LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Element”

654: Creating Discord in the Matrix

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:15:00 -0800

We were minutes away from shutting down our Matrix server when the Discord news hit. Now we’re not just keeping it, we’re doubling down. Can open source seize this moment?

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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 Meetup
Discord to roll out age verification next month
Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos
Discord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter Thiel
NULLFS and OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE Features Merged For Linux 7.0
OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE To Provide A Security and Performance Win For Dealing With Containers
All about initramfs
pivot_root implementation and constraints
TrueNAS Scale
ZimaOS — A Simplified, Focused and Open NAS OS Supports all X86-64 hardware.
Github: ZimaOS
Clan — opinionated NixOS peer-to-peer computer management framework
What is Clan? - Documentation
clan-lol/clan-core: Build your own clan
ConnecTen internet
Case Study: Fortress Outdoor Router
Pick: booklog — B{ook}log is a self-hosted, multi-user book tracking platform for avid readers. Each user maintains a personal library and wishlist, with per-user readings, stats, and timeline.
Pick: whosthere — Local Area Network discovery tool with an interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there? 🚪
Pick: Weylus — Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.

604: One Week Left

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 15:00:00 -0800

We're pre-gaming two of the biggest Linux events of the year. Engineers, organizers, and surprise guests are dropping by to give us the scoop before it all begins.

Special Guests: Kelsey Hightower, Rob Hernandez, and Ron Efroni.

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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
SCALE 2025 Meetup — El Cholo Cafe Pasadena - Saturday, Mar 8, 2025, 7:00 PM
Planet Nix — March 6th-7th, 2025 @ Pasadena, CA at the Southern California Linux Expo.
Flox - Your dev environment, everywhere — Flox help teams focus on building fast by providing reproducible environments that span the entire software lifecycle. With Flox, developers can create environments that contain all of the tools and frameworks they need, binding them with the software they ship into the world.
Kelsey Hightower on X
kelseyhightower on GitHub
Kelsey Hightower on LinkedIn
Robert Hernandez SCaLE Profile
Fireside Chat: An Outsider’s Look at Nix - Ron Efroni, Kelsey Hightower
Learn Nix the Fun Way - Farid Zakaria
Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production -
Planet Nix FAQ
nix.conf - Adding GitHub Access Tokens — Access tokens used to access protected GitHub, GitLab, or other locations requiring token-based authentication.
Olympia Mike's nixbook
peterfajdiga/karousel: Scrollable tiling Kwin script
YaLTeR/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
paperwm/PaperWM: Tiled scrollable window management for GNOME Shell
Libro.fm — Your Independent Bookstore for Digital Audiobooks
Pick: OpenAudible-To-AudibleBookShelf — This script automates the process of moving audiobook files from OpenAudible or Libation to an organized folder structure and updates AudioBookShelf accordingly. It handles file organization, metadata mapping, and interaction with the AudioBookShelf API.

558: Top 5 Essential Apps

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0700

We asked, and you answered: Your top 5 Linux app essentials and post-install rituals. Plus, some news to better cope with "extreme file-system damage."

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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.

541: Out with a Bang

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 14:30:00 -0800

The stories that kept us talking all year, and are only getting hotter!

Plus the big flops we're still sore about.

Special Guest: Kenji Berthold.

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535: Hit the Turbo

Jupiter Broadcasting — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 20:30:00 -0800

A special guest joins us, and we each give Fedora 39 a try. What’s new, what we liked, and what didn’t make the cut!

Special Guest: Drew DeVore.

