihub deployment yes yes, 01:13:07.619 --> 01:13:11.359 Uh, next zap will come from my own lightning node. Thanks for inspiring a new 01:13:11.359 --> 01:13:13.939 project. Isn't it fun? It is a lot of fun. 01:13:14.379 --> 01:13:17.579 That is a great boost to end on. That really cheers me up. Thank you, 01:13:18.199 --> 01:13:19.779 Brewer Seth, for updating us on that. 01:13:19.919 --> 01:13:22.559 It's, it's such an interesting world to explore. 01:13:23.079 --> 01:13:27.479 Um, you know, we, uh, just crossed the three and a half years of boosts on the 01:13:27.479 --> 01:13:28.519 show, if you can believe it. 01:13:30.059 --> 01:13:34.659 And Bitcoin is up 187% since we started doing boosts on the show. 01:13:35.439 --> 01:13:39.679 The BlackRock and some of the other ETFs are now the most successful ETFs that 01:13:39.679 --> 01:13:41.379 are based on Bitcoin in the history. 01:13:42.179 --> 01:13:46.239 And that's open source software. In the three and a half years, 01:13:46.559 --> 01:13:49.779 the shift is unbelievable. 01:13:50.139 --> 01:13:54.759 As of last week, it's now included in 401k plans, if you want. 01:13:55.079 --> 01:13:59.419 The level has really shifted and the Lightning Network has grown significantly. 01:14:00.339 --> 01:14:05.859 Uh so if if you've been you know kind of on the fence i don't think it's going away also. 01:14:05.859 --> 01:14:09.779 Albi hub just keeps getting better and better and better and easier to set up 01:14:09.779 --> 01:14:12.399 and work with too so it's easier to onboard now too i think. 01:14:12.399 --> 01:14:15.499 You know it was really it was it was out there on a ledge three 01:14:15.499 --> 01:14:18.179 and a half years ago uh but it's really it's really gone 01:14:18.179 --> 01:14:20.999 very mainstream speaking of albi hub this week in 01:14:20.999 --> 01:14:24.019 bitcoin we'll have an interview with the co-founder of 01:14:24.019 --> 01:14:26.719 albi coming out on monday and it is 01:14:26.719 --> 01:14:29.699 fascinating what's going on over there there's a lot to talk 01:14:29.699 --> 01:14:32.999 about so go check out thisweekinbitcoin.show on 01:14:32.999 --> 01:14:37.299 monday for a new episode thank you everybody who did boost we didn't have a 01:14:37.299 --> 01:14:43.259 huge episode a huge amount of support for this episode we had 19 of you stream 01:14:43.259 --> 01:14:49.739 and we stacked 21,199 sats and when we bring that together with our boosters who we do appreciate, 01:14:50.739 --> 01:14:56.359 We stacked 50,448 sets Of course that is split between the three of us Editor 01:14:56.359 --> 01:14:58.579 Drew and your podcast app of choice, 01:15:04.928 --> 01:15:13.348 I think maybe, maybe our worst week ever in three and a half years. 01:15:14.008 --> 01:15:17.248 Yeah, the total stack wasn't great. The quality was high. We learned a lot. 01:15:17.328 --> 01:15:19.428 We got some great tips, some things to follow up on. 01:15:19.768 --> 01:15:22.948 And we did get some new members on board. So maybe some folks who transitioned 01:15:22.948 --> 01:15:25.648 to membership, which we always really appreciate too. 01:15:26.008 --> 01:15:28.568 But the systems are just getting better and better over time. 01:15:28.768 --> 01:15:31.888 Fountain FM is getting easier to use. They self-host it for you. 01:15:32.048 --> 01:15:36.048 The Fiat on-ramping is getting easier. apps like striker and more countries 01:15:36.048 --> 01:15:40.908 and you know so bitcoin like i mentioned earlier is up somewhere between 182 01:15:40.908 --> 01:15:46.048 187 percent since we started three and a half years ago the most generous, 01:15:47.048 --> 01:15:49.948 generous version is the u.s dollar is down 10 01:15:49.948 --> 01:15:52.588 percent in that time but it's likely down a lot more and we 01:15:52.588 --> 01:15:56.128 could not have afforded a 10 percent loss that would have things 01:15:56.128 --> 01:15:59.388 things are so expensive for us these days that would have been right 