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	Title	Pub. Date	Duration
	686: Stop Desktop Slop	28 sept. 2026	01:32:15
KDE’s fight over AI generated code explodes at exactly the moment Plasma is making some of its biggest changes in years. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Jupiter Garage SWAG Going All-In on a Wayland Future KDE/kup: Backup scheduler for the Plasma desktop Sovereign Tech Fund Invests Over €1 Million in KDE Software Development KDE and AI, and you, and me – Adventures in Linux and KDE What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE - YouTube What Even is Ocean? Akseli Lahtinen on Union for QtWidgets StyleKit talk at Akademy 2026 Framework Laptop 12 KDE Linux at 2: what we've learned and how it can help you QA infrastructure in KDE KDE at 30: What Are the Colored Blobs Telling Us? KDE: The Documentary TRAILER — The Story of Free Software Underdogs — Full Film Coming October 14th What's Happening in KDE Remote Desktop — Improved Unattended Mode and More This Week in Plasma: Bi-Directional RDP Clipboard Sync This Week in Plasma: So Many Ways to Click and Scroll This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q2 2026 KDE for Enterprise Needs a Strong PIM Infrastructure Framework's Fedora KDE Plasma Laptop 12 Guide systemd 262 A review canary in systemd's contributor instructions Linux Live Update documentation LUO userspace API memfd_create(2) FluxCast — Miracast/WFD ecosystem platform with .deb and AUR packages. fluxcast-flake JB Gulf Coast Meetup Room Nixarr — Media Server Nixos Module Nixflix — Nixflix is a declarative media server configuration manager for NixOS garage — S3-compatible object store for small self-hosted geo-distributed deployments. Pick: Cliparr — Cliparr is a streamlined media clipper that allows you to quickly create and download clips from the media currently playing on your Plex or Jellyfin server, or from a local video file opened directly in your browser. Cliparr: Plex and Jellyfin providers Cliparr: local file or direct media URL Cliparr: export settings Cliparr: subtitles Mediabunny — A complete JavaScript media toolkit for the browser KyleTryon/gifenc: fast GIF encoding Pick: fdroidcl — A command-line F-Droid desktop client space-elevator — Space Elevator gets you to orbit. What you do up there is your business.
	685: Pool Party	20 sept. 2026	01:00:38
We're turning our spare, scattered storage into one giant network drive. Good idea? Maybe. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Jupiter Garage SWAG Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild. Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube Texas Linux Festival 2026 Valve's Steam Frame Now Available At $1059+ USD My Last Quest - Launch 84 RustFS — RustFS is an open-source, S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as MinIO and Ceph. Announcing RustFS 1.0.0 GA - RustFS Blog rustfs - GitHub — RustFS is an open-source, S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as MinIO and Ceph. Amazon.com: Xiaomi TV Box S 3rd Gen - 4K UHD, Google TV, 32GB Memory, Dolby Vision & Atmos, WiFi 6, HDMI 2.1, Fast Streaming, Compact and Powerful : Electronics Macintosh SE/30 - Wikipedia Love Down Babylon Armada — The Open Source, Encrypted Discord Alternative absorb — A cross platform Audiobookshelf client for Android and iOS Lissen: Audiobookshelf Client GrakovNe/lissen-android — Minimalistic Android client app for Audiobookshelf wizarr - GitHub — Wizarr is an advanced user invitation and management system for Jellyfin, Plex, Emby etc. vikunja — The task manager you actually own. zj-radar — A Zellij sidebar that shows Claude Code, Codex, and other AI-agent status across every tab. Pi - GitHub Pi — AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI Zoboomafoo - Wikipedia Pick: flakelet — Run systemd services from Nix flakes and update them independently of the host system Pick: ffdash — A TUI for batch AV1 & VP9 video encoding with hardware acceleration, real-time progress monitoring, and full control over quality settings. Made to work as a viable encoding dashboard over SSH. · GitHub Pick: Chompass — Private calorie tracking for Android and the browser. Bring your own AI key, or run Gemma 4 on-device.
	684: You Ain't Ready For This Jelly	14 sept. 2026	01:07:48
We rebuild our media stack around Jellyfin 12, survive a major upgrade, and add self-hosted tools that make sharing with family and friends much better. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Jupiter Garage SWAG Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild. Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube Jupiter Broadcasting: Ultimate Home Theater PT 1 — 17 years ago, Chris Builds the Ultimate Home Theater. Part one goes into using OTA HD and recording it with MyTH. Wizarr — Wizarr is a automatic user invitation system for Plex, Jellyfin and Emby. Create a unique link and share it to a user and they will automatically be invited to your media Server! They will even be guided to download the client and instructions on how to use your requests software! Seerr — Seerr is a free and open source software application for managing requests for your media library. It integrates with the media server of your choice: Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby. In addition, it integrates with your existing services, such as Sonarr, Radarr. Maintainerr — Maintainerr makes managing your media easy. No longer will you have to worry about your precious hard drive space being taken up by media, that isn't even being watched. Tracearr — Real-time analytics and intelligent detection for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby. Free, open source, self-hosted via Docker. jellarr — Declarative configuration engine for Jellyfin — apply and sync server settings from YAML via the Jellyfin API. Jellyfin 12.0 Release 12.0 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub Query Performance Improvements by Shadowghost · Pull Request #16062 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub [Group] Jellyfin 10.11.x performance issues · Issue #15685 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub State of the Fin 2026-05-24 Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy Scanner Refactoring · jellyfin/jellyfin-meta · Discussion #125 · GitHub Jellyfin - Project Leadership Changes — Don't worry, no jellyforks here. On My Jellyfin Resignation - Joshua M. Boniface Migration fails upgrading from 10.11.11 to 12.0 unstable: UNIQUE constraint failed: Users.NormalizedUsername · Issue #17458 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub Jellyswarrm: Bring all your Jellyfin servers together — Reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place. If you’ve got libraries spread across different locations or just want everything together, Jellyswarrm makes it easy to access all your media from a single interface. Smriti — photos without a server ChivukulaVirinchi/photovault — Smriti is offline-first photo library for your drives. No server, no cloud. On-device face recognition, Google Photos Takeout import. Windows/macOS/Linux. Commodore - The Future We Were Promised — In 1982, we made computers fun. In 2026, we’re making tech fun again. go-vikunja/vikunja: The task manager you actually own. Vikunja: The task manager you actually own automatic-ripping-machine — Insert an optical disc (Blu-ray, DVD, CD) and checks to see if it's audio, video (Movie or TV), or data, then rips it. Ripping Movies Automatically With ARM - YouTube OpenMouse — Free, open source mouse configurator OpenLogi OpenLogi — A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry. Pick: pelagica — Pelagica is a web, desktop, and TV client for Jellyfin built using React. It aims to provide a fast, modern, and customizable user experience for browsing and watching your media library. It's available as a self-hosted web app, a native desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and a TV app for Samsung Tizen, LG webOS and Apple TV. Wails — Build beautiful, performant applications using Go and modern web technologies. One codebase. Three platforms. No browsers. Pick: tether — Tether aims to support all of the Apple Continuity features on Linux that are technically possible. If you've migrated away from macOS but still carry an iPhone, Tether provides the missing ecosystem integration. Pick: ICSx⁵ — ICSx⁵ is an Android app to subscribe to remote or local iCalendar files (like time tables of your school/university or event files of your sports team). ICSx⁵ — ICSx⁵ is an Android app to subscribe to remote (Webcal) or local iCalendar files.
	683: Website Speedrun	06 sept. 2026	01:10:15
Brent has two hours to build a great website, and the solution he finds feels more like a Linux tool than a modern web framework. Naturally, Wes takes it too far. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Jupiter Garage SWAG Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild. Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube Covered Bridge Cookies — Our cookies have no trans fats and are made with the best ingredients from Vermont based companies. Butter from Cabot, Chocolate from Barre Callebaut of St Albans, and we always use unbleached and unbromated flour along with natural flavorings. We use small batch production techniques that produce an unmistakable home made taste unlike mass-produced cookies. Zola — Your one-stop static site engine. Forget dependencies. Everything you need in one binary. gerbrent/brentgervais.ca — Landing page for Brent Gervais, built with Zola JB Zola Demo Site jupiterbroadcasting.com-zola repo — Weekend speedrun port of the JB site to Zola. Zola Documentation Zola CLI Usage Zola Directory Structure Zola Installation Zola Search Zola GitHub Zola Changelog WintermuteOS — A personalized declarative desktop built from NixOS, Wayland/Hyprland, and QuickShell. SwapMarket — Non-custodial Bitcoin swaps marketplace. Swap between different Bitcoin layers while staying in full control. SwapMarket/swapmarket.github.io - GitHub — Decentralized and trustless marketplace for Boltz-compatible Bitcoin swap providers. Alby Hub CLI — CLI for managing Alby Hub trynix — Boot any package nixpkgs ever shipped, in this tab. Pick a package and a version from 13 years of nixpkgs history; its closure is fetched from cache.nixos.org into an x86_64 Linux virtual machine (QEMU compiled to WebAssembly) and you get a shell with the package on PATH. Nothing runs on a server. Any Nix package, live in your browser \| Farid Zakaria’s Blog fzakaria/trynix: Boot anything nixpkgs ever shipped, in your browser. Your executable is a SQLite database \| Farid Zakaria’s Blog Actually Queryable Executables \| Farid Zakaria’s Blog hughhowey/neo — A novel-writing tool created by a novelist. nives — An AI assistant for Home Assistant that remembers. One add-on, and the memory stays on your own machine. nives-omarchy — Talk to your Home Assistant house in plain language, from your Omarchy desktop. Pick: OpenMouse — OpenMouse runs entirely in your browser over WebHID — DPI, polling rate, buttons, and RGB, for dozens of gaming mice, with no accounts, no installs, and no telemetry sent anywhere. OpenMouse Supported Devices Pick: Wallos — Open-Source Personal Subscription Tracker Wallos on GitHub — Open-source, self-hostable personal subscription tracker. Visualize your recurring expenses, manage your budget, and save money.
