Explore the allure of Google and Apple's AI developments. Delve into the chaos of Florida Man Games and Google's disastrous chatbot. Uncover the implications of AI on coding and the future of development. Discuss market responses to Google's failures and the need for strategic overhaul. Dive into diverse topics like Zoom meetings, time management, and the affordability of electric cars.

Corporate AI is a hot mess, but open-source alternatives can be open-ended chaos. We’ll test some of the best ways to get local AI tools under your control.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Warp Terminal: Warp - the re-imagined terminal now available for Linux with multiple distributions available including Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Arch Linux.FlakeHub.com: FlakeHub.com is the all-in-one platform for secure, compliant, and transformative Nix development. Bring Nix to work the way you always wanted with FlakeHub.com. Register for the private beta and get a secure, compliance-friendly Nix and all the support you need.Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM First NixCon North America! Southern California Linux Expo 21 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM Yard House Menu Fountain.fm Google halts Gemini image generation to fix White balance — Google has suspended availability of text-to-image capabilities in its recently released Gemini multimodal foundational AI model, after it failed to accurately represent White Europeans and Americans in specific historical contexts. Stable Diffusion 3 — The Stable Diffusion 3 suite of models currently ranges from 800M to 8B parameters. This approach aims to align with our core values and democratize access, providing users with a variety of options for scalability and quality to best meet their creative needs. Deedy on X — Stable Diffusion 3 launched today and may be the best image gen alternative to Gemini! (with examples)AI doomsayers funded by billionaires ramp up lobbying Google goes “open AI” with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family — Developed by Google DeepMind and other Google AI teams, Gemma pulls from techniques learned during the development of Gemini, which is the family name for Google's most capable (public-facing) commercial LLMs, including the ones that power its Gemini AI assistant. Google says the name comes from the Latin gemma, which means "precious stone." ollama release v0.1.27 adds Gemma gemma.cpp — Lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Google's Gemma models. InvokeAI — InvokeAI is an implementation of Stable Diffusion, the open source text-to-image and image-to-image generator. It provides a streamlined process with various new features and options to aid the image generation process. Nixified AI — The goal of nixified.ai is to simplify and make available a large repository of AI executable code that would otherwise be impractical to run yourself, due to package management and complexity issues. NixOS-WSL Texas LinuxFest 2024 TXLF Hotel Group Rate Link LFNW2024 - Ready or not… — April 26 - 28, 2024 • Bellingham Technical College LinuxFest Northwest 2024 Schedule Posted LINUX Unplugged Membership ryantm/agenix — age-encrypted secrets for NixOS and Home manager Mic92/sops-nix — Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops Pick: Hugging Face Daily Papers

The podcast discusses VMware discontinuing free ESXi, Unraid's big changes, and a YouTuber's 30-day Linux challenge. They also talk about managing a home lab on a budget, Tailscale benefits, and concerns with Wise cameras sharing video feeds. Overall, a blend of tech news, personal projects, and listener interactions.

We embrace the dad bod lifestyle and find out if Apple's Vision Pro demo sold Mike, and Chris is picking up on what the Zuck is putting down.Sponsored By:Trusteebook: TrusteeBook - a simple, easy-to-use workbook that helps you take control of your digital legacy. Get started today, and take $10 off. Promo Code: CODERCoder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjarSupport Coder RadioLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.Star Trek: Borg - Remastered — Welcome to 'Star Trek: Borg - Remastered', cadet. Pay attention to this training - it might ensure your survival.Zuckerberg trashes Apple vision Pro - YouTube — YouTube shot, FYI.Apple vs. Meta Headset Wars, AI Innovations & Raising Cattle with Mark Zuckerberg - YouTube — Neal and Toby chat with Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to talk about his notorious Apple Vision Pro review video, the future of AI, what's next for Meta, and of course, cattle raisin' & meat smokin'. Mark Zuckerberg: Tech layoffs in 2024 have been a natural response to pandemic-era overhiring | ITPro — Overhiring and a prevailing industry approach to becoming “leaner” is driving the latest wave of layoffs🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM | Meetup — Let's put an official time down on the calendar to get together. 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!How Nvidia’s CUDA Monopoly In Machine Learning Is Breaking - OpenAI Triton And PyTorch 2.0 — This report will touch on topics such as why Google’s TensorFlow lost out to PyTorch, why Google hasn’t been able to capitalize publicly on its early leadership of AI, the major components of machine learning model training time, the memory capacity/bandwidth/cost wall, model optimization, why other AI hardware companies haven’t been able to make a dent in Nvidia’s dominance so far, why hardware will start to matter more, how Nvidia’s competitive advantage in CUDA is wiped away, and a major win one of Nvidia’s competitors has at a large cloud for training silicon.

