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Freedom Tech!
Happy weekend to everybody.
I'm checking YouTube to make sure we got audio.
I am unmuted now.
I'm going to add that to my list so things can check.
But here we go.
So it should be coming in here soon on YouTube.
There it is.
All right.
Sweet.
We got audio.
I assume we're live on X because I just got a repost from Santos.
Thanks, Santos, for retweeting it.
And then we should be live on Zab's upstream,
yes we are, so I'm gonna share that URL over on Climl.
Post that here.
Let's go.
Okay.
Oh.
Post Malone.
How's everybody doing?
How you feeling this weekend?
I know it's Friday morning for some people.
Other people, Friday is ending.
So it's the weekend.
I am on the road this week.
We have a few streamers in here already.
Welcome, everybody.
Got the chat open so I can monitor the situation.
I hope that my internet is good because I'm at a hotel right now.
So you never know what the internet is going to be like.
So I turned on the quality of the video.
I might be a little choppy, a little grainy.
So my apologies.
But hey, it's better than nothing.
And then this might be a shorter stream because I got stuff to do.
I'm here with my amazing wife and here with some friends,
and we're going to go out and enjoy the day, so I've got to make this short.
But I'm in a cool hotel room with some sweet wood paneling on the wall behind me.
I wish I could show you the view in front of me because it's way better than this wooden wall,
but I couldn't get it to work.
It's a beautiful sunny day here.
Got lots of people outside.
Got beautiful landscape.
Ocean water, boats going by.
All sorts of great stuff.
Okay, and you can tell from all the scenes
I've gotten quite a bit of sun,
which is actually the topic about today's stream.
So now that we've given people a few minutes to join
and verified that I'm not on mute anymore,
let's go ahead and talk about the topic.
of the day and again probably going to make this a little bit shorter so let me go ahead and bust
open screen share first i got to turn off my notifications because i'm doing this all from
my laptop i don't have a second screen today to operate so i don't want all my notifications
flying by on the screen what i mean okay all right i also don't have my home server because
i didn't feel like setting up i'm gonna have vpn i could vpn into it but with my internet being the
the way it is, I didn't want to like risk doing both at the same time.
So, let me look over.
I probably won't see the laptop screenshot unfortunately,
so if you chat on there, I appreciate it, but I'm probably not going to see it.
What can I drop that screen? Oh yeah, okay. Got 9 viewers over there.
Wait.
Hello to the Primal Noster users over on John.Stream.
Got eight people over here on the other platforms.
That's great.
And then, what else?
All right.
It's always hard when you don't have your normal set up for stuff like this.
You get so used to it that you gotta make sure all the pieces are in place.
So let me go ahead and hit share screen now.
Let me do that scary thing where I share the entire screen.
Why?
I don't know.
Entire screen.
Okay, got the entire screen going.
And I'm going to share my Orion browser.
This is where I like to do a lot of my stuff.
and there we go. Alright so first we're talking about the daylight computer today. I'm actually
gonna try a two camera situation with this week where I'm actually gonna try and switch cameras
and show you the daylight computer from my phone camera filming it that way. So maybe let's actually
jump into that first. I should have thought of that before I hit go. Stop screen sharing. Let's
computer. What's that? So this is, if you haven't, if you aren't familiar with it, it's kind of like a,
a lot of people care to the Kindle E Ink tablet. It's not exactly E Ink, but it is a full tablet
computer. It runs Android OS, and so it can install Android apps on it. You can download.
It is a Googled device, which some people don't like, but we're going to get into that because
more than meets the eye with that.
They're working on a Linux installation
that you can flash onto it,
so you don't have to have a Google device
if you don't want to.
Making it full-on great, free-to-check.
There are a bunch of buttons here
that actually don't do anything yet,
like this orange button doesn't do anything yet.
This orange button on top doesn't do anything yet,
but they're working on it.
I guess they're future-proofing
for any stuff you wanna bring,
but these are the volume buttons here on the side,
and then you got your power button here on top.
Got a couple microphones, got speaker grills on the bottom,
USB-C to make it easy.
I got a bunch of sand in it when I was using it,
when I was taking my photo for this podcast, for this stream.
But I was able to get the sand out no problem.
You can see my USB port is nice and clean now.
But why this device, right?
You might notice it has like an amber glow to it.
And that is intentional.
I have that turned on right now.
One of the biggest things about this device is that it is the first, they claim it, to be the first hardware device that does not emit blue light if you don't want it to at the hardware level.
So a lot of our devices have the setting where you can turn on night mode and you can try and get rid of some of the blue light, like Apple calls it night shift, for example.
but when they've measured the actual colors and temperature coming from the screen,
there still is quite a bit of blue light coming out of the screen.
And we're going to get into that here, like why that even matters.
But this one, they went to the hardware level
and actually made it so that you can change the settings
to physically not create any blue light off of the screen.
And I'll show you how to do that here.
So when I just swipe down from the top,
I can drag this little light fire thing here,
Sorry, I'm lighting.
It's sort of shaky here.
If I drag that all the way over, this is like a normal device.
You can see all the color temperature change.
So now it's kind of, oh, my phone's getting weird.
The color temperature change.
Now it's more of a traditional color that you would see on a Kindle or on a regular device.
That's black and white.
I can also change the brightness, obviously, right?
You can do that.
But I like, and you can adjust.
I honestly like just keeping it all the way down because if I'm going to be using this
device to help remove the amount of blue light in my life, then I'm just going to turn it
all the way down.
And I've gotten quite used to it.
At first I was like, "Whoa, this is very amber."
But after using it just for a very short time, I've gotten used to it and I don't really
notice it as much anymore.
So that is the device.
We're going to go over...
I'm going to switch back to my screen now and kind of show you some of the reasons why I think this is important.
Let's switch back to this.
Get off of my shaky cam.
There we go.
And then let me share my screen again.
Share entire screen.
Boom.
Okay.
I promise this is going to be shorter.
I'll say I promise my wife doesn't get shorter.
So let's do this.
Why do we care about this light stuff?
I'm sure a lot of people listening right now, this is probably not news to you,
but the light that we consume in our lives has an effect on us.
We're learning a lot in recent times, but also over the decades.
A lot of studies have happened about the different color temperatures of light
and the hours that we have light, right?
If you think about humans throughout history, we grew up and we lived based off the sun
rising and the sun setting.
And then our sleep patterns all revolved around that.
Our whole day revolved around that.
Then we invented fire and we can now have fire and have a little bit later evenings,
right?
But fire still gave off more of a red and an amber color to it.
And so we evolved with that.
Then we invented the light bulb and electricity, you know,
in time and suddenly we could have daytime at nighttime and stay up later.
And there are a lot of knock-on effects from that, right?
So I quickly tossed this into Maple just to say, like,
give me a short bullet point on the pros and cons of sunlight,
artificial light at night, some light bulbs and our device screens
and the effect on human health.
So deep seek went, thought for 25 seconds,
it gave me some pros and cons.
This, everything with AI, you've got to like verify
and some of it is when you have science
that's building research,
AI is not going to be 100% correct
because there are new things being discovered
as well as if you are someone who wants to look at
more decentralized science and decentralized medicine
where you look at studies that are coming from anywhere in the world,
then AI might not have the right answer for you
because AI tends to look at what is the general consensus of things.
But let me read this to you because in my studies so far,
a lot of this passes the smell test.
Some of it doesn't, but it'll give us a good primer here.
So sunlight, some of the pros and cons of sunlight, right?
Vitamin D production, essential for bone health through skin exposure.
Mood improvement, it reduces depression and enhances well-being.
And then your circadian regulation, it helps maintain natural sleep and wake cycles.
The cons are skin damage, prolonged exposure, increased risk of sunburn and skin cancer.
Eye damage, potential risk of cataracts and easy exposure.
The last one, the eye damage one, I'm seeing a lot of people challenging that.
Obviously don't look directly at sunlight, maybe that's what I'm talking about.
