LINUX Unplugged

We finally give Brent his new laptop and get his reaction. Plus our best pick for replacing stock Android with something private.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:GrapheneOS — The private and secure mobile OS.Nokia 2760 Flip feature mobile phoneKaiOS DevicesJupiter Broadcasting MeetupsWest Coast Crew Matrix RoomLUP 462: One Cosmic Collaboration — From skeptic to buyer, why the HP Dev One is the best Linux laptop yet.HP Dev One — From preinstalled Linux Pop!_OS to a tuned Linux keyboard with a Super key, HP Dev One is designed with powerful features and tools to help you code your way.Pop!_OS TutorialsPhoronix Test Suite for DockerWorkstation Test Suite - OpenBenchmarking.orgTimed Linux Kernel Compilation Benchmark - OpenBenchmarking.orgUnigine Superposition Benchmark - OpenBenchmarking.orgSuperposition benchmark - UNIGINEPhoronix Test Suite — Linux Testing & Benchmarking Platform, Automated Testing, Open-Source Benchmarking.Geekbench5Brent’s Hugo Build Times · Issue #349Linux Kernel Build Benchmark Comparison - X250 vs. Dev OneWorkstation Benchmark Comparison - X250 vs. Dev OneGeekbench CPU - LENOVO X250 vs HP Dev OneGeekbench Vulkan Score - LENOVO X250 vs HP Dev OneUnigine Superposition Benchmark - LENOVO X250 vs HP Dev OnePointiest Stick — Adventures in Linux and KDEdwm — dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts.Pick: systeroid — A more powerful alternative to sysctl(8) with a terminal user interface.

We've gone deep to find our perfect Google Photos replacement. This week we'll share our setup that we think works great, is easy to use, and is fully backed up.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:OsmAnd — Carry highly detailed, fully offline maps of any region world wide on your device!Garmin RV 780 & TrafficOffice Hours 12 — Don’t Clip and DriveJB MeetupsWest Coast Crew Matrix RoomMöbius Sync — Bringing Syncthing to iOS. Sync files between all your devices.PhotoSync — Photo Transfer and Backup App. For iOS & AndroidPhotoPrism — PhotoPrism® is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web.Storj — Fast, secure cloud storage at a fraction of the cost.Storj Warrant CanaryHow Decentralized Storage WorksDuplicati — Free backup software to store encrypted backups online.Backup With Duplicati | Storj DocsSyncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes.Stingle Photos — Stingle Photos is a convenient, easy to use Gallery/Camera application with Backup and Sync functionality for your photos and videos which seamlessly provides strong security, privacy and encryption.Recommended way to use Syncthing for Photos SyncLomorage — Free private photo cloud solution that puts you in control of your photos and videos.Lomorage and Photoprismpigallery2 — A fast directory-first photo gallery website, with rich UI, optimized for running on low resource servers.Photoview — Photoview is a simple and user-friendly photo gallery that's made for photographers and aims to provide an easy and fast way to navigate directories, with thousands of high-resolution photos.LibrePhotos — A self-hosted open source photo management service.LibrePhotos Feature ComparisonUhuruPhotos — Android client for LibrePhotosdocker-s3fs-clients3fs — FUSE-based file system backed by Amazon S3.rclone to GlacierCasaOs — Community-based open source software focused on delivering simple home cloud experience around Docker ecosystem.Nabu CasaWazuh — Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.CrowdSec — Open-source and participative IPS able to analyze visitor behavior & provide an adapted response to all kinds of attacks.LINUX Unplugged at the Podcastindex.org

