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632: The Nightly Wobble
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 Linux Festival Trip Support (Fake boost)Jupiter Broadcasting Garage - New swag available!KDE LinuxKDE Linux - KDE Community WikiAnnouncing the Alpha release of KDE LinuxGitHub - ChrisLAS/hyprvibe: A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.Hyprland 0.51 dropped! — The gesture system has been reworked and is now way more flexible.Nixtcloud: Self-Hosted Cloud in One Command — Nextcloud with NixOS in the backend and P2P connectivity enabledholesail-nix: Holesail package for the Nix package manager — A comprehensive Nix package and NixOS module collection for Holesail - the peer-to-peer tunnel that lets you create instant, secure connections between devices without port forwarding or exposing ports.Pick: lazyssh — A terminal-based SSH manager inspired by lazydocker and k9s — but built for managing your fleet of servers directly from your terminal.Pick: term.everything — Run every GUI app in the terminal!
631: Offline By Default
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 worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.Immich — Self-hosted photo and video management solutionJellyfin — The Free Software Media Systemaudiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast serverPaperless-ngx — Paperless-ngx is a community-supported open-source document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper.PaperlessPaperless-ngBrother ADS-1800WGenius ScanQuickScan iOS scanner with OCRswift-paperlesspaperless-ai — An automated document analyzer for Paperless-ngx using OpenAI API, Ollama, Deepseek-r1, Azure and all OpenAI API compatible Services to automatically analyze and tag your documents.iPod parts from Elite Obsolete ElectronicsPick: Rustnet — A high-performance, cross-platform network monitoring tool built with Rust. RustNet provides real-time visibility into network connections with enhanced state display, intelligent connection lifecycle management, deep packet inspection capabilities, and a responsive terminal user interface.
630: Google's Garden Lockdown
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 installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it's a certified device.Android Developers Blog: A new layer of security for certified Android devicesAndroid developer verificationnixos-avf: NixOS for Android Terminal — This profile contains the necesarry services and kernel configs to get it running under the Terminal appnixos-avf-image-app releasesNixOS VM on my phone lol (Android Virtualization Framework) - NixOS DiscourseSetup SSH and Tailscale on Android 15 Linux Terminal Appdroid-nixos — NixOS VM on the Android "Terminal" appttyd: Share your terminal over the webIntroduction - Book of crosvmcrosvm: The Chrome OS Virtual Machine MonitorAndroid 16 New Feature Terminal (Debian 12) Actual Test: Network Configuration and Software Installation💻 How to Install Android 16 Linux Terminal with GUI Mode on Your Android Phone Step-by-Step GuideHands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!Android 16 Terminal Debian GUI Access Tool — This script is specifically designed for terminal environments on Android 16 systems, enabling quick configuration of graphical interface access for Debian 12. After configuration, you can access the native Debian 12 GUI environment within the Android terminal from your PC through the following stepswansview 2K Security Cameras Wireless — Outdoor-2.4G WiFi Home Security Cameras via Remote Control with Phone APP for 360º View, Color Night Vision, 24/7 SD Card Storage.Thingino — Open-source Firmware for Ingenic SoC IP Cameras.themactep/thingino-firmware: Open-source firmware for Ingenic SoC IP cameraspaperless-upload-thunderbird — Add-On for Thunderbird to upload PDF directly to paperless-ngxdistrostu's nix configFlameshot — Open source screenshot softwareHyprshot — A utility to easily take screenshots in HyprlandblendOS — Arch Linux made declarative, immutable and atomicFrigate NVR — Frigate is an open source NVR built around real-time AI object detection. All processing is performed locally on your own hardware, and your camera feeds never leave your home.Pick: Kvaesitso — A search-focused, free and open source launcher for AndroidJonas Hietala: I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS — I use the Kvaesitso launcher.
