Brent shares his experiences with getting a new laptop and his excitement for an upcoming conference. They discuss a new build project and invite listeners to join. The speaker talks about their tiredness and exciting conversations at a meetup in Germany. They discuss their impressions of a new laptop and a Linode sponsorship. They mention a fundraising campaign for an event and the concept of a minimum viable garage PC. They explore the rise of podcasting 2.0 and open-source NVIDIA drivers. They discuss value for value music podcasting and self-hosting options. They explore peer-to-peer networking, Nvidia's usage, X86 emulation, and show support. They discuss the pros and cons of the Neo Store app and introduce Obtainium as a trusted central repository for downloading applications.

Canonical stays focused on Linux desktop while chaos ensues in SUSE and Red Hat. Discussion on the impact of recent Linux kernel changes on proprietary modules. Trust and concerns about the future are raised. Ubuntu's steady approach amidst chaos and their investments in snaps, desktop, and gaming. Importance of product partnerships in driving advancements in Linux. Rise of value-for-value music podcasts. Concerns about dynamic ads and transition in the podcasting industry.

Neal Gompa, a special guest, joins the hosts to discuss Asahi Linux on a MacBook, beating Apple to a major GPU milestone. They also explore self-hosted open-source ChatGPT alternatives and running Fedora Asahi Remix on Apple Silicon Macs, including limitations and the potential for using the M1 Mac mini as a home server.

The podcast discusses topics such as building an indestructible server with NixOS, the challenges and potential of NixOS, analyzing GitHub star history, configuring a solenode box, audience feedback on modifications made to their NixOS server, using plus addressing for email and creating a backup system with LVM, listener contributions and discussion on VPN solutions, learning Linux file and directory permissions, NFC payments on Apple Watch, and using Nix in production and designing systems with impermanence in mind.

The hosts explore Rhino Linux, a unique rolling Ubuntu distribution with AUR-like powers. They discuss the benefits of Rhino's package manager, Pacstall, and share their experiences using a specific system and getting involved in the project. They also discuss the pros and cons of stable long-lived systems versus rolling releases in Linux. Additionally, they touch on a customized OS, privacy tools, and a 3D printed love coin.

Why Linux reigns for privacy; our recommendations for secure tools from chat to DNS.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. 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.Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration — This project is aimed at being simple while allowing a ton of customisation and flexibility. To get started, you’ll need an instance of Home Assistant running with the ESPHome add-on as well as the Home Assistant companion app on your mobile phone to receive notifications when someone presses the doorbell button.Alex in Chicago, Aug 10, 2023 | MeetupThe U.K. Government Is Dangerously Close to Eroding Encryption and Normalizing Mass Surveillance — "The U.K. government wants to grant itself the right to scan every message online for content related to child abuse or terrorism—and says it will still, somehow, magically, protect peoples’ privacy. That’s simply impossible. U.K. civil society groups have condemned the bill, as have technical experts and human rights groups around the world."U.K. civil society groupshuman rights groups around the worldWhatsApp, Signal, and the UK-based ElementNow Apple takes a bite out of encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law — "End-to-end encryption is a critical capability that protects the privacy of journalists, human rights activists, and diplomats," Apple argued in a statement to the media.Privacy | Electronic Frontier FoundationSnowflake ❄️ — Snowflake is a system that allows people from all over the world to access censored websites and applications. Similar to how VPNs assist users in getting around Internet censorship, Snowflake helps you avoid being noticed by Internet censors by making your Internet activity appear as though you're using the Internet for a regular video or voice call.Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking — Instead of browser plugins or other software on each computer, install Pi-hole in one place and your entire network is protected.AdGuard HomeNextDNS - The new firewall for the modern InternetUnifiedPush — UnifiedPush is a set of specifications and tools that lets the user choose how push notifications* are delivered. All in a free and open source way.NextPush - Server App — UnifiedPush provider for Nextcloud - server applicationUnifiedPush: a decentralized, open-source push notification protocolProton Drive — Proton Drive is an end-to-end encrypted Swiss vault for your files that protects your data.SimpleLogin — Open source anonymous email serviceSimple NixOS MailserverProton CalendarEteSync - Secure Data Sync — Secure, end-to-end encrypted, and privacy respecting sync for your contacts, calendars, tasks and notes.Nextcloud + DAVx5 — DAVx⁵ has been successfully tested with Nextcloud.Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it’s transmitted over the internet.Nextcloud - Online collaboration platform — Regain control over your dataSend — Send lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires. So you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn’t stay online forever.nitter: Alternative Twitter front-end — A free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. Inspired by the Invidious project.FreeTube — The Private YouTube ClientNewPipe - a free YouTube client — NewPipe has been created with the purpose of getting the original YouTube experience on your smartphone without annoying ads and questionable permissions.yattee — Privacy-oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOSlibredirect — A browser extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.Aegis Authenticator - Secure 2FA app for Android — Aegis Authenticator is a free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens for your online services.SimpleX Chat: private and secure messenger without any user IDs (not even random) — Other apps have user IDs: Signal, Matrix, Session, Briar, Jami, Cwtch, etc. SimpleX does not, not even random numbers. This radically improves your privacy.Element — A secure communications platform built around you.PrivacyGuides.orgPrivacyTools.ioSurveillance Self-Defense - EFFFunding Developers With LightningTailscale on GL.iNet Routers — Tailscale feature available since V4.2.Nix-on-Droid — Nix-on-Droid brings Nix package manager of NixOS fame to your mobile device.InvidTUI — InvidTUI is an invidious client, which fetches data from invidious instances and displays a user interface in the terminal, and allows for selecting and playing Youtube audio and video.