Brent has been on a bug-finding marathon. We review what he's discovered and share some hard-learned lessons.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:Pull Request #378 by DECbot — "JB is live!" indicator - on page load, call the script to highlight the #livebutton red if jupiter.tube is liveNASA Selects SiFive and Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions — SiFive X280 delivers 100x increase in computational capability with leading power efficiency, fault tolerance, and compute flexibility to propel next-generation planetary and surface missions.Jupiter Broadcasting MeetupWest Coast Crew Matrix RoomSubmit Your Baller Boost JinglesFountain 0.4.8 - Referrals, Search Editorial and Other ImprovementsFountain.fm ChartsKDE Official Response to creation of GNOME Foundation (2000)Report: Default Desktop Environments for Linux and UnixHow Much Does KDE Pay Developers?KDE Issue Reporting Guidelines - Have Realistic ExpectationsKDE neonPlasma ActivitiesAll bugs submitted by Brent during Kubuntu Jammy beta testingFirefox icon missing from panel following Kubuntu upgrade 20.04->22.04kdesu fails to authenticate with sudo from JammyKDE Issue ReportingFedora Workstation bug - KateFedora Workstation bug - Network - gnome-control-centreFedora Workstation bug - GuakePhotoPrism — PhotoPrism is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized WebGit Large File Storage — Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server like GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise.Podcasting 2.0 AppsPhotoSync — Photo Transfer and Backup AppiDrive — Cloud backup solutions for home and business.Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program.FolderSync — FolderSync enables simple sync to cloud based storage to and from local folders on the device SD cards.

Can Linux do better? Apple is scrambling to build always-on malware protection into the next macOS as its market share grows. A precautionary tale for Linux users. Plus we take a look at Ubuntu Unity as it becomes an official flavor.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:Canonical Accepts Ubuntu Unity as Official Ubuntu Flavor Starting with Ubuntu 22.10 — The Ubuntu Unity 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) release is expected to see the light of day as an official Ubuntu flavor on October 20th, 2022.[vote] Re: Ubuntu Unity as an official flavorUbuntu UnityOffice Hours 11 — We're pushing our new website to production live on the show today. We have no idea how things will turn out - but we're taking you along for the ride either way!JB MeetupsJB Matrix West Coast CrewBaller Boost Jingles — Send us your feedback via GitHubMac vs. PC AdmacOS malware development surged by over 1,000% in 2020Increased Enterprise Use of iOS, Mac Means More MalwareReport Finds Surge in Malware Aimed at MacOS - Security BoulevardmacOS now scans for malware whenever it gets a chance — In the last six months macOS malware protection has changed more than it did over the previous seven years.Desktop Market ShareIs any virus protection software needed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux?Linux devices ‘increasingly’ under attack from hackers, warn security researchersBrunch with BrunchHarmonoid — Plays and manages your music library. Looks beautiful & juicy.LINUX Unplugged 409 — Launch Your Memories Into the Future.Google Photos is so 2020

We've reached the end of the road in our immutable Linux series, and an old friend stops by to give us the inside scoop on Endless OS. Plus, we announce who will be joining us at JPL in September.Special Guest: Cassidy James Blaede.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:GNOME launches a new “telemetry” program to improve GNOMEgnome-info-collect repository — gnome-info-collect is a simple client-server application used for collecting information on GNOME systems. The data will be used to improve GNOME, specifically by informing design decisions, influencing where resources are invested, and generally helping us to understand users better.Self contained flake for gnome-info-collect courtesy of kenjiJupiter Broadcasting MeetupsJB Matrix westcoastcrew Meetup RoomHot on FountainMobilizon — Mobilizon is a tool that helps you find, create and organize events.Endless OS — Comes preloaded with over 100 apps and essential tools so you have all you need, even when there's no internet access.KeybaseMay 7th 2020: Zoom Acquires KeybaseMSGConvert — A .MSG to mime/mbox converterVisiData — VisiData is an interactive multitool for tabular data. It combines the clarity of a spreadsheet, the efficiency of the terminal, and the power of Python, into a lightweight utility which can handle millions of rows with ease.googerteller — audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into google.Espanso — Tired of typing the same sentences over and over? Discover the incredible power of a full-blown text expander.New Jupiter Broadcasting Website

