Displaying all 8 Episode of LINUX Unplugged with the tag “bluefin”.
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624: Tiny PC, Huge Problems
July 20th, 2025 | 1 hr 22 mins
aeon, bazzite, bluefin, bluenix, bookmark manager, bootc, btrfs, cachy os, cachyos, decentralized vpn, endurain, esphome, git, health tracking software, home assistant, home assistant yellow, intel n100, intel n150, jupiter broadcasting, linkwarden, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mesh vpn, mini pc, miniflux, minisforum, nebula, neko, nixos, odroid, odroid h4, open source, overlay network, raspberry pi, raspberry pi cm4, remote backup, remote desktop, sbc, sff pc, single-board computer, small form factor pc, soltros-os, syncthing, tiny pc, universal blue, virtual browser, vpn, webrtc, winapps, zotero
Everything wrong with our homelabs, and how we're finally fixing them. Plus: two self-hosted apps you didn't know you needed.
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623: 50 Days of Blue
July 13th, 2025 | 1 hr 14 mins
arch linux, atomic, aur, aurora, bazzite, bitchat, bluefin, bluenixfin, bluetooth mesh chat, bootc, brew, briar, chromebook, cloud-native linux, commonarch, community projects, container workflows, determinate systems, dhh, esp32, esp8266, fedora, fedora silverblue, fhs, filesystem hierarchy standard, flatpak, homebrew, immutable, immutable distros, jack dorsey, jakoolit, jupiter broadcasting, las arch challenge, linux desktop, linux gaming, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mesh messaging, nix, nix integration, nix vegas, nixos, obtainium, oci container, omarchy, open source, podman, rpm-ostree, steamos, texas linux fest, ujust, universal blue, user feedback
Chris fled a declarative-first world for the promised land of Bluefin's atomic simplicity. Fifty days in, did he find desktop bliss or just fresh compromises?
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619: The Trouble with TUIs
June 15th, 2025 | 1 hr 12 mins
aerc, alacritty, apple containerization, bluefin, browsh, carbonyl, cmus, emacs, email clients, file managers, gomuks, gping, ham radio, helix, himalaya, iamb, impala, jellyfin, jellyfin-tui, joshuto, jupiter broadcasting, keepass, kitty, kpxhs, linux podcast, linux tools, linux unplugged, listener reports, markdown, matrix, multiplexer tools, mutt, neomutt, neovim editor, netstat, nixos, obsidian, obsidian-livesync, open source, openshift, parllama, productivity tools, rainfrog, ranger, redhat, rust, secure networking, session management, somo, subaru, system monitoring, tdf, tenere, terminal apps, terminal music, terminal user interface, tmux, todoist, tui browsers, tui challenge, tui learning, vault-tasks, vim, w3m, wiki-tui, wwdc25, yazi, zee, zellij
We spent the week learning keybindings, installing dependencies, and cramming for bonus points. Today, we score up and see how we did in the TUI Challenge.
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618: TUI Challenge Kickoff
June 8th, 2025 | 1 hr 10 mins
aerc, app picks, awesome-tuis, bazzite with brent, bluefin, boosts sale, carbonyl, console, curses, disposable server, emacs, file manager, glow, go, gomuks, iamb, joshuto, jupiter broadcasting, kitty, linux format magazine, linux magazine, linux media, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mail client, markdown, matrix, meli, michael larabel, mosaic, mutt, mynav, neomutt, nixos, open source, phoronix, picks, pipewire, podcast advertising, podcasting 2.0, ranger, redhat, rust, session management, slack-term, species designation boost, superfile, tempy, terminal, terminal emulator, terminal trove, terminal user interface, termusic, tidal, tmux, tui, tui apps, tui challenge, tui player, turbo vision, tvterm, v4v, value-for-value, vi, vim, yazi, yt-dlp, ytptube, zellij
Our terminal apps are loaded, the goals are set, but we're already hitting a few snags. The TUI Challenge begins...
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617: The Disposable Server
June 1st, 2025 | 48 mins 51 secs
albyhub, aurora, bazzite, bluefin, brew, debian, disposable server, distrobox, dnf, ephemeral server, fedora, fedora 42, fuse, homebrew, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, lazygit, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mini-challenge, minio, nextcloud, nix, nixos, open source, plex, rclone, rhel, rhel 10, self-hosted, server, silverblue, systemd, tailscale, tui challenge, ubi, universal base images, vps, weather api, weatherstar 4000, ws4kp, yt-dlp, ytdl-sub
Spin up, share, nuke. We each build a throwaway server, and then rate each others' setups.
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616: From Boston to bootc
May 25th, 2025 | 1 hr 30 mins
ai, ai wish machine, ansible, artificial intelligence, atomic updates, bluefin, bootc, carl's pocket meat, crab cakes, fedora, fedora project leader, fips, hugging face, hybrid cloud, image mode, immutable, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, llm, llm-d, matt hicks, mcp, model context protocol, nixos, ollama, open source, open source ai, openshift, openshift virtualization, podcast completionists, podman, post-quantum cryptography, quantum computing, ramalama, red hat, red hat ai, red hat ansible automation platform, red hat enterprise linux, red hat summit, red hat summit 2025, rhel 10, tui challenge, vllm, yazi
Fresh off Red Hat Summit, Chris is eyeing an exit from NixOS. What’s luring him back to the mainstream? Our highlights, and the signal from the noise from open source's biggest event of the year.
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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.