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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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456: Our Linux Regrets May 01, 2022

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If we could change just one mistake in our Linux journey, what would it be?

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Office Hours 3: New Website Energy — It's a summer of projects, we get into our plans to totally rebuild our website, some new Podcasting 2.0 features and, Brent takes his first bite of the Raspberry Pi.
Website Rebuild Ideas & Explorations
Introducing early access to the Steam snap! — It’s time to do a call for testing on a new Steam snap which brings along everything you need to run Steam games via proton or, of course, native Linux games. Since this is an early access snap, expect there to be bugs and gaps, which we need assistance in identifying. We will iterate quickly, and respond to this feedback.
It looks like the trigger was pulled too fast on this. Running the latest snapd, and the steam-support socket is missing.
interfaces: add a steam-support interface by jhenstridge · Pull Request #11708 · snapcore/snapd
Level up your Linux gaming with the new Steam Snap!
Try Infrastructure as Code eBook | Terraform, Ansible, and more | Linode — A step-by-step IAC guide for Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and Salt.

455: I run NixOS BTW Apr 24, 2022

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We've hit a bump in the road with the NixOS challenge, and share what it might not be great at. Plus, what we didn't cover in our Ubuntu 22.04 review.

The one where we don't talk about Ubuntu 22.04 at all.

Open a channel to our Lightning Node: 037d284d2d7e6cec7623adbe600450a73b42fb90800989f05a862464b05408df39

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Martin Wimpress.

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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Dark Style Changes — Now in GNOME 42, it is officially supported, expanding on a concept from elementary OS 6 7. A toggle switch in the new Appearance panel in the core Settings app enables and disables the feature. A lot of work was done in GNOME apps to fix visual dark style bugs. A new transition effect was added (also inspired by elementary) to more elegantly crossfade when the style is switched.
Dark Style Preference · Wiki · GNOME / Initiatives · GitLab
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Eyes More Industrial Usage By Offering Up Real-Time Kernel Beta — Currently in beta with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the linux-realtime kernel
unsnap: Quickly migrate from using snap packages to flatpaks
deb-get — apt-get functionality for .debs published in 3rd party repositories or via direct download
Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS Release Notes — Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS is the culmination of 2 years of continual improvement 😅 to Ubuntu and MATE Desktop. As is tradition, the LTS development cycle has a keen focus on eliminating paper 🧻 cuts 🔪
Linux Downtime – Episode 45 — Joe and Adam are joined by Martin Wimpress to talk about what goes into running a distro like Ubuntu Mate.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Disables 3D Acceleration For Guest VMs With GNOME Boxes / Virt-Manager — In addition to Ubuntu 22.04 switching back NVIDIA to using X11 by default rather than Wayland as a launch-day change, separately, there was another rather notable last minute change affecting 3D support for virtual machines...
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Changes Default For NVIDIA Driver Back To Using X.Org Rather Than Wayland - Phoronix
docker snap unconditionally uses xtables — Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is defaulting to using the GNOME X.Org session rather than Wayland when running the proprietary NVIDIA driver.
https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/
GNU’s advanced distro and transactional package manager
10 years of stories behind Guix
clj-nix: Nix helpers for Clojure projects
poetry2nix: Convert poetry projects to nix automagically
home-manager: Manage a user environment using Nix
Home Manager - NixOS Wiki
Tutorial: Getting started with Home Manager for Nix
hercules-ci/arion: Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS
NixOS Wiki - Raspberry Pi 4
NixOS aarm64 SD image
nixery.dev
NixOS Challenge - Jupiter Broadcasting GitHub
Should we use NixOS as our Cloud and Local Server OS? | StrawPoll.com
nixpkgs/make-snap.nix at master
Picture of Welder
GitHub - quickemu-project/quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.
Miniflux - Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Reader
wallabag
Breez wallet - Lightning Fast Bitcoin Payments
breez/breezmobile: Lightning Network mobile client
037d284d2d7e6cec7623 - Amboss Space
pimox7: Proxmox V7 for Raspberry Pi — Pimox is a port of Proxmox to the Raspberry Pi allowing you to build a Proxmox cluster of Rapberry Pi's or even a hybrid cluster of Pis and x86 hardware.
Wimpy’s World

