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• LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Form
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• bcachefs 1.33.0
• Bcachefs Ready With Its Reconcile Feature As Biggest Change In Two Years — "Biggest new feature in the past ~2 years, I believe. The user facing stuff may be short and sweet - but so much going on under the hood to make all this smooth and polished."
• Kent Overstreet - Patreon
• bcachefs — A copy-on-write (COW) file system for Linux first announced by Kent Overstreet in 2015. It is intended to compete with the modern features of ZFS or Btrfs.
• LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later — Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.
• Git or not a Git man page?
• proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS
• Pick: Dotfiles Installer — Install dotfiles easy, fast and secure. Or provide an installation application for your dotfiles.
• ML4W Dotfiles Installer Wiki
• dotfiles-installer: GitHub
• Pick: SSH-Studio — Easy, GUI SSH config editor and validator built with Python, GTK 4 and libadwaita.
• LubeLogger, Vehicle Maintenance and Fuel Mileage Tracker, slips into December with some banging new features

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• ODROID H4 PLUS
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• Plan your meetup: Colony Events
• LUP 600 Pacific Northwest Party · Colony Events
• Request for Proposals: Flathub Program Management — The GNOME Foundation, in partnership with KDE e.V., is bootstrapping Flathub LLC to become a self-sustaining entity.
• Flathub to become a self-sustaining entity and they're looking to hire someone to help
• Flathub Statistics
• Flathub Verified Apps
• Verification | Flathub Documentation
• open issues on FlatHub-Infra GitHub
• netboot.xyz — Your favorite operating systems in one place. A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.
• Booting Methods
• boot netboot.xyz from grub
• boot netboot.xyz from a USB Disk
• Windows | netboot.xyz
• Windows PE image as an ISO, instructions on how to build it can be found here
• LUP 333
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• Proxmox and Veeam backups
• home-assistant-technitiumdns — This custom integration allows you to integrate TechnetiumDNS with Home Assistant, providing sensors for various DNS statistics.
• sam h's nix config with Blocky
• Rescuezilla — Rescuezilla is an open-source easy-to-use disk imaging app that's fully compatible with Clonezilla — the industry-standard trusted by tens of millions.
• rescuezilla/rescuezilla: The Swiss Army Knife of System Recovery

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• Toronto Meetup — Thursday, Aug 29, 2024
• Berlin with Brent — September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Saturday, Sep 14, 2024
• Check out Alex's "Building a Colo Server" video — Building a colo server for Jupiter Broadcasting using the 45Homelab HL15 server.
• Firewall - NixOS Wiki
• nftables wiki
• The netfilter.org "nftables" project
• Gentoo Nftables Examples
• networking/nftables: add .tables property and disable ruleset flushing by default by mkg20001
• Example nftables config
• Olympia Mike on "verified only Flatpaks" — I'm curious your take on a recent update that happened in Linux Mint, and the possible knock on effect of it.
• Incus is a next generation system container and virtual machine manager.
• Moving from Proxmox to Incus
• Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!
• Referral Code eXchange
• auto-tab-discard
• tab-session-manager
• OneTab extension for Google Chrome and Firefox
• Tubular — A fork of NewPipe that implements SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike.

