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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
• This Week In Bitcoin 97 | Jupiter Broadcasting
• Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security
• Streamlining secure boot for 26.10 - Ubuntu Community Hub
• Mitigating BootHole – CVE-2020-10713 and related vulnerabilities | Ubuntu
• There's a Hole in the Boot - Eclypsium
• Final Release · ErsatzTV — It is time for me to announce the final release of ErsatzTV in its current form. The existing repositories will be archived following this update.
• ErsatzTV/next
• Tunarr · GitHub — Create a classic TV experience using your own media — IPTV backed by Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, or NFO.
• Threadfin
• xTeVe
• Filler - Tunarr — Filler lists are collections of content used by Flex to pad time between episodes. One reason to use filler is to simulate traditional television by playing advertisements between episode airings.
• Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr (pronounced like "dispatcher") is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams, EPG data, and VOD content with elegance and control.
• awesome-iptv — A curated list of resources related to IPTV
• Tunarr API Reference
• LINUX Unplugged 645 — We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex.
• turnstonelabs/turnstone — Experimental multi-node AI orchestration platform. Deploy tool-using AI agents across a cluster of servers, driven by message queues or interactive interfaces.
• Open-Source "GreenBoost" Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMs
• GeneBean's Cage Kiosk
• GeneBean's Pi Arm Build Setup
• Planify - Task Manager for GNU/Linux
• alainm23/planify: Task manager with Todoist, Nextcloud & CalDAV support designed for GNOME
• Pick: bore — bore is a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost
• nixos-bore-module — Self-hosted bore tunnel server for NixOS
• Pick: kdeconnect-sms-tui — Terminal UI for sending and receiving SMS/MMS via KDE Connect.
• Pick: Busybridge — Complex calendar free/busy syncing across organizations for consultants who work inside multiple orgs.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
• PabloVitasso/esphome-chinbasto — A custom ESPHome component for controlling Chinese Webasto heaters using ESP32. This project adds on/off control via soldering, as the serial communication is currently read-only. It is based on the work of timmchugh11 and builds on the reverse engineering efforts of Ray Jones.
• Hacking the Chinese Diesel Heater Communications Protocol.pdf - Ray Jones - GitLab
• timmchugh11/Chinese-Diesel-Heater---ESPHome
• OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent
• anomalyco/opencode: The open source coding agent.
• Hunter Alpha - API Pricing & Providers | OpenRouter
• ESPHome - Smart Home Made Simple
• Home Assistant
• ESP32 Wi-Fi & Bluetooth SoC | Espressif Systems
• nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware: Lua based interactive firmware for ESP8266, ESP8285 and ESP32
• NodeMCU-32S Development Board Details, Pinout, Specs
• Amazon.com: ESP-32S USB-C Development Board + ESP32 Terminal Board
• agent-browser-protocol — Deterministic browser automation. Works out of the box with Claude/Codex/OpenCode
• camofox-browser — Headless browser automation server for AI agents to visit sites that are usually blocked
• chrome-devtools-mcp — Chrome DevTools for coding agents
• firefox-devtools-mcp — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox DevTools
• LittleFOX-MCP — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox
• Chrome DevTools MCP Debug — Let your Coding Agent debug your browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP
• Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 1 | Jupiter EXTRAS 40 | Jupiter Broadcasting
• Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2 | Jupiter EXTRAS 41 | Jupiter Broadcasting
• Pick: LosslessCut — Simple and ultra fast cross platform tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video and audio files. Great for saving space by rough cutting your large video files taken from a video camera, GoPro, drone, etc. It lets you quickly extract the good parts from your videos and discard many gigabytes of data without doing a slow re-encode and thereby losing quality.
• LosslessCut on GitHub
• LosslessCut on Flathub
• Pick: CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?
• Pick: llmfit — Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware.