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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.
Element Going AGPL — 📣⚠️📣 Announcing a new home and license (AGPLv3) for Synapse and friends: going forwards Element’s work on Synapse, Dendrite & related server-side projects is going to be released as AGPLv3 rather than Apache.
A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends — The benefit of switching to AGPLv3 is that it obliges downstream developers to contribute back to the core project - either by releasing their modifications as open source for the benefit of the whole Matrix ecosystem, or by contacting Element for an alternative license. Future code contributors to Synapse will need to sign a contributor license agreement (CLA) based on the Apache Software Foundation’s CLA, giving Element the right to license the contribution commercially to third party proprietary forks so we can use it to help fund Matrix core development in future.
Synapse goes AGPL Discussion on Hacker News
Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL
Ask Noah Show 362 — Ubuntu Summit 2023 with Jon Seager
Future of the bitcoin-dev mailing list — Our current mailing list host, Linux Foundation, has indicated for years that they have wanted to stop hosting mailing lists, which would mean the bitcoin-dev mailing list would need to move somewhere else. We temporarily avoided that, but recently LF has informed a moderator that they will cease hosting any mailing lists later this year.
Unplugged Tuxies - 2023 — There's still time to vote in the 2023 Tuxies!
⚠️ DID WE MISS SOMETHING IN THE 2023 TUXIES?
Fedora Appreciation Week 2023 — Today is a special day, a day where we celebrate 20 years of Fedora! 🎉
Photos and Favorite Moments from the Fedora Community
Say Thank You during Fedora Appreciation Week 2023
Fedora Linux 39 Released As A Wonderful Upgrade For Leading Workstations & Servers
Fedora Change: Retire Modularity — Fedora will discontinue building modules for Fedora Linux 39 and further in the Fedora infrastructure and shipping modular content to users.
Fedora Web Installer Delayed
What’s new in Fedora Workstation 39 — Fedora Workstation 39 includes the latest version of the GNOME desktop environment, GNOME 45. This version features stylish new widgets in several core apps, a brand new Image Viewer app, a new keyboard backlight setting on supported systems, a more informative Activities button, improved performance, and many other refinements to the user experience all throughout.
Introducing Fedora Onyx: Immutable Variant with Budgie Desktop — Built with the same robust technologies as other Fedora immutable variants such as Kinoite, and Silverblue, Fedora Onyx is designed for users who value the Fedora computing platform and Budgie Desktop environment but need the added immutability and atomic capabilities that rpm-ostree provides.
11 Future-Proof Immutable Linux Distributions
Fedora Onyx — The Budgie desktop experience in an immutable fashion.
LINUX Unplugged 468 — The Read Only Scenario
Fedora Silverblue Technical Information
Fedora Change: vm.max_map_count — The goal is to improve compatibility with Windows games through wine or steam.
GNOME 45 Release Notes — For the new version we’ve focused on refining your daily interactions, enhancing performance, and making the overall experience smoother and more efficient. From subtle design tweaks to functional upgrades, GNOME 45 is all about refining the core desktop environment you rely on.
KDE Plasma 6.0 Approved For Fedora 40 - Including Dropping The X11 Session — The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has signed off on shipping KDE Plasma 6.0 as the KDE desktop option for Fedora 40. Additionally, as part of this change, the plan is to drop the KDE X11 session to leave only the KDE Plasma Wayland session available.
iancleary's nixos-config
Determinate Systems' nix-github-actions
Example of Github Action using Nix
bcachefs merged into Linux 6.7
gitfs — gitfs is a FUSE file system that fully integrates with git.
VyOS — Democratizing how we access networks through a universal Router and Open source software.
FlakM's Nix Config
Podman Desktop 1.5
lima — Lima launches Linux virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding (similar to WSL2).
colima — Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup.
ProjectM — Cross-platform Music Visualization Library. Open-source and Milkdrop-compatible.

528: Where's Your Data?

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 18:45:00 -0700

Today's theme is data sovereignty, and we'll check in with two crucial projects that are giving you more options.

Special Guest: Noah Chelliah.

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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.
Ask Noah Show 354 — Google makes the news this week in one of the largest cases in history over meaningful competition. Do we need the regulation to stop Google? Ubuntu will start allowing you to use a TPM chip for encryption, plus your livestreaming, ZFS, and VPN questions are answered!
LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Postponed
LinuxFest Northwest Meetups
Hub 6: Healthy meeting culture and the first local AI Assistant [YouTube]
“Nextcloud Hub 6” launched🚀 — Nextcloud Hub 6 has evolved into a robust collaboration platform that empowers organizations and individuals to work seamlessly while ensuring data privacy.
Element X — Element X isn’t just the fastest Matrix client ever - it’s up to 6000x faster than any other Matrix client.
Element X preview is now on Android too!
sliding-sync Proxy — An implementation of MSC3575.
MSC3575: Sliding Sync (aka Sync v3) — This MSC outlines a replacement for the CS API endpoint `/sync`.
Matrix Community Summit 2023 — Join us from Thu, 21st to Sat, 24th September 2023!
Beeper — All your chats in one app. Yes, really.
Atari VCS Base — Featuring AMD Raven Ridge 2 APU and AMD Ryzen processor GPU with 8GB DDR4 RAM (upgradable), and 32GB eMMC fixed internal storage.
BeardedTek/linode-dyndns — Linode Dynamic DNS Updater
Pick: yazi — ⚡️ Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.

