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An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux.

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692: Ubuntu’s Core Reset

1 hr 22 min

Canonical’s Jon Seager joins us to unpack Ubuntu’s bold desktop reset, and what could be the biggest reimagining of Ubuntu in its history. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.Incogni: They can't harm you if they can't find you! Take back control of your personal data today. Go to incogni.com/unplugged and use code UNPLUGGED for 60% off an annual plan. It's completely risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee.Namecheap: Use code UNPLUGGED for an extra 15% off VPS hosting.Hostinger: Snag Hostinger services at their lowest prices before the sale ends! Create your website today for just $1.99. Go to Hostinger.com/UNPLUGGED and use code UNPLUGGED for an additional 10% off Black Friday and Cyber Monday pricing.Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Share your Holiday Homelab — One hardworking box or a rack full of experiments? We want to see it. Tell us what you built, show it off, and share what makes it yours.Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USDJupiter Uplink💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMConnecTen Internet: promo Jupiter35MP3: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building?YouTube: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building?Bootleg: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building? | Members StreamFixes available in -proposed pocket for CVE-2026-98432 | UbuntuCVE-2026-98432 | UbuntuCanonical releases Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking StingrayUbuntu 26.10 release notesAccelerating Ubuntu Core DesktopCanonical Reviving Their Immutable Ubuntu Core Desktopenioka groupAccelerating Ubuntu Core DesktopEngineering Ubuntu For The Next 20 YearsGamingOnLinux: Core Desktop restarted, gaming plansIt's FOSS: Core Desktop + firmware HWE proposalWhy Canonical Is Reviving Ubuntu Core Desktop (explainer)Releases - canonical/ubuntu-core-desktop - GitHub — Ubuntu Core Desktop 26 DANGEROUS developer preview.canonical/workshop - GitHub — Ubuntu-na...

691: Fedora's Hidden Upgrades

1 hr 21 min

Fedora 45 has serious upgrades under the hood; we dig in, and may have found our new favorite dashboard. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.Incogni: They can't harm you if they can't find you! Take back control of your personal data today. Go to incogni.com/unplugged and use code UNPLUGGED for 60% off an annual plan. It's completely risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee.Namecheap: Use code UNPLUGGED for an extra 15% off VPS hosting.Hostinger: Snag Hostinger services at their lowest prices before the sale ends! Create your website today for just $1.99. Go to Hostinger.com/UNPLUGGED and use code UNPLUGGED for an additional 10% off Black Friday and Cyber Monday pricing.Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USDJupiter Uplink💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMConnecTen Internet: promo Jupiter35MP3: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building?YouTube: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building?Bootleg: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building? | Members StreamTexas Meetup — Saturday Lunch · Meetup.comTexas Meetup — Saturday Lunch · Colony Events GathioFedora Linux 45 Final NO-GO: Release Delayed to November 3The eMudhra Issue Was So Bad, It Delayed Fedora 45Fedora 45 Beta vs Fedora 44: What Actually Changed?Fedora 45 Workstation: Top New FeaturesFedora's oo7 Secrets Swap: What Actually ChangesWhat's New in Fedora 45: GNOME 51, Plasma 6.7, and Morewebssh — Security-focused, self-hosted SSH and SFTP workspace for homelabs and teams - multi-user, passkeys, OIDC, encrypted keys, backups, and offline-ready.Termix-SSH/Termix: self-hosted, plugin-based server management — Self-hosted, plugin-based server management.Project NOMAD — Offline Knowledge & AI Server — A self-contained offline server packed with encyclopedic knowledge, local AI, and essential tools, ready when the inte...

690: The S in PHP is for Security

1 hr 11 min

A major PHP flaw puts servers everywhere at risk; so we hack ours. Meanwhile, open source helps debloat our smart TVs. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.Incogni: They can't harm you if they can't find you! Take back control of your personal data today. Go to incogni.com/unplugged and use code unplugged for 60% off an annual plan. It's completely risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee.Namecheap: Use code UNPLUGGED for an extra 15% off VPS hosting.Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USDJupiter Uplink💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMConnecTen Internet: promo Jupiter35MP3: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building?YouTube: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building?Bootleg: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building? | Members StreamPHP Security Release for PHP2ShellPHP2Shell: PHP Remote Code ExecutionUnderstanding PHP2ShellCVE-2026-109618 - PHP RCE via OOM corruptionCVE-2026-109619 - PHP RCE via stale global stateTailscale SSH Flaws Could Let Hackers Gain Root Access Across ServersPHP: OOM corruption advisoryPHP: stale global state advisoryPHP's October 23 follow-upSteal My Bitcoin - a PHP RCE challenge! — Made this because I'm curious if anyone out there has figured out how to actually use this PHP RCE we spent the last few days panicking over. Have fun!+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224916People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb againCleanYourTV — Debloat any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi and get an Apple TV-style home.CleanYour.TV: remove ads and bloat from Android TV and Google TVcleanyourtv/addons/frigate-glancecleanyourtv/addons/smart-homecleanyourtv/addons/tv-hubhumblemuzzu/dumbtv — Take the ads, tracking and clutter out of your Fire TV over ADB, no root. Every step can be undone. Comes with its own open-source home screen.Amazon.com: Xia...

