LINUX Unplugged

657: Slop to Slap

March 8th, 2026  |  1 hr 23 mins

ai, ai agents, aneesh agrawal, anthropic, anyshift.io, autopatchelf, carl george, carl perry, cindy cohn, deepcomputing, determinate systems, eff, electronic frontier foundation, elf, elf on the shelf, flake schemas, flox, graham christensen, jason spisak, jonas chevalier, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nix, nixos, nixos foundation, numtide, open source, open source ai, planet nix, pocket meat, providence, risk-v, ron efroni, roxane fischer, scale, soundboard guy, system76, yuning liang

After experiencing Planet Nix and SCaLE, we come back convinced the next phase of Linux is already taking shape.

656: Why KDE Linux Surprised Us

March 1st, 2026  |  1 hr 8 mins

arch, bearded tech, delta updates, distrobox, enhanced read-only file system, erofs, flatpak, flox, hcloud-upload-image, hetzner, home assistant, home assistant mcp, jb dnd, jupiter broadcasting, kapsule, kde linux, kde plasma, launcher studio, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mesh network, mkosi, nebula, nebula commander, nix package manager, nixos, open source, openclaw, opencode, planet nix, plasma 6.6, project banana, raw disk images, socks-to-http-proxy, squashfs, star trek comms badge, systemd, systemd-repart, systemd-sysupdate, tetris, tinyproxy, truenas, unraid

We take KDE Linux for a spin and push it a little too far. Plus, a friend of the show stops by with a fresh tool: Nebula Commander.

655: Speeding Up Mistakes

February 22nd, 2026  |  56 mins 48 secs

abes, ai, ai agent, declarative ai, esp32, flox, freshrss, freshrss-mcp, home folder symlinks, jb meetup, jupiter broadcasting, kelsey hightower, linux podcast, linux unplugged, llm, mcp server, michael stahnke, mimiclaw, nix, open source, openclaw, openclaw-esp32, openclaw-mcp-bridge, planet nix, scale, vp of engineering, websocketcam, wechsel

Planet Nix and SCaLE are just days away, and we're getting a head start with two guests, the tech, and the trends shaping open source. Our trip starts here!

652: Have Your Bot Call My Bot

February 1st, 2026  |  1 hr 9 mins

abe’s agents, adblock, adblock-fast, ai, clawdbot, dnsmasq, flox, gaussian splatting, gl.inet, gradia, holesail, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, llm, ml-sharp, ml-sharp-pinokio, moltbook, moltbot, nixtcloud, open source, open source ai agents, open source router, openclaw, openwrt, openwrt one, persistent agent, persistent digital assistant, personal assistant, planet nix, router upgrade, scale, screenshot, second-hand tech, selorabox-nix, upcycle tech, used tech, whole-home adblocking, wifi optimizing

We stress tested open source AI agents this week. What actually held up, and where it falls apart. Plus Brent’s $20 Wi-Fi upgrade.

651: Uptime Funk

January 25th, 2026  |  1 hr 2 mins

acme for nebula pki, actual budget, ad-blocking, automatic hostname resolution, dns, docker, enterprise-grade monitoring stack, flox, furilabs, grafana, home assistant, jupiter broadcasting, librem 5, linux phone, linux podcast, linux unplugged, local dns, magicdns, meetup, mesh network, mesh vpn, metrics, monitoring, nacme, nebula, nixos-router, ntfy, open source, pi-hole, pinephone, planet nix, prometheus, purism, richarch hyprvibe spin, scale, self-hosted, switchyard, tailscale, technitium, uptime-kuma, van automation, vpn, vps, wifiman, ynab

When your self-hosted services become infrastructure, breakage matters. We tackle monitoring that actually helps, alerts you won’t ignore, and DNS for local, and multi-mesh network setups.

606: Nix's Magic Cookbook

March 16th, 2025  |  1 hr 38 mins

aneesh agrawal, anthropic, apple tv, atv-desktop-remote, bang boost, bang bus, chromebook, deep dive, ebpf, eelco dolstra, firefox, flakes, flox, jb meetup, jupiter broadcasting, kelsey hightower, laser tag champions, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mike kelly, mozilla, nix in the wild, nixbook, nixos, olympia mike, planet nix, producer jeff, pyatv, ron efroni, ross turk, rust, scale, system76, the launch, thunderbird, tui challenge, year of the terminal, 🚐

We have stories to share, guests joining us, insights from our week at Planet Nix, and Brent's big bombshell.

604: One Week Left

March 2nd, 2025  |  1 hr 1 min

alby hub, android auto, audiobookshelf, chromebook, dendrite, element, flox, fountain, graphene os, jb meetup, jupiter broadcasting, karousel, kelsey hightower, libro.fm, linux podcast, linux unplugged, matrix, niri, nixbook, nixos, openaudible, openaudible-to-audiblebookshelf, paperwm, planet nix, robert hernandez, ron efroni, scale, synapse, 🤟❄️⚖️, 🦒

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.

602: The BSD Humbling

February 16th, 2025  |  1 hr 7 mins

add water, ardour, audible, audiobookshelf, bhyve, dj khaled, doas, flox, framework, freebsd, freebsd challenge, ghostbsd, hedgedoc, jails, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, launch, libation, libluksde, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxulator-steam-utils, mate, mizutamari, music assistant, nes, netbsd, planet nix, podman, retro gaming, scale, snes, syncthing, tailscale, zfs, 👻, 🚀

Our FreeBSD Challenge comes to a close, and chances are one of us will be paying the Windows tax.

601: Taming the Demons

February 9th, 2025  |  1 hr 8 mins

bsd battlestation, flox, freebsd, freebsd challenge, garmindb, ghostbsd, jupiter broadcasting, kexec, lfnw, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nixos analogy, planet nix, podman, prime episode, raspberry pi 400, rc.conf, shower thoughts pen, showtoshi, zach mitchell, zfs

It's week one of our FreeBSD challenge, and for one of us, that penalty Windows install looks uncomfortably close!

Plus, Zach Mitchell joins us to update us on Planet Nix.

554: SCaLEing Nix

March 17th, 2024  |  1 hr 29 mins

ai, alaska, california, castamatic, community, daphne muller, dconf, determinate systems, docker, eelco dolstra, flox, fossnorth, fountain, germany, gnome, gsettings, hydra, jim klark, jos poortvliet, lanzaboote, martin wimpress, ml, nextcloud, nix, nix-starter-configs, nixcon, nixcon na, nixos, nixos desktop, nixpkgs, nostr, podcast addict, podcast guru, podverse, ross turk, ryan lahfa, scale, scale 21x, secure boot, self-hosted ai, southern california linux expo, tom bereknyei, ubucon, wimpy, yuba city, zach mitchell

We're on the ground live at NixCon and SCaLE. We catch up with old friends, and discover how Nix is devouring the Linux world one function at a time.