Release Schedules, Grist, and License Approach Discussion

ESPHome dev dishes on device updates, Immich license drama heats up, Alex's DIY server fix, and Chris reports on mobile tech trip test.

Special Guest: Keith Burzinski.

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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries.
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
• Kelly Vaughn on X — How a massive publicly traded company is only going to just now start doing canary deployments is so far beyond my comprehension…
• MoKo 400x300mm DIY PC Case Dust Mesh Filter — A custom magnetic dust filter for the Sliger CX4712 server case.
• Licensing announcement - Purchase a license to support Immich! — With those notes, we have enabled a way for you to financially support the continued development of Immich, ensuring the software can move forward and will be maintained, by offering a lifetime license of the software. We think if you like and use software, you should pay for it, but we're never going to force anyone to pay or try to limit Immich for those who don't.
• Wording change and clarification for purchasing Immich — I thought about it when I went to bed, I thought about it in my dream, I thought about it while doing the dishes. Taking into consideration all of your feedback and suggestions, and on behalf of the team, I am happy to show you what we came up with.
• LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Deploying NixOS Anywhere - YouTube — NixOS, the declarative operating system taking the world by storm, can be challenging to deploy on many hosting providers. In this talk, we'll unlock the full potential of NixOS by exploring how its unique architecture enables installation just about anywhere—from bare metal and VMs to a VPS provider near you.
• nixos-infect — A script to install NixOS on non-NixOS hosts.
• simple-nixos-mailserver
• Docker-OSX — Run Mac OS X in Docker with near-native performance! X11 Forwarding! iMessage security research! iPhone USB working! macOS in a Docker container!
• Moshidon for Mastodon - Apps on Google Play — Moshidon is a modified version of the official Mastodon Android app adding important features that are missing in the official app, such as the federated timeline, unlisted posting and an image description viewer.
• SchildiChat — SchildiChat is a feature-rich messenger for Matrix based on Element with some extras and tweaks.
• SendGrid — Email API and Email Marketing Campaigns
• SSH 128 Boost Barn — Thank you Boosters!