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692: Ubuntu’s Core Reset

1 hr 22 min

Canonical’s Jon Seager joins us to unpack Ubuntu’s bold desktop reset, and what could be the biggest reimagining of Ubuntu in its history. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.Incogni: They can't harm you if they can't find you! Take back control of your personal data today. Go to incogni.com/unplugged and use code UNPLUGGED for 60% off an annual plan. It's completely risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee.Namecheap: Use code UNPLUGGED for an extra 15% off VPS hosting.Hostinger: Snag Hostinger services at their lowest prices before the sale ends! Create your website today for just $1.99. Go to Hostinger.com/UNPLUGGED and use code UNPLUGGED for an additional 10% off Black Friday and Cyber Monday pricing.Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Share your Holiday Homelab — One hardworking box or a rack full of experiments? We want to see it. Tell us what you built, show it off, and share what makes it yours.Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USDJupiter Uplink💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMConnecTen Internet: promo Jupiter35MP3: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building?YouTube: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building?Bootleg: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building? | Members StreamFixes available in -proposed pocket for CVE-2026-98432 | UbuntuCVE-2026-98432 | UbuntuCanonical releases Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking StingrayUbuntu 26.10 release notesAccelerating Ubuntu Core DesktopCanonical Reviving Their Immutable Ubuntu Core Desktopenioka groupAccelerating Ubuntu Core DesktopEngineering Ubuntu For The Next 20 YearsGamingOnLinux: Core Desktop restarted, gaming plansIt's FOSS: Core Desktop + firmware HWE proposalWhy Canonical Is Reviving Ubuntu Core Desktop (explainer)Releases - canonical/ubuntu-core-desktop - GitHub — Ubuntu Core Desktop 26 DANGEROUS developer preview.canonical/workshop - GitHub — Ubuntu-na...

691: Fedora's Hidden Upgrades

1 hr 21 min

Fedora 45 has serious upgrades under the hood; we dig in, and may have found our new favorite dashboard. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.Incogni: They can't harm you if they can't find you! Take back control of your personal data today. Go to incogni.com/unplugged and use code UNPLUGGED for 60% off an annual plan. It's completely risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee.Namecheap: Use code UNPLUGGED for an extra 15% off VPS hosting.Hostinger: Snag Hostinger services at their lowest prices before the sale ends! Create your website today for just $1.99. Go to Hostinger.com/UNPLUGGED and use code UNPLUGGED for an additional 10% off Black Friday and Cyber Monday pricing.Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USDJupiter Uplink💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMConnecTen Internet: promo Jupiter35MP3: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building?YouTube: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building?Bootleg: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building? | Members StreamTexas Meetup — Saturday Lunch · Meetup.comTexas Meetup — Saturday Lunch · Colony Events GathioFedora Linux 45 Final NO-GO: Release Delayed to November 3The eMudhra Issue Was So Bad, It Delayed Fedora 45Fedora 45 Beta vs Fedora 44: What Actually Changed?Fedora 45 Workstation: Top New FeaturesFedora's oo7 Secrets Swap: What Actually ChangesWhat's New in Fedora 45: GNOME 51, Plasma 6.7, and Morewebssh — Security-focused, self-hosted SSH and SFTP workspace for homelabs and teams - multi-user, passkeys, OIDC, encrypted keys, backups, and offline-ready.Termix-SSH/Termix: self-hosted, plugin-based server management — Self-hosted, plugin-based server management.Project NOMAD — Offline Knowledge & AI Server — A self-contained offline server packed with encyclopedic knowledge, local AI, and essential tools, ready when the inte...

690: The S in PHP is for Security

1 hr 11 min

A major PHP flaw puts servers everywhere at risk; so we hack ours. Meanwhile, open source helps debloat our smart TVs. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.Incogni: They can't harm you if they can't find you! Take back control of your personal data today. Go to incogni.com/unplugged and use code unplugged for 60% off an annual plan. It's completely risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee.Namecheap: Use code UNPLUGGED for an extra 15% off VPS hosting.Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USDJupiter Uplink💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMConnecTen Internet: promo Jupiter35MP3: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building?YouTube: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building?Bootleg: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building? | Members StreamPHP Security Release for PHP2ShellPHP2Shell: PHP Remote Code ExecutionUnderstanding PHP2ShellCVE-2026-109618 - PHP RCE via OOM corruptionCVE-2026-109619 - PHP RCE via stale global stateTailscale SSH Flaws Could Let Hackers Gain Root Access Across ServersPHP: OOM corruption advisoryPHP: stale global state advisoryPHP's October 23 follow-upSteal My Bitcoin - a PHP RCE challenge! — Made this because I'm curious if anyone out there has figured out how to actually use this PHP RCE we spent the last few days panicking over. Have fun!+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224916People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb againCleanYourTV — Debloat any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi and get an Apple TV-style home.CleanYour.TV: remove ads and bloat from Android TV and Google TVcleanyourtv/addons/frigate-glancecleanyourtv/addons/smart-homecleanyourtv/addons/tv-hubhumblemuzzu/dumbtv — Take the ads, tracking and clutter out of your Fire TV over ADB, no root. Every step can be undone. Comes with its own open-source home screen.Amazon.com: Xia...