454: Double Distro Details Apr 17, 2022

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Has Fedora pulled ahead of Ubuntu? We take a look at the new Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04 releases.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Office Hours — Join ChrisLAS for an update on all things Jupiter Broadcasting.
What’s New in Fedora 36 — In a blog post introducing the Fedora 36 beta in late March, Red Hat said Fedora 36 continues the project’s “emphasis on delivering leading-edge open source technologies.”
Fedora 36 ChangeSet
Fedora 36 Release Date and New Features
LXQt 1.1 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New
Podman 4.0 — Podman 4.0 is one of our most significant releases ever, featuring over 60 new features. Headlining this release is a complete rewrite of the network stack for improved functionality and performance.
The Best New Features in GNOME 42 — GNOME 42 features a plethora of GTK4/libawaita app ports, intros a retooled screenshot experience, and makes several notable performance upticks.
Relocate RPM database to /usr
Wayland By Default with NVIDIA proprietary Driver
Cockpit File Sharing
Stratis 3.0.0
Fedora 37 Planning To Use RPM 4.18 For Better Security
Fedora Planning To Introduce Major Package Management Changes Next Year
Fedora Plans to Drop Support for Legacy BIOS Systems
Fedora 37 Considering Removal Of Legacy X.Org Drivers
Canonical Experiences Record Channel Business Growth and Momentum
Upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04? Look Out for These Features in 22.04 — Wayland is the default display server in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS — but don’t panic: it’s 2022 and Wayland is pretty solid these days. Plus, thanks to technologies like Pipewire, even previously tricky areas like screen sharing work out of the box, and without fuss under Wayland. Heck, in Ubuntu 22.04 Wayland is so robust it even ships as default for computers for those with select NVIDIA graphics cards.
Ubuntu Upgrade warning
Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop Will be Able to Run on 2GB Raspberry Pi 4
Linux_5.15 - Linux Kernel Newbies
Ubuntu’s Zsys For OpenZFS Linux Installs Sees First Update In A Year
‘Ubuntu Pro’ Settings Pulled from Ubuntu 22.04
How to Upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish
RSSHub: 🍰 Everything is RSSible — RSSHub is an open source, easy to use, and extensible RSS feed generator. It's capable of generating RSS feeds from pretty much everything.
RSSHub Introduction

453: Raleigh Action Show Apr 10, 2022

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We just wrapped up our East Coast meetup and have a bunch of great stories to share. Plus some Nix ups and downs, and more.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Microsoft Working On AMD GPU Hotplug Support For Linux Driver — Here is a combination not normally expected... Microsoft engineers have submitted patches for review enabling AMD GPU hot-plugging support with the Radeon "AMDGPU" Linux kernel driver.
webtop — Alpine, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch based containers containing full desktop environments in officially supported flavors accessible via any modern web browser.
Tea — The tools that build the Internet have steeped too long. It’s time for a fresh brew.
FreeRDP — FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license.
Rust Pick: bore — a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost.

452: Synapse Collapse Apr 03, 2022

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How we nearly crashed our Matrix server; what we did wrong and how we're fixing it.

Plus an update on elementary OS, GNOME's next chapter, and we kick off the NixOS Challenge.

NixOS Challenge Goals:

Study the Nix Expression Language
Setup at least one Nix/NixOS system.
Install htop.
Join the Nix Nerds Matrix channel.
Post a screenshot in the NixOS Challenge GitHub.
Complete all the above before the end of April.

Special Guest: Danielle Foré.

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I made this bash script to build Linux from Scratch automatically.
JB Meetup
Farewell, elementary
Livestream with Danielle Foré
Plans for GNOME 43 and Beyond – Chris’s Design & Development — Since we’re right on the heels of a release, I want to keep some momentum going and share my plans for features I want to implement during the upcoming release cycles.
Fractal
GNOME Weather
Various things in the GNOME ecosystem
Synapse Workers Docs
Understanding Synapse Through Grafana Graphs
Jupiter Extras: March Boost Battle
Fountain.FM — Share podcast clips and support creators with Bitcoin.
Nix Expression Language
NixOS Manual
Nix Nerds Matrix channel
nixpkgs
NixOS Challenge - Jupiter Broadcasting GitHub
osmbtc.org — OSM BTC is an open Fund initiative which has a primary goal to support OpenStreetMap contributors by small donations via Bitcoin.
UserLAnd — UserLAnd is an open-source app which allows you to run several Linux distributions like Ubuntu.
CypherpunkArmory/UserLAnd — Main UserLAnd Repository
Termux — Terminal emulator and Linux environment for Android.

451: The NixOS Challenge Mar 27, 2022

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We explore what makes NixOS so powerful, and why it might be the future of all Linux distributions.

Plus we announce a community-wide NixOS challenge for the month of April.

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450: It Went Real Bad Mar 20, 2022

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Why GNOME 42 is the release we’ve all been waiting for.

Plus, we attempt to install Linux on an M1 MacBook live on the show.

