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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LINUX Unplugged TUI Challenge Rules
• darnir's TUI Report
• zee — A modern text editor for the terminal written in Rust
• Helix Editor
• Browsh — fully-modern text-based browser
• ddgr — 🦆 DuckDuckGo from the terminal
• Ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console — Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy.
• Joshuto — Ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust
• tenere — 🤖 TUI interface for LLMs written in Rust
• elia — A snappy, keyboard-centric terminal user interface for interacting with large language models. Chat with ChatGPT, Claude, Llama 3, Phi 3, Mistral, Gemma and more.
• kpxhs — Interactive Keepass database TUI viewer
• keepass-mode — Emacs mode to open KeePass DB
• gocheat — A beautiful customizable TUI Cheatsheet for keybindings,hotkeys and more in the terminal
• castero: — TUI podcast client for the terminal
• textual-web — Run TUIs and terminals in your browser
• todoist: Todoist CLI Client. — Todoist is a cool TODO list web application. This program will let you use the Todoist in CLI.
• gomuks/gomuks: A TUI Matrix client — A Matrix client written in Go using mautrix.
• orf/gping: Ping, but with a graph
• impala — 🛜 TUI for managing wifi on Linux
• cmus - C\* Music Player — cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
• systemctl-tui — A fast, simple TUI for interacting with systemd services and their logs.
• tdf — A tui-based PDF viewer
• rainfrog — 🐸A database management TUI
• jqp — A TUI playground to experiment with jq
• andcli — A 2FA TUI for your shell
• iamb — A Matrix client for Vim addicts
• parllama — TUI for ollama and other LLM providers.
• russ — A TUI RSS reader with vim-like controls and a local-first, offline-first focus
• ytui-music — Youtube client in terminal for music (lightweight youtube client)
• wiki-tui — A simple and easy to use Wikipedia Text User Interface
• tuifeed — 📰 A terminal feed reader with a fancy ui
• yazi — 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
• vault-tasks — TUI Markdown Task Manager
• Don's TUI Challenge blog — #TUIChallenge
• Shyfox's TUI Challenge results
• Himalaya — CLI to manage emails, based on email-lib
• jellyfin-tui — Jellyfin music streaming client for the terminal.
• Alacritty — A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
• apple/containerization — Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS. Containerization is written in Swift and uses Virtualization.framework on Apple silicon.
• Pick: somo — A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• NixOS is interesting, but has fatal flaws
• LUP 600 meetups!
• Planet Nix — March 6-7, Before and Alongside SCaLE
• SCALE 22x — March 6-9, 2025 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA.
• LFNW2025 - "25 Years of Community Excellence" — April 25 - 27, 2025
• Nix - Death by a thousand cuts — TLDR: In its current state (2025), I don't generally recommend desktop use of Nix(OS), even for seasoned Linux users.
• Rich Hickey: Simple Made Easy — Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path.
• Simple Made Easy Transcript
• Ansible is a Lisp
• Should I use NixOS? Short answer: no. — If words like "declarative", "generational", and "immutable" don't put your sexuality in jeopardy, you're considering NixOS for the wrong reasons.
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• OliveTin/OliveTin: OliveTin gives safe and simple access to predefined shell commands from a web interface.
• Pick: isd — Simplify systemd management with isd! isd is a TUI offering fuzzy search for units, auto-refreshing previews, smart sudo handling, and a fully customizeable interface for power-users and newcomers alike.
• Pick: planify — Task manager with Todoist & Nextcloud support designed for GNOME
• Pick: Super Productivity — A to do list to get your head free
• Super Productivity on Flathub
• Super Productivity GitHub — Keep organized and focused!
• LUP 553: Portably Predictable Productivity

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• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups — Two April Meetups: Raleigh - April 8th and Olympia - April 29th.
• LinuxFest Northwest on Twitter — Call for Speakers is open from March 5th through June 4th, so if you are interested in being a speaker please submit a proposal now!
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023: Call for Speakers
• Logseq — A privacy-first, open-source knowledge base. Logseq is the open toolbox for workflows that deal with lots of information.
• logseq-publish — Publish your Logseq graph with a GitHub Action.
• logseq-schrodinger — A plugin to export pages in Logseq to Hugo.
• logseq-searchable — A quick utility to conduct OCR parsing on images and insert the result as a property.
• SimpleX Chat — The first messenger without user IDs.
• SimpleX on Google Play
• SimpleX APK
• SimpleX on iOS
• SimpleX TestFlight preview for iOS
• SimpleX CLI
• SimpleXMQ — A reference implementation of the SimpleX Messaging Protocol for simplex queues over public networks.
• LFNW Matrix Chat
• gping — Ping, but with a graph.
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Pick: Codex.docs — Free Docs app powered by Editor.js ecosystem
• Editor.js — Free block-style editor with a universal JSON output