Two important news stories, plus our thoughts on GNOME’s new windowing proposal and the Framework 16.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. 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.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:🎉 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.The Framework Laptop 16 DIY AMD 7040Nextcloud Conference 2023 — Annually bringing the global Nextcloud Contributor Community together for a week of coding, design, discussion, talks & fun!Berlin with Brent, Fri Sep 8, 2023 | Meetup.com — Brent will be back in Berlin for the Nextcloud Conference and can't get enough of Berlin Meetups!Alex will be in Chicago August 10th!PayPal Shut Down GrapheneOS Foundation’s Account Used For DonationsGrapheneOS on Twitter — Unfortunately, PayPal permanently locked our GrapheneOS Foundation account today. No reason has been provided for the account being locked. All we've done is accept donations. We added our bank account information yesterday in order to begin withdrawing money and it was locked.GrapheneOS on Twitter — PayPal has restored our non-profit GrapheneOS Foundation account. We should be able to withdraw all donations made through it in the past few weeks. We received no info on why our account was permanently banned with funds held for 180 days or why they now restored our account.GrapheneOS on Twitter — We use Bitcoin as the main way we transfer funds internally, including using it to pay most of our project members. It doesn't replace having bank accounts to pay other expenses or accepting donations in other ways.Ansible Creator Wants to Build a New Automation Platform in Rust — Ansible's creator Michael DeHaan thinks there is still plenty of room to make more tools that would add to the existing automation ecosystem. Especially, when infrastructure automation solutions like Chef and Puppet were acquired.A New IT Automation Project? — Moving Beyond Ansible And Keeping The SpiritWelcome to JetPorch — Jet's goal is to be an community-driven enterprise automation and orchestration platform for the modern era.jetporch/example_content: example content for learning, exploration, and testingJetporch: Next generation IT orchestration — Jetporch is a next-generation IT orchestration platform aiming to handle modern enterprise workloads at a planetary scale.Rethinking Window Management — We’ve wanted more powerful tiling for years, but there has not been much progress due to the huge amount of work involved on the technical side and the lack of a clear design direction we were happy with. We now finally feel like the design is at a stage where we can take concrete next steps towards making it happen, which is very exciting!Open Podcast API — The Open Podcast API is an initiative aiming to provide a feature-complete synchronisation API specification for podcast (web) apps and user-focussed servers.OpenPodcastAPI Meeting NotesHamWAN — HamWAN is a non-profit organization (501c3) developing best practices for high speed amateur radio data networks. HamWAN also runs the Puget Sound Data Ring, which is a real-world network implementation of the proposed designs.SUSE Liberty Linux — SUSE Liberty Linux is a technology and support solution that will secure your Linux future without fear of vendor lock-in. With SUSE Liberty Linux, you get trusted support and optional proven management tools that are optimized for mixed Linux environments, including Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux ®, CentOS, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.anytype.io — the everything app for those who celebrate trust & autonomybfs 3.0: the fastest find yet! — bfs is a tool I wrote to do breadth-first search through a filesystem. It started out simply enough, but over the years it's grown to include almost every feature from every other find implementation I could find, plus many of its own innovations.

