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642: Tunneling Home for the Holidays
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-jellyfin full exampleZigl3ur/jellyhub — JellyHub is a web app that allow you to fetch media from all of your jellyfin servers and regroup it in one place, so there is one place to search for specific media and tells you on wich server the desired media is located.Smiley-McSmiles/jellyman — Jellyman is a lightweight BASH CLI tool for installing and managing Jellyfin. As well as create a full backup (automatically or manually) so you can move or import all your metadata and user information to another machine.LSchallot/JellyRoller — JellyRoller is an open source CLI Jellyfin Controller written in Rust that works on Windows and Linux. Its primary purpose is to allow administration of a Jellyfin application from the command line.kjtsune/embyToLocalPlayer — etlp (embyToLocalPlayer) is a tool that lets Emby, Jellyfin, and Plex play videos using your local media players (like mpv or VLC) instead of the built-in web player, while optionally sending playback progress back to the server.Pick: subgen — Autogenerate subtitles using OpenAI Whisper Model via Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, Tautulli, or Bazarr.
641: Something New, Something Old
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 big screen; quiet and small enough to fit under your TV, on your desk, or anywhere else you want to game. (It's a roughly 6-inch (160mm) cube!)Steam Frame — Comfortable, wireless, lightweight VR designed to give you a new way to experience your entire Steam library“The Steam machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home.”Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam MachineFEX-Emu/FEX: A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 LinuxFEX 2511 Delivers More Performance Improvements For Linux x86 Binaries On ARM64Commits · FEX-Emu/FEX · GitHubPLF10 Smart Plug – Kaufman Home AutomationHome Assistant Connect ZBT-1About Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 — Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 is the new name for Home Assistant SkyConnect. Despite the new name and look, they have the exact same hardware, capability, and support.libvirt: The virtualization APIlibvirt - ArchWiki — Libvirt is a collection of software that provides a convenient way to manage virtual machines and other virtualization functionality, such as storage and network interface management. These software pieces include a long term stable C API, a daemon (libvirtd), and a command line utility (virsh).Category:Virtualization - NixOS WikiVirt-manager - NixOS WikiLibvirt - NixOS WikiPick: easyeffects — Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applicationsEasyEffects 8.0 Released In Porting From GTK4 To Qt / QML / KirigamiEasy Effects on FlathubMarcel Repo Email
640: Duece Configalo: Desktop Gigolo
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 packagesefraim-home: Add mpv-sponsorblock-minimal-conf.dDistrostu's configsDistrostu's M Series ConfigOly Mike's NixbookwriteShellApplication - Nix function referencewriteShellApplication - Nixpkgs Manual — writeShellApplication is similar to writeShellScriptBin and writeScriptBin but supports runtime dependencies with runtimeInputs.rwiankowski/homeserver-nixos — My Home Server Setup using a single NixOS nodeBrandon's HomelabBrandon's MacBrandon's brew defined by NixBrandon's Mac Apps installed via NixBeardedTek/nixos-router: NixOS Router Configuration — A declarative NixOS configuration that transforms a standard PC into a full-featured network router with integrated secrets management.blocky: DNS proxy and ad-blockerDeidrael/nix-config: My NixOS ConfigFuzzyMistborn/infra — 100% chance of id10t errors....and a slight chance of a credential leakwilliam/nix-config: All my nix stuff, in a single flakePick: SoltrOS — Immutable Linux designed for gaming & developmentPick: Parabolic — A powerful yt-dlp frontend.Pick: Youtarr — Youtarr is a self-hosted YouTube DVR that lets you subscribe to channels, browse their videos in a web UI, and automatically download and archive the ones you care about to your own storage.
639: The Mess Machine
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 ProposalsLINUX Unplugged 481: Just a Prompt Away — The Internet is going crazy with AI-generated media. What's the open-source story, and is Linux being left out?Red Hat eyes developer workflow efficiency, app modernization gains with new AI tools — An AI assistant specifically designed for application migration and modernization looks to reduce developer toilSUSE Linux Enterprise 16 Announced: "Enterprise Linux That Integrates Agentic AI" — SUSE's announcement today for SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 proclaims SLES 16 to be "the industry's first enterprise Linux that integrates agenetic AI" and "reduces operational costs and complexity through AI readiness."openSUSE on Hugging FaceChrisLAS/hyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.Pull requests - ChrisLAS/hyprvibefeat: add comprehensive sops-nix integration by shift · PR #15 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibeAdd options for username, group, home directory by samh · PR #8 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibeCreate variables for user and home dir by F-bit818 · PR #5 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibeLM Studio - Local AI on your computerZed — The editor for what's nextCursor: The best way to code with AINixbook — Convert your old computer to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.nixbook/base.nix — Roast my Nix: Not-a-flake edition!Jupiter Broadcasting's Colony EventsPick: duf — Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative.Pick: cheat.sh — the only cheat sheet you need.
