LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Profile Sync Daemon”

web01.fireside.fm Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:24 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Profile Sync Daemon” https://linuxunplugged.com/tags/profile-sync-daemon Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:00:00 -0700 An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux. en-us episodic Weekly Linux talk show with no script, no limits, surprise guests and tons of opinion. Jupiter Broadcasting An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux. no Jupiter Broadcasting chris@jupiterbroadcasting.com 426: This Old Linux PC https://linuxunplugged.com/426 e62102e1-655c-45ab-8a7f-d973435419e7 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:00:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting It's the worst time ever to upgrade or buy a new PC, so we cover our favorite tips for getting the most out of your current hardware. Then we pit a 2014 desktop against a 2021 laptop and find out if our old clunker can beat the Thinkpad. 1:09:51 no It's the worst time ever to upgrade or buy a new PC, so we cover our favorite tips for getting the most out of your current hardware. Then we pit a 2014 desktop against a 2021 laptop and find out if our old clunker can beat the Thinkpad. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Christian F.K. Schaller, Jack Aboutboul, and Martin Wimpress. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, Pop!_OS, Raspberry Pi, ARM64, PipeWire, v4l2, libcamera, Christian F.K. Schaller, Wim Taymans, ALSA, PulseAudio, GStreamer, video camera, Cheese, AlmaLinux Foundation, Jack Aboutboul, CentOS, ThinkPad X1 Carbon, NVMe, eGPU, AMD, NVIDIA, Fedora, Garuda, Thunderbolt, 1440p, 144hz, profile-sync-daemon, Linux-ck, Linux-zen, tubearchivist, NixOS, GreenSysAdmin, OpenSUSE, Tumbleweed, Helvum, tubesync, rust, Linux Desktop, Linux Graphics, Wayland, Flatpak, sandboxed apps, old pc, old hardware, geekbench, It's the worst time ever to upgrade or buy a new PC, so we cover our favorite tips for getting the most out of your current hardware. Then we pit a 2014 desktop against a 2021 laptop and find out if our old clunker can beat the Thinkpad.

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It Seems Pop OS Linux Will Soon be Available on Raspberry Pi and Other ARM Devices — System76’s Principal Engineer and maintainer of Pop!_OS, Jeremy Soller shared a teaser photo on Twitter recently.
PipeWire and fixing the Linux Video Capture stack — With PipeWire having stabilized a lot for audio now we feel the time has come to go back to the video side of PipeWire and work to improve the state-of-art for video capture handling under Linux.
PipeWire
Linux Action News 209 — Why Linus believes keeping Linux fun is critical, the massive investment Fedora is about to make in video, and why we suspect Cloudflare's R2 service will make Amazon squirm.
AlmaLinux OS Foundation Membership Opens to the Public — An individual can qualify for membership as anyone who uses AlmaLinux OS, contributes to AlmaLinux OS, provides services to the AlmaLinux OS community or otherwise supports the AlmaLinux OS. All past and present contributors or mirror maintainers would qualify as Contributor members.
What AlmaLinux Foundation Membership Means for You - AlmaLinux OS Blog — We all own AlmaLinux now and no one can change that. Forever. Not CloudLinux, not any other corporation or anyone else. Our fate and future are in the hands of every member and is ours alone to control. We're no longer bound by one person, group or entity. It can not be bought nor sold, nor transferred or fought about.
Unofficial user repositories/Repo-ck - ArchWiki
tubearchivist has a docker-compose.yml
Which “server” distro should we go with next? | StrawPoll.com
Pick: Helvum — Helvum is a GTK-based patchbay for pipewire, inspired by the JACK tool catia.
Pick: tubesync — Syncs YouTube channels and playlists to a locally hosted media server.

]]> It's the worst time ever to upgrade or buy a new PC, so we cover our favorite tips for getting the most out of your current hardware. Then we pit a 2014 desktop against a 2021 laptop and find out if our old clunker can beat the Thinkpad.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Christian F.K. Schaller, Jack Aboutboul, and Martin Wimpress.

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It Seems Pop OS Linux Will Soon be Available on Raspberry Pi and Other ARM Devices — System76’s Principal Engineer and maintainer of Pop!_OS, Jeremy Soller shared a teaser photo on Twitter recently.
PipeWire and fixing the Linux Video Capture stack — With PipeWire having stabilized a lot for audio now we feel the time has come to go back to the video side of PipeWire and work to improve the state-of-art for video capture handling under Linux.
PipeWire
Linux Action News 209 — Why Linus believes keeping Linux fun is critical, the massive investment Fedora is about to make in video, and why we suspect Cloudflare's R2 service will make Amazon squirm.
AlmaLinux OS Foundation Membership Opens to the Public — An individual can qualify for membership as anyone who uses AlmaLinux OS, contributes to AlmaLinux OS, provides services to the AlmaLinux OS community or otherwise supports the AlmaLinux OS. All past and present contributors or mirror maintainers would qualify as Contributor members.
What AlmaLinux Foundation Membership Means for You - AlmaLinux OS Blog — We all own AlmaLinux now and no one can change that. Forever. Not CloudLinux, not any other corporation or anyone else. Our fate and future are in the hands of every member and is ours alone to control. We're no longer bound by one person, group or entity. It can not be bought nor sold, nor transferred or fought about.
Unofficial user repositories/Repo-ck - ArchWiki
tubearchivist has a docker-compose.yml
Which “server” distro should we go with next? | StrawPoll.com
Pick: Helvum — Helvum is a GTK-based patchbay for pipewire, inspired by the JACK tool catia.
Pick: tubesync — Syncs YouTube channels and playlists to a locally hosted media server.

]]> 379: Favorite Linux Tweaks https://linuxunplugged.com/379 bf40661f-ee38-4e87-8656-848722235f10 Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:00:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We round up our favorite tweaks to the desktop, and apps that make it great. 1:11:03 no We round up our favorite tweaks to the desktop, and apps that make it great. Plus some highlights from Arch Conf, and our reaction to Mint finally fixing their Chromium problem. Special Guest: Drew DeVore. Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Unplugged, Arch Conf 2020, pacman, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Allan McRae, Arch Linux, Project X, Coreboot, Oreboot, OpenBMC, AMD, Zen, x86, OSFC, Linux Mint, Snapcraft, Snap packages, Ubuntu, Canonical, Chromium, Hypnotix, IPTV, Starlink, SpaceX, Satellite Internet, profile-sync-daemon, GPU-Viewer, Video Trimmer, fzf, Fish shell, smartcd, autojump, jump, Chromecast, mkchromecast, castnow, catt, Vimperator, tridactyl, .local, Liquorix Kernel, Pipewire, Fedora, Firefox Adwaita theme, youtube-dl, GitLab, gitea, FreeIPA, Active Directory, LDAP, Zentyal, We round up our favorite tweaks to the desktop, and apps that make it great.

Plus some highlights from Arch Conf, and our reaction to Mint finally fixing their Chromium problem.

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Arch Conf 2020 Videos
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Project X - Pure Open-Source Coreboot Support On AMD Zen - Phoronix — Project X is about "eXcising binary blobs from the x86 part of Zen CPUs."
OSFC 2020 - Open Source Firmware Conference
Linux Mint pre-loads Chromium and Brings New IPTV Player — The package is available Linux Mint repository as “chromium” which you can install using standard “apt-get” or via the package manager. This is pure native Chromium and not a snap version.
Monthly News – October 2020 – The Linux Mint Blog
LINUX Unplugged 360: The Hard Work of Hardware
Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US
SpaceX Starlink users provide first impressions and unboxing pictures | Ars Technica — New speed-test data collected by Ookla and published by PCMag last week found average Starlink download speeds of 79.5Mbps and average upload speeds of 13.8Mbps in October
All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
profile-sync-daemon — Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers.
GPU-Viewer — A front-end to glxinfo, vulkaninfo, clinfo and es2_info.
Ivan Molodetskikh: Video Trimmer — Video Trimmer cuts out a fragment of a video given the start and end timestamps. The video is never re-encoded, so the process is very fast and does not reduce the video quality.
junegunn/fzf — A command-line fuzzy finder
Fish shell — fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family.
cxreg/smartcd — Alter your bash (or zsh) environment as you cd.
wting/autojump — A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.
gsamokovarov/jump — Jump helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.
muammar/mkchromecast — Cast macOS and Linux Audio/Video to your Google Cast and Sonos Devices
xat/castnow — commandline chromecast player
xat/dlnacast — Cast local media to your TV through UPnP/DLNA
skorokithakis/catt — Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources to your Chromecast.
tridactyl — A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl
philc/vimium — The hacker's browser.
Use your ~/.local folder!
Liquorix kernel for Debian users — Liquorix is a distro kernel replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads.
PipeWire nightly for Fedora users — PipeWire nightly builds from the projects git master. Use at your own risk.
Firefox Adwaita Theme — This is a bunch of CSS code to make Firefox look closer to GNOME's native apps.
Feedback: Thoughts after youtube-dl
Feedback: FreeIPA
Feedback: Zentyal as an AD Server

]]> We round up our favorite tweaks to the desktop, and apps that make it great.

Plus some highlights from Arch Conf, and our reaction to Mint finally fixing their Chromium problem.

Special Guest: Drew DeVore.

Sponsored By:

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

Arch Conf 2020 Videos
media.ccc.de - Arch Linux: Past, Present and Future
Project X - Pure Open-Source Coreboot Support On AMD Zen - Phoronix — Project X is about "eXcising binary blobs from the x86 part of Zen CPUs."
OSFC 2020 - Open Source Firmware Conference
Linux Mint pre-loads Chromium and Brings New IPTV Player — The package is available Linux Mint repository as “chromium” which you can install using standard “apt-get” or via the package manager. This is pure native Chromium and not a snap version.
Monthly News – October 2020 – The Linux Mint Blog
LINUX Unplugged 360: The Hard Work of Hardware
Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US
SpaceX Starlink users provide first impressions and unboxing pictures | Ars Technica — New speed-test data collected by Ookla and published by PCMag last week found average Starlink download speeds of 79.5Mbps and average upload speeds of 13.8Mbps in October
All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
profile-sync-daemon — Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers.
GPU-Viewer — A front-end to glxinfo, vulkaninfo, clinfo and es2_info.
Ivan Molodetskikh: Video Trimmer — Video Trimmer cuts out a fragment of a video given the start and end timestamps. The video is never re-encoded, so the process is very fast and does not reduce the video quality.
junegunn/fzf — A command-line fuzzy finder
Fish shell — fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family.
cxreg/smartcd — Alter your bash (or zsh) environment as you cd.
wting/autojump — A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.
gsamokovarov/jump — Jump helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.
muammar/mkchromecast — Cast macOS and Linux Audio/Video to your Google Cast and Sonos Devices
xat/castnow — commandline chromecast player
xat/dlnacast — Cast local media to your TV through UPnP/DLNA
skorokithakis/catt — Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources to your Chromecast.
tridactyl — A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl
philc/vimium — The hacker's browser.
Use your ~/.local folder!
Liquorix kernel for Debian users — Liquorix is a distro kernel replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads.
PipeWire nightly for Fedora users — PipeWire nightly builds from the projects git master. Use at your own risk.
Firefox Adwaita Theme — This is a bunch of CSS code to make Firefox look closer to GNOME's native apps.
Feedback: Thoughts after youtube-dl
Feedback: FreeIPA
Feedback: Zentyal as an AD Server

]]> 329: Flat Network Truthers https://linuxunplugged.com/329 eb1f8be9-bf60-48f6-9acc-2f8690ba2b7e Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:30:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Build one flat network across cloud providers, personal networks, with even thousands of nodes. We feature two amazing open source solutions, and the creators behind them. 1:06:51 no Build one flat network across cloud providers, personal networks, with even thousands of nodes. We feature two amazing open source solutions, and the creators behind them. Plus community news, first impressions of Google Stadia, listener feedback, and some great picks. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Guus Sliepen, and Ryan Huber. Android, Linux, Mainline, WireGuard, VPN, Zinc, Crypto, cryptography, Linux 5.5, Google, System76, ThinkPad, Overlay Network, networking, Virtual Private Network, Tinc, Nebula, Slack, Stadia, linux gaming, Jupiter Extras, Ryan Huber, Guus Sliepen, Linux Podcast, Unplugged, Jupiter Broadcasting, Flat Network, fzf, fish shell, profile-sync-daemon, wee-slack, girens, Plex, GTK, native apps, KDE, Plasma, Manjaro, Arch linux, Build one flat network across cloud providers, personal networks, with even thousands of nodes. We feature two amazing open source solutions, and the creators behind them.

Plus community news, first impressions of Google Stadia, listener feedback, and some great picks.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Guus Sliepen, and Ryan Huber.

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]]> Build one flat network across cloud providers, personal networks, with even thousands of nodes. We feature two amazing open source solutions, and the creators behind them.

Plus community news, first impressions of Google Stadia, listener feedback, and some great picks.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Guus Sliepen, and Ryan Huber.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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