522: Practical Privacy

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 22:00:00 -0700

Why Linux reigns for privacy; our recommendations for secure tools from chat to DNS.

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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.
Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration — This project is aimed at being simple while allowing a ton of customisation and flexibility. To get started, you’ll need an instance of Home Assistant running with the ESPHome add-on as well as the Home Assistant companion app on your mobile phone to receive notifications when someone presses the doorbell button.
Alex in Chicago, Aug 10, 2023 | Meetup
The U.K. Government Is Dangerously Close to Eroding Encryption and Normalizing Mass Surveillance — "The U.K. government wants to grant itself the right to scan every message online for content related to child abuse or terrorism—and says it will still, somehow, magically, protect peoples’ privacy. That’s simply impossible. U.K. civil society groups have condemned the bill, as have technical experts and human rights groups around the world."
U.K. civil society groups
human rights groups around the world
WhatsApp, Signal, and the UK-based Element
Now Apple takes a bite out of encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law — "End-to-end encryption is a critical capability that protects the privacy of journalists, human rights activists, and diplomats," Apple argued in a statement to the media.
Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Snowflake ❄️ — Snowflake is a system that allows people from all over the world to access censored websites and applications. Similar to how VPNs assist users in getting around Internet censorship, Snowflake helps you avoid being noticed by Internet censors by making your Internet activity appear as though you're using the Internet for a regular video or voice call.
Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking — Instead of browser plugins or other software on each computer, install Pi-hole in one place and your entire network is protected.
AdGuard Home
NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
UnifiedPush — UnifiedPush is a set of specifications and tools that lets the user choose how push notifications* are delivered. All in a free and open source way.
NextPush - Server App — UnifiedPush provider for Nextcloud - server application
UnifiedPush: a decentralized, open-source push notification protocol
Proton Drive — Proton Drive is an end-to-end encrypted Swiss vault for your files that protects your data.
SimpleLogin — Open source anonymous email service
Simple NixOS Mailserver
Proton Calendar
EteSync - Secure Data Sync — Secure, end-to-end encrypted, and privacy respecting sync for your contacts, calendars, tasks and notes.
Nextcloud + DAVx5 — DAVx⁵ has been successfully tested with Nextcloud.
Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it’s transmitted over the internet.
Nextcloud - Online collaboration platform — Regain control over your data
Send — Send lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires. So you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn’t stay online forever.
nitter: Alternative Twitter front-end — A free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. Inspired by the Invidious project.
FreeTube — The Private YouTube Client
NewPipe - a free YouTube client — NewPipe has been created with the purpose of getting the original YouTube experience on your smartphone without annoying ads and questionable permissions.
yattee — Privacy-oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS
libredirect — A browser extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.
Aegis Authenticator - Secure 2FA app for Android — Aegis Authenticator is a free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens for your online services.
SimpleX Chat: private and secure messenger without any user IDs (not even random) — Other apps have user IDs: Signal, Matrix, Session, Briar, Jami, Cwtch, etc. SimpleX does not, not even random numbers. This radically improves your privacy.
Element — A secure communications platform built around you.
PrivacyGuides.org
PrivacyTools.io
Surveillance Self-Defense - EFF
Funding Developers With Lightning
Tailscale on GL.iNet Routers — Tailscale feature available since V4.2.
Nix-on-Droid — Nix-on-Droid brings Nix package manager of NixOS fame to your mobile device.
InvidTUI — InvidTUI is an invidious client, which fetches data from invidious instances and displays a user interface in the terminal, and allows for selecting and playing Youtube audio and video.

514: Connection Established

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 20:00:00 -0700

We get the inside scoop on SouthEast LinuxFest, and share a few stories from the early days of the Linux community.

Special Guest: Noah Chelliah.

