LINUX Unplugged

580: Brent’s Boogie Bus Broadcast Bash

September 15th, 2024  |  1 hr 11 mins

AMD, Encryption, Gnome, Jupiter Broadcasting, NextCloud, WireGuard, apple vision pro, autoflow, berlin, boost, cosmic, executive director, federation, file request, framework laptop, homeassistant, hub 9, intel, kde, linux 6.11, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mailvelope, membership discount, nix, opensats, supersonic, waycheck, windmill

The things we like in the new Nextcloud release, and we attempt to upgrade our production server live—from a big blue bus.

573: Universal Blue Man Group

July 28th, 2024  |  1 hr 19 mins

Flatpak, Gnome, Jupiter Broadcasting, anacaonda, aurora, bazzite, bcachefs, bitlocker, bluebuild, bluefin, bootc, brentley's gentoo fund, brew, clevis, cloud-native, container fatigue, containerfile, disk encryption, fedora atomic desktop, fedora coreos, floppy disk, garmin, gearlever, gentoo, glue balloons, immutable linux, jorge castro, kde, linux podcast, linux unplugged, luks, mooltipass, nixos, omakub, opensuse tumbleweed, ostree. fedora, plasma 6, ptyxis, rpm-ostree, silverblue, steam, ucore, universal blue, yast

Think Silverblue, but with cloud-native tooling used to build it. From Aurora to Bazzite, our impressions of the ambitious Universal Blue project.

569: Our Plasma Panacea

June 30th, 2024  |  1 hr 6 mins

Flatpak, Gnome, Jupiter Broadcasting, RDP, Wayland, crossover, freerdp, futo keyboard, gathio, grapheneos, headscale, house-to-house lasers, intel integrated graphics, kde, kde plasma, krdp, kwin, linux desktop, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mastadon, nixos, no-li brewhouse, nostr, not-michigan, openbsd, packagekit, plasma 6.1, plasma 6.1.1, shake-that-cursor, spokane meetup, tailscale, tlp, triple buffering, 🦒

Why we think Plasma 6.1 is the desktop for people who like to mess with computers.

564: The Goldilocks Build

May 26th, 2024  |  1 hr 5 mins

Jupiter Broadcasting, Ryzen, ThinkPad, Wayland, beelink, beelink amd ryzen 7 5700u, declarative pc, example nix config, fedora atomic, gridplayer, kate, kde, krunner, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mac studio, musnix, nh, nix, nix helper, nixcon, nixos, one simple rule, pinky's, plasma, polkit, reactionary, real-time audio, real-time kernel, realplayer, scipy, self meetup, strategy tax, systemd devuan challenge, ublue aurora, vscode, windows copilot, windows xp

We're following one simple rule to build a Linux desktop so stable it could outlive us.

552: Plasma's Perfect Play

March 3rd, 2024  |  1 hr 18 mins

Jupiter Broadcasting, Wayland, amd open-source drivers, antennapod, backups, bitcoin podcast, breeze theme, cissp certification, cpu controller, cpu-controller app, fingerprint unlock, floating panel, fountain, fountain radio, fuse passthrough, hdmi 2.1, hdr support, kde, keyboard ergonomics, kinesis freestyle pro keyboard, linux 6.9, linux podcast, linux unplugged, localgpt, lutris display configuration, nixcon, nixos unstable, nvk, overview effect, plasma 6, plasma search, qt 6, rsnapshot, ryzenadj, scale, single-click file open, sirius 16, split keyboard, starcoder2 local ai, touchpad gestures, trayscale, tuxedo computers, vertical mouse, vulkan 1.3

Plasma 6 is out, and we've been giving it a go. What's new, our thoughts, and the lessons other desktops should learn.

