LINUX Unplugged

516: The Fixer-Upper

June 25th, 2023  |  1 hr 9 mins

EFF, Jupiter Broadcasting, NextCloud, Privacy, WireGuard, amd radeon, asus, cai, cyberattack, darknet diaries, data brokers, extreme privacy, gnome rdp, go2tv, grapheneos, have i been pwned, immich, linux, linux podcast, linux unplugged, moveit, nixos, obs, odni, pai, seedvault, self-hosting, stable diffusion, stalkerware, tailscale, 🦒

Chris tears into two old PCs, and builds a surprisingly powerful multi-monitor Wayland workstation.

513: There Is No Distro

June 4th, 2023  |  1 hr 1 min

Jupiter Broadcasting, Red Hat, WireGuard, build system, disko, distribution model, distro tooling, ktailctl, libreoffice, linux distro model, linux podcast, linux unplugged, live swap linux distributions, mesh vpn, netbird, nix, nix-portable, nixos, nixos anywhere, nixos foundation, nixos-anywhere, obsolete, production server, reproducibility, s3 costs, tailscale

We attempt to swap Linux distributions live on our production server, to prove that new tooling makes the Linux distro model obsolete.

504: It's a Trap!

April 2nd, 2023  |  1 hr 25 mins

Android Auto, Apple Watch, Carplay, Jupiter Broadcasting, NFC, NextCloud, Privacy, a-kenji, airplay, android, apple, apple tax, aurora store, berlin, berlin buds, berlin hackfest, c-base, chores, f-droid, gbyte, germany, gesture ui, gigatexel, giraffeneos, google pixel, grapheneos, icloud, immich, iodé, ios, kde, kde connect, libresign, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lock-in, matelight, media playback, nextcloud aio, nextcloud cookbook, nixos, pixel 7 pro, plasma, podman, security, sideloading, tailscale, value4value, 🦒

Why using the iPhone makes it harder to run Linux; Chris follows up on his four-month-long challenge to ditch iOS for GrapheneOS.

Plus, Brent's extended stay in Berlin has led to some developments you won't want to miss.

501: Fat Stacks for Flatpaks

March 12th, 2023  |  1 hr 15 mins

7 of 9, Gnome, Jupiter Broadcasting, LFNW, a better cd encoder, abcde, alby, austria meetup, breez wallet, canada, castamatic, coffee in that nebula, collabora, debian, ds9, endlessos, enterprise boost, essentialism, ferangi, flathub, flatpaks, foss, fountain charts, future of flathub, gnome foundation, grapheneos, gtk4, gui, ibook, kde, latinum, linux desktop, linux distro, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxfest northwest 2023, moldova, ontario, québec, robert mcqueen, rules of acquisition, sparc, sun, tailscale, tray icon, trayscale, universal app store, windows unplugged, yellow dog linux, zfs, zip code boost

Robert McQueen shares the inside scoop on Flathub’s ambitious plans to create a universal app store for all distros—and we ask the hard questions.

489: Brent's Secret Emails

December 18th, 2022  |  1 hr 30 mins

Btrfs, Canonical, Flatpak, Jupiter Broadcasting, NextCloud, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, VirtualBox, Wayland, activitypub, android, aosp, apple, arch linux, brently, clonezilla, clown show, cow, dave, dns, element, ergodox, fedora, fosdem, giraffeneos, gnome boxes, google, grapheneos, i3, iPhone, let's encrypt, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mastodon, matrix, nextcloud talk, nix, nixos, nixpkgs, nobara linux, owntracks, playstore, retro kde theming, rsync, smarttubenext, snapshots, sway, tailscale, tiling window manager, tumbleweed, virtualization, waze, xfs, yast, zfs, zfs-on-root, zsys, 🦒

Brent's been hiding your emails; we confront him and expose what he's been keeping from the show.

487: The Debian Debate

December 4th, 2022  |  1 hr 54 mins

Airdrop, Android Auto, Encryption, Flatpak, Jupiter Broadcasting, NextCloud, OpenSUSE, Privacy, WireGuard, android, android updates, backup, battery life, boosts, brent, chris, dashcam, debian, distro comparison, duplicati, file sharing tool, flathub, follow up, follow-up, free devices, google, google location data, google play services, grapheneos, honeymoon phase, iPhone, ipad, kde, leap, linux, linux desktop, linux podcast, linux talk show, linux unplugged, location data, lup, manjaro, mesh vpn, mumble room, p7 pro, picks, pixel 7, plasma, podcast, protests in china, proton, screen time, security, self-hosted model, solving problems phase, steam, tailscale, tesla, transition to linux, tumbleweed, virtual lug, vpn, wes, youtube

After nearly half a year of woe, Brent is ready to give Linux the go. Join us as we compare and contrast two Linux distros and end up with one going on Brent's machine.

486: Goodbye, Google

November 27th, 2022  |  1 hr 34 mins

Android Auto, Flatpak, Gnome, Jupiter Broadcasting, NextCloud, OpenSUSE, Privacy, android, android alternative, aosp, app sandbox, apple, caldav, carddav, computer chronicles, davx5, debian, deebian, degoogle, devone, firefox, frog, geocache, gif, google play, grapheneos, iPhone, image restoration, image upscaling, intel 486, ios, jnome, kde, linux podcast, linux unplugged, maps, mobile, n.eko, newpipe, nostr, nvidia, photo sync, pixel, pixel 7 pro, pixel buds, plasma, play services, security, tailscale, tender owl, text extraction, tumbleweed, tuxedo computers, tuxedo os, upscaler, webdav, x86

Chris ditches the iPhone and switches to GrapheneOS, a security and privacy-focused project that lets you take control back from Google.

473: End of the Road

August 28th, 2022  |  1 hr 23 mins

Endless, Flatpak, Gnome, Jupiter Broadcasting, WireGuard, barrier, cassidy james blaede, colo, dark mode, dell xps, email, endless os, espanso, eula, evolution, flathub, framasoft, gnome-info-collect, gnu guix, googerteller, ham radio, immutability, jpl, keybase, linux podcast, linux unplugged, meetups, mesh network, metrics, mobilizon, mumble, nebula, offline os, ostree, security, server, tailscale, telemetry, textexpander, thunderbird, torrent, visidata, vpn

We've reached the end of the road in our immutable Linux series, and an old friend stops by to give us the inside scoop on Endless OS.

468: The Read Only Scenario

July 24th, 2022  |  1 hr 30 mins

Flatpak, Jupiter Broadcasting, XFCE, apt, bottles, bulletproof, darktable, dnf, endless os, fedora, fish, flathub, holoiso, hp, hpe, image-based, immutable os, impervious, kexec, kinoite, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nix, nixos, ostree, overlay, package management, raspberry pi, rollback, rpm-ostree, sata hat, self-hosted, silverblue, steam deck, steam deck guide, tailscale, transactional, uefi firmware, ventoy

A fundamental change is coming to desktop Linux, and Silverblue might be our hint at where things are going.

459: Better than Butter

May 22nd, 2022  |  58 mins 31 secs

Btrfs, Encryption, Jupiter Broadcasting, Pop!_OS, Raid, System76, WireGuard, arm, bcachefs, briar, compression, cow, erasure coding, filesystem, flat network, hp, hp dev one, kent overstreet, lineageos, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mesh network, nixos, nvidia, nvme, opensats, pine64, radeon, ramos gin fizz, rust, snapshots, tailscale, tow-boot, zerotier, zfs

We take a sneak peek at some future tech coming to Linux, and share details on HP's new laptop that runs POP!