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How we found peace with the Linux community’s perpetual debates; and our tricks for finding the signal from the noise.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Spotify App Stops Working for Linux UsersGrapheneOS version 2023051600 Released — Add initial Contact Scopes feature as an alternative to granting the Contacts permission... Add production ready Pixel 7a support.GrapheneOS Discussion Forum: Version 2023051600 ReleasedGrapheneOS on Twitter — Our new Contact Scopes feature is now available in the Alpha channel. It provides a way to avoid granting the Contacts permission for apps requiring it. It's similar to our Storage Scopes feature replacing needing any of the media/storage permissions.GrapheneOS on Twitter — GmsCompatConfig (sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer configuration) version 53 released.Asahi Linux To Users: Please Stop Using X.Org — Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin issued a lengthy post encouraging users of this Apple Silicon focused Linux distribution to stop using X.Org as Wayland is the future.RHEL 9: Deprecated functionality — The X.org display server is deprecated, and will be removed in a future major RHEL release. The default desktop session is now the Wayland session in most cases.r/linux: The whole X11 vs. Wayland thing… — Whilst I get Wayland is the future I have a bunch of issues with it. Off the top of my head…Rustdesk ‘wontfix’ a naive privilege escalation on LinuxThe LUP Odroid H3+ Chassis — I recently got an Odroid H3+ and desperately needed a chassis for it so I decided to make one. Since I am a long-time listener and a big fan of the Linux Unplugged podcast I wanted to pay tribute to it.Live APRS MapPodcast Guru — The simple & free podcast player for Android & iOSPodcasting 2.0 AppsAlbyLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.orgyt-fts: Youtube Full Text Search — Search all of a YouTube channel's subtitles from the command line

The push for free software takes years, maybe even generations. Brent gets the inside story from the Free Software Foundation Europe.Special Guest: Matthias Kirschner.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:SteamDeckHQ on Twitter — What is your opinion on the ROG ALLY? Is it something you’ll be getting after seeing the stream and reading the reviews? We are on the fence here. Love the idea of extra power, but the worse battery life, using windows, glitches, and lack of touchpads does hamper our excitement.ROG Ally (2023) — The ROG Ally is a true Windows 11 gaming machine, and comes bundled with 3 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for free.FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe — Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology.Matthias Kirschner - FSFEEU Parliament wants to protect Free Software in AI regulation — Today the European Parliament's responsible committees voted by a large majority to protect Free Software in the AI regulation.FSFE and the antitrust case against MicrosoftPublic Money? Public Code! - FSFE — Why is software created using taxpayers' money not released as Free Software? We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence.Activities - FSFE — As a non-profit, non-governmental organisation, Free Software Foundation Europe works to create general understanding and support for Free Software and Open Standards.Contribute - FSFE — We are a diverse community of people from all over Europe and beyond, who are committed to Free Software. If you feel likewise, join us in our work for freedom.Ada & Zangemann — This illustrated book tells the story of the famous inventor Zangemann and the girl Ada, a curious tinkerer. Ada begins to experiment with hardware and software, and in the process realises how crucial it is for her and others to control technology.Fountain on Twitter — BALLER BOOSTS ARE BACK We have partnered with @bitrefill to give away a $50 Bitrefill Balance Card to two super-fans on Fountain every week. All you have to do is BOOSTGardenBot — GardenBot is an open source garden monitoring system. This site is a collection of tutorials for how to build things (like a soil moisture sensor), software for running GardenBot, resources, links, and more.Podcasting 2.0 AppsAlbyLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.orgubuntu-debullshit — TL;DR, you will end up with a clean GNOME desktop with flatpaks, similar to a fresh Fedora install.

The first new desktop environment in a while that has caught our attention, and it promises to unlock the full power of cutting-edge Linux. Why we think every desktop will copy ideas from Hyprland soon.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Hyprland Hall of FameHyprland Master Tutorial — If you are coming to Hyprland for the first time, this is the main tutorial to read.Hyprland - ArchWiki — Hyprland bundles its own version of wlroots, which closely follows the wlroots-git. This improves stability, while also avoiding dependency conflicts with other wlroots-based compositors.Nix | Hyprland Wiki — Hyprland on Nix can be installed either from Nixpkgs (release version) or from the flake (directly from the main branch).Hyprland on NixOS — The NixOS module enables critical components needed to run Hyprland properly, such as: polkit, xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland, graphics drivers, fonts, dconf, xwayland, and adding a proper Desktop Entry to your Display Manager.awesome-hyprland — Useful tools and libraries that either work or are designed for Hyprland!Outdoor Home Assistant — Why Chris needs ANOTHER Home Assistant instance and a major breakthrough for self-hosters.The Sprinkler Geeks, LLC — Irrigation service, repair, and maintenance. Servicing Thurston, Lewis, & Gray's Harbor Counties.Brocade ICX 6610-24P SwitchBoost Vs Patreon — I have one friend who loves podcasts, but he still doesn't get how it offers anything new compared to Patreon. Could you guys please give a short rundown of how boosts are different and how they have helped LUP?Evernote on Linux — Evernote for Linux is currently in private beta.xwmx/nb — nb is a command line and local web note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base applicationEcowitt weather stationTidal-Media-Downloader — Tidal-Media-Downloader is an application that lets you download videos and tracks from Tidal.When Stars and Salt Collide” by The Piano Guys.Podcasting 2.0 AppsAlbyLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.orgVod2pod-rss — Vod2Pod-RSS converts a YouTube or Twitch channel into a podcast with ease. It creates a podcast RSS that can be listened to directly inside any podcast client.

