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An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux.
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Mar 24, 2021 • 1h 1min
398: Back in the Freedom Dimension
We share our favorite networking trick of all time, and then chat with the blokes behind a new WireGuard-powered service.
Plus our reaction to RMS's return to the FSF, some big project updates, picks, and more!Special Guests: Dalton Durst and Danielle Foré.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. A Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Microsoft Said to Discuss Discord Bid for Over $10 Billion — “Microsoft possibly acquiring Discord makes a lot of sense as it continues to reshape its gaming business more toward software and services”.[Video] Richard Stallman is Backedw · elementary Developer Weekend — This conference is our way of reaching out to app developers, sharing the knowledge we’ve all collected over the years, and providing a space to ask questions and provide feedback.Ubuntu Touch OTA-16 Release — Today we are happy to announce the release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-16, our sixteenth stable update to the system!Linux Action News 181Forthcoming OpenSSL release — OpenSSL 1.1.1k is a security-fix release. The highest severity issue fixed in this release is HIGH.Initial Support For The Rust Language Lands In Linux-Next — While no fully-baked Rust kernel driver is ready yet, the initial merge to Linux-Next does include an example kernel module written in Rust.Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux — Torvalds thinks "Rust's primary first target seems to be drivers, simply because that's where you find just a lot of different possible targets, and you have these individual parts of the kernel that are fairly small and independent. That may not be a very interesting target to some people, but it's the obvious one."Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust [LWN.net]Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer | LinodeJB TelegramAll Jupiter Broadcasting ShowsHoppy — Hoppy provides a unique public IPv4 and IPv6 address to each of your devices, allowing connectivity without limitations. If you are behind a restrictive ISP, constantly on the move, or self-hosting services, Hoppy is for you. All major platforms are supported.ngrok — Secure introspectable tunnels to localhost.Gist: Assign public ipv6 to wireguard clientsWireGuard Routing and Port ForwardingGist: Forward all traffic to server over WireGuard VPNExpose server behind NAT with WireGuard and a VPSHow To Forward Ports through a Linux Gateway with IptablesFORWARD and NAT RulesPick: dsnet — Simple command to manage a centralised wireguard VPN. Think wg-quick but quicker: key generation + address allocation.How to set up a wireguard VPN in minutes with dsnetFeedback: Raspberry Pi POCKITProject POCKIT — PocKit is a computer made for the real, physical world. On top of its powerful, versatile Core, you can attach BLOCKS - any number of any kind - to suit your application.Video: A small, plug-and-play Linux computer — Project POCKITGNOME 40’s Best New FeaturesFreeBSD kernel-mode WireGuard moves forward out-of-tree

Mar 17, 2021 • 52min
397: Linux Desktop Levels Up
We break down the next-level features coming to a Linux near you in just a few weeks.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. A Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Virtual x86 — v86 emulates an x86-compatible CPU and hardware. Machine code is translated to WebAssembly modules at runtime in order to achieve decent performance.The Linux desktop is boring again — Where I was once a constant "fiddler" with my desktop, I now want the interface to work how I want it to work, but still look the way I want it to look. I'm more of a minimalist now, so GNOME suits my needs on both levels quite well. However, I find myself rather bored with the Linux desktop.What to look for in Fedora Workstation 34 — Christian F.K. Schaller — The big ticket item we have wanted to close off on was Wayland, because while Wayland has been production ready for most of us for a while, there was still some cases it didn’t cover as well as X.org.Christian Schaller on Twitter — 2020 was a year where we focused a lot on polishing what we had and getting things past the finish line and Fedora Workstation 34 is going to be the culmination of that effort in many ways.GNOME 40 Introducing Headless Native Backend, Virtual Monitors — As part of this headless native back-end is also the ability to create virtual monitors via command-line options for debugging and other purposes. This also allows creating virtual monitor PipeWire streams.What’s New in Libhandy 1.2Reinventing tabs — In GNOME 40, Epiphany will feature a new tab bar. This isn’t just a restyling of the old one, but a ground-up rewrite.My geek stuff blog: Maps and GNOME 40GNOME 40 & your extension – GNOME Shell & MutterOBS Studio on WaylandDiversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous TransferJB Telegram GroupAll Jupiter Broadcasting ShowsPick: kmon — Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor 🐧💻Pick: ebpfsnitch — eBPFSnitch is a Linux Application Level Firewall based on eBPF and NFQUEUE. It is inspired by OpenSnitch and Douane but utilizing modern kernel abstractions - without a kernel module.Feedback: Docker Socket SecurityFeedback: How to exit big picture modeTelegram App Is Booming but Needs Advertisers, and $700 Million Soon

