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Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• 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

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• Jupiter Signal Network Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
• PabloVitasso/esphome-chinbasto — A custom ESPHome component for controlling Chinese Webasto heaters using ESP32. This project adds on/off control via soldering, as the serial communication is currently read-only. It is based on the work of timmchugh11 and builds on the reverse engineering efforts of Ray Jones.
• Hacking the Chinese Diesel Heater Communications Protocol.pdf - Ray Jones - GitLab
• timmchugh11/Chinese-Diesel-Heater---ESPHome
• OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent
• anomalyco/opencode: The open source coding agent.
• Hunter Alpha - API Pricing & Providers | OpenRouter
• ESPHome - Smart Home Made Simple
• Home Assistant
• ESP32 Wi-Fi & Bluetooth SoC | Espressif Systems
• nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware: Lua based interactive firmware for ESP8266, ESP8285 and ESP32
• NodeMCU-32S Development Board Details, Pinout, Specs
• Amazon.com: ESP-32S USB-C Development Board + ESP32 Terminal Board
• agent-browser-protocol — Deterministic browser automation. Works out of the box with Claude/Codex/OpenCode
• camofox-browser — Headless browser automation server for AI agents to visit sites that are usually blocked
• chrome-devtools-mcp — Chrome DevTools for coding agents
• firefox-devtools-mcp — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox DevTools
• LittleFOX-MCP — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox
• Chrome DevTools MCP Debug — Let your Coding Agent debug your browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP
• Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 1 | Jupiter EXTRAS 40 | Jupiter Broadcasting
• Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2 | Jupiter EXTRAS 41 | Jupiter Broadcasting
• Pick: LosslessCut — Simple and ultra fast cross platform tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video and audio files. Great for saving space by rough cutting your large video files taken from a video camera, GoPro, drone, etc. It lets you quickly extract the good parts from your videos and discard many gigabytes of data without doing a slow re-encode and thereby losing quality.
• LosslessCut on GitHub
• LosslessCut on Flathub
• Pick: CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?
• Pick: llmfit — Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware.

Special Guests: Kelsey Hightower and Michael Stahnke.

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• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 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
• stahnma (Michael Stahnke)
• Flox, Nix, and Reproducible Software Systems with Michael Stahnke - Software Engineering Daily
• Pro OpenSSH (Expert's Voice in Open Source): Stahnke, Michael
• Nix and AI, are we there yet? | SCALE
• stahnma/mandatoryFun
• Post by @kelseyhightower.com — Bluesky — I don't care about LLMs or AI. I care about people. AI is just a tool to me. Tools enable people to help or harm at a scale beyond their natural abilities. I care about how people treat each other using these tools.
• distrostru's gatus config
• Status Page On Demand | Gatus
• MimiClaw — MimiClaw turns a tiny ESP32-S3 board into a personal AI assistant.
• hrwtech/openclaw-esp32: OpenClaw on your Arduino ESP32 devices
• Pick: WebsocketCAM — Access Android camera via WebSocket client API and run AI / computer vision tasks with ease on live camera stream
• Pick: ChrisLAS/openclaw-mcp-bridge — OpenClaw plugin that bridges any MCP HTTP server as native tools. The missing piece between OpenClaw + Ollama and the MCP ecosystem.
• Pick: ChrisLAS/freshrss-mcp — A simple MCP server to stand in front of your FreshRSS Server
• Pick: wechsel — A Cli Utility to replace home folders with symlinks to project folders
• wechsel-extension: A Gnome Extension for Project Switching

