Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Producer Jeff.

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• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

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• 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
• ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
• Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’
• How SteamOS is Contributing to the Linux Ecosystem - OSS EU 2023 [YouTube]
• Open Source Summit Europe 2023: How SteamOS is Contributing to the Linux Ecosystem
• Igalia — Open Source Consultancy and Development
• Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community — Alberto Garcia of the open-source consulting firm Igalia, which continues to collaborate with Valve on some of these Linux ecosystem improvements, talked at length around how SteamOS is contributing to the Linux ecosystem.
• Docking Station for Valve Steam Deck Dock
• The Steam Deck wasn’t born ready, but it’s ready now
• Awesome Deck List
• Steam Deck
• Steam Store
• Valve Corporation
• Alby 🐝 on X — Humble reminder: In August, Alby accounts have processed over 1 million transactions! 😊😊😊 And it’s all thanks to… you! 💙 Our users, partners, wallet holders, contributors!
• [YouTube] Walkthrough of Nix Install and Setup on MacOS
• GeneBean's dot files
• RetroDECK — RetroDECK is an emulation and retro gaming solution to catalog and play your game collection directly from Linux in one unified application.

Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

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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!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

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• 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
• ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
• Hector Martin's Controversial Question — Would you be okay with us adding some really trivial telemetry to the Asahi installer?
• Berlin with Brent — Brent will be back in Berlin for the Nextcloud Conference and can't get enough of Berlin Meetups! Friday, September 8th, 6 PM.
• Fedora Asahi Remix
• Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware — Fedora Asahi Remix will be their new flagship distribution for providing a polished Linux experience on Apple Silicon.
• Fedora Asahi Remix: bringing Fedora to Apple Silicon Macs (Flock To Fedora 2023)
• Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix — We’re still working out the kinks and making things even better, so we are not quite ready to call this a release yet. We aim to officially release the Fedora Asahi Remix by the end of August 2023. Look forward to many new features, machine support, and more!
• Hector Martin: “Okay, I’m going to be honest…” — I apologize to all Asahi Linux users. You deserve better. When I chose Arch Linux ARM as a base I didn't realize it would have so many basic QA issues.
• Coming soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs! (Fedora Discourse)
• The first conformant M1 GPU driver — Our reverse-engineered, free and open source graphics drivers are the world’s only conformant OpenGL ES 3.1 implementation for M1- and M2-family graphics hardware. That means our driver passed tens of thousands of tests to demonstrate correctness and is now recognized by the industry.
• Asahi Linux’s Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant — It's even more rewarding for the community developers in that Apple doesn't provide any conformant (OpenGL or Vulkan) graphics drivers for their Arm-based platform.
• Feature Support · AsahiLinux/docs Wiki
• Switch to the kernel-16k variant - Fedora Discussion
• NixOS: Unlocking your LUKS via SSH and Tor
• StreetComplete — Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android.
• getumbrel/llama-gpt: A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot. Powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device.
• serge-chat/serge: A web interface for chatting with Alpaca through llama.cpp. Fully dockerized, with an easy to use API.
• liltom-eth/llama2-webui: Run any Llama 2 locally with gradio UI on GPU or CPU from anywhere (Linux/Windows/Mac). Use
• llama.cpp — Port of Facebook’s LLaMA model in C/C++
• Llama2.c — Inference Llama 2 in one file of pure C
• Koboldcpp — A simple one-file way to run various GGML models with KoboldAI’s UI
• lollms-webui — Lord of Large Language Models Web User Interface
• LM Studio — Discover, download, and run local LLMs
• text-generation-webui — A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models. Supports transformers, GPTQ, llama.cpp (ggml/gguf), Llama models.
• A comprehensive guide to running Llama 2 locally — Code Llama is a state-of-the-art LLM capable of generating code, and natural language about code, from both code and natural language prompts.
• Meta Releases Code Llama, a Coding Version of Llama 2
• Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding
• Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source
• Meta launches Llama 2, a source-available AI model that allows commercial applications — A family of pretrained and fine-tuned language models in sizes from 7 to 70 billion parameters.
• Meta’s Llama 2 is not open source — Meta's newly released large language model Llama 2 is not 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!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

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• FOSDEM 2023 Transcribed by Whisper
• The Coder Robe — The Coder Robe is back and is a one-size-fits-most robe made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear.
• 192 Brewing Company — Mt. Vernon is proud to offer strictly Washington-made beers, wines and ciders. We rotate through guest taps from local breweries and feature a variety of red and white wines, as well.
• power-profiles-daemon Issue: Choppy GNOME animations when using “balanced power” mode on Intel platform
• krunvm — Create microVMs from OCI images.
• ViMusic — An Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music.
• GRC SpinRite
• Moonlight Game Streaming
• https://github.com/Wowu/docker-rollout — Zero Downtime Deployment for Docker Compose
• Podcasting 2.0 Introduction - Blubrry Podcasting
• NEW in Podverse 4.12.0 🥳 — Major audio and video playback fixes, faster app performance, value-for-value streaming for videos.
• boxxy — boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files.
• This week in KDE: The best Plasma 5 version ever

Plus, follow-up on Chris' GrapheneOS adventures and more.