Discussing VR desktop glitches, open-source VR future, SimulaVR headset delays, immersive Linux + Mac + PC compatibility, HDMI dummy plug display emulators, and the practicality of virtual reality workspaces.

The podcast discusses Nvidia's rise to the top, Sam's innovative idea, and unconventional viewer engagement with GitLab's Zoom meeting recordings. They delve into startup metrics, digital legacy planning, and question Nvidia's dominance in the chip market. The conversation also covers the future of appliance ownership, technology trends, and health tips.

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.Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 20 devices for free for a personal account. Warp Terminal: Warp is a modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in. Be the first to know when it’s available for Linux. Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Introducing Fedora Atomic Desktops 45Drives/autotier — A passthrough FUSE filesystem that intelligently moves files between storage tiers based on frequency of use, file age, and tier fullness.Ok, what is the “actual” way to install Nextcloud completely, fully, as in all the features, and best performance? Help a newbie to make a choice - 🚧 Installation - Nextcloud community Nextcloud All-in-One NextcloudPi — NextcloudPi is a ready to use image for Virtual Machines, Raspberry Pi, Odroid HC1, Rock64 and other boards. NextcloudPi | Nextcloud Conference 2022 Nextcloud - Official Docker Image nextcloud/ansible-collection-nextcloud-admin: The ansible galaxy for your nextcloud administrative needs. ReinerNippes/nextcloud: Ansible playbook to install nextcloud, php, nginx or apache, mariadb or postgres, redis-server, onlyoffice or collabora office LINUX Unplugged 307 — What’s your NextCloud? Top 10 Self-Hosted Apps - Perfect Media Server Self-Hosted - Episodes Tagged with “nextcloud” The Holy Grail Nextcloud setup made easy by NixOS NixOS Nextcloud Module Docs NixOS Nextcloud Service Source Nextcloud Apps Packaged in NixOS LUP’s nextcloud.nix NixOS Nextcloud Module Options Soltros’ Nextcloud-on-NixOS TODO: ExecStartPost to copy off backups First NixCon North America! Southern California Linux Expo 21 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM Yard House Menu Eric's Nextcloud on NixOS Eric's Collabora Nextcloud NixOS Setup Overview Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition hercules-ci/arion — Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOSArion documentation

The podcast covers topics such as container networking, Plex's rental service, Tailscale networking, Home Assistant updates, app recommendations, Plex becoming a video platform, movie rentals, podcasting 2.2 updates, NixOS on home server, boosts from listeners, WireGuard vs. Tail Scale, listener feedback, package review, and NixOS containers.

Chris tries out Spatial Computing using a $3,200 trick, and Mike has a Rails treat you won't want to miss.Sponsored By:Trusteebook: TrusteeBook - a simple, easy-to-use workbook that helps you take control of your digital legacy. Get started today, and take $10 off. Promo Code: CODERCoder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjarSupport Coder RadioLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.Microsoft to share details on bringing Xbox games to PlayStation in mid-February — Microsoft has news to share about the future of Xbox in an event next week.Michael Dominick on X — The vital #VisionPro question: “what is this for?” I’m just not seeing it. Am I missing something. #AppleVisionProMeta Quest 3 — New Mixed Reality VR HeadsetImmersed on Meta Quest — VR Offices! FREE app for multiple Virtual Screens in VR for Mac/PC/Linux (with no extra hardware) in stunning virtual worlds. Immersed is great for solo work with multiple screens in a virtual cafe, or for collaborating with your team around even more screens and whiteboards!Meta Quest 3 - SwappaVisor — The world's smallest 4K headset.Rails 7.1 expands its support for ActiveRecord asynchronous queries — ActiveRecord async queries are a way to execute Active Record queries in parallel, which can improve the performance of your Rails application. This is especially useful for slow or complex queries or for applications that need to handle a lot of concurrent requests.In-depth Guide to ActiveRecord load_async in Rails 7 — This seemingly simple change of just adding a single new method that takes no arguments has profound implications for database layer interactions. In this tutorial, we’ll deep dive into the intricacies of this new load async API. We’ll discuss lazy-loaded queries, Ruby threading model, blocking IO, database pool vs. max connections limit, and performance impact of concurrent database clients.

Uncomfortable truths about Linux, challenges of gaming on Linux, benefits of using Linux and introduction of Warp Terminal, dealing with complicated PDF files and setting up Sterling PDF with Docker, comparing Linux experience on different computers, various ways to install Nextcloud, setting up Nextcloud on Nix OS and managing apps, challenges of maintaining and supporting open-source software, thoughts on security, archiving and planning a meetup, discussion on Nix, Wayland, Firefox, and audio books, using a Linux box on Mars and 32-bit challenges, Linux operating systems and audiobook setup.