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DebianBookworm — Bookworm is the development codename for Debian 12, released on 2023-06-10.
Debian 12 “Bookworm” Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
For the LAS Time | Linux Action Show 468 - YouTube
Ask Noah
ThinLinX
JMP: Your phone number on every device
SouthEast LinuxFest — For the regulars and newbies, please review our schedule to get a feel for what’s happening at this year’s events. For the newbies, be sure to read our About Us page to understand a bit more about the event in general.
SELF 2023 Schedule
southeastlinuxfest - YouTube
Argon ONE V2 Case for Raspberry Pi 4 — The Argon ONE Case is now better than ever as it has many new features
comma — Comma runs software without installing it.
org-roam
Taking org-roam everywhere with logseq
Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition — This guide is a beginner's guide to Nix and related tooling, focusing on the newer nix command, and flake.nix compared to older tools like nix-env and default.nix. It does not require any prior Nix knowledge
SUSE Partners with Collabora to Deliver Commercial LibreOffice Support
Send a Boot from web with Alby — Top off Alby, then head over to the Podcastindex.org
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can Boost right from the web at the Podcast Index with Alby.
Fractal — Fractal is a Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust. Its interface is optimized for collaboration in large groups, such as free software projects.
fractal on GitLab
FluffyChat — FluffyChat is an open-source, nonprofit and cute matrix messenger app. The app is easy to use but secure and decentralized.
NixOS for the Impatient — This post is about how I set up NixOS.

489: Brent's Secret Emails

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 20:00:00 -0800

Brent's been hiding your emails; we confront him and expose what he's been keeping from the show.

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Linux teams up with partners to overthrow Google Maps’s dominance
Tailnet lock white paper — Tailscale implements a novel mechanism, tailnet lock, to prevent a malicious control plane from inserting itself into a network. Tailnet lock requires the verification of a cryptographic signature on all WireGuard® node keys distributed by Tailscale’s control plane.
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History — In "Hardcore History" journalist and broadcaster Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", unorthodox way of thinking and applies it to the past.
Knaves Out – Darknet Diaries — This is the story about how someone hacked into JP Morgan Chase, one of the biggest financial institutions in the world.
Dana Carvey’s The Weird Place — The Weird Place is an episodic sci-fi comedy adventure that will blow your mind. From manipulative aliens to time-traveling pirates to a power-hungry mad man with a magic globe.
Linux Out Loud — Linux Out Loud is a community powered podcast. We take conversations from the DLN Community from places like the DLN Discourse Forums, Telegram group, Discord server and more.
Picture of Dennis V’s Keyboard
Announcement: Direct Alby wallet top up with MoonPay
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
Generate Let’s Encrypt Certificate with DNS Challenge and Namecheap
Tailscale breaks DNS-over-TLS on Android · Issue #915 · tailscale/tailscale
Moving entire Linux installation to another drive - Ask Ubuntu
Migrate installation to new hardware - ArchWiki
Disk cloning - ArchWiki
NixOS Root on ZFS
NixOS getting started - no mention of mkswap
ZFS - NixOS Wiki
NixOS install with ZFS — Dan’s Cheat Sheets 1 documentation
Installing NixOS with multiple encrypted ZFS pools, decrypted with one password
How I installed Encrypted ZFS root on NixOS
Install NixOS on ZFS With Opt-In State
NixOS on encrypted ZFS | The DevOps Blog
How do you say SUSE?
Packman
SmartTubeNext — Ad free app for watching tube videos on Android TV boxes.
Nobara Linux — The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.
thoughtbot/rcm — rc file (dotfile) management
GoToSocial — Fast, fun, ActivityPub server, powered by Go.
JB FOSDEM 2023 Matrix Room

483: Chris Is Done With Raspberry Pi

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 19:30:00 -0800

We surprise each other with three different topics, and Chris has a big update on the ODROID H3+.

