LINUX Unplugged

We surprise each other with three different topics, hidden away by encryption in our show notes - we literally have no idea what we're talking about this week.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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Jupiter Broadcasting East Coast Meetuptrilium — Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes.pytest-asyncio — Pytest support for asyncio.hypothesis — Hypothesis is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use library for property-based testing.brainfuckBrainfuck InterpreterBrainfuck text generatoryoutube-dl-server — Web / REST interface for downloading youtube videos onto a server.alltube — Web GUI for youtube-dlBookStacklinuxserver/bookstack - Docker ImageRaneto — A free, open, simple Markdown powered Knowledgebase for NodejsPlex-Meta-Manager — Python script to update metadata information for items in plex as well as automatically build collections and playlists. The Wiki Documentation is linked below.linuxserver/plex-meta-manager - Docker ImageHeimdall Application Dashboardlinuxserver/heimdall - Docker ImageUbuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish testing week currentlySnowflakeStart9 | Sovereign ComputingSteganography deep-diveSteganography tools

We look at two new options that enable ANYONE to run a personal server at home or a small business.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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Jupiter Broadcasting East Coast Meetup — Saturday, April 9, 2022Self-Hosted 65: Failing at Scale — Alex gives the new TrueNAS SCALE a go and hits a snag. Plus the future Home Assistant update that has Chris so concerned he might stop updating forever.Umbrel — a personal server for everyone — Run your personal server with a Bitcoin and Lightning node in your home, self-host open source apps like Nextcloud and Matrix to break away from big tech, and take full control of your data. For free.Ukraine / Україна on Twitter — Stand with the people of Ukraine. Now accepting cryptocurrency donations.Ukraine Solicits BTC, ETH, USDT Crypto Donations After Russian InvasionTutorial — Change Umbrel docker compose to point to block storage.Writeup of Umbrel Security TradeoffsNode hardeningUmbrel troubleshootingEverything you need to know about Umbrel’s new licenseValue 4 Value CalculatorBoostCLI — Command line tool to send and review Podcasting 2.0 ValueBoostBots — Bots which posts Booots.Breez — Lightning Fast Bitcoin Payments

We put the sports car of Linux laptops to the test. Is it the multi-tasking machine it claims to be? And an essential update on the show.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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Kudu from System76 — Enjoy fast, steady progression with the Kudu’s powerful H-class AMD processor. The Kudu laptop is equipped to handle longer sessions so you can taste the victory of beating your schedule.Kudu (kudu6) - System76 Technical DocumentationInternal Overview - System76 Technical DocumentationMBP M1 Max Machine Learning, Sys76-kudu-ML Benchmark ComparisonSys76-kudu-amd, Sys76-kudu-nv Benchmark ComparisonValue 4 Value CalculatorPick: Spodcast — Spodcast is a caching Spotify podcast to RSS proxy. Using Spodcast you can follow Spotify-hosted netcasts/podcasts using any player which supports RSS, thus enabling the use of older hardware which is not compatible with the Spotify (web) app.Pick: hwatch — A modern alternative to the watch command, that records the result of command execution and can display history and diffs.Pick: rnote — A simple drawing application to create handwritten notes.Pick: dog dns client — dog is an open-source DNS client for the command-line. It has colourful output, supports the DoT and DoH protocols, and can emit JSON.

Linux is the master of small computers, and this week it’s going to the next level. We chat with the creator of the $15 Linux box and share some significant updates for the Raspberry Pi.Special Guest: Brian Benchoff.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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Raspberry Pi Locator — It's a website to track Raspberry Pi 4 model B, Compute Module 4, Pi Zero 2 W, and Pico availability across multiple retailers in different countries.It’s dire: Raspberry Pi availability tracker is launchedUbuntu Unity Remix on Twitter — A new Raspberry Pi testing image is now available for Ubuntu Unity 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish”.No PC Needed: How to Install Raspberry Pi OS Over the Internet — A new version of the Raspberry Pi bootloader, which is now available in beta, allows you to download and write the OS onto a microSD card, using the BIOS and an Ethernet connection.Raspberry Pi OS Finally Going 64bit 🔥 — For those curious, here are some benchmarks looking at the performance improvement by switching from Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit to 64-bit.Self-Hosted 3: Home Network Under $200 — How far can you get with a Raspberry Pi 4? We go all in and find out.Self-Hosted 38: Crouching Pi, Hidden Server — Alex shocks Chris with his latest project, then lays down some quick-fire picks.A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15 — This is a ‘Linux Swiss Army Knife’, offering maximum utility while still being able to fit in your pocket. Is it fast? No. Can it run a GUI? Also no. But it can run scripts, ping a server, toggle a few GPIOs, and interact with a USB device. This is a minimum viable computer.LINUX Unplugged MumbleRPMLauncher — A better Minecraft Launcher that supports multiple platforms and many functionalities for you to explore!RPMLauncher on Flathub

There's just something off about Ubuntu these days, this week we put it all together.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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Ubuntu MATE 22.04 Will Include Flatpak Support by Default — Ubuntu MATE isn’t shipping the Flathub repo (like Flathub) preconfigured, or bundling in any Flatpak apps by default. There are also no plans at present to add or expose Flatpak-friendly features in the distro’s homegrown tools like Software Boutique.Ubuntu 22.04 Dailies Show an Ubuntu Pro Notification on Login — The blurb mentions that Ubuntu Pro is free for personal use on up to 3 machines.Linux Desktop Gaming Product ManagerKismet — A wireless network and device detector, sniffer, wardriving tool, and WIDS (wireless intrusion detection) framework.Slackware Release Announcement — Well folks, in spite of the dire predictions of YouTube pundits, this morning the Slackhog emerged from its development den, did *not* see its shadow, and Slackware 15.0 has been officially released.Slackware 15.0 Officially Released, Powered by Linux Kernel 5.15 LTSGrub Init Tune: Mario Bros. Mushroom PowerupGrub tune tester v0.5.0A collection of GRUB init tunes

We all take it for granted, but it is one of the best things about Linux. We share the history of the live CD, how it all got started, and the times it saved our bacon.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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Linux Live Kit is a set of shell scripts which allows you to create your own Live Linux!K3b — K3b was created to be a feature-rich and easy to handle CD burning application.Finnix — Finnix is the original utility live Linux distribution. Write it to a USB flash drive or burn it to a CD, boot it, and you're seconds from a root prompt with hundreds of utilities available for recovery, maintenance, testing and more.Finnix 123 releasedCluster KnoppixRichard Brown on Twitter — Rebrand and rescope; Old expanded support was just RHEL and just for purpose of holding customers over until they migrated to SLE; Liberty includes CentOS and Leap, and doesn’t require customers to move to SLE.sc-im — Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised – An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal.

SUSE had an awkward week; we breakdown the very mixed launch of SUSE Liberty Linux. Plus, we've cracked what's driving Linux Distribution adoption these days.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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Pictures of Brent's Server Cabinet Built — Some pics of the sweet server cabinet @brentgervais built this last weekend at the @jupitersignal studio.Jupiter Broadcasting MeetupFlathub to verify first-party apps and allow developers to collect monies — Flathub is going to gain a way to process and verify apps from first-party teams. As in, developers who directly publish their app and manage the Flatpak package process for Flathub.SUSE Liberty Linux Announced For Mixed Linux Environments — SUSE Liberty Linux is a new technology and support offering that provides customers a unified support experience for managing their heterogeneous IT environments.SUSE announces something for those who miss the old CentOS: Liberty Linux — SUSE Liberty Linux is a new technology and support offering that provides customers a unified support experience for managing their heterogeneous IT environments.Consistent-Lab-5595 comments on Suse Liberty Linux announcement - Is this a RHEL or CentOS clone ?New Features in Linux Mint 20.3 ‘Una’ Cinnamon Edition — Linux Mint 20.3 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2025.Edge ISO available for Linux Mint 20.3 — This image is made for people whose hardware is too new to boot the 5.4 LTS kernel included in Linux Mint 20.3. It ships with kernel 5.13.0-25 instead.mainline: A continuation of the free version of ukuu. — A tool for installing the latest Linux kernels on Ubuntu-based distributions.All Roads Lead to Arch: The Evolution of Linux Distros Used for Gaming Over Time — Ubuntu used to be a juggernaut, a staple in the world of Linux Gaming. Ubuntu was the default go-to distro for many users for probably a decade. It’s still an important distro at almost 20% share in our graph, but it’s not the first one anymore.Linux Desktop Gaming Product ManagerCanonical hiring a Desktop Gaming Product Manager for Ubuntu LinuxFountain podcast appPick: ssh-tools — Making SSH more convenient.

We make some last-minute changes to our server setup and catch up on a bunch of thought-provoking feedback.Special Guests: Martin Wimpress and Neal Gompa.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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Do You Put Linux/Distro Stickers On Your Machine?ChrisLAS Birthday Party Hang and ChowJupiter Extras — Why Linux Will Win in 20 YearsDenver Road Trip Memories — During our summer road trip to Denver we had the microphone's recording and captured some great moments.Denver Road Trip Tech — Our road trip machine is loaded up from solar to networking, the tech that made working, living, and recording from the road possible for 44 days and over 2,200 miles.Dev corrupts NPM libs ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ breaking thousands of appsCrypto Theses for 2022Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption IndexZFS has a history of not handling 15+ drive vdevs well.bismuth — KDE Plasma extension, that lets you tile your windows automatically and manage them via keyboard, just like in classical tiling window managers (i3, dwm or XMonad).Ideas on growing the Flathub Community in 2022

A new initiative uses open source to keep podcasting decentralized and add new features. We chatted with Dave Jones behind the Podcast Index.Special Guest: Dave Jones.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. Core Contributor Membership: Use promo code summer - Support the show, and take $1 off the lifetime of your membership! Promo Code: SummerSupport LINUX UnpluggedLinks:ClockworkPi DevTermChrisLAS Birthday Party Hang and Chow | MeetupJupiter Extras — Surprise podcasts from your friends at Jupiter BroadcastingJupiter Extras: Why Linux Will Win in 20 YearsPodcast IndexPodping — Distributed notification system for new podcast episodesNo Agenda ShowPodcast Index - GitHubPodcasting 2.0 Podcastlightning-keysend — Send funds to a node without an invoiceHive BlockchainCastamaticFountain — Share podcast clips and support your favourite creators directly with BitcoinPodcast Index - AppsPodcast Index - DocsPodcast Index MastodonFiresideUnited States Dollar price calculator and converterCambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI)Chris' Lightning Node — 037d284d2d7e6cec7623adbe600450a73b42fb90800989f05a862464b05408df39

Our new server setup is bonkers, but we love it.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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Canonical Careers - Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager — We are excited to create the role of Desktop Gaming Product Manager, to make Ubuntu the best Linux desktop for gaming.Arch Wiki - ZFSKindle Comic Converter — Kindle Comic Converter is an app that allows you to transform your PNG, JPG, GIF, CBZ, CBR and CB7 files into EPUB or MOBI format e-books. Preparing comics and manga for your E-Ink device was never easier.Kindle Comic Converter on FlathubLinux Action Show Season 2 preview… Kindle Oops — Bryan and Chris give you a preview on Season 2's first episode of The Linux Action Show! Watch a take that you won't see in the final episode.