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Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
• 6 ultimate boot CDs (system rescue) for troubleshooting Windows PCs
• SystemRescue — A Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.
• Finnix — Debian-based, CLI-focused with a comprehensive set of repair tools. Recent updates improved modern hardware support, boot speed, zram compression, and SSH remote access.
• Changes/ModernizeLiveMedia - Fedora Project Wiki — Modernize the live media by switching to the "new" live environment setup scripts provided by livesys-scripts and leverage new functionality in dracut to enable support for automatically enabling persistent overlays when flashed to USB sticks.
• Fedora 41: Modernize the live media Overlay Features?
• aegis-boot — A signed UEFI Secure Boot rescue environment that lets operators pick any ISO from a USB stick's data partition and kexec into it — without leaving the chain of trust.
• netboot.xyz — A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.
• Greg's nixos-config
• Self-Hosted 129: Forged Alliance — The battle for code forges is heating up. We chat about HexOS' big promises and get excited about Meshtastic.
• pocket-id — A simple OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.
• What Is Claude Mythos—And Why Anthropic Won’t Let Anyone Use It
• v4call — v4call is a decentralised video, voice and text platform built on the Hive blockchain. Users set their own rates for receiving calls and messages.
• Pick: Metadata Cleaner — View and clean metadata in files
• Metadata Cleaner on FlatHub
• Pick: mat2 — mat2 is a metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats, written in python3
• Pick: Little Snitch for Linux — Every time an application on your computer opens a network connection, it does so quietly, without asking. Little Snitch for Linux makes that activity visible and gives you the option to do something about it.
• littlesnitch-linux-flake — A Nix Flake for Little Snitch for Linux
• Pick: PCAPdroid — No-root network monitor, firewall and PCAP dumper for Android