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• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

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• Apple Limits iPhone AirDrop Function Used for Protests in China
• Magic Earth — Free Maps & Navigation App
• Top 10 reasons to use Debian as your Linux distro
• Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of ‘move fast and break things’, and version 11 is no different
• ProtonPlus — A simple Wine and Proton-based compatiblity tools manager for GNOME.
• ProtonUp-Qt — Install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda & more for Steam and Wine-GE & more for Lutris with this graphical user interface.
• Why openSUSE - openSUSE Wiki
• The Nobara Project — The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.
• Who Wants To Be a Millionaire — Test your knowledge to see if you can answer all questions and win $1 million. Have fun!
• Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Questions and Source Code

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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!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

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• Pre-show: Microsoft is selling tech pants for $150. — Wait, what are tech pants?
• London Meetup on August 5th at 6pm GMT
• Southern Oregon Meet Up, Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 6:00 PM
• Sacramento Meet Up!, Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 6:00 PM
• Southern California Meet Up, Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 6:00 PM
• Portland Meet Up, Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 6:00 PM
• Steam Deck Tech Specs
• (Video) Steam Deck Teardown — Everything Valve Said Not to Do!
• Chris' Known Good USB C Docking Station
• Boost Pick: Furtherance — Track your time without being tracked.
• Furtherance on Flathub
• Impractical Python Projects
• Understanding all of Python, through its builtins
• Larix Broadcaster
• Pick: Droidcam — DroidCam turns your phone/tablet into a webcam for your PC.
• Droidcam with Linux
• v4l2-loopback

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• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

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• Starlink RV Mounting & Storage Options
• HP Dev One — From preinstalled Linux Pop!_OS to a tuned Linux keyboard with a Super key, HP Dev One is designed with powerful features and tools to help you code your way.
• AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U Processor
• HP Dev One CPU Bench Benchmarks
• Blender Test On HP DEV One Benchmarks
• Podverse — Podcasting 2.0 certified player for Android, F-Droid, iOS, and the web. Share created clips, highlights, playlists, and chapters, sync your queue and more!
• Office Hours 6 — Peer to Peer Future
• Office Hours on Podverse
• LINUX Unplugged on Podverse
• Podverse on Twitter
• Podverse on GitHub

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• A Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Entropy: 15% off your first project a mobile app, a web app, a Linux app, anything! Promo Code: LUP13

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• Live Starlink Satellite Map
• Salt Lake City Meetup
• Denver Meetup Meetup
• Framework Laptop review: pick your ports — In other words, upgradability is the reason to buy the Framework laptop.
• Latest Framework Laptop DIY Edition/Linux topics — Setup guides, advice, troubleshooting, and more, for those of us who use Linux-based Operating Systems on our Framework Laptops.
• Which Linux distribution do you want to use on your Framework Laptop?
• [Video] A COMPLETELY Upgradeable Laptop?
• Framework: The Touchpad and Fingerprint Reader — If you’re a Linux user, we’ve got you covered too! Our firmware lead Kieran submitted a patch to libfprint, and support is making its way into various distributions to be able to work automatically.
• FreeBSD Working On A New Installer, Updates To Their Linux Compatibility Layer — A variety of improvements to FreeBSD's Linux compatibility layer for running Linux binaries on FreeBSD.
• Gaming sessions on Steam Deck are run via gamescope, a Wayland compositor — This also suggests that SteamOS 3.0 requires Vulkan, and specifically support for async compute.
• Element raises $30M to boost Matrix — Element, the startup founded by the team who created Matrix, just raised $30M of Series B funding in order to further accelerate Matrix development and improve Element, the flagship Matrix app.
• Webtop — Alpine and Ubuntu based containers containing full desktop environments in officially supported flavors accessible via any modern web browser.
• LinuxServer.io: Meet Webtops A Linux Desktop Environment In Your Browser — A lot of different Docker GUI solutions exist today, but what we always found is they were just missing some common sense stuff.
• Webtop - Running Linux Desktop inside a Container in the Browser
• JingOS — Future Mobile OS based on Linux
• Chris Fisher on Twitter — I joined the @latenightlinux boys to cover my @syncthing setup that just hit the two-year mark, and we chat a little @teamsilverblue, the problem of OSS grifting, and more.
• JB Telegram
• PIck: docker-wine — Docker image that includes Wine and Winetricks for running Windows applications on Linux and macOS

Plus a really cool new feature in Linux 5.7, and we get some answers to the recent GNOME patent settlement from the source.

Special Guests: Dan Johansen and Drew DeVore.

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• snakeware: A free Linux distro with a fully Python userspace
• GNOME gets big open-source patent win
• GNOME Patent Suite Update
• GNOME Foundation post about patent suit resolution
• Thermal Pressure in the task scheduler
• A New Kernel Patch Is Being Discussed That’s Needed For Newer Windows Games On Wine
• PINE64 on Twitter: “Everyone receiving their #PinebookPro laptops. Appears that the factory has left the WiFi privacy switches turned ON. To enable WiFi you’ll need to disengage the privacy switch"
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions
• Introducing the 2020 XPS 13 Developer Edition — (this one goes to 32!)
• XPS 13 in the Dell Store
• Wes' XPS 13 Image Gallery
• Performance comparison to Lemur Pro
• Jim’s take on the new XPS 13
• Howdy: Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
• Feedback: Why not LVM/XFS?

Plus an Arch server update, and Chris orders the new Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Jeremy Soller, and Philip Muller.

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• Inkscape 1.0
• Promo video: Inkscape 1.0 is here! - YouTube
• Return of the Lite - an impressively powerful, lightweight and compact 11” Linux laptop - Manjaro Linux Forum
• Compare Laptops - Find the best Linux Laptop – Star Labs®
• Buy a Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera – Raspberry Pi
• Cloud Playground now supports Ubuntu 20.04!
• Cloud Playground comes to ACG for Business
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• Televised Table Reads Promo
• Televised Table Reads Twitter
• Lemur Pro Pictures on @instachrislas
• Lemur Pro Speakers Question from Eddie
• Internal Overview - System76 Technical Documentation
• Lemur Pro Peformance Benchmarks
• Chris Fisher on Twitter: “Just got done putting @system76’s Lemur Pro through the ultimate battery endurance test. 12 hours of working from the woods, no power outlets, live streaming with @OBSProject. I’ll tell you how it went on tomorrow’s @LinuxUnplugged
• Ovenell’s Heritage Inn
• Useful Lemur Pro docs
• Audio Recorder Tip from Mike
• Audio Recorder
• sound - Capturing ONLY desktop audio with ffmpeg - Ask Ubuntu
• FFmpeg Devices Documentation: PulseAudio
• Feedback from Jason: New Hosted Wireguard Service
• Tailscale: Private networks made easy

Plus some good Debian news, our tips for better battery life, and we play a little Hot SUSE Potato.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Ell Marquez.

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• Google Stadia announced, a game streaming service for Chrome, Android, and TVs — Powered by Linux, it supports the Vulkan graphics API and Google partnered with Unreal to fully support the Stadia platform.
• Chris on Instagram — We found a great spot to work for the day, great signal. Just one problem. We sorta got taken hostage for a few hours.
• Debian Project Leader Elections 2019: Candidates — We're now into the campaigning period. We have 5 candidates.
• Linux Laptop Battery Optimization Tool TLP 1.2 Released — TLP 1.2 was released today after being in development for more than a year, and it brings support for NVMe, and removable drives like USB and IEEE1394 devices, support for multi queue I/O schedulers (blk-mq), and other significant enhancements.
• TLP – Configuration
• Suse is once again an independent company — Few companies have changed hands as often as Suse and yet remained strong players in their business. Suse was first acquired by Novell in 2004. Novell was then acquired by Attachmate in 2010, which Micro Focus acquired in 2014. The company then turned Suse into an independent division, only to then announce its sale to EQT in the middle of 2018.
• SUSE is now an independent company after being acquired by EQT for $2.5 billion | Packt Hub — As the company has been owned by EQT, so according to few users it’s still not independent. One of the users commented on HackerNews, “Being owned by a Private Equity fund can really not be described as being “independent”.
• MATE 1.22 released — Wanda the Fish now works properly on HiDPI displays
• Albert Vaca Cintora on Twitter — KDE Connect has been removed from @GooglePlay for violating their new policy on apps that access SMS. The policy has an explicit exception for companion apps (like KDE Connect), but it was removed anyway and *there's no way to talk to Google*
• Use of SMS or Call Log permission groups - Play Console Help
• Full-system dynamic tracing on Linux using eBPF and bpftrace — What if you want to trace what happens inside a system call or library call? What if you want to do more than just logging calls, e.g. you want to compile statistics on certain behavior? What if you want to trace multiple processes and correlate data from multiple sources? In 2019, there's finally a decent answer to that on Linux: bpftrace, based on eBPF technology.
• Learn eBPF Tracing: Tutorial and Examples — eBPF can be used for many things: network performance, firewalls, security, tracing, device drivers, and more!
• IO Visor Project — The IO Visor Project is an open source project and a community of developers to accelerate the innovation, development, and sharing of virtualized in-kernel IO services for tracing, analytics, monitoring, security and networking functions. It builds on the Linux community to bring open, flexible, distributed, secure and easy to operate technologies that enable any stack to run efficiently on any physical infrastructure.
• IO Visor Project on GitHub — Organization that hosts the repos for bpftrace, bcc, and other tools.
• BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more — BCC is a toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs, and includes several useful tools and examples.
• bpftrace: High-level tracing language for Linux eBPF
• Install bpftrace for Linux using the Snap Store
• BCC Tool Diagram — Diagram that breaks down useful tools in BCC
• eBPF Perf Tools 2019: Slides
• eBPF Perf Tools 2019: Video (resynced by Squigly)
• eBPF Perf Tools 2019: Video (original)