LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Automation”

620: Brent Loves Building Things

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:30:00 -0700

Off-the-shelf didn’t cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.

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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: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
Castamatic
Castamatic 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 NodeMCU
DHT22/AM2302 Digital Temperature and Humidity Sensor Module
5V One Channel Relay Module Relay Switch with OPTO Isolation High Low Level Trigger
Marine Boat 3" in-Line Bilge Air Blower DC 12V 130 CFM
Wolfwhoop PW-D Control Buck Converter 6-24V to 5V 1.5A Step-Down Regulator Module Power Inverter Volt Stabilizer
TICONN Waterproof Electrical Junction Box
BOJACK 3 Values 130 Pcs Solderless Breadboard
ESPHome 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 Excellence
buildFHSEnv - nixpkgs — Provides a way to build and run FHS-compatible lightweight sandboxes.
ESPHome NixOS module: Failure to compile firmware because of DynamicUsers
Pick: 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

512: The Sound of Rust

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 28 May 2023 20:00:00 -0700

We take a "Rust-only tools" challenge for a week and admit what worked, and what sucked. Plus, a surprise guest.

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Why I left Rust
LinuxFest Northwest 2023
LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Call for Speakers
GrapheneOS on Twitter — GrapheneOS will be undergoing restructuring of the organization and development team. Daniel Micay has stepped down as lead developer and will be stepping down as a non-profit director. Features and security patches will continue to be delivered to users as rapidly as before.
Daniel Micay on Twitter — It appears the wording above was unclear. I'm stepping down as a GrapheneOS Foundation director and as lead developer. I won't have any leadership role in the GrapheneOS project. It will take time/work to transfer my responsibilities to others, especially non-development roles.
Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora
Adopting Bitcoin 2023
LUP on in the top 10 charts TWICE.
Bitcoin Dad Pod
Polaris — Polaris is a music streaming application, designed to let you enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device.
Polaris Demo
docker-polaris: Small docker of Polaris based on Alpine Linux
Polaris on Google Play
Polaris Android on F-Droid
Polarios on App Store
Lapce — Lapce is written in pure Rust with a UI in Druid (which is also written in Rust). It is designed with Rope Science from the Xi-Editor which makes for lightning-fast computation, and leverages OpenGL for rendering.
Lapce on Flathub
Lapce packaged in Nix
Lapce Plugins
flosse/text-editors-written-in-rust
xi-editor: A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
awesome-alternatives-in-rust: A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust
awesome-rust: A curated list of Rust code and resources.
BitFocus Companion — Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck to be a professional shotbox surface for a huge amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Alby
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
Pick: Please Run That — A Python socket app for letting a friend execute a command on your system without using a ssh server all, with a simple GUI It has active development and works OOTB.
Pick: turtle — Turtle is a gtk4 + libadwaita frontend for pygit2 with nautilus plugin support. The project is currently in a very early development stage.
Chris Interviewed on Mere Mortals — In Conversation #90, Chris and I discuss: what it's been like to have 25+ podcasts, the current nosedive in advertising, how value for value is creating a richer experience for podcasters, his mindset in analyzing technological ideas, the coming pain from the messed up financial system, why Bitcoin/AI won't be as impactful as the internet and traveling across the US in an RV.

493: Network Nirvana

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 19:15:00 -0800

Chris' sticky upgrade situation, and we chat with the developer behind an impressive mesh VPN with new tricks.

Special Guest: Ryan Huber.

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NixOS 22.11 Released
VERY Simple NixOS NGINX Config
NixOS Manual: SSL/TLS Certificates with ACME — NixOS supports automatic domain validation & certificate retrieval and renewal using the ACME protocol. Any provider can be used, but by default NixOS uses Let's Encrypt. The alternative ACME client lego is used under the hood.
NixOS Manual: Configuring Nginx for Pleroma
go-acme/lego — Let’s Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go.
hackclub’s proxyparty
Easily Deploy a Mastodon Server with Linode's Marketplace
Defined Networking is Open for Business — On behalf of everyone here at Defined Networking, I’m excited to announce that our cloud managed version of Nebula is now available to everyone!
Automating Nebula Host Creation with the API
Try Defined Networking’s Managed Nebula
LINUX Unplugged 329: Flat Network Truthers — Build one flat network across cloud providers, personal networks, with even thousands of nodes. We feature two amazing open source solutions, and the creators behind them.
Trakt — Track what you watch and when.

