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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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516: The Fixer-Upper Jun 25, 2023

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Chris tears into two old PCs, and builds a surprisingly powerful multi-monitor Wayland workstation.

Plus, Wes has a new device, and Brent wants answers.

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Too many Disks? Perfect.
Chris' Workstation neofetch
Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard — Black. Wired, Comfortable, Ergonomic Keyboard with Cushioned Wrist and Palm Support. Split Keyboard.
Magic TrackPad
NixOS Remote Desktop
FOUR Displays
U.S. Intelligence Has Admitted Amassed Data on ‘Nearly Everyone’ — A newly declassified report confirms that the government has unprecedented insight into our lives through smartphones, cars, web browsing, and other tech.
DNI Haines Statement on Declassified Report on Commercially Available Information
ODNI Senior Advisory Group Panel Declassified Report on Commercially Available Information
Millions of Americans’ personal data exposed in global hack
US government agencies hit in global cyberattack
Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear by Michael Bazzell — This textbook is PROACTIVE. It is about starting over. It is the complete guide that he would give to any new client in an extreme situation.
Have I Been Pwned — Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach.
Stalkerware Resources and Help – Darknet Diaries — It’s a nightmare scenario that’s alarmingly common. Your spouse, partner, ex, co-worker, or vengeful person is determined they want to spy on you. To follow you everywhere you go digitally. They might have access to your location, the cameras in your home, your emails. It’s extremely violating and horrible. Here are a few resources that can help if you’re in this situation.
Darknet Diaries — True stories from the dark side of the Internet.
Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Surveillance Self-Defense | Electronic Frontier Foundation
GrapheneOS on Twitter — We’re deprecating SeedVault and will be replacing it with a new implementation. SeedVault was created by a member of the GrapheneOS community in 2017 based on our design for it. Unfortunately, it has been taken over by an untrustworthy group of developers without aligned goals.
GrapheneOS/platform_external_seedvault
SeedVault - Calyx Institute
seedvault-app/seedvault — A backup application for the Android Open Source Project.
How to use SeedVault Backup for Android
immich — Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.
DAVx5 — Sync your contacts, calendars and tasks. Get live-access to your WebDAV Cloud files. All-in-one CalDAV/CardDAV/WebDAV solution for Android
Alby
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Pick: go2tv — Cast media files to UPnP/DLNA Media Renderers and Smart TVs.

515: Ham Sandwich Jun 18, 2023

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Is Ham Radio a natural hobby for Linux users? An old friend joins us to explain where the two overlap.

Special Guest: Noah Chelliah.

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Ask Noah Show Episode 200: Ham Radio Linux Superstation — We celebrate episode 200 by sharing our plans to serve the community better! Ham Radio has come a long way from tubes and dials. Alex Archer KC0REL joins us to discuss building the ideal ham shack on Linux!
HAM - Official Documentary (2022) - YouTube — HAM is a short documentary that follows a group of Montanan amateur radio enthusiasts that show the loyal community of amateur radio, explore what it means to be a ham, and how they are trying to keep the hobby alive.
FT8—What Is It and How Can I Get Started? — FT8 is one of the many digital modes often referred to as sound card modes (SCM) because they utilize a computer’s sound card to bring in audio from your radio to be processed by software to decode the information embedded in the signal.
Amateur Radio Software For Linux | KC7NYR
Closed Source Ham Radio Software on GNU/Linux
awesome-hamradio — Awesome hamradio repositories.
Ham Radio Operators Tune In to Giant Waves in the Earth’s Ionosphere | Science Mission Directorate — This new technique vividly demonstrates the effect of these waves on radio communications.
Amateur Radio: An Integral Tool for Atmospheric, Ionospheric, and Space Physics Research and Operations
hamnix — A collection of Amateur Radio software packaged for Nix
Remote Ham Radio — On the air from anywhere. Big stacks. Kilowatts of power. DX has never been closer.
ARRL - American Radio Relay League
Studying for a Technician License
Linux’s Slice of HAM | Linux Action Show 356
Zeroretries substack — If you’re not yet licensed as an Amateur Radio Operator, and would like to join the fun by literally having a license to experiment with radio technology, here are some pointers:
Chromeo: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert - YouTube
Sam and Dave - Hold on I’m coming - YouTube
The Clash - The Magnificent Seven (Official Audio) - YouTube
Pink Floyd - We Don’t Need No Education - YouTube
bluetuith — A TUI bluetooth manager for Linux.
NixOS Search - bluetuith
Framework Cooler Master Mainboard Case — Cooler Master and Framework team up to produce a transparent case for the Framework Laptop 13 Mainboard.
TrustedQSL — This is the TrustedQSL project, which provides tools for digitally signing Amateur Radio QSO records.

514: Connection Established Jun 11, 2023

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We get the inside scoop on SouthEast LinuxFest, and share a few stories from the early days of the Linux community.

Special Guest: Noah Chelliah.

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DebianBookworm — Bookworm is the development codename for Debian 12, released on 2023-06-10.
Debian 12 “Bookworm” Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
For the LAS Time | Linux Action Show 468 - YouTube
Ask Noah
ThinLinX
JMP: Your phone number on every device
SouthEast LinuxFest — For the regulars and newbies, please review our schedule to get a feel for what’s happening at this year’s events. For the newbies, be sure to read our About Us page to understand a bit more about the event in general.
SELF 2023 Schedule
southeastlinuxfest - YouTube
Argon ONE V2 Case for Raspberry Pi 4 — The Argon ONE Case is now better than ever as it has many new features
comma — Comma runs software without installing it.
org-roam
Taking org-roam everywhere with logseq
Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition — This guide is a beginner's guide to Nix and related tooling, focusing on the newer nix command, and flake.nix compared to older tools like nix-env and default.nix. It does not require any prior Nix knowledge
SUSE Partners with Collabora to Deliver Commercial LibreOffice Support
Send a Boot from web with Alby — Top off Alby, then head over to the Podcastindex.org
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can Boost right from the web at the Podcast Index with Alby.
Fractal — Fractal is a Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust. Its interface is optimized for collaboration in large groups, such as free software projects.
fractal on GitLab
FluffyChat — FluffyChat is an open-source, nonprofit and cute matrix messenger app. The app is easy to use but secure and decentralized.
NixOS for the Impatient — This post is about how I set up NixOS.

513: There Is No Distro Jun 04, 2023

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We attempt to swap Linux distributions live on our production server, to prove that new tooling makes the Linux distro model obsolete.

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Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice [LWN.net] — Red Hat's Matthias Clasen has let it be known that LibreOffice will be dropped from a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux release, and the future of its support in Fedora is unclear as well.
The distribution model is changing
The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support — Estimated Monthly Costs - ~$9000 / month for hosting cache.nixos.org
NixOS 23.05 released
Introducing NixOS Anywhere
Nixos-anywhere: install nixos everywhere via ssh — You can then initiate an unattended installation with a single CLI command. Since nixos-anywhere can access the new machine using SSH, it's ideal for remote installations.
Quickstart - nixos-anywhere
Disko Examples
NetBird — NetBird is an open-source VPN management platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home.
netbird GitHub repo — Connect your devices into a single secure private WireGuard®-based mesh network with SSO/MFA and simple access controls.
Nix-portable — Nix - Static, Permissionless, Installation-free, Pre-configured
Nix-bundle — Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere!
nix-user-chroot: Install & Run nix without root permissions
Nix Release 2.10 (2022-07-11)
Nix Portable: Nix - Static, Permissionless, Install-free, Pre-configured - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
Send a Boost with Alby — Top off Alby, and then boost from the Web.
LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
KTailctl — A GUI for the Tailscale mesh network.
SABnzbd

512: The Sound of Rust May 28, 2023

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We take a "Rust-only tools" challenge for a week and admit what worked, and what sucked. Plus, a surprise guest.