But being out in the sun without sunglasses, do research on sunglasses.
Years and years ago, I've really never liked sunglasses, but probably 10, 15 years ago, I realized there was a hidden headache.
And I felt better when I wasn't wearing them outside.
In fact, I told an eye doctor one time that my head feels better if I glance up at the sun for like a second.
And she was like, whoa, don't do that.
Right?
I'm not a doctor. Don't take my advice. If you go blind looking at the sun, you can't blame me.
But I've had these moments in my life where I've experienced things that make me feel better.
And then I started learning more about sunlight and many of the benefits that it has.
So sometimes we've got to pay attention to our bodies, but then also do research.
So circadian regulation is a huge one, right?
We talked about the sun coming up, sun going down, and the importance on our lives.
And if you think about staying up later at night and messing with your sleep schedule
and just all of the crazy things that knock-on effects that that can have in your overall
health and well-being.
I know that nutrition is a big topic right now, especially in the United States with
the whole Maha movement and trying to remove some of the toxins and poisons and fake foods
that we eat and the effect it has on our body.
I definitely think that those are important.
But I also, from things that I'm learning and from my own experience, I think that one of the biggest culprits to all of this is the light that we have in our lives and the light exposure that we have, specifically at night after the sun goes down and keeping us awake longer.
And then we get, not only do we get shorter sleep, but we get less sleep, so it's lower quality sleep.
And I think that's even more important.
But then there's also just the radio waves.
We have more radio waves going on around us
and being emitted from our Wi-Fi, from our technology,
as well as from the lights,
from the different color temperature lights that we get.
There's all sorts of stuff working together.
So we constantly look at these charts of the rise in obesity
and the rise in chronic illness and chronic pain.
And there are correlations to be made to the quality of our food.
And there are also very strong correlations to be made to the rise in electricity and artificial light in our lives.
So I'm just trying to give you some primers here of things that you can go study on your own.
We're here to look at freedom technology, right?
What greater freedom technology do we have than sunlight?
And why are we talking about the daylight computer?
Well, they named themselves after sunlight because this is being hailed as the device
that can support your well-being and support your sleep, your overall health, all that.
I want to quickly glance down here at our crystal light because let's look at that real quick, right?
The pros are nighttime activities.
It enables activities after dark, okay?
So we can party at night.
I mean, you know, other stuff too.
safety improves visibility and reduces accidents. Yeah, sure. Adjustability can be tailored in
brightness and color for different needs. So those are the pros that it came up with, right?
The pros for sunlight was like better bone health, mood improvement, and better sleep.
And down here for artificial light it's like you can stay up later and you can adjust the
the brightness. The Kong. Circadian disruption interferes with natural sleep and wake cycles.
Sleep disorders may lead to insomnia or other sleep issues. Health concerns. Possible links
to obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular issues. We stopped the stream right there. Like, wow.
Okay. And device screens are, the pros are communication access facilitates interaction
and information sharing.
So we use these to share information
like we're doing right now.
You're watching me on a screen
or you're listening to me
being shared on a device.
Nighttime task.
Allows activities without needing bright lights.
So you can stay up and work late
in your dark room
when your son gets insignificant
out of the studio.
That's one of the pros of the live stream.
They only share two.
Cons.
Blue light exposure.
Depresses melatonin.
affecting sleep quality,
cons, eye strain, prolonged screen time
can cause discomfort and vision blurriness.
Sleep interference
may lead to chronic sleep deprivation
and health-related risks.
Okay, so
I just want to point out
this is just AI. This is not
gospel. This is not the source of truth.
But
I felt like I gave it a fairly
unbiased prompt, right?
Give me short bullet points on the pros and cons
with sunlight, artificial light at night,
sunlight bulbs, and our device screens,
and human health.
And that's what it gave us.
But basically, the pros for artificial light
and device screens were mostly related to, like,
how do we help humans stay up later at night?
And then the cons were like, oh, yeah,
kind of, like, really bad health problems
could result from that.
