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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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496: Tux in the Hen House Feb 05, 2023

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Chris attempts to get Fedora 37 on his M1 Max MacBook Pro, while Wes and Brent try the "every distro at once" desktop.

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blendOS — The Ultimate Distro-Blend. — A seamless blend of all Linux distributions.
blendOS on Github
distrobox — Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with.
Rudra Saraswat's Homepage
Bedrock Linux — Bedrock Linux is a meta Linux distribution which allows users to mix-and-match components from other, typically incompatible distributions. Bedrock integrates these components into one largely cohesive system.
Brent's BlendOS PR
Fedora on the Apple M1 Max MBP
Fedora on Apple Silion: Easy Install Script
digint/btrbk — Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes.
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
elementary OS 7 Available Now — It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and fixes based on your feedback, introduced new office productivity features, and expanded compatibility with a wide range of hardware.

495: The Moment of Truth Jan 29, 2023

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Are the free software alternatives good enough? The conclusion to our 60-day challenge to drop Google, Apple, and the iPhone.

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Jupiter Broadcasting Community Links
Jupiter Jobs Matrix Room
New JB Contact Page
Patreon Problems Thread on Twitter
A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal
immich — Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.
Donate to GrapheneOS
Duplicacy: A new generation cloud backup tool — Duplicacy backs up your files to many cloud storages with client-side encryption and the highest level of deduplication.
duplicity — Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm.
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Pick: carbonyl — Chromium running inside your terminal
Fathy Boundjadj: Forking Chrome to render in a terminal — It's snappy, starts in less than a second, runs at 60 FPS, and idles at 0% CPU usage. It does not require a window server (i.e. works in a safe-mode console), and even runs through SSH.

494: Updating Our Fiddly Bits Jan 22, 2023

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Today we are finally taking on a project months in the making, and we're switching to an entirely new generation of Linux tech in the process.

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This week in KDE: The best Plasma 5 version ever — Plasma 5 has officially branched for the beta version of its 5.27 release. Go check out the announcement and test out the beta!
BorgWarehouse — BorgBackup Web UI for your central repository server.
Vorta — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty BorgBackup with your desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft.
BorgBase — Simple and Secure Offsite Backups
borgmatic — Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations.
Emborg — Front-End to Borg Backup
emborg on GitHub
Office Hours 21: Boiling the Frog — If you've noticed something a little off about your favorite podcasts, we might know why.
aj-snapshot — Tool for storing/restoring JACK and/or ALSA connections to/from a file.
jack-matchmaker — Auto-connect new JACK ports matching the patterns given on the command line.
qpwgraph — qpwgraph is a graph manager dedicated to PipeWire, using the Qt C++ framework, based and pretty much like the same of QjackCtl.
qpwgraph on Flathub
streamdeck-ui — A Linux compatible UI for the Elgato Stream Deck.
obsws-python — A Python SDK for OBS Studio WebSocket v5.0
kirino — A lightweight media server that adapts to you
BackupPC — Open Source Backup to disk
Fedora 38 Change: Modernize Live Media
rsync.net — We give you an empty UNIX filesystem to access with any SSH tool. Built on ZFS for data security and fault tolerance.
ZnapZend — Open source ZFS backup with mbuffer and ssh support.
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Pick: Jellyfin Server Flatpak
Jellyfin Release 10.8.9

493: Network Nirvana Jan 15, 2023

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Chris' sticky upgrade situation, and we chat with the developer behind an impressive mesh VPN with new tricks.

Special Guest: Ryan Huber.

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NixOS 22.11 Released
VERY Simple NixOS NGINX Config
NixOS Manual: SSL/TLS Certificates with ACME — NixOS supports automatic domain validation & certificate retrieval and renewal using the ACME protocol. Any provider can be used, but by default NixOS uses Let's Encrypt. The alternative ACME client lego is used under the hood.
NixOS Manual: Configuring Nginx for Pleroma
go-acme/lego — Let’s Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go.
hackclub’s proxyparty
Easily Deploy a Mastodon Server with Linode's Marketplace
Defined Networking is Open for Business — On behalf of everyone here at Defined Networking, I’m excited to announce that our cloud managed version of Nebula is now available to everyone!
Automating Nebula Host Creation with the API
Try Defined Networking’s Managed Nebula
LINUX Unplugged 329: Flat Network Truthers — Build one flat network across cloud providers, personal networks, with even thousands of nodes. We feature two amazing open source solutions, and the creators behind them.
Trakt — Track what you watch and when.

492: A New Challenge Approaches Jan 08, 2023

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Join us on a journey to true software freedom. We embark on our 30-day challenge and discover a whole new philosophy that will change the way you think about technology.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Mastodon Sees Dip in Active Users After Twitter Exodus Surge
SCaLE 20x — The 20th Annual Southern California Linux Expo will take place on March 9-12, 2023 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA.
Easily Deploy a Mastodon Server with Linode Marketplace
Self-Hosted 87: Jellyfin January — We kick off our Jellyfin January challenge and invite you to join us. Plus, Chris has some new hardware and our thoughts on the trouble at the Matrix foundation.
Top 10 Self-Hosted Apps - Perfect Media Server
[YouTube] The Definitive Guide to Jellyfin
Ubuntu Manpage: intel_gpu_top — Display a top-like summary of Intel GPU usage.
jellyfin/Swiftfin — Native Jellyfin Client for iOS and tvOS.
intel-gpu-tools Repo
Alex's Jellyfin Ansible Setup
Fountain Rewind 2022
List of all Star Trek episodes sorted by original airdate
List of all Star Trek episodes sorted by star date
Alby
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Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Pick: Btrfsmaintenance — Scripts for btrfs maintenance tasks like periodic scrub, balance, trim or defrag on selected mountpoints or directories.
btdu — sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs.

