Even if you don't game, the data is in, and the impact of the Steam Deck on Linux is massive. We'll go into details and then share our long-term review of the Deck.Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Listener Jeff.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. Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. 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:🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’How SteamOS is Contributing to the Linux Ecosystem - OSS EU 2023 [YouTube]Open Source Summit Europe 2023: How SteamOS is Contributing to the Linux EcosystemIgalia — Open Source Consultancy and DevelopmentValve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community — Alberto Garcia of the open-source consulting firm Igalia, which continues to collaborate with Valve on some of these Linux ecosystem improvements, talked at length around how SteamOS is contributing to the Linux ecosystem.Docking Station for Valve Steam Deck DockThe Steam Deck wasn’t born ready, but it’s ready nowAwesome Deck ListSteam DeckSteam StoreValve CorporationAlby 🐝 on X — Humble reminder: In August, Alby accounts have processed over 1 million transactions! 😊😊😊 And it’s all thanks to… you! 💙 Our users, partners, wallet holders, contributors![YouTube] Walkthrough of Nix Install and Setup on MacOSGeneBean's dot filesRetroDECK — RetroDECK is an emulation and retro gaming solution to catalog and play your game collection directly from Linux in one unified application.

Our thoughts on two recent Plex crackdowns, why the Apple TV just got a lot better, how home Assistant could improve 10 years in, and much more.Sponsored By:45drives: Big. Strong. Fast storage servers with affordable high-performance, high-capacity, enterprise storage solutions for all industries and now your Home Lab.Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshTailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-HostedLinks:⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. ⚡ Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Send a Boost into the show via the web. First, top-up Alby, then head over to our entry on the Podcast Index.Plex is Cracking Down on Pirated Content — Plex is cracking down on at least one hosting service supporting pirated content in a move that may result in some collateral damage. Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company Account banned : PleX — Today I got my account banned in plex "this Plex account has accepted monetary compensation in exchange for services based in part on Plex". Which is totally untrue.I need your help with Intel Quick Sync benchmarking! — Please help me benchmark as many Intel CPUs Quick Sync transcoding performance as possible!Is Quick Sync Video any good? Media Server Hardware Encoding Tests | Enquire within, help needed! - YouTube — Therefore I'm pleased to announce the first release of a Quick Sync benchmarking script allowing us to do just that.Apple TV, now with more Tailscale · Tailscale — The newly released tvOS 17 offers support for VPNs, and we’re proud to say Tailscale is among the first to use this new feature. You can now add your Apple TV directly to your tailnet, unlocking three powerful new use cases that we’re excited to share.Use Tailscale on your Apple TV! - YouTube10 years Home Assistant - Home Assistant — I wasn’t planning on changing the world. It was a playground, a place where I could use the latest technology and explore all the possibilities with Python. But bit by bit Home Assistant gained traction, more contributors joined and we slowly started to build a community.Introducing Home Assistant Green — We’ve taken that to heart, and today, we are introducing an affordable way for new users to upgrade their smart homes to Home Assistant. It’s the Home Assistant Green – and it costs only $99 (MSRP).Home Assistant Green - Seeed StudioA new chapter in the Home Assistant Yellow journey — Unfortunately, Raspberry Pi CM4s are still in short supply. At this point we can’t build enough Home Assistant Yellow (with CM4) to fulfill demand. Unfortunately, we can’t make accurate estimates on when Home Assistant Yellow (with CM4) variants will ship, as we have not gotten delivery dates from Raspberry PiNest devices get major downgrade as part of legal challenge — This is the latest Nest feature to be nerfed following a legal battle.TubesZB – TubesZB Coordinators and RouterSSH 106 Boost Barn — Thank you Boosters for helping produce episode 106!

Topics include painful side of making video games, Grindr's big problems, Google's sneakiest trojan horse, dotnet core's popularity among startups, Grindr employee resignations, Google's ad platform, Tailscale sponsorship, Star Field optimization controversy, and privacy risks of cars becoming smartphones.

