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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 UnpluggedLinks: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 Fuck 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 Incuba

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 UnpluggedLinks: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 – AfterTouch<a title="Bose SoundTouch is officially dead, but your speakers may still survive - SoundGuys" href="https://www.soundguys.com/bos

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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.<a title="Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hu

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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 Ro

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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." — Sysdig<a title="CERT-EU Advisory" href="https://cert.europa.eu

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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 webpag

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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-b

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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 s

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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 buil

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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.<a title="ErsatzTV/next" href="https://gi

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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 PiBox<a title="raspberrypi/usbboot" href="https://git

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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 Assistant<a title="ESP32 Wi-Fi & Blueto

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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 | SCALE<a title="Cindy Cohn | SCALE" href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/speaker/cindy-cohn" rel="nofol

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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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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 Community<a title="Fitting Everything Together" href="h

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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 p

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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 De

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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 De

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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.<a title="bcachefs v1.36.1 is out - next release will be erasure coding : r/bcachefs" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/bc

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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 f

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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 Cont

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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.<a title="OpenCode on

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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 C

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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/POST<a title="Mosquitto -

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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 rea

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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 world</

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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 K

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 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</a

Chris cooked up a wild remote-access trick for Jellyfin that skips VPNs entirely. One tiny toggle spins up a secure tunnel on demand. Simple, absurd, and shockingly effective.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLUP's Great Holiday Homelab FormOld Fart Form (markdown)ngrok — Go from code to global in just minutes with a developer-friendly, idiomatic solution for managing traffic to your APIs.Jellyswarrm — Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place.Sveske-Juice/declarative-jellyfin — This repository provides a Nix flake that allows for declarative configuration of Users, Libraries, Plugins, Settings, etc. Jellyfin 10.11 is NOT SUPPORTED.declarative-jelly

We dig into the biggest Linux hardware news of the year, then fire up our new-to-us 1L PC server.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMDownload DNClient Desktop from Defined NetworkingOLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and ExpoRegistration - OLF ConferenceValve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOSSteam Controller — Steam Controller shares DNA with Steam Deck, with all the inputs to play all the games on Steam, wherever Steam is.Steam Machine — Made for powerful, versatile PC gaming on a bi

We dive into your configs, the genius moves, the glorious blunders, and everything in between.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLINUX Unplugged 634: Config Confessionsyechielw/dots — Nixos and home-manager configShayne's budget FlakeShayne's Budget PackagesShayne's Budget Configuration.nixChris' Budget Flake FixMillak/guix-config: mirror of my guix configsMillak/my-guix: local guix packages<a title="efraim-home: Add mpv-sponsorblock-minimal-conf.d" href="https://github.com/Millak/guix-config/commit/433bedd90b

After all the AI hype is over, one change for Linux will be sticking around; we put it to the test.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMSeaGL 2025 — November 7-8, 2025 in Seattle, WALinuxFest NorthwestLinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for SpeakersSCALE 23x - Southern California Linux Expo — North America's largest community-run open source conference. Pasadena, CA - March 5-8, 2026SCALE - Call for PresentationsPlanet Nix '26 — March 5th-6th, 2026 @ Pasadena, CAPlanet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals<a title="LINUX Unplugged 481: Just a Prompt Away" href="https://linuxunplugged.com/481" rel="nofollow"

Fedora 43 arrives with polish, new spins, and a smarter installer; and one decision the rest of the Linux world should pay attention to.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. CrowdHealth: This open enrollment, take your power back. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using code UNPLUGGED.Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMnebula-lighthouse-servicenebula-lighthouse-service: init at 2.0.0 by bloominstrong · Pull Request #454855 · NixOS/nixpkgs — nebula-lighthouse-service is aimed to be run a a public nebula lighthouse for those who cannot host their own, or who want extra lighthouses without the burden of maintaining another lighthouse.Fedora Linux 43 Cleared For Release Next Week — While Fedora 43 wasn't ready for release this week due to outstanding blocker bugs, at today's Go/No-Go meeting it was decided that Fedora 43 is now in a position for shipping next week.Velocity Limitless / Projects / Slitherer · GitLab<a title="Fedora 43 Wallpaper Wr

The biggest failure in seven years, right before a trip. What broke, how Chris pulled it back together, and how Wes would fix it right.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. CrowdHealth: This open enrollment, take your power back. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using code UNPLUGGED. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMHome Assistant Community Add-on: SSH & Web TerminalHomeAssistent Yellow: EmberZNet Zigbee: failed to flash firmware · Issue #146293HA Yellow/Zigbee Issue - Home Assistant CommunityHome Assistant Yellow Radio firmware - Home Assistant CommunityHome Assistant on X: "⚠️ WE'RE ENDING PRODUCTION OF THE HOME ASSISTANT YELLOW ⚠️Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q 10T7 Tiny Desktop<a title="Dell OptiPlex 3070 Desktop Compu

