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Apr 24, 2023 • 52min

507: Full Wobble

Why Fedora 38 might Sway you to try it; and how it runs on the MacBook M1 Max.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:Redesigned Flathub Site Launches For Flatpak Apps — A redesigned version of the Flathub website has launched for this weekend's Linux App Summit. Flathub remains the centralized website for exploring and finding new Flatpak sandboxed Linux apps.Flathub — Welcome to Flathub, the home of hundreds of apps which can be easily installed on any Linux distribution. Browse the apps online, from your app center or the command line.Olympia Linux Spring MeetupAnnouncing Fedora Linux 38 — Fedora Linux 38 introduces several new Spins ­— variants that showcase different desktop environments.Fedora 38 Released With GNOME 44 Desktop, GCC 13, Many New Features — Fedora 38 brings many changes including the GCC 13 system compiler and other updated toolchain components like GNU Make 4.4, Glibc 2.37, Binutils 2.39, Golang 1.20, Ruby 3.2, and more.What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38How to rebase to Fedora Linux 38 on SilverblueFedora Linux 38 SpinsFedora Workstation Downloadasahi-fedora-builder — Builds a minimal Fedora image to run on Apple M1/M2 systemsmusic-player — An extensible music server written in Rust 🚀🎵✨Tools on TechThe Split KitPodversePodcasting 2.0 AppsAlbyLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.orgReaper on Flathub
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Apr 17, 2023 • 1h 16min

506: Three Wild and Crazy Topics

We surprise each other with three secret topics, with one big catch.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:Fleek — Install and manage all the tools you need to be productive. Use a simple command line tool or edit one YAML file and you're off to the races.ublue-os/fleek: Own your $HOMEFleek First Steps — You have two choices with Fleek. You can use Fleek with a simple CLI tool and YAML file to manage your installed packages, aliases and path, or you can use Fleek as a one-time generator to create a lightly-opinionated Nix Home Manager flake for you.nix-community/home-manager — Manage a user environment using Nix.Home Manager - NixOS WikiDeterminateSystems/nix-installer — nix-installer is an opinionated alternative to the official Nix install scripts.Sharing Fleek Configurations — You can use Fleek to share your configurations across multiple computers. This is useful if you use multiple computers and want to keep your configurations in sync.Containers and Kubernetes Explained | Linode, now AkamaiOlympia Linux Spring Meetup — Let's have a local PNW get-together. Saturday, April 29, 2023.Boston Harbor MarinaLinuxFest Northwest 2023: Call for SpeakersStart your NOSTR-Market with LNbitsNostr, a Basic tourAwesome-nostrNostr AppsBitwarden on Twitter — Is your Bitwarden vault jam-packed with entries? Here are a few tips for organizing your vault to better suit your everyday needs.linuxserver.io — Building and maintaining community imagesRaspberry Pi SD card image for NixOS on BTRFS rootPick: difftastic — A structural diff that understands syntax.difftastic is packaged in NixPodcasting 2.0 AppsAlbyLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
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Apr 10, 2023 • 1h 14min

505: Keep Your Darn Secrets

We try out the most secure messaging app in the world, and Wes’ new note system that's so great you’ll want to abandon your current one.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:Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups — Two April Meetups: Raleigh - April 8th and Olympia - April 29th.LinuxFest Northwest on Twitter — Call for Speakers is open from March 5th through June 4th, so if you are interested in being a speaker please submit a proposal now!LinuxFest Northwest 2023: Call for SpeakersLogseq — A privacy-first, open-source knowledge base. Logseq is the open toolbox for workflows that deal with lots of information.logseq-publish — Publish your Logseq graph with a GitHub Action.logseq-schrodinger — A plugin to export pages in Logseq to Hugo.logseq-searchable — A quick utility to conduct OCR parsing on images and insert the result as a property.SimpleX Chat — The first messenger without user IDs.SimpleX on Google PlaySimpleX APKSimpleX on iOSSimpleX TestFlight preview for iOSSimpleX CLISimpleXMQ — A reference implementation of the SimpleX Messaging Protocol for simplex queues over public networks.LFNW Matrix Chatgping — Ping, but with a graph.AlbyLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.orgPick: Codex.docs — Free Docs app powered by Editor.js ecosystemEditor.js — Free block-style editor with a universal JSON output
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Apr 3, 2023 • 1h 25min

504: It's a Trap!

