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Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• SCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"
• PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
• Pasadena Linux Party Meetup
• Valve explains why it hasn’t announced release dates for its new hardware, now plans for “first half of the year” — Valve now says all three products will ship “in the first half of the year.”
• Latest VirtualBox Code Begins Supporting KVM Backend — Support for KVM or other native OS hypervisors in conjunction with VirtualBox has long been sought and it's finally becoming a reality.
• bcachefs-tools v1.36.1 — Interactive TUI for monitoring various filesystem internals, slowpaths and device performance, with duration and frequency tracking for various events. Helpful for diagnosing performance issues.
• bcachefs v1.36.1 is out - next release will be erasure coding : r/bcachefs
• bcachefs PSA: if you're on 1.33-1.35, upgrade asap — Several people have been hit by this, so - please upgrade asap.
• Mattermost — Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.
• Debian's CI Data No Longer Publicly Browseable Due To LLM Scrapers / Bot Traffic
• Venice AI - Private AI for Unlimited Creative Freedom
• ThinkBox V2 - A Custom 4-Bay SATA/SAS HDD NAS for Your Lenovo M720Q
• Code for Climate 2026 — The Mad Botter Earth Day Open Source Challenge — We're doing our Earth Day open-source competition again The Mad Botter INC. Once again featuring System76 hardware and this time with dual tracks for college and non-college students.
• Michael Dominick on X - Earth Day Open Source Challenge
• Red5d/podcast_mcp — MCP server for accessing Podcasting 2.0 RSS feed episode data. "I've really only tested it with JB feeds!"
• Pick: Plexus — Remove the fear of Android app compatibility on de-Googled devices.
• Plexus-app: GitHub
• Pick: ReinschriftTodo — Reinschrift combines a native GNOME interface with the simplicity of plain text. Your tasks remain a normal Markdown file – easy to back up, versionable via Git, and editable on any device with your favorite editor.
• Reinschrift on Flathub

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• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Podverse — A FOSS podcast manager for iOS, Android, F-Droid, and web.
• Podverse - GitHub
• Texas Linux Festival 2025 - CFP extended to August 18!
• Nix Pipe Operator by piegamesde [RFC 0148]
• libexpr: experimental pipe operators by rhendric
• Nix Vegas on GitHub
• NixVegas/badge — Rebuild the world at DEF CON with the Nix Badge
• AND!XOR 5n4ck3y
• ANDnXOR/ANDnXOR_DC33_Badge
• NixOS Search - Packages - ztool
• ChrisLAS/hyprvibe — Chris' vibed-only, riced-up Hyprland desktop running atop NixOS.
• crush — The glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal 💘
• Cursor - The AI Code Editor
• Void: an open source Cursor alternative
• gerbrent/storenix — NixOS configs for a store, containing two locations and multiple hosts. Please help me!
• Listener Javier @hacker.bikepacker - Instagram
• Listener Javier @hacker.bikepacker - YouTube
• HomeBox — A simple home inventory management software
• sysadminsmedia/homebox — A continuation of HomeBox the inventory and organization system built for the Home User
• Forester Notes
• Designing tools for scientific thought
• jimsalterjrs/sanoid: — policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools which use OpenZFS for underlying next-gen storage.
• btrbk — Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes
• Breez - Bitcoin in Every App
• gPodder - Music Assistant
• GeneBean's Linux-specific NixOS aliases — GeneBean's MacOS-specific NixOS aliases
• GeneBean's MacOS-specific NixOS aliases
• Alby Hub — Alby Hub is a self-custodial, open source lightning wallet that connects to apps
• Pick: ffshare — An android app to compress image, video and audio files through ffmpeg before sharing them
• Pick: Actual Budget — Actual Budget is a super fast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances. At its heart is the well proven and much loved Envelope Budgeting methodology.
• SimpleFIN
• Connect to your bank - SimpleFIN Bridge