Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 256 in total of LINUX Unplugged with the tag “linux unplugged”.
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643: The Sunday Soapbox
November 30th, 2025 | 1 hr 31 mins
android, android aosp, aosp, backdoors, bcachefs, boosties, bootleg, chat control, cve, dawarich, dkms, encrypted communication, encryption, encryption backdoor, encryption backdoors, europe, family features, fossil, france, game emulator, git, google pixel, gopher64, grapheneos, grapheneos phone, home manager, homelab, jellyfin, jellyswarrm, jupiter broadcasting, jupiter party membership, kernel performance, kernel smb, ksmbd, kubernetes, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux unplugged, livetv, location sharing, location tracking, motorolla, n64 emulator, ngrok, open source, open source privacy, ovh, pangolin, pavel durov, pinchflat, pixel phones, plex, privacy, project hummingbird, proxy, red hat, remote access, remote media server, reverse proxy, rust for linux, sponsorblock, talosos, telegram, the great holiday homelab, tunneled reverse proxy, vpn, vps, youtarr, youtube, 🦒
We pull on a few loose threads from recent episodes, and some of them unravel into way more than we expected.
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642: Tunneling Home for the Holidays
November 23rd, 2025 | 56 mins 16 secs
api gateway, cloudflare, declarative configuration, declarative-jellyfin, dns, emby, embytolocalplayer, ephemeral tunnel, git, great holiday homelab, home assistant, home automation, ingress-as-a-service, jellyfin, jellyhub, jellyman, jellyroller, jellyswarrm, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, media playback dashboard, ngrok, nixos, old fart, open source, pew!, plex, proxmox-nixos, proxy, python, remote access, remote media server, reverse proxy, rust, secret port boost, subgen, subtitles, syncthing, systemd, vpn, vps, watchstate, whisper
Chris cooks up a remote-access trick for Jellyfin that skips VPNs entirely. One simple toggle: absurd, yet shockingly effective.
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641: Something New, Something Old
November 16th, 2025 | 1 hr 10 mins
1l pc, bcachefs, fex, gabe newell, homelab, jupiter broadcasting, kauf smart plug plf10, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nixos, ohio linux fest, olf conference, open source, opengl, proton, steam, steam controller, steam deck, steam frame, steam machine, steamos, thinkcentre m920q, valve, ventoy, vr headset, vulkan, zen kernel
We dig into the biggest Linux hardware news of the year, then fire up our new-to-us 1L PC server.
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640: Duece Configalo: Desktop Gigolo
November 9th, 2025 | 1 hr 40 mins
ansible deploys, automated updates, backup strategy, build farms, channel pinning, config confessions, declarative setups, docker compose, dotfiles organization, encrypted secrets, feature flags, flake usage, fleet management, guix configs, home servers, hyprland setup, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, macos nix, network services, nix darwin, nixos configs, open source, package overlays, remote updates, rollback strategies, router configs, secrets management, self hosting, stable unstable, system monitoring, systemd boot, wayland tools
We dive into your configs, the genius moves, the glorious blunders, and everything in between.
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639: The Mess Machine
November 2nd, 2025 | 1 hr 1 min
agentic ai, ai, altitude boost, call for paper, cheat.sh, config confessions, cursor, devops by prompt, distro maintainer, don't fear the flake, duf, hyprland, hyprvibe, jupiter broadcasting, kitty, lfnw, lightspeed, linux podcast, linux system administration, linux unplugged, llm, nixbook, nixos, open source, opensuse, promptops, red hat, rip chrisf, roast my nix, scale, seagl, stable diffusion, suse, suse linux enterprise, virtual assistants
After all the AI hype is over, one change for Linux will be sticking around; we put it to the test.
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638: The Distro Everyone Should Copy
October 26th, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
/boot, anaconda, atomic distro, btrfs, coreos, cosmic desktop, discover, fedora, fedora 43, fedora cosmic, fedora kinoite, fedora spins, fedora wallpaper, fedora workstation, flatpak, gnome, jupiter broadcasting, kde, kinoite, lemurs, linux podcast, linux unplugged, millisecond, open source, plasma 6.5, podman, rdp, rpm-ostree, slitherer, systemd-resolved, wayland, x11
Fedora 43 arrives with polish, new spins, and a smarter installer; and one decision the rest of the Linux world should pay attention to.
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637: Chris’ Smart Home Disaster
October 19th, 2025 | 58 mins 25 secs
device conflict, firmware update, future planning, hardware debugging, home assistant, home automation, integration risks, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, low power, open source, protocol migration, serial conflict, smart home, software recovery, storage limits, system failure, x86 build, yellow radio adapter, zigbee issue, zwave adoption
The biggest failure in seven years, right before a trip. What broke, how Chris pulled it back together, and how Wes would fix it right.
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636: Engineering the Future
October 12th, 2025 | 1 hr 27 mins
alby hub, arch linux, benchmarking, canonical, carl richell, cosmic, desktop environment, dracut, flatpak, gasp, gnome, go, google’s android source project, home assistant, hyperfine, hyprland, initramfs-tools, jeremy soller, jon seager, jupiter broadcasting, kde plasma, kernel development, linux podcast, linux unplugged, meshtastic, ncspot, ncurses, nixos, omarchy, open source, open source engineering, performance optimizer observation platform, phoronix, phoronix test suite, poop, road-trip stories, rust, snap, spotify tui, sudo-rs, system76, techdev, texas linux fest, texas tracker, texsats, tpm, txlf, ubuntu, ubuntu 25.10, ubuntu 25.10 questing quokka, ubuntu engineering, ubuntu for developers, ubuntu lts, ubuntu server, uutils coreutils, wayland
We're back from Texas just in time to chat with Jon Seager, Canonical’s VP of Engineering, and their new era with Ubuntu 25.10. On the way, we visit System76 in Denver where the COSMIC team has surprises waiting for us.
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635: The Texas Linux Fest Special
October 5th, 2025 | 1 hr 30 mins
buc-ees boost, chainguard, config confessions, dawarich, dustin kirkland, fake boost, fake sats, isd, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, live tracker, meetup, meshsidecar, moose ftw, moose vs bogfoot, open source, race, race to texas, systemd, texas linux fest, texas tracker, txlf
Our cross-continent race to Texas Linux Fest culminates into fantastic meat, meetups, and more.
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634: Config Confessions
September 28th, 2025 | 1 hr 30 mins
bitchat, config reviews, custom installers, dawarich api, firewire audio, flake structure, geohash chat, gps tools, hyprland setup, impermanence setup, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, live map, location tracking, lxc deployment, nix, nix config, nix modules, nixos, nixos configs, open source, proxmox setup, secret management, self-hosted apps, self-hosted services, team travel, texas linux fest, txlf
From finely tuned to total config carnage. We review listener homelabs to share what works, and what really doesn’t.