689: First Kontact

1 hr 18 min

A new documentary reveals KDE's 30-year underdog story. Plasma pioneer Aaron Seigo joins us to look back, and explore what's next with Plasma 6.8. 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.Incogni: They can't harm you if they can't find you! Take back control of your personal data today. Go to incogni.com/unplugged and use code unplugged for 60% off an annual plan. It's completely risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee.Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USDJupiter Uplink💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMConnecTen Internet: promo Jupiter35MP3: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building?YouTube: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building?Bootleg: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building? | Members StreamKDE at 30 - KDE CommunityPlasma 6.8 30th Anniversary Edition - Release Notes — Plasma 6.8 is released on a very special day: KDE’s 30th birthday. Today we celebrate three decades of the KDE community providing the world’s greatest free and open-source software.KDE: The Documentary — The Story of Free Software UnderdogsKDE: The Documentary TRAILER — The Story of Free Software Underdogs │ Full Film Coming October 14thKDE 4.0 Release Event Keynote - Jan 18, 2008Aaron Seigo - GitHubArcGIS for Elixir — Convenient access to Esri ArcGIS APIs for applications written in the Elixir programming language.Sparking a Fire | Linux Action Show s20e06 - YouTube — Aaron Siego joins us to talk about the new open source KDE powered tablet that he and his team are working on! Find out how hard you want one, after this week's episode!Culture of Shiny | LINUX Unplugged 25 — Aaron Seigo joins us to call out the new and shiny culture that’s pervasive in the free software...

688: Eyes on Deck

1 hr 20 min

We've turned our Steam Deck into a security monitoring system; Monitor your property, identify people, pets, and vehicles with detailed daily intelligence briefings. All local. 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.Hostinger: Create your website today go to Hostinger.com/UNPLUGGED and use code UNPLUGGED for 10% off now.Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USDJupiter Uplink💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMConnecTen Internet: promo Jupiter35YouTube: Clanker Therapy 2: What We Have Been BuildingAudio: Clanker Therapy 2: What We Have Been BuildingBootleg: Clanker Therapy 2: What We Have Been Building | Members StreamClanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building? - Livestream Oct 16, 2026Texas Linux Festival 2026Frigate NVRblakeblackshear/frigate — NVR with realtime local object detection for IP camerasFrigate DocumentationFrigate ReleasesFrigate Object Detector ConfigurationUltralytics YOLO11 Documentationllama.cppOllamaUltralytics YOLO11ultralytics/yolo11 - GitHub — Ultralytics YOLO11 discovery and quickstart for detection, segmentation, classification, pose, OBB, and tracking.cage-kiosk/cage: A Wayland kioskTomBursch/kitchenowl - GitHub — KitchenOwl is a self-hosted grocery list and recipe manager. The backend is made with Flask and the frontend with Flutter. Easily add items to your shopping list before you go shopping. You can also create recipes and add items based on what you want to cook.dahjah/muse-vm-hacks — Basic repo with what you need to go from a bare chat interface with your muse agent to an ssh-accessible VM with the nix package manager and full tailscale access (muse ships with a stipped down versionPick: wtfi2 — Live, visual network-path diagnostic...

687: Linux by Proxy

1 hr 22 min

Millions of people may already be using Linux by proxy, so we went digging through their strange little cloud desktops to see if we can turn them into servers. 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.Connecten: ConnecTen fixes it with one trick I love: their routers ride on top of every major carrier in the US and Canada. Flat rate, no contract, 14-day money-back. Go to connecteninternet.com and use promo code Jupiter35 for $35 off your order.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.FMConnecTen Internet: promo Jupiter35YouTube: Clanker Therapy 2: What We Have Been BuildingAudio: Clanker Therapy 2: What We Have Been BuildingBootleg: Clanker Therapy 2: What We Have Been Building | Members StreamJupiter Uplink — Tell us what you’re building.SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot Agent Tops 400,000 Users After First Month - BloombergMeta’s Muse reportedly passes 3 million weekly users and 5m downloadsOpenAI launches dots, always-on AI agents with their own cloud computersWhat Is the Meta Muse Secure VM? Sentinel, Egress, RisksHow We Built Safety Into Muse | Meta AI ResearchPick: hw-monitor — Linux desktop application designed to monitor various aspects of your computer's hardware.Pick: tincan-cli — Serverless peer-to-peer voice and text chat for your terminal.

686: Stop Desktop Slop

1 hr 32 min

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.FMJupiter Garage SWAGGoing All-In on a Wayland FutureKDE/kup: Backup scheduler for the Plasma desktopSovereign Tech Fund Invests Over €1 Million in KDE Software DevelopmentKDE and AI, and you, and me – Adventures in Linux and KDEWhat would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE - YouTubeWhat Even is Ocean?Akseli Lahtinen on Union for QtWidgetsStyleKit talk at Akademy 2026Framework Laptop 12KDE Linux at 2: what we've learned and how it can help youQA infrastructure in KDEKDE at 30: What Are the Colored Blobs Telling Us?KDE: The Documentary TRAILER — The Story of Free Software Underdogs — Full Film Coming October 14thWhat's Happening in KDE Remote Desktop — Improved Unattended Mode and MoreThis Week in Plasma: Bi-Directional RDP Clipboard SyncThis Week in Plasma: So Many Ways to Click and ScrollThis Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q2 2026KDE for Enterprise Needs a Strong PIM InfrastructureFramework's Fedora KDE Plasma Laptop 12 Guidesystemd 262A review canary in systemd's contributor instructionsLinux Live Update documentationLUO userspace APImemfd_create(2)FluxCast — Miracast/WFD ecosystem platform with .deb and AUR packages.fluxcast-flakeJB Gulf Coast Meetup RoomNixarr — Media Server Nixos ModuleNixflix — Nixflix is a declarative media server configuration manager for NixOSgarage — S3-compatible object store for small self-hosted geo-distributed deployments.Pick: Cliparr — Cliparr is a streamlined media clipper that allows you...

