LINUX Unplugged

After nearly half a year of woe, Brent is ready to give Linux the go. Join us as we compare and contrast two Linux distros and end up with one going on Brent's machine. Plus, follow-up on Chris' GrapheneOS adventures and more.Sponsored By:Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Apple Limits iPhone AirDrop Function Used for Protests in ChinaMagic Earth — Free Maps & Navigation AppTop 10 reasons to use Debian as your Linux distroDependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of ‘move fast and break things’, and version 11 is no differentProtonPlus — A simple Wine and Proton-based compatiblity tools manager for GNOME.ProtonUp-Qt — Install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda & more for Steam and Wine-GE & more for Lutris with this graphical user interface.Why openSUSE - openSUSE WikiThe Nobara Project — The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.Who Wants To Be a Millionaire — Test your knowledge to see if you can answer all questions and win $1 million. Have fun!Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Questions and Source Code

Chris ditches the iPhone and switches to GrapheneOS, a security and privacy-focused project that lets you take control back from Google.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!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. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Computer Chronicles - Intel 486 — In 1992, the big issue was - is it worth the money to upgrade my 386 PC to the new 486 chip? This program looks at the performance of the new Intel 486 and helps users decide.GrapheneOS — The private and secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility. Developed as a non-profit open source project.GrapheneOS: Supported PhonesGrapheneOS: Features OverviewSandboxed Google Play overview for GrapheneOSLockscreen bypass fixed in November’s update - discovered by GrapheneOS in JuneGrapheneOS on Twitter — We independently discovered the Android lockscreen bypass fixed in Android's November security update while working on features like a duress PIN/password.A week with GrapheneOS exposed my over-reliance on GoogleGrapheneOS Initial ImpressionsBanking Applications Compatibility with GrapheneOSHERE WeGo — Maps & NavigationFountain on Twitter — More sats = higher signal⚡️📡Hot on FountainDAVx⁵ — CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV for AndroidBitwarden: Top 10 Burning Questions on 2FAn.eko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.Install NVIDIA Drivers on Debian 11deemix — deemix is a barebone deezer downloader library built from the ashes of Deezloader Remix.lidarr-on-steroidsnostr — The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all.Pick: Upscaler — Upscale and enhance images.Frog by Tender OwlFrog on FlathubA Science Project — “Make the 486 Great Again!”Linus Torvalds bids 486 Linux adieu — It's been fun, but Linus Torvalds thinks it's time for 486 Linux to leave computers behind and go to museums.

We dig into Shufflecake, a tool that lets Linux users hide data with plausible deniability, then let our live stream SSH into our server and see if they can discover our secret data. Plus, we follow up on Brent's never-ending desktop distro search and Chris' new Linux rig.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!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. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Just a bunch of idiots having fun—a photo history of the LAN partyIntroducing Shufflecake — Shufflecake is a tool for Linux that allows creation of multiple hidden volumes on a storage device in such a way that it is very difficult, even under forensic inspection, to prove the existence of such volumes. Each volume is encrypted with a different secret key, scrambled across the empty space of an underlying existing storage medium, and indistinguishable from random noise when not decrypted.Hidden Filesystem Design and Improvement - Elia Anzuoni — We propose a novel design, a scheme called Shufflecake, which targets a more balanced compromise between performance and security. The level of deniability it offers, while not protecting against attacks in the most stringent threat model, is sufficient in many practical scenarios.Tommaso Gagliardoni’s HomepageLinux kernel module for ShufflecakeShufflecake Userland ToolsFedora upgrade failed due to dep failureComparing openSUSE MicroOS and Fedora Silverblue 37Scaling Mastodon is ImpossibleUsing Mastodon for comments on a static blogTwitterToNitter — Bookmarklet that shows the current Twitter page on Nitter. On every click it choses a random Nitter instance.libredirect — A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.

