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**LINUX Unplugged**

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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506: Three Wild and Crazy Topics Apr 16, 2023

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We surprise each other with three secret topics, with one big catch.

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Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

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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 $HOME
Fleek 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 Wiki
DeterminateSystems/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 Akamai
Olympia Linux Spring Meetup — Let's have a local PNW get-together. Saturday, April 29, 2023.
Boston Harbor Marina
LinuxFest Northwest 2023: Call for Speakers
Start your NOSTR-Market with LNbits
Nostr, a Basic tour
Awesome-nostr
Nostr Apps
Bitwarden 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 images
Raspberry Pi SD card image for NixOS on BTRFS root
Pick: difftastic — A structural diff that understands syntax.
difftastic is packaged in Nix
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Alby
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505: Keep Your Darn Secrets Apr 09, 2023

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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.

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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 Speakers
Logseq — 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 Play
SimpleX APK
SimpleX on iOS
SimpleX TestFlight preview for iOS
SimpleX CLI
SimpleXMQ — A reference implementation of the SimpleX Messaging Protocol for simplex queues over public networks.
LFNW Matrix Chat
gping — Ping, but with a graph.
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Pick: Codex.docs — Free Docs app powered by Editor.js ecosystem
Editor.js — Free block-style editor with a universal JSON output

504: It's a Trap! Apr 02, 2023

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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.

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c-base interface — welcome onboard c-base
matelight: — Show text and gifs on mate crates.
Raleigh-Durham Pizza Party! — Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 3pm EST
Olympia Linux Spring Meetup — Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 1:00 PM PDT
Podverse Call for Help
LINUX Unplugged 486: Goodbye, Google
Immich — Self-hosted photos and videos backup solution from your mobile phone
KDE Connect — Enabling communication between all your devices. Made for people like you.
iodé — The Eco Friendly Smartphone Protecting Your Privacy
Berlin Buds Matrix Room
LibreSign — 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 503
Nextcloud Cookbook on iOS
nextcloud/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.
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503: Berlin with Brent Mar 26, 2023

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Brent dives deep into Nextcloud's new release from inside their offices, and takes an unexpected dip in the local lake with a listener.

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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 Nextcloud
Brunch with Brent
Jupiter Extras
Litestream: Streaming SQLite Replication — Stop building slow, complex, fragile software systems. Safely run your application on a single server.
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Linux Has Become Complicated and Limiting (Gnome, Wayland, etc.)

502: Docker Shocker Mar 19, 2023

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The story of an open-source hero who became a villain.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Berlin Meet Up — Join Brent for an impromptu, short-notice, Nextcloud-esque meetup in Berlin!
Berlin Buds on Matrix
Docker 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 Things
We 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 server
Introducing 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 ipfs
Podman — 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 College
Office Hours 9 — We Hate Crypto Too
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
The 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 Kubernetes
Microsoft tried and failed to buy docker for $4b
New Red Hat project looks a lot like a Docker fork
Introducing Moby Project
Solomon Hykes leaves Docker, the company he founded
Rate 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.

501: Fat Stacks for Flatpaks Mar 12, 2023

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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.

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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 2023
Rule 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 Apps
Trayscale — An unofficial GUI wrapper around the Tailscale CLI client.
Trayscale on Flathub
Pick: abcde — A Better CD Encoder
A collection of abcde.conf files

500: Our Biggest Announcement Yet Mar 05, 2023

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We're celebrating 500 episodes with the biggest announcement yet.

Special Guest: Listener Jeff.

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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 charts
1701home.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.
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Eleven Labs AI — The most realistic and versatile AI speech software, ever.
AI Voice Conversion Demo
Submit a Soundboard Clip on our GitHub

499: 'velopers Choose Snap Feb 26, 2023

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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?

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LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup — Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PM
Linux 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 Arcs
mesa 23.0.0 Released
intel-extension-for-pytorch at xpu-master
Install intel-extension-for-pytorch
Intel® Extension for PyTorch — PyTorch Tutorials
rahulunair/stable_diffusion_arc — Stable Diffusion inference on Intel Arc dGPUs
bes-dev/stable_diffusion.openvino — Implementation of Text-To-Image generation using Stable Diffusion on Intel CPU or GPU.
ShuffleBox: Quick Benchmark for Whisper by OpenAI
Flatpak 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 login
ZFS on Object Storage by George Wilson, Matt Ahrens, Paul Dagnelie, Manoj Joseph - YouTube
JB Geocache Kit Request
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GPU-Viewer — This project aims to capture all the important details of glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo in a GUI.

498: Rolling Papercuts Feb 19, 2023

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Sometimes running the latest and greatest means you have to pave your own path. This week two examples from living on the edge.

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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 Repositories
Vorta for BorgBackup — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops.
BorgBackup — Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption
Why should I switch from Restic to Borg? - r/BorgBackup
Moonlight Game Streaming — Play Your PC Games Remotely
LizardByte/Sunshine — Sunshine is a Gamestream host for Moonlight.
Sunshine documentation
KRDC — 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 · GitLab
wayvnc — A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors
Waypipe — 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 State
Add a InputCapture portal by whot · Pull Request #714 · flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal
PiKVM — Open and inexpensive DIY IP-KVM on Raspberry Pi
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weihanglo/sfz — A simple static file serving command-line tool written in Rust.
sfz is packaged in nix

497: More Features? More Problems. Feb 12, 2023

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How Chris wasted three months tracking down a Wi-Fi problem, plus we debate if immutable distros need to be simplified.

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FOSDEM 2023 Transcribed by Whisper
The Coder Robe — The Coder Robe is back and is a one-size-fits-most robe made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear.
192 Brewing Company — Mt. Vernon is proud to offer strictly Washington-made beers, wines and ciders. We rotate through guest taps from local breweries and feature a variety of red and white wines, as well.
power-profiles-daemon Issue: Choppy GNOME animations when using “balanced power” mode on Intel platform
krunvm — Create microVMs from OCI images.
ViMusic — An Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music.
GRC SpinRite
Moonlight Game Streaming
https://github.com/Wowu/docker-rollout — Zero Downtime Deployment for Docker Compose
Podcasting 2.0 Introduction - Blubrry Podcasting
NEW in Podverse 4.12.0 🥳 — Major audio and video playback fixes, faster app performance, value-for-value streaming for videos.
boxxy — boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files.
This week in KDE: The best Plasma 5 version ever

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