685: Pool Party

1 hr 0 min

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.FMJupiter Garage SWAGSorry, I only open regular files StickerClanker 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 - YouTubeTexas Linux Festival 2026Valve's Steam Frame Now Available At $1059+ USDMy Last Quest - Launch 84RustFS — 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 Blogrustfs - 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 : ElectronicsMacintosh SE/30 - WikipediaLove Down BabylonArmada — The Open Source, Encrypted Discord Alternativeabsorb — A cross platform Audiobookshelf client for Android and iOSLissen: Audiobookshelf ClientGrakovNe/lissen-android — Minimalistic Android client app for Audiobookshelfwizarr - GitHub — Wizarr is an advanced user invitation and management system for Jellyfin, Plex, Emby etc.vikunj...

684: You Ain't Ready For This Jelly

1 hr 7 min

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.FMJupiter Garage SWAGSorry, I only open regular files StickerClanker 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 - YouTubeJupiter 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,...

683: Website Speedrun

1 hr 10 min

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.FMJupiter Garage SWAGSorry, I only open regular files StickerClanker 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 - YouTubeCovered 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 ZolaJB Zola Demo Sitejupiterbroadcasting.com-zola repo — Weekend speedrun port of the JB site to Zola.Zola DocumentationZola CLI UsageZola Directory StructureZola InstallationZola SearchZola GitHubZola ChangelogWintermuteOS — 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...

682: Oops! All Shells!

1 hr 8 min

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.FMJupiter Garage SWAGQuickshell — 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 configurationWaybar — Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.Omacom Foundation to be premier Quickshell sponsorOmarchy — — Beautiful, Fun & Opinionated Linux by DHHomacom/omarchy - GithubThe first plugin competition winners — Omarchy NewsOmacom Foundation to be exclusive Hyprland sponsor — Omarchy NewsHyprland — An independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.hyprwm/Hyprland - GitHubomarchy-radio-atlas — Explore live radio on a rotatable globe from the Omarchy bar.Home Assistant for Omarchy — Home Assistant Quickshell plugin for Omarchy 4syncshell — 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 DankMaterialShellDank Linux — A Modern Desktop for Wayland.Dank Linux DocsTREK — 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).Immi...

681: Ain’t Nothing But a Syncthing

1 hr 35 min

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.FMJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerLongtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Passes AwayLinux 7.2 Kernel NewbiesCache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUsLinux 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 9070XTreduce 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+ PatchesSpecially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 DriverThe beginning of the 7.3 merge windowLinux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time PerformanceLinux 7.3 Expected To "Flatten The Pick" For Better Scheduling While Gaming & MoreLinux 7.3 x86/mm Lands Patches To Greatly Improve Latency-Sensitive WorkloadsSched_ext's Sub-Scheduler Support Now "Feature Complete" With Linux 7.3Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x WinsLinux 7.3 binfmt_misc To Allow BPF Programs To Dynamically Choose Executio...

680: Go Hack Yourself

1 hr 19 min

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.FMJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerClanker 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 - YouTubeTXLF 2026 Full scheduleTXLF 2026SCALE 24x CFP — The CFP closes November 1, 2026.Nix Vegas 2026 TalksOpenSSH 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 AIHexStrike AI MCP AgentsTREK — A self-hosted travel/tri...

679: The Last Shutdown

1 hr 4 min

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.FMJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerClanker 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 - YouTubePick: 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 ScannerPick: LocalSend — An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop.LocalSend on FlathubPick: 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 ReservationHow-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

1 hr 15 min

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.FMJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerClanker 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 - YouTubeLinux 7.2-rc5 announcementLinux 7.2 changelogLinux 7.1 changelog7.2 merge windowBtrfs large folios and DIO fixstrncpy removali486 removalDreamcast fixesCache-aware schedulingFairer GPU schedulerNVIDIA 7.2 driver compatibilityAMD ROCm regressionDreamcast vs i486Btrfs DIO regression reportsTechnical Deep Dive into the Entropy Issue | COINKITE BlogBitcoin losses linked to Coldcard vulnerability grow to $70 million, Galaxy Research saysFlowchart of the Linux RNGdust — A more intuitive version of du in rustPick: 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 FlathubCfait on F-Droid

677: We Got a Buzz

1 hr 8 min

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 CommunityWeb Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerClanker 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 - YouTubeBuzz — 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 GitHubFeature Request: Support external agent systems (non-ACP) for real-time communication in Buzz communities[Bug] Remote Agent Missing from @ Mention Autocomplete Across MachinesTeknium 🪽 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 NYTEMODEONLYfeat(acp): Hermes runtime discovery and durable session load by joelbrilliantdocs(acp): document Buzz host integration by NYTEMODEONLYMeshBBS — Meshbbs revolutioniz...

676: Fork Around and Find Out

1 hr 21 min

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.FMJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerClanker 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 - YouTubeKeynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git with Dirk Hohndel, Founder, DH Consulting - YouTubeLinus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off - The RegRe: 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 changesSilverBullet — 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 versionsLogseq public roadmapLogseq DB Version DocsLogseq DB Version ChangesNixbook 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 visual...

675: Sloppy Agent Roasting

1 hr 38 min

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.FMJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerClanker 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 - YouTubeStoryboarder — 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 NixOSSpud Router — An open-source router-on-a-stick that you can manage from a browser, a terminal CLI, or directly from your AI agentsLe Potato AML-S905X-CCMacSurf — 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-wikiHermes llm-wiki SKILL.mdcamply - the campsite finder ⛺️ — a tool to find campsites at sold out campgrounds through sites like recreation.govPick: 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 GitHubPick: TypeType — Pr...