491: 2023 Spoilers Jan 01, 2023

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We assemble to predict what will happen in 2023 and score how our 2022 predictions turned out.

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The Matrix Holiday Update 2022
Steam Linux Market Share
Ideas on growing the Flathub Community in 2022
Heroic Games Launcher | Flathub Beta Site
Flathub-Codethink Collaboration
[GNOME Software Mock-up] Patronage by Tobias Bernard
How (and why) I minted 314 NFTs To Support Open Source Projects
The Log4j security flaw could impact the entire internet. Here’s what you should know
Log4j Vulnerability Detection: One year after Log4Shell
LibRedirect
Get Together — Get Together is an open source event manager for local communities.

490: 2022 Tuxies Dec 25, 2022

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It's the third annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, desktops, and services of 2022.

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VIM Homepage
Visual Studio Cod — Code Editing. Redefined.
Kate — Get an Edge in Editing.
Pop!_OS by System76 — Pop!_OS is an operating system for STEM and creative professionals who use their computer as a tool to discover and create.
NixOS — Reproducible builds and deployments.
COSMIC by System76 — Computer Operating System Main Interface Components
KDE Plasma — Do it all in a beautiful environment that adapts to your needs, and with the safety, privacy-protection and peace of mind that the best Free Open Source Software has to offer.
Ubuntu Server
Debian — The Universal Operating System
Jellyfin — The Free Software Media System
Nextcloud — Online collaboration platform
Steam Deck
HP Dev One
Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
mastodon — Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community.
Asahi Linux — Asahi Linux aims to bring you a polished Linux® experience on Apple Silicon Macs.
AbdBarho/stable-diffusion-webui-docker — Easy Docker setup for Stable Diffusion with user-friendly UI
Umbrel — A personal server OS for self-hosting.
immich — Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.

489: Brent's Secret Emails Dec 18, 2022

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Brent's been hiding your emails; we confront him and expose what he's been keeping from the show.

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Linux teams up with partners to overthrow Google Maps’s dominance
Tailnet lock white paper — Tailscale implements a novel mechanism, tailnet lock, to prevent a malicious control plane from inserting itself into a network. Tailnet lock requires the verification of a cryptographic signature on all WireGuard® node keys distributed by Tailscale’s control plane.
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History — In "Hardcore History" journalist and broadcaster Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", unorthodox way of thinking and applies it to the past.
Knaves Out – Darknet Diaries — This is the story about how someone hacked into JP Morgan Chase, one of the biggest financial institutions in the world.
Dana Carvey’s The Weird Place — The Weird Place is an episodic sci-fi comedy adventure that will blow your mind. From manipulative aliens to time-traveling pirates to a power-hungry mad man with a magic globe.
Linux Out Loud — Linux Out Loud is a community powered podcast. We take conversations from the DLN Community from places like the DLN Discourse Forums, Telegram group, Discord server and more.
Picture of Dennis V’s Keyboard
Announcement: Direct Alby wallet top up with MoonPay
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Generate Let’s Encrypt Certificate with DNS Challenge and Namecheap
Tailscale breaks DNS-over-TLS on Android · Issue #915 · tailscale/tailscale
Moving entire Linux installation to another drive - Ask Ubuntu
Migrate installation to new hardware - ArchWiki
Disk cloning - ArchWiki
NixOS Root on ZFS
NixOS getting started - no mention of mkswap
ZFS - NixOS Wiki
NixOS install with ZFS — Dan’s Cheat Sheets 1 documentation
Installing NixOS with multiple encrypted ZFS pools, decrypted with one password
How I installed Encrypted ZFS root on NixOS
Install NixOS on ZFS With Opt-In State
NixOS on encrypted ZFS | The DevOps Blog
How do you say SUSE?
Packman
SmartTubeNext — Ad free app for watching tube videos on Android TV boxes.
Nobara Linux — The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.
thoughtbot/rcm — rc file (dotfile) management
GoToSocial — Fast, fun, ActivityPub server, powered by Go.
JB FOSDEM 2023 Matrix Room

488: Revenge of the Lizard People Dec 11, 2022

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We complete a year-long journey and discover some unspoken truths about a great Linux distro. Plus one small, and one major update on our GrapheneOS adventure.

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2022 Tuxies — GO VOTE!
Tasks.org — Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders
nolooking — Joining the lightning network is daunting.
Join the Podverse beta
GrapheneOS Update
Nextcloud Notes
Three Tumbleweed Temptations | LINUX Unplugged 432
wipegpt
wipefs
OpenSUSE Build Service
opi: openSUSE Package Installer (CLI) — Search and install almost all packages available for openSUSE and SLE
tumbleweed-cli — Command line interface for interacting with Tumbleweed snapshots.
twups — Tumbleweed Update Scrutinizer
Tumbleweed Snapshots
GPSLogger for Android
Podcasting 2.0 Apps

487: The Debian Debate Dec 04, 2022

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After nearly half a year of woe, Brent is ready to give Linux the go. Join us as we compare and contrast two Linux distros and end up with one going on Brent's machine.

Plus, follow-up on Chris' GrapheneOS adventures and more.

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Apple Limits iPhone AirDrop Function Used for Protests in China
Magic Earth — Free Maps & Navigation App
Top 10 reasons to use Debian as your Linux distro
Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of ‘move fast and break things’, and version 11 is no different
ProtonPlus — A simple Wine and Proton-based compatiblity tools manager for GNOME.
ProtonUp-Qt — Install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda & more for Steam and Wine-GE & more for Lutris with this graphical user interface.
Why openSUSE - openSUSE Wiki
The Nobara Project — The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.
Who Wants To Be a Millionaire — Test your knowledge to see if you can answer all questions and win $1 million. Have fun!
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Questions and Source Code

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