Mar 10, 2021 • 1h 1min
396: How Linux Got to Mars
Tim Canham, the Mars Helicopter Operations Lead, shares Linux’s origins at JPL and how it ended up running on multiple boxes on Mars.
Plus the challenges Linux still faces before its ready for mission-critical space exploration.Special Guest: Tim Canham.Sponsored By:A Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs.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:Debian running on Rust coreutils — tldr: uutils/coreutils is now available in Debian, good enough to boot a Debian with GNOME, install the top 1000 packages, build Firefox, the Linux Kernel and LLVM/Clang.uutils/coreutils — An attempt at writing universal (as in cross-platform) CLI utilities in Rust.Steam Link now available on Linux — Special thanks to Collabora for helping make this possible.Steamlink RepoSteam Link on FlathubProton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games to Run on Linux — Proton has been receiving many updates in the past few months as well, with the introduction of the Soldier Linux runtime container and Proton Experimental on top of the regular Proton releases.Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer | LinodeJB TelegramAll Jupiter Broadcasting ShowsNASA’s Perseverance Drives on Mars’ Terrain for First Time — NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover performed its first drive on Mars March 4, covering 21.3 feet (6.5 meters) across the Martian landscape. The drive served as a mobility test that marks just one of many milestones as team members check out and calibrate every system, subsystem, and instrument on Perseverance.[Video] Cassini Burns into Saturn After Grand FinaleCuriosity — NASA’s Mars Exploration Programnasa/fprime — A flight software and embedded systems framework.Wind River VxWorks RTOSField-programmable gate array - WikipediaJPL CubeSat ASTERIA — ASTERIA (Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics) was a technology demonstration and opportunistic science mission to conduct astrophysical measurements using a CubeSat.Pick: ocenaudio — Easy, fast and powerful audio editor.Pick: nativefier — Make any web page a desktop application.Linux Action News 179 — Canonical reveals long-term Ubuntu plans that you might have missed, and the "double ungood" warning from Linus this week.Post-show Pick: Jellyfin 10.7.0 — Note: Non-reversible database changes. Ensure you back up before upgrading.

Mar 3, 2021 • 49min
395: The Waybig Machine
It's our worst idea yet. We share the password to our brand-new server and see who can own the box first. Whoever wins gets a special prize.
Plus how Archive.org uses Linux, and more.Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Carl George, 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:tsukae — Show off your most used shell commandsGNOME Shell X11Gestures Wxtension — Enable GNOME Shell multi-touch gestures on X11 with this extension.TouchEgg — Touchégg is an app that runs in the background and transform the gestures you make on your touchpad or touchscreen into visible actions in your desktop.Apple Touch Bar Linux Driver Hopes For Upstream In 2021 — Sent out on Saturday by independent developer Ronald Tschalär was the latest reverse-engineered, open-source driver code that gets the Touch Bar and ALS support working for MacBook Pro 13,* / 14,* / 15,* models.Internet Archive Infrastructure — Jonah Edwards breaks down how the Internet Archive works, behind the scenes.jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegramAll Jupiter Broadcasting Showsliamg/traitor — Automatic Linux privesc via exploitation of low-hanging fruit e.g. gtfobins.Don't expose the Docker socket (not even to a container) — Docker primarily works as a client that communicates with a daemon process (dockerd). Typically that socket is a UNIX domain socket called /var/run/docker.sock. That daemon is highly privileged; effectively having root access. Any process that can write to the dockerd socket also effectively has root access.Feedback: Minecraft Bedrock BridgeGeyserMC — Enable clients from Minecraft Bedrock Edition to join your Minecraft Java server.Feedback: Audio HardwareFeedback: Episode 394Feedback: Arch Discussion

Feb 24, 2021 • 1h 11min
394: Tempted But the Truth is Discovered
After all these years, what's made us stick with Linux?
Plus the commitment just made by the GNOME team, and some new tools that are changing our game.Special Guest: Drew DeVore.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. A Cloud Guru: The Cloud is growing, and so is the demand for skilled cloud professionals. Grow your skills — and your career. Get 20% off access to the most effective, hands-on cloud learning. Promo Code: springintocloud21Datadog: Datadog - the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Nvidia is nerfing its new RTX 3060 for Ethereum cryptocurrency mining — Nvidia is purposefully making its new RTX 3060 graphics cards less efficient to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency. New drivers that will accompany the release of the GPUs later this month will reduce the hash rate of Ethereum mining by around 50 percent, using software detection for cryptocurrency mining.Linux has made it to Mars — “It’s kind of an open-source victory, because we’re flying an open-source operating system and an open-source flight software framework and flying commercial parts that you can buy off the shelf if you wanted to do this yourself someday.”Linux Action News 177 — We share some exclusive details about the Linux-powered gear that just landed on Mars, and the open-source frameworks that make it possible.[Video] NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sends New Video and Images of the Red PlanetIntroducing Flatpak Builds - Open Build Service — OBS now supports building flatpak bundles, so you can build your own!Minecraft Bedrock Launcher on Flathub — The project runs the native libraries from the Android version directly on your computer.GNOME Shell + Mutter 40 Beta Released With Wayland Improvements, Overview Redesign — GNOME 40 beta is coming together with the GNOME Shell and Mutter components having seen new releases on Monday.GNOME Shell 40 and multi-monitor — Multi-monitor has come up a fair bit in conversations about the GNOME Shell UX updates that are coming in GNOME 40. There’s been some uncertainty and anxiety in this area, so we wanted to provide more detail on what the multi-monitor experience will exactly be like, so people know what to expect.PipeWire 0.3.22 Released With Many Improvements — PipeWire 0.3.22 was released this week with a whole lot of work in trying to see that Fedora 34 this spring can ship with it in use by default.PipeWire 0.3.22 ReleaseJupiter Broadcasting Telegram ChannelAll Jupiter Broadcasting ShowsFeedback: Giving up on daily driver? — Do you sometimes wonder if it's time to give up on a Linux desktop as your daily driver?KXStudio — KXStudio is a collection of applications and plugins for audio production.Ubuntu Studio — A free and open operating system for creative people.ycollet/linuxmao audio packages CoprDrew's fedora Proaudio Copryabridge — A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2 and VST3 plugins on Linux.ocenaudio — Easy, fast and powerful audio editor.Audacity — Free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.Avid Pro ToolsSonoBus — SonoBus is an easy to use application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.PipeWire — It provides a low-latency, graph based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both pulseaudio and JACK.ardour — the digital audio workstationAirwindows PluginsCalf Studio Gear - GNU/Linux Audio Plug-InsLinux Studio Plugins ProjectReaPlugs for REAPERSWS / S&M Extension for REAPERUltrasound — High-end podcasting for everyone.Pick: Proton-Caller — Run any Windows program through Valve's Proton.

Feb 17, 2021 • 56min
393: Perfecting Our Plasma
Something special has been achieved this week, a new benchmark in the desktop experience. We dig in.
And why everyone will be looking for an open-source LastPass alternative.Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller.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. Datadog: Datadog - the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.A Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:AmpliPi - Home Audio System — Kickstarter — One thing that sets apart the AmpliPi design is that we have made it open source, from the software, to the firmware, to the schematics. The REST API and Web App are written in Python and run on a Raspberry Pi 3+ Compute Module.The Coder — The Coder is made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear. Embroidered on the left chest with a classic white on black Coder Radio logo.Windows Refund Day — For those who hadn't heard the story, February 15th 1999 was windows refund day. It was a worldwide day when open source OS users went to microsoft's offices to return their unused licenses of windows that they were forced to acquire since they were bundled with the machine they bought.VLC 4.0 is coming later this year with a new UI, focus on online video and security — The new version will also focus more on playing videos from the Internet, relying on extensions to find third-party content. The team is also working on a version of VLC that will work inside the browser (based on WebAssembly).The Movie Database (TMDb)Facebook’s Linux Desktop Choice Is Fedora But Ramping Up CentOS Stream — Among the reasons Facebook is now pursuing CentOS Stream on the desktop is to serve as a stable rolling-release, binary compatibility, punctual security updates, and its close relationship with Fedora.Changes to LastPass Free - The LastPass Blog — Starting March 16th, 2021, LastPass Free will only include access on unlimited devices of one type, Desktop or Mobile.KeePass Password SafeBitwarden Open Source Password Manager | Bitwarden1Password LinuxManjaro Linux on Twitter — We updated #PlasmaMobile to the latest #Plasma 5.21 stable release. This comes with the latest 5.10 LTS kernel and updated development packages. Checkout the latest software by @kdecommunity powered by @ManjaroLinuxARM for your #Pinephone!Manjaro on Shells.comJupiterBroadcasting Telegram GroupThe Opinion Dominion Episode 28 — A wild Chris Fisher appears… for an interview.All Jupiter Broadcasting ShowsPlasma 5.2 — Apart from the numerous improvements in stability, there are quite a few Plasma components that are getting much better support in Wayland. KRunner, for example, is now able to list all open windows in Wayland, a new component in the panel’s system tray informs you of the keyboard layout, and we now support features required for GTK 4, so all GTK 4 applications will now work.M.2 Enclosure for SATA NGFF SSDFeedback: Arch Upgrade TipsFeedback: Arch on the laptop of Chris’ sonSonoBus — SonoBus is an easy to use, open-source, application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.