Two listeners race to set up a web server on Suicide Linux. One slip-up and it's all gone. Who will survive?Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:The Sprinkler GeeksSuicide Linux — It's a game. Like walking a tightrope. You have to see how long you can continue to use the operating system before losing all your data.Suicide-linux — now available on Docker!Suicide Linux bashrcJupiterBroadcasting.com, hugo-based and community-driven!Hugo — The world’s fastest framework for building websites.The Determinate Nix Installer. — nix-installer is an opinionated alternative to the official Nix install scripts.NixOS Package Search: HugoHugo in nixpkgsMike Kelly on Twitter — Dammit @ChrisLAS, @wespayne, and @brentgervais, I could have won yesterday's challenge, had I only embraced Nix-Shell. Better late than never?Notes for Dom C’s setup using Podgrab and AudiobookShelfpodgrab — A self-hosted podcast manager/downloader/archiver tool to download podcast episodes as soon as they become live with an integrated player.audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast servernala — a wrapper for the apt package manager.pacstall — An AUR-inspired package manager for UbuntuDendron — The personal knowledge management (PKM) tool that grows as you do!Podcasting 2.0 AppsAlbyLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org

Why Fedora 38 might Sway you to try it; and how it runs on the MacBook M1 Max.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Redesigned Flathub Site Launches For Flatpak Apps — A redesigned version of the Flathub website has launched for this weekend's Linux App Summit. Flathub remains the centralized website for exploring and finding new Flatpak sandboxed Linux apps.Flathub — Welcome to Flathub, the home of hundreds of apps which can be easily installed on any Linux distribution. Browse the apps online, from your app center or the command line.Olympia Linux Spring MeetupAnnouncing Fedora Linux 38 — Fedora Linux 38 introduces several new Spins ­— variants that showcase different desktop environments.Fedora 38 Released With GNOME 44 Desktop, GCC 13, Many New Features — Fedora 38 brings many changes including the GCC 13 system compiler and other updated toolchain components like GNU Make 4.4, Glibc 2.37, Binutils 2.39, Golang 1.20, Ruby 3.2, and more.What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38How to rebase to Fedora Linux 38 on SilverblueFedora Linux 38 SpinsFedora Workstation Downloadasahi-fedora-builder — Builds a minimal Fedora image to run on Apple M1/M2 systemsmusic-player — An extensible music server written in Rust 🚀🎵✨Tools on TechThe Split KitPodversePodcasting 2.0 AppsAlbyLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.orgReaper on Flathub

We surprise each other with three secret topics, with one big catch.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks: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 $HOMEFleek 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 WikiDeterminateSystems/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 AkamaiOlympia Linux Spring Meetup — Let's have a local PNW get-together. Saturday, April 29, 2023.Boston Harbor MarinaLinuxFest Northwest 2023: Call for SpeakersStart your NOSTR-Market with LNbitsNostr, a Basic tourAwesome-nostrNostr AppsBitwarden 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 imagesRaspberry Pi SD card image for NixOS on BTRFS rootPick: difftastic — A structural diff that understands syntax.difftastic is packaged in NixPodcasting 2.0 AppsAlbyLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org

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.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks: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 SpeakersLogseq — 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 PlaySimpleX APKSimpleX on iOSSimpleX TestFlight preview for iOSSimpleX CLISimpleXMQ — A reference implementation of the SimpleX Messaging Protocol for simplex queues over public networks.LFNW Matrix Chatgping — Ping, but with a graph.AlbyLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.orgPick: Codex.docs — Free Docs app powered by Editor.js ecosystemEditor.js — Free block-style editor with a universal JSON output

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.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:c-base interface — welcome onboard c-basematelight: — Show text and gifs on mate crates.Raleigh-Durham Pizza Party! — Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 3pm ESTOlympia Linux Spring Meetup — Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 1:00 PM PDTPodverse Call for HelpLINUX Unplugged 486: Goodbye, GoogleImmich — Self-hosted photos and videos backup solution from your mobile phoneKDE Connect — Enabling communication between all your devices. Made for people like you.iodé — The Eco Friendly Smartphone Protecting Your PrivacyBerlin Buds Matrix RoomLibreSign — 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 503Nextcloud Cookbook on iOSnextcloud/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.Podcasting 2.0 AppsAlbyLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org

Brent dives deep into Nextcloud's new release from inside their offices, and takes an unexpected dip in the local lake with a listener.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks: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 NextcloudBrunch with BrentJupiter ExtrasLitestream: Streaming SQLite Replication — Stop building slow, complex, fragile software systems. Safely run your application on a single server.Podcasting 2.0 AppsAlbyLINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.orgLinux Has Become Complicated and Limiting (Gnome, Wayland, etc.)

The story of an open-source hero who became a villain.Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Berlin Meet Up — Join Brent for an impromptu, short-notice, Nextcloud-esque meetup in Berlin!Berlin Buds on MatrixDocker 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 ThingsWe 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 serverIntroducing 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 ipfsPodman — 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 CollegeOffice Hours 9 — We Hate Crypto TooPodcasting 2.0 AppsThe 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 KubernetesMicrosoft tried and failed to buy docker for $4bNew Red Hat project looks a lot like a Docker forkIntroducing Moby ProjectSolomon Hykes leaves Docker, the company he foundedRate 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.