638: The Distro Everyone Should Copy
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 · GitLabFedora 43 Wallpaper Wrap-Up – Fedora Community BlogFedora COSMIC SpinPlasma 6.5 - Reaching the Inflection Point[Fedora KDE] Early Plasma 6.5.0 - Fedora Discussion — With Fedora 43 being a go, we will be doing an update on repos towards the middle to end of next week that will bring Qt 6.10 and Plasma 6.5.1 to F43, and Plasma 6.5.1 (Most likely, plans are not 100% final in that regard) to F42. That will bring the update to the usual architectures, such as aarch64.Pick: Millisecond — Optimize your Linux system for low latency audioMillisecond on Flathubnoblepayne/millisecond-flakertcqs — rtcqs is a Python utility to analyze your system and detect possible bottlenecks that could have a negative impact on the performance of your system when working with Linux audioHow do I get an out-of-the-box working Linux audio workstation? - LinuxAudio.orgPick: lemurs 🐒 — A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust
637: Chris' Smart Home Disaster
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 ⚠️READ: CrowdHealth - HedgeDocLenovo ThinkCentre M720q 10T7 Tiny DesktopDell OptiPlex 3070 Desktop ComputerBeelink Mini S13 Pro Mini PC,13 Generation Intel N150Minisforum MS-01 Work StationHome Assistant Connect ZWA-2Home Assistant - NixOS Wikihome-assistant/component-packages.nix at nixos-25.05READ: Unraid - HedgeDocPick: Hexecute 🪄 — Launch apps by casting spells!Pick: LenspectLenspect on Flathub — A lightweight security threat scanner intended to make malware detection more accessible and efficient.
636: Engineering the Future
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 - PhoronixLINUX Unplugged 634: Config ConfessionsHybrid Pick: ncspotPick: poop (Performance Optimizer Observation Platform) — This command line tool uses Linux's perf_event_open functionality to compare the performance of multiple commands with a colorful terminal user interface.sharkdp/hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool
635: The Texas Linux Fest Special
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 MalwareA Gift for the Open Source Community: Chainguard’s CVE-Free Raspberry Pi Images (Beta)Chainguard for Raspberry PiChainguard's ImagesWes Payne - Mesh Network Sidecars for NixOS Services - Texas Linux Festnoblepayne/meshSidecar: Mesh network sidecars for NixOS ServicesPick: isd — isd (interactive systemd) – a better way to work with systemd units.ISD 0.6 Released For Interactive Systemd Management
634: Config Confessions
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 TrackingDawarich API DocsAlbinLind/dawarich-api — A python wrapper for DawarichTexas Tracker — Real-time distance tracking and movement visualizationJupiterBroadcasting/texastracker: — A static website that tracks our trip to Texas Linux Festival 2025.bitchatA Guide To bitchat version 1.2-1.3 : r/bitchatGeohash Converter - Find and visualize your GeohashOverland GPS Tracker on the App Storegpslogger: :satellite: Lightweight GPS Logging Application For Android.Zakk's (2kOS) nix configNotAShelf/nvf: Modular, extensible and distro-agnostic Neovim configuration framework for Nix/NixOSsuderman's nixos — system configurations & dotfilesNixOS impermanence — Lets you choose what files and directories you want to keep between reboots - the rest are thrown away.numtide/blueprint: Standard folder structure for Nix projects — blueprint is an opinionated library that maps a standard folder structure to flake outputs, allowing you to divide up your flake into individual files across these folders. This allows you to modularize and isolate these files so that they can be maintained individually and even shared across multiple projects.gmodena/nix-flatpak — Install flatpaks declarativelyAdam's (A Manzer) nix-configProwlarrnzbhydra2: Usenet meta searchKieran dotsFortyduex's nix configFortydeux's FirewireBrad's nix configBrad's SMBMonty's AnsibleMonty's NixMonty's NXCChrisLAS/hyprvibe: A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.Namespace nixosModules options under "hyprvibe" to avoid potential collisions - hyprvibe Issue #10Pick: vtunnel — vTunnel is a tool that proxies IP traffic between guest and host networks by using the VSOCK protocol.Pick: Tab-Session-Manager — WebExtensions for restoring and saving window / tab states
A Kernel in Every Core
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 Phoronix Premium rate is $45 USD per year or $250 for a lifetime subscription but for this year's Oktoberfest deal, you can go premium for just $30 per year or $150 for a lifetime subscription.GNOME 49 Release Notes — We code named the release “Brescia”, after a beautiful Italian city that hosted this year’s GUADEC.GNOME 49 Officially Released With Wayland Improvements, Showtime As Video PlayerUbuntu 25.10 Beta Officially Released For Testing — Canonical today released the Ubuntu 25.10 Beta as they work toward the stable Ubuntu 25.10 release in mid-October.Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings — Ubuntu 25.10's transition to using Rust Coreutils in place of GNU Coreutils has uncovered a few performance issues so far with the Rust version being slower than the C-based GNU Coreutils.base64 implementation almost 8x slower than GNU for some large filessort does not finish for large one line fileFedora 43 Beta ISOs Released For Testing — Fedora 43 Beta ISOs are now available for those wanting to help in testing.Omarchy 3.0 — Omarchy 3.0 is here — faster installs, big MacBook support, and lots of polish.systemd 258 Released With systemd-factory-reset & Other New Tools — Systemd 258 brings systemd-factory-reset to request a factory reset on the next reboot, systemd-pty-forward to allocate a pseudo TTY/PTY, UEFI firmware images can now be embedded in a UKI, and many other new features.systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 ChangesKernel RFC: Introduce multikernel architecture support — This patch series introduces multikernel architecture support, enabling multiple independent kernel instances to coexist and communicate on a single physical machine. Each kernel instance can run on dedicated CPU cores while sharing the underlying hardware resources.The Multikernel: A new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems [PDF]mirdaki/computer-config — Config for server and personal deploymentsMy Ultimate Self-hosting Setup — Matthew shares their ultimate self-hosting setup built on NixOS, ZFS, and Tailscale, balancing privacy, data control, and usability for family and friends.basecamp/once-campfire — Campfire is a web-based chat application.Pick: savr: Read it later. Keep it local. No server needed. — Savr is an app for saving online content to read later. It is file-centric, offline first, future proof, and favors decentralization.
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!