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646: The Great Holiday Homelab Special 🎄 Dec 21, 2025

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The Great Holiday Homelab Special! Where our community brought their absolute best, from budget busters to beautiful disasters. Plus, a boosties celebration! Grab an eggnog and join us as we attempt to choose this year's winners.

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645: COSMIC Christmas Dec 14, 2025

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We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex. Then, we talk COSMIC stable with System76's CEO.

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Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released — This year, System76 turned twenty. For twenty years we have shipped Linux computers. For seven years we’ve built the Pop!_OS Linux distribution. Three years ago it became clear we had reached the limit of our current potential and had to create something new. Today, we break through that limit with the release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with the COSMIC Desktop Environment.
Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams and EPG data with elegance and control.
IPTV Link Search — Public IPTV live channels, m3u8 links are updated daily.
Streamtest.in
ptv-org/iptv — Collection of publicly available IPTV channels from all over the world
iptv/PLAYLISTS.mdb
epg — Utilities for downloading the EPG (Electronic Program Guide) for thousands of TV channels from hundreds of sources.
iptv-epg.org
TiviMate IPTV Player — Easy to use for beginners and deeply customizable for power users, TiviMate blends speed, clarity, and control into a seamless viewing experience.
M3U IPTV — Stream your IPTV channels on the go or on Android TV.
DangoPlayer — A fast video player and IPTV client for Android and TV
iPlayTV - IPTV/M3U Player App — IPTV/M3U player for Apple TV. The one Chris has used the longest
Chillio IPTV Smart Player App — New app, paid if you want quad box
Open TV — IPTV player with many features.
html-iptv-player — HTML IPTV Player with EPG viewer for M3U8 playlist
hypnotix — An M3U IPTV Player
IPTVnator
VidGrid — watch multiple news channels in your browser
M3U Magic • Free Private IPTV Player
ErsatzTV — Your Personal IPTV Server
kptv-fast — A high-performance streaming service aggregator that combines multiple free streaming platforms into a single M3U playlist and EPG. Perfect for use with Channels DVR, Plex, or any IPTV client.
Pick: Jellify-Music — A cross-platform, free and open source music player for Jellyfin, powered by React Native
Pick: DockerComposeMaker — DockerComposeMaker (DCM) is a self-hostable website to help you pick and create a docker-compose.yml file for your home server. Discover new containers, discover and share a config in a couple of clicks!
Demo Docker Compose Generator
Pick: Leantime — Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.

644: The People's Filesystem Dec 07, 2025

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Kent Overstreet joins us for a full update on bcachefs. What's new, what's next, and the surprising upside of getting kicked out of the kernel.

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LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Form
LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Old Fart Form (markdown)
bcachefs 1.33.0
Bcachefs Ready With Its Reconcile Feature As Biggest Change In Two Years — "Biggest new feature in the past ~2 years, I believe. The user facing stuff may be short and sweet - but so much going on under the hood to make all this smooth and polished."
Kent Overstreet - Patreon
bcachefs — A copy-on-write (COW) file system for Linux first announced by Kent Overstreet in 2015. It is intended to compete with the modern features of ZFS or Btrfs.
LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later — Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.
Git or not a Git man page?
proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS
Pick: Dotfiles Installer — Install dotfiles easy, fast and secure. Or provide an installation application for your dotfiles.
ML4W Dotfiles Installer Wiki
dotfiles-installer: GitHub
Pick: SSH-Studio — Easy, GUI SSH config editor and validator built with Python, GTK 4 and libadwaita.
LubeLogger, Vehicle Maintenance and Fuel Mileage Tracker, slips into December with some banging new features

643: The Sunday Soapbox Nov 30, 2025

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We pull on a few loose threads from recent episodes, and some of them unravel into way more than we expected.

