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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• SCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"
• PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
• Pasadena Linux Party, Fri, Mar 6, 2026, 6:00 PM
• KDE Linux - KDE Community Wiki
• Beta (Enthusiast & Stable editions) · KDE Linux · GitLab
• Install Software Not Available in Discover - KDE Community
• KDE Linux / Kapsule · GitLab
• suikan4github/Using-tailscale-client-on-an-Immutable-OS: Explain how to install the tailscale client on an immutable desktop OS
• xuars/kdelinux-tailscale: Tailscale install script for KDE Linux®
• Nix - KDE Community
• Fitting Everything Together — TLDR: Hermetic /usr/ is awesome; let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, uniformity – built from traditional distribution packages, but deployed via images.
• Nebula Commander
• DEMO Nebula Commander
• Nebula Commander GitHub — Nebula Commander is a self-hosted control plane for nebula overlay networks.
• Star Trek Comm Badge for Home Assistant Voice Control : 7 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables
• Pick: hcloud-upload-image — Quickly upload any raw disk images into your Hetzner Cloud projects!
• Pick: Launcher Studio — Launcher Studio is a GTK4 desktop application for creating and managing .desktop files on Linux.
• Launcher Studio on Flathub
• Pick: tinyproxy — A light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems
• Pick: socks-to-http-proxy — An executable to convert SOCKS5 proxy into HTTP proxy

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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.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• TUI Challenge
• TUI Challenge Scorecard
• Self-Hosted 150: The Last One — Before hitting the road, we test the limits of local-first file sharing, debate what self-hosting really is, and share our all-time favorite apps.
• Pick: ws4kp — A web-based WeatherStar 4000
• Pick: ytdl-sub — Lightweight tool to automate downloading and metadata generation with yt-dlp.

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• Core Contributor Membership: Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! Promo Code: summer
• 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.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups
• XZ Utils Backdoor Vulnerability (CVE-2024-3094): Comprehensive Guide
• The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
• Who is ‘Jia Tan,’ the coder behind the XZ Utils Linux backdoor?
• Reflections on Distrusting xz
• The Linux kernel does not accept anonymous contributions due to legal reasons. — The Linux kernel does not accept anonymous contributions due to legal reasons.
• Kernel.org Docs on contributions — It is imperative that all code contributed to the kernel be legitimately free software.
• Elon Musk wants to ‘authenticate all real humans’ on Twitter.
• Elon Musk claims alien identity, links human brain function to AI purpose
• Elon Musk Finally Realizes That Verification Requires More Than A Credit Card, Planning To Make Users Upload Gov’t ID
• Elon Musk can show the world how to really do ID
• World ID
• Nostr: All Your Silos Are Broken
• Nostr Iceberg Meme
• NIP-01
• Mapping Nostr keys to DNS-based internet identifiers
• Navigating the social graph — In this paper, you will find a definition of the social graph, principles for thinking about it, and practical ideas for using it for DoS prevention, social discovery, anti-impersonation, accurate ratings, and more.
• Highlighter — Highlighter is like Substack & Patreon but on Nostr.
• Satlantis — Satlantis is like Trip Advisor, meets Instagram and Google Places.
• HiveTalk — Free Video Calls, Messaging and Screen Sharing
• zap.stream — Twitch alt powered by value for value and Nostr
• ostrGit — A truly censorship-resistant alternative to GitHub that has a chance of working.
• Blogstack — Write decentralized blogs over relay using nostr w/ ⚡ lightning tips.
• Ditto — Ditto is a Nostr community server. It has a built-in Nostr relay, a web UI, and it implements Mastodon's REST API.
• UseNostr
• awesome-nostr
• Decentralized publishing for the web
• Nostr Apps
• Nosta — New to Nostr? You're in the right place. Here you can easily set up your profile, discover apps, and browse other profiles.
• Amethyst
• amethyst: Nostr client for Android
• yana
• Primal App
• Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!
• SpeechNote — Speech Note let you take, read and translate notes in multiple languages. It uses Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine Translation to do so.
• rhasspy/piper: — A fast, local neural text to speech system.
• Starship — The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
• starship on GitHub
• ZSH Docs: ZDOTDIR
• distrobox-assemble — distrobox-assemble takes care of creating or destroying containers in batches, based on a manifest file.
• Pick: Gathio — Gathio is a simple, federated, privacy-first event hosting platform.