01:15:59.388 --> 01:16:04.368 on the razor thin margin so the boosters they're still continuing to support 01:16:04.368 --> 01:16:07.748 us so even if even if you're not boosting every episode your boost do continue 01:16:07.748 --> 01:16:10.948 to work for us and if you would like to get into this fountain fm is an easy 01:16:10.948 --> 01:16:14.428 and straightforward way to do it and it continues to go to work for us and we 01:16:14.428 --> 01:16:17.428 really appreciate it i also appreciate those members i. 01:16:17.428 --> 01:16:21.688 Do want to add uh just shout out to hybrid sarcasm and everyone helping out 01:16:21.688 --> 01:16:24.588 in our matrix i mean even just this morning folks were asking about like how 01:16:24.588 --> 01:16:27.528 do i get started with boosting and so if you are. 01:16:27.528 --> 01:16:28.308 Curious about that kind. 01:16:28.308 --> 01:16:31.748 Of thing definitely go hop in the matrix we can link there's an unofficial boost 01:16:31.748 --> 01:16:35.708 support room or just chat in any of the rooms and we'll try to help you out 01:16:35.708 --> 01:16:37.028 and or other folks will help you out. 01:16:40.310 --> 01:16:42.990 But sincerely, too, thank you to everybody who is supporting us through our 01:16:42.990 --> 01:16:46.930 membership. We hope you enjoy the perks and that Autopilot support. That's our foundation. 01:16:49.410 --> 01:16:54.110 Now, we got a couple of picks for you this week. The first one is called FF Share. 01:16:54.390 --> 01:16:58.970 It's an Android app that, as you can probably guess, is using FFmpeg on the 01:16:58.970 --> 01:17:02.910 back end to compress your images, your videos, or your audio files before you 01:17:02.910 --> 01:17:05.270 share them, which is kind of nice. 01:17:05.410 --> 01:17:09.170 But you can also, I thought this was cool, for compatibility reasons, 01:17:09.330 --> 01:17:13.170 just tell it every single video format i throw at you just make it a simple 01:17:13.170 --> 01:17:15.150 mp4 that any stupid player can play. 01:17:15.150 --> 01:17:18.710 Yes right exactly it doesn't have to matter about optimizations you don't have 01:17:18.710 --> 01:17:22.050 to matter how much they know about web m just like just translate it please. 01:17:22.050 --> 01:17:23.870 We have that problem in our group chats. 01:17:23.870 --> 01:17:25.290 Yeah absolutely i mean like. 01:17:25.290 --> 01:17:27.450 Pj drops a web m and nobody can play it. 01:17:27.450 --> 01:17:32.190 I've been the guy who then downloads it on my laptop re-encodes mp4 re-uploads 01:17:32.190 --> 01:17:35.730 it just because it's like ah it's bothering me but i'm just doing it on my phone 01:17:35.730 --> 01:17:40.330 i mean come on yeah right i was just gonna say uh right there at the top of 01:17:40.330 --> 01:17:44.710 their readme get it on fdroid get it on obtainium who needs the play store that's. 01:17:44.710 --> 01:17:45.630 Right i'd love to see that. 01:17:45.630 --> 01:17:48.930 I will say the fdroid version is quite hefty out 01:17:48.930 --> 01:17:51.850 of 54 megs and my very first question was what is 01:17:51.850 --> 01:17:56.470 going on here but thankfully they've written a little explainer says the apk 01:17:56.470 --> 01:18:01.030 downloaded from fdroid is the app full versions with all the features and abi 01:18:01.030 --> 01:18:06.770 compatibility included you can find a choice of smaller apks at the github link 01:18:06.770 --> 01:18:08.970 which you can download using something like Obtainium. 01:18:09.450 --> 01:18:13.910 Ah. Yeah, I would bet, though, they must be bundling FFmpeg, which is no slouch. 01:18:14.210 --> 01:18:14.610 Yeah. 01:18:14.890 --> 01:18:19.590 So they also have a little, just a little checkbox, remove all of your XF metadata 01:18:19.590 --> 01:18:23.210 with, like, you know, your camera and location. You can include that or not. 01:18:23.550 --> 01:18:27.590 I wish every OS had that in the share sheet by default, but this adds that. 01:18:27.770 --> 01:18:31.110 And then for the geekiness factor, you can actually see the CLI output of the 01:18:31.110 --> 01:18:33.590 FFmpeg command it's using right there in the Android app. 01:18:34.410 --> 01:18:37.070 And then when the job's finished, it just brings up a share sheet. 01:18:39.115 --> 01:18:43.615 It's pretty cool. Nice find. FF share link in the show notes for that. 01:18:43.795 --> 01:18:48.935 And then we have, I don't know, maybe the second ever listener submitted pick on the show. 01:18:49.315 --> 01:18:53.215 Alex Gates writes in, the podcasting 2.0 consultant. Hey, fellas, 01:18:53.355 --> 01:18:54.655 I got a pick for you this week. 01:18:55.055 --> 01:19:00.275 I've been a big fan of envelope style online budgeting made popular by YNAB, 01:19:00.435 --> 01:19:02.055 which stands for You Need a Budget. 01:19:03.095 --> 01:19:07.315 I recently decided to migrate to an open source, self-hosted alternative, 01:19:07.315 --> 01:19:08.815 and I've been really happy. 01:19:09.115 --> 01:19:14.215 It's called Actual Budget. It can be used with or without a server if you just 01:19:14.215 --> 01:19:17.575 want to play around or if you don't need syncing across devices. 01:19:17.815 --> 01:19:19.995 And of course, it has a desktop and web apps. 01:19:20.575 --> 01:19:24.635 Recently, they added integration with a service for bank syncing called Simplefin. 01:19:24.915 --> 01:19:29.075 I think it's worth checking out. And budgeting like this has really changed my life. 01:19:29.135 --> 01:19:33.175 And he links us to the Actual Budget documentation, the Simplefin website, 01:19:33.375 --> 01:19:35.495 and their bridge where you can connect your bank. 01:19:35.615 --> 01:19:40.095 He says, with regards, your podcasting to know consultant alex gates oh. 01:19:40.095 --> 01:19:45.415 This looks like some good stuff i've not heard of simple fin before but uh stands 01:19:45.415 --> 01:19:49.075 for simple financial interchange and makes read-only financial interchange simple 01:19:49.075 --> 01:19:55.255 it's like rss for financial information so hey you can see why yes our pod sage was interested huh. 01:19:55.255 --> 01:20:00.495 I would very much very much like to get something like this running and i would 01:20:00.495 --> 01:20:04.315 for me need to be self-hosted it would need to be something i run on my own 01:20:04.315 --> 01:20:07.335 infrastructure so i i'm going to take a look at this after the show thank you alex. 01:20:07.335 --> 01:20:11.995 I've heard repeatedly good reviews of actual budget this is maybe the fifth 01:20:11.995 --> 01:20:14.955 time i hear this so i think i'm going to dive in as well. 01:20:14.955 --> 01:20:17.875 I always just thought people are saying you need to actually budget man 01:20:17.875 --> 01:20:23.715 you need to actually budget i didn't realize it was a thing um so also i'm going 01:20:23.715 --> 01:20:26.495 to put myself out there boosting tell me how much you hate me now for playing 01:20:26.495 --> 01:20:30.035 around with ai and how i boiled the oceans i'd be willing to hear those arguments 01:20:30.035 --> 01:20:34.375 or if you've had any success like this i'd also like to hear those you know 01:20:34.375 --> 01:20:37.655 boys i think the real like ultimate place for this to go is, 01:20:38.467 --> 01:20:41.747 Is something you would run on your own LAN, 01:20:42.047 --> 01:20:46.227 hopefully that doesn't consume a lot of resources that could help you with this 01:20:46.227 --> 01:20:50.167 kind of stuff that maybe maybe isn't a model that tells me how to deal with 01:20:50.167 --> 01:20:54.627 a foot rash or can tell and can tell me what temperature I need to boil eggs at. 01:20:54.827 --> 01:20:58.447 But maybe it's a model that can tell me how a hyperland config works. 01:20:58.587 --> 01:21:01.447 So it doesn't need to be huge. And it's something maybe I even run on my own 01:21:01.447 --> 01:21:06.607 machine or I run on a local network server or on a Nebula network. 