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LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Old Fart Form (markdown)
Jellyswarrm — Bring all your Jellyfin servers together
LiveTV support · Issue #9 · LLukas22/Jellyswarrm
pangolin — Identity-Aware Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Dashboard UI.
Pangolin | Secure Access Platform
NixOS Search - Options - Pangolin
Youtarr — Self-hosted web app that automates downloading, organizing, and scheduling YouTube channel content with support for Plex, Kodi, Emby and Jellyfin
Add ability to set subfolder for manual downloads · Issue #287 · DialmasterOrg/Youtarr
Dawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)
dawarich CHANGELOG.md
CVE-2025-40090 | Ubuntu — Since commit 305853cce3794 ksmbd_session_rpc_method() attempts to lock sess->rpc_lock. This causes hung connections / tasks when a client attempts to open a named pipe.
SMB3 & KSMBD See Performance Improvements With Linux 6.18 — KSMBD also now adds a max IP connections parameter to optionally limit the maximum number of connections permitted per IP address.
ksmbd vulnerability research · Doyensec's Blog
ksmbd - Fuzzing Improvements and Vulnerability Discovery (2/3)
ksmbd - Exploiting CVE-2025-37947 (3/3)
doyensec's KSMBD-CVE-2025-37947 PoC
GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance
GrapheneOS exits France — what it means for encryption
France's Encryption War Escalates: GrapheneOS Exodus Signals Dangerous Precedent for Open Source Privacy Tech
Seems like the GrapheneOS phone collab may be with Motorolla.
Rust For Linux Kernel Co-Maintainer Formally Steps Down
Bcachefs Ousted from Mainline Kernel: The Move to DKMS and What It Means
Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” Strategies
Richard Hipp - Git: Just Say No - YouTube
2011 SouthEast LinuxFest - Richard Hipp - Fossilize Your Code - YouTube
Pick: Gopher64 — Highly compatible N64 emulator.
Gopher64 — simple64's official and spiritual successor - Libretro — It’s made by the same developer(s). Unlike simple64 however, it’s not based entirely on Mupen64Plus. And it’s aiming for a more LowSpec hardware overhang.
Install Gopher64 on Linux | Flathub

642: Tunneling Home for the Holidays Nov 23, 2025

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Chris cooked up a wild remote-access trick for Jellyfin that skips VPNs entirely. One tiny toggle spins up a secure tunnel on demand. Simple, absurd, and shockingly effective.

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ngrok — Go from code to global in just minutes with a developer-friendly, idiomatic solution for managing traffic to your APIs.
Jellyswarrm — Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place.
Sveske-Juice/declarative-jellyfin — This repository provides a Nix flake that allows for declarative configuration of Users, Libraries, Plugins, Settings, etc. Jellyfin 10.11 is NOT SUPPORTED.
declarative-jellyfin full example
Zigl3ur/jellyhub — JellyHub is a web app that allow you to fetch media from all of your jellyfin servers and regroup it in one place, so there is one place to search for specific media and tells you on wich server the desired media is located.
Smiley-McSmiles/jellyman — Jellyman is a lightweight BASH CLI tool for installing and managing Jellyfin. As well as create a full backup (automatically or manually) so you can move or import all your metadata and user information to another machine.
LSchallot/JellyRoller — JellyRoller is an open source CLI Jellyfin Controller written in Rust that works on Windows and Linux. Its primary purpose is to allow administration of a Jellyfin application from the command line.
kjtsune/embyToLocalPlayer — etlp (embyToLocalPlayer) is a tool that lets Emby, Jellyfin, and Plex play videos using your local media players (like mpv or VLC) instead of the built-in web player, while optionally sending playback progress back to the server.
Pick: subgen — Autogenerate subtitles using OpenAI Whisper Model via Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, Tautulli, or Bazarr.

641: Something New, Something Old Nov 16, 2025

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We dig into the biggest Linux hardware news of the year, then fire up our new-to-us 1L PC server.

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OLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and Expo
Registration - OLF Conference
Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS
Steam Controller — Steam Controller shares DNA with Steam Deck, with all the inputs to play all the games on Steam, wherever Steam is.
Steam Machine — Made for powerful, versatile PC gaming on a big screen; quiet and small enough to fit under your TV, on your desk, or anywhere else you want to game. (It's a roughly 6-inch (160mm) cube!)
Steam Frame — Comfortable, wireless, lightweight VR designed to give you a new way to experience your entire Steam library
“The Steam machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home.”
Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam Machine
FEX-Emu/FEX: A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux
FEX 2511 Delivers More Performance Improvements For Linux x86 Binaries On ARM64
Commits · FEX-Emu/FEX · GitHub
PLF10 Smart Plug – Kaufman Home Automation
Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1
About Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 — Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 is the new name for Home Assistant SkyConnect. Despite the new name and look, they have the exact same hardware, capability, and support.
libvirt: The virtualization API
libvirt - ArchWiki — Libvirt is a collection of software that provides a convenient way to manage virtual machines and other virtualization functionality, such as storage and network interface management. These software pieces include a long term stable C API, a daemon (libvirtd), and a command line utility (virsh).
Category:Virtualization - NixOS Wiki
Virt-manager - NixOS Wiki
Libvirt - NixOS Wiki
Pick: easyeffects — Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
EasyEffects 8.0 Released In Porting From GTK4 To Qt / QML / Kirigami
Easy Effects on Flathub
Marcel Repo Email

640: Duece Configalo: Desktop Gigolo Nov 09, 2025

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We dive into your configs, the genius moves, the glorious blunders, and everything in between.