Special Guests: Wim Taymans and Zach Mitchell.

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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.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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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.
• Unplugged Tuxies 2023 — Vote in the 2023 Tuxies!
• ⚠️ Did we miss something in the 2023 Tuxies?
• How to get started with Tailscale in under 10 minutes
• First NixCon North America! — We envisage NixCon North America as a complement to the core NixCon in Europe, enriching the global Nix community through more localized events. This event is not just a conference; it’s a celebration of our growth, diversity, and the shared passion for Nix.
• Southern California Linux Expo 19
• Purchase a SCALE Pass
• One time Fiat donation for JB @ SCaLE 21x
• 🎉 PipeWire 1.0 🎉 — PipeWire 1.0 retains API/ABI compatibility with the long-lived PipeWire 0.3.xx series. PipeWire 1.0 delivers improved time reporting for less jitter in ALSA when using IRQ mode, various module fixes, Bluetooth LC3 codec and compatibility improvements, improved transport and time handling for JACK, optimized buffer re-use with JACK, and a variety of other improvements.
• PipeWire 1.0.0 (El Presidente)
• LINUX Unplugged 370 — PipeWire Progress
• SpiralLinux — SpiralLinux is a selection of Linux spins built from Debian GNU/Linux, with a focus on simplicity and out-of-the-box usability across all the major desktop environments.
• grub-btrfs — Include btrfs snapshots in the Grub menu.
• timeshift — System restore tool for Linux.
• timeshift-autosnap-apt — Timeshift auto-snapshot script for Ubuntu and Debian
• Ubuntu Desktop with btrfs-luks, auto-apt snapshots with Timeshift
• jordan-bravo's Nix config
• ladder — Selfhosted alternative to 12ft.io. and 1ft.io bypass paywalls with a proxy ladder and remove CORS headers from any URL.
• Pick: whisper 🎤 → 🎧️ — Listen to your mic - with PipeWire. This app does more or less the same thing as Helvum does, but with a simple UI.
• Whisper on Flathub
• Helvum on Flathub — Helvum is a graphical patchbay for PipeWire.

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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.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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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

Sponsored By:

• 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.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• blendOS — The Ultimate Distro-Blend. — A seamless blend of all Linux distributions.
• blendOS on Github
• distrobox — Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with.
• Rudra Saraswat's Homepage
• Bedrock Linux — Bedrock Linux is a meta Linux distribution which allows users to mix-and-match components from other, typically incompatible distributions. Bedrock integrates these components into one largely cohesive system.
• Brent's BlendOS PR
• Fedora on the Apple M1 Max MBP
• Fedora on Apple Silion: Easy Install Script
• digint/btrbk — Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• elementary OS 7 Available Now — It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and fixes based on your feedback, introduced new office productivity features, and expanded compatibility with a wide range of hardware.

Sponsored By:

• 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.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• JPL Lottery — Join the JB Crew at JPL! We only have 15 spots. Please enter your info, and our happy little python script might just pick your name from the virtual hat. - If you don't get picked, don't worry. We're having another meetup while we are in town!
• Jupiter Broadcasting - Meetup.com
• London Meetup, Fri, Aug 5, 2022 - Meetup.com
• Google’s in-house desktop Linux - Computerworld — The best-known Google operating system is Chrome OS, but inside Google itself, the company also uses its own Linux desktop distro — gLinux.
• X220 - ThinkWiki — An overview of the ThinkPad X220
• The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love — I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But I’ve come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. But I just can’t stick with it. I always end up back on macOS. And I’m starting to understand why.
• Run Chrome in Toolbox on Silverblue
• Distrobox — Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with.
• Rclone — Rclone is a command-line program to manage files on cloud storage.
• Cryptomator - Free Cloud Encryption for Dropbox & Co — Cryptomator encrypts your data quickly and easily. Afterwards you upload them protected to your favorite cloud service.
• Cryptomator— Linux Apps on Flathub
• New Podcast Apps