web02.fireside.fm Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:05:05 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Declarative Configuration” https://linuxunplugged.com/tags/declarative%20configuration Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:45:00 -0700 An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux. en-us episodic Weekly Linux talk show with no script, no limits, surprise guests and tons of opinion. Jupiter Broadcasting An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux. no Jupiter Broadcasting chris@jupiterbroadcasting.com 662: The GitHub Diet https://linuxunplugged.com/662 52b7742f-dfd6-4a64-8326-c48c15262651 Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:45:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Is it time to replace GitHub in our workflow? We git into it. Plus, our favorite features in the new Linux 7.0 release. 1:24:39 no Is it time to replace GitHub in our workflow? We git into it. Plus, our favorite features in the new Linux 7.0 release. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, open source, Forgejo, Gitea, opengist, Sécurix, sshroute, rendercv, ESPHome, NixOS, Linux 7.0, Btrfs, XFS, EXT4, BPF, self hosted git, git, homelab, self hosting, version control, linux kernel, scheduler, rust in linux, filesystem, storage, nas, hardware security, government tech, data sovereignty, software freedom, FOSS, proprietary software, Microsoft, centralized platforms, Copilot criticism, federation, homelab storage, SSH, networking, CV resume, smart home, IoT, ESP32, Home Assistant, i486 deprecation, Software Freedom Conservancy, SFC, Phoronix, Codeberg, Open Home Foundation, Fountain, AI agents, opencode, Linux desktop, practical AI, big tech criticism, code hosting, declarative configuration, configuration as code, systems programming, async io, kernel tracing, process scheduler, self-healing filesystem, embedded firmware, resume generation, job search, Give Up Github, Git up offa that thang, CI/CD, network-aware SSH router, Apollo Automation, ESPHome Starter Kit, network automation, open source license, yaml, visual programming, motion sensor, environmental sensor, smart lighting, physical computing Is it time to replace GitHub in our workflow? We git into it. Plus, our favorite features in the new Linux 7.0 release.