492: A New Challenge Approaches

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 18:45:00 -0800

Join us on a journey to true software freedom. We embark on our 30-day challenge and discover a whole new philosophy that will change the way you think about technology.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Mastodon Sees Dip in Active Users After Twitter Exodus Surge
SCaLE 20x — The 20th Annual Southern California Linux Expo will take place on March 9-12, 2023 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA.
Easily Deploy a Mastodon Server with Linode Marketplace
Self-Hosted 87: Jellyfin January — We kick off our Jellyfin January challenge and invite you to join us. Plus, Chris has some new hardware and our thoughts on the trouble at the Matrix foundation.
Top 10 Self-Hosted Apps - Perfect Media Server
[YouTube] The Definitive Guide to Jellyfin
Ubuntu Manpage: intel_gpu_top — Display a top-like summary of Intel GPU usage.
jellyfin/Swiftfin — Native Jellyfin Client for iOS and tvOS.
intel-gpu-tools Repo
Alex's Jellyfin Ansible Setup
Fountain Rewind 2022
List of all Star Trek episodes sorted by original airdate
List of all Star Trek episodes sorted by star date
Alby
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Pick: Btrfsmaintenance — Scripts for btrfs maintenance tasks like periodic scrub, balance, trim or defrag on selected mountpoints or directories.
btdu — sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs.

455: I run NixOS BTW

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 20:30:00 -0700

We've hit a bump in the road with the NixOS challenge, and share what it might not be great at. Plus, what we didn't cover in our Ubuntu 22.04 review.

The one where we don't talk about Ubuntu 22.04 at all.

Open a channel to our Lightning Node: 037d284d2d7e6cec7623adbe600450a73b42fb90800989f05a862464b05408df39

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Martin Wimpress.

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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Dark Style Changes — Now in GNOME 42, it is officially supported, expanding on a concept from elementary OS 6 7. A toggle switch in the new Appearance panel in the core Settings app enables and disables the feature. A lot of work was done in GNOME apps to fix visual dark style bugs. A new transition effect was added (also inspired by elementary) to more elegantly crossfade when the style is switched.
Dark Style Preference · Wiki · GNOME / Initiatives · GitLab
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Eyes More Industrial Usage By Offering Up Real-Time Kernel Beta — Currently in beta with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the linux-realtime kernel
unsnap: Quickly migrate from using snap packages to flatpaks
deb-get — apt-get functionality for .debs published in 3rd party repositories or via direct download
Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS Release Notes — Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS is the culmination of 2 years of continual improvement 😅 to Ubuntu and MATE Desktop. As is tradition, the LTS development cycle has a keen focus on eliminating paper 🧻 cuts 🔪
Linux Downtime – Episode 45 — Joe and Adam are joined by Martin Wimpress to talk about what goes into running a distro like Ubuntu Mate.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Disables 3D Acceleration For Guest VMs With GNOME Boxes / Virt-Manager — In addition to Ubuntu 22.04 switching back NVIDIA to using X11 by default rather than Wayland as a launch-day change, separately, there was another rather notable last minute change affecting 3D support for virtual machines...
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Changes Default For NVIDIA Driver Back To Using X.Org Rather Than Wayland - Phoronix
docker snap unconditionally uses xtables — Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is defaulting to using the GNOME X.Org session rather than Wayland when running the proprietary NVIDIA driver.
https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/
GNU’s advanced distro and transactional package manager
10 years of stories behind Guix
clj-nix: Nix helpers for Clojure projects
poetry2nix: Convert poetry projects to nix automagically
home-manager: Manage a user environment using Nix
Home Manager - NixOS Wiki
Tutorial: Getting started with Home Manager for Nix
hercules-ci/arion: Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS
NixOS Wiki - Raspberry Pi 4
NixOS aarm64 SD image
nixery.dev
NixOS Challenge - Jupiter Broadcasting GitHub
Should we use NixOS as our Cloud and Local Server OS? | StrawPoll.com
nixpkgs/make-snap.nix at master
Picture of Welder
GitHub - quickemu-project/quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.
Miniflux - Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Reader
wallabag
Breez wallet - Lightning Fast Bitcoin Payments
breez/breezmobile: Lightning Network mobile client
037d284d2d7e6cec7623 - Amboss Space
pimox7: Proxmox V7 for Raspberry Pi — Pimox is a port of Proxmox to the Raspberry Pi allowing you to build a Proxmox cluster of Rapberry Pi's or even a hybrid cluster of Pis and x86 hardware.
Wimpy’s World