Do they build them better in Germany? We try out the next-generation InfinityBook Pro 14 and dig into TUXEDO OS.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. 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.Office Hours 33: Just Burn it all Down — Why independent media is getting just as bad as mainstream media, and Brent's escape from a wildfire. Plus, an update on our new bounty release format!TUXEDO Computers — TUXEDO Computers are customizable Linux notebooks and Desktop PCs optimized in the first place to run with Ubuntu-based Linux operating systems.TUXEDO OS DownloadTUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen8 Linux Ultrabook Is Now Available for Pre-OrderTUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen8 — 17 mm thin, 1.3 kg light, a chassis footprint of only 31 x 21.5 cm, paired with a top-notch 16:10 3K Omnia display, a max-sized 99 Wh battery and a 14-core Intel Core i7-13700H high-performance processor.ddev — Docker-based local PHP+Node.js web development environments.[nixpkgs PR] ddev: init at 1.21.4 by jgonyeaFlipper Zero — Portable Multi-tool Device for GeeksGNU Wget — GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS, the most widely used Internet protocols.GNU Guix — transactional package manager and distributionCheogram — Extensible Messaging and Presence for the Telephone Networkno-more-secrets — This project provides a command line tool called nms that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen on screen in the 1992 hacker movie Sneakers.Bard-Shell — Bard-Shell is a utility that allows you to use Google's Bard AI in the Linux terminal.

Have Oracle and SUSE lost their minds? Plus, we dig into Fedora's proposal to add telemetry collection to Workstation.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. 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:Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To — Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden.Berlin with Brent, Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 6:00 PM | MeetupBerlin Buds on MatrixDissociated Press: Clone WarsSUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment — SUSE is committed to working with the open source community to develop a long-term, enduring compatible alternative for RHEL and CentOS users. SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux — SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen today argues that SUSE is wading into this because of its belief that “becoming more proprietary should not be the basis for competition between open source companies."The future of AlmaLinux | Hacker NewsRocky Linux: Keeping Open Source Open — While we continuously explore other options, the aforementioned approaches are subject to change. However, our unwavering dedication and commitment to open source and the Enterprise Linux community remain steadfast.AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System — After much discussion, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board today has decided to drop the aim to be 1:1 with RHEL. AlmaLinux OS will instead aim to be Application Binary Interface (ABI) compatible.Fedora Workstation 40 Considering To Implement Privacy-Preserving Telemetry — Red Hat's desktop developers are interested in "limited data collection of anonymous Fedora Workstation usage metrics." They are not wanting to collect individual user data but are interested in aggregate usage metrics.Changes/Telemetry - Fedora Project WikiWhat data will be collected, exactly? — A breakout topic for the F40 Change Request on Privacy-preserving telemetry for Fedora Workstation.Endless OS’s privacy-preserving metrics system — Let’s stare directly at the elephant in the room: usage metrics – telemetry, analytics, or whatever other terms one might like to use – is something that free software community members are often opposed to, with some good justification.This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends — The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole PerlrothAlbyLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.orgOffice Hours 32: Things are ChangingOur Fastest, Most Beautiful Release Ever: Thunderbird 115 “Supernova” Is Here! — We did our best to strike a comfortable balance between new features and interface changes to appeal to new users, while maintaining the current layout and interface that millions of our users know and love.rustdesk 1.2 — Rewritten with Flutter, Wayland support, Headless Linux, Resolution adjustment, Dark theme.

Can Ubuntu make a great immutable desktop? We're trying the brand-new "Everything is a Snap" Ubuntu Core Desktop.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. 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:Berlin with Brent Meetup — Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:00 PMBerlin Buds on MatrixThings are Changing | Office Hours 32 — We've got a radically new format idea for Office Hours and want to tell you all about it.Linux Action News 299 — Recent advances in embedded Linux, Canonical takes full control of LXD, ZFS gets a handy Btrfs feature, and updates on the show's production.Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base — Behind the scenes, the Canonical team has been actively exploring the benefits of Ubuntu Core beyond the realm of IoT, most notably in the context of developers and daily users.ubuntu-core-desktop on GitHub — This directory contains an image of Ubuntu Core 22 with the GDM display manager loaded into the boot file system.Actions · canonical/ubuntu-core-desktop - GitHubcanonical/workshops on GitHub — Workshops provides a user friendly interface to create and manage LXD containers as well as provides a full featured terminal.Workshops on the Snap StoreSnikket Dev's take on XMPP and Embrace Extend Extinguishsnikket-server: Image builder for Snikket serverSnikket Chat — Simple, secure and private messaging.OLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and Expo — OLF is returning on September 8-9, 2023!Magnolia Mayhem’s CaterCloudSupport LINUX Unplugged on ConshaxAlbyLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.orgkz6fittycent/BobRossQuotes: A bunch of quotes from Bob RossBob Ross Quotes - Snap Store