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Why I left Rust
LinuxFest Northwest 2023
LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Call for Speakers
GrapheneOS on Twitter — GrapheneOS will be undergoing restructuring of the organization and development team. Daniel Micay has stepped down as lead developer and will be stepping down as a non-profit director. Features and security patches will continue to be delivered to users as rapidly as before.
Daniel Micay on Twitter — It appears the wording above was unclear. I'm stepping down as a GrapheneOS Foundation director and as lead developer. I won't have any leadership role in the GrapheneOS project. It will take time/work to transfer my responsibilities to others, especially non-development roles.
Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora
Adopting Bitcoin 2023
LUP on in the top 10 charts TWICE.
Bitcoin Dad Pod
Polaris — Polaris is a music streaming application, designed to let you enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device.
Polaris Demo
docker-polaris: Small docker of Polaris based on Alpine Linux
Polaris on Google Play
Polaris Android on F-Droid
Polarios on App Store
Lapce — Lapce is written in pure Rust with a UI in Druid (which is also written in Rust). It is designed with Rope Science from the Xi-Editor which makes for lightning-fast computation, and leverages OpenGL for rendering.
Lapce on Flathub
Lapce packaged in Nix
Lapce Plugins
flosse/text-editors-written-in-rust
xi-editor: A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
awesome-alternatives-in-rust: A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust
awesome-rust: A curated list of Rust code and resources.
BitFocus Companion — Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck to be a professional shotbox surface for a huge amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Alby
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Pick: Please Run That — A Python socket app for letting a friend execute a command on your system without using a ssh server all, with a simple GUI It has active development and works OOTB.
Pick: turtle — Turtle is a gtk4 + libadwaita frontend for pygit2 with nautilus plugin support. The project is currently in a very early development stage.
Chris Interviewed on Mere Mortals — In Conversation #90, Chris and I discuss: what it's been like to have 25+ podcasts, the current nosedive in advertising, how value for value is creating a richer experience for podcasters, his mindset in analyzing technological ideas, the coming pain from the messed up financial system, why Bitcoin/AI won't be as impactful as the internet and traveling across the US in an RV.

511: Accepting the Future May 21, 2023

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How we found peace with the Linux community’s perpetual debates; and our tricks for finding the signal from the noise.

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Spotify App Stops Working for Linux Users
GrapheneOS version 2023051600 Released — Add initial Contact Scopes feature as an alternative to granting the Contacts permission... Add production ready Pixel 7a support.
GrapheneOS Discussion Forum: Version 2023051600 Released
GrapheneOS on Twitter — Our new Contact Scopes feature is now available in the Alpha channel. It provides a way to avoid granting the Contacts permission for apps requiring it. It's similar to our Storage Scopes feature replacing needing any of the media/storage permissions.
GrapheneOS on Twitter — GmsCompatConfig (sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer configuration) version 53 released.
Asahi Linux To Users: Please Stop Using X.Org — Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin issued a lengthy post encouraging users of this Apple Silicon focused Linux distribution to stop using X.Org as Wayland is the future.
RHEL 9: Deprecated functionality — The X.org display server is deprecated, and will be removed in a future major RHEL release. The default desktop session is now the Wayland session in most cases.
r/linux: The whole X11 vs. Wayland thing… — Whilst I get Wayland is the future I have a bunch of issues with it. Off the top of my head…
Rustdesk ‘wontfix’ a naive privilege escalation on Linux
The LUP Odroid H3+ Chassis — I recently got an Odroid H3+ and desperately needed a chassis for it so I decided to make one. Since I am a long-time listener and a big fan of the Linux Unplugged podcast I wanted to pay tribute to it.
Live APRS Map
Podcast Guru — The simple & free podcast player for Android & iOS
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Alby
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yt-fts: Youtube Full Text Search — Search all of a YouTube channel's subtitles from the command line

510: Thinking in Decades May 14, 2023

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The push for free software takes years, maybe even generations. Brent gets the inside story from the Free Software Foundation Europe.

Special Guest: Matthias Kirschner.

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SteamDeckHQ on Twitter — What is your opinion on the ROG ALLY? Is it something you’ll be getting after seeing the stream and reading the reviews? We are on the fence here. Love the idea of extra power, but the worse battery life, using windows, glitches, and lack of touchpads does hamper our excitement.
ROG Ally (2023) — The ROG Ally is a true Windows 11 gaming machine, and comes bundled with 3 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for free.
FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe — Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology.
Matthias Kirschner - FSFE
EU Parliament wants to protect Free Software in AI regulation — Today the European Parliament's responsible committees voted by a large majority to protect Free Software in the AI regulation.
FSFE and the antitrust case against Microsoft
Public Money? Public Code! - FSFE — Why is software created using taxpayers' money not released as Free Software? We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence.
Activities - FSFE — As a non-profit, non-governmental organisation, Free Software Foundation Europe works to create general understanding and support for Free Software and Open Standards.
Contribute - FSFE — We are a diverse community of people from all over Europe and beyond, who are committed to Free Software. If you feel likewise, join us in our work for freedom.
Ada & Zangemann — This illustrated book tells the story of the famous inventor Zangemann and the girl Ada, a curious tinkerer. Ada begins to experiment with hardware and software, and in the process realises how crucial it is for her and others to control technology.
Fountain on Twitter — BALLER BOOSTS ARE BACK We have partnered with @bitrefill to give away a $50 Bitrefill Balance Card to two super-fans on Fountain every week. All you have to do is BOOST
GardenBot — GardenBot is an open source garden monitoring system. This site is a collection of tutorials for how to build things (like a soil moisture sensor), software for running GardenBot, resources, links, and more.
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Alby
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ubuntu-debullshit — TL;DR, you will end up with a clean GNOME desktop with flatpaks, similar to a fresh Fedora install.

509: The Next Gen Desktop May 07, 2023

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The first new desktop environment in a while that has caught our attention, and it promises to unlock the full power of cutting-edge Linux.

Why we think every desktop will copy ideas from Hyprland soon.

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Hyprland Hall of Fame
Hyprland Master Tutorial — If you are coming to Hyprland for the first time, this is the main tutorial to read.
Hyprland - ArchWiki — Hyprland bundles its own version of wlroots, which closely follows the wlroots-git. This improves stability, while also avoiding dependency conflicts with other wlroots-based compositors.
Nix | Hyprland Wiki — Hyprland on Nix can be installed either from Nixpkgs (release version) or from the flake (directly from the main branch).
Hyprland on NixOS — The NixOS module enables critical components needed to run Hyprland properly, such as: polkit, xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland, graphics drivers, fonts, dconf, xwayland, and adding a proper Desktop Entry to your Display Manager.
awesome-hyprland — Useful tools and libraries that either work or are designed for Hyprland!
Outdoor Home Assistant — Why Chris needs ANOTHER Home Assistant instance and a major breakthrough for self-hosters.
The Sprinkler Geeks, LLC — Irrigation service, repair, and maintenance. Servicing Thurston, Lewis, & Gray's Harbor Counties.
Brocade ICX 6610-24P Switch
Boost Vs Patreon — I have one friend who loves podcasts, but he still doesn't get how it offers anything new compared to Patreon. Could you guys please give a short rundown of how boosts are different and how they have helped LUP?
Evernote on Linux — Evernote for Linux is currently in private beta.
xwmx/nb — nb is a command line and local web note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application
Ecowitt weather station
Tidal-Media-Downloader — Tidal-Media-Downloader is an application that lets you download videos and tracks from Tidal.
When Stars and Salt Collide” by The Piano Guys.
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Alby
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Vod2pod-rss — Vod2Pod-RSS converts a YouTube or Twitch channel into a podcast with ease. It creates a podcast RSS that can be listened to directly inside any podcast client.

508: The Worst Distro Ever Apr 30, 2023

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Two listeners race to set up a web server on Suicide Linux. One slip-up and it's all gone. Who will survive?

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The Sprinkler Geeks
Suicide Linux — It's a game. Like walking a tightrope. You have to see how long you can continue to use the operating system before losing all your data.
Suicide-linux — now available on Docker!
Suicide Linux bashrc
JupiterBroadcasting.com, hugo-based and community-driven!
Hugo — The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
The Determinate Nix Installer. — nix-installer is an opinionated alternative to the official Nix install scripts.
NixOS Package Search: Hugo
Hugo in nixpkgs
Mike Kelly on Twitter — Dammit @ChrisLAS, @wespayne, and @brentgervais, I could have won yesterday's challenge, had I only embraced Nix-Shell. Better late than never?
Notes for Dom C’s setup using Podgrab and AudiobookShelf
podgrab — A self-hosted podcast manager/downloader/archiver tool to download podcast episodes as soon as they become live with an integrated player.
audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
nala — a wrapper for the apt package manager.
pacstall — An AUR-inspired package manager for Ubuntu
Dendron — The personal knowledge management (PKM) tool that grows as you do!
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
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507: Full Wobble Apr 23, 2023

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Why Fedora 38 might Sway you to try it; and how it runs on the MacBook M1 Max.

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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 Meetup
Announcing 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 38
How to rebase to Fedora Linux 38 on Silverblue
Fedora Linux 38 Spins
Fedora Workstation Download
asahi-fedora-builder — Builds a minimal Fedora image to run on Apple M1/M2 systems
music-player — An extensible music server written in Rust 🚀🎵✨
Tools on Tech
The Split Kit
Podverse
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Reaper on Flathub

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