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• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• How to recover from BTRFS errors | Support | SUSE
• btrfs-zero-log(8) — btrfs-progs — Debian Manpages — This command will clear the filesystem log tree. This may fix a specific set of problem when the filesystem mount fails due to the log replay.
• 2018 Patch
• Git: Btrfs: fix warning when replaying log after fsync of a tmpfile
• Git: btrfs: fix fsync of files with no hard links not persisting deletion
• problematic patch pulled into 6.16 on May 26th
• problematic patch pulled into 6.15.3 on June 19th
• Increased reports since 6.15.3 of corruption within the log tree - Peter Jung
• Null deref during attempted replay of corrupt TREE_LOG in newer kernel - Russell Haley
• System failed to boot – Btrfs log tree error / System Administration / Arch Linux Forums
• PATCH: btrfs: fix log tree replay failure due to file with 0 links and extents — When attempting to mount the fs, the log replay will fail
• patch on for-next branch of btrfs tree
• generic: test fsync of file with 0 links and extents
• Music Assistant — Music Assistant is a music library manager for your offline and online music sources which can easily stream your favourite music to a wide range of supported players and be combined with the power of Home Assistant!
• Music Assistant Installation Instructions
• Installation Instructions
• Music Assistant Music Providers
• Music Assistant Player Providers
• Home Assistant Plugin
• Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition - Home Assistant
• SYMFONISK Sonos WiFi bookshelf speaker, black smart/gen 2 - IKEA US
• HomePod - Apple
• Belkin SoundForm Connect AirPlay 2 Adapter & Airplay 2 Receiver
• WiiM Mini AirPlay 2 Wireless Audio Streamer
• Google Chromecast - Streaming Device with HDMI Cable
• Google Chromecast Audio Media Streamer - *** 2 PACK *** | eBay
• droans/mass_queue — Actions to control player queues for Music Assistant
• punxaphil/maxi-media-player — Media card for Home Assistant UI with a focus on managing multiple media players, but not excluding single player setups.
• NinDTendo/homeassistant_gradual_volume_control — Home Assistant integration providing a service to gradually change the volume of media_players over a given timespan.
• Chawan: TUI web browser — A text-mode web browser and pager for Unix-like systems, with a focus on implementing modern web standards while remaining self-contained, easy to understand and extensible.
• SilverBullet — SilverBullet is a tool to develop, organize, and structure your personal knowledge and to make it universally accessible across all your devices.
• HeliumOS — An atomic desktop operating system for your devices.
• LINUX Unplugged 620 - Brent Loves Building Things — Off-the-shelf didn’t cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.
• rust-motd — Beautiful, useful, configurable MOTD generation with zero runtime dependencies
• rustdress — Self hosted Lightning Address Server
• rustdress: init at 0.5.2 by jordan-bravo
• rustdress in nixpkgs
• Plausible Slop: Generative AI and Open Source Cybersecurity
• Plausible Slop Timecode Link
• Death by a thousand slops | daniel.haxx.se
• Pick: PlexRipper — A cross-platform Plex media downloader that seamlessly adds media from other Plex servers to your own!
• PlexRipper Docs
• Pick: kde-control-station — A modern configuration center for KDE plasma based on the awesome kde_controlcentre by Prayag2
• Pick: kAirPods — Native AirPods integration for KDE Plasma 6 with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widget
• AmilieCoding/gnomePods — Native AirPods integration for GNOME with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widget. Built off of kAirPods

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• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Nix Vegas - Extended CFP, and a sneak preview
• Nix Vegas CFP
• Bluefin | The Next Generation Linux Workstation
• Four Years of Universal Blue
• chad-russell/nix-blue: uBlue derivative with nix compatibility
• karypid/bluenix: Bluefin with /nix
• thrix/nix-toolbox: Fedora toolbox with nix.
• add nix using either the determine systems nix installer or the vanilla installer · Issue #2371 · ublue-os/bluefin
• Include smallest pieces necessary to make installing Nix easier · Issue #765 · ublue-os/main
• Recommend homebrew as the default · Issue #576 · ublue-os/bluefin
• feat: homebrew on image by m2Giles · Pull Request #1293 · ublue-os/bluefin
• Add support for ostree-based Linux distributions by Hofer-Julian · Pull Request #586 · DeterminateSystems/nix-installer
• Ostree installation breaks with composefs changes in Fedora 42 · Issue #1445 · DeterminateSystems/nix-installer
• Arbitrary top level mount points and composefs (#26) · Issue · fedora/bootc/tracker
• composefs: The reliability of disk images, the flexibility of files
• ublue-os/bluefin: The next generation Linux workstation, designed for reliability, performance, and sustainability.
• ublue-os/image-template: Build your own custom Universal Blue Image!
• amyos
• veneos: Bootc images based on Fedora Atomic & Fedora CoreOS
• m2os
• bos: Customized OS images based on Universal Blue
• Building Locally | Bluefin
• ublue-os/cayo: A bootc server image for your self-hosting needs
• Zach: Easy Omarchy update and install.
• CommonArch
• JaKooLit's Hyprland setups
• Pick: bitchat — A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks. No internet required, no servers, no phone numbers. It's the side-groupchat.
• Bitchat: bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibes
• bitchat-android: bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibes
• bitchat privacy
• Jack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security | TechCrunch
• LINUX Unplugged 459: Better than Butter
• Briar — Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in.
• Obtainium: Get Android app updates straight from the source.

Special Guest: Producer Jeff.