629: Arch Enemies
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 meanwhile, we'll build a complete Omarchy package mirror for all.DHH on X — "We're pulling AUR out of the Omarchy install hotpath. It's an incredible resource, but we actually only need a handful of packages for the initial setup, and we can just host those ourselves. AUR really needs a new mirror strategy to avoid this predicament."Arch Linux continues to feel the force of a DDoS attack after two brutal weeks — attackers yet to be identified as project struggles to restore full serviceArch Linux Status PageArch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfacesaurpublish — PKGBUILD management framework for the Arch User Repositorysalvador — salvador is a bash script that will help you maintain your AUR packages.archlinux/aurweb — Hosting platform for the Arch User Repository (AUR), a collection of packaging scripts created by the Arch Linux communityTaskTrove — Self-hostable task managment that respect your privacy.shuthost — A neat little helper that manages the standby state of unix hosts with Wake-On-Lan configured, with Web-GUI.Closing the Digital Divide: Q&A with Local Computer Upcycler Mike Kellymkellyxp/nixbook — Convert your old computer (even chromebook) to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.CachyOS — Blazingly Fast OS based on Arch LinuxMOES Wireless Smart Scene Switch ButtonMinoston 800 Series Z-Wave Scene Controller, 4 ZWave ButtonBrent hates ricing PCs • Clip by @genebeanadd master branch nixpkgs overlay · nikolarobottesla/infra-nix-configPick: WakeMyPotato — Restart a Linux server made of a potato laptop after power outagesPick: spectacle-ocr-screenshot — A simple utility to automatically extract text from spectacle on plasma desktopsPick: spectacle-ocr — Add OCR functionality to Spectacle
628: Don't Call it a Christro
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 adventure! 🙏Z-Wave is not dead - Home Assistant — TL;DR: Z-Wave is alive and well, partly due to a strong community that is building new open-source resources.Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 — The ultimate way to connect Z-Wave devices to Home Assistant.Z-Wave reborn - Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 Reveal Promo - YouTubeHyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOSKeybinds Reverting to older config? · Hyprvibe Issue #2Errors at the top of the screen · Hyprvibe Issue #3Quinn's NixOS Setup: The FormatterQuinn's NixOS Setup: The HomeQuinn's NixOS Setup: The SharedQuinn's NixOS Setup: The HostsLibreNMS — A fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support. LibreNMS is a fork of Observium.Observium — Observium is a network monitoring and management platform that provides real-time insight into network health and performance.Shift Systems / ShiftMon · GitLab — An open source monitoring and logging tool based on Ansible, Telegraf, Grafana, and a bunch of other toolssst/opencode — AI coding agent, built for the terminal.Lightning Grows Up | This Week In Bitcoin 68flatpak/xdg-native-messaging-proxyNativeMessaging portal for sandboxed browsers · flatpak Issue #655Pick: papra — The minimalistic document archiving platform.Papra - DemoPick: lue — Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-SpeechPick: wlgblock — This project replaces the usual password screen with a Gameboy emulator running a patched Pokémon game!
627: The 2 a.m. Rescue
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 - ztoolChrisLAS/hyprvibe — Chris' vibed-only, riced-up Hyprland desktop running atop NixOS.crush — The glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal 💘Cursor - The AI Code EditorVoid: an open source Cursor alternativegerbrent/storenix — NixOS configs for a store, containing two locations and multiple hosts. Please help me!Listener Javier @hacker.bikepacker - InstagramListener Javier @hacker.bikepacker - YouTubeHomeBox — A simple home inventory management softwaresysadminsmedia/homebox — A continuation of HomeBox the inventory and organization system built for the Home UserForester NotesDesigning tools for scientific thoughtjimsalterjrs/sanoid: — policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools which use OpenZFS for underlying next-gen storage.btrbk — Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumesBreez - Bitcoin in Every AppgPodder - Music AssistantGeneBean's Linux-specific NixOS aliases — GeneBean's MacOS-specific NixOS aliasesGeneBean's MacOS-specific NixOS aliasesAlby Hub — Alby Hub is a self-custodial, open source lightning wallet that connects to appsPick: ffshare — An android app to compress image, video and audio files through ffmpeg before sharing themPick: Actual Budget — Actual Budget is a super fast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances. At its heart is the well proven and much loved Envelope Budgeting methodology.SimpleFINConnect to your bank - SimpleFIN Bridge