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The Steam Linux Beta Begins…
Steam Linux Use Tips Up In October Thanks To The Steam Deck — The growth of Steam Deck adoption also now bumps AMD's CPU marketshare among Steam on Linux gamers to 56% against Intel, an increase in October alone of +4.37%.
GitHub Issue: Geocatching details on site
ODROID-H3+ – ODROID — Great compatibility, a brand new x86 64-bit single board computer with large memory capacity and advanced IO ports.
ODROID-H3 Case Type 2 – ODROID
ODROID-H3 Case Type 3 – ODROID
plex - LinuxServer.io
Jellyfin intro-skipper Plugin
Tuxies Board Room
Ubuntu Summit 2022 — An opportunity for the broader Ubuntu community to learn and speak about the amazing work and success stories happening in the ecosystem.
How to Revert the Last Git Commit | Linode
Snapcraft.io
What happened to signal-desktop? - snapcraft.io — This is due to a DMCA takedown request coming from people representing Signal. Canonical is currently working with Signal to resolve this issue.
“signal-desktop” not found · Issue #70 · snapcrafters/signal-desktop
Install signal-desktop on Linux | Snap Store
Godot Engine — Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine.
Godot’s Graduation: Godot moves to a new Foundation — Software Freedom Conservancy and the Godot leadership are excited to share their decision that the Godot project has reached a level of success for which it makes sense for Godot to have its own independent foundation.
Announcing Godot’s Graduation from SFC!
I will try my best to explain why the upcoming @godotengine foundation can’t offer Console ports.
Open source game development advances with Godot Engine 3.5 out now
The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta
Godot: Exporting for Linux
Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them
With Twitter in chaos, Mastodon is on fire | CNN Business
How to securely store secrets in BitWarden CLI and load them into your ZSH shell when needed | by Zack Proser | Oct, 2022 | Gruntwork
Intel ME-Enabled System Needed For Updating Arc Graphics GSC Firmware — Update: Intel reached out to say firmware updating will work on AMD platforms, but awaiting to hear futher details.
Podcasting 2.0 Apps

474: Linux's Malware Inevitability

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:30:00 -0700

Can Linux do better? Apple is scrambling to build always-on malware protection into the next macOS as its market share grows. A precautionary tale for Linux users.

Plus we take a look at Ubuntu Unity as it becomes an official flavor.

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Canonical Accepts Ubuntu Unity as Official Ubuntu Flavor Starting with Ubuntu 22.10 — The Ubuntu Unity 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) release is expected to see the light of day as an official Ubuntu flavor on October 20th, 2022.
[vote] Re: Ubuntu Unity as an official flavor
Ubuntu Unity
Office Hours 11 — We're pushing our new website to production live on the show today. We have no idea how things will turn out - but we're taking you along for the ride either way!
JB Meetups
JB Matrix West Coast Crew
Baller Boost Jingles — Send us your feedback via GitHub
Mac vs. PC Ad
macOS malware development surged by over 1,000% in 2020
Increased Enterprise Use of iOS, Mac Means More Malware
Report Finds Surge in Malware Aimed at MacOS - Security Boulevard
macOS now scans for malware whenever it gets a chance — In the last six months macOS malware protection has changed more than it did over the previous seven years.
Desktop Market Share
Is any virus protection software needed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Linux devices ‘increasingly’ under attack from hackers, warn security researchers
Brunch with Brunch
Harmonoid — Plays and manages your music library. Looks beautiful & juicy.
LINUX Unplugged 409 — Launch Your Memories Into the Future.
Google Photos is so 2020

471: The Cottonwood Disaster

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 18:45:00 -0700

Our garage Linux server has died, and this time we’re looking at data loss. We attempt to revive our zombie box and reflect on what went wrong.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Microsoft open-sources over 1,500 of its cute 3D emoji designs for anyone to use
The NEW Jupiter Broadcasting Website
Upcoming Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups
Get your name in the hat for our JPL tour
LINUX Unplugged 468: The Read Only Scenario
Operating System development tutorials in Rust on the Raspberry Pi — Learn to write an embedded OS in Rust.
Podverse — V4V is now available in Podverse F-Droid beta 🥳
FluffyChat — Open. Nonprofit. Cute. Easy to use (matrix) messenger. Secure and decentralized.
FluffyChat on Flathub
FluffyChat in F-Droid
lrn — Command-line tool for learning by repetition.
Columbus Club Ohio LinuxFest Matrix Meetup Room

