LINUX Unplugged

407: And the Answer is...

May 25th, 2021  |  1 hr 16 mins

Btrfs, Centos, Jupiter Broadcasting, Microsoft, Mycroft, Siri, ThinkPad, Ubuntu, WSL, WireGuard, alexa, ama, apple, ask me anything, ask us anything, bcachefs, dns, docker, domain names, emp, expanse, foss, gaming, hammer2, homelab, iain banks, linux desktop, linux podcast, lithium batteries, macos, music, nebula, networking, open source, origin story, pci passthrough, pop! shell, raspberry pi, ronald jenkees, rv, sci-fi, smart assistant, solar, solar storm, steam, sysadmin, termbin, tiling, vpn, wslg, zfs

From our origins with Linux to preparing your home LAN for a solar storm, it’s an Ask us Anything special edition!

384: Born To Run Fedora

December 15th, 2020  |  1 hr 5 mins

2020 tuxies, Btrfs, Centos, Jupiter Broadcasting, Lenovo, Red Hat, ThinkPad, academic tuxies, arch linux, arch server, centos stream, clipboard sharing, cloudlinux, dendrite, fedora, fractal, gentoo, glances, intel, linux podcast, matrix, nheko, openzfs, pbgopy, project lenix, rust, snapper, synapse, system monitoring, this week in matrix, thunderbolt, top, unplugged, x1 carbon, zfs

It's light as a feather, fast as hell, and everything is upstream. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon ships with Fedora, and this week we put it to the test.

382: A New Endeavour

December 1st, 2020  |  1 hr 7 mins

Jupiter Broadcasting, XFCE, antergos, apple silicon, arch, calamares, corsair, endeavouros, gallery-dl, gnome 40, gnome circle, haruna, hector martin, l2arc, linux laptops, linux podcast, m1, mpv, mutter, openzfs, pro1 x smartphone, reflector, rf headphones, terminal-centric distro, tuxies, unplugged, xda, zareason, zfs, zstandard

A problem that just kept getting worse and worse. What it was, and why it led us to "check in" on EndeavourOS.

373: Your New Tools

September 29th, 2020  |  1 hr 5 mins

Btrfs, Dell, Encryption, Jupiter Broadcasting, Lenovo, Microsoft, ThinkPad, WSL, Wayland, backup, compression, copy-on-write, cow, fedora, fedora 33, linux podcast, linux vendor firmware service, lvfs, raspberry pi 4, replication, richard hughes, rsync, send and receive, thunderbolt 4, unplugged, weston, windows, wslg, x11, xen, xps 13, zfs

We embrace new tools to upgrade your backup game, securely move files around the network, and debunk the idea that Windows will ever be based on Linux.

362: The Hidden Cost of Nextcloud

July 14th, 2020  |  1 hr 3 mins

Digital Ocean, Dropbox, Jupiter Broadcasting, Lenovo, NextCloud, ThinkPad, a cloud guru, arch server, aur helpers, debian, dirk hohndel, egpu, email, file storage, file syncing, firmware, fwupd, git, i3, ibm, kernel name, linus torvalds, linux kernel development, linux laptops, linux podcast, luplug, object storage, open source summit, pop!_os shell, postgresql, s3, saying no, secret codename, software maintenance, spaces, subsurface, syncthing, thermal throttling, thunderbolt, tiling window managers, unix surplus, unplugged, vmware, yay, zfs

Our team has been using Nextcloud to replace Dropbox for over a year, we report back on what has worked great, and what's not so great.

358: Our Fragmented Favorite

June 16th, 2020  |  1 hr 13 mins

Btrfs, Falcon 9, Flatpak, Jupiter Broadcasting, Librem 5, Purism, a cloud guru, accesibility, apple, checksums, containers, copy on write, cow, crew dragon, data integrity, disk layout, disk partitioning, disk space, docker, ext4, facebook, fedora, fedora workstation, filesystem, gimp, github, linux podcast, lvm, macos, master, matt ahrens, media production, mobile, nvme, phone, phosh, pine64, pinephone, pinetab, pipewire, postmarketos, preempt, proprietary software, python, redis, rich bowen, ruby, snapshots, spacex, ssd, starlink, unplugged, welcoming nomenclature, windows, xfs, zfs

It's time to challenge some long-held assumptions.

Today's Btrfs is not yesterday's hot mess, but a modern battle-tested filesystem, and we'll prove it.

Plus our thoughts on GitHub dropping the term "master", and the changes Linux should make NOW to compete with commercial desktops.

356: Linux Hardware Love

June 2nd, 2020  |  1 hr 3 mins

10nm, 4k, Barton George, Btrfs, Dell, Gnome, Jupiter Broadcasting, Privacy, Project Sputnik, Ubuntu, Wine, a cloud guru, arm, battery life, developer edition, face id, fingerprint reader, gaming, gnome foundation, howdy, ice lake, infrared, intel, killer wifi, linux kernel 5.7, linux podcast, lvm, neil mcgovern, new xps, open source, pine64, pinebook pro, python, rockpro64, rothschild patent imaging, rpi, seccomp, snakeware, software patents, syscalls, thermal pressure, unplugged, wifi, windows, x11, xfs, xps, xps 13, zfs

From the low-end to the high-end we try out both ends of the Linux hardware spectrum. Wes reviews the latest XPS 13, and Chris shares his thoughts on the Pinebook Pro.

355: Chris' Data Crisis

May 26th, 2020  |  57 mins 35 secs

Btrfs, Jupiter Broadcasting, a cloud guru, arp, backups, booting, data integrity, dnsmasq, ext4, filesystems, fing, firehol, fireqos, firmware, hardware, linssid, linux podcast, mac address, netdiscover, networking, nmap, opnsense, pfsense, raspberry pi 4, smokeping, speedtest, tcpdump, unplugged, usb boot, vim, vimkiller, vpn, wavemon, wfh, wifi, wireless, wireless networking, wireshark, working from home, zfs

Chris' tale of woe after a recent data loss, and Wes' adventure after he finds a rogue device on his network.

352: Three Course Battery

May 5th, 2020  |  1 hr 6 mins

Coreboot, Jupiter Broadcasting, System76, WireGuard, a cloud guru, arch, audio recorder, battery life, ffmpeg, high quality camera, inkscape 1.0, intel comet lake, jeremy soller, labtop, lemur pro, linux laptop, linux podcast, manjaro, open firmware, philip muller, pulseaudio, raspberry pi camera, sound recorder, star labs, tailscale, unplugged, usb-c, zfs

Manjaro has a new hardware partner so Phillip joins to share the details, and we have the Lemur Pro in house for a battery endurance test like no other.

350: Focal Focus

April 21st, 2020  |  1 hr 12 mins

3mux, Jupiter Broadcasting, Mate, Pop!_OS, WSL, a cloud guru, arch, bleachbit, budgie, erofs, exfat, fedora 32, feral interactive, focal fossa, gamemode, gnome 3.36, grub, i3, kde, kernel lockdown, kubuntu, kwin, kwinft, lemur pro, linux laptop, linux podcast, lts, luplug, pacat, plasma, pop shell, pulseaudio, roman gilg, snapshots, system 76, teletype, tiling, tmux, tuxedo control center, ubuntu 20.04, ubuntu studio, unplugged, virtio-fs, xfs, xubuntu, yaru, zfs, zsys

The latest Ubuntu LTS is here, but does it live up to the hype? And how practical are the new ZFS features? We dig into the performance, security, and stability of Focal Fossa.