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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• FlakeHub.com: FlakeHub.com is the all-in-one platform for secure, compliant, and transformative Nix development. Bring Nix to work the way you always wanted with FlakeHub.com. Register for the private beta and get a secure, compliance-friendly Nix and all the support you need.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Introducing GNOME 46 — GNOME 46 is code-named “Kathmandu”, in recognition of the amazing work done by the organizers of GNOME.Asia 2023.
• S.O.D.A Machine (Shell On Demand Appliance) — A fusion of hardware, software, art, and hacking, all encapsulated in a project derived from recycled materials.
• LINUX Unplugged on Fountain
• Nostr Protocol Docs — Details on how the Nostr Protocol works and why.
• Hyprland — Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
• Hyprland Wayland Compositor Celebrates Two Years With A New Release
• hyprland 0.37.1 nixpkgs PR
• Hyprland Release v0.37.1 on GitHub
• Hyprland Release v0.37.0 on GitHub
• Installing NixOS with Hyprland! - by Josiah - Tech Prose — In this guide, we will install a minimal version of NixOS with the Wayland compositor Hyprland and Waybar.
• TUXEDO Sirius 16 - Gen1 — First all-AMD Linux gaming laptop with highly efficient Ryzen 7 7840HS and fast Radeon RX 7600M XT graphics.
• All AMD: TUXEDO Sirius 16 - Gen1 on YouTube
• Background information on the new keyboard lighting control - TUXEDO Computers
• Texas Linux Festival 2024 — April 12-13, 2024 in Austin, Texas.
• Scinary Cybersecurity — Your On-Demand Cybersecurity Firm.
• nixos-mailserver — A complete and Simple Nixos Mailserver.
• List of all NixOS Services
• jus10mar10's NixOS Config
• dockur/windows — Windows in a Docker container.
• Unplugged Core Membership
• Pick: ATLauncher — A launcher for Minecraft which integrates multiple different modpacks to allow you to download and install modpacks easily and quickly.
• Pick: Dissent — Unofficial GTK4 Discord client in Go, use at your own risk!

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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Warp Terminal: Warp - the re-imagined terminal now available for Linux with multiple distributions available including Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Arch Linux.
• FlakeHub.com: FlakeHub.com is the all-in-one platform for secure, compliant, and transformative Nix development. Bring Nix to work the way you always wanted with FlakeHub.com. Register for the private beta and get a secure, compliance-friendly Nix and all the support you need.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• First NixCon North America!
• Southern California Linux Expo 21
• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
• Yard House Menu
• Fountain.fm
• Google halts Gemini image generation to fix White balance — Google has suspended availability of text-to-image capabilities in its recently released Gemini multimodal foundational AI model, after it failed to accurately represent White Europeans and Americans in specific historical contexts.
• Stable Diffusion 3 — The Stable Diffusion 3 suite of models currently ranges from 800M to 8B parameters. This approach aims to align with our core values and democratize access, providing users with a variety of options for scalability and quality to best meet their creative needs.
• Deedy on X — Stable Diffusion 3 launched today and may be the best image gen alternative to Gemini! (with examples)
• AI doomsayers funded by billionaires ramp up lobbying
• Google goes “open AI” with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family — Developed by Google DeepMind and other Google AI teams, Gemma pulls from techniques learned during the development of Gemini, which is the family name for Google's most capable (public-facing) commercial LLMs, including the ones that power its Gemini AI assistant. Google says the name comes from the Latin gemma, which means "precious stone."
• ollama release v0.1.27 adds Gemma
• gemma.cpp — Lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Google's Gemma models.
• InvokeAI — InvokeAI is an implementation of Stable Diffusion, the open source text-to-image and image-to-image generator. It provides a streamlined process with various new features and options to aid the image generation process.
• Nixified AI — The goal of nixified.ai is to simplify and make available a large repository of AI executable code that would otherwise be impractical to run yourself, due to package management and complexity issues.
• NixOS-WSL
• Texas LinuxFest 2024
• TXLF Hotel Group Rate Link
• LFNW2024 - Ready or not… — April 26 - 28, 2024 • Bellingham Technical College
• LinuxFest Northwest 2024 Schedule Posted
• LINUX Unplugged Membership
• ryantm/agenix — age-encrypted secrets for NixOS and Home manager
• Mic92/sops-nix — Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops
• Pick: Hugging Face Daily Papers

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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

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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.
• CCCamp23 — Chaos Communication Camp 2023
• Framework — The time has come for consumer electronics products that are designed to last: products that give you back the power to upgrade, customize, and repair them. We’re excited for the opportunity to fix the consumer electronics industry together.
• Framework 13 — Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition (13th Gen Intel® Core™)
• Nextcloud Conference 2023
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Fundraising Merch is Live — Your fest is back! Support its return with a shirt and/or donation.
• I use NixOS for the same reason. Cleanliness is empowering.
• zap
• The Blog Index — TheGoldenDragon and I have hashed out some basic ideas about what Boost 4 Blogs should be and in a moment of glory I decided to mimic The Podcast Index by registering blogindex.org!
• Linus Torvalds Comments On Bcachefs Prospects For Linux 6.6 — That very much means *NOT* continuing this "I'll just do it my way". You need to show that you can work with others, that you can work within the framework of upstream, and that not every single thread you get into becomes an argument.
• Box64 — Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64 Linux devices.
• Podcasting 2.0 Top 100 (Music) — This chart is a ranking of the music tracks played on podcasts that have been boosted the most over the last 7 days. It is recalculated hourly. Thank you to Nathan Gathright for the page design. ❤
• Neo-Store — An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.
• Obtainium — Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 🎉 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.
• 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