470: Let's Call It an Upgrade

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 20:30:00 -0700

We present a buffet of budget Linux boxes. From $40 to $400 you'll be surprised by what we found. Then we attempt to find the perfect distro for them.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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NASA greenlights two new Mars helicopters and lengthens Perseverance’s resume — Perseverance’s high-flying robotic companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, has inspired the design of two future rotorcraft that would swerve over the Martian terrain to pick up other samples.
Get your name in the hat for our JPL tour — 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.
Upcoming Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups
remembertoremember on Twitter — I haven’t really had major Linux woes in a long time and I use new hardware with 4k but always shop with Linux in mind.
New $160: Beelink MiniS Mini Pc with 11th Gen Processor N5095,8GB DDR4 128GB SSD Mini Desktop Computers
Acer Switch One SW1-011 Intel Atom x5-Z8300 @ 1.44 GHz 2GB Ram 32GB Storage
Lenovo IdeaPad 3 14IML05 14" 128GB SSD, Intel Pentium Gold, 2.40GHz, 4GB
Acer Mini PC Atom x5-Z8300 2Gb RAM 16Gb EMMC WiFi Bluetooth Linux CloudProfessor
nixos-generators — The nixos-generators project allows to take the same NixOS configuration, and generate outputs for different target formats.
MinisForum DeskMini UM350 Ryzen Mini PC
Dell Wyse 5070 thin client
New Features in Linux Mint 21 ‘Vanessa’ Cinnamon Edition — Linux Mint 21 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop experience more comfortable.
Linux Mint 21 Released - Built Atop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Office Hours 9 — We Hate Crypto Too
ManageIQ
Usermode FTP Server on Flathub
gh4a — Github client for Android
OctoDroid on F-Droid
OctoDroid for GitHub
JB Colony Matrix Meetup Rooms

451: The NixOS Challenge

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 18:45:00 -0700

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.

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446: Kudu Cores and Cloud Wars

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 21:00:00 -0800

We put the sports car of Linux laptops to the test. Is it the multi-tasking machine it claims to be?

And an essential update on the show.

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Kudu from System76 — Enjoy fast, steady progression with the Kudu’s powerful H-class AMD processor. The Kudu laptop is equipped to handle longer sessions so you can taste the victory of beating your schedule.
Kudu (kudu6) - System76 Technical Documentation
Internal Overview - System76 Technical Documentation
MBP M1 Max Machine Learning, Sys76-kudu-ML Benchmark Comparison
Sys76-kudu-amd, Sys76-kudu-nv Benchmark Comparison
Value 4 Value Calculator
Pick: Spodcast — Spodcast is a caching Spotify podcast to RSS proxy. Using Spodcast you can follow Spotify-hosted netcasts/podcasts using any player which supports RSS, thus enabling the use of older hardware which is not compatible with the Spotify (web) app.
Pick: hwatch — A modern alternative to the watch command, that records the result of command execution and can display history and diffs.
Pick: rnote — A simple drawing application to create handwritten notes.
Pick: dog dns client — dog is an open-source DNS client for the command-line. It has colourful output, supports the DoT and DoH protocols, and can emit JSON.

437: The 2021 Tuxies

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 17:30:00 -0800

It's the second annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, desktops, and services of 2021.

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433: The Lessons of Jellyfin

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 19:30:00 -0800

We revisit some old assumptions about the open-source Plex-alternative, Jellyfin. We each try it out, and along the way, gain a few insights about open source.

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Kodi “Matrix” 19.3 Release — Okay, we know that we've only just released 19.2, and some of you are probably even still waiting for that, but that's a big part of the reason we need to push out a new build. We still had some challenges with the Xbox release, and some other issues came to light that we didn't want to ignore - so, rather than get into platform-specific point releases, we thought we'd just nudge up to 19.3 and go for it.
Jellyfin — Jellyfin is the volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached. Your media, your server, your way.
Plex — Plex brings together all the media that matters to you. Your personal collection will look beautiful alongside stellar streaming content.
Dual Gigabit Ethernet Carrier Board for Raspberry Pi CM4 4 with 4GB RAM/ 32GB eMMC — It features a variety of I/O peripherals such as MIPI CSI, MIPI DSI, micro-HDMI to connect displays/ cameras, a standard 9-pin USB 3.0 header for more USB expansion, a micro-SD card slot, and an FPC connector while maintaining a compact form factor! This board is ideal for HTPC makers, Linux developers, software router enthusiasts, and the majority of regular Raspberry Pi users.
Client Spotlight: Infuse for tvOS and iOS - Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System — With Infuse, it's easy to connect to with automatic server discovery. Once connected, you can enjoy direct playback (no transcoding required) for almost all formats.
Jellyfin Plugin for Kodi — The Jellyfin for Kodi add-on combines the best of Kodi - ultra smooth navigation, beautiful UIs and playback of any file under the sun, and Jellyfin - the most powerful open source multi-client media metadata indexer and server. You can now retire your MySQL setup in favor of a more flexible setup.
catt — Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources to your Chromecast.
Self-Hosted Podcast — Discover new software and hardware to get the best out of your network, control smart devices, and secure your data on cloud services.
Perfect Media Server — Perfect Media Server began life as a series of blog posts over at blog.linuxserver.io. Those posts continue to be very popular but a blog post (or three) can only get you so far... I therefore introduce perfectmediaserver.com - a wiki format information repository detailing all you need to know to build a free, open and modular media server that will last for many, many years.
Jellyfin Android App
Jellyfin for Android TV
Jellyfin Roku App
Jellyfish Bitrate Test Files
jellyfin-mpv-shim — MPV Cast Client for Jellyfin.
Pick: Junction — Set Junction as the default application for a resource and let it do the rest. Junction will pop up and offer multiple options to handle it.
Junction on Flathub