	682: Oops! All Shells!	30 août 2026	01:08:57
Quickshell is rising, and bringing with it a new wave of customizable Linux desktops, community-built plugins, and serious funding. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Jupiter Garage SWAG Quickshell — Quickshell is a toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens, and other desktop components using QtQuick. It can be used alongside your wayland compositor or window manager to build a complete desktop environment. Caelestia — A fluid, morphing shell for your Linux desktop. end-4’s configuration Waybar — Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. Omacom Foundation to be premier Quickshell sponsor Omarchy — — Beautiful, Fun & Opinionated Linux by DHH omacom/omarchy - Github The first plugin competition winners — Omarchy News Omacom Foundation to be exclusive Hyprland sponsor — Omarchy News Hyprland — An independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks. hyprwm/Hyprland - GitHub omarchy-radio-atlas — Explore live radio on a rotatable globe from the Omarchy bar. Home Assistant for Omarchy — Home Assistant Quickshell plugin for Omarchy 4 syncshell — See sync health, open folders, control the service, and install or update Syncthing from the Omarchy bar. syncshell-dms: — Read-only Syncthing monitoring plugin for DankMaterialShell Dank Linux — A Modern Desktop for Wayland. Dank Linux Docs TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more. Dawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History). Immich — High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution. How to get a TomTom API key - TomTom Docs FileBrowser Quantum - GitHub FileBrowser Quantum — The best free self-hosted web-based file manager with source configuration, modern authentication, office support, and lightning-fast search. Open Book Touch — A pocketable, front-lit, open source e-reader — for every book, in every language. Pick: dankcalendar — Calendar from the Dank Linux Suite. Local, Google, Microsoft, CalDAV, and iCloud calendars in one standalone app. DankCalendar on Flathub Pick: Homelable — Visual Homelab Mapper & Monitor Homelable — Self-hosted homelab infrastructure visualizer, interactive network diagram with live status monitoring. homelable-hacs — Home Assistant integration for Homelable
	681: Ain’t Nothing But a Syncthing	23 août 2026	01:35:19
Syncthing saves the day in an unexpected way, and we dig into what’s new in Linux 7.2. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Jupiter Garage SWAG AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Passes Away Linux 7.2 Kernel Newbies Cache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUs Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions [REGRESSION] drm/sched: FAIR policy causes serious performance degradation at max GPU load on 9070XT reduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating outside the lock — While profiling Meta's caching code, I found pipe->mutex contention on the hot path. anon_pipe_write() currently calls alloc_page() once per page while holding pipe->mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any concurrent reader on the same mutex. Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches Specially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 Driver The beginning of the 7.3 merge window Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance Linux 7.3 Expected To "Flatten The Pick" For Better Scheduling While Gaming & More Linux 7.3 x86/mm Lands Patches To Greatly Improve Latency-Sensitive Workloads Sched_ext's Sub-Scheduler Support Now "Feature Complete" With Linux 7.3 Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x Wins Linux 7.3 binfmt_misc To Allow BPF Programs To Dynamically Choose Execution Environments Linux 7.3 drops support for two ancient file systems Linux 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMs Two Very Exciting Memory Management Optimizations Going Into Linux 7.3 Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes Syncthing GitHub Rclone — Feature-rich alternative to cloud storage vendors' web storage interfaces. LocalComet — A private, local-first Windows AI assistant built and validated with Codex. A look at the Quickshell desktop-component toolkit MCP-NixOS - Model Context Protocol for NixOS — Because your AI shouldn't hallucinate package names. dataiku/kiji-proxy — Privacy proxy for your OpenAI requests Rockbox - Free Music Player Firmware Pick: ssh-clipboard — Peer-to-peer clipboard sync over SSH. Copy anything on one machine, paste on another. Open source, and Written in Rust ackchyually.
	680: Go Hack Yourself	17 août 2026	01:19:44
We turn HexStrike’s red team agents loose on our systems, as OpenSSH warns that AI-assisted bug hunting is already changing the security race. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Jupiter Garage SWAG AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild. Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube TXLF 2026 Full schedule TXLF 2026 SCALE 24x CFP — The CFP closes November 1, 2026. Nix Vegas 2026 Talks OpenSSH 10.5 Fixes Security Flaws as Project Responds to AI-Assisted Bug Discovery — OpenSSH 10.5 ships with several security fixes, as developers say growing AI-assisted vulnerability research is prompting more frequent releases. openssh.org/txt/release-10.5 — Recently the OpenSSH team have received a large number of security bug reports, many of which are findings from AI models or made with AI assistance. While many AI reports are determined not to have security impact when considered in the context of a realistic threat model, we very much welcome these reports, especially when combined with human triage, analysis, test-cases and particularly when accompanied by proposed fixes. OpenAI Talk at Black Hat USA 2026 — The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident - A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AI HexStrike AI MCP Agents TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more. topgrade — Upgrade all the things magnusoverli/opencode — AI-Powered Configuration Assistant for Home Assistant Home Assistant God Mode — YouTube cbbs_pi — A vintage CBBS-style bulletin board system emulator for macOS, Linux, Docker and Raspberry Pi. Mother Hen App rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy - Inside Rust Blog Covered Bridge Cookies Cluckwork — Poultry farm management — starting with egg-producing layer operations, with architectural headroom for broilers, pullets, breeders, live bird sales, meat products, and hatchery modules. Slack Dumper — Save or export your private and public Slack messages, threads, files, and users locally without admin privileges. Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym \| TechCrunch Pick: iDescriptor — Cross-platform, open-source and free idevice management tool written in Rust and Qt. iDescriptor on GitHub iDescriptor on Flathub iDescriptor in Nix Packages Pick: KiwiFS — Searchable, structured, versioned markdown. Plug in an agent in 30 seconds — or self-host with a single binary.
	679: The Last Shutdown	10 août 2026	01:04:32
An old Linux box powers down for the last time as we unwind its history, and the entire show, back to the beginning. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Jupiter Garage SWAG AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild. Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube Pick: LAN-Orangutan — LAN Orangutan is a lightweight network scanner with persistent device labeling, multi-network support, and Tailscale integration. Built by 291 Group. LAN Orangutan — Lightweight Network Scanner Pick: LocalSend — An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop. LocalSend on Flathub Pick: oxproxion — Android LLM chat interface for OpenRouter models or locally served models using Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, MLX LM or Hermes Agent. Cherokee Scout Reservation How-To Meshtastic BBS! Off-Grid Email? TC2-BBS-mesh — A BBS server for Meshtastic for posting bulletins, sending mail to users, and channel directory. herdr — the runtime your coding agents live on
	678: Entropy Ain't Easy	02 août 2026	01:15:40
Seven Linux kernels landed in one day. We sort out which belong in your homelab, and trace Linux’s long, occasionally disastrous quest for truly random numbers. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Jupiter Garage SWAG AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild. Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube Linux 7.2-rc5 announcement Linux 7.2 changelog Linux 7.1 changelog 7.2 merge window Btrfs large folios and DIO fix strncpy removal i486 removal Dreamcast fixes Cache-aware scheduling Fairer GPU scheduler NVIDIA 7.2 driver compatibility AMD ROCm regression Dreamcast vs i486 Btrfs DIO regression reports Technical Deep Dive into the Entropy Issue \| COINKITE Blog Bitcoin losses linked to Coldcard vulnerability grow to $70 million, Galaxy Research says Flowchart of the Linux RNG dust — A more intuitive version of du in rust Pick: TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more. Pick: cfait — A fast and powerful, offline-first task manager for your terminal, desktop, and phone. Cfait on Flathub Cfait on F-Droid
	677: We Got a Buzz	27 juil. 2026	01:08:21
Block’s Buzz is an open, self-hostable workspace for humans, AI agents, chat, and code; and it may be the most Linux-friendly vision for what comes next. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Jupiter Broadcasting Buzz Community Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Jupiter Garage SWAG AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild. Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube Buzz — Your people, your agents, your project — all in one place. — Chat with teammates and specialized agents in one shared space, then move straight into planning, project management, coding, and PRs. Create agents tailored to your workflows, let them collaborate with your team’s agents, and keep the work that used to be scattered across chat, trackers, and dev tools in one place. buzz on GitHub Feature Request: Support external agent systems (non-ACP) for real-time communication in Buzz communities [Bug] Remote Agent Missing from @ Mention Autocomplete Across Machines Teknium 🪽 on X: "@jack Hit me up if you want us to submit any PRs or make hermes more compatible with Buzz!" feat(agents): add Hermes ACP and external-agent integration by NYTEMODEONLY feat(acp): Hermes runtime discovery and durable session load by joelbrilliant docs(acp): document Buzz host integration by NYTEMODEONLY MeshBBS — Meshbbs revolutionizes communication on mesh networks by bringing the beloved Bulletin Board System experience to Meshtastic devices. Exchange messages, participate in forums, and build communities over long-range, low-power radio networks, all without traditional internet infrastructure. Electroverse Map \| EV Charging Stations Pick: PipeWire Controller — A native GTK4/libadwaita control center for PipeWire
	676: Fork Around and Find Out	20 juil. 2026	01:21:53
Linus delivers a blunt verdict on AI in the Linux kernel, Chris finds the remote Linux desktop that finally works, and Brent gives his notes system a serious rebuild. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Jupiter Garage SWAG AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild. Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git with Dirk Hohndel, Founder, DH Consulting - YouTube Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off - The Reg Re: Linking Patchwork with Sashiko? - Linus Torvalds — AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one. sashiko — Agentic review of Linux Kernel code changes SilverBullet — SilverBullet is a Programmable, Private, Browser-based, Open Source, Self Hosted, Personal Knowledge Database. logseq — A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Big update: Logseq is splitting into two versions Logseq public roadmap Logseq DB Version Docs Logseq DB Version Changes Nixbook OS — A set-and-forget modern operating system designed for simplicity, speed, and peace of mind. odysseus — A self-hosted AI workspace for chat, agents, research, documents, email, notes, calendar, and local model workflows. fwtop — Real-time router/firewall traffic visualizer TUI for Linux (interfaces, conntrack, firewall drops) hister — Hister is a private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep. It indexes their full contents so you can find information again from the web interface, terminal, or an AI assistant connected through MCP. 3D[S]tageVibes Artemis Qt — Artemis Qt is an enhanced cross-platform client for NVIDIA GameStream and Apollo/Sunshine servers. It brings the advanced features from Artemis Android to desktop platforms. Apollo — Sunshine fork - The easiest way to stream with the native resolution of your client device. RustDesk — Open-Source Remote Desktop with Self-Hosted Server Solutions rustdesk - GitHub — An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer. NoMachine — The fastest and highest quality remote desktop you have ever tried. Sunshine — Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Moonlight PC — GameStream client for PCs (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Steam Link)
	675: Sloppy Agent Roasting	13 juil. 2026	01:38:06
Wes' brother's PC is toast, making this the perfect moment to switch him to Linux. If our ambitious plan doesn’t scare him away first. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Jupiter Garage SWAG AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild. Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube Storyboarder — Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures. Quickly draw to test if a story idea works. Create and show animatics to others. Express your story idea without making a movie. MCP-NixOS — Model Context Protocol for NixOS Spud Router — An open-source router-on-a-stick that you can manage from a browser, a terminal CLI, or directly from your AI agents Le Potato AML-S905X-CC MacSurf — A modern web browser for Classic Mac OS 9 PowerPC. Real CSS3, ES5 JavaScript, native HTTPS — built with CodeWarrior on the Carbon API. Karpathy's llm-wiki Hermes llm-wiki SKILL.md camply - the campsite finder ⛺️ — a tool to find campsites at sold out campgrounds through sites like recreation.gov Pick: OpenTogetherTube — Enjoy YouTube together. Real-time synchronized playback. Optional voting system. Dark theme. No sign up required. All Open Source. It's never been easier to watch videos together. opentogethertube on GitHub Pick: TypeType — Privacy-respecting video platform to watch Youtube. TypeType on GitHub Pick: metube — Self-hosted web UI for yt-dlp, for downloading media from YouTube and dozens of other sites.
	674: LAN Before Time	06 juil. 2026	01:19:55
The kernel taketh away, so we bringeth back. We build an AppleTalk LAN, ditch TCP/IP, and give a legendary retro network protocol the send-off it deserves. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker Jupiter Garage SWAG Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Nix Vegas @ DEF CON 34 CFP — Submissions close on 2026-07-16 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles) Nix Vegas - Extended CFP, and a sneak preview Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support June 16th 2006 AppleTalk Removed from Kernel — AppleTalk has been removed in MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), in 2009, according to Wikipedia. We recently got a burst of AI generated fixes to this protocol which nobody is reviewing. linux-netdev/mod-orphan — Linux networking modules removed from the kernel due to lack of maintenance and high bug count Netatalk — Netatalk is a Free and Open Source file server that uses the AFP protocol. Basilisk II — Basilisk II is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator. MacOS 8: Internet Archive Apple, Inc.. Macintosh Classic Desktop Computer. 1989 - MoMA ChrisLAS/chooser — chooser is the AirTalk AppleTalk service browser for LINUX Unplugged. It uses TailTalk's userspace AppleTalk stack to run NBP lookups and displays discovered services in a terminal UI inspired by the classic Mac OS Chooser. jrouter — Home-grown alternative implementation of Apple Internet Router 3.0 marchintosh.com/globaltalk.html — GlobalTalk is the nickname we’ve given to the practice of using an ancient Apple Internet Router software package to bridge your local AppleTalk network (of vintage computers and printers) to the global network of the internet and other people’s vintage computers and printers. While nothing is stopping you from using this all year, usage primarily spikes in March for #MARCHintosh. bramble — A password manager that keeps your secrets on your own devices. No account, no server holding your vault, no company to get breached and leak everything. You hold the vault, you hold the password, and that's it. MeatPi WiCAN Pro: Connect Any Car to Home Assistant! Probably... - YouTube La Gendarmerie sous Linux depuis 17 ans : les leçons à en tirer - Supersonique Studio SARL Qu'est-ce que NixOS, la distribution Linux que l'État pourrait utiliser ? adelolmo/hd-idle — Hard Disk Idle Spin-Down Utility Gentleman-Programming/engram — Persistent memory system for AI coding agents. Agent-agnostic Go binary with SQLite + FTS5, MCP server, HTTP API, CLI, and TUI. distributed-llama: Distributed LLM inference. — Connect home devices into a powerful cluster to accelerate LLM inference. More devices means faster inference. MacPick: Morph — Morph, from Gryphon Software was the first commercial morphing program for PCs. With this program you specify related points between two images and the software will morph the two images together at different levels. The program can export the results to a movie file. WinWorld: Gryphon Morph 1.00 MacPick: LegacyAI from Manticore Software — ChatGPT for vintage 68k, PowerPC, and Intel Macs MacPick: Dark Castle — Dark Castle is a platform game where a young hero named Duncan tries to make his way to the evil Black Knight, dodging objects as well as solving occasional puzzles. MacPick: CrystalQuest — The first color game for the Macintosh, in which the player controls a small, circular spaceship which must travel around the screen collecting crystals. Pick: mcp-beam — mcp-beam is a MCP server (stdio transport) for casting local files and media URLs to Chromecast and DLNA/UPnP devices on your LAN. Pick: Go2TV — Media Casting Made Easy
	673: 8 Hidden Steam Machine Details	29 juin 2026	01:30:54
Eight details most people missed hint at the bigger Linux play behind Valve’s new Steam Machine. Sponsored By: Webroot: Webroot is cloud-based antivirus, engineered to stay out of your way. For a limited time, you can save sixty percent. Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Webroot — Save sixty percent when you go to webroot.com/unplugged. 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD Jupiter Garage SWAG AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker Texas Linux Fest 2026 CFP — Submissions close on 2026-07-01 23:59 (US/Central) SeaGL 2026 CFP CarolinaCon 2026 - CFP Open! carolinacon/infra: Infrastructure used to run parts of carolina con Valve Steam Machine Review - GamersNexus SteamOS 3.8 - Steam News Valve confirms it’s working with Intel and Nvidia on SteamOS for more GPUs Steam Machines will only come with one 16GB stick of RAM - Tom's Hardware Steam Controller developer interview — Valve talks design, the learning curve, and the lack of kernel drivers \| Tom's Hardware Valve Developer Hardware Talk PDF 2015 Steam Machine - Wikipedia meshcore-ha — Home Assistant integration for monitoring and controlling MeshCore radio networks. Re-Pick: sone — Native TIDAL desktop client for Linux. Modern UI, custom themes, and bit-perfect lossless audio up to 24-bit/192kHz via exclusive ALSA. SONE on Flathub Re-Pick: high-tide — Libadwaita TIDAL client for Linux Pick: coppwr — coppwr displays and provides control over many aspects of PipeWire as directly as possible in an organized and visual way. It can help with debugging and diagnosing a PipeWire setup or with developing software that interacts with PipeWire. coppwr on Flathub Pick: dn-tool — dn-tool is a control-plane CLI that enrolls and unenrolls Linux hosts in a defined.net Managed Nebula network. It calls the defined.net REST API to create and delete host records and obtain single-use enrollment codes, then orchestrates the proprietary dnclient daemon — which it downloads and verifies at runtime. It is strictly control plane: it never reimplements Nebula and never replaces dnclient.
	672: The Kernel Is Not a Museum	22 juin 2026	01:24:52
Your favorite open source projects have been busy. We round up the new releases worth knowing about, plus the big kernel changes headed your way soon. Sponsored By: Webroot: Webroot is cloud-based antivirus, engineered to stay out of your way. For a limited time, you can save sixty percent. Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker Webroot — Save sixty percent when you go to webroot.com/unplugged. 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD KDE Plasma 6.7 Released With Per-Screen Virtual Desktops, Wayland Improvements - Phoronix Plasma 6.7 - KDE Community See what's next for Firefox — Firefox.com systemd 261 Released With New systemd-sysinstall OS Installer Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop myna: Myna is a lightweight speech-to-text application for Ubuntu Desktop. Linux 7.1 Annouced by Linus on Sunday June 14th — Anyway, possible slight hiccups in the merge window aside, the newstoday is 7.1. Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released, Here's What’s New - 9to5Linux Linux 7.1 Features: New NTFS Driver, New Intel + AMD Hardware, Performance Optimizations & Modernization - Phoronix Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released with New NTFS Driver, Intel FRED, and Major Code Cleanup \| Linux Journal The first half of the 7.2 merge window - LWN.net Linux 7.2 Adds Ability To Limit Programs To Only Open Regular Files, Avoid Being Tricked Or Doing Silly Things - Phoronix Btrfs Now Enables Large Folios By Default, Lands Huge Folios With Linux 7.2 - Phoronix XFS Zone Allocator No Longer Experimental With Linux 7.2 - Phoronix EXT4 Reworks Fast Commit Handling & Faster Directory Hash Computation - Phoronix Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More - Phoronix AF_ALG Deprecation Approved For Linux 7.2, Useless & Insecure Crypto Driver Code Removed - Phoronix Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support - Phoronix soltros/Cabinet — Cabinet is a lean, high-performance "File Locker" designed for self-hosting. It prioritizes a fast web experience, mobile-first design, and simple file management without the bloat of complex syncing engines. Distro Stu's Nix Router Config Pick: Fluxcast — Stream your Linux desktop to a Smart TV via Miracast/WFD, DLNA, or Chromecast. Pick: audible-cli — A command line interface for audible package. With the cli you can download your Audible books, cover, chapter files. Pick: Import-To-AudioBookShelf — A utility to take books which you legally purchased from Audible and move them into Audio BookShelf Pick: quipclipper — Find and cut lossless clips from movies & TV by searching the subtitle dialogue.
	671: Windows Without Windows	15 juin 2026	00:55:18
We found the best way for a Linux user to manage Windows: keep it remote, keep it contained, and touch the desktop as little as possible. Sponsored By: Webroot: Webroot is cloud-based antivirus, engineered to stay out of your way. For a limited time, you can save sixty percent. Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Clanker Therapy Highlight - YouTube Clanker Therapy Full Member Recording Webroot — Save sixty percent when you go to webroot.com/unplugged. Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD! Windows-MCP — MCP Server for Computer Use in Windows FORScan — A software scanner for Ford, Mazda, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles, designed to work over ELM327 and J2534 Pass-Thru compatible OBD adapters. MeatPi WiCAN-PRO OBD Scanner — Built on the robust ESP32-S3 platform, WiCAN PRO runs the powerful, open-source WiCAN firmware. argunix: Webhook-driven Nix CI for GitHub, GitLab, and Forgejo PearPass - Your Open-Source Password Manager olmec's nixos-router config Ulanzi TC001 Smart Pixel Clock — The full-color LED screen supports custom icons, bringing time and weather to life in a way that’s both retro and modern — making it the most unique visual statement on your desk. ULANZI TC001 Smart Pixel Clock awtrix3 — Custom firmware for the Ulanzi Smart Pixel clock or self-made AWTRIX displays. Mouzi — Mouzi is a silent, elegant file organizer that lives in your system tray and keeps your Downloads folder (and any other folder) automatically tidy. It runs quietly in the background, monitors selected folders, and moves, renames, or sorts files based on customizable rules. Mouzi - Organize Downloads Folder Automatically
	670: There's Chickens in that Nebula	08 juin 2026	01:06:05
Leave the farm without killing the chickens, or losing remote access? We dig into how we pulled it off: Frigate, local automation, sun-tracking coop doors, and a network that shrugged off an ISP outage. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: ConnecTen Internet — Get $35 off your order total with Jupiter35 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Live Friday Clanker Therapy Stream Agent Op Guild on Telegram Agent Op Guild on Matrix Outdoor Electrical Water Resistant Enclosure - Amazon Sipeed NanoKVM IP-KVM - Amazon Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 Smart Automatic Chicken Coop Door with WiFi Omlet Developer Console WLED Project Generic MagWLED-1 WLED Controller WS2812B LED Light Strip LED Strip Diffuser Channel Zooz Z-Wave Long Range Q Sensor ZSE11 800LR AIR-1 Air Quality Sensor for Home Assistant Anyone successfully using the MiCS 4514 Gas Sensor? - Reddit Zooz Z-Wave Long Range Power Strip ZEN20 800LR Amcrest 5MP Turret POE Camera Amcrest 8-Port POE+ Switch go2rtc Frigate We Are The Art \| Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech Pick: Zooz ZEN05 Outdoor Smart Plug – ZOOZ Pick: Works with Home Assistant Certified Devices — Every product listed here has been rigorously tested by our team to ensure a great experience with Home Assistant, all backed by a brand committed to long-term support. All these products put privacy and local control first.
	669: Harshing rsync's Vibe	01 juin 2026	01:16:30
rsync's founder came back, patched real security bugs with AI help, and triggered an open source meltdown. Plus, two more projects reject AI-generated code as the community's newest fault line cracks wide open. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: ConnecTen Internet — Get $35 off your order total with Jupiter35 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software · Issue #929 · RsyncProject/rsync fogti/rsync-nai — Fork of rsync just before the first obviously LLM-influenced commit Flathub No LLM Policy — We have updated Flathub's LLM policy to explicitly disallow AI usage for both the submission process and applications being submitted. Reword LLM policy to make it clear it's not allowed - flathub-infra Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains - YouTube GNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator - Phoronix QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions - Phoronix Fwupd 2.1.4 Brings Many Fixes For Bugs Spotted By Anthrophic's Mythos, Firmware Update Support For Intel Arc Pro B65/B70 - Phoronix Linux Networking Still Seeing "Significantly Bigger" Pull Requests Due To AI - Phoronix GitHub Copilot & Claude Code Helped With Graphics, WiFi Linux Driver Issues This Week - Phoronix mnemosyne: The Zero-Dependency, Sub-Millisecond AI Memory System for Hermes Agents and Everyone Else! Markdown First: A Proposal for the Agent-Readable Web — BitCryptic Pick: RecordApps — A desktop application that allows you to record audio from specific applications on Linux. Built with Deno, Svelte, and WebView. Pick: OpenLogi — A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.
	668: --yolo	25 mai 2026	01:17:01
Brent's been hacking smart speakers, Wes has a surprise, and Chris gives up on OpenClaw. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: ConnecTen Internet — Get $35 off your order total with Jupiter35 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden My first 100 days at Bitwarden — Open source is the foundation of everything Bitwarden builds. The ability to audit the code, to self-host, to verify rather than simply believe are not just nice-to-haves, they are the reason Bitwarden is different from every other option in this space, and that will not change. AfterTouch — Bose SoundTouch Toolkit soundcork — Intercept API for Bose SoundTouch after they turn off the servers Bose SoundTouch EOL Announcement SoundTouch 30 Wi-Fi Music System \| Bose Wikia \| Fandom Keeping Your Speakers Alive After the Bose Cloud Shutdown – AfterTouch Bose SoundTouch is officially dead, but your speakers may still survive - SoundGuys SoundTouch 30 Wi-Fi Music System \| Bose Support NASty — NASty is a NAS operating system built on NixOS and bcachefs. It turns commodity hardware into a storage appliance serving NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF. Managed from a single web UI, updated atomically, and rolled back when things go sideways. nasty-top — A top-like TUI for bcachefs filesystems. hermes-agent - GitHub Hermes Agent — Open-Source AI Agent with Persistent Memory Windows-MCP — MCP Server for Computer Use in Windows Greg KH Calls For More Rust Linux Developers Rust for Linux — Rust for Linux is the project adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel. OpenCode Go - Low cost coding models for everyone — Go brings agentic coding to programmers around the world. Offering generous limits and reliable access to the most capable open-source models, so you can build with powerful agents without worrying about cost or availability. Pick: Gnome Commander — A powerful file manager for the Linux desktop environment Pick: halo — Terminal flow field screensaver with Perlin noise, Braille rendering, particles, and 24-bit ANSI color Airwolf Theme 80s Retrowave Bass Remix \| Retro Visualizer \| DMCA Safe - YouTube
	667: The Enterprise Endgame	18 mai 2026	00:59:54
Fedora Hummingbird, RHEL Forever, and Red Hat's AI play: three big Summit takeaways, and why they matter far beyond Red Hat. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM The mobile experience you've been asking for - Defined Networking — The most recent mobile release brings the mobile app to parity with what you’d expect from Nebula everywhere else: persistent connections, full configuration support, custom DNS, and firewall rules. Red Hat Summit 2026 Day 1 Keynote - The next platform is choice - YouTube Enabling long-term stability: Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle, Premium Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hummingbird model to the full operating system — Fedora Hummingbird primarily utilizes an image-based workflow, similar to containers, but also runs in virtual machines and even on bare metal. If you’ve been following Project Hummingbird‘s work on container images, or Project Bluefin’s work on the operating system, you already know the model. Fedora Hummingbird applies this model all the way down to the host OS. Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hummingbird model to the full operating system - Fedora Discussion After Ubuntu, Now Fedora is Jumping Onto the AI Bandwagon With Dedicated AI Developer Desktops — Now, Fedora has voted on an initiative called Fedora AI Developer Desktop that will spawn AI-flavored Fedora Atomic Desktops. Friction in Fedora over AI developer desktop initiative — After more than a month of sometimes heated discussion, the Fedora Council had voted to approve the initiative; however, a last-minute change to vote against the proposal by council member Justin Wheeler has (at least temporarily) sent it back to the drawing board. Fedora AI Developer Desktop Objective Discussion Pick: BudsLink — BudsLink is an application that provides battery monitoring and feature control for supported Bluetooth wearable audio devices, including AirPods, Beats, Sony Audio wearables, Samsung Galaxy Buds and Nothing/CMF buds. BudsLink on Flathub Pick: yamlcast — YAMLCast turns a YAML description of a terminal screencast into an animated GIF. Pick: lightroom-cc-on-linux — Reproducible recipe for running Adobe Lightroom CC on Linux via Wine 11.8 staging. Researched and verified end-to-end by Claude Opus 4.7.
	666: Berkeley Suffering Distribution	11 mai 2026	01:17:15
Who survived the install, who made it to the desktop, and who learned the hard way that one little mistake will blow up the entire BSD box. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington Texas Linux Festival 2026 - November 6-7, 2026 Austin, TX Texas Linux Fest 2026 - Call for Papers deadline July 1, 2026 Dirty Frag, a new Copy.Fail like vulnerability — The Dirty Frag vulnerability class, first discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim, can obtain root privileges on major Linux distributions by chaining the xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43284) and the RxRPC Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43500) vulnerabilities. How to mitigate the "Dirty Frag" CVE-2026-43284 in OpenShift 4 - Red Hat Customer Portal Dirty Frag Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability mitigations - Ubuntu Dirty Frag Explained: Linux Root Exploit, Mitigation & Patching Guide LINUX Unplugged 666 - The BSD Challenge Rules Magnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge Report — It’s still got that old cowboy feel to it. Magnolia's Sinchflat - GitLab — Anyway, Pinchflat now has a FreeBSD-first competitor. FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements Project — The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements project aims to deliver a package of improved or new FreeBSD functionality that, together, will ensure that it runs well “out of the box” on a broad range of personal computing devices. nixbsd: An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel Brent's nixbsd config NomadBSD — Persistent live USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data recovery, for educational purposes, or to test FreeBSD's hardware compatibility. GhostBSD — A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System gershwin-desktop — Desktop Environment based on GNUstep welcoming to switchers gershwin-on-freebsd live iso gershwin-on-debian live iso gershwin-on-arch live iso Maintaining the World’s Fastest Content Delivery Network at Netflix on FreeBSD - FreeBSD Foundation Pick: kiji-proxy — An intelligent privacy layer for AI APIs. Kiji automatically detects and masks personally identifiable information (PII) in requests to AI services, ensuring your sensitive data never leaves your control. Pick: Portbook — Local Rust web dashboard that auto-discovers and labels HTTP dev services running on localhost ports — with live SSE updates, project-root detection, and live/error/dead classification. Pick: Sylve — Sylve is a lightweight, open-source management platform for FreeBSD. It combines Bhyve virtual machines, FreeBSD Jails, and ZFS storage into a modern web interface designed to deliver a streamlined, Proxmox-like experience tailored for FreeBSD environments. AlchemillaHQ/Sylve — Lightweight GUI for managing Bhyve, Jails, ZFS, networking, and more on FreeBSD FreshPorts: sysutils/sylve
	665: Patch Me If You Can	04 mai 2026	01:20:41
We dig into the Copy Fail vulnerability and test a proof-of-concept against our own box. Plus, Jon Seager, VP of Engineering at Canonical joins us, and we kick off the BSD Challenge! Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431 — "An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux system, and use that to gain root." — Theori Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root - Xint — "A single 732-byte Python script can edit a setuid binary and obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017." — Xint Linux Kernel Bug Explained - Jorijn — "CopyFail is more portable. One script, every distro, no offsets. Dirty Pipe needed kernel ≥ 5.8; Copy Fail covers 2017–2026." — Jorijn"Kubernetes Pod Security Standards (Restricted) and default seccomp do NOT block the syscall used." — Jorijn Ars: Most Severe Linux Threat in Years — "The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed." — Ars Technica Sysdig: CVE-2026-31431 Analysis — "The flaw was introduced in 2017 via commit 72548b093ee3, which switched AEAD operations to in-place processing." — Sysdig CERT-EU Advisory Ubuntu Security Tracker The Register: Crypto Flaw Kernel Patch (reverts 2017 optimization) — "This mostly reverts commit 72548b093ee3 except for the copying of the associated data." — Kernel Commit Buggy Commit: 72548b093ee3 (2017) DeepWiki: AF_ALG Internals oss-security Disclosure PSA + GRUB Mitigation - Jan Wildeboer Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Released — "Ubuntu 26.04 LTS sets the example for providing best-in-class resilience while simultaneously embracing innovation and the advancement of open source." — Jon Seager, VP Ubuntu Engineering The Future of AI in Ubuntu - Jon Seager — "Throughout 2026 we'll be working on enabling access to frontier AI for Ubuntu users in a way that is deliberate, secure, and aligned with our open source values." — Jon Seager Ubuntu 26.04 Release Notes Ubuntu AI Features Throughout 2026 - Phoronix — "Canonical's approach to AI is refreshingly thoughtful — Microsoft should take note." — ZDNet Canonical DDoS Attack Update — "Canonical's web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border attack and we are working to address it." — arcticp, Canonical Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #942 Canonical AI Approach - ZDNet 9to5Linux: Opt-In LLM Tools uutils/coreutils: Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils LINUX Unplugged 636: Engineering the Future LiveCD fails to start X session on QEMU · Issue #354 · ghostbsd/issues Monty's “rescue” drive NixOS config Magnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge Report Pick: NASty — NASty is a NAS operating system built on NixOS and bcachefs. It turns commodity hardware into a storage appliance serving NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF — managed from a single web UI, updated atomically, and rolled back when things go sideways. Pick: Defuse — Defuse is a GTK4 application for removing image backgrounds locally. Defuse on Flathub
	664: Back to Root	27 avr. 2026	00:58:41
After 26 years, we return to our roots and reflect on why LinuxFest Northwest is still a special event. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LINUX Unplugged 666 BSD Challenge - Rules and Regrets LFNW2026 - Back to Root LinuxFest Northwest 2026 Playlist - YouTube LinuxFest Northwest - YouTube The New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is A Local LLM On Framework Desktop + AMD Ryzen AI Max Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Bear454's Fundraiser: Support for James Mason's Family Pick: Updo — Updo is a command-line tool for monitoring website uptime and performance. It provides real-time metrics on website status, response time, SSL certificate expiry, and more, with alert notifications. Pick: Pake — 🤱🏻 Turn any webpage into a desktop app with one command.