And for sunlight, the pros were it's going to make you feel better, it's going to have really good benefits to your health,
and the cons were increased exposure could increase things like sunburn and skin cancer and potential eye damage, right?
So those, I feel like, could be mitigated.
I am biased right now in the way that I am reading these, but I think it's fairly objective that limiting your amount of artificial light,
especially at night, and then getting more measured exposure to the outdoors and sunlight
can have big benefits to your health overall and to your well-being.
So, I'm not a doctor.
I would recommend you look into these things more,
because it sure seems like one of the easiest things you can do to increase your well-being overall
is to get outside more.
Get some sunlight every day. I'm not saying go sit in the sun for eight hours a day
But get some sunlight exposure even like 15 minutes and they say even if you have like
Even the clouds in the sky. There's still some UV coming through if you're wearing
If it's cold outside and you're wearing long sleeves and pants, but the Sun is out
The Sun is still getting through those in some some amount that can give you benefit
So just get outside more.
A lot of benefit to it.
And then at night, try to darken your home more.
I get that it's very difficult for us just to revert back to 1000 DC,
where once the sun goes down, we just turn off all electricity in our house.
So I'm going to be a realist instead and say just reduce your light.
Try to make your house darker.
You don't need all of the lights on constantly.
If you're not in that room anymore, turn it off.
I used to be someone who, once the sun went down,
I wanted all the lights on because I wanted to still feel alive
and feel like the day was still going.
But as I learned about this, I started doing the opposite.
And I will tell you that I fall asleep very quickly at night.
And I wake up very easily in the morning.
Part of that, well, I wake up in the morning pretty easily.
And part of it is because I'm currently running, doing Maple, doing the startup Maple with my co-founder.
And there's a lot of stress that comes along with it, right?
So when I wake up in the morning, like my first thought is on my company and on what we're doing and like our future development and our future longevity of the company.
So there's definitely a stress that comes with that.
And I think that wakes me right up.
However, at night, that stress could keep me up, but it doesn't.
I fall asleep almost immediately.
And once we decide, okay, let's go to sleep, I'm asleep within five minutes.
And I sleep through the night.
Maybe I'll wake up once, go to the bathroom, and then I'm back to sleep again.
So I have seen a marked improvement in my sleep schedule from just reducing light at night.
And then traveling.
I've traveled quite a bit since I've been learning about this more.
And in the morning, wherever I am, I get up and try to be up after someone's coming up.
And I feel like that has really helped me out a lot with adjusting to the new time zones.
I've done small time zone jumps and very large ones.
I've fallen asleep really well.
I have gotten up really well in the morning.
I have not had trouble adjusting at all.
And I attribute that to trying to get myself on the light schedule wherever I am.
as well as food and water intake I tried to adjust to the light schedule I ran.
So I think those will all help.
Daylight computer, we're here talking about this and how long we've been going now.
Man, I've been rambling, but I think this is an important topic that people need to learn more about.
So I showed you the computer on the camera, how many people we have.
I can't really check on numbers, but we've got over a dozen people now.
We talked about the device.
I used my phone camera to show you the device a bit.
But this computer is meant to get you outside more.
So I like to work outside more as much as I can.
This will get you out there.
I love using this as a reading device.
So I've been using it on the road.
I use it at the beach.
I use it at the pool.
I just use it out on the patio.
And it can sit in the sun.
If you try to put your phone out in the sun or an iPad or something, after about, I don't know, a half hour of direct sunlight exposure, it's going to turn off and say that it's too hot and it needs to be taken out of the sun.
You're also damaging your device when you do that.
This computer is the opposite.
It's made to be out in the sun.
And so I will leave it sitting there on a chair in the sun for over an hour.
and when I come back to it, it is not hot to the touch. I can turn it on and read no problem or
access work stuff on there no problem. And then reading on it is great because
reading on is great because I can read directly in the sunlight and there's no glare. The screen
is like this really cool etched screen that does not have a glare to it and then I can adjust the
the color temperature as I need to in order to read directly in the sunlight. So it's awesome.