626: The Btrfs Blues
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 26thproblematic patch pulled into 6.15.3 on June 19thIncreased reports since 6.15.3 of corruption within the log tree - Peter JungNull deref during attempted replay of corrupt TREE_LOG in newer kernel - Russell HaleySystem failed to boot – Btrfs log tree error / System Administration / Arch Linux ForumsPATCH: btrfs: fix log tree replay failure due to file with 0 links and extents — When attempting to mount the fs, the log replay will fail patch on for-next branch of btrfs treegeneric: test fsync of file with 0 links and extentsMusic Assistant — Music Assistant is a music library manager for your offline and online music sources which can easily stream your favourite music to a wide range of supported players and be combined with the power of Home Assistant!Music Assistant Installation InstructionsInstallation InstructionsMusic Assistant Music ProvidersMusic Assistant Player ProvidersHome Assistant PluginHome Assistant Voice Preview Edition - Home AssistantSYMFONISK Sonos WiFi bookshelf speaker, black smart/gen 2 - IKEA USHomePod - AppleBelkin SoundForm Connect AirPlay 2 Adapter & Airplay 2 ReceiverWiiM Mini AirPlay 2 Wireless Audio StreamerGoogle Chromecast - Streaming Device with HDMI CableGoogle Chromecast Audio Media Streamer - *** 2 PACK *** | eBaydroans/mass_queue — Actions to control player queues for Music Assistantpunxaphil/maxi-media-player — Media card for Home Assistant UI with a focus on managing multiple media players, but not excluding single player setups.NinDTendo/homeassistant_gradual_volume_control — Home Assistant integration providing a service to gradually change the volume of media_players over a given timespan.Chawan: TUI web browser — A text-mode web browser and pager for Unix-like systems, with a focus on implementing modern web standards while remaining self-contained, easy to understand and extensible.SilverBullet — SilverBullet is a tool to develop, organize, and structure your personal knowledge and to make it universally accessible across all your devices.HeliumOS — An atomic desktop operating system for your devices.LINUX Unplugged 620 - Brent Loves Building Things — Off-the-shelf didn’t cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.rust-motd — Beautiful, useful, configurable MOTD generation with zero runtime dependenciesrustdress — Self hosted Lightning Address Serverrustdress: init at 0.5.2 by jordan-bravorustdress in nixpkgsPlausible Slop: Generative AI and Open Source CybersecurityPlausible Slop Timecode LinkDeath by a thousand slops | daniel.haxx.sePick: PlexRipper — A cross-platform Plex media downloader that seamlessly adds media from other Plex servers to your own!PlexRipper DocsPick: kde-control-station — A modern configuration center for KDE plasma based on the awesome kde_controlcentre by Prayag2Pick: kAirPods — Native AirPods integration for KDE Plasma 6 with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widgetAmilieCoding/gnomePods — Native AirPods integration for GNOME with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widget. Built off of kAirPods
625: They're Doing it Wrong!
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 DiscussionThe Case for Fedora Flatpaksbazaar: New App Store for GNOMELinux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More PerformanceEXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance"Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More DevicesLinux 6.16 Merges A Fix For The Macintosh IILinux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APXThe first half of the 6.16 merge windowThe second half of the 6.16 merge windowEnforcement (or not) for module-specific exported symbolsToward the unification of kselftests and KUnitBcachefs may be headed out of the kernelSupporting kernel development with large language modelsFending off unwanted file descriptorsLinux 6.16 - Linux Kernel NewbiesSlowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEsZoned Loop Block Device — The Linux Kernel documentationDJM-V10 Creative style 6-channel professional DJ mixer (black) - Pioneer DJLLM generated git-resolve.shAidan's NixOS FlakeUsing Experimental Lighthouse DNS with NebulaSONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle PlusPick: Toney — Toney is a fast, lightweight, terminal-based note-taking app for the modern developer.Pick: Etesync-Knotes — A secure note-taking application for linux, integrated with Etebase for encrypted synchronization.