	663: The 99.8% Rescue	20 avr. 2026	01:04:29
We all have data to rescue, you just don't realize it yet. This week we build our own custom live rescue distros, recover real data, and show you how to make your own. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington 6 ultimate boot CDs (system rescue) for troubleshooting Windows PCs SystemRescue — A Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. Finnix — Debian-based, CLI-focused with a comprehensive set of repair tools. Recent updates improved modern hardware support, boot speed, zram compression, and SSH remote access. Changes/ModernizeLiveMedia - Fedora Project Wiki — Modernize the live media by switching to the "new" live environment setup scripts provided by livesys-scripts and leverage new functionality in dracut to enable support for automatically enabling persistent overlays when flashed to USB sticks. Fedora 41: Modernize the live media Overlay Features? aegis-boot — A signed UEFI Secure Boot rescue environment that lets operators pick any ISO from a USB stick's data partition and kexec into it — without leaving the chain of trust. netboot.xyz — A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE. Greg's nixos-config Self-Hosted 129: Forged Alliance — The battle for code forges is heating up. We chat about HexOS' big promises and get excited about Meshtastic. pocket-id — A simple OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services. What Is Claude Mythos—And Why Anthropic Won’t Let Anyone Use It v4call — v4call is a decentralised video, voice and text platform built on the Hive blockchain. Users set their own rates for receiving calls and messages. Pick: Metadata Cleaner — View and clean metadata in files Metadata Cleaner on FlatHub Pick: mat2 — mat2 is a metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats, written in python3 Pick: Little Snitch for Linux — Every time an application on your computer opens a network connection, it does so quietly, without asking. Little Snitch for Linux makes that activity visible and gives you the option to do something about it. littlesnitch-linux-flake — A Nix Flake for Little Snitch for Linux Pick: PCAPdroid — No-root network monitor, firewall and PCAP dumper for Android
	662: The GitHub Diet	13 avr. 2026	01:25:39
Is it time to replace GitHub in our workflow? We git into it. Plus, our favorite features in the new Linux 7.0 release. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2026 — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington LFNW2026 Schedule Linux 7.0: Btrfs — A translation layer of logical block addresses that allows changes without moving or rewriting blocks for relocation Linux 7.0: XFS — Autonomous self-healing; delivers live filesystem health events to userspace for automatic repairs Linux 7.0: EXT4 — Improves write performance for concurrent direct I/O writes Linux 7.0: IO-uring — Adds support for BPF filtering to IO_uring for high performance async I/O Linux 7.0: Scheduler — Scheduler updates land with time slice extension, performance and scalability work for high core count systems Linux 7.0: Rust — Formally concluding the 'Rust experiment'; Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay Linux 7.1: i486 — Begins phasing out Intel 486 CPU support; no known Linux distributions still ship with i486 support Give Up GitHub — We realize this is not an easy task; GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their effective marketing, GitHub has convinced FOSS developers that GitHub is the best (and even the only) place for FOSS development. opengist — Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, open-source alternative to Github Gist. Forgejo on Codeberg — Beyond coding. We forge. Forgejo — Self-hosted alternative to GitHub; liberate your software from proprietary shackles with a familiar environment NixOS Wiki: Forgejo — Lightweight software forge; completely free software and a fork of Gitea Forgejo Actions — Reusable pieces of code for CI workflows; compatible with GitHub Actions NixOS Forgejo Actions Runner — NixOS configuration for turnkey deployment of Forgejo Actions runners Forgejo Federation (PR #10453) — Work-in-progress for federated repositories; enabling decentralized software development Forgejo Snippets (Issue #1069) — Create a shareable piece of text, be it code or plain text, publicly or privately Git Novice Guide — Free interactive tutorial; learn version control with Git from scratch Pick: sshroute — Network-aware SSH router - routes connections to different IPs/ports/keys/jump hosts based on active VPN or network Pick: rendercv — Resume builder for academics and engineers Pick: ESPHome Starter Kit — DIY sensor kit for Home Assistant with ESPHome; build your own smart home devices
	661: Sink Your Claws In	06 avr. 2026	01:04:18
The expensive, challenging, and humbling journey with open source agents. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington Preferring Local OSS LLMs Qwen3.5 27B vs Gemma4 31B Open Models have crossed a threshold Gemma 4 — Google DeepMind Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device Gemma-4-31B-JANG\_4M-CRACK · Hugging Face mesh-llm — Mesh LLM lets you pool spare GPU capacity across machines and expose the result as one OpenAI-compatible API. hermes-agent: The agent that grows with you — The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions. goose — An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions; install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM. Lobehub — The ultimate space for work and life. To find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you. We are taking agent harness to the next level; enabling multi-agent collaboration, effortless agent team design, and introducing agents as the unit of work interaction. LibreFang — LibreFang is an open-source agent operating system written in Rust. OpenHarness — OpenHarness is an open-source Python implementation designed for researchers, builders, and the community. Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents — Microsoft proclaims their new open-source project is the first toolkit that addresses all ten agentic AI risks identified last year by the OWASP Top 10 Risks and Mitigations for Agentic AI Security - OWASP Gen AI Security Project googleworkspace/cli: Google Workspace CLI — One command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills. Tunarr API Reference Euro-Office launches as Europe's open-source Office rival Pick: single-file-cli — CLI tool for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file (based on SingleFile) Pick: html-to-markdown — Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules. Pick: skim — Turns any HTML page into clean markdown.
	660: Boots and Breakups	29 mars 2026	00:57:36
Ubuntu wants a leaner, stricter GRUB, and your favorite setup may not survive the cut. We break down what’s really changing, and the practical ways to adapt. Plus, Chris moves on from one of his favorite open source apps. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington This Week In Bitcoin 97 \| Jupiter Broadcasting Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security Streamlining secure boot for 26.10 - Ubuntu Community Hub Mitigating BootHole – CVE-2020-10713 and related vulnerabilities \| Ubuntu There's a Hole in the Boot - Eclypsium Final Release · ErsatzTV — It is time for me to announce the final release of ErsatzTV in its current form. The existing repositories will be archived following this update. ErsatzTV/next Tunarr · GitHub — Create a classic TV experience using your own media — IPTV backed by Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, or NFO. Threadfin xTeVe Filler - Tunarr — Filler lists are collections of content used by Flex to pad time between episodes. One reason to use filler is to simulate traditional television by playing advertisements between episode airings. Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr (pronounced like "dispatcher") is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams, EPG data, and VOD content with elegance and control. awesome-iptv — A curated list of resources related to IPTV Tunarr API Reference LINUX Unplugged 645 — We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex. turnstonelabs/turnstone — Experimental multi-node AI orchestration platform. Deploy tool-using AI agents across a cluster of servers, driven by message queues or interactive interfaces. Open-Source "GreenBoost" Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMs GeneBean's Cage Kiosk GeneBean's Pi Arm Build Setup Planify - Task Manager for GNU/Linux alainm23/planify: Task manager with Todoist, Nextcloud & CalDAV support designed for GNOME Pick: bore — bore is a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost nixos-bore-module — Self-hosted bore tunnel server for NixOS Pick: kdeconnect-sms-tui — Terminal UI for sending and receiving SMS/MMS via KDE Connect. Pick: Busybridge — Complex calendar free/busy syncing across organizations for consultants who work inside multiple orgs.
	659: Truth Trapper Keepers	23 mars 2026	00:53:08
The self-hosted app that turned Chris into a family Time Lord, then we iterate on a long-desired hardware hack. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington Keeper.sh — Keeper is a simple & open-source calendar syncing tool. It allows you to pull events from remotely hosted iCal or ICS links, and push them to one or many calendars so the time slots can align across them all. Keeper.sh: Calendar Syncing, V2 Release OneCal PiBox Overview - KubeSail Docs PiBox: A Modular Raspberry Pi Storage Server by Dan Pastusek — Kickstarter RPi CM4 based local storage server launches on Kickstarter KubeSail — So Long, and Thanks for All the Pods ipetkov/nixos-pibox — NixOS modules for supporting the hardware present on the PiBox raspberrypi/usbboot — Raspberry Pi USB device provisioning tool (RPIBOOT) cage-kiosk/cage — A Wayland kiosk. A kiosk runs a single, maximized application. systemd: BirthDate Field Added to JSON User Records — "Add birthDate field to JSON user records, allowing for standardized age-related logic within the userdb framework." Azuay Province - Wikipedia Pick: fq — fq is like jq but for binary formats, allowing you to tool, language, and decode complex binary data into human-readable structures. Pick: file-fridge — move files that aren't accessed as often to cold storage Pick: sigrok — Portable, cross-platform, Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite: logic analyzers, scopes, multimeters, and more! Pick: PulseView — a Qt-based LA/scope/MSO GUI for sigrok
	658: Automated Love Crunch	16 mars 2026	01:03:16
We each spent the week on our own projects, breaking then fixing things. Now we're back to compare progress, and a few lessons learned. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington PabloVitasso/esphome-chinbasto — A custom ESPHome component for controlling Chinese Webasto heaters using ESP32. Hacking the Chinese Diesel Heater Communications Protocol.pdf - Ray Jones - GitLab timmchugh11/Chinese-Diesel-Heater---ESPHome OpenCode \| The open source AI coding agent anomalyco/opencode: The open source coding agent. Hunter Alpha - API Pricing & Providers \| OpenRouter ESPHome - Smart Home Made Simple Home Assistant ESP32 Wi-Fi & Bluetooth SoC \| Espressif Systems nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware: Lua based interactive firmware for ESP8266, ESP8285 and ESP32 NodeMCU-32S Development Board Details, Pinout, Specs Amazon.com: ESP-32S USB-C Development Board + ESP32 Terminal Board agent-browser-protocol — Deterministic browser automation. camofox-browser — Headless browser automation server for AI agents. chrome-devtools-mcp — Chrome DevTools for coding agents firefox-devtools-mcp — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox DevTools LittleFOX-MCP — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox Chrome DevTools MCP Debug — Let your Coding Agent debug your browser session LFNW2026 - Back to Root Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 1 \| Jupiter EXTRAS 40 Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2 \| Jupiter EXTRAS 41 Pick: LosslessCut — Simple and ultra fast cross platform tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video and audio files. LosslessCut on GitHub LosslessCut on Flathub Pick: CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models? Pick: llmfit — Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware.