674: LAN Before Time

1 hr 19 min

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 StickerJupiter Garage SWAGSorry, I only open regular files StickerWeb Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMNix Vegas @ DEF CON 34 CFP — Submissions close on 2026-07-16 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)Nix Vegas - Extended CFP, and a sneak previewLinux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol SupportJune 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 countNetatalk — 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 ArchiveApple, Inc.. Macintosh Classic Desktop Computer. 1989 - MoMAChrisLAS/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 3.0marchintosh.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...

673: 8 Hidden Steam Machine Details

1 hr 30 min

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.FMWeb Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USDJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerTexas Linux Fest 2026 CFP — Submissions close on 2026-07-01 23:59 (US/Central)SeaGL 2026 CFPCarolinaCon 2026 - CFP Open!carolinacon/infra: Infrastructure used to run parts of carolina conValve Steam Machine Review - GamersNexusSteamOS 3.8 - Steam NewsValve confirms it’s working with Intel and Nvidia on SteamOS for more GPUsSteam Machines will only come with one 16GB stick of RAM - Tom's HardwareSteam Controller developer interview — Valve talks design, the learning curve, and the lack of kernel drivers | Tom's HardwareValve Developer Hardware Talk PDF2015 Steam Machine - Wikipediameshcore-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 FlathubRe-Pick: high-tide — Libadwaita TIDAL client for LinuxPick: 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 FlathubPick: dn-tool — dn-to...

672: The Kernel Is Not a Museum

1 hr 24 min

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 StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerWebroot — Save sixty percent when you go to webroot.com/unplugged.💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMWeb Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USDKDE Plasma 6.7 Released With Per-Screen Virtual Desktops, Wayland Improvements - PhoronixPlasma 6.7 - KDE CommunitySee what's next for Firefox — Firefox.comsystemd 261 Released With New systemd-sysinstall OS InstallerIntroducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktopmyna: 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 - 9to5LinuxLinux 7.1 Features: New NTFS Driver, New Intel + AMD Hardware, Performance Optimizations & Modernization - PhoronixLinux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released with New NTFS Driver, Intel FRED, and Major Code Cleanup | Linux JournalThe first half of the 7.2 merge window - LWN.netLinux 7.2 Adds Ability To Limit Programs To Only Open Regular Files, Avoid Being Tricked Or Doing Silly Things - PhoronixBtrfs Now Enables Large Folios By Default, Lands Huge Folios With Linux 7.2 - PhoronixXFS Zone Allocator No Longer Experimental With Linux 7.2 - PhoronixEXT4 Reworks Fast Commit Handling & Faster Directory Hash Computation - Pho...

671: Windows Without Windows

55 min

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.FMClanker Therapy Highlight - YouTubeClanker Therapy Full Member RecordingWebroot — 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 WindowsFORScan — 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 ForgejoPearPass - Your Open-Source Password Managerolmec's nixos-router configUlanzi 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 Clockawtrix3 — 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

1 hr 6 min

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.FMLive Friday Clanker Therapy StreamAgent Op Guild on TelegramAgent Op Guild on MatrixOutdoor Electrical Water Resistant Enclosure - AmazonSipeed NanoKVM IP-KVM - AmazonHome Assistant Connect ZWA-2Smart Automatic Chicken Coop Door with WiFiOmlet Developer ConsoleWLED ProjectGeneric MagWLED-1 WLED ControllerWS2812B LED Light StripLED Strip Diffuser ChannelZooz Z-Wave Long Range Q Sensor ZSE11 800LRAIR-1 Air Quality Sensor for Home AssistantAnyone successfully using the MiCS 4514 Gas Sensor? - RedditZooz Z-Wave Long Range Power Strip ZEN20 800LRAmcrest 5MP Turret POE CameraAmcrest 8-Port POE+ Switchgo2rtcFrigateWe Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote SpeechPick: Zooz ZEN05 Outdoor Smart Plug – ZOOZPick: 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

1 hr 16 min

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.FMPlease Do Not Vibe F**k Up This Software · Issue #929 · RsyncProject/rsyncfogti/rsync-nai — Fork of rsync just before the first obviously LLM-influenced commitFlathub 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-infraZig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains - YouTubeGNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator - PhoronixQEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions - PhoronixFwupd 2.1.4 Brings Many Fixes For Bugs Spotted By Anthrophic's Mythos, Firmware Update Support For Intel Arc Pro B65/B70 - PhoronixLinux Networking Still Seeing "Significantly Bigger" Pull Requests Due To AI - PhoronixGitHub Copilot & Claude Code Helped With Graphics, WiFi Linux Driver Issues This Week - Phoronixmnemosyne: The Zero-Dependency, Sub-Millisecond AI Memory System for Hermes Agents and Everyone Else!Markdown First: A Proposal for the Agent-Readable Web — BitCrypticPick: 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 alternativ...

668: --yolo

1 hr 17 min

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.FMThe Quiet Renovation at BitwardenMy 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 Toolkitsoundcork — Intercept API for Bose SoundTouch after they turn off the serversBose SoundTouch EOL AnnouncementSoundTouch 30 Wi-Fi Music System | Bose Wikia | FandomKeeping Your Speakers Alive After the Bose Cloud Shutdown – AfterTouchBose SoundTouch is officially dead, but your speakers may still survive - SoundGuysSoundTouch 30 Wi-Fi Music System | Bose SupportNASty — 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 - GitHubHermes Agent — Open-Source AI Agent with Persistent MemoryWindows-MCP — MCP Server for Computer Use in WindowsGreg KH Calls For More Rust Linux DevelopersRust 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 relia...