Noah Chelliah, a special guest contributing to data sovereignty projects, discusses the possibilities and challenges of data sovereignty. The podcast covers the co-location of data and execution, improvements in the Matrix protocol, running Macs in data centers, sustainable system building, engaging the community, and a terminal-based file manager called Yazi.

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Did Apple's event live up to our expectations? And our thoughts on what new goodies for developers might be in the new hardware and software.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Support Coder RadioLinks:⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. 🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.Coder 535 & 536 + Apple Event Live Stream — First, we Mystery Science Theater the Apple event stream, then sit back as we record two banger Coder Radios!Microsoft offers legal protection for AI copyright infringement challenges — "Some customers are concerned about the risk of IP infringement claims," says Microsoft.iPhone 15 Pro: Here's Everything the New Action Button Can Do — A press-and-hold gesture with fine-tuned haptic feedback and visual cues in the Dynamic Island ensure the new Action button launches the intended action, which users can customize in Settings and assign to different actions. Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 Feature 64GB of Storage — The original Apple Watch, Series 2, and Series 3, had just 8GB of storage, increasing to 16GB on the Apple Watch Series 4. The Apple Watch Series 5 increased storage once more to 32GB, where it has remained through the Series 6, Series 7, and Series 8, making the Series 9 the first time the Apple has increased the device's storage in five years. Pricing on iPhone 15 Pro Models Technically Didn't Change iPhone 15's USB-C Port Remains Limited to Lightning Speeds — While the new standard iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus are equipped with a USB-C port, data transfer over a cable remains limited to USB 2.0 speeds of up to 480 Mbps

Brent's new Framework laptop has been torn apart and put back together again. We'll find out if it's up to his standards. Plus, we're kicking off a new build.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. Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. 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:🎉 Alby - Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org - You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.CCCamp23 — Chaos Communication Camp 2023Framework — The time has come for consumer electronics products that are designed to last: products that give you back the power to upgrade, customize, and repair them. We’re excited for the opportunity to fix the consumer electronics industry together.Framework 13 — Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition (13th Gen Intel® Core™)Nextcloud Conference 2023LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Fundraising Merch is Live — Your fest is back! Support its return with a shirt and/or donation.I use NixOS for the same reason. Cleanliness is empowering.zapThe Blog Index — TheGoldenDragon and I have hashed out some basic ideas about what Boost 4 Blogs should be and in a moment of glory I decided to mimic The Podcast Index by registering blogindex.org!Linus Torvalds Comments On Bcachefs Prospects For Linux 6.6 — That very much means NOT continuing this "I'll just do it my way". You need to show that you can work with others, that you can work within the framework of upstream, and that not every single thread you get into becomes an argument.Box64 — Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64 Linux devices.Podcasting 2.0 Top 100 (Music) — This chart is a ranking of the music tracks played on podcasts that have been boosted the most over the last 7 days. It is recalculated hourly. Thank you to Nathan Gathright for the page design. ❤Neo-Store — An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.Obtainium — Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source.

Alex sits down with the lead developer of mergerfs to get an update on the project, Chris has a button-pushing breakthrough and more.Special Guest: Antonio Musumeci.Sponsored By:Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshTailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. 45drives: Big. Strong. Fast storage servers with affordable high-performance, high-capacity, enterprise storage solutions for all industries and now your Home Lab.Support Self-HostedLinks:⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. ⚡ Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Send a Boost into the show via the web. First, top-up Alby, then head over to our entry on the Podcast Index.QuickSync Benchmarking Script — Written by cptmorgan (Morgan the doorbell guy!). Use this script to benchmark the performance of your Quick Sync iGPU video transcoder. Submit those results to Alex via the Gist linked (as a comment).GitHub Gist - QuickSync Test Results — Post your QuickSync test results here as a comment.ESPClicker — Espclicker is a small device that you can use to integrate not IoT devices into your smart home setupTuya-CloudCutter with ESPHome Beken Devices | How To Guide Home Assistant - YouTubeHome-Assistant-Switch-Manager — Switch manager is a centralised component to handle button pushes for your wireless switches. This includes anything passed through the event bus or MQTT. Quad Zigbee Smart Switch - Chris' Current Fav — Each button has three pairing modes, allowing the 4 scene switches to create 12 unique scenes, including Home Mode, Away Mode, Movie Mode, and more. Zooz 700 Series Z-Wave Scene Controller — Connect a 120 V light fixture (up to 150 W for LED's) to control it via Z-Wave or use the main button for wireless control only with up to 7 button triggers available. Read-it-later app Matter can now transcribe your favorite podcasts — The company this morning is debuting “Readable Podcasts,” a feature that will let you save favorite podcasts and transcribe their audio to text. By doing so, you can use Matter’s other tools to interact with the podcast content as you would a saved article, including by doing things like highlighting, taking notes and sharing quotes.mergerfs: a featureful union filesystem — mergerfs is a union filesystem geared towards simplifying storage and management of files across numerous commodity storage devices. It is similar to mhddfs, unionfs, and aufs.trapexit on GitHub — Find the mergerfs lead dev on GitHub.llama-gpt — A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot, powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device. LUP 486: Goodbye, Google — Chris ditches the iPhone and switches to GrapheneOS, a security and privacy-focused project that lets you take control back from Google.Voice over IP - Home Assistant — The VoIP integration enables users to talk to Assist using an analog phone and a VoIP adapter. HomeCam for HomeKit on the App Store — HomeCam is the only app to allow you to view multiple cameras live at once and control their surroundings.

Topics discussed in this podcast include the retirement of Visual Studio for Mac, early signs of weak demand for Apple's Vision Pro, the recent Azure outage, financial struggles faced by Americans, the future of online platforms, and the current state of the tech industry.

While chaos is brewing in SUSE and Red Hat land, Canonical stays the course and doubles down on the Linux desktop. Plus, our thoughts on the kernel team GPL-blocking NVIDIA.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. Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. 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:jblive.fm — Jupiter Broadcasting Live Audio Stream🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.AMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5 Million Lines, Entire Linux Kernel At 34.8 MillionMaking life (even) harder for proprietary modules — It changes the behavior of symbolget(), causing it to fail when asked to look up a symbol that is not marked GPL-only. This is an inversion of the usual test, which denies access to symbols that are marked GPL-only. The reasoning is that symbolget() has always been intended for low-level cooperation deep within the kernel, where everything is expected to be GPL-only anyway.Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA’s Proprietary Driver — Back in 2020 when the original defense was added, NVIDIA recommended avoiding the Linux 5.9 for the time being. They ended up having a supported driver several weeks later. It will be interesting to see this time how long Linux 6.6+ thwarts their kernel driver.[Hacker News] Making life (even) harder for proprietary modulesPATCH: modules: only allow symbolget of EXPORTSYMBOLGPL modules — Given that symbolget was only ever inteded for tightly cooperating modules using very internal symbols it is logical to restrict it to being used on EXPORYSYMBOLGPL and prevent nvidia from costly DMCA circumvention of access controls law suites.Ubuntu Desktop: Charting a course for the future — Recently, we embarked on an internal exercise to consolidate and bring structure to our values and goals for how we plan to evolve the desktop experience over the next few years. This post is designed to share the output of those discussions and give insight into the direction we’re going.Ubuntu Desktop “Charting A Course For The Future” With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next YearLeap Replacement Discussion — I've been looking at the results from the recent contributor survey to gauge the interest and feasibility of replacing openSUSE Leap with a new community-built offering.Linux’s Marketshare on Steam Still Higher Than Apple macOSWavlake — We envision a new, online world where creators and listeners can freely transact with one another in an open ecosystem.Music Side Project StudioThe Boostagram BallThe Fairly Fun ShowDJ V4V Podcast | All music - no TalkBefore The Sch3m3s 8.21.2023 - Behind the SchƎmƎsV4V SHOW — How To Access V4V MusicOffice Hours 34 — Podcast Bounty Hunters[YouTube] Free Secure Phone Calls. Private Network Coms Access