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  • Linux 7.0: Btrfs — A translation layer of logical block addresses that allows changes without moving or rewriting blocks for relocation
  • Linux 7.0: XFS — Autonomous self-healing; delivers live filesystem health events to userspace for automatic repairs
  • Linux 7.0: EXT4 — Improves write performance for concurrent direct I/O writes
  • Linux 7.0: IO-uring — Adds support for BPF filtering to IO_uring for high performance async I/O
  • Linux 7.0: Scheduler — Scheduler updates land with time slice extension, performance and scalability work for high core count systems
  • Linux 7.0: Rust — Formally concluding the 'Rust experiment'; Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay
  • Linux 7.1: i486 — Begins phasing out Intel 486 CPU support; no known Linux distributions still ship with i486 support
  • Give Up GitHub — We realize this is not an easy task; GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their effective marketing, GitHub has convinced FOSS developers that GitHub is the best (and even the only) place for FOSS development.
  • opengist — Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, open-source alternative to Github Gist.
  • Forgejo on Codeberg — Beyond coding. We forge.
  • Forgejo — Self-hosted alternative to GitHub; liberate your software from proprietary shackles with a familiar environment
  • NixOS Wiki: Forgejo — Lightweight software forge; completely free software and a fork of Gitea
  • Forgejo Actions — Reusable pieces of code for CI workflows; compatible with GitHub Actions
  • NixOS Forgejo Actions Runner — NixOS configuration for turnkey deployment of Forgejo Actions runners
  • Forgejo Federation (PR #10453) — Work-in-progress for federated repositories; enabling decentralized software development
  • Forgejo Snippets (Issue #1069) — Create a shareable piece of text, be it code or plain text, publicly or privately
  • Git Novice Guide — Free interactive tutorial; learn version control with Git from scratch
  • Pick: sshroute — Network-aware SSH router - routes connections to different IPs/ports/keys/jump hosts based on active VPN or network
  • Pick: rendercv — Resume builder for academics and engineers
  • Pick: ESPHome Starter Kit — DIY sensor kit for Home Assistant with ESPHome; build your own smart home devices
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  • LinuxFest Northwest 2026 — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
  • LFNW2026 Schedule
  • Linux 7.0: Btrfs — A translation layer of logical block addresses that allows changes without moving or rewriting blocks for relocation
  • Linux 7.0: XFS — Autonomous self-healing; delivers live filesystem health events to userspace for automatic repairs
  • Linux 7.0: EXT4 — Improves write performance for concurrent direct I/O writes
  • Linux 7.0: IO-uring — Adds support for BPF filtering to IO_uring for high performance async I/O
  • Linux 7.0: Scheduler — Scheduler updates land with time slice extension, performance and scalability work for high core count systems
  • Linux 7.0: Rust — Formally concluding the 'Rust experiment'; Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay
  • Linux 7.1: i486 — Begins phasing out Intel 486 CPU support; no known Linux distributions still ship with i486 support
  • Give Up GitHub — We realize this is not an easy task; GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their effective marketing, GitHub has convinced FOSS developers that GitHub is the best (and even the only) place for FOSS development.
  • opengist — Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, open-source alternative to Github Gist.
  • Forgejo on Codeberg — Beyond coding. We forge.
  • Forgejo — Self-hosted alternative to GitHub; liberate your software from proprietary shackles with a familiar environment
  • NixOS Wiki: Forgejo — Lightweight software forge; completely free software and a fork of Gitea
  • Forgejo Actions — Reusable pieces of code for CI workflows; compatible with GitHub Actions
  • NixOS Forgejo Actions Runner — NixOS configuration for turnkey deployment of Forgejo Actions runners
  • Forgejo Federation (PR #10453) — Work-in-progress for federated repositories; enabling decentralized software development
  • Forgejo Snippets (Issue #1069) — Create a shareable piece of text, be it code or plain text, publicly or privately
  • Git Novice Guide — Free interactive tutorial; learn version control with Git from scratch
  • Pick: sshroute — Network-aware SSH router - routes connections to different IPs/ports/keys/jump hosts based on active VPN or network
  • Pick: rendercv — Resume builder for academics and engineers
  • Pick: ESPHome Starter Kit — DIY sensor kit for Home Assistant with ESPHome; build your own smart home devices
]]> 647: Plausibly Postulated Prophecies https://linuxunplugged.com/647 146ac113-68f0-49e9-8a8b-5d0571b961c9 Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:15:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025. 1:35:16 no We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025. Special Guest: Drew DeVore. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, open source, predictions, 2026 prediction, 2025 prediction, linux predictions, LinuxFest Northwest, RISC-V, Ubuntu Core Desktop, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Desktop, PewDiePie, I switched to Linux, NixOS, declarative configuration, openSUSE, Kalpa, Aeon, Butane, Ignition, Wayland, Debian, Valve, Proton, Proton 10.0, Wine, Steam Deck, Bcachefs, Hyprvibe, Red Hat, Lightspeed, Linux Foundation, YouTube distro, xz, llm, OSS vulnerability, nVidia, kubernetes, Steam, Steam Harware Survey, Linux market share, NAS, Linux Kernel 7, used hardware, refurbushed hardware, Texas Cyber Summit, Signal, Molly, ADHD is Awesome, medium term listener, Config Confessions, Damn Small Linux, eilmeldung, TUI RSS reader, TUI interface, RSS, RSS Reader, Zbridge, bridge, CAVA, Cavalier, audio visualizer, Rust We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025.

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]]> 642: Tunneling Home for the Holidays https://linuxunplugged.com/642 047c9840-2dd5-4c63-84f7-8d38c6e4aee6 Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:45:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Chris cooks up a remote-access trick for Jellyfin that skips VPNs entirely. One simple toggle: absurd, yet shockingly effective. 56:16 no Chris cooks up a remote-access trick for Jellyfin that skips VPNs entirely. One simple toggle: absurd, yet shockingly effective. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, open source, Great Holiday Homelab, Old Fart, Jellyfin, Plex, remote access, proxy, VPN, remote media server, VPS, ngrok, API gateway, ingress-as-a-service, Home Assistant, home automation, media playback dashboard, NixOS, ephemeral tunnel, Cloudflare, systemd, DNS, Jellyswarrm, reverse proxy, Rust, Python, declarative-jellyfin, declarative configuration, jellyhub, jellyman, JellyRoller, Emby, EmbyToLocalPlayer, WatchState, Pew!, Syncthing, git, proxmox-nixos, secret port boost, subgen, Whisper, subtitles Chris cooks up a remote-access trick for Jellyfin that skips VPNs entirely. One simple toggle: absurd, yet shockingly effective.