453: Raleigh Action Show

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 19:15:00 -0700

We just wrapped up our East Coast meetup and have a bunch of great stories to share. Plus some Nix ups and downs, and more.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Microsoft Working On AMD GPU Hotplug Support For Linux Driver — Here is a combination not normally expected... Microsoft engineers have submitted patches for review enabling AMD GPU hot-plugging support with the Radeon "AMDGPU" Linux kernel driver.
webtop — Alpine, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch based containers containing full desktop environments in officially supported flavors accessible via any modern web browser.
Tea — The tools that build the Internet have steeped too long. It’s time for a fresh brew.
FreeRDP — FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license.
Rust Pick: bore — a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost.

346: The One-Click Trap

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:30:00 -0700

We debate the dangers and advantages of one-click deployments. Then Dan from elementary OS shares an AppCenter for Everyone update.

Plus a big batch of feedback that kicks off some wide-ranging discussions.

Special Guests: Danielle Foré and Neal Gompa.

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FOSS Responders — COVID-19 is impacting the open source industry in many ways. If you or your community has been impacted, please let us know
Seems that NVIDIA silently axed their GTC talk about Nouveau?
Update: NVIDIA GTC 2020 Announcements Postponed Entirely
Lemur Pro - System76
Brunch with Brent: Stuart Langridge
Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
FOSS Talk Live 2020 has been cancelled. — It seems very unlikely that London will be functioning by June so I have made this difficult call. I'm very sorry to anyone who has made travel and accommodation arrangements but I trust that everyone will understand why this had to be done.
TXLF 2020 Rescheduled — Given the recommendations by public health officials, we have decided to not have Texas Linux Fest on May 2020 at the Palmer Events Center in Austin, TX. We are currently investigating opportunities to bring parts of Texas Linux Fest online.
Unfilter is Back
TurnKey GNU/Linux — a free Debian based library of system images that pre-integrates and polishes the best free software components into secure, easy to use solutions.
Sandstorm — an open source project built by a community of volunteers with the goal of making it really easy to run open source web applications
Bitnami Stack
YunoHost — easily manage a server for your friends, association or enterprise.
Dedicated Platform Package Manager — an easy way to install and manage server applications.
Home Assistant Add-ons - Home Assistant
Feedback: Backup software tips?
Feedback: mac Apps and Little Snitch
Little Snitch and the Deprecation of Kernel Extensions
Feedback: Life at Microsoft
Feedback: Mint Success
Feedback: Mastodon
Feedback: The Windows Burden

321: Fresh Install Feels

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 22:00:00 -0700

What makes a fresh install of Linux perfect? We ask our panel and share a few tools, tips, and habits that make our Linux installs perfect.

Plus the big little updates coming to Ubuntu MATE, some Pi pontification, and some significant changes for Wireguard.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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290: Proper Pi Pedigree

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 20:15:00 -0800

We head to the Raspberry Pi corner and pick the very best open source home automation system.

Plus some great news for Gnome users, OBS studio has a new funding model, and a nostalgic chat with our study buddy Kenny.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Martin Wimpress.

