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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
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• Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature for Windows 11 could already be in legal hot water
• Apple GPT — What We Know About Apple's Work on Generative AI
• Chris' BeeLink — Beelink Ryzen 7 5700U Up to 4.3GHz 8C/16T
• RV BeeLink Nix configuration.nix
• Slack - NixOS Wiki
• Chris' Win 7 Inspired Look
• musnix — Real-time audio in NixOS
• Boost Pick: nh — NH reimplements some basic nix commands. Adding functionality on top of the existing solutions, like nixos-rebuild, home-manager cli or nix itself.
• Pick: gridplayer — Simple VLC-based media player that can play multiple videos at the same time. You can play as many videos as you like, the only limit is your hardware. It supports all video formats that VLC supports (which is all of them). You can save your playlist retaining information about the position, sound volume, loops, aspect ratio, etc.

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• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

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• nix-community/lanzaboote — Secure Boot for NixOS
• Eelco Dolstra’s PhD Thesis — The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model
• Docker and Nix (DockerCon 2023) [YouTube]
• Flox — Create development environments with all the dependencies you need and easily share them with colleagues. Work consistently across the entire software lifecycle.
• flox on GitHub — Developer environments you can take with you.
• Gsettings - Monitor All System Settings Change
• dconf Reference Manual
• foss-north — foss-north is a free / open source conference covering both software and hardware from the technical perspective. We provide a meeting place for the Nordic foss communities and will bring together great speakers with great audiences.
• An Open Letter from NixOS Users Against MIC Sponsorship — Several members of the community are uneasy with the current happenings around the North American Gathering aimed at NixOS Users and its community (also known as NixCon [sic] NA).
• pjones/plasma-manager — Manage KDE Plasma with Home Manager.
• Bastard Keyboards — Custom-designed split keyboards with feature-full firmware.
• Bastardkb on GitHub
• Pick: nix-starter-configs — Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes.

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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
• NVIDIA SHIELD Portable — Stream PC games, play android games, run apps, movies, music, and more.
• Fountain — Podcasts powered by community
• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
• Yard House Menu
• Super Productivity — Super Productivity is an advanced todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities. It also comes with integrations for Jira, Gitlab, GitHub and Open Project.
• Super Productivity on GitHub
• Super Productivity Demo
• fort-nix/nix-bitcoin — A collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easily installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an emphasis on security.
• Podcastindex-org/helipad — This is a simple lnd poller and web front-end to see and read boosts and boostagrams.
• Added settings page and webhook settings by ericpp · Helipad PR #79
• noblepayne/helipad-flake — Basic nix flake for helipad.
• R36S Retro Handheld — Handheld Video Game Console, Linux System, 3.5 Inch IPS Screen, 64GB
• Amazon.com: Retro Handheld Game Console
• ArkOS Emulators and Ports information
• ArkOS Wiki
• nixos-bsd/nixbsd — An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel.
• Akylas/OSS-DocumentScanner — Android document scanning app.
• upscayl — Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows built with Linux-First philosophy.
• Pick: AnyType — The everything app for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
• Unplugged Core Membership

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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
• HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD — The HDMI Forum has rejected our proposal unfortunately. At this time an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation is not possible without running afoul of the HDMI Forum requirements.
• NVK is now ready for prime time — Today, I'm proud to announce that NVK, the open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, is now ready for prime time.
• FUSE Passthrough Support May Land For Linux 6.9 To Help Boost I/O Performance — The FUSE passthrough mode patches were recently queued up into FUSE.git's for-next branch. With the patches now in the "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.9 merge window in March, the code will hopefully be merged for this next kernel cycle barring any last minute issues.
• First NixCon North America!
• Southern California Linux Expo 21
• Jupiter Broadcasting Calendar
• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
• Yard House Menu
• Sirius 16 all Ryzen laptop from TUXEDO Computers
• KDE MegaRelease 6 — With Plasma 6, our technology stack has undergone two major upgrades: a transition to the latest version of our application framework, Qt, and a migration to the modern Linux graphics platform, Wayland.
• This Week in Bitcoin — A high-signal Bitcoin news podcast focused on analysis you'll find valuable.
• 42keebs.eu — Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded custom keyboard shop.
• NixOS Plasma 6 PR
• starcoder2 — StarCoder2 models are intended for code completion.
• PromtEngineer/localGPT — Chat with your documents on your local device using GPT models.
• Introducing: Fountain Radio — Fountain Radio is a community station for music - powered by Bitcoin.
• Pick: cpu-controller — CPU Controller for Linux is a straightforward GUI application based on PyQt6, enabling users to toggle individual CPU cores on or off in a Linux system to save battery life.
• FlyGoat/RyzenAdj: Adjust power management settings for Ryzen APUs
• Unplugged Core Membership

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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!
• 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
• Jupiter Extras: Brunch With Brent: Tim Canham
• LINUX Unplugged 478: The Best of Both Worlds
• audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
• audiobookshelf showcase
• Self-Hosted 114: Unintended Consequences
• Libation: Liberate your Library — Free and open-source app to manage your Audible books. Fully supported on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
• OpenAudible Home — Download, Backup and Manage Audible Audiobook Libraries
• Readarr — Book Manager and Automation (Sonarr for Ebooks)
• r/audiobooks thread
• New Releases | Audiobooks.com
• New Audiobook Releases | Downpour.com
• Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups | Nothing Much Happens
• Announcing - First NixCon North America!
• NixCon NA 2024 Schedule is Live! — March 14 – 15, 2024
• Southern California Linux Expo 21
• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM — The Yardhouse has always been a solid go-to, so sit down and break bread with the Unplugged crew during the lunch break on Saturday!
• Yard House Menu
• Administrator Bill Nelson announces the end of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter - YouTube — NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has announced that the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has come to an end. The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history by achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021. Despite initial plans for up to five flights, the helicopter has exceeded expectations and executed an impressive 72 flights on the Red Planet. NASA pays tribute to its accomplishments, which have far exceeded what was thought possible and have paved the way for future flights in our solar system.
• Legacy of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter - YouTube
• #ThanksIngenuity – NASA’s Mars Helicopter Team Says Goodbye - YouTube — The Mars Ingenuity Helicopter flew for the last time on Jan. 18, 2024, and NASA concluded its flight operations after post-flight imagery confirmed damage to at least one of the rotorcraft’s rotor blades that rendered it no longer capable of flight. As the historic mission comes to its end, Ingenuity’s team reflects on some of their favorite moments and memories from the helicopter’s time on Mars.
• Clear Course is Set for openSUSE Leap — The openSUSE release team confirms there will be a successor to Leap 15 and it’s a numerical leap forward.
• Zellij — A terminal workspace with batteries included
• nix-flatpak — Declarative flatpak manager for NixOS inspired by declarative-flatpak and nix-darwin's homebrew module. NixOs and home-manager modules are provided for system wide or user flatpaks installation.
• Smart AudioBook Player — The app is designed specially for playing audio books.
• ShelfPlayer — A beautifully designed Audiobookshelf client that feels right at home on iOS 17.
• hass-audiobookshelf — Adds sensors for an Audiobookshelf server to Home Assistant to show connection and active sessions
• LINUX Unplugged 522: Practical Privacy
• BadaBoomBooks: An audiobook organizer — Quickly organize audiobooks using a terminal and web-browser
• audiobookshelf-sonos: Play your audiobooks from Audiobookshelf on your Sonos speakers — A standalone server that adds support for listening to an Audiobookshelf library on Sonos speakers. Built on top of the Sonos Music API (SMAPI).

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• 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 — 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.