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• LINUX Unplugged 596: Perilously Pontificated Predictions
• Phison CEO: SSD "Pricing Apocalypse" to Continue Through 2027
• HDD Prices Spike as AI Infrastructure and China’s PC Push Collide
• 2025 Cloud Pricing Trends: Big Three Shake Up Storage Costs
• Storage Apocalypse: Why SSDs and HDDs Are Becoming Impossibly Expensive
• Jensen Huang Flagged Data Storage as the Next AI Bottleneck
• Manufacturer Recertified Drives - ServerPartDeals.com
• Hard Disk Prices (US)
• Storage Price Tracker
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• r/HomelabSales$£€ - Reddit
• Smart Buy 10 Pack Bd-r Dl 50gb 6X Blu-ray Double Layer Recordable Disc
• BlueVault — A top-quality TUI app to manage Blu-ray cold storage archives on Linux.
• Pick: Kopia — Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.
• Kopia Repository Server
• Pick: PowerISO — Create, Burn, Mount, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual Drive
• PowerISO on Flathub
• Pick: CDEmu — CDemu is a software suite designed to emulate an optical drive and disc on the Linux operating system.
• Tellico — Collection management software, free and simple.

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• Pick: ws4kp — A web-based WeatherStar 4000
• Pick: ytdl-sub — Lightweight tool to automate downloading and metadata generation with yt-dlp.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
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• clevis — Clevis is a pluggable framework for automated decryption. It can be used to provide automated decryption of data or even automated unlocking of LUKS volumes.
• bcachefs Encryption
• What measured boot and trusted boot means for Linux
• Automatically decrypt your disk using TPM2 — Entering the passphrase to decrypt the disk at boot can become quite tedious. On modern systems a secure hardware chip called “TPM” (Trusted Platform Module) can store a secret and automatically decrypt your disk. This is an alternative factor, not a second factor. Keep that in mind.
• Use systemd-cryptenroll with FIDO U2F or TPM2 to decrypt your disk
• Automatic LUKS 2 disk decryption with TPM 2 on Fedora
• Safe automatic decryption of LUKS partition using TPM2 | 221b
• FOSDEM 2024: Clevis/Tang - unattended boot of an encrypted NixOS system
• Clevis & Tang on NixOS Slides
• Decrypt LUKS volumes with a TPM on Fedora Linux
• Self-Hosted 127: Can't Fix What You Don't Track
• Garmin Forerunner 265 — Forerunner 265 is a running smartwatch with a touchscreen AMOLED display, training metrics, phone-free music, & up to 13 days of battery life in smartwatch
• HRV Status
• Garmin Sleep Tracking
• Nap Detection
• Garmin Pay
• Tribit Stormbox Micro 2 Wireless Portable Speaker: 10W
• USB-C Charging Converter for Garmin Watch Without Charger Cable
• Obtainium — Obtainium allows you to install and update apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available.
• Managing your personal access tokens
• Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!
• Iotas — Iotas aims to provide distraction-free note taking with optional speedy sync with Nextcloud Notes.
• LINUX Unplugged 567: So Long sudo
• Celeste — GUI file synchronization client that can sync with any cloud provider
• vt52's Blog: Migrating from NixOS channels to Flakes
• FUTO Keyboard
• autossh
• LINUX Unplugged 570: RegreSSHion Strikes
• Aeon — The Linux Desktop for people who want to "get stuff done"
• Aeon: openSUSE for lazy developers
• Grayjay — Follow Creators Not Platforms
• Grayjay on GitLab
• CrowdSec
• Bustle — Bustle draws sequence diagrams of D-Bus activity. It shows signal emissions, method calls and their corresponding returns, with time stamps for each individual event and the duration of each method call. This can help you check for unwanted D-Bus traffic, and pinpoint why your D-Bus-based application is not performing as well as you like. It also provides statistics like signal frequencies and average method call times.
• open-and-shut — Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut
• Zuck Comapres AI to Linux - Open Source AI Is the Path Forward — Today, Linux is the industry standard foundation for both cloud computing and the operating systems that run most mobile devices – and we all benefit from superior products because of it. I believe that AI will develop in a similar way.

