Hey Chris! Great show! Regarding the age vs gold standard stuff, I more or less agree with you, I just see it a little differently. Instead of time since 1971, I think of it as “time spent on a fiat system”: They blow up 100% of the time, so the longer one goes, the more messed up and prone to failure it is. Going off the gold standard allowed for more creative ways to keep the charade going. Also, consider the incentives of fiat. It basically incentivizes everyone to buy up all the resources as quickly as possible. The longer you hodl dollars, the less you get when you spend. Of course people are going to buy up and hoard all the scarce assets they can, it makes for better money than the money! We live in a clown world, I swear. 🤡 Keep the excellent Bitcoin content coming! I loved the bonus ep! I’d happily pay for bonus conent again. ❤️ https://fountain.fm/episode/NYnqsqd7mDA2Irs4UdTp

I’m using a NixOS version on my desktop now. https://github.com/henrysipp/omarchy-nix I have since modified it a bunch and integrated it into my much larger, personal config. One of the bigger changes I made was ditching waybar for hyprpanel, but now I’m quite happy with it. Linux Unplugged did an episode on it recently: https://linuxunplugged.com/622

It might be helpful to know a bit more about what’s important to you, and what you’re optimizing for. I use this 2K 120hz Ultrawide https://a.co/d/2yqw0B5 which probably isn’t the best choice these days, but, for me, it was a good blend of screen real estate for code and research, good picture quality for watching content, with some extra performance for a bit of gaming. If screen space is important to you, you might want to spend your money on 4K resolution, but if you’re more into gaming, maybe 2K with gaming features makes more sense. Just some things to think about. Sorry I don’t have a specific recommendation. Good luck!

I almost tried Nebula, but I actually just converted all my stuff from WireGuard to self-hosted Netbird. If you guys had consulted with me first, I’d have probably chosen nebula, but at least it will be interesting to compare the two. =P With WireGuard, I kept ending up in situations where DNS alone couldn’t quite do everything I needed. Netbird redirects DNS queries to itself, which allows it to respond for your private network, or forward them to the local DNS provider, and that means I can refer to my stuff by name AND it doesn’t break the software on my work PC. What a time to be alive! I really like it so far! Much better than handling as many WireGuard keys as I was. Does nebula do something similar to netbird with DNS? https://fountain.fm/episode/Qlpr1bdfWo7vJgMqSiZJ

I have had really good luck with N100 boards. I have 2 that run 24/7. One is my firewall and the other is my NAS. Chris and Wes, you have both recently mentioned you’re thinking about new network gear. I’ve been running opnsense on a barebones, fanless n100 firewall with 4 2.5G NICs from Aliexpress for years, and I don’t really have any reason to complain. It’s been super stable and reliable for me. Wes, I have successfully used one to spoof the MAC address of and replace CenturyLink’s router without having to tell them, when I lived in Seattle. You just need to configure the WAN port to handle the management VLAN (201) and PPPoE. I built the NAS myself with an N100 board I found on sale. It came with 6 SATA ports and I added more with a PCI adapter. I also really like that I can dedicate a full 2.5G NIC to each of my VLANs. It’s in a Jonsbo NAS case with front loading disks running NixOS (btw). All in all, I really like these little n100 boards on projects that I want to treat like an appliance. https://fountain.fm/episode/Qlpr1bdfWo7vJgMqSiZJ