LINUX Unplugged

654: Creating Discord in the Matrix

February 15th, 2026  |  1 hr 24 mins

5g, age verification, alby, bcachefs, booklog, btrfs, casaos, christian brauner, clan, clan.lol, connectten fortress router, copy-on-write, data privacy, decentralized, discord, element, ext4, face scanning, federation, fediverse, filesystem, fountain, jb meetup, jupiter broadcasting, kernel, kyc, linux 7.0, linux kernel, linux meetup, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lte, matrix, matrix server, mattermost, mobile internet router, network discovery, nixos, nixos framework, nmap, nullfs, open source, open source community, open_tree_namespace, openclaw, openwrt, personal library, pivot_root, planet nix, privacy, project hydra, prometheus, raspberry pi, rv internet, scale, self-hosted, self-hosted communities, switch_root, synapse, tablet as monitor, tablet as second screen, the structural spacer, thinkbox, truenas scale, vfs, virtual file system, wan redundancy, weylus, whosthere, xfs, zfs, zimaos

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?

644: The People's Filesystem

December 7th, 2025  |  1 hr 24 mins

bazzite, bcachefs, bcachefs 1.33, boosties 2025, copy-on-write, cow filesystem, dkms, dotfiles, dotfiles installer, dotfiles manager, filesystem, gpl filesystem, gui ssh config editor, holiday homelab, jupiter broadcasting, kent overstreet, linux filesystem, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lubelogger, mcp server, nixos, open source, open source developer, proxmox, proxmox-nixos, reconcile, ssh-studio, the people’s filesystem, valve, vehicle maintenance tracker, zfs

Kent Overstreet joins us for a full update on bcachefs. What’s new, what’s next, and the surprising upside of getting kicked out of the kernel.

614: Self-Hosted Location Tracking

May 11th, 2025  |  1 hr 16 mins

bcachefs, cb radio, coreutils, dawarich, degoogle, element.fm, filesystem, gmrs radio, gnome, gnome foundation, golden grot award, google location history, grafanacon, home assistant, immich, jeff's industrial trash bin rescue special, jupiter broadcasting, launch, libcaca, linux podcast, linux unplugged, live meep, location history, location tracking, maps, meshsidecar, mq-7, nixos, nixos hardware team, nixos steering committee, nixos-hardware, phoronix, photoprism, podcasting 2.0, privacy, road trip tracker, rust, self-hosted, steven deobald, sudo-rs, tailscale, tailscale meetup, tui challenge, ubuntu, ubuntu 25.10, uutils, van rescue, youtube, ytviewer

We test-drive a self-hosted alternative to Google Location History. Plus, we cover the week’s Linux news highlights, then spill the beans on our upcoming TUI challenge.

525: Beating Apple to the Sauce

August 27th, 2023  |  1 hr 12 mins

16k kernel, 16k pages, ai, alyssa rosenzweig, apple, apple silicon, arch arm, arm, arm64, asahi linux, battery life, btrfs, chatgpt, conformant gpu driver, data center, data loss, davide calvalca, disk encryption, dual booting, fedora, fedora asahi remix, filesystem, gallium3d, gpu, gpu acceleration, hector martin, hpc, immutability, impermanence, jbod, jitsi meet, jupiter broadcasting, kde, kde connect, linux podcast, linux unplugged, llama 2, llama-gpt, llama.cpp, llm, luks, lvm, m1, m2, mac mini, macos, mattermost, meta, ml, neal gompa, nixos, oneplus 6, open source ai, openai, opengl es 3.1, openstreetmap, opensuse tumbleweed, organic maps, plasma, rdp, self-hosting, server temperature, sip, snapdragon 845, streetcomplete, telemetry, thunderbolt, uefi, umbrel, vnc, voip, xfs, xfs_repair, zfs, 🦙

We daily drive Asahi Linux on a MacBook, chat about how the team beat Apple to a major GPU milestone, and an easy way to self-host open-source ChatGPT alternatives.

467: All Hands on Deck

July 17th, 2022  |  1 hr 21 mins

80hd, arch, battery life, bios, boostcli, desktop linux, droidcam, filesystem, flatpak, furtherance, graphics card, grub, jupiter broadcasting, kde, larix broadcaster, linux gaming, linux podcast, linux unplugged, manjaro, microsoft, nebula, neon, non-free drivers, nvidia, pacman, partitioning, proton, python, read-only filesystem, repl, rust, steam deck, tech pants, touchscreen, ubuntu, uefi, v4l2loopback, valve, virtual keyboard, x11

We try and bust a common Linux distro myth. Then what surprised Chris about his new Steam Deck.

459: Better than Butter

May 22nd, 2022  |  58 mins 31 secs

arm, bcachefs, briar, btrfs, compression, cow, encryption, erasure coding, filesystem, flat network, hp, hp dev one, jupiter broadcasting, kent overstreet, lineageos, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mesh network, nixos, nvidia, nvme, opensats, pine64, pop!_os, radeon, raid, ramos gin fizz, rust, snapshots, system76, tailscale, tow-boot, wireguard, zerotier, zfs

We take a sneak peek at some future tech coming to Linux, and share details on HP's new laptop that runs POP!

358: Our Fragmented Favorite

June 16th, 2020  |  1 hr 13 mins

a cloud guru, accesibility, apple, btrfs, checksums, containers, copy on write, cow, crew dragon, data integrity, disk layout, disk partitioning, disk space, docker, ext4, facebook, falcon 9, fedora, fedora workstation, filesystem, flatpak, gimp, github, jupiter broadcasting, librem 5, linux podcast, lvm, macos, master, matt ahrens, media production, mobile, nvme, phone, phosh, pine64, pinephone, pinetab, pipewire, postmarketos, preempt, proprietary software, purism, python, redis, rich bowen, ruby, snapshots, spacex, ssd, starlink, unplugged, welcoming nomenclature, windows, xfs, zfs

It's time to challenge some long-held assumptions.

Today's Btrfs is not yesterday's hot mess, but a modern battle-tested filesystem, and we'll prove it.

Plus our thoughts on GitHub dropping the term "master", and the changes Linux should make NOW to compete with commercial desktops.

324: RAMburglars

October 22nd, 2019  |  58 mins 56 secs

19.10, ai, benchmarks, don watkins, ext4, fedora, filesystem, gnome, gnome foundation, jupiter broadcasting, linux gaming, linux podcast, mate, matthew miller, memory pressure, ml, opensource.com, openzfs, patent troll defense fund, pi 4, pop!_os, ram, raspberry pi 4, shotwell, steam remote play together, system76, tensorflow, tensorman, thinkpad, thinkpad-tools, ubuntu 19.10, unix, unplugged, zfs

Is the ZFS tax too high? We pit ZFS on root against ext4 in our laptop pressure cooker and see how they perform when RAM gets tight.

Episode 262: Tribes of Init

August 14th, 2018  |  1 hr 17 mins

18, blender benchmark, dropbox, filesystem, freebsd, fstransform, kde neon, libre application summit, linux 4, linux podcast, loopback, meetbsd, mir, openbenchmark, sparse image, systemd, the tragedy of systemd, xdg shell, xfs

The FreeBSD community shares the hard lessons learned from systemd, we play some great clips from a recent event.