	657: Slop to Slap	09 mars 2026	01:24:15
After experiencing Planet Nix and SCaLE, we come back convinced the next phase of Linux is already taking shape. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together SCaLE 23x — SCALE is North America's largest community-run open source conference. Jupiter Broadcasting's SCaLE Matrix room SCaLE 23x - YouTube — SCaLE 23x live streams, talks, and more. LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington Flox.dev Flox: Developer environments you can take with you - GitHub — Flox is a virtual environment and package manager all in one. With Flox you create environments that layer and replace dependencies just where it matters, making them portable across the full software lifecycle. Keynote: Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years \| SCALE Cindy Cohn \| SCALE noblepayne/nix-anywhere-else-talk — A Slidev presentation about the "dark arts" of ELF surgery and Nix, built entirely with Nix. This talk explores how patchelf and a deep understanding of the Executable and Linkable Format can make binaries portable in both directions: bringing foreign tools into NixOS, and taking Nix-built artifacts out to the rest of the world. DeepComputing — Advancing the adoption and implementation of RISC-V Roxane Fischer - Anyshift.io Determinate is the future of Nix today: Wasm, provenance, and flake schemas EFF Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years \| SCALE Cindy Cohn - SCaLE — Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which works to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice and innovation for all the people of the world. Electronic Frontier Foundation - Defending your rights in the digital world llama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++ mangowm - Mango Wayland Compositor — Practical and powerful wayland compositor (dwm but wayland) The Open Source AI Definition 1.0 - Open Source Initiative Pick: sone — Native TIDAL desktop client for Linux. Modern UI, custom themes, and bit-perfect lossless audio up to 24-bit/192kHz via exclusive ALSA. License: GPL-3 Pick: qmd — mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local. License: MIT Pick: mtr — Combines the functionality of 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single network diagnostic tool. License: GPL-2 MTR - Welcome Home Brent
	656: Why KDE Linux Surprised Us	02 mars 2026	01:11:03
We take KDE Linux for a spin and push it a little too far. Plus, a friend of the show stops by with a fresh tool: Nebula Commander. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM SCaLE 23x \| Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG" PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together Pasadena Linux Party, Fri, Mar 6, 2026, 6:00 PM KDE Linux - KDE Community Wiki Beta (Enthusiast & Stable editions) · KDE Linux · GitLab Install Software Not Available in Discover - KDE Community KDE Linux / Kapsule · GitLab suikan4github/Using-tailscale-client-on-an-Immutable-OS xuars/kdelinux-tailscale Nix - KDE Community Fitting Everything Together — TLDR: Hermetic /usr/ is awesome; let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, uniformity – built from traditional distribution packages, but deployed via images. Nebula Commander DEMO Nebula Commander Nebula Commander GitHub — Nebula Commander is a self-hosted control plane for nebula overlay networks. Star Trek Comm Badge for Home Assistant Voice Control Pick: hcloud-upload-image — Quickly upload any raw disk images into your Hetzner Cloud projects! Pick: Launcher Studio — Launcher Studio is a GTK4 desktop application for creating and managing .desktop files on Linux. Launcher Studio on Flathub Pick: tinyproxy — A light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems Pick: socks-to-http-proxy — An executable to convert SOCKS5 proxy into HTTP proxy
	655: Speeding Up Mistakes	23 févr. 2026	00:56:48
Planet Nix and SCaLE are just days away, and we're getting a head start with two guests, the tech, and the trends shaping open source. Our trip starts here! Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM SCaLE 23x \| Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG" PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together Pasadena Linux Party Meetup stahnma (Michael Stahnke) Flox, Nix, and Reproducible Software Systems with Michael Stahnke - Software Engineering Daily Pro OpenSSH (Expert's Voice in Open Source): Stahnke, Michael Nix and AI, are we there yet? \| SCALE stahnma/mandatoryFun Post by @kelseyhightower.com — Bluesky — I don't care about LLMs or AI. I care about people. AI is just a tool to me. Tools enable people to help or harm at a scale beyond their natural abilities. I care about how people treat each other using these tools. distrostru's gatus config Status Page On Demand \| Gatus MimiClaw — MimiClaw turns a tiny ESP32-S3 board into a personal AI assistant. hrwtech/openclaw-esp32: OpenClaw on your Arduino ESP32 devices Pick: WebsocketCAM — Access Android camera via WebSocket client API and run AI / computer vision tasks with ease on live camera stream Pick: ChrisLAS/openclaw-mcp-bridge — OpenClaw plugin that bridges any MCP HTTP server as native tools. The missing piece between OpenClaw + Ollama and the MCP ecosystem. Pick: ChrisLAS/freshrss-mcp — A simple MCP server to stand in front of your FreshRSS Server Pick: wechsel — A Cli Utility to replace home folders with symlinks to project folders wechsel-extension: A Gnome Extension for Project Switching
	654: Creating Discord in the Matrix	16 févr. 2026	01:24:47
We were minutes away from shutting down our Matrix server when the Discord news hit. Now we're not just keeping it, we're doubling down. Can open source seize this moment? Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM SCaLE 23x \| Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG" PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together Pasadena Linux Party Meetup Discord to roll out age verification next month Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos Discord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter Thiel NULLFS and OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE Features Merged For Linux 7.0 OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE To Provide A Security and Performance Win For Dealing With Containers All about initramfs pivot_root implementation and constraints TrueNAS Scale ZimaOS — A Simplified, Focused and Open NAS OS Supports all X86-64 hardware. Github: ZimaOS Clan — opinionated NixOS peer-to-peer computer management framework What is Clan? - Documentation clan-lol/clan-core: Build your own clan ConnecTen internet Case Study: Fortress Outdoor Router Pick: booklog — B{ook}log is a self-hosted, multi-user book tracking platform for avid readers. Each user maintains a personal library and wishlist, with per-user readings, stats, and timeline. Pick: whosthere — Local Area Network discovery tool with an interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there? 🚪 Pick: Weylus — Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.
	653: The Kernel Always Wins	09 févr. 2026	01:05:50
The news this week highlights shifts in Linux from multiple angles. What's evolving, why it matters, and that moment where the future actually works. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM SCaLE 23x \| Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG" PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together Pasadena Linux Party Meetup Valve explains why it hasn’t announced release dates for its new hardware, now plans for “first half of the year” — Valve now says all three products will ship “in the first half of the year.” Latest VirtualBox Code Begins Supporting KVM Backend — Support for KVM or other native OS hypervisors in conjunction with VirtualBox has long been sought and it's finally becoming a reality. bcachefs-tools v1.36.1 — Interactive TUI for monitoring various filesystem internals, slowpaths and device performance, with duration and frequency tracking for various events. Helpful for diagnosing performance issues. bcachefs v1.36.1 is out - next release will be erasure coding : r/bcachefs bcachefs PSA: if you're on 1.33-1.35, upgrade asap — Several people have been hit by this, so - please upgrade asap. Mattermost — Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle. Debian's CI Data No Longer Publicly Browseable Due To LLM Scrapers / Bot Traffic Venice AI - Private AI for Unlimited Creative Freedom ThinkBox V2 - A Custom 4-Bay SATA/SAS HDD NAS for Your Lenovo M720Q Code for Climate 2026 — The Mad Botter Earth Day Open Source Challenge — We're doing our Earth Day open-source competition again The Mad Botter INC. Once again featuring System76 hardware and this time with dual tracks for college and non-college students. Michael Dominick on X - Earth Day Open Source Challenge Red5d/podcast_mcp — MCP server for accessing Podcasting 2.0 RSS feed episode data. "I've really only tested it with JB feeds!" Pick: Plexus — Remove the fear of Android app compatibility on de-Googled devices. Plexus-app: GitHub Pick: ReinschriftTodo — Reinschrift combines a native GNOME interface with the simplicity of plain text. Your tasks remain a normal Markdown file – easy to back up, versionable via Git, and editable on any device with your favorite editor. Reinschrift on Flathub
	652: Have Your Bot Call My Bot	02 févr. 2026	01:09:57
We stress tested open source AI agents this week. What actually held up, and where it falls apart. Plus Brent's $20 Wi-Fi upgrade. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together Agenda - PlanetNix 2026 SCaLE 23x \| Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG" Pasadena Linux Party Meetup LINUX Unplugged 650: This Old Network — We rebuild a small office network around Linux, with an Unplugged twist and real-world constraints. Things don't go quite as expected... OpenWrt Wiki - Ad blocking AdBlock-fast — AdBlock-Fast is a high-performance ad-blocking service for OpenWrt that integrates with Dnsmasq, SmartDNS, and Unbound. OpenWrt Wiki - Supported Hardware Table Abe's volition — This is a public, sanitized version of my Abiverse repository for people to use and run their own Abes OpenClaw — Clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights. All from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use. Introducing OpenClaw openclaw on GitHub 🦞 openclaw security Issues Practical changes could reduce AI energy demand by up to 90% – University College London moltbook — the front page of the agent internet SeloraBox - NixOS Edition — SeloraBox is a self-configuring home automation appliance based on NixOS, featuring automated installation, device claiming via QR code, and self-updating configuration management. nixtcloud: Nextcloud with NixOS in the backend and P2P connectivity enabled — Nixtcloud turns a Raspberry Pi or NanoPi NEO3 into a privacy-first, zero-config personal cloud — powered by NixOS, Nextcloud, and peer-to-peer remote access via Holesail. Built for the self-hosting crowd who want full control without constant babysitting. Holesail.io - Open Source P2P Reverse Proxy Pick: ml-sharp-pinokio — One-click 3D Gaussian Splatting generation from a single image. Pick: Gradia — Gradia helps you get your screenshots ready for sharing, whether quickly with friends or colleagues, or professionally with the entire world.
	651: Uptime Funk	26 janv. 2026	01:02:43
When your self-hosted services become infrastructure, breakage matters. We tackle monitoring that actually helps, alerts you won't ignore, and DNS for local, and multi-mesh network setups. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Using Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula \| Nebula Docs PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together SCaLE 23x \| Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG" Pasadena Linux Party Meetup NACME: ACME for Nebula PKI — ACME for Nebula PKI uptime-kuma — A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool telegraf-bcachefs-input bcachefs collector by ananthb ntfy.sh — Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST meshSidecar — Mesh network sidecars for NixOS Services Become a Core Contributor Member Jupiter.Party Network Membership NixOS Clinic Config NixRTR/nixos-router — NixOS Router Configuration Next Steps for Funding Contributors - Actual Budget WiFiman - WiFi Analyser RichARCH Install Guide RichARCH Hyprvibe Screenshot Pick: Switchyard — Modern rules-based URL launcher ready to replace your default browser. switchyard on GitHub Switchyard on Flathub
	650: This Old Network	19 janv. 2026	01:03:03
We rebuild a small office network around Linux, with an Unplugged twist and real-world constraints. Things don't go quite as expected... Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together SCaLE 23x \| Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG" GEEKOM IT13 Mini PC 2026 OpenWrt One Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus-E Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 — An updated Zigbee and Thread chip gives it the highest performance available, while providing a rock-solid, stable network. SYMFONISK Sonos WiFi bookshelf speaker — The speaker is a collaboration between IKEA and Sonos, so it easily integrates with other products from Sonos. IKEA SYMFONISK - Home Assistant — Support for devices by IKEA SYMFONISK in Home Assistant is provided by the Sonos integration. OpenCode — The open-source AI coding agent. OpenCode on GitHub mike@computerupcycleproject.org Actual — A local-first personal finance app. Pocket ID — A simple and easy-to-use OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services. Pick: Pocket TTS — A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice. Pocket TTS on GitHub Pick: WebView Kiosk — Turn your Android device into a locked-down web page in fullscreen mode. webview-kiosk on GitHub
	649: Burned by AI	12 janv. 2026	01:15:10
The storage apocalypse has arrived. An old friend drops by to talk survival strategies as prices explode, and we pitch our own unapologetically 90s approach to stretching storage. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals SCaLE 23x \| Registration LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for Speakers Michael Tunnell - YouTube TuxDigital LINUX Unplugged 596: Perilously Pontificated Predictions Phison CEO: SSD "Pricing Apocalypse" to Continue Through 2027 HDD Prices Spike as AI Infrastructure and China’s PC Push Collide 2025 Cloud Pricing Trends: Big Three Shake Up Storage Costs Storage Apocalypse: Why SSDs and HDDs Are Becoming Impossibly Expensive Jensen Huang Flagged Data Storage as the Next AI Bottleneck Manufacturer Recertified Drives - ServerPartDeals.com Hard Disk Prices (US) Storage Price Tracker RackRat - eBay Rackmount Server Deal Finder r/HomelabSales$£€ - Reddit Smart Buy 10 Pack Bd-r Dl 50gb 6X Blu-ray Double Layer Recordable Disc BlueVault — A top-quality TUI app to manage Blu-ray cold storage archives on Linux. Pick: Kopia — Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included. Kopia Repository Server Pick: PowerISO — Create, Burn, Mount, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual Drive PowerISO on Flathub Pick: CDEmu — CDemu is a software suite designed to emulate an optical drive and disc on the Linux operating system. Tellico — Collection management software, free and simple.
	648: I See Live People	05 janv. 2026	01:01:42
We unleash a networking monitoring tool to spot new devices, track changes in real time, and fire alerts straight into Home Assistant, MQTT, and your phone. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals @ Sessionize.com SCaLE 23x \| Registration NetAlert X — Network intruder and presence detector. Scans for devices connected to your network and alerts you if new and unknown devices are found. NetAlertX Docs NetAlertX GitHub NetAlertX docker-compose.yml NixOS OCI Config for NetAlertX Home Assistant - NetAlertX Docs — NetAlertX comes with MQTT support, allowing you to show all detected devices as devices in Home Assistant. It also supplies a collection of stats, such as number of online devices. home assistant mqtt documentation ntfy.sh — Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking ESPresense mkellyxp/nixbook: LICENSE? - Issue #55 Choosing a License - Find the Perfect Open Source License for Your Project License Selector - OpenLicr LicenseHub - Open Source License Tools Platform Open Source Licenses Explained: A Comparison GitHub - ErikMcClure/bad-licenses — A compendium of absurd "open-source" licenses. Podverse Alpha Podcasting 2.0 Episode 246: Crap Trap — Adam & Dave are joined by Mitch and Archie of Podverse fame Pick: MQTT — Your All-in-one MQTT Client Toolbox MQTTX GitHub MQTT X on Flathub Pick: mqtt5-explorer — MQTT5 Explorer is a simple yet feature-rich client to visualize data of any MQTT broker. MQTT5 Explorer on Flathub Pick: Unify — Unify is a web app aggregator built with Qt 6, Qt WebEngine, and Kirigami Unify on Flathub Pick: web-app-hub — A Web App Manager, written in rust with GTK and beautiful Adwaita. Web App Hub on Flathub Pick: Home-manager Webapps — Home-manager configuration file to get webapps in the system menu on a NixOS system
	647: Plausibly Postulated Prophecies	29 déc. 2025	01:35:16
We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for Speakers The Launch 🚀: Nature Chose Violence PewDiePie - I installed Linux (so should you) James Lee - How I Broke up with Adobe Linux surpasses 5% market share on US desktops for the first time It is finally the year of Linux on the Desktop: free OS reaches 5% market share Introducing the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant ADHD is Awesome: A Guide To (Mostly) Thriving With ADHD: Holderness, Penn, Holderness, Kim, Edward Hallowell: 9781400338610 Pick: eilmeldung TUI RSS Reader — A terminal-based RSS reader built on the news-flash backend. Pick: Zbridge — zBridge is an online bridge club where you can learn and play bridge. It is a full bridge platform with multiple features. Zbridge flatpak source Pick: Cavalier — Visualize audio with CAVA
	646: The Great Holiday Homelab Special 🎄	21 déc. 2025	01:28:36
The Great Holiday Homelab Special! Where our community brought their absolute best, from budget busters to beautiful disasters. Plus, a boosties celebration! Grab an eggnog and join us as we attempt to choose this year's winners. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
	645: COSMIC Christmas	15 déc. 2025	01:10:08
We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex. Then, we talk COSMIC stable with System76's CEO. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released — This year, System76 turned twenty. For twenty years we have shipped Linux computers. For seven years we’ve built the Pop!_OS Linux distribution. Three years ago it became clear we had reached the limit of our current potential and had to create something new. Today, we break through that limit with the release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with the COSMIC Desktop Environment. Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams and EPG data with elegance and control. IPTV Link Search — Public IPTV live channels, m3u8 links are updated daily. Streamtest.in ptv-org/iptv — Collection of publicly available IPTV channels from all over the world iptv/PLAYLISTS.mdb epg — Utilities for downloading the EPG (Electronic Program Guide) for thousands of TV channels from hundreds of sources. iptv-epg.org TiviMate IPTV Player — Easy to use for beginners and deeply customizable for power users, TiviMate blends speed, clarity, and control into a seamless viewing experience. M3U IPTV — Stream your IPTV channels on the go or on Android TV. DangoPlayer — A fast video player and IPTV client for Android and TV iPlayTV - IPTV/M3U Player App — IPTV/M3U player for Apple TV. The one Chris has used the longest Chillio IPTV Smart Player App — New app, paid if you want quad box Open TV — IPTV player with many features. html-iptv-player — HTML IPTV Player with EPG viewer for M3U8 playlist hypnotix — An M3U IPTV Player IPTVnator VidGrid — watch multiple news channels in your browser M3U Magic • Free Private IPTV Player ErsatzTV — Your Personal IPTV Server kptv-fast — A high-performance streaming service aggregator that combines multiple free streaming platforms into a single M3U playlist and EPG. Perfect for use with Channels DVR, Plex, or any IPTV client. Pick: Jellify-Music — A cross-platform, free and open source music player for Jellyfin, powered by React Native Pick: DockerComposeMaker — DockerComposeMaker (DCM) is a self-hostable website to help you pick and create a docker-compose.yml file for your home server. Discover new containers, discover and share a config in a couple of clicks! Demo Docker Compose Generator Pick: Leantime — Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.