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More GNOME Shell / Mutter Performance Optimizations & Latency Reductions Still Coming - Phoronix — Specifically on the Ubuntu front, Daniel has released a fix for Ubuntu 19.04 Disco and Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic to deal with 144/120Hz displays where GNOME's Mutter caps the rendering to 60 FPS. The fix for Ubuntu 18.10 is still being in the process of SRU'ed.
OBS Studio 23.0 Released With VA-API Video Encoding, New Audio Filters - Phoronix — OBS Studio 23.0 also has several new audio filters, batch remuxing support, multi-track audio support to FFmpeg output, and a variety of other alterations.
Open Broadcaster Software | New Ways to Support OBS Development — It’s amazing to think that the first version of OBS was publicly released over six years ago. What started out as a small side project by Hugh “Jim” Bailey to make a free and open source program to stream StarCraft 2 has grown into a powerful force in the streaming and video production industry. Hundreds of thousands of people use OBS Studio every day not just for video gaming, but also for broadcasting everything from conferences to sports competitions to school announcements. It’s a tool that can be used freely by anyone, from large studios with big budget productions to individuals who just want to engage with a community online.
Available Now: New GeForce-Optimized OBS — We have collaborated with OBS, the industry-leading streaming application, to help them release a new version with improved support for NVIDIA GPUs. The new OBS Studio, version 23.0, reduces the FPS impact of streaming by up to 66% compared to the previous version, meaning higher FPS for your games.
Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup
What’s Free at Linux Academy — March 2019 - Linux Academy Blog — Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group, allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.
LiNUX Courses - Linux Operating System Fundamentals — Kenny first encountered Solaris UNIX while I was in the military, and found out about Linux through the grapevine. He has worked with Linux in local government, fortune 500 companies, educational institutions, and by providing training. I have received Linux certifications from LPI, CompTIA, and Red Hat. Kenny has been working with Linux for nearly two decades and is passionate about sharing his knowledge with others about the system, and strives to learn more about the operating system every day.
Raspberry Pi Updates Devices to Linux 4.19
Martin Wimpress on Twitter — This week I am working on @ubuntu_mate 18.04.2 images for the @Raspberry_Pi models 2 and 3/3+ Nothing exciting to report just yet, build system is configured and the root file system is being generated. Next up is adding the kernel and boot loader.
Python Wheels for the Raspberry Pi — piwheels is a Python package repository providing Arm platform wheels (pre-compiled binary Python packages) specifically for the Raspberry Pi, making pip installations much faster.
StableReleaseUpdates - Ubuntu Wiki — Once an Ubuntu release has been completed and published, updates for it are only released under certain circumstances, and must follow a special procedure called a "stable release update" or SRU.
OpenHab vs Home Assistant vs Domoticz - Best Open Source Home Automation
Awesome Home Assistant — Awesome Home Assistant is a curated list of awesome Home Assistant resources.
Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.
openHAB — a vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for your home.
Domoticz — Domoticz is a Home Automation system design to control various devices and receive input from various sensors.
IronicBadger: Home Assistant configuration files — This repository contains all configuration used to configure my home automation setup using Home Assistant. This is a living and breathing repository and as such is subject to change.
Linux Action Show special about Home Assistant — Our founder Paulus Schoutsen is interviewed by Chris Fisher for a Linux Action Show special about home automation, Hass.io and the new Home Assistant podcast.
smacke/subsync: Automagically synchronize subtitles with video.
Podcast Generator — Podcast Generator is an open source Content Management System written in PHP and specifically designed for podcast publishing. It provides the user with the tools to easily manage all of the aspects related to the publication of a podcast, from the upload of episodes to its submission to the iTunes store.

Episode 274: Open Source by Default

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 20:00:00 -0800

Have the revolutionaries won the war against proprietary software? That’s the argument being made. And we argue, what else did you expect?

Plus some performance improvements inbound to Linux, and the perfectly proportioned open source project we’ve recently discovered.

Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais.

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Celebrate Fifteen Years of Fedora — On November 6, 2003, Red Hat announced Fedora Core 1
KDE Connect — Today we released version 1.10 of the KDE Connect Android app. Therefore it’s time again to share what we’ve been working on.
Apple's New Hardware With The T2 Security Chip Will Currently Block Linux From Booting — At least until further notice, these new Apple systems sporting the T2 chip will not be able to boot Linux operating systems
ProcDump-for-Linux: A Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals tool — A Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals tool
The Faster FUSE Has Been Fused Into Linux 4.20 — Performance work for FUSE in this next version of the Linux kernel includes symlink caching, a hash table optimization, and copy file range support.
The Open Source Revolution Is Over - the Revolutionaries Won — What happens when the revolutionaries win? After they've stormed the castle, tried on the king's clothes, slept in his bed and drunk the royal wine, then what?
Hybrid Cloud Architecture: What Is It and Why You Should Care
Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. — Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!
Automation System Naming Form
CPod: An Open Source, Cross-platform Podcast App — It is an Election app, which gives it the ability to run on the largest operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS).