547: Behind the Shelves
LINUX Unplugged
The Issue of Over Customization in Linux
This chapter discusses the impact of over customization in Linux, highlighting specific problems with the genome network indicator and the functionality of Firefox and Chrome browsers on Wayland. The speakers explore the balance between customization and reliability, as well as the potential causes of the issues.
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Data-hoard with purpose and manage your audiobooks and podcasts with one application, plus the lone Linux box that remains on Mars.
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- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- Jupiter Extras: Brunch With Brent: Tim Canham
- LINUX Unplugged 478: The Best of Both Worlds
- audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
- audiobookshelf showcase
- Self-Hosted 114: Unintended Consequences
- Libation: Liberate your Library — Free and open-source app to manage your Audible books. Fully supported on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
- OpenAudible Home — Download, Backup and Manage Audible Audiobook Libraries
- Readarr — Book Manager and Automation (Sonarr for Ebooks)
- r/audiobooks thread
- New Releases | Audiobooks.com
- New Audiobook Releases | Downpour.com
- Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups | Nothing Much Happens
- Announcing - First NixCon North America!
- NixCon NA 2024 Schedule is Live! — March 14 – 15, 2024
- Southern California Linux Expo 21
- 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM — The Yardhouse has always been a solid go-to, so sit down and break bread with the Unplugged crew during the lunch break on Saturday!
- Yard House Menu
- Administrator Bill Nelson announces the end of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter - YouTube — NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has announced that the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has come to an end. The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history by achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021. Despite initial plans for up to five flights, the helicopter has exceeded expectations and executed an impressive 72 flights on the Red Planet. NASA pays tribute to its accomplishments, which have far exceeded what was thought possible and have paved the way for future flights in our solar system.
- Legacy of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter - YouTube
- #ThanksIngenuity – NASA’s Mars Helicopter Team Says Goodbye - YouTube — The Mars Ingenuity Helicopter flew for the last time on Jan. 18, 2024, and NASA concluded its flight operations after post-flight imagery confirmed damage to at least one of the rotorcraft’s rotor blades that rendered it no longer capable of flight. As the historic mission comes to its end, Ingenuity’s team reflects on some of their favorite moments and memories from the helicopter’s time on Mars.
- Clear Course is Set for openSUSE Leap — The openSUSE release team confirms there will be a successor to Leap 15 and it’s a numerical leap forward.
- Zellij — A terminal workspace with batteries included
- nix-flatpak — Declarative flatpak manager for NixOS inspired by declarative-flatpak and nix-darwin's homebrew module. NixOs and home-manager modules are provided for system wide or user flatpaks installation.
- Smart AudioBook Player — The app is designed specially for playing audio books.
- ShelfPlayer — A beautifully designed Audiobookshelf client that feels right at home on iOS 17.
- hass-audiobookshelf — Adds sensors for an Audiobookshelf server to Home Assistant to show connection and active sessions
- LINUX Unplugged 522: Practical Privacy
- BadaBoomBooks: An audiobook organizer — Quickly organize audiobooks using a terminal and web-browser
- audiobookshelf-sonos: Play your audiobooks from Audiobookshelf on your Sonos speakers — A standalone server that adds support for listening to an Audiobookshelf library on Sonos speakers. Built on top of the Sonos Music API (SMAPI).
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