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130: Make it or Break it Aug 23, 2024

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Prusa's Mk4S 3D printer seems to have hit the mark. Alex gets a tour of an awesome new maker space, we take a look at AdventureLog, and much more.

Special Guest: Jscar_Hawk.

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Grist: Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets.
Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.
Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free.

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🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
Toronto Meetup, Thu, Aug 29, 2024 — Chris and Alex are slinging servers in Toronto. Come join us after we get our new box racked. 6PM EST (meetup is in PDT).
$50 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 comes with a lower price and a tweaked, cheaper CPU — Despite changes, 2GB Pi 5 is "functionally identical" to other iterations.
Redbox app axed, dashing people’s hopes of keeping purchased content — "Redbox is currently not supporting this app. For questions about the service on your account, please contact Redbox” and recommends other streaming apps, like Apple TV+.
Disney backpedals on saying man can't sue over wife's death because he signed up for Disney+ — “We believe this situation warrants a sensitive approach to expedite a resolution for the family who have experienced such a painful loss,” Josh D’Amaro of Disney Experiences said. 0 of 3 minutes, 51 secondsVolume 0%
Manyfold - Organise your 3d print files — View and enjoy your collection, and easily find the models you need; all in full interactive 3D.
The Original Prusa MK4S is Here! Powerful 360° Cooling, High-Flow Nozzle, Prusa App, Hackerboard and More! — he MK4S is now available as a “plug and print” assembled printer (take it out of the box, let it finish the 10-minute Selftest, and start printing) and printer assembly kit.
AdventureLog — AdventureLog is designed to simplify your journey, providing you with the tools and resources to plan, pack, and navigate your next unforgettable adventure.
AdventureLog - GitHub — Self-hostable travel tracker and trip planner.
Self-Hosted 130 Boost Barn — Thank you boosters!
Pluralistic: “Disenshittify or Die”
ossem-holon – OSSEM HOLON — OSSEM is an acronym Open Source Security Engineering & Modification Group

129: Forged Alliance Aug 09, 2024

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The battle for code forges is heating up. We chat about HexOS' big promises and get excited about Meshtastic.

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Toronto Meetup, Thu, Aug 29 — Chris and Alex are slinging servers in Toronto. Come join us after we get our new box racked.
Google is no longer making Chromecasts, updates to continue — The Chromecast with Google TV 4K and HD will remain on sale until inventory runs out, but Google is not replenishing stock after that.
The Google TV Streamer might be the Apple TV 4K rival we’ve been waiting for — es, there are some Gemini AI tricks thrown in, and with other hardware upgrades like a built-in ethernet jack, the Google TV Streamer seems poised to be a much better entertainment hub than its predecessor. The only downside? Since it’s not a dongle anymore, you’ll have to provide your own HDMI cable when it ships on September 24th.
The Magic Behind HexOS — HexOS combines a simplified UI, automations, workflows, and managed services with user-provided hardware to offer elegant home server management for off-the-shelf server appliances, custom-built hardware, and even recycled PCs. Powered by TrueNAS, the world's most deployed enterprise-grade storage platform, HexOS provides a highly reliable and easy-to-use solution to store, use, and protect your data. In this article, we'll take a closer look at how HexOS works to make all of this possible.
Forgejo v8.0 is available — It comes with a number of new features, as usual. But the most impactful changes are of a different nature: increased stability, less random UI modifications and almost no breaking changes.
ForgeFed — ForgeFed is a federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystem
Open Letter to Gitea - Restoring Trust in the Gitea Project — After many days of hard work and preparation by a team of former Gitea maintainers and enthusiasts from the FOSS community, we are proud to announce that the Forgejo project is now live.
Rallly — Schedule group meetings with friends, colleagues and teams. Create meeting polls to find the best date and time to organize an event based on your participants' availability. Save time and avoid back-and-forth emails.
Fully automated DNS and DHCP with Ansible, Dnsmasq and Pihole — This post will detail how I solved a few interesting problems as I fully automated DNS overrides and DHCP reservations using Pihole, and the program it's built on top of Dnsmasq.
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128: To Update, or Not to Update? Jul 26, 2024

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ESPHome dev dishes on device updates, Immich license drama heats up, Alex's DIY server fix, and Chris reports on mobile tech trip test.

Special Guest: Keith Burzinski.