01:21:06.987 --> 01:21:10.387 And I just point these editors at that, right? That to me is where this needs 01:21:10.387 --> 01:21:13.547 to go next for probably folks like us to use this kind of stuff long-term. 01:21:13.987 --> 01:21:16.627 Like, I don't think this is going to be a habit for me. I think this is sort 01:21:16.627 --> 01:21:19.987 of a once and done sort of thing to see if it was possible. 01:21:20.747 --> 01:21:24.067 Yeah, explore the edge of technology, see what you can do with it. 01:21:24.187 --> 01:21:27.147 But you're right, like, you could, you know, you could have all kinds of different variants. 01:21:27.287 --> 01:21:31.627 You could have them, you know, trained per operating system or the tools that you want. 01:21:31.727 --> 01:21:34.487 You could probably also, like, you know, down the future, you could customize 01:21:34.487 --> 01:21:37.447 it. You could retrain it. You could fine-tune it for the stuff that you've actually 01:21:37.447 --> 01:21:39.647 been doing over time. There's so many possibilities. 01:21:40.447 --> 01:21:46.527 And hearing about your adventure, Chris, I caught little glimpses of what customizing 01:21:46.527 --> 01:21:50.887 a desktop might be like in the next, you know, let's call it five years. 01:21:51.307 --> 01:21:54.567 Felt like there were some strengths here that we can't ignore, 01:21:54.567 --> 01:21:58.387 and I want to rice my stuff. 01:21:59.087 --> 01:22:05.067 Yeah, I mean, it was pretty wild. I kind of hope somebody over in the sort of 01:22:05.067 --> 01:22:10.387 bluefin Aurora type distributions or silver blue, somebody does a really, 01:22:10.687 --> 01:22:12.507 really nice opinionated Hyperland, 01:22:13.067 --> 01:22:18.387 like an Oma Archie, or somebody releases a Nix OS based one that is really, 01:22:18.407 --> 01:22:21.267 really opinionated. Maybe people know of some out there also boost that in. 01:22:21.427 --> 01:22:24.647 Did I just hear Brent say he hates rising PCs? 01:22:26.447 --> 01:22:28.487 I hate rising PCs. 01:22:30.247 --> 01:22:32.387 Somebody give me a clip of that I want that, 01:22:33.235 --> 01:22:37.515 All right. So that's it. That's just, you know, as we're kind of wrapping up, 01:22:37.595 --> 01:22:41.695 that's on the back of my mind is this felt more like like an incredible technology 01:22:41.695 --> 01:22:43.375 demonstration, but probably not 01:22:43.375 --> 01:22:47.635 something I'm going to use every day until it's maybe under my control. 01:22:47.635 --> 01:22:50.675 And if it can be limited to my systems or just the things I need to use, 01:22:50.935 --> 01:22:53.455 maybe it's approachable. But let me know what you think out there. 01:22:53.675 --> 01:22:57.995 And of course, we would love it if you joined us live. It just gives it a certain vibe. 01:22:58.155 --> 01:23:01.835 We have that mumble room with those low latency open streams right off the mixer. 01:23:01.835 --> 01:23:04.595 We do it right here every single Sunday. 01:23:08.435 --> 01:23:12.375 Yeah, make it a Tuesday on a Sunday. We start at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. 01:23:12.635 --> 01:23:16.735 You can get it clack-related in your local time at jupiterbroadcasting.com slash calendar. 01:23:17.035 --> 01:23:21.155 And if you've got an app that supports it, Wes, what do we have in store for them? 01:23:21.795 --> 01:23:26.695 Oh, buddy. Not only do we have chapters, which let you skip right to the content 01:23:26.695 --> 01:23:31.275 that you want, But if you want to dive even deeper, we've got transcripts so 01:23:31.275 --> 01:23:35.695 you can read along, throw it into an LLM, whatever you like. 01:23:35.875 --> 01:23:39.155 So check the feed or a podcasting 2.0 app for that. 01:23:39.915 --> 01:23:44.715 Yep. Have fun. Thanks so much for joining us on this week's episode of Your Unplugged Program. 01:23:44.895 --> 01:23:48.255 And we'll see you right back here next Tuesday, as in Sunday!
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