525: Beating Apple to the Sauce

August 27th, 2023  |  1 hr 12 mins

16k kernel, 16k pages, AI, Btrfs, Jupiter Broadcasting, Meta, RDP, alyssa rosenzweig, apple, apple silicon, arch arm, arm, arm64, asahi linux, battery life, 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, kde, kde connect, linux podcast, linux unplugged, llama 2, llama-gpt, llama.cpp, llm, luks, lvm, m1, m2, mac mini, macos, mattermost, ml, neal gompa, nixos, oneplus 6, open source ai, openai, opengl es 3.1, openstreetmap, opensuse tumbleweed, organic maps, plasma, 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.

508: The Worst Distro Ever

April 30th, 2023  |  52 mins 10 secs

Jupiter Broadcasting, Pop!_OS, apt, audiobookshelf, bash, bashrc, boston harbor, boston harbor marina, bullseye, containers, debian, dendron, determinate nix installer, determinate systems, digital estate planning, docker, fedora, finland, hugo, hugo extended build, jupiterbroadcasting.com, kde, linux podcast, linux spring meetup, linux unplugged, nala, nix, nix-shell, nixos, olympia meetup, package managers, pacstall, password manager, personal knowledge management, plasma, podgrab, postal-code boost, rss, sam hughes, self-hosting, spotify, spring meetup, static site, suicide linux, the sprinkler geeks, tumbleweed

Two listeners race to set up a web server on Suicide Linux. One slip-up and it's all gone. Who will survive?

507: Full Wobble

April 23rd, 2023  |  52 mins 1 sec

AMD, Btrfs, Flatpak, Jupiter Broadcasting, Wayland, arm, asahi linux, asahi-fedora-builder, backups, budgie, daily driver, digital estate planning, dnf5, document, dual booting, fedora, fedora 38, fedora workstation, flathub, gnome 44, gtk4, hardware acceleration, if i die, intel, kde, linux desktop, linux podcast, linux unplugged, logseq, m1 max mbp, music-player, obsidian, phosh, pipewire, plasma 5.27, reaper, right-to-repair, rust, sway, systemd, tiling window manager, video glitches

Why Fedora 38 might Sway you to try it; and how it runs on the MacBook M1 Max.

505: Keep Your Darn Secrets

April 9th, 2023  |  1 hr 13 mins

Gnome, Jupiter Broadcasting, Privacy, Productivity, Signal, Telegram, appimage, block editor, block reference, clojure, clojurescript, codex docs, datalog, decentralized, delete for everyone, device local, disappearing messages, double ratchet, e2ee, editor.js, electon, end-to-end-encrypted, evernote, flashcards, gping, graph, graph database, haskell, kde, kde connect, knowledge base, linux podcast, linux unplugged, logseq, markdown, message broker, note sync, notes, obsidian, open-source, org mode, outliner, pdf annotation, personal knowledge management, plasma, plugins, private chat, roam research, rust, security, simplex, simplex relay, simplexmq, smp, spaced repetition, task management, todo, todoist, tuxedo os, user identifiers, whiteboard, zettelkasten

We try out the most secure messaging app in the world, and Wes’ new note system that's so great you’ll want to abandon your current one.

504: It's a Trap!

April 2nd, 2023  |  1 hr 25 mins

Android Auto, Apple Watch, Carplay, Jupiter Broadcasting, NFC, NextCloud, Privacy, a-kenji, airplay, android, apple, apple tax, aurora store, berlin, berlin buds, berlin hackfest, c-base, chores, f-droid, gbyte, germany, gesture ui, gigatexel, giraffeneos, google pixel, grapheneos, icloud, immich, iodé, ios, kde, kde connect, libresign, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lock-in, matelight, media playback, nextcloud aio, nextcloud cookbook, nixos, pixel 7 pro, plasma, podman, security, sideloading, tailscale, value4value, 🦒

Why using the iPhone makes it harder to run Linux; Chris follows up on his four-month-long challenge to ditch iOS for GrapheneOS.

Plus, Brent's extended stay in Berlin has led to some developments you won't want to miss.