Why this latest release of Fedora misses the mark, and Ubuntu's quiet backing away from ZFS.Sponsored By:Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.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. Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:SteamOS Has Finally Been Rebased to the Latest Version of Arch Linux!Fedora 37 is GO — The Fedora Linux 37 Final RC 1.7 compose is GO and will be shipped live on Tuesday, 15 November.Fedora 37 ChangeSetAnnouncing the release of Fedora Linux 37 BetaNixOS on FedoraIs it true that mesa-freeworld hasn't been published on RPM Fusion yet?Schedules/Plasma 5 - KDE Community WikiFedora 37 Plasma Login FuzzzzHow to Install a Mastodon Server on Ubuntu 20.04 on LinodeDon’s use ZSYS · Issue #230 · ubuntu/zsys — Finally I just want to say I regret having to say this. ZFS and ZSYS are both great technologies. They're ideal solutions to big problems and really move the state of the art forward. Unfortunately, their implementations are both 90% ideal but 10% incomplete.Bug #1968150 “[FFe] Remove zsys from installer” : Bugs : ubiquity package : UbuntuChris B’s Deep Fake funny and crazy ChrisLAS images.NAS Board ODROID Killer N5105/N6005Nexcom Industrial Low Power RigsBitcoin Dad Pod Episode 50: Effective Scam-TruismBitcoin General Chat on MatrixBitcoin Q&A RoomPocket Popcorn Computer — Finally, a handheld Linux device with a high-definition 1080p display and large battery life.Pleroma — a lightweight fediverse serverPodcasting 2.0 AppsCoqui TTS — A deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production.

We surprise each other with three different topics, and Chris has a big update on the ODROID H3+.Sponsored By: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. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:The Steam Linux Beta Begins…Steam Linux Use Tips Up In October Thanks To The Steam Deck — The growth of Steam Deck adoption also now bumps AMD's CPU marketshare among Steam on Linux gamers to 56% against Intel, an increase in October alone of +4.37%.GitHub Issue: Geocatching details on siteODROID-H3+ – ODROID — Great compatibility, a brand new x86 64-bit single board computer with large memory capacity and advanced IO ports.ODROID-H3 Case Type 2 – ODROIDODROID-H3 Case Type 3 – ODROIDplex - LinuxServer.ioJellyfin intro-skipper PluginTuxies Board RoomUbuntu Summit 2022 — An opportunity for the broader Ubuntu community to learn and speak about the amazing work and success stories happening in the ecosystem.How to Revert the Last Git Commit | LinodeSnapcraft.ioWhat happened to signal-desktop? - snapcraft.io — This is due to a DMCA takedown request coming from people representing Signal. Canonical is currently working with Signal to resolve this issue.“signal-desktop” not found · Issue #70 · snapcrafters/signal-desktopInstall signal-desktop on Linux | Snap StoreGodot Engine — Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine.Godot’s Graduation: Godot moves to a new Foundation — Software Freedom Conservancy and the Godot leadership are excited to share their decision that the Godot project has reached a level of success for which it makes sense for Godot to have its own independent foundation.Announcing Godot’s Graduation from SFC!I will try my best to explain why the upcoming @godotengine foundation can’t offer Console ports.Open source game development advances with Godot Engine 3.5 out nowThe next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches BetaGodot: Exporting for LinuxMastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined themWith Twitter in chaos, Mastodon is on fire | CNN BusinessHow to securely store secrets in BitWarden CLI and load them into your ZSH shell when needed | by Zack Proser | Oct, 2022 | GruntworkIntel ME-Enabled System Needed For Updating Arc Graphics GSC Firmware — Update: Intel reached out to say firmware updating will work on AMD platforms, but awaiting to hear futher details.Podcasting 2.0 Apps

Are the long-timers holding Linux back? Lennart Poettering argues we are and proposes a new Microsoft-blessed way to secure Linux. Plus, our thoughts on the slow decline of mailing lists in open-source development.Special Guest: Neal Gompa.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!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. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:“Old/weird laptops” sought to help test Linux kernel backlight drivers — You could help smooth out a long-needed overhaul of Linux's backlight systems. The GNOME Project is closing all its mailing lists — The GNOME Project is preparing to shut down its mailing lists due to problems maintaining the project's GNU Mailman instance - which relies on Python 2 - and a lack of moderators. [Evolution] Announcement: this mailing list will be retiredRe: Moving final mailman lists over to discourseIssues · jupiterbroadcasting.comOffice Hours 15: One PR At a Time — We recap a busy night after a studio power outage, then dig into what makes an open-source project worth contributing to. Why do some fail while others grow and prosper?How I make a living working on SerenityOS — This post describes in detail how I support myself while working on the SerenityOS project. Systemd supremo proposes tightening up Linux boot process — In brief, what he sees as the problem is that on hardware with Secure Boot enabled, while the boot process up to and including the kernel is signed, the next step, loading the initrd, is not. That's what he wants to fix.Brave New Trusted Boot World — This document looks at the boot process of general purpose Linux distributions. It covers the status quo and how we envision Linux boot to work in the future with a focus on robustness and simplicity.NixOS bootspec-secureboot — This repository is a research project that aims to improve the bootloader story in NixOS.Matthew's NixOS Screen shot Grab a new podcast app — Upgrade to a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app.vhs: Your CLI home video recorder 📼 — Write terminal GIFs as code for integration testing and demoing your CLI tools. FFmpeg.guide — A simple GUI tool to create complex FFmpeg filtergraphs quickly and correctly, without having to mess with the cumbersome filter syntax

The Internet is going crazy with AI-generated media. What's the open-source story, and is Linux being left out? Plus, we try out the new Ubuntu release on the ODROID H3+.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!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. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:KDE neon on Twitter: "KDE neon Rebased on Jammy…Ubuntu 22.10 - Kinetic Kudu — Ubuntu Desktop 22.10 users will benefit from the refinements in GNOME 43, including GTK4 theming for improved performance and consistency. Quick Settings now provide faster access to commonly used options such as wifi, bluetooth, dark mode and power settings.ODROID-H3+ — Intel® Quad-Core Jasper Lake N6005, Up to 64GB Dual-channel Memory DDR4, PCIe 3.0 x 4 lanes, 2 x 2.5Gbit Ethernet ports, 2 x SATA 3.0 ports, and more!AI is taking over the iconic voice of Darth Vader, with the blessing of James Earl Jones | TechCrunchWhy the Future of Open Source AI is So Much Bigger Than Stable Diffusion 1.5 and Why It Matters to You — In the absence of news from us, rumors started swirling about why we didn't release the next version yet. Some folks in the community worry that Stability AI has gone closed source and that we'll never release a model again. It's simply not true. We are committed to open source at our very core.Would you pay $10 to create AI chatbot of dead loved one?Setup for stable-diffusion-webui-dockerAUTOMATIC1111's Stable Diffusion Webui — A browser interface based on Gradio library for Stable Diffusion.Stable Diffusion CPUGet Started with Linode GPUGuides - Installing the NVIDIA CUDA ToolkitCUDA Toolkit 11.8 DownloadsNVIDIA Container Toolkit — The NVIDIA Container Toolkit allows users to build and run GPU accelerated containers. The toolkit includes a container runtime library and utilities to automatically configure containers to leverage NVIDIA GPUs.LURE (Linux User REpository) — LURE is intended to bring the AUR to all distros. It is currently in an alpha state and may not be stable. It can download a repository, build packages in it using a bash script similar to PKGBUILD, and then install them using your system package manager.

Linus Tech Tips blows it again, and we clean up. Plus, we push System76's updated Thelio Workstation to the breaking point.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!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. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Intel Arc GPUs NOT supporting Linux any time soonPlease Buy Intel GPUs. - LTTIntel Arc Graphics Running On Fully Open-Source Linux Driver - Phoronix — A common misconception or confusion I've heard many times over the past number of months has been questioning whether Intel's discrete GPU driver support on Linux is open-source or is closed-source, etc. Well, it's fully open-source aside from the usual firmware caveat and running on Linux.The new Thelio — We believed that we could make an open hardware desktop that’s powerful, compact, quiet, beautiful, upgradable, backed by lifetime support, and manufactured in the United States—so we did. Customize your components, your software, even your aesthetic with swappable accents made for any mindset.System76 Thelio AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 24, X250-kernel, Devone-kernel Benchmark ComparisonSystem76 Thelio vs Dev One - Workstation BenchmarkThelio, Devone, X250 - Workstation Benchmark ComparisonSystem76 Thelio AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 24 - Time Linux Kernel BenchmarkUnigene SuperpositionUNIGINE Superposition Video - 8K 60 FPS - YouTubeWhy do people love NixOS so much?Nix team creation - Announcements - NixOS Discourse