The five most common problems when trying out an immutable Linux distro like NixOS. Plus, why one Linux dev says just target WINE.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:New Flathub Site in Beta - Big Things Coming — [...] next steps are to flesh out the donation infrastructure with the aim to allow app pages to have their own link to donation/purchase.Win32 Is The Only Stable ABI on Linux — I think this whole situation shows why creating native games for Linux is challenging. It’s hard to blame developers for targeting Windows and relying on Wine + friends. It’s just much more stable and much less likely to break and stay broken.The Offending glibc CommitA glibc BugThe ABI status of ELF hash tables — If EAC were free software, of course, chances are there would already be a patch circulating to deal with the problem. As it is, only its owner can deal with this problem directly. Meanwhile, though, there is another workaround available: distributors can easily patch the glibc build to restore the DT_HASH section and make the problem go away for now.Jupiter JPL Meetup FormJB MeetupsWest Coast Crew Matrix RoomEndless OS — The Endless Operating System is simple and easy for anyone to use. It is fully equipped with essential apps to learn, play, work and connect.Different methods to run a non-NixOS executable on NixOS — What are the different methods to run a non-NixOS executable on NixOS? I'd like to see also the manual methods.nix-ld: Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOSvscode with extensions nix packagevscode FHS compatibletoolbox-vscode — Toolbox Visual Studio Code integrationSelf-Hosted 67: The No Container Theory — Why Chris is moving away from using Containers, Alex's new project, and some great follow-up.Podcasting 2.0 Apps — Grab a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app, and boost into the show.Heroic Games Launcher — Heroic is an Open Source GOG and Epic games launcher for Linux, Windows and macOS. Also available on the Steam Deck!Heroic Games Launcher | Flathub

Our garage Linux server has died, and this time we’re looking at data loss. We attempt to revive our zombie box and reflect on what went wrong.Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.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:Microsoft open-sources over 1,500 of its cute 3D emoji designs for anyone to useThe NEW Jupiter Broadcasting WebsiteUpcoming Jupiter Broadcasting MeetupsGet your name in the hat for our JPL tourLINUX Unplugged 468: The Read Only ScenarioOperating System development tutorials in Rust on the Raspberry Pi — Learn to write an embedded OS in Rust.Podverse — V4V is now available in Podverse F-Droid beta 🥳FluffyChat — Open. Nonprofit. Cute. Easy to use (matrix) messenger. Secure and decentralized.FluffyChat on FlathubFluffyChat in F-Droidlrn — Command-line tool for learning by repetition.Columbus Club Ohio LinuxFest Matrix Meetup Room

We present a buffet of budget Linux boxes. From $40 to $400 you'll be surprised by what we found. Then we attempt to find the perfect distro for them.Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.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:NASA greenlights two new Mars helicopters and lengthens Perseverance’s resume — Perseverance’s high-flying robotic companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, has inspired the design of two future rotorcraft that would swerve over the Martian terrain to pick up other samples.Get your name in the hat for our JPL tour — Join the JB Crew at JPL! We only have 15 spots. Please enter your info, and our happy little python script might just pick your name from the virtual hat.Upcoming Jupiter Broadcasting Meetupsremembertoremember on Twitter — I haven’t really had major Linux woes in a long time and I use new hardware with 4k but always shop with Linux in mind.New $160: Beelink MiniS Mini Pc with 11th Gen Processor N5095,8GB DDR4 128GB SSD Mini Desktop ComputersAcer Switch One SW1-011 Intel Atom x5-Z8300 @ 1.44 GHz 2GB Ram 32GB StorageLenovo IdeaPad 3 14IML05 14" 128GB SSD, Intel Pentium Gold, 2.40GHz, 4GBAcer Mini PC Atom x5-Z8300 2Gb RAM 16Gb EMMC WiFi Bluetooth Linux CloudProfessornixos-generators — The nixos-generators project allows to take the same NixOS configuration, and generate outputs for different target formats.MinisForum DeskMini UM350 Ryzen Mini PCDell Wyse 5070 thin clientNew Features in Linux Mint 21 ‘Vanessa’ Cinnamon Edition — Linux Mint 21 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop experience more comfortable.Linux Mint 21 Released - Built Atop Ubuntu 22.04 LTSOffice Hours 9 — We Hate Crypto TooManageIQUsermode FTP Server on Flathubgh4a — Github client for AndroidOctoDroid on F-DroidOctoDroid for GitHubJB Colony Matrix Meetup Rooms