Special Guest: Michael Tunnell.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
• Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals
• SCaLE 23x | Registration
• LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for Speakers
• Michael Tunnell - YouTube
• TuxDigital
• LINUX Unplugged 596: Perilously Pontificated Predictions
• Phison CEO: SSD "Pricing Apocalypse" to Continue Through 2027
• HDD Prices Spike as AI Infrastructure and China’s PC Push Collide
• 2025 Cloud Pricing Trends: Big Three Shake Up Storage Costs
• Storage Apocalypse: Why SSDs and HDDs Are Becoming Impossibly Expensive
• Jensen Huang Flagged Data Storage as the Next AI Bottleneck
• Manufacturer Recertified Drives - ServerPartDeals.com
• Hard Disk Prices (US)
• Storage Price Tracker
• RackRat - eBay Rackmount Server Deal Finder
• r/HomelabSales$£€ - Reddit
• Smart Buy 10 Pack Bd-r Dl 50gb 6X Blu-ray Double Layer Recordable Disc
• BlueVault — A top-quality TUI app to manage Blu-ray cold storage archives on Linux.
• Pick: Kopia — Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.
• Kopia Repository Server
• Pick: PowerISO — Create, Burn, Mount, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual Drive
• PowerISO on Flathub
• Pick: CDEmu — CDemu is a software suite designed to emulate an optical drive and disc on the Linux operating system.
• Tellico — Collection management software, free and simple.

Special Guest: Drew DeVore.

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• Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for Speakers
• The Launch 🚀: Nature Chose Violence
• PewDiePie - I installed Linux (so should you)
• James Lee - How I Broke up with Adobe
• Linux surpasses 5% market share on US desktops for the first time
• It is finally the year of Linux on the Desktop: free OS reaches 5% market share
• Introducing the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant
• ADHD is Awesome: A Guide To (Mostly) Thriving With ADHD: Holderness, Penn, Holderness, Kim, Edward Hallowell: 9781400338610
• Pick: eilmeldung TUI RSS Reader — A terminal-based RSS reader built on the news-flash backend.
• Pick: Zbridge — zBridge is an online bridge club where you can learn and play bridge. It is a full bridge platform with multiple features.
• Zbridge flatpak source
• Pick: Cavalier — Visualize audio with CAVA

Special Guest: Carl Richell.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2025 Day 1
• LFNW2025 - LinuxFest Norhtwest Homepage — 25 Years of Community Excellence.
• See how far COSMIC has come this year by Carl Richell - LinuxFest Northwest 2025
• COSMIC Desktop
• COSMIC Alpha 7 — ISO excited for the latest COSMIC alpha release! We’ve been busy clearing up scores of bugs while soldering together the features that we absolutely must include before the Big Betahemoth descends upon the Earth. Let COSMIC Alpha 7 commence!
• pop-os/cosmic-epoch: Next generation Cosmic desktop environment
• COSMIC Desktop Alpha 7 Brings More New Features
• The best-looking Linux desktop I've seen so far in 2025 — The creators of one of the coolest Linux distros just released a new version - and it puts the old one to shame.
• Blind Penguin - Software Development with José Ibañez
• Accessibility Talk: Blind Penguin at LFNW 2025
• Beyond ARIA Labels: What a Blind Film Enthusiast Can Teach Us About Open Source
• Trimui Smart Pro 128G Handheld Game Console with Pre Loaded Games
• Sausage — sausage is a terminal word forming game, written in Bash.
• James Sundquist's Linux Prepper Podcast

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is.
• GNOME 48 Release Notes
• Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin)
• The newest Ubuntu version ushers in ARM64 support for early adopters
• Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop
• Retro Game Corps on YouTube
• Pick: Ignition: Manage your startup apps and scripts on Freedesktop Linux distros — Ignition is a minimal app for editing autostart entries on Freedesktop-compliant Linux distributions.
• Ignition on Flathub
• Pick: RecordApps — A desktop application that allows you to record audio from specific applications on Linux. Built with Deno, Svelte, and WebView.
• Record Apps on Flathub

Special Guest: Producer Jeff.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2025 Schedule
• POLL: Would You Tune Into a Saturday LFNW Live Stream?
• LINUX Unplugged LIVE@LFNW Sunday — Sunday 10:00 AM · 1h · HC 108
• Linux-Powered Payments: Running a Lightning Node with nix-bitcoin — Sunday 1:30 PM · 45 min · HC 204
• Lutris - Open Gaming Platform for Linux — video game preservation platform aiming to keep your video game collection up and running for the years to come.
• GitHub - ValveSoftware/Proton: Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
• R36MAX Retro Handheld Game Console with 64G Built-in 18000+ Classic Games — The R36Max is a budget device that puts the common RK3326 chip into a vertical handheld. It has the same specs as the R36Pro, but with a larger, 1:1 screen.
• R36 Max Handheld Game Console with 4" Screen Linux System
• Kooha: Elegantly record your screen — Kooha is a simple screen recorder with a minimal interface. You can simply click the record button without having to configure a bunch of settings.
• vtt-summarizer: Summarize .vtt files into meeting notes — It uses open source LLMs to handle the data extraction and summarization, ensuring everything can be run locally and without the need to share with third parties.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• NixOS is interesting, but has fatal flaws
• LUP 600 meetups!
• Planet Nix — March 6-7, Before and Alongside SCaLE
• SCALE 22x — March 6-9, 2025 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA.
• LFNW2025 - "25 Years of Community Excellence" — April 25 - 27, 2025
• Nix - Death by a thousand cuts — TLDR: In its current state (2025), I don't generally recommend desktop use of Nix(OS), even for seasoned Linux users.
• Rich Hickey: Simple Made Easy — Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path.
• Simple Made Easy Transcript
• Ansible is a Lisp
• Should I use NixOS? Short answer: no. — If words like "declarative", "generational", and "immutable" don't put your sexuality in jeopardy, you're considering NixOS for the wrong reasons.
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• OliveTin/OliveTin: OliveTin gives safe and simple access to predefined shell commands from a web interface.
• Pick: isd — Simplify systemd management with isd! isd is a TUI offering fuzzy search for units, auto-refreshing previews, smart sudo handling, and a fully customizeable interface for power-users and newcomers alike.
• Pick: planify — Task manager with Todoist & Nextcloud support designed for GNOME
• Pick: Super Productivity — A to do list to get your head free
• Super Productivity on Flathub
• Super Productivity GitHub — Keep organized and focused!
• LUP 553: Portably Predictable Productivity

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2025: Call for Speakers — Call closes at 11:59 PM PST on 2025-01-10. Conference is 2025-04-25 through 2025-04-27.
• Qobuz — Buy your favourite albums in CD or Hi-Res quality and enjoy them forever.
• Los Machucambos In Phase 4, Los Machucambos - Qobuz
• Los Machucambos – In Phase 4 – Vinyl (LP, Album, Stereo), 1961 [r5061780] | Discogs
• Los Machucambos - Wikipedia
• cdrdao: cdrdao is a free and open source utility software application for authoring and ripping of audio and data CD-ROMs
• cdrdao-pled: Portable Linux x86_64 pre-built download of the open source CD burning/ripping utility cdrdao that works on all modern Linux distros.
• freac.org: fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders
• k3b: Full-featured CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning and ripping application
• CD writing using cdrecord
• xfburn
• jlesage/docker-xfburn: Docker container for Xfburn
• OpenWrt One
• OpenWrt One Introduction
• Banana Pi OpenWrt One
• Banana Pi OpenWrt One PCBA Router Board
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• mjvc's 2014 nix config
• incus gpu docs
• veyman's immich-frame config
• GitHub - LACT: Linux GPU Configuration Tool
• exislow/tidal-dl-ng: Multithreaded TIDAL Media Downloader Next Generation! Up to HiRes Lossless / TIDAL MAX 24-bit, 192 kHz.
• ebb-earl-co/tidal-wave: Waving at the TIDAL music service
• DXX-Rebirth — DXX-Rebirth is a modern port of the Descent game engine, based on the late D1X and D2X source ports (which, in turn, were based on the original Descent source release and LDescent). The Rebirth Team has spent a lot of time working to improve the source code by fixing old bugs and adding some improvements, while always staying true to our philosophy: Keep it Descent!
• Descent on GOG.COM
• dxx-rebirth on GitHub

