LINUX Unplugged

654: Creating Discord in the Matrix

February 15th, 2026  |  1 hr 24 mins

5g, age verification, alby, bcachefs, booklog, btrfs, casaos, christian brauner, clan, clan.lol, connectten fortress router, copy-on-write, data privacy, decentralized, discord, element, ext4, face scanning, federation, fediverse, filesystem, fountain, jb meetup, jupiter broadcasting, kernel, kyc, linux 7.0, linux kernel, linux meetup, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lte, matrix, matrix server, mattermost, mobile internet router, network discovery, nixos, nixos framework, nmap, nullfs, open source, open source community, open_tree_namespace, openclaw, openwrt, personal library, pivot_root, planet nix, privacy, project hydra, prometheus, raspberry pi, rv internet, scale, self-hosted, self-hosted communities, switch_root, synapse, tablet as monitor, tablet as second screen, the structural spacer, thinkbox, truenas scale, vfs, virtual file system, wan redundancy, weylus, whosthere, xfs, zfs, zimaos

We were minutes away from shutting down our Matrix server when the Discord news hit. Now we’re not just keeping it, we’re doubling down. Can open source seize this moment?

644: The People's Filesystem

December 7th, 2025  |  1 hr 24 mins

bazzite, bcachefs, bcachefs 1.33, boosties 2025, copy-on-write, cow filesystem, dkms, dotfiles, dotfiles installer, dotfiles manager, filesystem, gpl filesystem, gui ssh config editor, holiday homelab, jupiter broadcasting, kent overstreet, linux filesystem, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lubelogger, mcp server, nixos, open source, open source developer, proxmox, proxmox-nixos, reconcile, ssh-studio, the people’s filesystem, valve, vehicle maintenance tracker, zfs

Kent Overstreet joins us for a full update on bcachefs. What’s new, what’s next, and the surprising upside of getting kicked out of the kernel.

627: The 2 a.m. Rescue

August 10th, 2025  |  1 hr 24 mins

aaron asks, actual budget, ai coding, alby hub, bpftune, breez, btrbk, btrfs, conference, crush, cursor, ffmpeg, ffshare, flake system, forester, gpodder, gpt5, homebox, hyprland desktop, hyprvibe, ikea speakers, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, llm, music assistant, nix, nix optimizations, nix rescue, nixos, notes, open source, podverse, reproducible badge, rice, simplefin, sonos, system tweaks, texas linux festival, txlf, v4v, vegas, vibe coding, void, waybar rice, yolo, zen kernel, zfs, zram

Wes performs a 2 a.m. rescue at DEFCON, and Chris attempts to build a Linux desktop using nothing but vibes.

626: The Btrfs Blues

August 3rd, 2025  |  1 hr 9 mins

academic publishing, airplay, airplay support, boot failure, btrfs, btrfs corruption, btrfs rescue, bug reports, chawan, chromecast, data loss, duckstation, esp32, file deletion, file system, filesystem log tree, flatpak, fossy, fsync failure, heliumos, home assistant, home assistant gradual volume control, home assistant voice, homepods, inode handling, journal mismatch, jupiter broadcasting, kde-control-station, kernel bug, lightning, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux unplugged, log replay, log tree, mount failure, music assistant, note-taking, notes, open source, plausible slop, plex, plex media downloader, plexripper, rust-motd, rustdress, silverbullet, sonos, speaker sync, stable kernel, streaming tips, symfonisk, todo, unclean shutdown, zero links, zfs, zotero

A Btrfs bug that bites is in the wild, and we discover whole home audio that works like a charm.

602: The BSD Humbling

February 16th, 2025  |  1 hr 7 mins

add water, ardour, audible, audiobookshelf, bhyve, dj khaled, doas, flox, framework, freebsd, freebsd challenge, ghostbsd, hedgedoc, jails, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, launch, libation, libluksde, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxulator-steam-utils, mate, mizutamari, music assistant, nes, netbsd, planet nix, podman, retro gaming, scale, snes, syncthing, tailscale, zfs, 👻, 🚀

Our FreeBSD Challenge comes to a close, and chances are one of us will be paying the Windows tax.

601: Taming the Demons

February 9th, 2025  |  1 hr 8 mins

bsd battlestation, flox, freebsd, freebsd challenge, garmindb, ghostbsd, jupiter broadcasting, kexec, lfnw, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nixos analogy, planet nix, podman, prime episode, raspberry pi 400, rc.conf, shower thoughts pen, showtoshi, zach mitchell, zfs

It's week one of our FreeBSD challenge, and for one of us, that penalty Windows install looks uncomfortably close!

Plus, Zach Mitchell joins us to update us on Planet Nix.

598: Not Your Distrohopper's Distro

January 19th, 2025  |  1 hr 23 mins

ansible, declaritive, desktop linux, docker, immutable, isd, jupiter broadcasting, lfnw, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxfest northwest, lup 600, nextcloud, nix, nixos, notepad next, passkey, planet nix, planify, scale, super productivity, todoist, tuxies, ubuntu declarative donkey, zen kernel, zfs, 🫏

With more criticisms of NixOS than ever—do they have a point? We'll dig into the tough critiques and give our perspective.

596: Perilously Pontificated Predictions

January 5th, 2025  |  1 hr 15 mins

32-bit, ai os, automotive linux, bcachefs, cosmic desktop, debian, deepin, enclosed, fountain, ingenuity, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, magi os, makululinux, nixos, nvk, risc-v, rocky linux, steamos, ubuntu core desktop, zfs

We make our big Linux predictions for 2025, but first, we score how we did for 2024.

549: Will it Nixcloud?

February 11th, 2024  |  1 hr 34 mins

all-in-one, ansible, app store, arion, autotier, backups, bcachefs, btrfs, carplay, collabora, configuration management, container management, containers, cow, cs go, declarative configuration, docker, docker compose, gaming on linux, gigabyte, grafana, haskell, hercules ci, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux truths, linux unplugged, lxc, lxd, mac trashcan, minecraft, monitoring, nagios, netdata, nextcloud, nextcloud apps, nextcloudpi, nginx, nixos, nvme, php, podman, podverse, postgresql, ram-only distro challenge, redis, reproducibility, s3, self-hosting, snap, snap package, snowflake os, systemd, the nix way, tiered storage, traefik, trunas scale, unraid, vr on linux, will it nix?, windows, yaml, zfs

Deploying Nextcloud the Nix way promises a paradise of reproducibility and simplicity. But is it just a painful trek through configuration hell? We built the dream Nextcloud using Nix and faced reality.

545: 3,062 Days Later

January 14th, 2024  |  57 mins 15 secs

32-bit challenge, bbs, bcache, bcachefs, boosts, btrfs, caching, car camping, checksumming, ci, community, compression, copy on write, cow, database, encryption, erasure coding, filesystems, jupiter broadcasting, kent overstreet, linus, linux, linux podcast, linux unplugged, low latency, modern filesystem, nixos, performance, raid, raspberry pi, reliability, replication, rust, scalability, scale, snapshots, tail latency, technology, upstreaming, write hole, xfs, zfs

Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.