Is the Linux desktop hard to love? A long-time user experience developer argues it is, and we respond to his criticisms.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:JPL Lottery — Join the JB Crew at JPL! We only have 15 spots. Please enter your info, and our happy little python script might just pick your name from the virtual hat. - If you don't get picked, don't worry. We're having another meetup while we are in town!Jupiter Broadcasting - Meetup.comLondon Meetup, Fri, Aug 5, 2022 - Meetup.comGoogle’s in-house desktop Linux - Computerworld — The best-known Google operating system is Chrome OS, but inside Google itself, the company also uses its own Linux desktop distro — gLinux.X220 - ThinkWiki — An overview of the ThinkPad X220The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love — I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But I’ve come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. But I just can’t stick with it. I always end up back on macOS. And I’m starting to understand why.Run Chrome in Toolbox on SilverblueDistrobox — Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Rclone — Rclone is a command-line program to manage files on cloud storage.Cryptomator - Free Cloud Encryption for Dropbox & Co — Cryptomator encrypts your data quickly and easily. Afterwards you upload them protected to your favorite cloud service.Cryptomator— Linux Apps on FlathubNew Podcast Apps

A fundamental change is coming to desktop Linux, and Silverblue might be our hint at where things are going.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:Pre-show: PSATA HATs support up to four drives on Raspberry Pi 4 or Rock Pi 4 — Radxa’s Dual ($25) and Quad ($35) SATA HATs work on the Raspberry Pi 4 or Rock Pi 4 at up to 400 MB/s via USB 3.0.JPL Lottery — Join the JB Crew at JPL! We only have 15 spots. Please enter your info, and our happy little python script might just pick your name from the virtual hat. - If you don't get picked, don't worry. We're having another meetup while we are in town!Fedora Silverblue User Guide — Unlike other operating systems, Silverblue is immutable. This means that every installation is identical to every other installation of the same version. The operating system that is on disk is exactly the same from one machine to the next, and it never changes as it is used.Fedora 34 Silverblue on Raspberry Pi 4 / 400deRPi4: Raspberry Pi 4 UEFI Firmware Images — This repository contains installable builds of the official EDK2 Raspberry Pi 4 UEFI firmware.Self-Hosted 67: The No Container TheoryVentoyEndless OSFitting Everything Together — TLDR: Hermetic /usr/ is awesome; let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, uniformity – built from traditional distribution packages, but deployed via images.Steam Deck Guide — A guide covering Steam Deck including the applications and tools that will make you a better and more efficient with your Steam Deck device.Podcasting 2.0 AppsBoostCLI — Command line tool to send and review Podcasting 2.0 Value.Podcasting 2.0 Podcast — The Podcast Index presents Podcasting 2.0 - Upgrading Podcasting.Podcasting 2.0: “Bells Out” — Adam & Dave discuss the week's developments on podcastindex.org with Chris Fisher from Jupiter Broadcasting.Impervious API — Impervious API is a programmatic layer that sits on top of the Bitcoin Lightning NetworkPick: Audio Sharing — Running Audio Sharing will automatically share the current audio playback in the form of an RTSP stream. This stream can then be played back by other devices, for example using VLC.Audio Sharing on FlathubBottles on Flathub — Run Windows software on Linux with Bottles! Our built-in dependency installation system grants automatic software compatibility access. Use the download manager to download the official components: the runner (Wine, Proton), DXVK, dependencies, etc.