Brent Gervais
Co-Host of LINUX Unplugged
Commercial, Editorial & Documentary Photography -- local food, sustainability, technology, photography on Linux + more!
Brent Gervais has hosted 168 Episodes.
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571: Multi-Machine Lifestyle
July 14th, 2024 | 1 hr 19 mins
0xchat, 1.21 gigawatts!, autopatchelf, beelink ser5, circle of trust, decentralized identity, dotenvx, fear of updates, freeoffice, gathio, great scott!, headscale, jack, jupiter broadcasting, kate, kate sudo saves, learn nix the fun way, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lup 100, minisforum um690 pro, minisforum um790 pro, nip-05 verified, nix, nix shell, nixos, nostr, openbsd desktop challenge, opensuse, oxchat, patchelf, pipewire, plasma 6, postgres, psycopg2, pw-jack, pyenv, python, rcs, reaper, rolling distro, skunkworks, termscp, tumbleweed, vercel, wps office
Wes reports from the Skunkworks lab, and Brent tells us about his new computing lifestyle.
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570: RegreSSHion Strikes
July 7th, 2024 | 47 mins 5 secs
32-bit, ars, atomic clock, autossh, cve, dan goodin, denial-of-service, exploit, fail2ban, firewall, firewall knock operator, fried onion, fwknop, jb time, jupiter broadcasting, kaspersky, kdeconnect, krunner, letmein, linux podcast, linux unplugged, malicious payloads, nixos, openssh, port knocking, qualys, rce, regresshion, regression, security advisory, server hardening, spa, spokane meetup, stan kaminsky, stu, tailscale, tui, vulnerability
We dig into the RegreSSHion bug, debate it's real threat and explore clever tools to build a tasty fried onion around your system.
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569: Our Plasma Panacea
June 30th, 2024 | 1 hr 6 mins
crossover, flatpak, freerdp, futo keyboard, gathio, gnome, grapheneos, headscale, house-to-house lasers, intel integrated graphics, jupiter broadcasting, kde, kde plasma, krdp, kwin, linux desktop, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mastadon, nixos, no-li brewhouse, nostr, not-michigan, openbsd, packagekit, plasma 6.1, plasma 6.1.1, rdp, shake-that-cursor, spokane meetup, tailscale, tlp, triple buffering, wayland, 🦒
Why we think Plasma 6.1 is the desktop for people who like to mess with computers.
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568: All Your Silos are Broken
June 23rd, 2024 | 1 hr 21 mins
amethyst, awesome-nostr, blogstack, btc prague, commercial identity, cryptography, decentralized web, distrobox, distrobox-assemble, ditto, gathio, gnupg, highlighter, hivetalk, id, jia tan, jupiter broadcasting, ladybird, lightning, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nips, nix drinking game, nixos, nosta, nostr, nostr nook, notes and other stuff transmitted by relays, open source zealot, openpgp, ostrgit, pgp, piper, primal, relays, relevance glue, satlantis, squid, starship, stirling-pdf, sudo flame war, systemd, systemd run0, text to speech, tts, web of trust, wikifreedia, world coin, xz, xz backdoor, xz utils, yana, zap.stream, zsh, ⚡
Online identity is a ticking time bomb. Are trustworthy, open-source solutions ready to disarm it? Or will we be stuck with lackluster, proprietary systems?
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567: So Long sudo
June 16th, 2024 | 1 hr 31 mins
256, arm, beelink, berlin meetup, berlin with brent, bitfocus companion, cgroups, doas, father's day, homed-managed, importctl, iotas, ipod, jupiter broadcasting, lenovo thinkpad x13s, liblzma, linux arm, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nextcloud conference, nextcloud notes, nix drinking game, nix-darwin, nix-direnv, norwich meetup, ntp challenge, omakub, portable service, qualcomm, rockbox os, run0, snapdragon, spokane meetup, squid, ssh, sudo, suid, system v, systemd, systemd sleep, systemd-nspawn, systemd-run0, systemd-vmspawn, systemd-vpick, the tragedy of systemd, ubuntu, v2⁸, xscreensaver for android, xz
Your Linux box is a-changin'. systemd has a huge new release; we'll get into the most impressive features, including the new sudo replacement. Plus, our thoughts on the new Linux Arm laptops that are just around the corner.