	644: The People's Filesystem	08 déc. 2025	01:24:23
Kent Overstreet joins us for a full update on bcachefs. What's new, what's next, and the surprising upside of getting kicked out of the kernel. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Form LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Old Fart Form (markdown) bcachefs 1.33.0 Bcachefs Ready With Its Reconcile Feature As Biggest Change In Two Years — "Biggest new feature in the past ~2 years, I believe. The user facing stuff may be short and sweet - but so much going on under the hood to make all this smooth and polished." Kent Overstreet - Patreon bcachefs — A copy-on-write (COW) file system for Linux first announced by Kent Overstreet in 2015. It is intended to compete with the modern features of ZFS or Btrfs. LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later — Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole. Git or not a Git man page? proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS Pick: Dotfiles Installer — Install dotfiles easy, fast and secure. Or provide an installation application for your dotfiles. ML4W Dotfiles Installer Wiki dotfiles-installer: GitHub Pick: SSH-Studio — Easy, GUI SSH config editor and validator built with Python, GTK 4 and libadwaita. LubeLogger, Vehicle Maintenance and Fuel Mileage Tracker, slips into December with some banging new features
	643: The Sunday Soapbox	01 déc. 2025	01:31:33
We pull on a few loose threads from recent episodes, and some of them unravel into way more than we expected. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Form LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Old Fart Form (markdown) Jellyswarrm — Bring all your Jellyfin servers together LiveTV support · Issue #9 · LLukas22/Jellyswarrm pangolin — Identity-Aware Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Dashboard UI. Pangolin \| Secure Access Platform NixOS Search - Options - Pangolin Youtarr — Self-hosted web app that automates downloading, organizing, and scheduling YouTube channel content with support for Plex, Kodi, Emby and Jellyfin Add ability to set subfolder for manual downloads · Issue #287 · DialmasterOrg/Youtarr Dawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History) dawarich CHANGELOG.md CVE-2025-40090 \| Ubuntu — Since commit 305853cce3794 ksmbd_session_rpc_method() attempts to lock sess->rpc_lock. This causes hung connections / tasks when a client attempts to open a named pipe. SMB3 & KSMBD See Performance Improvements With Linux 6.18 — KSMBD also now adds a max IP connections parameter to optionally limit the maximum number of connections permitted per IP address. ksmbd vulnerability research · Doyensec's Blog ksmbd - Fuzzing Improvements and Vulnerability Discovery (2/3) ksmbd - Exploiting CVE-2025-37947 (3/3) doyensec's KSMBD-CVE-2025-37947 PoC GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance GrapheneOS exits France — what it means for encryption France's Encryption War Escalates: GrapheneOS Exodus Signals Dangerous Precedent for Open Source Privacy Tech Seems like the GrapheneOS phone collab may be with Motorolla. Rust For Linux Kernel Co-Maintainer Formally Steps Down Bcachefs Ousted from Mainline Kernel: The Move to DKMS and What It Means Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” Strategies Richard Hipp - Git: Just Say No - YouTube 2011 SouthEast LinuxFest - Richard Hipp - Fossilize Your Code - YouTube Pick: Gopher64 — Highly compatible N64 emulator. Gopher64 — simple64's official and spiritual successor - Libretro — It’s made by the same developer(s). Unlike simple64 however, it’s not based entirely on Mupen64Plus. And it’s aiming for a more LowSpec hardware overhang. Install Gopher64 on Linux \| Flathub
	642: Tunneling Home for the Holidays	24 nov. 2025	00:56:16
Chris cooked up a wild remote-access trick for Jellyfin that skips VPNs entirely. One tiny toggle spins up a secure tunnel on demand. Simple, absurd, and shockingly effective. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Form Old Fart Form (markdown) ngrok — Go from code to global in just minutes with a developer-friendly, idiomatic solution for managing traffic to your APIs. Jellyswarrm — Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place. Sveske-Juice/declarative-jellyfin — This repository provides a Nix flake that allows for declarative configuration of Users, Libraries, Plugins, Settings, etc. Jellyfin 10.11 is NOT SUPPORTED. declarative-jellyfin full example Zigl3ur/jellyhub — JellyHub is a web app that allow you to fetch media from all of your jellyfin servers and regroup it in one place, so there is one place to search for specific media and tells you on wich server the desired media is located. Smiley-McSmiles/jellyman — Jellyman is a lightweight BASH CLI tool for installing and managing Jellyfin. As well as create a full backup (automatically or manually) so you can move or import all your metadata and user information to another machine. LSchallot/JellyRoller — JellyRoller is an open source CLI Jellyfin Controller written in Rust that works on Windows and Linux. Its primary purpose is to allow administration of a Jellyfin application from the command line. kjtsune/embyToLocalPlayer — etlp (embyToLocalPlayer) is a tool that lets Emby, Jellyfin, and Plex play videos using your local media players (like mpv or VLC) instead of the built-in web player, while optionally sending playback progress back to the server. Pick: subgen — Autogenerate subtitles using OpenAI Whisper Model via Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, Tautulli, or Bazarr.
	641: Something New, Something Old	17 nov. 2025	01:10:27
We dig into the biggest Linux hardware news of the year, then fire up our new-to-us 1L PC server. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Download DNClient Desktop from Defined Networking OLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and Expo Registration - OLF Conference Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS Steam Controller — Steam Controller shares DNA with Steam Deck, with all the inputs to play all the games on Steam, wherever Steam is. Steam Machine — Made for powerful, versatile PC gaming on a big screen; quiet and small enough to fit under your TV, on your desk, or anywhere else you want to game. (It's a roughly 6-inch (160mm) cube!) Steam Frame — Comfortable, wireless, lightweight VR designed to give you a new way to experience your entire Steam library “The Steam machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home.” Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam Machine FEX-Emu/FEX: A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux FEX 2511 Delivers More Performance Improvements For Linux x86 Binaries On ARM64 Commits · FEX-Emu/FEX · GitHub PLF10 Smart Plug – Kaufman Home Automation Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 About Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 — Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 is the new name for Home Assistant SkyConnect. Despite the new name and look, they have the exact same hardware, capability, and support. libvirt: The virtualization API libvirt - ArchWiki — Libvirt is a collection of software that provides a convenient way to manage virtual machines and other virtualization functionality, such as storage and network interface management. These software pieces include a long term stable C API, a daemon (libvirtd), and a command line utility (virsh). Category:Virtualization - NixOS Wiki Virt-manager - NixOS Wiki Libvirt - NixOS Wiki Pick: easyeffects — Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications EasyEffects 8.0 Released In Porting From GTK4 To Qt / QML / Kirigami Easy Effects on Flathub Marcel Repo Email
	640: Duece Configalo: Desktop Gigolo	10 nov. 2025	01:40:21
We dive into your configs, the genius moves, the glorious blunders, and everything in between. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LINUX Unplugged 634: Config Confessions yechielw/dots — Nixos and home-manager config Shayne's budget Flake Shayne's Budget Packages Shayne's Budget Configuration.nix Chris' Budget Flake Fix Millak/guix-config: mirror of my guix configs Millak/my-guix: local guix packages efraim-home: Add mpv-sponsorblock-minimal-conf.d Distrostu's configs Distrostu's M Series Config Oly Mike's Nixbook writeShellApplication - Nix function reference writeShellApplication - Nixpkgs Manual — writeShellApplication is similar to writeShellScriptBin and writeScriptBin but supports runtime dependencies with runtimeInputs. rwiankowski/homeserver-nixos — My Home Server Setup using a single NixOS node Brandon's Homelab Brandon's Mac Brandon's brew defined by Nix Brandon's Mac Apps installed via Nix BeardedTek/nixos-router: NixOS Router Configuration — A declarative NixOS configuration that transforms a standard PC into a full-featured network router with integrated secrets management. blocky: DNS proxy and ad-blocker Deidrael/nix-config: My NixOS Config FuzzyMistborn/infra — 100% chance of id10t errors....and a slight chance of a credential leak william/nix-config: All my nix stuff, in a single flake Pick: SoltrOS — Immutable Linux designed for gaming & development Pick: Parabolic — A powerful yt-dlp frontend. Pick: Youtarr — Youtarr is a self-hosted YouTube DVR that lets you subscribe to channels, browse their videos in a web UI, and automatically download and archive the ones you care about to your own storage.
	639: The Mess Machine	03 nov. 2025	01:01:44
After all the AI hype is over, one change for Linux will be sticking around; we put it to the test. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM SeaGL 2025 — November 7-8, 2025 in Seattle, WA LinuxFest Northwest LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for Speakers SCALE 23x - Southern California Linux Expo — North America's largest community-run open source conference. Pasadena, CA - March 5-8, 2026 SCALE - Call for Presentations Planet Nix '26 — March 5th-6th, 2026 @ Pasadena, CA Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals LINUX Unplugged 481: Just a Prompt Away — The Internet is going crazy with AI-generated media. What's the open-source story, and is Linux being left out? Red Hat eyes developer workflow efficiency, app modernization gains with new AI tools — An AI assistant specifically designed for application migration and modernization looks to reduce developer toil SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 Announced: "Enterprise Linux That Integrates Agentic AI" — SUSE's announcement today for SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 proclaims SLES 16 to be "the industry's first enterprise Linux that integrates agenetic AI" and "reduces operational costs and complexity through AI readiness." openSUSE on Hugging Face ChrisLAS/hyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS. Pull requests - ChrisLAS/hyprvibe feat: add comprehensive sops-nix integration by shift · PR #15 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe Add options for username, group, home directory by samh · PR #8 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe Create variables for user and home dir by F-bit818 · PR #5 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe LM Studio - Local AI on your computer Zed — The editor for what's next Cursor: The best way to code with AI Nixbook — Convert your old computer to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS. nixbook/base.nix — Roast my Nix: Not-a-flake edition! Jupiter Broadcasting's Colony Events Pick: duf — Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative. Pick: cheat.sh — the only cheat sheet you need.
	638: The Distro Everyone Should Copy	27 oct. 2025	01:04:16
Fedora 43 arrives with polish, new spins, and a smarter installer; and one decision the rest of the Linux world should pay attention to. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. CrowdHealth: This open enrollment, take your power back. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using code UNPLUGGED. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM nebula-lighthouse-service nebula-lighthouse-service: init at 2.0.0 by bloominstrong · Pull Request #454855 · NixOS/nixpkgs — nebula-lighthouse-service is aimed to be run a a public nebula lighthouse for those who cannot host their own, or who want extra lighthouses without the burden of maintaining another lighthouse. Fedora Linux 43 Cleared For Release Next Week — While Fedora 43 wasn't ready for release this week due to outstanding blocker bugs, at today's Go/No-Go meeting it was decided that Fedora 43 is now in a position for shipping next week. Velocity Limitless / Projects / Slitherer · GitLab Fedora 43 Wallpaper Wrap-Up – Fedora Community Blog Fedora COSMIC Spin Plasma 6.5 - Reaching the Inflection Point [Fedora KDE] Early Plasma 6.5.0 - Fedora Discussion — With Fedora 43 being a go, we will be doing an update on repos towards the middle to end of next week that will bring Qt 6.10 and Plasma 6.5.1 to F43, and Plasma 6.5.1 (Most likely, plans are not 100% final in that regard) to F42. That will bring the update to the usual architectures, such as aarch64. Pick: Millisecond — Optimize your Linux system for low latency audio Millisecond on Flathub noblepayne/millisecond-flake rtcqs — rtcqs is a Python utility to analyze your system and detect possible bottlenecks that could have a negative impact on the performance of your system when working with Linux audio How do I get an out-of-the-box working Linux audio workstation? - LinuxAudio.org Pick: lemurs 🐒 — A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust
	637: Chris' Smart Home Disaster	19 oct. 2025	00:58:25
The biggest failure in seven years, right before a trip. What broke, how Chris pulled it back together, and how Wes would fix it right. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. CrowdHealth: This open enrollment, take your power back. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using code UNPLUGGED. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Home Assistant Community Add-on: SSH & Web Terminal HomeAssistent Yellow: EmberZNet Zigbee: failed to flash firmware · Issue #146293 HA Yellow/Zigbee Issue - Home Assistant Community Home Assistant Yellow Radio firmware - Home Assistant Community Home Assistant on X: "⚠️ WE'RE ENDING PRODUCTION OF THE HOME ASSISTANT YELLOW ⚠️ Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q 10T7 Tiny Desktop Dell OptiPlex 3070 Desktop Computer Beelink Mini S13 Pro Mini PC,13 Generation Intel N150 Minisforum MS-01 Work Station Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 Home Assistant - NixOS Wiki home-assistant/component-packages.nix at nixos-25.05 Pick: Hexecute 🪄 — Launch apps by casting spells! Pick: Lenspect Lenspect on Flathub — A lightweight security threat scanner intended to make malware detection more accessible and efficient.

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