667: The Enterprise Endgame

59 min

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.FMThe 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 - YouTubeEnabling long-term stability: Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle, PremiumFedora 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 DiscussionAfter 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 b...

666: Berkeley Suffering Distribution

1 hr 17 min

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.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonTexas Linux Festival 2026 - November 6-7, 2026 Austin, TXTexas Linux Fest 2026 - Call for Papers deadline July 1, 2026Dirty 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 PortalDirty Frag Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability mitigations - UbuntuDirty Frag Explained: Linux Root Exploit, Mitigation & Patching GuideLINUX Unplugged 666 - The BSD Challenge RulesMagnolia 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 kernelBrent's nixbsd configNomadBSD — Persistent live USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup...

665: Patch Me If You Can

1 hr 20 min

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.FMCopy 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." — TheoriCopy 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." — XintLinux 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." — JorijnArs: Most Severe Linux Threat in Years — "The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed." — Ars TechnicaSysdig: CVE-2026-31431 Analysis — "The flaw was introduced in 2017 via commit 72548b093ee3, which switched AEAD operations to in-place processing." — SysdigCERT-EU AdvisoryUbuntu Security TrackerThe Register: Crypto FlawKernel Patch (reverts 2017 optimization) — "This mostly reverts commit 72548b093ee3 except for the copying of the associated data." — Kernel CommitBuggy Commit: 72548b093ee3 (2017)DeepWiki: AF_ALG Internalsoss-security DisclosurePSA + GRUB Mitigation - Jan WildeboerUbuntu 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 a...

664: Back to Root

58 min

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.FMLINUX Unplugged 666 BSD Challenge - Rules and RegretsLFNW2026 - Back to RootLinuxFest Northwest 2026 Playlist - YouTubeLinuxFest Northwest - YouTubeThe New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is A Local LLM On Framework Desktop + AMD Ryzen AI MaxBitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply ChainBear454's Fundraiser: Support for James Mason's FamilyPick: 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

1 hr 4 min

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.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington6 ultimate boot CDs (system rescue) for troubleshooting Windows PCsSystemRescue — 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-configSelf-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 Itv4call — v4call is a decentralised video, v...

662: The GitHub Diet

1 hr 25 min

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.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026 — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonLFNW2026 ScheduleLinux 7.0: Btrfs — A translation layer of logical block addresses that allows changes without moving or rewriting blocks for relocationLinux 7.0: XFS — Autonomous self-healing; delivers live filesystem health events to userspace for automatic repairsLinux 7.0: EXT4 — Improves write performance for concurrent direct I/O writesLinux 7.0: IO-uring — Adds support for BPF filtering to IO_uring for high performance async I/OLinux 7.0: Scheduler — Scheduler updates land with time slice extension, performance and scalability work for high core count systemsLinux 7.0: Rust — Formally concluding the 'Rust experiment'; Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stayLinux 7.1: i486 — Begins phasing out Intel 486 CPU support; no known Linux distributions still ship with i486 supportGive 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 environmentNixOS Wiki: Forgejo — Lightweight software forge; completely free software and a fork of GiteaForgejo Actions — Reusable pieces of code for CI workflows; compatible with...

661: Sink Your Claws In

1 hr 4 min

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.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonPreferring Local OSS LLMsQwen3.5 27B vs Gemma4 31BOpen Models have crossed a thresholdGemma 4 — Google DeepMindWelcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on deviceGemma-4-31B-JANG\_4M-CRACK · Hugging Facemesh-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 A...

660: Boots and Breakups

57 min

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.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonThis Week In Bitcoin 97 | Jupiter BroadcastingUbuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better SecurityStreamlining secure boot for 26.10 - Ubuntu Community HubMitigating BootHole – CVE-2020-10713 and related vulnerabilities | UbuntuThere's a Hole in the Boot - EclypsiumFinal 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/nextTunarr · GitHub — Create a classic TV experience using your own media — IPTV backed by Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, or NFO.ThreadfinxTeVeFiller - 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 IPTVTunarr API ReferenceLINUX 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...

659: Truth Trapper Keepers

53 min

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.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonKeeper.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 ReleaseOneCalPiBox Overview - KubeSail DocsPiBox: A Modular Raspberry Pi Storage Server by Dan Pastusek — KickstarterRPi CM4 based local storage server launches on KickstarterKubeSail — So Long, and Thanks for All the Podsipetkov/nixos-pibox — NixOS modules for supporting the hardware present on the PiBoxraspberrypi/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 - WikipediaPick: 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 storagePick: 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

1 hr 3 min

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.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonPabloVitasso/esphome-chinbasto — A custom ESPHome component for controlling Chinese Webasto heaters using ESP32.Hacking the Chinese Diesel Heater Communications Protocol.pdf - Ray Jones - GitLabtimmchugh11/Chinese-Diesel-Heater---ESPHomeOpenCode | The open source AI coding agentanomalyco/opencode: The open source coding agent.Hunter Alpha - API Pricing & Providers | OpenRouterESPHome - Smart Home Made SimpleHome AssistantESP32 Wi-Fi & Bluetooth SoC | Espressif Systemsnodemcu/nodemcu-firmware: Lua based interactive firmware for ESP8266, ESP8285 and ESP32NodeMCU-32S Development Board Details, Pinout, SpecsAmazon.com: ESP-32S USB-C Development Board + ESP32 Terminal Boardagent-browser-protocol — Deterministic browser automation.camofox-browser — Headless browser automation server for AI agents.chrome-devtools-mcp — Chrome DevTools for coding agentsfirefox-devtools-mcp — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox DevToolsLittleFOX-MCP — Model Context Protocol server for FirefoxChrome DevTools MCP Debug — Let your Coding Agent debug your browser sessionLFNW2026 - Back to RootBrunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 1 | Jupiter EXTRAS 40Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2 | Jupiter EXTRAS 41Pick: LosslessCut — Simple and ultra fast cross platform tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video and audio files.LosslessCut on GitHubLosslessCut on FlathubPick: CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run...

657: Slop to Slap

1 hr 24 min

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.FMPlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherSCaLE 23x — SCALE is North America's largest community-run open source conference.Jupiter Broadcasting's SCaLE Matrix roomSCaLE 23x - YouTube — SCaLE 23x live streams, talks, and more.LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonFlox.devFlox: 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 | SCALECindy Cohn | SCALEnoblepayne/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-VRoxane Fischer - Anyshift.ioDeterminate is the future of Nix today: Wasm, provenance, and flake schemasEFF Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALECindy 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...

656: Why KDE Linux Surprised Us

1 hr 11 min

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.FMSCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherPasadena Linux Party, Fri, Mar 6, 2026, 6:00 PMKDE Linux - KDE Community WikiBeta (Enthusiast & Stable editions) · KDE Linux · GitLabInstall Software Not Available in Discover - KDE CommunityKDE Linux / Kapsule · GitLabsuikan4github/Using-tailscale-client-on-an-Immutable-OSxuars/kdelinux-tailscaleNix - KDE CommunityFitting 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 CommanderDEMO Nebula CommanderNebula Commander GitHub — Nebula Commander is a self-hosted control plane for nebula overlay networks.Star Trek Comm Badge for Home Assistant Voice ControlPick: 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 FlathubPick: tinyproxy — A light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systemsPick: socks-to-http-proxy — An executable to convert SOCKS5 proxy into HTTP proxy

655: Speeding Up Mistakes

56 min

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.FMSCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherPasadena Linux Party Meetupstahnma (Michael Stahnke)Flox, Nix, and Reproducible Software Systems with Michael Stahnke - Software Engineering DailyPro OpenSSH (Expert's Voice in Open Source): Stahnke, MichaelNix and AI, are we there yet? | SCALEstahnma/mandatoryFunPost 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 configStatus Page On Demand | GatusMimiClaw — MimiClaw turns a tiny ESP32-S3 board into a personal AI assistant.hrwtech/openclaw-esp32: OpenClaw on your Arduino ESP32 devicesPick: WebsocketCAM — Access Android camera via WebSocket client API and run AI / computer vision tasks with ease on live camera streamPick: 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 ServerPick: wechsel — A Cli Utility to replace home folders with symlinks to project folderswechsel-extension: A Gnome Extension for Project Switching

654: Creating Discord in the Matrix

1 hr 24 min

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.FMSCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherPasadena Linux Party MeetupDiscord to roll out age verification next monthHack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photosDiscord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter ThielNULLFS and OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE Features Merged For Linux 7.0OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE To Provide A Security and Performance Win For Dealing With ContainersAll about initramfspivot_root implementation and constraintsTrueNAS ScaleZimaOS — A Simplified, Focused and Open NAS OS Supports all X86-64 hardware.Github: ZimaOSClan — opinionated NixOS peer-to-peer computer management frameworkWhat is Clan? - Documentationclan-lol/clan-core: Build your own clanConnecTen internetCase Study: Fortress Outdoor RouterPick: 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

1 hr 5 min

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.FMSCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherPasadena Linux Party MeetupValve 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/bcachefsbcachefs 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 TrafficVenice AI - Private AI for Unlimited Creative FreedomThinkBox V2 - A Custom 4-Bay SATA/SAS HDD NAS for Your Lenovo M720QCode 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...

652: Have Your Bot Call My Bot

1 hr 9 min

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.FMPlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherAgenda - PlanetNix 2026SCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"Pasadena Linux Party MeetupLINUX 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 blockingAdBlock-fast — AdBlock-Fast is a high-performance ad-blocking service for OpenWrt that integrates with Dnsmasq, SmartDNS, and Unbound.OpenWrt Wiki - Supported Hardware TableAbe's volition — This is a public, sanitized version of my Abiverse repository for people to use and run their own AbesOpenClaw — 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 OpenClawopenclaw on GitHub 🦞openclaw security IssuesPractical changes could reduce AI energy demand by up to 90% – University College Londonmoltbook — the front page of the agent internetSeloraBox - 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 f...

