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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• SeaGL 2025 — November 7-8, 2025 in Seattle, WA
• LinuxFest Northwest
• LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for Speakers
• SCALE 23x - Southern California Linux Expo — North America's largest community-run open source conference. Pasadena, CA - March 5-8, 2026
• SCALE - Call for Presentations
• Planet Nix '26 — March 5th-6th, 2026 @ Pasadena, CA
• Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals
• LINUX Unplugged 481: Just a Prompt Away — The Internet is going crazy with AI-generated media. What's the open-source story, and is Linux being left out?
• Red Hat eyes developer workflow efficiency, app modernization gains with new AI tools — An AI assistant specifically designed for application migration and modernization looks to reduce developer toil
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 Announced: "Enterprise Linux That Integrates Agentic AI" — SUSE's announcement today for SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 proclaims SLES 16 to be "the industry's first enterprise Linux that integrates agenetic AI" and "reduces operational costs and complexity through AI readiness."
• openSUSE on Hugging Face
• ChrisLAS/hyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.
• Pull requests - ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
• feat: add comprehensive sops-nix integration by shift · PR #15 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
• Add options for username, group, home directory by samh · PR #8 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
• Create variables for user and home dir by F-bit818 · PR #5 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
• LM Studio - Local AI on your computer
• Zed — The editor for what's next
• Cursor: The best way to code with AI
• Nixbook — Convert your old computer to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.
• nixbook/base.nix — Roast my Nix: Not-a-flake edition!
• Jupiter Broadcasting's Colony Events
• Pick: duf — Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative.
• Pick: cheat.sh — the only cheat sheet you need.

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• Berlin with Brent: May Meetup — Brent is back in Berlin! Please join the Jupiter Broadcasting community for an evening together, and bring your friends!
• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Warp — Warp allows you to securely send files to each other via the internet or local network by exchanging a word-based code.
• Bcachefs Repair Code Reaching Complete & Robust Recovery — "This patchset was kindly tested by a user from India who accidentally wiped one drive out of a three drive filesystem with no replication on the family computer - it took a couple weeks but we got everything important back."
• Linux 6.9-rc3 Released With Many Bcachefs Patches — "[...] but hey, if you had a corrupted bcachefs filesystem you'd probably want this, and if you thought bcachefs was stable already, I have a bridge to sell you. Special deal only for you, real cheap."
• Fedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOME
• F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation — Switch the default desktop experience for Workstation to KDE Plasma. The GNOME desktop is moved to a separate spin / edition, retaining release-blocking status.
• Changes/FedoraPlasmaWorkstation - Fedora Project Wiki
• 412linux.io — N100 Media Serving Efficiency with Quick Sync
• Pick: FreeTube — FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. Use YouTube without advertisements and prevent Google from tracking you with their cookies and JavaScript. Available for Windows, Mac & Linux thanks to Electron.
• FreeBSD Speedruns — The zero-to-desktop FreeBSD speedrun category records the time taken from the first boot of a FreeBSD image, through installation, to the display of a desktop environment or window manager.
• FreeBSD Zero to Desktop Speedrun Challenge — The operations and commands that needed to be done took me 1:33 and installation of base.txz/kernel.txz datasets took 0:28. Downloading and installing needed pkg(8) packages took 2:22 of time.