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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.
• Unplugged Tuxies - 2023 — It's time to vote on the 2023 Unplugged Tuxies!
• ⚠️ Tuxies 2023: Did we miss something? Let us know!
• Fedora 39 Delayed To At Least 7 November — While Fedora 39 was aiming for an ideal "early final" release on 18 October, that didn't happen, it was delayed, and then delayed again. Now the earliest Fedora 39 will possibly shift is 7 November.
• Bug: F39 RC1.2 images have sometimes “RC” in their name
• Bug: Failed media check immediately disappears on bare metal, shows a black screen instead
• F39 Final Go/No-Go meeting
• Linux Mint Starts working on Wayland Support — The work started on Wayland. As mentioned earlier this year, this was identified as one of the major challenges our project had to tackle in the mid to long term.
• Cinnamon Wayland Trello
• Linux Mint Starts Working On Wayland For Cinnamon, Likely Not Fully Ready Until 2026
• Six Great Features With The Upcoming Linux 6.6 Kernel — While there were many last minute fixes this week, the changes don't appear to be too scary or invasive. In any event the Linux 6.6 kernel is bringing some exciting features.
• Linux 6.6 Features Include The EEVDF Scheduler, Shadow Stack, Intel IVSC, AMD DBC & More
• Btrfs For Linux 6.6 Brings Fixes, Partially Recovers From Scrub Performance Regression — David Sterba of SUSE sent out the Btrfs updates on Monday for the Linux 6.6 kernel merge window. There are no explicit new features this cycle but a variety of bug fixes, including work to address the Btrfs scrub performance following a rework back in Linux 6.4. The scrub performance isn't entirely restored but at least it's inching ahead in the right direction with Linux 6.6.
• EXT4 Lands A Nice Performance Improvement For Appending To Delalloc Files — I conducted tests in my 32-core environment by launching 32 concurrent threads to append write to the same file. Each write operation had a length of 1024 bytes and was repeated 100000 times. Without using this patch, the test was completed in 7705 ms. However, with this patch, the test was completed in 5066 ms, resulting in a performance improvement of 34%.
• XFS File-System Maintainer Stepping Down — My final act as maintainer is to write down every thing that I've been doing as maintainer for the past six years. There are too many demands placed on the maintainer, and the only way to fix this is to delegate the responsibilities. I also wrote down my impressions of the unwritten rules about how to contribute to XFS.
• XFS Begins Landing Online Repair, New Release Manager Takes Over — We now have in-memory pageable memory for staging btrees, a bunch of pending fixes, and we've started the process of refactoring the scrub support code to support more of repair.
• SELinux In Linux 6.6 Removes References To Its Origins At The US NSA — We've come a long way from the original NSA submission and I would consider SELinux a true community project at this point so removing the NSA branding just makes sense.
• Linux 6.6 To Bring Another Rust Toolchain Upgrade — Some of the other Rust changes for this imminent merge window include supporting the rust-analyzer for out-of-tree kernel modules, the Rust availability detection script has been improved, a new "paste!" proc macro, new pinned-init APIs, and a variety of other additions to continue to make Rust programming possibilities for the Linux kernel more robust.
• [SOLVED] - LXC Nvidia Passthrough | Proxmox Support Forum
• Contribute to Podverse
• Soltros' Nix Config
• SilverBullet — SilverBullet is an extensible open-source, personal knowledge management system. Indeed, that’s fancy talk for “a note-taking app with links.” However, SilverBullet goes a bit beyond just that.
• Nixpkgs supply chain security project — The focus of this project is on reducing our reliance on foreign binaries to compile Nixpkgs from scratch, ensuring we are are indeed running the code we compiled by leveraging existing security components in NixOS, and putting in place mechanisms that allow us to deliver the most up-to-date, secure software whenever it is available in a way that can be sustained given our maintainer capacities.
• Pick: kmon — Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor 🐧💻
• kmon in nixpkgs
• LinuxFest Northwest Youtube
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Minifest: What’s New in Nextcloud?
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Minifest Videos
• docker-wyze-bridge — WebRTC/RTSP/RTMP/LL-HLS bridge for Wyze cams in a docker container.
• wz_mini_hacks — Run whatever firmware you want on your camera and have root access to the device.
• Bitcoin Beach — The project Bitcoin Beach is creating a sustainable Bitcoin Economic ecosystem on the coast of El Salvador, where the majority of people do not have access to bank accounts and the local businesses could never qualify for merchant accounts needed to accept credit cards.

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• LinuxFest Northwest
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• Call for Feedback: Unplugged Tuxies - 2022 - Forms — You have one week! Let's make this the best Tuxies EVER!
• Texas Linux Festival 2024 Call For Papers Open Now
• Stones Throw Brewery
• 1-Up Lounge Video Game Bar & Lounge
• Brandywine Kitchen
• BitMaker-hub/NerdMiner_v2: Improved version of first ESP32 NerdMiner — The main aim of this project is to let you learn more about minery and to have a beautiful piece of hardware in your desktop.
• IPFS Podcasting — Decentralized Podcast Distribution over IPFS - Crowd hosting podcast episodes with storage & bandwidth provided by volunteer nodes.
• AI in Nextcloud: what, why and how - Nextcloud — To fit everyone’s needs, we offer several types of integrations for AI, from completely self-hosted options to integrations with external services.
• How to debloat Windows 11 from junk apps (best method) — Debloat Windows 11 and (partially) retake control of your computer with a third-party tool from GitHub.
• ninite.com — No toolbars. No clicking next. Just pick your apps and go.
• Beepy by SQFMI
• Orchestra plays Microsoft Windows™ - the waltz
• Find the Dragon
• Moonlight PC v5.0.0
• Vectorpea - Online Vector Editor — Vectorpea.com is a free online tool for editing vector graphics with support for AI, PDF and SVG files.

The one where we don't talk about Ubuntu 22.04 at all.

Open a channel to our Lightning Node: 037d284d2d7e6cec7623adbe600450a73b42fb90800989f05a862464b05408df39

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Martin Wimpress.