424: Space for Theming

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 20:30:00 -0700

A serious problem is brewing in Desktop Linux that hasn't impacted end users yet, but will soon. We break down why distribution makers are getting upset and explain what's next.

Plus, an update on Matrix and the recent upgrades we made to our server.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Joshua Strobl.

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Building an Alternative Ecosystem | Joshua Strobl — While we have been consistent in this vision, though certainly not without flaws in its execution, we have seen a significant shift from GNOME’s development efforts and vision being focused from their desktop experience, to a heavier focus on mobile-to-desktop application scalability and a more touch-oriented, almost iPadOS like user experience that does not (in our opinion) provide the most optimized experience for laptop and desktop users.
The Truth they are not telling you about “Themes” – Rust in Peace — There seems to be some confusion when it comes to libadwaita’s stylesheet and coloring APIs.
Red Hat’s Upstream Contributions Are Making For A Great Fedora Workstation 35 - Phoronix — Fedora Workstation 35 will hopefully be out at the end of October (currently the beta is running behind schedule) and when it does ship it's once again at the bleeding-edge of Linux features.
GNOME 41 has new multitasking settings!
SeaGL is coming up soon, and is virtual this year — November 5th & 6th, 2021
This Week in Matrix
Spaces: The next frontier — Using Spaces and Subspaces to build hierarchies effectively turns Matrix into a global decentralised filesystem for conversations and other real-time data!
toger5/TheBoard — A collaborative Whiteboard powered by the [matrix] protocol and infrastucture.
Matrix Live
Compressing Synapse database | Levans’ workshop — Anyone running a federating instance of the Matrix homeserver Synapse will likely have seen this: synapse is database-hungry. It tends to take a lot of space. In this post, I'm documenting how I shrunk my homeserver database from 100GB to a little under 8GB, during a long maintenance cleanup.
Pick: Wayfire — Wayfire is a wayland compositor based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.
Garuda Wayfire Download

416: Server Meltdown

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 18:00:00 -0700

We try to pull off a show while recovering from an epic server crash. Then we build the ultimate remote Linux desktop—in the cloud!

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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

366: Linux Server Salvage

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 21:30:00 -0700

We refurbish a special machine from the Jupiter Broadcasting Hardware Archive and try out Matrix, the one chat platform to rule them all.

Plus Dan and Cassidy from elementary OS join us to discuss version 6.0.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:45 Intro
2:25 KDE Neon 20.04
4:17 Mozilla Resturcturing
8:21 elementary OS 6
18:29 Housekeeping
20:00 Matrix
22:33 Silver Salvage
29:43 Matrix Server Punishment Test
33:04 Clients Galore
35:06 Secure By Default
43:56 Outro
45:08 Post-Show

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.

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363: Return of the Terminal Server

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 23:00:00 -0700

Fedora makes a bold move and Microsoft seems to be working on their ideal "Cloud PC", we ponder what Linux has to offer.

Plus an easy way to remotely watch movies with others, and a bunch of your feedback.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:29 Intro
2:34 RSI Woes
7:21 Jellyfin
13:12 Proxmox Backup Server
16:22 ProcMon for Linux
20:16 Fedora 33 Defaults to Btrfs
24:27 systemd-oomd
26:38 Housekeeping
28:41 Riot Becomes Element
32:36 Mysterious Microsoft Job Posting
39:19 Picks: Polybar
40:57 Picks: ytop
42:43 Feedback
48:50 Outro
50:06 Post-Show

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.

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