We go deep on what “sovereign computing” looks like when you try it for real, from spinning up a Fedimint federation to self-hosting services that keep working even when platforms or politics turn against you. We then connect local AI, persistent knowledge bases, and geopolitics to one question: do we own our tools or do we rent our future?• choosing a deliberately clickbait title and what it signals about tech culture • setting up a Fedimint federation on Start9 and what makes it “easy” in practice • StartOS 0.40 changes, migration realities, backups, and why one-click upgrades are hard • exposing services safely with Start Tunnels plus Tor being treated as a core service • running local LLMs on home hardware and why it matters for privacy and control • the LLM Wiki idea, persistent markdown knowledge, and a portable “second brain” • why companies want private knowledge bases rather than uploading IP to big AI vendors • open source models, uncensored variants, and the coming squeeze of AI pricing and regulation • data centres as strategic assets, energy and cooling constraints, and geopolitical risk • South Africa’s solar overbuild as an advantage for decentralised AI and Bitcoin tooling • why AI adoption can be slower than expected in grassroots communities • Iran, internet shutdown mechanics, Starlink as a signal, and propaganda as a tech weapon • Atlas Pool shout-out and Tribe of 21 road trips built around Bitcoin circular economies • travel friction, visas, and how geopolitics hits ordinary peoplehttps://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94fhttps://docs.start9.com/https://x.com/abcptzahttps://x.com/BitcoinEkasihttps://x.com/OKIN_17https://x.com/OrangeSaaShttps://bitcoinonly.io/https://www.useorange.com/https://btcpayserver.org/https://btcpay386617.lndyn.com/login?ReturnUrl=%2FLinks:www.bitcoinforbusiness.ioX: @gavingreX: @BTC_4_BizPrimal: [email protected]: npub12qv07tpwk8x8fy2uuqczghpappap395npuxvsx8pgksh97pezv7s8r7qta