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• Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD
• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Jupiter Garage SWAG
• Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker
• Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.
• Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube
• Covered Bridge Cookies — Our cookies have no trans fats and are made with the best ingredients from Vermont based companies. Butter from Cabot, Chocolate from Barre Callebaut of St Albans, and we always use unbleached and unbromated flour along with natural flavorings. We use small batch production techniques that produce an unmistakable home made taste unlike mass-produced cookies.
• Zola — Your one-stop static site engine. Forget dependencies. Everything you need in one binary.
• gerbrent/brentgervais.ca — Landing page for Brent Gervais, built with Zola
• JB Zola Demo Site
• jupiterbroadcasting.com-zola repo — Weekend speedrun port of the JB site to Zola.
• Zola Documentation
• Zola CLI Usage
• Zola Directory Structure
• Zola Installation
• Zola Search
• Zola GitHub
• Zola Changelog
• WintermuteOS — A personalized declarative desktop built from NixOS, Wayland/Hyprland, and QuickShell.
• SwapMarket — Non-custodial Bitcoin swaps marketplace. Swap between different Bitcoin layers while staying in full control.
• SwapMarket/swapmarket.github.io - GitHub — Decentralized and trustless marketplace for Boltz-compatible Bitcoin swap providers.
• Alby Hub CLI — CLI for managing Alby Hub
• trynix — Boot any package nixpkgs ever shipped, in this tab. Pick a package and a version from 13 years of nixpkgs history; its closure is fetched from cache.nixos.org into an x86_64 Linux virtual machine (QEMU compiled to WebAssembly) and you get a shell with the package on PATH. Nothing runs on a server.
• Any Nix package, live in your browser | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
• fzakaria/trynix: Boot anything nixpkgs ever shipped, in your browser.
• Your executable is a SQLite database | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
• Actually Queryable Executables | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
• hughhowey/neo — A novel-writing tool created by a novelist.
• nives — An AI assistant for Home Assistant that remembers. One add-on, and the memory stays on your own machine.
• nives-omarchy — Talk to your Home Assistant house in plain language, from your Omarchy desktop.
• Pick: OpenMouse — OpenMouse runs entirely in your browser over WebHID — DPI, polling rate, buttons, and RGB, for dozens of gaming mice, with no accounts, no installs, and no telemetry sent anywhere.
• OpenMouse Supported Devices
• Pick: Wallos — Open-Source Personal Subscription Tracker
• Wallos on GitHub — Open-source, self-hostable personal subscription tracker. Visualize your recurring expenses, manage your budget, and save money.

Sponsored By:

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

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD
• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Jupiter Garage SWAG
• Quickshell — Quickshell is a toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens, and other desktop components using QtQuick. It can be used alongside your wayland compositor or window manager to build a complete desktop environment.
• Caelestia — A fluid, morphing shell for your Linux desktop.
• end-4’s configuration
• Waybar — Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.
• Omacom Foundation to be premier Quickshell sponsor
• Omarchy — — Beautiful, Fun & Opinionated Linux by DHH
• omacom/omarchy - Github
• The first plugin competition winners — Omarchy News
• Omacom Foundation to be exclusive Hyprland sponsor — Omarchy News
• Hyprland — An independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
• hyprwm/Hyprland - GitHub
• omarchy-radio-atlas — Explore live radio on a rotatable globe from the Omarchy bar.
• Home Assistant for Omarchy — Home Assistant Quickshell plugin for Omarchy 4
• syncshell — See sync health, open folders, control the service, and install or update Syncthing from the Omarchy bar.
• syncshell-dms: — Read-only Syncthing monitoring plugin for DankMaterialShell
• Dank Linux — A Modern Desktop for Wayland.
• Dank Linux Docs
• TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.
• Dawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History).
• Immich — High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
• How to get a TomTom API key - TomTom Docs
• FileBrowser Quantum - GitHub
• FileBrowser Quantum — The best free self-hosted web-based file manager with source configuration, modern authentication, office support, and lightning-fast search.
• Open Book Touch — A pocketable, front-lit, open source e-reader — for every book, in every language.
• Pick: dankcalendar — Calendar from the Dank Linux Suite. Local, Google, Microsoft, CalDAV, and iCloud calendars in one standalone app.
• DankCalendar on Flathub
• Pick: Homelable — Visual Homelab Mapper & Monitor
• Homelable — Self-hosted homelab infrastructure visualizer, interactive network diagram with live status monitoring.
• homelable-hacs — Home Assistant integration for Homelable

Sponsored By:

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

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD
• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Jupiter Garage SWAG
• AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker
• Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker
• Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Passes Away
• Linux 7.2 Kernel Newbies
• Cache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUs
• Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions
• [REGRESSION] drm/sched: FAIR policy causes serious performance degradation at max GPU load on 9070XT
• reduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating outside the lock — While profiling Meta's caching code, I found pipe->mutex contention on the hot path. anon_pipe_write() currently calls alloc_page() once per page while holding pipe->mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any concurrent reader on the same mutex.
• Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches
• Specially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 Driver
• The beginning of the 7.3 merge window
• Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance
• Linux 7.3 Expected To "Flatten The Pick" For Better Scheduling While Gaming & More
• Linux 7.3 x86/mm Lands Patches To Greatly Improve Latency-Sensitive Workloads
• Sched_ext's Sub-Scheduler Support Now "Feature Complete" With Linux 7.3
• Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x Wins
• Linux 7.3 binfmt_misc To Allow BPF Programs To Dynamically Choose Execution Environments
• Linux 7.3 drops support for two ancient file systems
• Linux 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMs
• Two Very Exciting Memory Management Optimizations Going Into Linux 7.3
• Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes
• Syncthing GitHub
• Rclone — Feature-rich alternative to cloud storage vendors' web storage interfaces.
• LocalComet — A private, local-first Windows AI assistant built and validated with Codex.
• A look at the Quickshell desktop-component toolkit
• MCP-NixOS - Model Context Protocol for NixOS — Because your AI shouldn't hallucinate package names.
• dataiku/kiji-proxy — Privacy proxy for your OpenAI requests
• Rockbox - Free Music Player Firmware
• Pick: ssh-clipboard — copy/paste, everywhere — Peer-to-peer clipboard sync over SSH. Copy anything on one machine, paste on another. Open source, and Written in Rust ackchyually.