Here's the FreedomTek portion of the Daylight Computer. So if you don't want to have a Google
device, this is Google Android, they're working on getting a Linux installation that you can flash
onto the DC-1, which is the Daylight Computer 1. There are a lot of hints that maybe a phone
is in the works. I would love for them to make a phone. A lot of people want them to.
Nothing's been officially announced,
but I have to imagine some of the work
based off the follow rumblings I'm seeing.
But there's a hacker community.
This is a Wiki.
They also have a Discord you can join.
So you can join the Discord here,
as well as they have a GitHub, right?
So look at their GitLab installation.
So they're not on GitHub,
even though they use the GitHub logo here,
it's actually GitLab.
So they must have switched over.
But yeah, they're doing their own version of
of Linux that they can flash onto it. So if you want to go be a participant in that, go
do it. They have like, let's see, so on their Twitter, they had like a date, a hangout on
Discord back in January. We go and do like a live activity where they're hanging out
together, but they're on there all the time. So go chat with people on there if you want
to. But I think it's really cool that they're working on that. So I'm probably going to
the screen here um there was a shout out that i wanted to uh to do from last week's episode
let me see if i can pull that up real quick some people sent me boosts on these and i uh a boost
is something where with podcasting 2.0 you can go on to the fountain app or another podcasting
app that does podcasting 2.0 and you can actually like send a tip send a zap send a boost wherever
you want to call it send a little bit of money over to the person doing the podcast and you can
prepared but again I'm on a trip so my preparation is not as high quality as it usually is,
which is not very high quality. All right so this one is from Owen, sent 121 stats which is bitcoin.
One thing I found was missing when I tested organic maps, which is what we talked about
last week, was multiple route choices when you navigate, a feature I am keen on. There's a
So when you're doing, we talked about organic maps, which is based on the OpenStreetMap
project, trying to get away from using things like Google and other map services.
So I want to say that when you search, it just gives you one path instead of showing
you multiple paths, you can choose some.
Somebody else pointed out during the live stream that there's not live traffic, like
car traffic analysis either inside organic maps.
And then another person pointed out that organic math is undergoing some drama right now from a project standpoint, where they actually forked off another project.
That's how organic math was born.
But now there's some drama around whether it should become a nonprofit because it's currently a corporation and there might be some kind of money.
There's been accusations of money embezzlement or something like that.
I don't know if any of that's true, but I just wanted to call that out that there are some accusations being thrown around out there about it.
So you can look into it if you care.
However, in all my research, there was nothing to say that the actual integrity of the data and the open source software itself is in jeopardy.
It's just the people running it and not following some of the government promises that were maybe made or expectations of itself.
So that's a follow-up from last week.
All right.
Thanks for joining the stream today and this weekend.
Let me end the screen share here.
Let's stop sharing the screen.
Hope you all have a great weekend.
Go out.
Get some sunlight.
As much as you think is healthy for you.
And do some more research into light, natural sunlight, artificial light, devices, things coming off of our screens.
If you want to look into the daylight computer, I absolutely love it.
It goes on the road with me everywhere now.
It is my road warrior.
It connects to Wi-Fi easily wherever I am.
And I can use it in the sunlight.
I can use it at night.
I love that it has its own backlight.
So if I'm reading at night in bed, I can turn the backlight really low.
I don't have to have the lights on in the room to read.
But then also, it has no blue light.
And so I can read and then fall asleep really quickly if I want to, which is so nice.
Because if I was reading on a different device that had blue light coming out of it, it definitely
messed me up with falling asleep.
So I like that.
Check out Daylight Computer.
check out their Linux project that they have going on where they want to
collect full Freedom Tech open source on your device and give you
100% control over what you're doing. But the project is really cool.
The people are really cool on the Daylight project as well as the
Linux hack project. So this is Mark. Hi Mark.
Check me out on Twitter. marks_ftw
Freedom Tech weekend. And go out and get some sun this weekend.
All right. Have a good one. We'll see you on the next one. Have a good weekend. Later.