Wes Payne
Co-Host of LINUX Unplugged
Inquisitive nonsense and other such things.
Wes Payne has hosted 582 Episodes.
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573: Universal Blue Man Group
July 28th, 2024 | 1 hr 19 mins
anacaonda, aurora, bazzite, bcachefs, bitlocker, bluebuild, bluefin, bootc, brentley's gentoo fund, brew, clevis, cloud-native, container fatigue, containerfile, disk encryption, fedora atomic desktop, fedora coreos, flatpak, floppy disk, garmin, gearlever, gentoo, glue balloons, gnome, immutable linux, jorge castro, jupiter broadcasting, kde, linux podcast, linux unplugged, luks, mooltipass, nixos, omakub, opensuse tumbleweed, ostree. fedora, plasma 6, ptyxis, rpm-ostree, silverblue, steam, ucore, universal blue, yast
Think Silverblue, but with cloud-native tooling used to build it. From Aurora to Bazzite, our impressions of the ambitious Universal Blue project.
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572: Data Security Only a Maniac Could Love
July 21st, 2024 | 1 hr 31 mins
apple watch killer, automated decryption, autossh, barix, bazzite, bcachefs, bcachefs encryption, bcachefs on rootfs, blue bubbles, bluefin, boot chain, bustle, celeste, clevis, coinbase, contactless payment, crowdsec, disk encryption, encryption, fedora, flakes tutorial, fosdem, framework 13, futo, futo keyboard, garmin, gentoo challenge, gigawatt boost, github rate limiting, grapheneos, grayjay, guix, iotas, jupiter broadcasting, libreoffice, linux podcast, linux unplugged, luks, measured boot, morse code, nextcloud, nixos, obtainium, open-and-shut, opensuse aeon, pcr, pcr 7, rclone, rolling release, rust, slam your laptop lid, sleephq, smartwatch, systemd-cryptenroll, tang, that hash lifestyle, tpm, windows outage, 🦒
Wes' self-decrypting bcachefs disk and a GrapheneOS twist that'll make you ditch your iPhone.
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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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563: Nix's People Problem
May 19th, 2024 | 1 hr 1 min
anduril, community, constitutional assembly, determinate.systems, eelco dolstra, governance, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, military sponsorship, moderation, nix, nixos, nixos foundation, open letter
After months of debate, the Nix community might be coming to a resolution. We'll examine what happened, what's changing.
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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."