Feb 10, 2021 • 1h 7min
392: Dad's Deployments
Which distro is best for friends and family? We have a unique take on this common question.
Plus new insights into the future of CentOS, and Chris falls in love with a 14-inch screamer.Special Guest: Carl George.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. Datadog: Datadog - the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.A Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:The unanswered question at CentOS community Q&A: How can we trust you now? — The CentOS board conducted a public Q&A just ahead of last week's FOSDEM 2021 open source conference – and there was an awkward silence when someone asked whether changing the end-of-life (EOL) date for a released project is something that might happen again.Events/Dojo/FOSDEM2021 - CentOS WikiCentOS Dojo 2021: Board of Directors - YouTubeUbuntu Backports a Major App Update to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS — Ubuntu 20.04 LTS shipped with Thunderbird 68.x but this version is no longer supported upstream. This leaves Ubuntu developers will a problem: backport individual security fixes to Thunderbird 68, or port the newer (and still-supported) Thunderbird 78 to LTS users?Subscribe to Coder RadioJupiter Broadcasting Telegram ChannelAll Jupiter Broadcasting ShowsEndeavourOS Issues First 2021 Release For Easy-To-Use Arch-Based Linux Distro — For those that have been meaning to try out an Arch Linux based distribution that is easy-to-use and not time consuming with sensible defaults, EndeavourOS is out with its first new spin since 2021 -- and in fact their first fresh ISO release since September.Our first release of 2021 has arrived – EndeavourOSASUS - ROG Zephyrus G14 14" Ultra-Slim Gaming LaptopLinux on Laptops: ASUS Zephyrus G14 with Ryzen 9 4900HS | Ars TechnicaAUR: snap-pac-grub — Pacman hook to update GRUB entries for grub-btrfs after snap-pac made snapshots.Feedback: Browser SyncxBrowserSync — Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!Feedback: Gaming on WaylandA free, open-source future for Mailspring - Information - Mailspring Community — Today, I am excited to announce that I am open-sourcing mailsync - the C++11 core of Mailspring that performs email sync - under the same GPLv3 license used by the rest of the app, making Mailspring entirely free software.Pick: ht — Yet another HTTPie clone, written in Rust.PIck: fddf — Fast data dupe finder, written in Rust.Pick: bottom — Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor, written in Rust.

Feb 3, 2021 • 60min
391: GNOME 40ified
We try out GNOME 40 and its new workspace layout. Who we think this works well for, and who might want to avoid it.
Plus Wimpy, Ubuntu's Desktop lead, chats with us about his future after Canonical.Special Guests: Carl George and Martin Wimpress.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. Oh Dear: Oh Dear monitors uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, scheduled tasks, and more. We send out notifications when something's wrong. All that paired with a developer-friendly API and kick-ass documentation. Promo Code: LINUXA Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:VideoLAN is 20 years old!Refreshing the Ubuntu Desktop Installer — We have started working on the new desktop installer, and plan to have a preliminary version ready for testing in the 21.10 release; due in October 2021. This paves the way to transitioning to the new installer for the next LTS release, which will be 22.04, due for release in April 2022.Martin 🙂 Wimpress on Twitter — I’ll soon⏳be leaving Canonical. I’m very excited to be joining the fine people @SlimDevOps😃Despite the change, I’ll continue to lead @ubuntu_mate; it’s my passion💖project. Naturally, I’ll remain an enthusiastic #Ubuntu & Snapcraft community contributor💪Slim.aiOnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T seeing work for mainline Linux kernel support — Thanks to the existing minimal mainline support for the platform, features like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and 3D Acceleration are already working at the current stage of development.All Jupiter Broadcasting ShowsUnplugged Hangout Stream Live 1-26-2021 - JupiterTubeGNOME 40 Approaches Its UI Freeze, Easy Means To Start Testing It — GNOME Shell recently merged its new horizontal workspaces, among other changes. The official GNOME Shell & Mutter development blog put out a new post on Monday highlighting their latest efforts. They are working to get the remaining big items in place over the next two weeks before the freeze and then an “intense period of polishing and bug fixing.”Another Shell UX Update – GNOME Shell & MutterWelp, Ubuntu 21.04 Won’t Ship with GNOME 40 or GTK4 — Ubuntu devs cite the redesign of GNOME Shell in GNOME 40 and its potential impact on GNOME extensions (of which Ubuntu ships a few by default) and the Yaru GTK theme as reason to “stick” to GNOME 3.38 this cycle.Triple Buffering Likely Not Landing Until GNOME 42Ubuntu 21.04 Will Use Wayland By DefaultQuick Demo: Gnome 40 Multi-monitor Demo - JupiterTubeCarl George on Twitter — I’ve been a @gnome fan/apologist for a long time. Dynamic virtual workspaces spanned across multiple horizontally arranged monitors are so damn wonderful to use. Productive. Efficient. Spatial.Carl's Workspace Layout DrawingFeedback: Chromium WoesFeedback: VentoyUGREEN M.2 Enclosure for SATA NGFF SSDSilicon Power 256GB A55 M.2 SSDPick: Ticker — Terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking

Jan 26, 2021 • 44min
390: Eating the License Cake
Successful open-source projects all seem to struggle with one major gorilla. Who it is, and what their options are now.Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Jonathan Corbet.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. Oh Dear: Oh Dear monitors uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, scheduled tasks, and more. We send out notifications when something's wrong. All that paired with a developer-friendly API and kick-ass documentation. Promo Code: LINUXA Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Security Disclosure 2: vulnerabilities in custom integrations HACS, Font Awesome and others - Home Assistant — Multiple custom integrations were found that allowed an attacker to steal any file without logging in. Previously implemented fixes were not sufficient.FEDORA-2021-48866282e5 — security update for chromium — Fedora Updates System — I gave a lot of thought to whether I wanted to continue to maintain the Chromium package in Fedora, given that many (most?) users will be confused/annoyed when API functionality like sync and geolocation stops working for no good reason. Ultimately, I decided to continue for now, because there were at least some users who didn't mind, and if I stopped, someone else would start over and run blindly into this problem.Introduction to Elasticsearch - YouTubeStepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | AWS Open Source Blog — In order to ensure open source versions of both packages remain available and well supported, including in our own offerings, we are announcing today that AWS will step up to create and maintain a ALv2-licensed fork of open source Elasticsearch and Kibana.AWS, as predicted, is forking Elasticsearch | ZDNetAll Jupiter Broadcasting ShowsJellyfin 10.7.0 Release Changelog — SyncPlay for TV shows and Music, significantly improved web performance, an upgrade to .NET SDK 5.0 for improved performance in the backend, and more!Jellyfin 10.7.0 RC3LWN.net - WikipediaWelcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]Jonathan Corbet - Faces of Open SourcePick: polybar — A fast and easy-to-use status barPick: dust — A more intuitive version of du in rustPick: Waybar — Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.

Jan 20, 2021 • 1h 1min
389: Harder Butter Faster Stronger
We showcase a tool that will change your Linux game.
Plus our thoughts on the recent Btrfs FUD, a bunch of feedback, and a handy pick.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. Oh Dear: Oh Dear monitors uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, scheduled tasks, and more. We send out notifications when something's wrong. All that paired with a developer-friendly API and kick-ass documentation. Promo Code: LINUXA Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:[ANNOUNCE] nano-5.5 is releasedUbuntu 21.04 Will Finally Stop Making New Home Directories World-Readable — Ubuntu 21.04 will do away with the existing practice on Ubuntu Linux systems of making new user home directories world-readable.Linux 5.10.8 Kernel Released - Finally Fixes That Btrfs Performance Regression — Linux 5.10.8 is out today as the latest stable release for the Linux 5.10 LTS series. Making this point release notable is that it finally addresses the 5.10 Btrfs performance regression.All Jupiter Broadcasting ShowsVentoy — An open-source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.Ventoy on GitHubFeedback: openSUSE and FOSS AdventuresFeedback: Neon Success StoryFeedback: Next TuesdayFeedback: ThinkPad X12 DetachableThinkPad X12 Detachable | Windows Tablet | Lenovo USFeedback: Google forms?!Feedback: System76 PredictionPick: PGHoard — pghoard is a PostgreSQL backup daemon and restore tooling that stores backup data in cloud object stores.