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• Office Hours 12 — Don’t Clip and Drive
• JB Meetups
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• Möbius Sync — Bringing Syncthing to iOS. Sync files between all your devices.
• PhotoSync — Photo Transfer and Backup App. For iOS & Android
• PhotoPrism — PhotoPrism® is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web.
• Storj — Fast, secure cloud storage at a fraction of the cost.
• Storj Warrant Canary
• How Decentralized Storage Works
• Duplicati — Free backup software to store encrypted backups online.
• Backup With Duplicati | Storj Docs
• Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes.
• Stingle Photos — Stingle Photos is a convenient, easy to use Gallery/Camera application with Backup and Sync functionality for your photos and videos which seamlessly provides strong security, privacy and encryption.
• Recommended way to use Syncthing for Photos Sync
• Lomorage — Free private photo cloud solution that puts you in control of your photos and videos.
• Lomorage and Photoprism
• pigallery2 — A fast directory-first photo gallery website, with rich UI, optimized for running on low resource servers.
• Photoview — Photoview is a simple and user-friendly photo gallery that's made for photographers and aims to provide an easy and fast way to navigate directories, with thousands of high-resolution photos.
• LibrePhotos — A self-hosted open source photo management service.
• LibrePhotos Feature Comparison
• UhuruPhotos — Android client for LibrePhotos
• docker-s3fs-client
• s3fs — FUSE-based file system backed by Amazon S3.
• rclone to Glacier
• CasaOs — Community-based open source software focused on delivering simple home cloud experience around Docker ecosystem.
• Nabu Casa
• Wazuh — Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.
• CrowdSec — Open-source and participative IPS able to analyze visitor behavior & provide an adapted response to all kinds of attacks.
• LINUX Unplugged at the Podcastindex.org

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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• NASA greenlights two new Mars helicopters and lengthens Perseverance’s resume — Perseverance’s high-flying robotic companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, has inspired the design of two future rotorcraft that would swerve over the Martian terrain to pick up other samples.
• Get your name in the hat for our JPL tour — Join the JB Crew at JPL! We only have 15 spots. Please enter your info, and our happy little python script might just pick your name from the virtual hat.
• Upcoming Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups
• remembertoremember on Twitter — I haven’t really had major Linux woes in a long time and I use new hardware with 4k but always shop with Linux in mind.
• New $160: Beelink MiniS Mini Pc with 11th Gen Processor N5095,8GB DDR4 128GB SSD Mini Desktop Computers
• Acer Switch One SW1-011 Intel Atom x5-Z8300 @ 1.44 GHz 2GB Ram 32GB Storage
• Lenovo IdeaPad 3 14IML05 14" 128GB SSD, Intel Pentium Gold, 2.40GHz, 4GB
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• nixos-generators — The nixos-generators project allows to take the same NixOS configuration, and generate outputs for different target formats.
• MinisForum DeskMini UM350 Ryzen Mini PC
• Dell Wyse 5070 thin client
• New Features in Linux Mint 21 ‘Vanessa’ Cinnamon Edition — Linux Mint 21 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop experience more comfortable.
• Linux Mint 21 Released - Built Atop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Office Hours 9 — We Hate Crypto Too
• ManageIQ
• Usermode FTP Server on Flathub
• gh4a — Github client for Android
• OctoDroid on F-Droid
• OctoDroid for GitHub
• JB Colony Matrix Meetup Rooms

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• Jupiter Broadcasting - Meetup.com
• London Meetup, Fri, Aug 5, 2022 - Meetup.com
• Google’s in-house desktop Linux - Computerworld — The best-known Google operating system is Chrome OS, but inside Google itself, the company also uses its own Linux desktop distro — gLinux.
• X220 - ThinkWiki — An overview of the ThinkPad X220
• The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love — I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But I’ve come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. But I just can’t stick with it. I always end up back on macOS. And I’m starting to understand why.
• Run Chrome in Toolbox on Silverblue
• Distrobox — Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with.
• Rclone — Rclone is a command-line program to manage files on cloud storage.
• Cryptomator - Free Cloud Encryption for Dropbox & Co — Cryptomator encrypts your data quickly and easily. Afterwards you upload them protected to your favorite cloud service.
• Cryptomator— Linux Apps on Flathub
• New Podcast Apps

Plus Chris' hands-on review of System76's customizable Launch keyboard.

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• Google Photos is so 2020—welcome to the world of self-hosted photo management | Ars Technica — Alex's comprehensive write-up for Ars.
• rclone Google Photos — The rclone backend for Google Photos is a specialized backend for transferring photos and videos to and from Google Photos.
• Launch keyboard — The Launch Configurable Keyboard is engineered to be comfortable, fully customizable, and make your workflow more efficient.
• Updated storage policy for Google Photos
• Plans & Pricing - Google One
• Install Google Photos Sync on Linux with a Snap
• How To Backup Google Photos To Your Computer With gphotos-sync
• Google Photos Sync — Google Photos Sync downloads your Google Photos to the local file system. It will backup all the photos the user uploaded to Google Photos, but also the album information and additional Google Photos 'Creations' (animations, panoramas, movies, effects and collages).
• Sync Google Photos to your Linux Desktop
• Photonix Photo Manager — Photonix is a photo management application that streamlines the process of storing, presenting and re-discovering photos.
• Photonix Demo
• LibrePhotos — A self-hosted open source photo management service.
• PhotoStructure — Self-hosted, easy to install, and effortless to run. PhotoStructure is your cloud that runs on your computer. Your data stays yours.
• Chevereto — Get your own turnkey image hosting system today. Start your own image sharing website with your own rules.
• Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right.
• PhotoPrism — PhotoPrism is a privately hosted app for browsing, organizing, and sharing your photo collection. It makes use of the latest technologies to tag and find pictures automatically without getting in your way.
• Piwigo — Piwigo is open source photo gallery software for the web. Designed for organisations, teams and individuals.
• FileRun File Manager — Self-Hosted File Sync and Sharing.
• exiftool - bulk join json with jpg from Google Takeout
• How To Correctly Export And Migrate Away From Google Photos
• FakeSlice — Discharge USB-C Power Banks before internal battery on newer ThinkPads.
• FOSS Talk Live — FOSS Talk Live 2021 is happening on 12th June at 7pm UK time!
• JB Telegram
• The Seasoned Tux Tee is on Sale

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.

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• KDE Begins Landing “Breeze Evolution” Refresh For Default Theme - Phoronix
• This week in KDE: Breeze Evolution work starts landing – Adventures in Linux and KDE
• Getting KDE onto commercial hardware [LWN.net]
• NVIDIA Unveils $59 USD Raspberry Pi Competitor With Jetson Nano 2GB
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Check out Coder Radio
• Unfilter.show
• LINUX Unplugged 362: The Hidden Cost of Nextcloud
• Nextcloud 20: One private cloud to rule them all | ZDNet
• New in Nextcloud 20
• Rclone — Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage
• Feedback: The Last Text Editor You’ll Ever Use
• Feedback: Next Generation of Linux Users
• Feedback: Nextcloud Todo system
• Feedback: Patreon and Memberful
• File Converter — Free and Unlimited File Conversions With No Download Needed, powered by WASM and FFMPEG
• ffmpeg.wasm: FFmpeg for browser and node, powered by WebAssembly

Plus System76's new software release, and Fedora's big decision.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.

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• System76 Blog — The New Firmware Manager — we’re excited to announce that you can now check and update firmware through Settings on Pop!_OS, and through the firmware manager GTK application on System76 hardware running other Debian-based distributions.
• pop-os/firmware-manager — Generic framework and GTK UI for firmware updates from system76-firmware and fwupd, written in Rust.
• Richard Brown on Twitter — Today I’m stepping down as openSUSE Chairman, leaving the Project in the fine hands of the openSUSE board and it’s new Chair, @GeraldPfeifer.
• Approved: Fedora 31 To Drop i686 Everything/Modular Repositories - Phoronix — The FESCo group gave their formal approval today for permitting these i686 repositories to be removed beginning with Fedora 31
• Jupiter Extras: Chris and Wes React to LINUX Unplugged — Nothing is worse than your past self. So we play old clips of LINUX Unplugged and react.
• Scan for network vulnerabilities w/ Nmap - Linux Academy YouTube — With data breaches becoming so common, it's vital to be proactive in finding and patching severe vulnerabilities on our system. One of the free/open-source ways you can scan for these vulnerabilities is by using Nmap.
• How to copy directories with SCP recursively tutorial - Linux AcademyYouTube — When working with servers you will often find yourself in a situation where you need to copy files from one machine to another. You can package them into a tarball and then copy a tarball over to a remote machine and then unpack it there. This is not a bad option but you can also use SCP to copy the files as they are and preserve the directory structure, without the need for packaging.
• Linux Archives – Linux Academy
• What’s Taking Wayland So Long? » Linux Magazine — Over the years, the project’s goals have evolved, but more or less remained: the development of a simpler, more efficient, and more secure display server.
• pp3345/gnome-with-patches Copr — This repo contains gnome-shell and mutter builds based on the official Fedora ones with some additional patches (mainly to improve performance).
• rafaelmardojai/firefox-gnome-theme — A GNOME👣 theme for Firefox🔥
• Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator — Tilix is an advanced GTK3 tiling terminal emulator that follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines.
• GNOME 3.34 Works Out Refined XWayland Support For X11 Apps Run Under Sudo - Phoronix — This allows the X11 clients to now work from a different VT without any extra environment variables set besides the DISPLAY. In other words, the same user on the same system can now more easily run clients with XWayland thanks to this commit coming late in the 3.34 cycle.
• The MATE Desktop Is Becoming Quite Usable On Wayland Via Mir - Phoronix — The MATE desktop is seeing Wayland support thanks to Mir doing the heavy lifting. This is also becoming one of the leading examples of Mir's use-case following Canonical engineers re-tooling their display server with Wayland support after pulling back from their original design goals around Ubuntu Touch and mobile/convergence.
• Plasma/Wayland Showstoppers - KDE Community Wiki — This page tracks the Wayland showstoppers through out the stack .
• Wayland misconceptions debunked | Drew DeVault’s Blog — This article has been on my backburner for a while, but it seems Wayland FUD is making the news again recently, so I’ve bumped up the priority a bit. For those new to my blog, I am the maintainer of wlroots, a library which implements much of the functionality required of a Wayland compositor and is arguably the single most influential project in Wayland right now; and sway, a popular Wayland compositor which is nearing version 1.0.
• Flameshot — Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software.
• Auto Move Windows - GNOME Shell Extensions — Move applications to specific workspaces when they create windows.
• Ed Therriault on Twitter — @ChrisLAS I’ve been out of the loop for a bit as I’ve been focusing on work and family but I need to know what’s a good incremental backup solution that will use very little storage. I’ll be uploading them to google drive. Ubuntu server 19. Thank you for your time.
• seemoo-lab/opendrop — An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python
• anirudhajith/process-wallpaper — Shell and python scripts that set the desktop wallpaper to a word cloud of the most resource-hungry processes.
• Huge Survey of Firmware Finds No Security Gains in 15 Years – The Security Ledger — A survey of more than 6,000 firmware images spanning more than a decade finds no improvement in firmware security and lax security standards for the software running connected devices by Linksys, Netgear and other major vendors.