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  • ngrok — Go from code to global in just minutes with a developer-friendly, idiomatic solution for managing traffic to your APIs.
  • Jellyswarrm — Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place.
  • Sveske-Juice/declarative-jellyfin — This repository provides a Nix flake that allows for declarative configuration of Users, Libraries, Plugins, Settings, etc. Jellyfin 10.11 is NOT SUPPORTED.
  • declarative-jellyfin full example
  • Zigl3ur/jellyhub — JellyHub is a web app that allow you to fetch media from all of your jellyfin servers and regroup it in one place, so there is one place to search for specific media and tells you on wich server the desired media is located.
  • Smiley-McSmiles/jellyman — Jellyman is a lightweight BASH CLI tool for installing and managing Jellyfin. As well as create a full backup (automatically or manually) so you can move or import all your metadata and user information to another machine.
  • LSchallot/JellyRoller — JellyRoller is an open source CLI Jellyfin Controller written in Rust that works on Windows and Linux. Its primary purpose is to allow administration of a Jellyfin application from the command line.
  • kjtsune/embyToLocalPlayer — etlp (embyToLocalPlayer) is a tool that lets Emby, Jellyfin, and Plex play videos using your local media players (like mpv or VLC) instead of the built-in web player, while optionally sending playback progress back to the server.
  • Pick: subgen — Autogenerate subtitles using OpenAI Whisper Model via Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, Tautulli, or Bazarr.
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  • ngrok — Go from code to global in just minutes with a developer-friendly, idiomatic solution for managing traffic to your APIs.
  • Jellyswarrm — Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place.
  • Sveske-Juice/declarative-jellyfin — This repository provides a Nix flake that allows for declarative configuration of Users, Libraries, Plugins, Settings, etc. Jellyfin 10.11 is NOT SUPPORTED.
  • declarative-jellyfin full example
  • Zigl3ur/jellyhub — JellyHub is a web app that allow you to fetch media from all of your jellyfin servers and regroup it in one place, so there is one place to search for specific media and tells you on wich server the desired media is located.
  • Smiley-McSmiles/jellyman — Jellyman is a lightweight BASH CLI tool for installing and managing Jellyfin. As well as create a full backup (automatically or manually) so you can move or import all your metadata and user information to another machine.
  • LSchallot/JellyRoller — JellyRoller is an open source CLI Jellyfin Controller written in Rust that works on Windows and Linux. Its primary purpose is to allow administration of a Jellyfin application from the command line.
  • kjtsune/embyToLocalPlayer — etlp (embyToLocalPlayer) is a tool that lets Emby, Jellyfin, and Plex play videos using your local media players (like mpv or VLC) instead of the built-in web player, while optionally sending playback progress back to the server.
  • Pick: subgen — Autogenerate subtitles using OpenAI Whisper Model via Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, Tautulli, or Bazarr.
]]> 549: Will it Nixcloud? https://linuxunplugged.com/549 6585a113-8033-4fd2-9d6f-eea0f0df283b Sun, 11 Feb 2024 20:00:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Deploying Nextcloud the Nix way promises a paradise of reproducibility and simplicity. But is it just a painful trek through configuration hell? We built the dream Nextcloud using Nix and faced reality. 1:34:10 no Deploying Nextcloud the Nix way promises a paradise of reproducibility and simplicity. But is it just a painful trek through configuration hell? We built the dream Nextcloud using Nix and faced reality. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, Will it Nix?, NixOS, Nextcloud, self-hosting, reproducibility, declarative configuration, PostgreSQL, Redis, PHP, NGINX, traefik, docker compose, Docker, Podman, containers, ZFS, bcachefs, autotier, tiered storage, VR on Linux, All-in-One, snap, snap package, Ansible, configuration management, backups, NextcloudPi, S3, the nix way, Nextcloud Apps, App store, Snowflake OS, Linux truths, Windows, Minecraft, Gaming on Linux, Podverse, CS Go, Collabora, systemd, monitoring, Nagios, Grafana, netdata, CarPlay, Mac trashcan, LXC , LXD, Gigabyte, NVMe, Unraid, TruNAS Scale, ram-only distro challenge, CoW, Btrfs, arion, Hercules CI, Haskell, container management, YAML, Deploying Nextcloud the Nix way promises a paradise of reproducibility and simplicity. But is it just a painful trek through configuration hell? We built the dream Nextcloud using Nix and faced reality.

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]]> 451: The NixOS Challenge https://linuxunplugged.com/451 6db0f445-720d-4c22-851b-b66c2fd1afa5 Sun, 27 Mar 2022 18:45:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We explore what makes NixOS so powerful, and why it might be the future of all Linux distributions. 1:09:54 no We explore what makes NixOS so powerful, and why it might be the future of all Linux distributions. Plus we announce a community-wide NixOS challenge for the month of April. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, Nix, NixOS, configuration management, functional programming, declarative configuration, linux distributions, package management, package manager, ansible, Nix expression language, Apple Silicon, M1 MAX, Asahi Linux, Asahi Alpha, Hector Martin, apfs, filesystems, Boosts, Lightning, Value4Value, Podcasting 2.0, Bitcoin, Satoshi, Matrix, Element, decentralized, federation,rebuild, noteworthy, remarkable, compelling, unique, fascinating, We explore what makes NixOS so powerful, and why it might be the future of all Linux distributions.

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