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Berlin with Brent — May Meetup, Sat, May 11, 2024, 6:30 PM CEST
• Linuxfest Northwest 2024 Videos
• Tiny File Manager — Web based File Manager in PHP, Manage your files efficiently and easily with Tiny File Manager and it is a simple, fast and small file manager with a single file.
• Tiny File Manager Password Options
• Tiny File Manager Project Demo
• noblepayne/tinyfilemanager-flake — nix run github:noblepayne/tinyfilemanager-flake
• Big list of http static server one-liners — python -m http.server 8000
• awesome-webservers: ⚙️ — Collection of one-liner static servers.
• static-web-server — A cross-platform, high-performance and asynchronous web server for static files-serving. ⚡
• The smallest Docker image to serve static websites
• Self-Hosted 122: Back to the Future — How Chris created live TV streaming from his local media collection, Alex breaks down the new Open Home Foundation and what it means for self-hosters. Brent's been trying out an open-source AirDrop replacement for all systems, and much more!
• LocalSend — An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop.
• 🌷 Spring Membership Discount 🌱 — Promo code: MAY
• SouthEast LinuxFest — June 7-9, 2024 in Charlotte, NC.
• Boost LINUX Unplugged on Fountain’s Website
• Pick: audioserve — Simple personal server to serve audiofiles files from folders. Intended primarily for audio books, but anything with decent folder structure will do.
• Neofetch is Dead! Here are 7 Alternatives for Your Linux System

We load Linux on three barely alive systems, and it takes a turn we didn't expect.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
• Linux 6.7 Set For Release With Bcachefs File-System, Intel Meteor Lake Graphics In Good Shape - Phoronix
• 32-Bit Challenge Details
• HP Mini 110-4100CA Netbook
• Intel Atom Processor N2600 Specifications
• Crunchbangplusplus — Debian Based Minimal Linux Distro
• CBPP/cbpp: #!++ - GitHub
• FreeBSD Handbook | Chapter 5. The X Window System
• Guide to FreeBSD Desktop Distributions – FreeBSD Foundation
• MidnightBSD — MidnightBSD is a BSD-derived operating system developed with desktop users in mind. It includes all the software you'd expect for your daily tasks — email, web browsing, word processing, gaming, and much more.
• MidnightBSD - Linux® Binary Compatibility
• GhostBSD | A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System
• Intel T2300
• Announcing - First NixCon North America! — Date: March 14th and 15th
• Southern California Linux Expo 19
• LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Call for Speakers @ Sessionize.com — We invite you to submit your proposal to speak at LFNW2024!
• LMDE — LMDE is a Linux Mint project which stands for "Linux Mint Debian Edition". Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint can continue to deliver the same user experience if Ubuntu was ever to disappear. It allows us to assess how much we depend on Ubuntu and how much work would be involved in such an event. LMDE is also one of our development targets, as such it guarantees the software we develop is compatible outside of Ubuntu.
• nohang: A sophisticated low memory handler for Linux — nohang is earlyoom on steroids and has many useful features
• zram — Pages written to these disks are compressed and stored in memory itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression provides good amounts of memory savings.
• PSI — This helps users understand the resource pressure their workloads are under, which allows them to rootcause and fix throughput and latency problems caused by overcommitting, underprovisioning, suboptimal job placement in a grid, as well as anticipate major disruptions like OOM.
• pressure stall information
• nohang-desktop.conf
• nheko: Desktop client for Matrix using Qt and C++20. — The motivation behind the project is to provide a native desktop app for Matrix that feels more like a mainstream chat app (Element, Telegram etc) and less like an IRC client.
• PROMO 2024 - $3 off a month forever
• Is a 32 bit machine still usable in 2024? — Luckily, someone had JUST donated this perfectly working Dell Latitude D820, running Windows XP. They were in college actually trying to use this for their school work, but couldn’t even access many of the websites they needed because it was so out of date. I gave her a much newer 64 bit machine in trade.
• How I Automated All the Things - Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Fritzing - Everlanders Automate the World!
• PICK: Linux Terminal Tools - Terminal Trove — Terminal Trove curates and showcases all things in the terminal such as command line interface tools (CLI), text mode interface tools (TUI), developer tools and more no matter what platform or medium.
• SliTaz GNU/Linux (en) — SliTaz is a secure and high performance operating system using the Linux Kernel and GNU software.
• tulir/gomuks — A terminal based Matrix client written in Go.
• The Mutt E-Mail Client
• Links home page — Links is text WWW browser with tables and frames. It runs on Linux, Unix, OS/2 and Windows.

