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Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals @ Sessionize.com
• SCaLE 23x | Registration
• NetAlert X — Network intruder and presence detector. Scans for devices connected to your network and alerts you if new and unknown devices are found.
• NetAlertX Docs
• NetAlertX GitHub
• NetAlertX docker-compose.yml
• NixOS OCI Config for NetAlertX
• Home Assistant - NetAlertX Docs — NetAlertX comes with MQTT support, allowing you to show all detected devices as devices in Home Assistant. It also supplies a collection of stats, such as number of online devices.
• home assistant mqtt documentation
• ntfy.sh — Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
• Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker
• Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking
• ESPresense
• mkellyxp/nixbook: LICENSE? - Issue #55
• Choosing a License - Find the Perfect Open Source License for Your Project
• License Selector - OpenLicr
• LicenseHub - Open Source License Tools Platform
• Open Source Licenses Explained: A Comparison
• GitHub - ErikMcClure/bad-licenses — A compendium of absurd "open-source" licenses.
• Podverse Alpha
• Podcasting 2.0 Episode 246: Crap Trap — Adam & Dave are joined by Mitch and Archie of Podverse fame
• Pick: MQTT — Your All-in-one MQTT Client Toolbox
• MQTTX GitHub
• MQTT X on Flathub
• Pick: mqtt5-explorer — MQTT5 Explorer is a simple yet feature-rich client to visualize data of any MQTT broker.
• MQTT5 Explorer on Flathub
• Pick: Unify — Unify is a web app aggregator built with Qt 6, Qt WebEngine, and Kirigami
• Unify on Flathub
• Pick: web-app-hub — A Web App Manager, written in rust with GTK and beautiful Adwaita.
• Web App Hub on Flathub
• Pick: Home-manager Webapps — Home-manager configuration file to get webapps in the system menu on a NixOS system

Special Guest: Kent Overstreet.

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• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
• CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED. Promo Code: UNPLUGGED
• Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Form
• LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Old Fart Form (markdown)
• bcachefs 1.33.0
• Bcachefs Ready With Its Reconcile Feature As Biggest Change In Two Years — "Biggest new feature in the past ~2 years, I believe. The user facing stuff may be short and sweet - but so much going on under the hood to make all this smooth and polished."
• Kent Overstreet - Patreon
• bcachefs — A copy-on-write (COW) file system for Linux first announced by Kent Overstreet in 2015. It is intended to compete with the modern features of ZFS or Btrfs.
• LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later — Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.
• Git or not a Git man page?
• proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS
• Pick: Dotfiles Installer — Install dotfiles easy, fast and secure. Or provide an installation application for your dotfiles.
• ML4W Dotfiles Installer Wiki
• dotfiles-installer: GitHub
• Pick: SSH-Studio — Easy, GUI SSH config editor and validator built with Python, GTK 4 and libadwaita.
• LubeLogger, Vehicle Maintenance and Fuel Mileage Tracker, slips into December with some banging new features