624: Tiny PC, Huge Problems
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.Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.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 commandsUsing Experimental Lighthouse DNS with NebulaUpgrading a Nebula network to IPv6 overlay addressesUsing Dedicated Relays for Total Connectivitynebula NixOS Modulenorohind.nebula: — Ansible role to manage nebula vpn hostsdracut-nebula — dracut-nebula integrates the Nebula overlay networking tool (VPN, tunnel) into the initramfsnebula-gen: — Simple script to initialize a CA and quickly sign host keys and certificates for the Nebula VPNAndrewPaglusch/Nebula-Ansible-Role — Nebula VPN Overlay Network Installer With Ansiblenebula-lighthouse-service — This server is a public Nebula VPN Lighthouse Service. You can use it in case you don’t have a publicly accessible server to run your own Nebula Lighthouse.nebula-vpn-helm — Helm chart for managing Nebula VPNvpn-dashboard-react-nebula — This project demonstrates a secure, lightweight, peer-to-peer VPN architecture using the Nebula overlay network integrated with a React-based front-end dashboard.ChrisLAS/bluenix — Build your own custom Universal Blue Image!Linkwarden — ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters, all in one place.Announcing Linkwarden 2.11Linkwarden Browser Extensionneko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.Soltros-OS — My personal RPM-OStree based OS.Miniflux — Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Readerminiflux/v2 — Minimalist and opinionated feed reader[Bug]: "External link" should point to the audio filefeat(rss): fallback to enclosure URL when entry URL is missing5 Best Reference Management Tools for Linux in 2024Zotero — Your personal research assistantAeon — The Linux Desktop for people who want to "get stuff done"winapps — Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.
623: 50 Days of Blue
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/mainRecommend homebrew as the default · Issue #576 · ublue-os/bluefinfeat: homebrew on image by m2Giles · Pull Request #1293 · ublue-os/bluefinAdd support for ostree-based Linux distributions by Hofer-Julian · Pull Request #586 · DeterminateSystems/nix-installerOstree installation breaks with composefs changes in Fedora 42 · Issue #1445 · DeterminateSystems/nix-installerArbitrary top level mount points and composefs (#26) · Issue · fedora/bootc/trackercomposefs: The reliability of disk images, the flexibility of filesublue-os/bluefin: The next generation Linux workstation, designed for reliability, performance, and sustainability.ublue-os/image-template: Build your own custom Universal Blue Image!amyosveneos: Bootc images based on Fedora Atomic & Fedora CoreOSm2osbos: Customized OS images based on Universal BlueBuilding Locally | Bluefinublue-os/cayo: A bootc server image for your self-hosting needsZach: Easy Omarchy update and install.CommonArchJaKooLit's Hyprland setupsPick: bitchat — A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks. No internet required, no servers, no phone numbers. It's the side-groupchat.Bitchat: bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibesbitchat-android: bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibesbitchat privacyJack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security | TechCrunchLINUX Unplugged 459: Better than ButterBriar — Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in.Obtainium: Get Android app updates straight from the source.