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• 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
• ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
• Brent in Berlin Meetup — Brent is back in Berlin and we're having a LOW KEY meetup at the NixOS night at cbase.
• One Time Fiat Fun for SCaLE 2024
• Southern California Linux Expo 19
• Purchase a SCALE Pass 63
• First NixCon North America!
• NixCon North America | SCALE 21x
• NixCon North America Call for Proposals
• Texas Linux Fest 2024
• LFNW 2024: Ready or not
• LFNW 2024: Call for Sessions
• Jupiter Broadcasting Live Calendar
• 2023 Unplugged Tuxies
• Ollama — Get up and running with Llama 2 and other large language models locally.
• OllamaHub — Explore and Download Custom Ollama Modelfiles.
• ollama library
• Ollama Manual Install
• Ollama Docker Image
• ollama-webui
• LlamaGPT
• llama-gpt — A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot. Powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device. New: Code Llama support!
• Continue.dev — An open-source autopilot in your IDE
• Refact.ai — Refact is an open-source AI coding assistant with blazing-fast code completion, powerful code improvement tools, and chat.
• 32-Bit Challenge Chat room
• Speech Note — Speech Note let you take, read and translate notes in multiple languages. It uses Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine Translation to do so. Text and voice processing take place entirely offline, locally on your computer, without using a network connection. Your privacy is always respected. No data is sent to the Internet.
• Speech Note on GitHub
• LFNW: Call for Sponsors
• Framework 13 (Intel) NixOS Module
• GeneBean's hyprland nix config
• Razer Core X - Thunderbolt™ 3 eGPU
• CompleteNoobs: Ubuntu KVM to Windows 10 - Thinkpad T470 - Razer Core X - GTX 970 -
• LINUX Unplugged 308: The One About GPU Passthrough — Our crew walks you through their PCI Passthrough setups that let them run Windows, macOS, and distro-hop all from one Linux machine.
• Pick: Marker — Convert PDF to markdown quickly with high accuracy

