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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
• Preferring Local OSS LLMs
• Qwen3.5 27B vs Gemma4 31B
• Open Models have crossed a threshold
• Gemma 4 — Google DeepMind
• Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device
• Gemma-4-31B-JANG\_4M-CRACK · Hugging Face
• mesh-llm — Mesh LLM lets you pool spare GPU capacity across machines and expose the result as one OpenAI-compatible API.
• hermes-agent: The agent that grows with you — The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.
• goose — An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions; install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM.
• Lobehub — The ultimate space for work and life. To find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you. We are taking agent harness to the next level; enabling multi-agent collaboration, effortless agent team design, and introducing agents as the unit of work interaction.
• LibreFang — LibreFang is an open-source agent operating system written in Rust.
• OpenHarness — OpenHarness is an open-source Python implementation designed for researchers, builders, and the community.
• Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents — Microsoft proclaims their new open-source project is the first toolkit that addresses all ten agentic AI risks identified last year by the OWASP
• Top 10 Risks and Mitigations for Agentic AI Security - OWASP Gen AI Security Project — Microsoft proclaims their new open-source project is the first toolkit that addresses all ten agentic AI risks identified last year by the OWASP. These risks include goal hijacking, tool musiuse, identity abuse, supply chain risks, code execution, memory poisoning, insecure communications, cascading failures, human-agent trust exploitation, and rogue agents. This new Agent Governance Toolkit is available for Python, Rust, TypeScript, Go, and .NET.
• googleworkspace/cli: Google Workspace CLI — One command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills.
• Tunarr API Reference
• Euro-Office launches as Europe's open-source Office rival
• Pick: single-file-cli — CLI tool for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file (based on SingleFile)
• Pick: html-to-markdown — Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.
• Pick: skim — Turns any HTML page into clean markdown.

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• Jupiter Signal Network Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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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.

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Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• SCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"
• PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
• Pasadena Linux Party, Fri, Mar 6, 2026, 6:00 PM
• KDE Linux - KDE Community Wiki
• Beta (Enthusiast & Stable editions) · KDE Linux · GitLab
• Install Software Not Available in Discover - KDE Community
• KDE Linux / Kapsule · GitLab
• suikan4github/Using-tailscale-client-on-an-Immutable-OS: Explain how to install the tailscale client on an immutable desktop OS
• xuars/kdelinux-tailscale: Tailscale install script for KDE Linux®
• Nix - KDE Community
• Fitting Everything Together — TLDR: Hermetic /usr/ is awesome; let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, uniformity – built from traditional distribution packages, but deployed via images.
• Nebula Commander
• DEMO Nebula Commander
• Nebula Commander GitHub — Nebula Commander is a self-hosted control plane for nebula overlay networks.
• Star Trek Comm Badge for Home Assistant Voice Control : 7 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables
• Pick: hcloud-upload-image — Quickly upload any raw disk images into your Hetzner Cloud projects!
• Pick: Launcher Studio — Launcher Studio is a GTK4 desktop application for creating and managing .desktop files on Linux.
• Launcher Studio on Flathub
• Pick: tinyproxy — A light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems
• Pick: socks-to-http-proxy — An executable to convert SOCKS5 proxy into HTTP proxy

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
• SCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"
• GEEKOM IT13 Mini PC 2026
• OpenWrt One
• Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus-E
• Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 — An updated Zigbee and Thread chip gives it the highest performance available, while providing a rock-solid, stable network.
• SYMFONISK Sonos WiFi bookshelf speaker — The speaker is a collaboration between IKEA and Sonos, so it easily integrates with other products from Sonos.
• IKEA SYMFONISK - Home Assistant — Support for devices by IKEA SYMFONISK in Home Assistant is provided by the Sonos integration.
• OpenCode — The open-source AI coding agent.
• OpenCode on GitHub
• Actual — A local-first personal finance app.
• Pocket ID — A simple and easy-to-use OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.
• Pick: Pocket TTS — A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice.
• Pocket TTS on GitHub
• Pick: WebView Kiosk — Turn your Android device into a locked-down web page in fullscreen mode.
• webview-kiosk on GitHub

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Toronto Meetup - JB Colony Events
• Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash — A large and unfortunate mistake in the kernel development management process is underway.
• Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs changes for 6.17 - Josef Bacik
• Ubuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept — Ubuntu is testing "Dangerous" Desktop Images, daily builds with all Snaps pulled from the edge channel.
• Ubuntu 25.10 Will Ship With Linux 6.17 Even If It Means An Unstable "-rc" Kernel
• syncthing 2.0 Released! — This is the first release of the new 2.0 series. Expect some rough edges and keep a sense of adventure! 🙏
• Z-Wave is not dead - Home Assistant — TL;DR: Z-Wave is alive and well, partly due to a strong community that is building new open-source resources.
• Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 — The ultimate way to connect Z-Wave devices to Home Assistant.
• Z-Wave reborn - Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2
• Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 Reveal Promo - YouTube
• Hyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS
• Keybinds Reverting to older config? · Hyprvibe Issue #2
• Errors at the top of the screen · Hyprvibe Issue #3
• Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Formatter
• Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Home
• Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Shared
• Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Hosts
• LibreNMS — A fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support. LibreNMS is a fork of Observium.
• Observium — Observium is a network monitoring and management platform that provides real-time insight into network health and performance.
• Shift Systems / ShiftMon · GitLab — An open source monitoring and logging tool based on Ansible, Telegraf, Grafana, and a bunch of other tools
• sst/opencode — AI coding agent, built for the terminal.
• Lightning Grows Up | This Week In Bitcoin 68
• flatpak/xdg-native-messaging-proxy
• NativeMessaging portal for sandboxed browsers · flatpak Issue #655
• Pick: papra — The minimalistic document archiving platform.
• Papra - Demo
• Pick: lue — Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech
• Pick: wlgblock — This project replaces the usual password screen with a Gameboy emulator running a patched Pokémon game!