What the heck is going on? Fedora is dropping features, GNOME is getting Iced, and the mistake we'll never make again. We've got a lot to sort out.Sponsored By:Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.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. Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Tasks - Nextcloud Apps — Tasks can be shared between users. Tasks can be synchronized using CalDAV (each task list is linked to an Nextcloud calendar, to sync it to your local client: Thunderbird, Evolution, KDE Kontact, iCal … - just add the calendar as a remote calendar in your client). You can download your tasks as ICS files using the download button for each calendar.Home Assistant Yellow — Home Assistant Yellow integrates 1,000+ different devices and services, allowing you to create powerful automations and get insight into your energy usage. All from an easy-to-use interface that runs 100% locally without anything in the cloud.Oh No!😱Fedora is Dropping Support for Popular Video Codecs — Primarily, it will affect AMD GPU users using open-source drivers, preventing them using GPU acceleration to play video content that requires using these codecs. Additionally, it also affects any user who uses open-source graphics drivers, even if they run iGPUs on Intel chips.recent commit to Mesa on FedoraTom Callaway on TwitterSystem76’s Pop!_OS COSMIC Desktop To Make Use Of Iced Rust Toolkit — The UX team has been carefully designing widgets and applications over the last year. We are now at the point where it is critical for the engineering team to decide upon a GUI toolkit for COSMIC. After much deliberation and experimentation over the last year, the engineering team has decided to use Iced instead of GTK.Reddit Comment That Kicked All this OffIced toolkit — A cross-platform GUI library for Rust focused on simplicity and type-safety. Inspired by Elm.Comment thread on Reddit that kicked it all offJeremy Soller on TwitterJeremy Soller on TwitterJeremy Soller on TwitterChecklist of things going into Iced for CosmicAcastus — Acastus Photon is a completely private, free and open source Address / POI lookup application for android.photon.komoot.io — Search as you type with OpenStreetMappelias.ioAuto Move Windows - GNOME Shell ExtensionsPodcasting 2.0 Apps

We go hands-on at NASA's JPL and learn why Linux is the best OS for Earth and Mars.Special Guest: Tim Canham.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!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. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:412Linux on Twitter — Sadly, @ChrisLAS is the first person I thought about after reading the Stadia update. He really did believe in it. Can't wait to hear his tA message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy — A few years ago, we also launched a consumer gaming service, Stadia. And while Stadia's approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong technology foundation, it hasn't gained the traction with users that we expected so we’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming service.The Verge blames Linux — Google spent millions convincing publishers like Ubisoft and Take-Two to bring their biggest games to Stadia. Google had to pay such large sums because the work to port games over wasn’t particularly easy given Stadia runs on Linux, a platform game developers haven’t paid enough attention to.Stadia died because no one trusts GoogleGrants Pass Geocache LocationSacramento Geocache LocationPasadena Geocache LocationOffice Hours 13: One Long MondayCheck out our MeetupsOur West Coast Matrix CrewImmichStorjGoogle Photos is messing up old backed-up images for some usersfrozear's NixOS Config — It uses Awesome Window Manager, the Ranger file manager and Kitty for a terminal. Dotfiles for those three are included.Ham Radio Linux DistributionsLinux in the Ham ShackPodcasting 2.0 AppsBitrefill — Buy Gift Cards & Top Up Airtime with Bitcoin or CryptoJPL Open Source Rover Project — A build-it-yourself, 6-wheel rover based on the rovers on Mars!