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• 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
• ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
• Unplugged Tuxies - 2023 — It's time to vote on the 2023 Unplugged Tuxies!
• ⚠️ Tuxies 2023: Did we miss something? Let us know!
• Fedora 39 Delayed To At Least 7 November — While Fedora 39 was aiming for an ideal "early final" release on 18 October, that didn't happen, it was delayed, and then delayed again. Now the earliest Fedora 39 will possibly shift is 7 November.
• Bug: F39 RC1.2 images have sometimes “RC” in their name
• Bug: Failed media check immediately disappears on bare metal, shows a black screen instead
• F39 Final Go/No-Go meeting
• Linux Mint Starts working on Wayland Support — The work started on Wayland. As mentioned earlier this year, this was identified as one of the major challenges our project had to tackle in the mid to long term.
• Cinnamon Wayland Trello
• Linux Mint Starts Working On Wayland For Cinnamon, Likely Not Fully Ready Until 2026
• Six Great Features With The Upcoming Linux 6.6 Kernel — While there were many last minute fixes this week, the changes don't appear to be too scary or invasive. In any event the Linux 6.6 kernel is bringing some exciting features.
• Linux 6.6 Features Include The EEVDF Scheduler, Shadow Stack, Intel IVSC, AMD DBC & More
• Btrfs For Linux 6.6 Brings Fixes, Partially Recovers From Scrub Performance Regression — David Sterba of SUSE sent out the Btrfs updates on Monday for the Linux 6.6 kernel merge window. There are no explicit new features this cycle but a variety of bug fixes, including work to address the Btrfs scrub performance following a rework back in Linux 6.4. The scrub performance isn't entirely restored but at least it's inching ahead in the right direction with Linux 6.6.
• EXT4 Lands A Nice Performance Improvement For Appending To Delalloc Files — I conducted tests in my 32-core environment by launching 32 concurrent threads to append write to the same file. Each write operation had a length of 1024 bytes and was repeated 100000 times. Without using this patch, the test was completed in 7705 ms. However, with this patch, the test was completed in 5066 ms, resulting in a performance improvement of 34%.
• XFS File-System Maintainer Stepping Down — My final act as maintainer is to write down every thing that I've been doing as maintainer for the past six years. There are too many demands placed on the maintainer, and the only way to fix this is to delegate the responsibilities. I also wrote down my impressions of the unwritten rules about how to contribute to XFS.
• XFS Begins Landing Online Repair, New Release Manager Takes Over — We now have in-memory pageable memory for staging btrees, a bunch of pending fixes, and we've started the process of refactoring the scrub support code to support more of repair.
• SELinux In Linux 6.6 Removes References To Its Origins At The US NSA — We've come a long way from the original NSA submission and I would consider SELinux a true community project at this point so removing the NSA branding just makes sense.
• Linux 6.6 To Bring Another Rust Toolchain Upgrade — Some of the other Rust changes for this imminent merge window include supporting the rust-analyzer for out-of-tree kernel modules, the Rust availability detection script has been improved, a new "paste!" proc macro, new pinned-init APIs, and a variety of other additions to continue to make Rust programming possibilities for the Linux kernel more robust.
• [SOLVED] - LXC Nvidia Passthrough | Proxmox Support Forum
• Contribute to Podverse
• Soltros' Nix Config
• SilverBullet — SilverBullet is an extensible open-source, personal knowledge management system. Indeed, that’s fancy talk for “a note-taking app with links.” However, SilverBullet goes a bit beyond just that.
• Nixpkgs supply chain security project — The focus of this project is on reducing our reliance on foreign binaries to compile Nixpkgs from scratch, ensuring we are are indeed running the code we compiled by leveraging existing security components in NixOS, and putting in place mechanisms that allow us to deliver the most up-to-date, secure software whenever it is available in a way that can be sustained given our maintainer capacities.
• Pick: kmon — Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor 🐧💻
• kmon in nixpkgs
• LinuxFest Northwest Youtube
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Minifest: What’s New in Nextcloud?
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Minifest Videos
• docker-wyze-bridge — WebRTC/RTSP/RTMP/LL-HLS bridge for Wyze cams in a docker container.
• wz_mini_hacks — Run whatever firmware you want on your camera and have root access to the device.
• Bitcoin Beach — The project Bitcoin Beach is creating a sustainable Bitcoin Economic ecosystem on the coast of El Salvador, where the majority of people do not have access to bank accounts and the local businesses could never qualify for merchant accounts needed to accept credit cards.

Special Guest: Frank Karlitschek.

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• LinuxFest Northwest
• Scuba.Tech
• Call for Feedback: Unplugged Tuxies - 2022 - Forms — You have one week! Let's make this the best Tuxies EVER!
• Texas Linux Festival 2024 Call For Papers Open Now
• Stones Throw Brewery
• 1-Up Lounge Video Game Bar & Lounge
• Brandywine Kitchen
• BitMaker-hub/NerdMiner_v2: Improved version of first ESP32 NerdMiner — The main aim of this project is to let you learn more about minery and to have a beautiful piece of hardware in your desktop.
• IPFS Podcasting — Decentralized Podcast Distribution over IPFS - Crowd hosting podcast episodes with storage & bandwidth provided by volunteer nodes.
• AI in Nextcloud: what, why and how - Nextcloud — To fit everyone’s needs, we offer several types of integrations for AI, from completely self-hosted options to integrations with external services.
• How to debloat Windows 11 from junk apps (best method) — Debloat Windows 11 and (partially) retake control of your computer with a third-party tool from GitHub.
• ninite.com — No toolbars. No clicking next. Just pick your apps and go.
• Beepy by SQFMI
• Orchestra plays Microsoft Windows™ - the waltz
• Find the Dragon
• Moonlight PC v5.0.0
• Vectorpea - Online Vector Editor — Vectorpea.com is a free online tool for editing vector graphics with support for AI, PDF and SVG files.

Special Guest: Noah Chelliah.

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• Ask Noah Show 354 — Google makes the news this week in one of the largest cases in history over meaningful competition. Do we need the regulation to stop Google? Ubuntu will start allowing you to use a TPM chip for encryption, plus your livestreaming, ZFS, and VPN questions are answered!
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Postponed
• LinuxFest Northwest Meetups
• Hub 6: Healthy meeting culture and the first local AI Assistant [YouTube]
• “Nextcloud Hub 6” launched🚀 — Nextcloud Hub 6 has evolved into a robust collaboration platform that empowers organizations and individuals to work seamlessly while ensuring data privacy.
• Element X — Element X isn’t just the fastest Matrix client ever - it’s up to 6000x faster than any other Matrix client.
• Element X preview is now on Android too!
• sliding-sync Proxy — An implementation of MSC3575.
• MSC3575: Sliding Sync (aka Sync v3) — This MSC outlines a replacement for the CS API endpoint `/sync`.
• Matrix Community Summit 2023 — Join us from Thu, 21st to Sat, 24th September 2023!
• Beeper — All your chats in one app. Yes, really.
• Atari VCS Base — Featuring AMD Raven Ridge 2 APU and AMD Ryzen processor GPU with 8GB DDR4 RAM (upgradable), and 32GB eMMC fixed internal storage.
• BeardedTek/linode-dyndns — Linode Dynamic DNS Updater
• Pick: yazi — ⚡️ Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.

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• Spokane Linux Love, Sat, Sep 16, 2023, 1:00 PM | Meetup — It's finally happening! Let's get together at Iron Goat Brewing.
• Best laptops for NixOS - Help - NixOS Discourse
• Mobile NixOS
• Devices List — Mobile NixOS
• Iron Goat Brewing
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Sponsorship Prospectus — LinuxFest Northwest 2023 will be held October 20-22, 2023 at Bellingham Technical College. The Fest is a free and open community event dedicated to provide and support educational activities related to Linux and Open Source Software.
• NixOS friendly hosters - NixOS Wiki
• Install and Configure NixOS on a Linode | Linode Docs
• Star-History — We know, you can't fully trust a project's GitHub stars alone. It is, however, a good way to determine if a tool is an adequate one and if it's likely to grow, if you use it correctly.
• disko — NixOS is a Linux distribution where everything is described as code, with one exception: during installation, the disk partitioning and formatting are manual steps. disko aims to correct this sad 🤡 omission.
• nixos-anywhere — You can then initiate an unattended installation with a single CLI command. Since nixos-anywhere can access the new machine using SSH, it's ideal for remote installations.
• Immutable infrastructure for mutable systems — I erase my systems at every boot.
• NixOS Series 4: "Stateless" Operating System — Here's the question: is it really necessary to store the contents of /etc on the disk drive? They're going to be regenerated on each reboot or config switch anyway.
• NixOS ❄: tmpfs as root — One fairly unique property of NixOS is the ability to boot with only /boot and /nix. Nothing else is actually required. This supports doing all sorts of weird things with your root file system.
• Nixos and Erasing My Darlings
• Impermanence - NixOS Wiki — Impermanence in NixOS is where your root directory gets wiped every reboot (such as by mounting a tmpfs to /). Such a setup is possible because NixOS only needs /boot and /nix in order to boot, all other system files are simply links to files in /nix. /boot and /nix still need to be stored on a hard drive or SSD.
• impermanence: Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]
• Example ZFS + tmpfs root configuration
• NixOS on Btrfs+tmpfs
• A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally — Ever since the closing of RFC 49, we've had the new CLI and Flakes marked as experimental, with no clear plan forward.
• project Stratis
• Backups - Perfect Media Server
• Podverse GitHub — Podverse has a bounty out for Android Auto.
• Jay Sam Bee in Philadelphia NixOS Bounty — Jay has a bounty for getting Wallabag on NixOS.
• Self-Hosted 102: NixOS is a bit Flakey
• completenoobs.com
• OpenStreetMap.org — OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
• OSMand.net
• OSM is an extensible editor for ​OpenStreetMap
• OSM is an extensible editor for ​OpenStreetMap
• Street­Complete — Help to improve the OpenStreetMap with StreetComplete!
• nixpkg.py

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• Why I left Rust
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Call for Speakers
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — GrapheneOS will be undergoing restructuring of the organization and development team. Daniel Micay has stepped down as lead developer and will be stepping down as a non-profit director. Features and security patches will continue to be delivered to users as rapidly as before.
• Daniel Micay on Twitter — It appears the wording above was unclear. I'm stepping down as a GrapheneOS Foundation director and as lead developer. I won't have any leadership role in the GrapheneOS project. It will take time/work to transfer my responsibilities to others, especially non-development roles.
• Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora
• Adopting Bitcoin 2023
• LUP on in the top 10 charts TWICE.
• Bitcoin Dad Pod
• Polaris — Polaris is a music streaming application, designed to let you enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device.
• Polaris Demo
• docker-polaris: Small docker of Polaris based on Alpine Linux
• Polaris on Google Play
• Polaris Android on F-Droid
• Polarios on App Store
• Lapce — Lapce is written in pure Rust with a UI in Druid (which is also written in Rust). It is designed with Rope Science from the Xi-Editor which makes for lightning-fast computation, and leverages OpenGL for rendering.
• Lapce on Flathub
• Lapce packaged in Nix
• Lapce Plugins
• flosse/text-editors-written-in-rust
• xi-editor: A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
• awesome-alternatives-in-rust: A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust
• awesome-rust: A curated list of Rust code and resources.
• BitFocus Companion — Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck to be a professional shotbox surface for a huge amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Pick: Please Run That — A Python socket app for letting a friend execute a command on your system without using a ssh server all, with a simple GUI It has active development and works OOTB.
• Pick: turtle — Turtle is a gtk4 + libadwaita frontend for pygit2 with nautilus plugin support. The project is currently in a very early development stage.
• Chris Interviewed on Mere Mortals — In Conversation #90, Chris and I discuss: what it's been like to have 25+ podcasts, the current nosedive in advertising, how value for value is creating a richer experience for podcasters, his mindset in analyzing technological ideas, the coming pain from the messed up financial system, why Bitcoin/AI won't be as impactful as the internet and traveling across the US in an RV.

Plus Wimpy shares his open source Drobo alternative, and our final Dropbox XFS hack.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Martin Wimpress, and Matthew Miller.

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• NASA runs KDE
• Are people forgetting what open source is? — There is a responsibility for the dev to make sure they vet what is being put into, but also a larger responsibility for large company's to vet dependency themselves, such as this package event-stream
• International Space Station switches from Windows to Linux — “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable.”
• LinuxFest Northwest 2019 — LinuxFest Northwest is an annual Open Source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group and the Information Technology department at Bellingham Technical College
• SnapRAID — SnapRAID is a backup program for disk arrays. It stores parity information of your data and it recovers from up to six disk failures.
• mergerfs — A featureful union filesystem.
• Fedora 31 Will Likely Be Cancelled Or Significantly Delayed — It's about trying to re-tool the distribution and restructure the way its developed to rely more upon automated testing, improving the release processes, and related infrastructure to make it more scalable and better for the longer-term.
• Fedora Mailing-Lists: Lifecycle objective - problems, solutions, and proposal
• Fedora Wiki: Objectives/Lifecycle/Problem statements
• Current 12-18 Month Community Objectives
• Fedora Council Charter
• Dropbox Filesystem Fix — Fix the filesystem detection in the Linux Dropbox client.