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• bucklespring — This project emulates the sound of my old faithful IBM Model-M space saver bucklespring keyboard.
• Valve’s Steam Data For December Points To A Huge Dip For Linux Gaming Marketshare
• Valve Revises Steam’s December 2020 Linux Marketshare To 0.74% — Valve has updated their numbers and point to Linux still regressing percentage-wise but not as bad as originally reported.
• Linus Torvalds On The Importance Of ECC RAM, Calls Out Intel’s “Bad Policies” Over ECC — "The arguments against ECC were always complete and utter garbage... Now even the memory manufacturers are starting to do ECC internally because they finally owned up to the fact that they absolutely have to."
• Microsoft is building a new Outlook app for Windows and Mac powered by the web — Project Monarch is the end-goal for Microsoft's "One Outlook" vision, which aims to build a single Outlook client that works across PC, Mac, and the Web.
• Bug: Mailspring is an abandoned project. · Issue #2231 · Foundry376/Mailspring · GitHub
• Taking FOSDEM online via Matrix — FOSDEM will have its own dedicated Matrix server at fosdem.org.
• KDE Plasma 5.20.5 Released as the Last in the Series, Update Now — The Plasma-NetworkManager applet received a fix for an issue with the password entry jumping to different networks when searching for Wi-Fi networks.
• KDE Plasma 5.21 Desktop Environment to Ship with a New System Monitor App — The Plasma System Monitor app promises not only a fancier and modern user interface, but also a simpler way for monitoring system resources on your KDE Plasma-based GNU/Linux distribution.
• Get openSUSE
• SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE Wiki
• New Core Contributor Promo Code: 2021
• Planner — Task manager with Todoist support designed for GNU/Linux 🚀.
• AUR (en) - elementary-planner
• Tuxies Feedback
• Tuxies Voting Suggestion
• Feedback: Gnome 40 Changes

Also Google subtracts Plus, some KDE and GNOME news, and a bit of forgotten Linux history.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Andy Grover, and Martin Wimpress.

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• IRL Glasses
• Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public — Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social network and then opted not to disclose the issue this past spring, in part because of fears that doing so would draw regulatory scrutiny and cause reputational damage, according to people briefed on the incident and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
• Project Strobe — The consumer version of Google+ currently has low usage and engagement: 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds.
• Google Has 'No Plans' to Enable Chrome Hardware Acceleration on Linux
• KDE Plasma 5.14 — A lot of work has gone into improving Discover, Plasma's software manager, and, among other things, we have added a Firmware Update feature and many subtle user interface improvements to give it a smoother feel.
• Farewell, application menus! — These menus have been with us since the beginning of the GNOME 3.0 series, but we’re planning on retiring them for the next GNOME release (version 3.32).
• Creative Selection (Audiobook) by Ken Kocienda
• Eazel - Wikipedia — Eazel was founded by Andy Hertzfeld in August 1999 in Mountain View, California. It had 22 initial employees and raised $12 million from a number of venture capital investment companies
• Eazel launches Nautilus software then lays off 40 workers — After releasing the first version of its new Nautilus open-source desktop software with much fanfare Monday, Eazel Inc. bit the bullet just a day later and laid off more than half of its 70-member staff
• Jobs at Linux Academy
• Andy Grover (@iamagrover) — Hacks on @StratisStorage at Red Hat, and has other creative dreams too. Bass. Rustlang. Mostly cat and political retweets these days.
• Stratis Storage (@StratisStorage) — Easy to use local storage for Linux.
• Stratis Storage Project Page
• Stratis: Easy local storage management for Linux [LWN.net] — Stratis is a new local storage-management solution for Linux. It can be compared to ZFS, Btrfs, or LVM. Its focus is on simplicity of concepts and ease of use, while giving users access to advanced storage features. Internally, Stratis's implementation favors tight integration of existing components instead of the fully-integrated, in-kernel approach that ZFS and Btrfs use.
• XFS vs EXT4 – Comparing MongoDB Performance on AWS EC2 — In performance terms, XFS is indeed a force multiplier when paired with high speed disks that it can take real advantage from. For low to mid-end systems, it doesn’t seem to be able to do much to improve your performance.
• Todoist for Linux, an electron wrapper for the official Todoist web app. — Todoist for Linux, an electron wrapper for the official Todoist web app.