Nostalgia and Community: Reflections on CD Technology and LinuxFest 2025

We tested out the OpenWRT One and tried it in a unique use case. Then, Wes goes back to 1999 to solve a problem.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2025: Call for Speakers — Call closes at 11:59 PM PST on 2025-01-10. Conference is 2025-04-25 through 2025-04-27.
• Qobuz — Buy your favourite albums in CD or Hi-Res quality and enjoy them forever.
• Los Machucambos In Phase 4, Los Machucambos - Qobuz
• Los Machucambos – In Phase 4 – Vinyl (LP, Album, Stereo), 1961 [r5061780] | Discogs
• Los Machucambos - Wikipedia
• cdrdao: cdrdao is a free and open source utility software application for authoring and ripping of audio and data CD-ROMs
• cdrdao-pled: Portable Linux x86_64 pre-built download of the open source CD burning/ripping utility cdrdao that works on all modern Linux distros.
• freac.org: fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders
• k3b: Full-featured CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning and ripping application
• CD writing using cdrecord
• xfburn
• jlesage/docker-xfburn: Docker container for Xfburn
• OpenWrt One
• OpenWrt One Introduction
• Banana Pi OpenWrt One
• Banana Pi OpenWrt One PCBA Router Board
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• mjvc's 2014 nix config
• incus gpu docs
• veyman's immich-frame config
• GitHub - LACT: Linux GPU Configuration Tool
• exislow/tidal-dl-ng: Multithreaded TIDAL Media Downloader Next Generation! Up to HiRes Lossless / TIDAL MAX 24-bit, 192 kHz.
• ebb-earl-co/tidal-wave: Waving at the TIDAL music service
• DXX-Rebirth — DXX-Rebirth is a modern port of the Descent game engine, based on the late D1X and D2X source ports (which, in turn, were based on the original Descent source release and LDescent). The Rebirth Team has spent a lot of time working to improve the source code by fixing old bugs and adding some improvements, while always staying true to our philosophy: Keep it Descent!
• Descent on GOG.COM
• dxx-rebirth on GitHub