Finally getting close to storing some #Bitcoin on Electrum running on #FreeBSD
Totally reminds me of setting up Linux a couple of decades ago haha, hopefully user unfriendliness makes it easier to remember that this old laptop is for Bitcoin ONLY!
Next stage is hardening & securing it using Mullvad or similar, so you'll get the next post from me in a few days or longer haha...
good luck with it. i worry about complicated setups.
I worry about the easy ones haha, they've got a tendency to turn into rug pulls...
Which is why doing this for ~5% of the #Bitcoin I have makes sense, it is a platform that is very different from the others, also if I change those later on
i'd like to run bsd also, i just don't know about how it's gonna work with running VMs, as i need to develop stuff for linux VPS systems.
nothing that is pure Go is a problem, it's only hardware and linux-only stuff that is a problem.
my colleague back in 2019 switched his whole dev rig over to freebsd. i could never quite get into the sway WM or whatever it was he used... but gnome has rugpulled me hard, tracker3, the endless theme bullshit, i liked 3 but you can't run 3, for some reason. so i run cinnamon and keep my fave gtk 3 theme, adapta.
i expect it would be the same on freebsd.
the other thing i don't like about bsd is the whole business with the daemon beastie is quite distasteful. even if daemon is just a word for servant in ancient greek. i don't want no tricky bastards running my shit thanks.
for now i'm stickin with arch.
if i had money and wasn't only doing dev on my only tiny crappy 4 year old hardware i'd be looking to see how i can get a freebsd system running on something current. now that would probably end up being a huge pain too, but i'd have the money for it so there's that.
Its far easier for me, all I want to is to use it as is and hopefully as best practice, on a couple of old laptops for very simple tasks.
So I can let the software lead the way, and learn how to tweak it as time passes, like I did with QubesOS the past couple of years :-)
If I finally get completely rid of OSX after these 23 years or so I'll probably use Mint for general work like video editing, we will see..
Guess I'm on an open source jihad haha!
you are not alone on this jihad! death to spyware, bloatware and closed source! no more unpaid telemetry data!
Yep, and as in all warfare its about being PRACTICAL all the way, using whatever tools one might know how to handle in the fight :-)
Sometimes I feel like not sharing anything about stuff like this since it always pulls in the theorists with their "perfect" level of doing things, not realizing that this invites SPOFs
In a real fight you have to expect some real damage, keeping that on an acceptable level so that you are in for the long haul is what is necessary to survive & WIN in the end :-)
And that is why I have spread my #Bitcoin across platforms and devices, I can accept a loss of maybe 5% worst case but NOT losing most due to thinking anything is perfect...
some rules of thumb help too. like, always have more backup than working storage!
Yeah... 2020 wrecked everything, from my 3 companies to business visa, the house i Europistan and some shitty, theoretical pension...
Working on reconstructing 5-6 Terabytes spread across random drives now, don't think I've lost anything super vital, had pretty ridiculous routines for redundancy before meatspace got wrecked!
And then all games online are about to change for real, at least if the .gov goons get their will...
That is part of the motivation for getting into FreeBSD too, Apple is proooobably captured already and Linux has Linus himself as a SPOF
Is it connected to the internet? If so, I recommend including a nostr:npub17tyke9lkgxd98ruyeul6wt3pj3s9uxzgp9hxu5tsenjmweue6sqq4y3mgl in your setup
Good going, keep tagging #FreeBSD.
Why Electrum, rather than any other bitcoin that might be in the ports?
I use Electrum as a tool, its great for extracting from other wallets and so on, also I trust that code over most projects. Currently storing some of my holdings too, will migrate that to a safer setup when fees come down. Multisig is the next step for Electrum, got Nunchum operational for that already :-)