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566: Chef's Choice Ubuntu
June 9th, 2024 | 1 hr 32 mins
.net, 37signals, alacritty, apple, babylon 5, backups, backwoods setup, bash, chef's choice, configuration, customizability, david heinemeier hansson, deb packages, desktop stability, desktop themes, dev workstation, developer environment, developer setup, devenv, dhh, docker, dotfiles, extensibility, flameshot, flatpak, fully kiosk browser, gnome, jellyfin media player, jupiter broadcasting, keyboard-first workflow, kopia, kthresher, lazydocker, lazyvim, linux mistakes, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linux workstation bootstrapping, linux's slow burn, lts, macos, mate, mise, multiplex, neovim, nix, nix drinking game, nixos, notch, omakase, omakase spirit, omakub, opinionated setup, overlay network, pop!_os, ppa, setup script, shareplay, squid proxy, syncplay, tactile extension, tokyo night, torrents, ubuntu, ubuntu 24.04, ulauncher, vscode, watch party, watch together, webrtc, weron, window tiling, windows, wsl, xournal++, zellij
We try Omakub, a new opinionated Ubuntu desktop for power users and macOS expats.
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565: Mistakes That Made Us Love Linux
June 2nd, 2024 | 1 hr 23 mins
ai clippy, ai strategy tax, beelink, beginner mistakes, dd, debian, delfin, dependency hell, distrohopping, dotfiles, everyone makes mistakes, frank karlitschek, gnome 3, gobolinux, grub, jupiter broadcasting, kate, linux don'ts, linux install mistakes, linux mistakes, linux podcast, linux refuge, linux unplugged, live-usb, microsoft, nextcloud, nine-fives, nixos, nvidia, oom killer, podverse, ssh updates, sudo rm -rf, ubuntu, windows 8 moment, zram, 🤦
The facepalm moments that make us question our sanity—and swear off sudo for a week.
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564: The Goldilocks Build
May 26th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
beelink, beelink amd ryzen 7 5700u, declarative pc, example nix config, fedora atomic, gridplayer, jupiter broadcasting, kate, kde, krunner, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mac studio, musnix, nh, nix, nix helper, nixcon, nixos, one simple rule, pinky's, plasma, polkit, reactionary, real-time audio, real-time kernel, realplayer, ryzen, scipy, self meetup, strategy tax, systemd devuan challenge, thinkpad, ublue aurora, vscode, wayland, windows copilot, windows xp
We're following one simple rule to build a Linux desktop so stable it could outlive us.
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562: Red Hat Knows How to Party
May 12th, 2024 | 1 hr 14 mins
ai, announcement links, berlin meetup report, block party, bootc, centos, expo hall, fedora, granite code model, ibm, image mode, instructlab, jupiter broadcasting, keynote, lab, large-scale alignment for chatbots, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lup phone, podman, red hat, red hat enterprise linux, rhel, summit
Three revelations from Red Hat Summit. Our on-the-ground report will separate fact from hype.
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561: Folders as a Service
May 5th, 2024 | 43 mins 22 secs
1st linux box, airdrop alternative, ajax, arch server, arch update, audioserve, awesome-webservers, bbq, campus surplus, docker, files, folders as a service, fountain.fm, fun with files, homelab, http static server, jupiter broadcasting, lfnw, linux for windows, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxfest northwest, little server that could, live upgrade, localsend, maple syrup pour, neofetch, nix drama, nix flake, nixos, no auth required, photosynth, php, podman, production arch server, rolling distro, rust, self, slackware, southeast linuxfest, spaceballs boost, sputnik, tiny file manager, wes’ janky options, winmodem, yellow dog linux
A few of our go-to tools for one-liner web servers, sharing media directly from folders, and a much needed live Arch server update, and more!
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560: Linux Festivus For the Rest of Us
April 28th, 2024 | 1 hr 15 mins
amd sev-snp, apparmor 4, bbq, bug bounty, compile-time bounds checking, festivus, for the rest of us, grok, intel shadow stack, intel tdx, jupiter broadcasting, kolide, linux, linux kernel v6.8, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxfest northwest 2024, llama3, llamafile 0.8, maintenance, ms-dos 4.0, security, systemd, tailscale, tls, ubuntu 24.04 lts
The first LinuxFest is back and better than ever. We share stories and friends from one of the best Linux gatherings of the year: LinuxFest Northwest.
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559: Linux is Bigger in Texas
April 21st, 2024 | 1 hr 30 mins
adam curry, atuin, bbq, boostagram ball, brent's ergonomic interest, buc-ees, carl george, delta rpm, docker, fedora 40, frank karlitschek, gentoo week, gl-inet, gnome, great a’tuin, home assistant, honeywell, iss, jovian nixos, jupiter broadcasting, jupiter extras, linux podcast, linux unplugged, logseq, longhorn cavern state park, mac mini m1, nixos, nixos gui editor, plasma, qubes on nixos, qubesos, scinary, self, shortwave, steam deck, system76, ted gould, tex shinobi keyboard, texas linuxfest, txlf, v4v, wireshark
We're back from Austin, with interviews and stories to share. Plus, it's Gentoo week and we take our first look at Fedora 40.
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558: Top 5 Essential Apps
April 14th, 2024 | 53 mins 21 secs
alessandro astone, aqua voice, bcachefs, beelink, berlin, bitwarden, brave, budgie, codium, dictation, doom emacs, duf, element, fd, fedora 42, fedora plasma workstation, firefox, fish, flakes, flathub, freetube, gnome, joshua strobl, jupiter broadcasting, keepassxc, linux 6.9, linux podcast, linux unplugged, logseq, marc deop i argemí, meetup, mentat, mentat nextcloud, mumble, nix-command, nix.settings.experimental-features, nixos, onlyoffice, password manager, pcloud, proton pass, qownnotes, remmina, ripgrep, signal, solus linux, spotify, steam, steve cossette, syncthing, tailscale, telegram, ticktick, topgrade, troy dawson
We asked, and you answered: Your top 5 Linux app essentials and post-install rituals. Plus, some news to better cope with "extreme file-system damage."
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557: Crouching kexec, Hidden Linux
April 7th, 2024 | 59 mins 17 secs
btrfs, core rope memory, dns, encryption, floppy disk, hiddenvm, home assistant, homekit, jupiter broadcasting, kexec, lightning network, lightspark, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nixos, nostr, nvdimm, persistent memory, plausible deniability, pmem, ram disk, security, shufflecake, subvolumes, tails, truecrypt, veracrypt, virtualbox, xz
We're building a completely hidden Linux OS inside an existing system—with no trace left behind.
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556: The xz Backdoor Exposed 🚨
March 31st, 2024 | 1 hr 10 mins
alpine, arch linux, backdoor, burnout, compression libraries, debian, fedora, gentoo, humint, jia tan, jupiter broadcasting, kali linux, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nixos, open source, openssh, opensuse, remote code execution, systemd, transparency, trust model, ubuntu, xz
We're breaking down the attack: how it works, how it was hidden, and why time was running out for the attacker.
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555: Glide like a Goose, Honk like a Moose
March 24th, 2024 | 1 hr 15 mins
amd, animations, compositor, desktop flake, enhanced file operations, files search everywhere, fountain, gaming laptop, gnome 46, hyprland, jupiter broadcasting, kathmandu, linux gaming notebook, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nix community, nix flakes, nixcon na, nixos, nixos-mailserver, nostr protocol, podverse, rdp, remote desktop protocol, scale, sirius 16, sirius 16 gen1, stickers, stirling pdf, taskwarrior, texas linux fest, texas linux festival, tuxedo computers, ubuntu mate, vr on linux, wayland, windows in docker, windows vm
We test the Linux-first, all-AMD Sirius 16 laptop, discuss the new Hyprland release, and share a few stories from our recent trip.