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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.
• Jupiter Signal Network Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Meshtastic — An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices
• Bitcoin Vets: Establish communications via meshtastic & ham radio network
• Meshtastic in the air — Avery Airfield in Spruce Pine which is running air delivery of critical supplies to HLZs in the AO is now equipping flights with Meshtastic airborne nodes which significantly increases coverage of vital communications.
• Heltec V3
• 27100 Cell holder
• MPPT Solar Charge controller for 1S cells
• 25 Watt Solar Panels
• Project Box
• Pole Mounts
• Programmable GPS
• Preferred 27100 Cells
• 2nd choice 21700 Cells
• Tdeck
• GPS
• Battery
• 3D printed case files
• Screw inserts for case
• m2 screw kit, nice to have for these kind of projects (threaded for inserts above)
• 5 dbi antenna
• 2 dbi antenna
• 5.8 dbi antenna
• SMA - RPSMA adapters if needed
• 12' SMA cable
• Wiseblock RAK
• Hundreds Weigh in on FCC NextNav Petition for 900 MHz Band Change — At issue is a NextNav petition filed in April to the FCC to expand the power level, bandwidth and priority of its licenses in the 902 to 907 and 918 to 928 MHz bands in the United States—a band currently in use by UHF RFID, Z-Wave, Zigbee, LoRa and numerous other wireless technologies. Additionally, NextNav proposes to use 5G connectivity over the relatively low bandwidth.
• Consumer Choice Center submits FCC comments to protect radio frequency for open-source projects and amateur radio
• meshbbs — This is a BBS project to run on a meshtastic node. The system allows for message handling, bulletin boards, mail systems, and a channel directory.
• nostrastic — Bridge to publish Nostr posts and send/receive DMs over LoRa using Meshtastic.
• Home Assistant and Meshtastic — On this page, we'll guide you through the process of creating Meshtastic MQTT sensor entities within Home Assistant. Whether you want to keep an eye on battery levels, environmental conditions, or even receive notifications from your mesh network, these integrations provide you with the tools to make it happen.
• T-Watch S3
• awesome-meshtastic — A curated list of amazingly awesome Meshtastic resources
• MeshMap - Meshtastic Node Map
• Meshtastic Routing Issues & Deployment Scenarios - YouTube
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• Nix-ld: A clean solution for issues with pre-compiled executables on NixOS
• nix-ld on GitHub
• DIYmall 2 Sets 915MHZ ESP32 Lora V3 WiFi+BLE Development Board — WiFi LoRa 32 is a classic IoT dev-board. The newly launched V3 version retains Wi-Fi, BLE, LoRa, OLED display, and other functions
• LILYGO T-Echo Meshtastic LoRa SX1262 — NRF52840 module, SX1262 wireless transceiver BME280 temperature pressure sensor, GPS RTC, NFC, LoRa

Why we think every desktop will copy ideas from Hyprland soon.

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• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

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• Hyprland Hall of Fame
• Hyprland Master Tutorial — If you are coming to Hyprland for the first time, this is the main tutorial to read.
• Hyprland - ArchWiki — Hyprland bundles its own version of wlroots, which closely follows the wlroots-git. This improves stability, while also avoiding dependency conflicts with other wlroots-based compositors.
• Nix | Hyprland Wiki — Hyprland on Nix can be installed either from Nixpkgs (release version) or from the flake (directly from the main branch).
• Hyprland on NixOS — The NixOS module enables critical components needed to run Hyprland properly, such as: polkit, xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland, graphics drivers, fonts, dconf, xwayland, and adding a proper Desktop Entry to your Display Manager.
• awesome-hyprland — Useful tools and libraries that either work or are designed for Hyprland!
• Outdoor Home Assistant — Why Chris needs ANOTHER Home Assistant instance and a major breakthrough for self-hosters.
• The Sprinkler Geeks, LLC — Irrigation service, repair, and maintenance. Servicing Thurston, Lewis, & Gray's Harbor Counties.
• Brocade ICX 6610-24P Switch
• Boost Vs Patreon — I have one friend who loves podcasts, but he still doesn't get how it offers anything new compared to Patreon. Could you guys please give a short rundown of how boosts are different and how they have helped LUP?
• Evernote on Linux — Evernote for Linux is currently in private beta.
• xwmx/nb — nb is a command line and local web note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application
• Ecowitt weather station
• Tidal-Media-Downloader — Tidal-Media-Downloader is an application that lets you download videos and tracks from Tidal.
• When Stars and Salt Collide” by The Piano Guys.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Vod2pod-rss — Vod2Pod-RSS converts a YouTube or Twitch channel into a podcast with ease. It creates a podcast RSS that can be listened to directly inside any podcast client.