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Kelly Vaughn on X — How a massive publicly traded company is only going to just now start doing canary deployments is so far beyond my comprehension…
MoKo 400x300mm DIY PC Case Dust Mesh Filter — A custom magnetic dust filter for the Sliger CX4712 server case.
Licensing announcement - Purchase a license to support Immich! — With those notes, we have enabled a way for you to financially support the continued development of Immich, ensuring the software can move forward and will be maintained, by offering a lifetime license of the software. We think if you like and use software, you should pay for it, but we're never going to force anyone to pay or try to limit Immich for those who don't.
Wording change and clarification for purchasing Immich — I thought about it when I went to bed, I thought about it in my dream, I thought about it while doing the dishes. Taking into consideration all of your feedback and suggestions, and on behalf of the team, I am happy to show you what we came up with.
LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Deploying NixOS Anywhere - YouTube — NixOS, the declarative operating system taking the world by storm, can be challenging to deploy on many hosting providers. In this talk, we'll unlock the full potential of NixOS by exploring how its unique architecture enables installation just about anywhere—from bare metal and VMs to a VPS provider near you.
nixos-infect — A script to install NixOS on non-NixOS hosts.
simple-nixos-mailserver
Docker-OSX — Run Mac OS X in Docker with near-native performance! X11 Forwarding! iMessage security research! iPhone USB working! macOS in a Docker container!
Moshidon for Mastodon - Apps on Google Play — Moshidon is a modified version of the official Mastodon Android app adding important features that are missing in the official app, such as the federated timeline, unlisted posting and an image description viewer.
SchildiChat — SchildiChat is a feature-rich messenger for Matrix based on Element with some extras and tweaks.
SendGrid — Email API and Email Marketing Campaigns
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127: Can't Fix What You Don't Track Jul 12, 2024

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Chris gets serious about tracking maintenance and alerts, why Alex is impressed by the RISC-V-powered NanoKVM, how we might end up using Docmost, and a follow-up review of LubeLogger.

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Mitsubishi heatpump esp config — The ESP Config for Alex's Garage A/C.
LubeLogger — a web-based vehicle maintenance and fuel mileage tracker
Funding
LubeLogger Wiki
Announcing Proxmox-NixOS — The project is still in early development and might have some rough edges, but we would be very happy to have our first beta testers!
Bazzite — The next generation of Linux gaming
SSH 127 Boost Barn — Thank you Boosters!
foot rest

126: Smart But Not Cloudy Jun 28, 2024

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Chris reviews the Aqara G4 Video Doorbell, Brent frees his Garmin from the cloud, and we discuss getting iMessages on Android.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
Aqara G4 Smart Wireless Video Doorbell — Always around, even when you're not.
go2rtc: Ultimate camera streaming application with support RTSP, RTMP, HTTP-FLV, WebRTC, MSE, HLS, MP4, MJPEG, HomeKit, FFmpeg, etc. — You can use HomeKit Cameras without Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, etc.), it's just a yet another protocol
Gadgetbridge — Gadgetbridge is a free and open source Android application that allows you to pair and manage various gadgets such as smart watches, bands, headphones, and more without the need for the vendor application. So in short, you can use Gadgetbridge instead of relying on your gadget's own proprietary app.
Garmin Protocol
home-assistant-garmin_connect — The Garmin Connect integration allows you to expose data from Garmin Connect to Home Assistant.
iMessage on PC and Android - BlueBubbles — Bringing iMessage to Windows, Linux, and Android.
Install BlueBubbles on Linux
Estate planning lawyer here — please don't use a safe deposit — Courts require the original will, and if that's in a safe deposit box that the executor doesn't have access to, then the executor is in a tough spot.
Emergency Access | Bitwarden Help Center — Emergency access allows users to designate and manage trusted emergency contacts, who can request access to their vault in cases of emergency.
End-of-life disaster response — If you are reading this, I, like Tommy, have disappeared to Froopyland and I miss you already. There's a lot here, but the first order of business is telling people.
Nix Nextcloud
keymaster — Home Assistant keymaster integration for Z-Wave enabled locks.
Minisforum UM690 Pro — MD Ryzen™ 9 6900HX features 8 Cores and 16 Threads based on the highly-reputed Zen 3+ Architecture.
No Boilerplate - YouTube
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Linux Workstations - YouTube — We live in an incredible age, computers have never been so fast, nor storage so cheap, but it doesn't feel like it, right? It's not you, computing has been getting worse. And the problem is LAPTOPS.

125: Tiny Mini Micro Systems FTW Jun 14, 2024

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Alex's mini-PC surprise, why we're trying Tube Archivist, Alex's Nextcloud update, and how Chris stacks automations with Bitfocus Companion.

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Lenovo Thinkcentre/ThinkStation Tiny (Project TinyMiniMicro) Reference Thread — 179 x 183 x 34.5 / 37 mm with rubber feet (7.05 x 7.2 x 1.36 / 1.5 inches with rubber feet) (around 1 litre)
Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q Project TinyMiniMicro Feature
CloudFree - Own Your Smart Home — Providing tinkerers with the cloud-free gadgets they need.
Dell Refurbished
Tubearchivist: Your self hosted YouTube media server — By indexing your video collection with metadata from YouTube, you can organize, search and enjoy your archived YouTube videos without hassle offline through a convenient web interface.
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.
Meshtastic — An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices
tubearchivist-jf-plugin: Metadata for your TubeArchivist library on Jellyfin. — This plugin adds the metadata provider for TubeArchivist, offering improved flexibility and native integration with Jellyfin compared to previous solutions.
Spokane Meetup, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PM | Meetup — We owe our Spokane crew a meetup!

124: The End of Ownership May 31, 2024

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The "you'll own nothing" trend got worse this week, our thoughts about the Raspberry Pi IPO, poor Nextcloud performance, and Alex's new high-fiber obsession.

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Raspberry Pi IPO set for June 2024 — $40 million to be raised for engineering and sorting out the supply chain
Spotify to Brick Its Own “Car Thing” Device, Won’t Offer Refund — The physical product, announced in 2021 and made available the next year, will be completely nonfunctional in December
“Unacceptable”: Spotify bricking Car Thing devices in Dec. without refunds
Average Age of U.S. Vehicles Continues to Rise, Now at 12.6 Years — The average age of passenger cars continues to trend higher at 14 years compared with light trucks at 11.9 years.
FUTO funds Immich with 3 year commitment: the best image gallery software - YouTube — Louis Rossmann talks about Nextcloud performance issues.
Nextcloud.nix at main · JupiterBroadcasting/nixconfigs — The JB Nix config for Nextcloud has the best performance we have seen yet.
Nextcloud module-services-nextcloud
Dash — The Ultimate Homepage for your Homelab
SSH 124 Boost Barn — Thank you, Boosters and members! 🚀
servethehome.com - SFF router build thread — @mobilenvidia has done a great job with their thread on the whole Project TMM ecosystem; but I'm now almost two and a half years down the Lenovo Tiny rabbit hole so I thought I would gather some reference material specific to them together in one spot so that it can perhaps save others some time. I'll try to keep this updated as more information comes in, for the moment it only covers last four generations because I'm most familiar with those.

123: How much CPU do You REALLY Need May 17, 2024

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Alex benchmarks Intel CPUs (and an Arc GPU) to find the ideal balance of age, power, and speed for your home media server. Plus, our thoughts on Immich going full-time.

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FacilMap — FacilMap is a privacy-friendly, open-source versatile online map that combines different services based on OpenStreetMap and makes it easy to find places, plan trips and add markers, lines and routes to custom maps with live collaboration.
GpxPod - Nextcloud — Display, analyse, compare and share GPS track files.
GpxEdit - Nextcloud — Simple Nextcloud app to load, edit and save GPX files on an interactive map. You can load/save files from your Nextcloud file storage. GPX, KML, CSV (unicsv format) and geotagged JPG are supported for loading. JPG files are loaded as waypoints. Files can be loaded in GpxEdit interface or in Files app.
The Immich core team goes full-time — Recently, a company in Austin, Texas, called FUTO contacted the team. FUTO strives to develop quality and sustainable open software. They build software alternatives that focus on giving control to users. From their mission statement:
The Best Media Server CPU... in the world. — After a solid 8 months of testing, I think we have a big enough sample size to draw some conclusions. The best media server CPU is...
mafl: Minimalistic flexible homepage — Mafl is an intuitive service for organizing your homepage. Customize Mafl to your individual needs and work even more efficiently!
Ente — Store, share, and discover your memories with absolute privacy
SSH 123 Boost Barn! — Thank you, Boosters!

122: Back to the Future May 03, 2024

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How Chris created live TV streaming from his local media collection, Alex breaks down the new Open Home Foundation and what it means for self-hosters. Brent's been trying out an open-source AirDrop replacement for all systems, and much more!

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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Open Home Foundation — The Open Home Foundation fights for the fundamental principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes.
Zigbee2mqtt Home Assistant — ZigBee 1 2 3 4 Gang Smart Switch Tuya Smart Wireless Scenario Switch Button Switches Remoter Home Assistant SmartThings
Immich — High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution
Announcing Traefik v3 — I’m extremely proud to see that this project, born 8 years ago, has become such a critical piece of the modern cloud-native infrastructure stack, with the help of such an amazing community.
ErsatzTV — Your Personal IPTV Server
Introduction | ErsatzTV
Collection of 90s Commercials — Collection of 90s commercials mostly aired on Nickelodeon.
localsend — LocalSend is a free, open-source app that allows you to securely share files and messages with nearby devices over your local network without needing an internet connection.
LocalSend - Flathub
SSH 122 Boost BAAARN — Thank you so much Boosters!
Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups

121: Forbidden Fruit Apr 19, 2024

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Special guest Casey Liss from the Accidental Tech Podcast joins the show to discuss his homelab, how he uses HomeBridge, and his delightfully complex garage door sensor system.

Then Alex and Casey do their "best" to convince Chris the Apple Vision Pro is an excellent remote admin tool.

Special Guest: Casey Liss.

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System76 and Jupiter Broadcasting Epic Parking Lot BBQ, Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 4:30 PM | Meetup — Join Jupiter Broadcasting and System76 in the parking lot of Bellingham Technical College after the LinuxFest Northwest conference! Let's eat, drink and be nerdy!
LinuxFest Northwest — April 26 - 28, 2024 • Bellingham Technical College
Baseus PD 100W USB C to USB C Cable — 5A Fast Charging USB C Cable with LED Display.
HDMI Dummy Plug — Headless Ghost, Display Emulator
Splitscreen brings a multimonitor setup to Apple’s Vision Pro — new app called Splitscreen takes things a step further, by allowing you to add a second macOS display to your Vision Pro — even if it uses a different Apple ID.
Splitscreen App — Right now Splitscreen only allows you to create one extra virtual display. If you also use Mac Virtual Display that means you can have up to two Mac displays on your Apple Vision Pro.

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