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• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Dark Style Changes — Now in GNOME 42, it is officially supported, expanding on a concept from elementary OS 6 7. A toggle switch in the new Appearance panel in the core Settings app enables and disables the feature. A lot of work was done in GNOME apps to fix visual dark style bugs. A new transition effect was added (also inspired by elementary) to more elegantly crossfade when the style is switched.
• Dark Style Preference · Wiki · GNOME / Initiatives · GitLab
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Eyes More Industrial Usage By Offering Up Real-Time Kernel Beta — Currently in beta with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the linux-realtime kernel
• unsnap: Quickly migrate from using snap packages to flatpaks
• deb-get — apt-get functionality for .debs published in 3rd party repositories or via direct download
• Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS Release Notes — Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS is the culmination of 2 years of continual improvement 😅 to Ubuntu and MATE Desktop. As is tradition, the LTS development cycle has a keen focus on eliminating paper 🧻 cuts 🔪
• Linux Downtime – Episode 45 — Joe and Adam are joined by Martin Wimpress to talk about what goes into running a distro like Ubuntu Mate.
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Disables 3D Acceleration For Guest VMs With GNOME Boxes / Virt-Manager — In addition to Ubuntu 22.04 switching back NVIDIA to using X11 by default rather than Wayland as a launch-day change, separately, there was another rather notable last minute change affecting 3D support for virtual machines...
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Changes Default For NVIDIA Driver Back To Using X.Org Rather Than Wayland - Phoronix
• docker snap unconditionally uses xtables — Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is defaulting to using the GNOME X.Org session rather than Wayland when running the proprietary NVIDIA driver.
• https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/
• GNU’s advanced distro and transactional package manager
• 10 years of stories behind Guix
• clj-nix: Nix helpers for Clojure projects
• poetry2nix: Convert poetry projects to nix automagically
• home-manager: Manage a user environment using Nix
• Home Manager - NixOS Wiki
• Tutorial: Getting started with Home Manager for Nix
• hercules-ci/arion: Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS
• NixOS Wiki - Raspberry Pi 4
• NixOS aarm64 SD image
• nixery.dev
• NixOS Challenge - Jupiter Broadcasting GitHub
• Should we use NixOS as our Cloud and Local Server OS? | StrawPoll.com
• nixpkgs/make-snap.nix at master
• Picture of Welder
• GitHub - quickemu-project/quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.
• Miniflux - Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Reader
• wallabag
• Breez wallet - Lightning Fast Bitcoin Payments
• breez/breezmobile: Lightning Network mobile client
• 037d284d2d7e6cec7623 - Amboss Space
• pimox7: Proxmox V7 for Raspberry Pi — Pimox is a port of Proxmox to the Raspberry Pi allowing you to build a Proxmox cluster of Rapberry Pi's or even a hybrid cluster of Pis and x86 hardware.
• Wimpy’s World

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• Rust Watch: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive — Utilizing an in-development Flash emulator called Ruffle, we have added Flash support to the Internet Archive’s Emularity system, letting a subset of Flash items play in the browser as if you had a Flash plugin installed.
• Ruffle — Flash Player emulator written in the Rust programming language
• Ubuntu Web Remix Wants to Be a Chrome OS Alternative, Beta Available Now - 9to5Linux — Ubuntu Web Remix uses Mozilla’s Firefox web browser, offers support for Web apps, and you can also install regular Linux applications from Ubuntu’s software repositories.
• FydeOS beta brings Chromium OS to the PineBook Pro (Android app support too) - Liliputing — The developers say they plan to add support for more ARM-based systems in the future.
• We’re Building the Future of GNOME — Our plans for 2021 are even more ambitious and involve sustaining our ongoing work while building up new initiatives and support for the growing GNOME project and community.
• GNOME Foundation Planning For More Initiatives In 2021 - Phoronix
• Fedora’s i3 team is working on an official Fedora Spin for Fedora 34 : Fedora
• i3 Kickstart files :: Fedora Docs Site
• Fedora 34 to Introduce KDE Plasma Spin for 64-bit ARM - debugpoint.com — The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) approved the recent proposal to provide a Fedora 34 KDE Plasma Spin for 64-bit ARM (AArch64) architecture.
• Fedora 34 Might Try To Use PipeWire By Default To Replace PulseAudio/JACK - Phoronix — For a while now Fedora has offered PipeWire packages but not yet used by default when it comes to audio handling. A pending change proposal for Fedora 34 would now route all audio through PipeWire rather than the existing JACK and PulseAudio.
• PulseAudio 14.0 Released With Better USB Gaming Headset Support — PulseAudio 14.0 comes with many changes compared to PulseAudio 13.0 that shipped all the way back in September of 2019.
• PulseAudio 14.0 Release Notes
• ASUS Offers First Motherboard Firmware Update Via LVFS+Fwupd For Linux Users - Phoronix — The ASUS P11C-C-4L is an EATX motherboard for the Intel Xeon E platform.
• fwupd 1.5.2 – Technical Blog of Richard Hughes — A plugin for the Pinebook Pro laptop has been added, although it needs further work from PINE64 before it will work correctly.
• Jasem’s Ekosphere: KStars v3.5.0 is Released — This release marks a significant milestone for KStars with the integration of StellarSolver, the Cross Platform Sextractor and Astrometry.net-Based Internal Astrometric Solver.
• Wave-share — Serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound.
• Wave-share on GitHub — A proof-of-concept for WebRTC signaling using sound. Works with all devices that have microphone + speakers. Runs in the browser.
• Feedback: Eric’s Wonderful Workstation
• Feedback: Container Host Choices
• Feedback: Podify
• Pick: podify — Create podcasts from anything youtube-dl can handle.
• Pick: Dev Fonts
• Hear Audio From NASA's Perseverance As It Travels Through Deep Space | NASA — A microphone aboard NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has recorded the sounds of the spacecraft as it hurtles through interplanetary space.
• Perseverance Rover’s Interplanetary Sounds by NASA