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Jupiter Broadcasting East Coast Meetup
The first Asahi Linux Alpha Release is here! — It’s been a long while since we updated the blog! Truth be told, we wanted to write a couple more progress reports, but there was always “one more thing”… So, instead, we decided to take the plunge and publish the first public alpha release of the Asahi Linux reference distribution!
Introduction to Apple Silicon · AsahiLinux/docs Wiki
OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems — It has taken a while, but I'm pleased to announce that OpenBSD/arm64 works well enough on Apple M1 systems for some wider testing.
The Best New Features in GNOME 42 — GNOME 42 features a plethora of GTK4/libawaita app ports, intros a retooled screenshot experience, and makes several notable performance upticks.
A look at what’s new in GNOME 42
GNOME MR - Dynamic triple/double buffering (v4) — Use triple buffering if and when the previous frame is running late. This means the next frame will be dispatched on time instead of also starting late.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS To Carry GNOME Triple Buffering Support
GNOME Dynamic Triple Buffering Can 2x The Desktop Performance For Intel Graphics, Raspberry Pi
Port Extensions to GNOME Shell 42
Fountain 0.3.10 — Fountain transcribes each episode so you can easily create and edit clips. With Fountain 0.3.10 we've introduced better transcription accuracy and faster processing speeds.
AntennaPod 2.5 — The key feature that we added in this release? That would be synchronisation with “GPodder Sync” app for Nextcloud, implemented by @thrillfall.
AntennaPod Issue - Support for podcast:value

449: Bugfix and Chill Mar 13, 2022

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How each of us asks for features and help from free software projects, and one of our most prescient soapboxes in a while.

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Jupiter Broadcasting East Coast Meetup — Saturday, Apr 9, 2022 · 3:00 PM EDT
Obsidian — Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
How To ADHD — Those of us with ADHD have brains that work differently, which means we need to work differently.
Onion Share — OnionShare is an open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network.
OnionShare on Flathub
Kevin Rooke on Twitter — 5,000 podcasts are now on the Lightning Network. 4.2 million to go.⚡️
Heroic Games Launcher on Flathub — An Open Source GOG and Epic Games Launcher.
Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish testing week
Ubuntu ISO Testing Tracker
New Podcast Apps — The Podcast Index is here to preserve, protect and extend the open, independent podcasting ecosystem.
The Pomp Podcast — What is the Lightning Network?
What’s in a Boostagram?
How the Lightning Network is Innovating Podcasting — Podcast Index allows podcasters to add their podcast and connect your podcast to your own node, or use their service and they run a node for you. Users can set a specific sats per minute to listen, and the content creators stream payment by sats.
Fountain Podcast App
BoostCLI — Command line tool to send and review Podcasting 2.0 Value.
LINUX Unplugged on Podcastindex.org

448: A Mystery in Plain Sight Mar 06, 2022

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We surprise each other with three different topics, hidden away by encryption in our show notes - we literally have no idea what we're talking about this week.

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Jupiter Broadcasting East Coast Meetup
trilium — Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes.
pytest-asyncio — Pytest support for asyncio.
hypothesis — Hypothesis is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use library for property-based testing.
brainfuck
Brainfuck Interpreter
Brainfuck text generator
youtube-dl-server — Web / REST interface for downloading youtube videos onto a server.
alltube — Web GUI for youtube-dl
BookStack
linuxserver/bookstack - Docker Image
Raneto — A free, open, simple Markdown powered Knowledgebase for Nodejs
Plex-Meta-Manager — Python script to update metadata information for items in plex as well as automatically build collections and playlists. The Wiki Documentation is linked below.
linuxserver/plex-meta-manager - Docker Image
Heimdall Application Dashboard
linuxserver/heimdall - Docker Image
Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish testing week currently
Snowflake
Start9 | Sovereign Computing
Steganography deep-dive
Steganography tools

447: An Umbrel for Everything Feb 27, 2022

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We look at two new options that enable ANYONE to run a personal server at home or a small business.

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Jupiter Broadcasting East Coast Meetup — Saturday, April 9, 2022
Self-Hosted 65: Failing at Scale — Alex gives the new TrueNAS SCALE a go and hits a snag. Plus the future Home Assistant update that has Chris so concerned he might stop updating forever.
Umbrel — a personal server for everyone — Run your personal server with a Bitcoin and Lightning node in your home, self-host open source apps like Nextcloud and Matrix to break away from big tech, and take full control of your data. For free.
Ukraine / Україна on Twitter — Stand with the people of Ukraine. Now accepting cryptocurrency donations.
Ukraine Solicits BTC, ETH, USDT Crypto Donations After Russian Invasion
Tutorial — Change Umbrel docker compose to point to block storage.
Writeup of Umbrel Security Tradeoffs
Node hardening
Umbrel troubleshooting
Everything you need to know about Umbrel’s new license
Value 4 Value Calculator
BoostCLI — Command line tool to send and review Podcasting 2.0 Value
BoostBots — Bots which posts Booots.
Breez — Lightning Fast Bitcoin Payments

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