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LINUX Unplugged 634: Config Confessions
yechielw/dots — Nixos and home-manager config
Shayne's budget Flake
Shayne's Budget Packages
Shayne's Budget Configuration.nix
Chris' Budget Flake Fix
Millak/guix-config: mirror of my guix configs
Millak/my-guix: local guix packages
efraim-home: Add mpv-sponsorblock-minimal-conf.d
Distrostu's configs
Distrostu's M Series Config
Oly Mike's Nixbook
writeShellApplication - Nix function reference
writeShellApplication - Nixpkgs Manual — writeShellApplication is similar to writeShellScriptBin and writeScriptBin but supports runtime dependencies with runtimeInputs.
rwiankowski/homeserver-nixos — My Home Server Setup using a single NixOS node
Brandon's Homelab
Brandon's Mac
Brandon's brew defined by Nix
Brandon's Mac Apps installed via Nix
BeardedTek/nixos-router: NixOS Router Configuration — A declarative NixOS configuration that transforms a standard PC into a full-featured network router with integrated secrets management.
blocky: DNS proxy and ad-blocker
Deidrael/nix-config: My NixOS Config
FuzzyMistborn/infra — 100% chance of id10t errors....and a slight chance of a credential leak
william/nix-config: All my nix stuff, in a single flake
Pick: SoltrOS — Immutable Linux designed for gaming & development
Pick: Parabolic — A powerful yt-dlp frontend.
Pick: Youtarr — Youtarr is a self-hosted YouTube DVR that lets you subscribe to channels, browse their videos in a web UI, and automatically download and archive the ones you care about to your own storage.

639: The Mess Machine Nov 02, 2025

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After all the AI hype is over, one change for Linux will be sticking around; we put it to the test.

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SeaGL 2025 — November 7-8, 2025 in Seattle, WA
LinuxFest Northwest
LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for Speakers
SCALE 23x - Southern California Linux Expo — North America's largest community-run open source conference. Pasadena, CA - March 5-8, 2026
SCALE - Call for Presentations
Planet Nix '26 — March 5th-6th, 2026 @ Pasadena, CA
Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals
LINUX Unplugged 481: Just a Prompt Away — The Internet is going crazy with AI-generated media. What's the open-source story, and is Linux being left out?
Red Hat eyes developer workflow efficiency, app modernization gains with new AI tools — An AI assistant specifically designed for application migration and modernization looks to reduce developer toil
SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 Announced: "Enterprise Linux That Integrates Agentic AI" — SUSE's announcement today for SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 proclaims SLES 16 to be "the industry's first enterprise Linux that integrates agenetic AI" and "reduces operational costs and complexity through AI readiness."
openSUSE on Hugging Face
ChrisLAS/hyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.
Pull requests - ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
feat: add comprehensive sops-nix integration by shift · PR #15 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
Add options for username, group, home directory by samh · PR #8 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
Create variables for user and home dir by F-bit818 · PR #5 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
LM Studio - Local AI on your computer
Zed — The editor for what's next
Cursor: The best way to code with AI
Nixbook — Convert your old computer to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.
nixbook/base.nix — Roast my Nix: Not-a-flake edition!
Jupiter Broadcasting's Colony Events
Pick: duf — Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative.
Pick: cheat.sh — the only cheat sheet you need.

638: The Distro Everyone Should Copy Oct 26, 2025

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Fedora 43 arrives with polish, new spins, and a smarter installer; and one decision the rest of the Linux world should pay attention to.

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nebula-lighthouse-service
nebula-lighthouse-service: init at 2.0.0 by bloominstrong · Pull Request #454855 · NixOS/nixpkgs — nebula-lighthouse-service is aimed to be run a a public nebula lighthouse for those who cannot host their own, or who want extra lighthouses without the burden of maintaining another lighthouse.
Fedora Linux 43 Cleared For Release Next Week — While Fedora 43 wasn't ready for release this week due to outstanding blocker bugs, at today's Go/No-Go meeting it was decided that Fedora 43 is now in a position for shipping next week.
Velocity Limitless / Projects / Slitherer · GitLab
Fedora 43 Wallpaper Wrap-Up – Fedora Community Blog
Fedora COSMIC Spin
Plasma 6.5 - Reaching the Inflection Point
[Fedora KDE] Early Plasma 6.5.0 - Fedora Discussion — With Fedora 43 being a go, we will be doing an update on repos towards the middle to end of next week that will bring Qt 6.10 and Plasma 6.5.1 to F43, and Plasma 6.5.1 (Most likely, plans are not 100% final in that regard) to F42. That will bring the update to the usual architectures, such as aarch64.
Pick: Millisecond — Optimize your Linux system for low latency audio
Millisecond on Flathub
noblepayne/millisecond-flake
rtcqs — rtcqs is a Python utility to analyze your system and detect possible bottlenecks that could have a negative impact on the performance of your system when working with Linux audio
How do I get an out-of-the-box working Linux audio workstation? - LinuxAudio.org
Pick: lemurs 🐒 — A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust