Plus, the reunion road trip hits a bump, some community news, feedback, picks, and more.

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• A Cloud Guru: Students will install and configure various use cases for Apache, Squid, and NGINX, including virtual hosts, proxy and reverse proxy servers, HTTPS/SSL, and load balancing. We’ll also discuss how to collect Apache metrics, as well as the differences between Apache and NGINX.
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• The Light Phone — The Light Phone II is a premium, minimal phone. It will never have social media, clickbait news, email, an internet browser, or any other anxiety-inducing infinite feed.
• Ingenuity Is So Good, NASA’s Mars Helicopter Mission Just Got an Exciting Update — Given its stunning and unexpected success, NASA has extended Ingenuity's mission indefinitely.
• KDE’s Plasma Wayland Session Is “Finally Reaching Stability” Following Many Fixes — "Gazillions of bugfixes...Including many for the Plasma Wayland session! It’s finally reaching stability. I know it’s taken a while, but I think we’re very nearly there!"
• This week in KDE: gazillions of bugfixes
• Nftables reaches 1.0 — The release of nftables 1.0.0 can be seen as a signal that it is time for the laggards to get more serious about making the switch. While it is hard to imagine iptables support being removed anytime soon, it's rather easier to foresee that enthusiasm for maintaining it will continue to wane. It only took 13 years, but this transition finally appears to be heading into its final stage.
• nftables wiki
• Garuda Linux — Garuda Linux is a rolling release distro based on Arch Linux, which ensures always getting the latest software updates.
• Garuda Whoogle
• Garuda Startpage
• Stickers | Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
• Pick: yt-dlp — A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.
• Pick: ytmdl — A simple app to get songs from YouTube in mp3 format with artist name, album name etc from sources like iTunes, Spotify, LastFM, Deezer, Gaana etc.

Plus some community news, handy picks, emails, and more. It's a special edition of the Unplugged show.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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• SCO v. IBM settlement deal is done — Documents filed in the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware last week suggest a settlement payment of just $14.25 million will see the matter closed.
• ChrisLAS on Twitter — "My spot to record in Arizona today."
• Ventoy Adds a Web GUI — Ventoy now ships with a web-based graphical user interface since version 1.0.36.
• Ventoy — Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
• “Apps For GNOME” Launches To Highlight GNOME Apps — There hasn't been a comprehensive, modern, user-friendly web-site for outlining all of the GNOME apps and inviting participation until now with this Apps for GNOME.
• Apps for GNOME — Discover the best Apps for GNOME.
• nebula — A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security.
• TheOrangeOne's Blog — Nebula mesh network - an introduction.
• Jon the Nice Guy's Blog — Nebula Offline Certificate Management with a Raspberry Pi using Bash.
• Nebula-Cert-Maker — A script that allows you to create new host certificates and keys.
• Gardiner Bryant on YouTube — I wasn't prepared for how much growth System76 has experienced in the year and a half since my last visit.
• Stickers | Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
• Pick: psst — Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI.