LINUX Unplugged

660: Boots and Breakups

March 29th, 2026  |  57 mins 6 secs

/boot, 10-bit hevc tng, Bios, Btrfs, Jupiter Broadcasting, Plex, Raid, Star Trek, Ubuntu, age verification, ai orchestration, alby hub, ampere, bitcoin node, boothole, bootloader, bore, busybridge, cage kiosk, calendar, calendar sync, chromebooks, computer upcycle, dispatcharr, ersatztv, ersatztv next, ext4, ffmpeg, filesystems, greenboost, grub, hardware acceleration, hardware-accelerated transcoding, hevc, homelab, iptv, jellyin, kdeconnect, kdeconnect-sms-tui, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxfest northwest, luks, lvm, media center, minimal grub, miramichi nb, multi-node ai orchestration platform, nixbook, odroid, olympia mike, open source, openclaw, planify, quicksync, secure boot, self-hosted, shim, sms tui, systemd-boot, the computer upcycle project, this week in bitcoin, tng broke the machine, tpm, tunarr, turnstone, tv channels, twib, ubuntu 26.10, ubuntu installer, uefi, zfs

Ubuntu wants a leaner, stricter GRUB, and your favorite setup may not survive the cut. We break down what’s really changing, and the practical ways to adapt. Plus, Chris moves on from one of his favorite open source apps.

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.

524: How Our Server Got It's Groove Back

August 20th, 2023  |  1 hr 6 mins

Android Auto, Btrfs, Jupiter Broadcasting, Linode, WireGuard, backups, best laptops for nixos, bootload, disko, email privacy tip, github star history, grub, hedgedoc, homelab machine, iac, immutable infrastructure, impermanence, indestructible server, infrastructure as code, iron goat brewing, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxfest northwest, lvm, meetup, mesh vpn, mobile nixos, nix, nix flakes, nixos friendly hosters, nixos on vps, nixos server, nixos wiki, nixos-anywhere, podverse bounty, project cycle, rollback, security, snapshots, stratis, systemd, tmpfs, zfs

Can we build an indestructible server that stands up to the test of giving out root login to the Internet?

481: Just a Prompt Away

October 23rd, 2022  |  1 hr 25 mins

AI, Btrfs, Canonical, Gnome, Jupiter Broadcasting, artificial intelligence, aur, automatic1111, bcache, bcachefs, cacheing, compvis lmu, container-toolkit, copy-on-write, cow, cuda, deep generative neural network, docker, docker compose, dreamstudio, emad mostaque, gtk4, intel arc, interim release, iwd, kinetic kudu, latent diffusion, linux 5.19, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lmu munich, lure, lvm, machine learning, ml, nautilus, nvidia, open source, pipewire, runway, stability.ai, stable diffusion, storage, thelio, ubuntu 22.10, wifi, wpa_supplicant, zfs

The Internet is going crazy with AI-generated media. What's the open-source story, and is Linux being left out?

480: Taming the Beast

October 16th, 2022  |  1 hr 26 mins

Btrfs, Jupiter Broadcasting, System76, alma linux, amd ryzen 9, clear linux, codecs, dev one, discrete gpu, external gpu, fedora, geocache, gpl, graphics toolkits, gtk, h.264, h.265, iced, intel arc, linux 6.0, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxworld, lvm, mesa, nixos, north cascades, nvidia, ohio linux fest, open-source graphics, phoronix test suite, rtx 3060 ti, rust, software patents, thelio, unigene superposition, zfs

Linus Tech Tips blows it again, and we clean up. Plus, we push System76's updated Thelio Workstation to the breaking point.

358: Our Fragmented Favorite

June 16th, 2020  |  1 hr 13 mins

Btrfs, Falcon 9, Flatpak, Jupiter Broadcasting, Librem 5, Purism, a cloud guru, accesibility, apple, checksums, containers, copy on write, cow, crew dragon, data integrity, disk layout, disk partitioning, disk space, docker, ext4, facebook, fedora, fedora workstation, filesystem, gimp, github, linux podcast, lvm, macos, master, matt ahrens, media production, mobile, nvme, phone, phosh, pine64, pinephone, pinetab, pipewire, postmarketos, preempt, proprietary software, python, redis, rich bowen, ruby, snapshots, spacex, ssd, starlink, unplugged, welcoming nomenclature, windows, xfs, zfs

It's time to challenge some long-held assumptions.

Today's Btrfs is not yesterday's hot mess, but a modern battle-tested filesystem, and we'll prove it.

Plus our thoughts on GitHub dropping the term "master", and the changes Linux should make NOW to compete with commercial desktops.

356: Linux Hardware Love

June 2nd, 2020  |  1 hr 3 mins

10nm, 4k, Barton George, Btrfs, Dell, Gnome, Jupiter Broadcasting, Privacy, Project Sputnik, Ubuntu, Wine, a cloud guru, arm, battery life, developer edition, face id, fingerprint reader, gaming, gnome foundation, howdy, ice lake, infrared, intel, killer wifi, linux kernel 5.7, linux podcast, lvm, neil mcgovern, new xps, open source, pine64, pinebook pro, python, rockpro64, rothschild patent imaging, rpi, seccomp, snakeware, software patents, syscalls, thermal pressure, unplugged, wifi, windows, x11, xfs, xps, xps 13, zfs

From the low-end to the high-end we try out both ends of the Linux hardware spectrum. Wes reviews the latest XPS 13, and Chris shares his thoughts on the Pinebook Pro.