622: Omarchy Hits Different
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 · DHHDHH on X — "Next step for Omarchy is clearly to level up to become a full distro. Then convince @FrameworkPuter and @Beelinkofficial to offer it preloaded. Going to will The Year of Linux into existence!"thalys on X — @dhh I'm a designer using macs for work in the past 14y. no linux experience. decided to jump straight into omarchy and i'm lovin it. already made a small theme for myself, some binds using grim/slurppy/satty to emulate cleanshot, replaced dropbox with owncloud on waybar, etc.Elvinas Predkelis on X — "All right, Omarchy is quite something. It's been a while back since I've last used Linux as a daily driver. But Omarchy is a breeze - snappy, intuitive and a joy to use. Some personal tweaks here and there, adding Ghostty and it's a dream machine. Thank you @dhh 🙏DHH on X — "Mainstream Linux distros have been focused for too long on being as similar to Windows and Mac as possible to ease adoption. I've come to believe this isn't the way. Linux needs to embrace its own aesthetic, its own ethos, unapologetically. Lean into rice and TUIs!"DHH discusses Linux and Omarchy @ Typecraft - YouTubeDHH - Get in losers, we're moving to Linux!Good Linux Hardware · Omacom · DHHODROID-H4+ – ODROIDH4 Mini-ITX Kit – ODROID — a kit that adapts the form factor so that the H4 board can be mounted on a Mini-ITX case for a desktop PC or a DIY-NAS.ODROID and Chill - Self-Hosted 138 — Brent joins to share part two of his NAS build adventure, and things take a tiny turn. Plus, picking the right encrypted chat app and Chris stacks a few Jellyfin wins.Hotkeys · The Omarchy Manual · DHHThe Omarchy ManualNeovim · The Omarchy Manual · DHHTUIs · The Omarchy Manual · DHHDotfiles · The Omarchy Manual · DHHMise — lets you install and run multiple versions of a programming language on the same machine. It's like rbenv or rvm for Ruby or virtualenv for Python, but it works for a bunch of different environmentsmise-plugins/mise-nix: Mise Nix Flake PluginPewDiePie - I installed Linux (so should you) - YouTubePewDiePie - I'm DONE with Google - YouTubeYou'd Better Run - GitHubEurobot Germany 2025 Finals First Round - DDoS vs M.A.M.U.T - YouTubeGitHub - OpenTollGate/tollgate — TollGate enables WiFi routers to accept Bitcoin payments for internet access.Pick: gemini-cli — An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.Pick: sniffnet — Comfortably monitor your Internet traffic 🕵️♂️
621: The Sunday Secret Sauce
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
620: Brent Loves Building Things
Off-the-shelf didn't cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.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.FMCastamaticCastamatic 11 - with live shows and Podping — With this release, you can now listen to live podcast episodes directly in the app and get instant notifications as soon as a new episode—live or recorded—is available.ESP8266 NodeMCUDHT22/AM2302 Digital Temperature and Humidity Sensor Module5V One Channel Relay Module Relay Switch with OPTO Isolation High Low Level TriggerMarine Boat 3" in-Line Bilge Air Blower DC 12V 130 CFMWolfwhoop PW-D Control Buck Converter 6-24V to 5V 1.5A Step-Down Regulator Module Power Inverter Volt StabilizerTICONN Waterproof Electrical Junction BoxBOJACK 3 Values 130 Pcs Solderless BreadboardESPHome Web - web.esphome.io — Allows you to prepare your device for first use, install new versions and check the device logs directly from your browser.PlatformIO - Your Gateway to Embedded Software Development ExcellencebuildFHSEnv - nixpkgs — Provides a way to build and run FHS-compatible lightweight sandboxes.ESPHome NixOS module: Failure to compile firmware because of DynamicUsersPick: High Tide — Third party unofficial TIDAL music client. Listen to your favorite music from your desktop or mobile Linux device at the highest quality.Pick: Junction — Junction pops up automatically when you open a file or link in another app.Junction on Flathub
619: The Trouble with TUIs
We spent the week learning keybindings, installing dependencies, and cramming for bonus points. Today, we score up and see how we did in the TUI Challenge.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 TUI Challenge Rulesdarnir's TUI Reportzee — A modern text editor for the terminal written in RustHelix EditorBrowsh — fully-modern text-based browserddgr — 🦆 DuckDuckGo from the terminalRanger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console — Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy.Joshuto — Ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rusttenere — 🤖 TUI interface for LLMs written in Rustelia — A snappy, keyboard-centric terminal user interface for interacting with large language models. Chat with ChatGPT, Claude, Llama 3, Phi 3, Mistral, Gemma and more.kpxhs — Interactive Keepass database TUI viewerkeepass-mode — Emacs mode to open KeePass DBgocheat — A beautiful customizable TUI Cheatsheet for keybindings,hotkeys and more in the terminalcastero: — TUI podcast client for the terminaltextual-web — Run TUIs and terminals in your browsertodoist: Todoist CLI Client. — Todoist is a cool TODO list web application. This program will let you use the Todoist in CLI.gomuks/gomuks: A TUI Matrix client — A Matrix client written in Go using mautrix.orf/gping: Ping, but with a graphimpala — 🛜 TUI for managing wifi on Linuxcmus - C\* Music Player — cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.systemctl-tui — A fast, simple TUI for interacting with systemd services and their logs.tdf — A tui-based PDF viewerrainfrog — 🐸A database management TUIjqp — A TUI playground to experiment with jqandcli — A 2FA TUI for your shelliamb — A Matrix client for Vim addictsparllama — TUI for ollama and other LLM providers.russ — A TUI RSS reader with vim-like controls and a local-first, offline-first focusytui-music — Youtube client in terminal for music (lightweight youtube client)wiki-tui — A simple and easy to use Wikipedia Text User Interfacetuifeed — 📰 A terminal feed reader with a fancy uiyazi — 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.vault-tasks — TUI Markdown Task ManagerDon's TUI Challenge blog — #TUIChallengeShyfox's TUI Challenge resultsHimalaya — CLI to manage emails, based on email-libjellyfin-tui — Jellyfin music streaming client for the terminal.Alacritty — A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.apple/containerization — Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS. Containerization is written in Swift and uses Virtualization.framework on Apple silicon.Pick: somo — A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux.
618: TUI Challenge Kickoff
Our terminal apps are loaded, the goals are set, but we're already hitting a few snags. The TUI Challenge begins...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.FMTexas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin TX, Oct 3-4, 2025Texas Linux Festival 2025 CFPNixCon 2025 - Switzerland, September 5-7, 2025NixCon 2025 CFPSeattle GNU/Linux Conference - November 7-8, 2025SeaGL 2025 CFPPhoronix: Marking 21 Years Of Covering Linux HardwarePhoronix.comLINUX Unplugged - TUI Challenge Rules!Terminal Apps — A collection of awesome TUI apps from around the web.Terminal Trove — Find your next Terminal love.awesome-tuis — List of projects that provide terminal user interfaces.Superfile: Pretty fancy and modern terminal file managerRanger: A VIM-inspired filemanager for the consolejoshuto: Ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rustneomutt: ✉ Teaching an Old Dog New Tricksmeli: Rusty terminal mail clientslack-term — Slack client for your terminalGitHub - tramhao/termusic: Music Player TUI written in Rustzellij: A terminal workspace with batteries includedMyNav: Go-based workspace and session management TUI — A powerful terminal-based workspace navigator and session manager built in Go. MyNav helps developers organize and manage multiple projects through an intuitive interface, seamlessly integrating with tmux sessions.aerc - A pretty good email client — aerc is an email client that runs in your terminal. It's highly efficient and extensible, perfect for the discerning hacker.aerc - A pretty good email client that runs in your terminal - GitHubulyssa/iamb: A Matrix client for Vim addicts — a Matrix client for the terminal that uses Vim keybindingsmagiblot/tvterm: A terminal emulator that runs in your terminal. Powered by Turbo Vision. — tvterm is an experimental terminal emulator widget and application based on the Turbo Vision framework. It was created for the purpose of demonstrating new features in Turbo Vision such as 24-bit color support.sxyazi/yazi: 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O. — Yazi (means "duck") is a terminal file manager written in Rust, based on non-blocking async I/O. It aims to provide an efficient, user-friendly, and customizable file management experience.meli MUA — meli is a configurable and extensible e-mail client with sane defaults.The Mutt E-Mail Client — "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." -circa 1995glow: Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻gomuks — A Matrix client written in GoNCSA Mosaic - Wikipedia — Mosaic is a discontinued web browser. It was instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web and the general Internet during the 1990s by integrating multimedia such as text and graphics.carbonyl — Chromium running inside your terminalAfter 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No MorePipeWirebhh32's tui_player: A video player for the terminalHow I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation – Sean Heelan's Blogtempy — A simple, visually pleasing weather report in your terminal.arabcoders/ytptube: A WebUI for yt-dlp with concurrent downloads support, presets and scheduled tasks and many more. — YTPTube is a web-based GUI for yt-dlp, designed to make downloading videos from YouTube and other video platforms easier and more user-friendly. It supports downloading playlists, channels, and live streams, and includes features like scheduling downloads, sending notifications, and a built-in video player.