651: Uptime Funk

1 hr 2 min

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.FMUsing Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula | Nebula DocsPlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherSCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"Pasadena Linux Party MeetupNACME: ACME for Nebula PKI — ACME for Nebula PKIuptime-kuma — A fancy self-hosted monitoring tooltelegraf-bcachefs-inputbcachefs collector by ananthbntfy.sh — Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POSTmeshSidecar — Mesh network sidecars for NixOS ServicesBecome a Core Contributor MemberJupiter.Party Network MembershipNixOS Clinic ConfigNixRTR/nixos-router — NixOS Router ConfigurationNext Steps for Funding Contributors - Actual BudgetWiFiman - WiFi AnalyserRichARCH Install GuideRichARCH Hyprvibe ScreenshotPick: Switchyard — Modern rules-based URL launcher ready to replace your default browser.switchyard on GitHubSwitchyard on Flathub

650: This Old Network

1 hr 3 min

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.FMPlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherSCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"GEEKOM IT13 Mini PC 2026OpenWrt OneSonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus-EHome 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 GitHubmike@computerupcycleproject.orgActual — 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 GitHubPick: WebView Kiosk — Turn your Android device into a locked-down web page in fullscreen mode.webview-kiosk on GitHub

649: Burned by AI

1 hr 15 min

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 $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMPlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherPlanet Nix 2026: Call for ProposalsSCaLE 23x | RegistrationLinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for SpeakersMichael Tunnell - YouTubeTuxDigitalLINUX Unplugged 596: Perilously Pontificated PredictionsPhison CEO: SSD "Pricing Apocalypse" to Continue Through 2027HDD Prices Spike as AI Infrastructure and China’s PC Push Collide2025 Cloud Pricing Trends: Big Three Shake Up Storage CostsStorage Apocalypse: Why SSDs and HDDs Are Becoming Impossibly ExpensiveJensen Huang Flagged Data Storage as the Next AI BottleneckManufacturer Recertified Drives - ServerPartDeals.comHard Disk Prices (US)Storage Price TrackerRackRat - eBay Rackmount Server Deal Finderr/HomelabSales$£€ - RedditSmart Buy 10 Pack Bd-r Dl 50gb 6X Blu-ray Double Layer Recordable DiscBlueVault — 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 ServerPick: PowerISO — Create, Burn, Mount, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual DrivePowerISO on FlathubPick: CDEmu — CDemu is a software suite designed to emulate an optical drive and disc on the Linux operating system.Tellico — Collection management software, f...

648: I See Live People

1 hr 1 min

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.FMPlanet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals @ Sessionize.comSCaLE 23x | RegistrationNetAlert X — Network intruder and presence detector. Scans for devices connected to your network and alerts you if new and unknown devices are found.NetAlertX DocsNetAlertX GitHubNetAlertX docker-compose.ymlNixOS OCI Config for NetAlertXHome 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 documentationntfy.sh — Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POSTMosquitto - An open source MQTT brokerPi-hole – Network-wide Ad BlockingESPresensemkellyxp/nixbook: LICENSE? - Issue #55Choosing a License - Find the Perfect Open Source License for Your ProjectLicense Selector - OpenLicrLicenseHub - Open Source License Tools PlatformOpen Source Licenses Explained: A ComparisonGitHub - ErikMcClure/bad-licenses — A compendium of absurd "open-source" licenses.Podverse AlphaPodcasting 2.0 Episode 246: Crap Trap — Adam & Dave are joined by Mitch and Archie of Podverse famePick: MQTT — Your All-in-one MQTT Client ToolboxMQTTX GitHubMQTT X on FlathubPick: mqtt5-explorer — MQTT5 Explorer is a simple yet feature-rich client to visualize data of any MQTT broker.MQTT5 Explorer on FlathubPick: Unify — Unify is a web app aggregator built with Qt 6, Qt WebEng...

647: Plausibly Postulated Prophecies

1 hr 35 min

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.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for SpeakersThe Launch 🚀: Nature Chose ViolencePewDiePie - I installed Linux (so should you)James Lee - How I Broke up with AdobeLinux surpasses 5% market share on US desktops for the first timeIt is finally the year of Linux on the Desktop: free OS reaches 5% market shareIntroducing the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistantADHD is Awesome: A Guide To (Mostly) Thriving With ADHD: Holderness, Penn, Holderness, Kim, Edward Hallowell: 9781400338610Pick: 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 sourcePick: Cavalier — Visualize audio with CAVA

646: The Great Holiday Homelab Special 🎄

1 hr 28 min

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

1 hr 10 min

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.FMPop!_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.inptv-org/iptv — Collection of publicly available IPTV channels from all over the worldiptv/PLAYLISTS.mdbepg — Utilities for downloading the EPG (Electronic Program Guide) for thousands of TV channels from hundreds of sources.iptv-epg.orgTiviMate 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 th...

644: The People's Filesystem

1 hr 24 min

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.FMLUP's Great Holiday Homelab FormLUP's Great Holiday Homelab Old Fart Form (markdown)bcachefs 1.33.0Bcachefs 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 - Patreonbcachefs — 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 NixOSPick: Dotfiles Installer — Install dotfiles easy, fast and secure. Or provide an installation application for your dotfiles.ML4W Dotfiles Installer Wikidotfiles-installer: GitHubPick: SSH-Studio — Easy, GUI SSH config editor and validator built with...

643: The Sunday Soapbox

1 hr 31 min

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.FMLUP's Great Holiday Homelab FormLUP's Great Holiday Homelab Old Fart Form (markdown)Jellyswarrm — Bring all your Jellyfin servers togetherLiveTV support · Issue #9 · LLukas22/Jellyswarrmpangolin — Identity-Aware Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Dashboard UI.Pangolin | Secure Access PlatformNixOS Search - Options - PangolinYoutarr — Self-hosted web app that automates downloading, organizing, and scheduling YouTube channel content with support for Plex, Kodi, Emby and JellyfinAdd ability to set subfolder for manual downloads · Issue #287 · DialmasterOrg/YoutarrDawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)dawarich CHANGELOG.mdCVE-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 Blogksmbd...

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