Why using the iPhone makes it harder to run Linux; Chris follows up on his four-month-long challenge to ditch iOS for GrapheneOS. Plus, Brent's extended stay in Berlin has led to some developments you won't want to miss.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:c-base interface — welcome onboard c-basematelight: — Show text and gifs on mate crates.Raleigh-Durham Pizza Party! — Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 3pm ESTOlympia Linux Spring Meetup — Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 1:00 PM PDTPodverse Call for HelpLINUX Unplugged 486: Goodbye, GoogleImmich — Self-hosted photos and videos backup solution from your mobile phoneKDE Connect — Enabling communication between all your devices. Made for people like you.iodé — The Eco Friendly Smartphone Protecting Your PrivacyBerlin Buds Matrix RoomLibreSign — Libre digital signature app for Nextcloud.Develop for Nextcloud — Have you always wanted to learn how to develop apps for your Nextcloud? These tutorials should flatten your learning curve.Berlin with Brent | LINUX Unplugged 503Nextcloud Cookbook on iOSnextcloud/cookbook — A library for all your recipes. It uses JSON files following the schema.org recipe format.Nextcloud AIO — Nextcloud AIO stands for Nextcloud All In One and provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance.Podcasting 2.0 AppsAlbyLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
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Mar 27, 2023 • 1h 29min

503: Berlin with Brent

Brent dives deep into Nextcloud's new release from inside their offices, and takes an unexpected dip in the local lake with a listener.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:DoomLinux — A bash script to build a minimal linux operating system just to play Doom.Hub 4 pioneers ethical AI integration for a more productive and collaborative future — Today, we are excited to announce a major step forward with Hub 4 – the very first on-premises collaboration platform to integrate intelligent features across its applications.Linux Action News 285 — Nextcloud moves to the front of the pack with their new release, a moment to appreciate curl, and Amazon goes all in with Fedora.Develop for NextcloudBrunch with BrentJupiter ExtrasLitestream: Streaming SQLite Replication — Stop building slow, complex, fragile software systems. Safely run your application on a single server.Podcasting 2.0 AppsAlbyLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.orgLinux Has Become Complicated and Limiting (Gnome, Wayland, etc.)
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Mar 20, 2023 • 1h 19min

502: Docker Shocker

The story of an open-source hero who became a villain.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:Berlin Meet Up — Join Brent for an impromptu, short-notice, Nextcloud-esque meetup in Berlin!Berlin Buds on MatrixDocker is deleting Open Source organisations — Yesterday, Docker sent an email to any Docker Hub user who had created an "organisation", telling them their account will be deleted including all images, if they do not upgrade to a paid team plan. The email contained a link to a tersely written PDF (since, silently edited) which was missing many important details which caused significant anxiety and additional work for open source maintainers.Coder Radio 66: Docker All The ThingsWe did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams — We apologize for how we communicated and executed sunsetting Docker “Free Team” subscriptions, which alarmed the open source community.Deploy a Docker registry serverIntroducing lscr.io — We are partnering with Scarf to create our own pseudo-registry, lscr.io. This isn't a true docker registry, we're not hosting the images ourselves, it's more of a load-balancer/stats platform/vanity URL.Dodge the next Dockerpocalypse: how to own your own Docker Registry address — What if you could use your own fixed registry URL, on your own domain & entirely under your control, but without having to self-host forever, or even commit to any particular registry, or handle all the bandwidth & storage costs?Reddit Discussion: DockerHub replacement stratagy and options on ipfsPodman — Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System.nerdctl — Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...whats-up-docker at noted — What's up Docker ( aka WUD ) gets you notified when a new version of your Docker Container is available.LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — October 20-22, 2023 at Bellingham Technical CollegeOffice Hours 9 — We Hate Crypto TooPodcasting 2.0 AppsThe future of Linux Containers — At PyCon Solomon Hykes shows docker to the public for the first time.Docker Open-sourced — dotCloud, a PaaS provider, has open sourced Docker, a key component of their platform.First commit for KubernetesMicrosoft tried and failed to buy docker for $4bNew Red Hat project looks a lot like a Docker forkIntroducing Moby ProjectSolomon Hykes leaves Docker, the company he foundedRate limiting starts on Docker Hub[Alex's YouTube] Secret Management with Ansible Vault and docker-compose — This video shows how I use Ansible and Ansible Vault in conjunction with docker-compose to keep my secrets safe and encrypted whilst still being able to push my repos to Github publicly.
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Mar 13, 2023 • 1h 16min

501: Fat Stacks for Flatpaks

Robert McQueen shares the inside scoop on Flathub’s ambitious plans to create a universal app store for all distros—and we ask the hard questions.Special Guest: Robert McQueen.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:LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — October 20-22, 2023 at the Bellingham Technical College.Flathub in 2023 - Flathub Discourse — We’ve been busy behind the scenes, so I’d like to share what we’ve been up to at Flathub and why—and what’s coming up from us this year.Robotic Tendencies » Flathub in 2023Rule of Acquisition 57 — Good customers are as rare as latinum… treasure them.Fountain on Twitter — The veterans are dominating the charts as we celebrate some major milestones this week 👏Podcasting 2.0 AppsTrayscale — An unofficial GUI wrapper around the Tailscale CLI client.Trayscale on FlathubPick: abcde — A Better CD EncoderA collection of abcde.conf files
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Mar 6, 2023 • 1h 41min

500: Our Biggest Announcement Yet

We're celebrating 500 episodes with the biggest announcement yet.Special Guest: Listener Jeff.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:LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — Your Fest is Back! October 20-22, 2023 at the Bellingham Technical College.Wes' First Episode: LUP 100 — We reflect on 100 episodes of LINUX Unplugged, the themes from episodes past & then review Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon edition.Brent's First Episode: LUP 255 — Big changes are coming to Fedora with the merger of CoreOS. We chat with a couple project members to get the inside scope about what the future of Fedora looks like.Fountain charts1701home.com — 1701 Home is a trek-based Mastodon where people can discuss the Star Trek franchise while sharing and connecting about their other interests!Peertube Headless Seeder — This container uses Python, Selenium, and Firefox to monitor and seed live streams of a PeerTube channel headlessly.Podcasting 2.0 AppsEleven Labs AI — The most realistic and versatile AI speech software, ever.AI Voice Conversion DemoSubmit a Soundboard Clip on our GitHub
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Feb 27, 2023 • 1h 27min

499: 'velopers Choose Snap

Ubuntu makes its anti-Flatpak stance official, while KDE and GNOME team up to turn Flathub into a universal Linux app store. Plus, we try the Intel Arc GPU. Could this new hardware make Linux bulletproof?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:LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup — Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PMLinux 6.2 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Promoted — Linux 6.2 overall has been in good shape from my continued testing and especially for Skylake/Skylake-derived cores is looking better if opting for Call Depth Tracking and it's great to have stable Arc Graphics A380/A750/A770 working out-of-the-box in the labs.Performance is looking better with later Arcsmesa 23.0.0 Releasedintel-extension-for-pytorch at xpu-masterInstall intel-extension-for-pytorchIntel® Extension for PyTorch — PyTorch Tutorialsrahulunair/stable_diffusion_arc — Stable Diffusion inference on Intel Arc dGPUsbes-dev/stable_diffusion.openvino — Implementation of Text-To-Image generation using Stable Diffusion on Intel CPU or GPU.ShuffleBox: Quick Benchmark for Whisper by OpenAIFlatpak will no longer be available “out-of-the-box” in any of Ubuntu’s official flavors. — Do keep in mind that “not installed by default” is not the same as “not available to install at all”.Wimpy on Fosstodon — "@bluesabre Did we agree? I think we complied with the requested change. You and I both played our part in ensuring this was clearly and openly communicated."Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults - Community - Ubuntu Community Hub — As part of our combined efforts, the Ubuntu flavors have made a joint decision to adjust some of the default packages on Ubuntu: Going forward, the Flatpak package as well as the packages to integrate Flatpak into the respective software center will no longer be installed by default in the next release due in April 2023, Lunar Lobster.KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop — Promote diversity and sustainability in the Linux desktop community by adding payments, donations and subscriptions to the Flathub app store.ZFS send/receive over ssh on linux without allowing root loginZFS on Object Storage by George Wilson, Matt Ahrens, Paul Dagnelie, Manoj Joseph - YouTubeJB Geocache Kit RequestPodcasting 2.0 AppsGPU-Viewer — This project aims to capture all the important details of glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo in a GUI.
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Feb 20, 2023 • 1h 4min

498: Rolling Papercuts

Sometimes running the latest and greatest means you have to pave your own path. This week two examples from living on the edge.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:LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup, Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PM — Come celebrate episode 500 with some brews the night before!BorgBase — Hosting for Borg and Restic RepositoriesVorta for BorgBackup — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops.BorgBackup — Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryptionWhy should I switch from Restic to Borg? - r/BorgBackupMoonlight Game Streaming — Play Your PC Games RemotelyLizardByte/Sunshine — Sunshine is a Gamestream host for Moonlight.Sunshine documentationKRDC — KRDC is a client application that allows you to view or even control the desktop session on another machine that is running a compatible server. VNC and RDP is supported.Krfb — Krfb Desktop Sharing is a server application that allows you to share your current session with a user on another machine, who can use a VNC client to view or even control the desktop.Hook up keyevents on Wayland (!44) Krfb · GitLabwayvnc — A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositorsWaypipe — waypipe is a proxy for Wayland clients. It forwards Wayland messages and serializes changes to shared memory buffers over a single socket. This makes application forwarding similar to ssh -X feasible.TeamViewer Support on Wayland - Experimental StateAdd a InputCapture portal by whot · Pull Request #714 · flatpak/xdg-desktop-portalPiKVM — Open and inexpensive DIY IP-KVM on Raspberry PiPodcasting 2.0 Appsweihanglo/sfz — A simple static file serving command-line tool written in Rust.sfz is packaged in nix

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