We're back from Texas just in time to chat with Jon Seager, Canonical's VP of Engineering, and their new era with Ubuntu 25.10. On the way, we visit System76 in Denver where the COSMIC team has surprises waiting for us.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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMCOSMIC — Next generation Cosmic desktop environment. Use it on your favorite distro!System76 — Powerful Linux computers designed by nerds, engineered by experts, handcrafted by humans in the US.GitHub - pop-os/cosmic-epoch: Next generation Cosmic desktop environmentGitHub - pop-os/cosmic-applets: WIP applets for cosmic-panelPop!_OS 24.04 (with COSMIC Desktop) Just Hit Beta - OMG! UbuntuCanonical releases Ubuntu 25.10 Questing QuokkaUbuntu Engineering in 2025: A Retrospective · Jon SeagerUbuntu 25.10 Fix Pending For Broken Flatpak Support - Phoronix<a titl

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Our cross-continent race to Texas Linux Fest culminates into fantastic meat, meetups, and more.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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:🤠 Texas Linux Festival Trip Support (Fake Boost)💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMTexas TrackerTexas Linux FestTXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - The Design & Implementation of the Darwin Operating SystemTXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - Getting Started with Ansible on LinuxTXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - Lessons They Don't Teach You in School: A Year in High-Performance ComputingTXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - I got Malware, BTW. A quick look at the rising trend of Linux Malware<a title="A Gift for the Open Source Community: Chainguard’s CVE-Free Raspberry Pi Images (Beta)" href="http

From finely tuned to total config carnage. We review listener homelabs to share what works, and what really doesn't.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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMTexas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TXTexas Linux Festival Trip Support (Fake boost)JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Meetup.com — Saturday, Oct 4 - 12:00 AM to 01:30 PM CDTJB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony EventsTurnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TXDawarich — Automatically track your daily life with Dawarich. Never forget where you went or what you did. Relive your memories with precise location data.LINUX Unplugged 614: Self-Hosted Location Tracking<a title="Dawarich API Docs" href="https://dawarich.app/docs/tutorials/track-your-loc

Can't get enough Linux? How about multiple kernels running simultaneously, side by side, not in a VM, all on the same hardware; this week it's finally looking real.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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMnebula-tower — A user-friendly server to manage your Slack Nebula mesh network.Texas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TXJB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party, Sat Oct 4 - Meetup.comJB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony EventsTurnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TXbitchatAd-Free Viewing By Showing Your Support During The Phoronix Oktoberfest / Autumn Sale — Through the end of the month (30 September), you can enjoy premium at the Oktoberfest rate. The normal Phoroni

Our first look at KDE Linux, then Chris shares the latest on Hyprvibe, while Wes braves his first install.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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMnebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.Nebula - Apps on Google PlayTexas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TXJB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party, Sat Oct 4 - Meetup.comJB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony EventsTurnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TXbitchat — bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over bluetooth mesh networks.Texas Linu

Chris managed to turn low bandwidth into a lifestyle, and curated a batch of self-hosted apps that make near-offline living possible.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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMTexas Linux Festival 2025Support our Texas Linux Fest Trip with PayPal, Venmo, On-Chain, or LightningPinchflat — Your next YouTube media managerErsatzTV — ErsatzTV lets you transform your media library into a personalized, live TV experience—complete with EPG, channel scheduling, and seamless streaming to all your devices.Wes' ErsatzTV Flake — A Nix package and NixOS module for ErsatzTVKarakeep — Quickly save links, notes, and images and karakeep will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval. Built for the data hoarders out there!lup-0631 NixOS ConfigHome Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a

Google's sideloading lockdown has us pushing Wes' Pixel further than Google ever dreamed.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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMDECbot/nebula-cert-maker: Simple yaml and python script to create certificates for your Nebula Mesh VPN — The Nebula Cert Maker will create a new Nebula CA certificates and then generate and sign certificates for all hosts in the host list.Texas Linux Festival 2025JB TXLF Matrix RoomJupiter Broadcasting GarageLinus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs As Now "Externally Maintained" — Linus Torvalds updated the maintainers file for Bcachefs and now reflects its upstream state as "externally maintained" rather than "supported".Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year — Google says that only apps with verified identities will be

Arch is under fire, two weeks and counting. We'll break down the mess, and share a quick fix. Plus, the killer new apps we've just added to our homelabs.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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMnebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.Frigate NVRCoral USB Accelerator: ML Accelerator, USB 3.0 Type-CArch Linux - News: Recent service outagesArch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two — For now, the Arch team is working to mitigate the attack's impact, which highlights a bootstrapping issue. Tools designed to shift traffic to mirrors in the event the main infrastructure is unavailable rely on a mirror list obtained from that same main infrastructure.DHH on X — "Omarchy 2.0 release might have to wait a little longer. The AUR DDoS attack has picked back up, but the upside is that we're building in all sorts of resilience for the installer to deal with the assault! And

When personalities clash, the users come last. Meanwhile, Chris' hyper-tuned setup stops being a toy and starts looking like a daily driver.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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMToronto Meetup - JB Colony EventsLinux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash — A large and unfortunate mistake in the kernel development management process is underway.Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs changes for 6.17 - Josef BacikUbuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept — Ubuntu is testing "Dangerous" Desktop Images, daily builds with all Snaps pulled from the edge channel.Ubuntu 25.10 Will Ship With Linux 6.17 Even If It Means An Unstable "-rc" Kernelsyncthing 2.0 Released! — This is the first release of the new 2.0 series. Expect some rough edges and keep a sense of advent

Wes performs a 2 a.m. rescue at DEFCON, and Chris attempts to build a Linux desktop using nothing but vibes.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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMPodverse — A FOSS podcast manager for iOS, Android, F-Droid, and web.Podverse - GitHubTexas Linux Festival 2025 - CFP extended to August 18!Nix Pipe Operator by piegamesde [RFC 0148]libexpr: experimental pipe operators by rhendricNix Vegas on GitHubNixVegas/badge — Rebuild the world at DEF CON with the Nix BadgeAND!XOR 5n4ck3yANDnXOR/ANDnXOR_DC33_BadgeNixOS Search - Packages - ztool<a title="

A Btrfs bug that bites is in the wild, and we discover whole home audio that works like a charm.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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMHow to recover from BTRFS errors | Support | SUSEbtrfs-zero-log(8) — btrfs-progs — Debian Manpages — This command will clear the filesystem log tree. This may fix a specific set of problem when the filesystem mount fails due to the log replay.2018 PatchGit: Btrfs: fix warning when replaying log after fsync of a tmpfileGit: btrfs: fix fsync of files with no hard links not persisting deletionproblematic patch pulled into 6.16 on May 26th<a title="problematic patch pulled into 6.15.3 on June 19th" href="https://lore.kernel.org/stable/2025061942-premiere-surreal-fa53@gregkh/" re

A radical rethink of what a Linux distro should do, and what it should stop doing. Plus, we dig into what's great about Linux 6.16.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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMF43 Change Proposal: Filter Fedora Flatpaks for Atomic Desktops — With this change, we want to make the availability of a Fedora Flatpak an explicit decision for the Fedora Atomic Desktops.Fedora Flatpaks creates more workFedora Must (Carefully) Embrace FlathubStrategy 2028 Update – Fedora Community BlogInitiatives/Fedora bootc - Fedora Project Wiki — Silverblue & Kinoite are ready to be our desktop Editions, with bootc (Jason)Proposal: Enable Flathub by Default - Fedora Discussion<a title="The Case for Fedora

Everything wrong with our homelabs, and how we're finally fixing them. Plus: two self-hosted apps you didn't know you needed.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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMHome Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.ODROID-H4 – ODROID — A powerful and versatile board that supports Intel's latest Alder Lake processors with AVX2 extensions. It features DDR5 memory, 4 SATA ports, dual BIOS, and up to 3 display outputs.Home Assistant YellowUGREEN NASync DXP2800 2-Bay Desktop NASMINISFORUM S100 Mini PC StickGEEKOM Air12 Mini PCNebula Quick StartDebugging with Nebula SSH commands<a title="Using Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula" href="https://nebula.defined.net/docs/guides/using-lighthous

Chris fled a declarative-first world for the promised land of Bluefin's atomic simplicity. Fifty days in, did he find desktop bliss or just fresh compromises?Sponsored By: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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMNix Vegas - Extended CFP, and a sneak previewNix Vegas CFPBluefin | The Next Generation Linux WorkstationFour Years of Universal Bluechad-russell/nix-blue: uBlue derivative with nix compatibilitykarypid/bluenix: Bluefin with /nixthrix/nix-toolbox: Fedora toolbox with nix.add nix using either the determine systems nix installer or the vanilla installer · Issue #2371 · ublue-os/bluefinInclude smallest pieces necessary to make installing Nix easier · Issue #765 · ublue-os/main<a title="Reco

Developers are abandoning their Macs for a new frontier: Arch Linux with Hyprland. We dive into Omarchy, and the broader trend fueling it.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLINUX Unplugged 566: Chef's Choice UbuntuOmarchy — Opinionated Arch/Hyprland Setup By DHHThe Omarchy ManualOmacom: Opinionated LinuxDHH on X — "Omarchy is ready! Hyprland + Arch have never been so easy. Everything comes preconfigured, preinstalled, and with six beautiful themes in the box. This is the smoothest, most pleasant operating system I've ever had under my fingers.DHH on X — "Huge kudos to @vaxryy for making Hyprland! I've been so impressed with his creation that I've committed to a €1,000/month support level for at least a year as a token of my appreciation. Consider chipping in if you end up digging it too.Good Linux Hardware · The Omarchy Manual · DHH<a title="DHH on X" href="https://x.com/dhh/status/19400

We're highlighting several stories and reviews that never made it into the show. From GrapheneOS trouble, Asahi updates, Framework's desktop reveal, Starlink's Linux magic, and more.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLINUX Unplugged Membership