LINUX Unplugged

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Oct 24, 2022 • 1h 25min

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? Plus, we try out the new Ubuntu release on the ODROID H3+.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:KDE neon on Twitter: "KDE neon Rebased on Jammy…Ubuntu 22.10 - Kinetic Kudu — Ubuntu Desktop 22.10 users will benefit from the refinements in GNOME 43, including GTK4 theming for improved performance and consistency. Quick Settings now provide faster access to commonly used options such as wifi, bluetooth, dark mode and power settings.ODROID-H3+ — Intel® Quad-Core Jasper Lake N6005, Up to 64GB Dual-channel Memory DDR4, PCIe 3.0 x 4 lanes, 2 x 2.5Gbit Ethernet ports, 2 x SATA 3.0 ports, and more!AI is taking over the iconic voice of Darth Vader, with the blessing of James Earl Jones | TechCrunchWhy the Future of Open Source AI is So Much Bigger Than Stable Diffusion 1.5 and Why It Matters to You — In the absence of news from us, rumors started swirling about why we didn't release the next version yet. Some folks in the community worry that Stability AI has gone closed source and that we'll never release a model again. It's simply not true. We are committed to open source at our very core.Would you pay $10 to create AI chatbot of dead loved one?Setup for stable-diffusion-webui-dockerAUTOMATIC1111's Stable Diffusion Webui — A browser interface based on Gradio library for Stable Diffusion.Stable Diffusion CPUGet Started with Linode GPUGuides - Installing the NVIDIA CUDA ToolkitCUDA Toolkit 11.8 DownloadsNVIDIA Container Toolkit — The NVIDIA Container Toolkit allows users to build and run GPU accelerated containers. The toolkit includes a container runtime library and utilities to automatically configure containers to leverage NVIDIA GPUs.LURE (Linux User REpository) — LURE is intended to bring the AUR to all distros. It is currently in an alpha state and may not be stable. It can download a repository, build packages in it using a bash script similar to PKGBUILD, and then install them using your system package manager.
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Oct 17, 2022 • 1h 27min

480: Taming the Beast

Linus Tech Tips blows it again, and we clean up. Plus, we push System76's updated Thelio Workstation to the breaking point.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:Intel Arc GPUs NOT supporting Linux any time soonPlease Buy Intel GPUs. - LTTIntel Arc Graphics Running On Fully Open-Source Linux Driver - Phoronix — A common misconception or confusion I've heard many times over the past number of months has been questioning whether Intel's discrete GPU driver support on Linux is open-source or is closed-source, etc. Well, it's fully open-source aside from the usual firmware caveat and running on Linux.The new Thelio — We believed that we could make an open hardware desktop that’s powerful, compact, quiet, beautiful, upgradable, backed by lifetime support, and manufactured in the United States—so we did. Customize your components, your software, even your aesthetic with swappable accents made for any mindset.System76 Thelio AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 24, X250-kernel, Devone-kernel Benchmark ComparisonSystem76 Thelio vs Dev One - Workstation BenchmarkThelio, Devone, X250 - Workstation Benchmark ComparisonSystem76 Thelio AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 24 - Time Linux Kernel BenchmarkUnigene SuperpositionUNIGINE Superposition Video - 8K 60 FPS - YouTubeWhy do people love NixOS so much?Nix team creation - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
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Oct 10, 2022 • 1h 21min

479: Good Software, Bad Blood

What the heck is going on? Fedora is dropping features, GNOME is getting Iced, and the mistake we'll never make again. We've got a lot to sort out.Sponsored By:Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.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. Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Tasks - Nextcloud Apps — Tasks can be shared between users. Tasks can be synchronized using CalDAV (each task list is linked to an Nextcloud calendar, to sync it to your local client: Thunderbird, Evolution, KDE Kontact, iCal … - just add the calendar as a remote calendar in your client). You can download your tasks as ICS files using the download button for each calendar.Home Assistant Yellow — Home Assistant Yellow integrates 1,000+ different devices and services, allowing you to create powerful automations and get insight into your energy usage. All from an easy-to-use interface that runs 100% locally without anything in the cloud.Oh No!😱Fedora is Dropping Support for Popular Video Codecs — Primarily, it will affect AMD GPU users using open-source drivers, preventing them using GPU acceleration to play video content that requires using these codecs. Additionally, it also affects any user who uses open-source graphics drivers, even if they run iGPUs on Intel chips.recent commit to Mesa on FedoraTom Callaway on TwitterSystem76’s Pop!_OS COSMIC Desktop To Make Use Of Iced Rust Toolkit — The UX team has been carefully designing widgets and applications over the last year. We are now at the point where it is critical for the engineering team to decide upon a GUI toolkit for COSMIC. After much deliberation and experimentation over the last year, the engineering team has decided to use Iced instead of GTK.Reddit Comment That Kicked All this OffIced toolkit — A cross-platform GUI library for Rust focused on simplicity and type-safety. Inspired by Elm.Comment thread on Reddit that kicked it all offJeremy Soller on TwitterJeremy Soller on TwitterJeremy Soller on TwitterChecklist of things going into Iced for CosmicAcastus — Acastus Photon is a completely private, free and open source Address / POI lookup application for android.photon.komoot.io — Search as you type with OpenStreetMappelias.ioAuto Move Windows - GNOME Shell ExtensionsPodcasting 2.0 Apps
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Oct 3, 2022 • 1h 6min

478: The Best of Both Worlds

We go hands-on at NASA's JPL and learn why Linux is the best OS for Earth and Mars.Special Guest: Tim Canham.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:412Linux on Twitter — Sadly, @ChrisLAS is the first person I thought about after reading the Stadia update. He really did believe in it. Can't wait to hear his tA message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy — A few years ago, we also launched a consumer gaming service, Stadia. And while Stadia's approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong technology foundation, it hasn't gained the traction with users that we expected so we’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming service.The Verge blames Linux — Google spent millions convincing publishers like Ubisoft and Take-Two to bring their biggest games to Stadia. Google had to pay such large sums because the work to port games over wasn’t particularly easy given Stadia runs on Linux, a platform game developers haven’t paid enough attention to.Stadia died because no one trusts GoogleGrants Pass Geocache LocationSacramento Geocache LocationPasadena Geocache LocationOffice Hours 13: One Long MondayCheck out our MeetupsOur West Coast Matrix CrewImmichStorjGoogle Photos is messing up old backed-up images for some usersfrozear's NixOS Config — It uses Awesome Window Manager, the Ranger file manager and Kitty for a terminal. Dotfiles for those three are included.Ham Radio Linux DistributionsLinux in the Ham ShackPodcasting 2.0 AppsBitrefill — Buy Gift Cards & Top Up Airtime with Bitcoin or CryptoJPL Open Source Rover Project — A build-it-yourself, 6-wheel rover based on the rovers on Mars!
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Sep 25, 2022 • 1h 25min

477: The Feeling of Fast

We finally give Brent his new laptop and get his reaction. Plus our best pick for replacing stock Android with something private.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:GrapheneOS — The private and secure mobile OS.Nokia 2760 Flip feature mobile phoneKaiOS DevicesJupiter Broadcasting MeetupsWest Coast Crew Matrix RoomLUP 462: One Cosmic Collaboration — From skeptic to buyer, why the HP Dev One is the best Linux laptop yet.HP Dev One — From preinstalled Linux Pop!_OS to a tuned Linux keyboard with a Super key, HP Dev One is designed with powerful features and tools to help you code your way.Pop!_OS TutorialsPhoronix Test Suite for DockerWorkstation Test Suite - OpenBenchmarking.orgTimed Linux Kernel Compilation Benchmark - OpenBenchmarking.orgUnigine Superposition Benchmark - OpenBenchmarking.orgSuperposition benchmark - UNIGINEPhoronix Test Suite — Linux Testing & Benchmarking Platform, Automated Testing, Open-Source Benchmarking.Geekbench5Brent’s Hugo Build Times · Issue #349Linux Kernel Build Benchmark Comparison - X250 vs. Dev OneWorkstation Benchmark Comparison - X250 vs. Dev OneGeekbench CPU - LENOVO X250 vs HP Dev OneGeekbench Vulkan Score - LENOVO X250 vs HP Dev OneUnigine Superposition Benchmark - LENOVO X250 vs HP Dev OnePointiest Stick — Adventures in Linux and KDEdwm — dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts.Pick: systeroid — A more powerful alternative to sysctl(8) with a terminal user interface.
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Sep 19, 2022 • 1h 27min

476: Canary in the Photo Mine

We've gone deep to find our perfect Google Photos replacement. This week we'll share our setup that we think works great, is easy to use, and is fully backed up.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:OsmAnd — Carry highly detailed, fully offline maps of any region world wide on your device!Garmin RV 780 & TrafficOffice Hours 12 — Don’t Clip and DriveJB MeetupsWest Coast Crew Matrix RoomMöbius Sync — Bringing Syncthing to iOS. Sync files between all your devices.PhotoSync — Photo Transfer and Backup App. For iOS & AndroidPhotoPrism — PhotoPrism® is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web.Storj — Fast, secure cloud storage at a fraction of the cost.Storj Warrant CanaryHow Decentralized Storage WorksDuplicati — Free backup software to store encrypted backups online.Backup With Duplicati | Storj DocsSyncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes.Stingle Photos — Stingle Photos is a convenient, easy to use Gallery/Camera application with Backup and Sync functionality for your photos and videos which seamlessly provides strong security, privacy and encryption.Recommended way to use Syncthing for Photos SyncLomorage — Free private photo cloud solution that puts you in control of your photos and videos.Lomorage and Photoprismpigallery2 — A fast directory-first photo gallery website, with rich UI, optimized for running on low resource servers.Photoview — Photoview is a simple and user-friendly photo gallery that's made for photographers and aims to provide an easy and fast way to navigate directories, with thousands of high-resolution photos.LibrePhotos — A self-hosted open source photo management service.LibrePhotos Feature ComparisonUhuruPhotos — Android client for LibrePhotosdocker-s3fs-clients3fs — FUSE-based file system backed by Amazon S3.rclone to GlacierCasaOs — Community-based open source software focused on delivering simple home cloud experience around Docker ecosystem.Nabu CasaWazuh — Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.CrowdSec — Open-source and participative IPS able to analyze visitor behavior & provide an adapted response to all kinds of attacks.LINUX Unplugged at the Podcastindex.org
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Sep 12, 2022 • 1h 9min

475: Brent's Bug Battle

Brent has been on a bug-finding marathon. We review what he's discovered and share some hard-learned lessons.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:Pull Request #378 by DECbot — "JB is live!" indicator - on page load, call the script to highlight the #livebutton red if jupiter.tube is liveNASA Selects SiFive and Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions — SiFive X280 delivers 100x increase in computational capability with leading power efficiency, fault tolerance, and compute flexibility to propel next-generation planetary and surface missions.Jupiter Broadcasting MeetupWest Coast Crew Matrix RoomSubmit Your Baller Boost JinglesFountain 0.4.8 - Referrals, Search Editorial and Other ImprovementsFountain.fm ChartsKDE Official Response to creation of GNOME Foundation (2000)Report: Default Desktop Environments for Linux and UnixHow Much Does KDE Pay Developers?KDE Issue Reporting Guidelines - Have Realistic ExpectationsKDE neonPlasma ActivitiesAll bugs submitted by Brent during Kubuntu Jammy beta testingFirefox icon missing from panel following Kubuntu upgrade 20.04->22.04kdesu fails to authenticate with sudo from JammyKDE Issue ReportingFedora Workstation bug - KateFedora Workstation bug - Network - gnome-control-centreFedora Workstation bug - GuakePhotoPrism — PhotoPrism is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized WebGit Large File Storage — Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server like GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise.Podcasting 2.0 AppsPhotoSync — Photo Transfer and Backup AppiDrive — Cloud backup solutions for home and business.Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program.FolderSync — FolderSync enables simple sync to cloud based storage to and from local folders on the device SD cards.
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Sep 5, 2022 • 1h 13min

474: Linux's Malware Inevitability

Can Linux do better? Apple is scrambling to build always-on malware protection into the next macOS as its market share grows. A precautionary tale for Linux users. Plus we take a look at Ubuntu Unity as it becomes an official flavor.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:Canonical Accepts Ubuntu Unity as Official Ubuntu Flavor Starting with Ubuntu 22.10 — The Ubuntu Unity 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) release is expected to see the light of day as an official Ubuntu flavor on October 20th, 2022.[vote] Re: Ubuntu Unity as an official flavorUbuntu UnityOffice Hours 11 — We're pushing our new website to production live on the show today. We have no idea how things will turn out - but we're taking you along for the ride either way!JB MeetupsJB Matrix West Coast CrewBaller Boost Jingles — Send us your feedback via GitHubMac vs. PC AdmacOS malware development surged by over 1,000% in 2020Increased Enterprise Use of iOS, Mac Means More MalwareReport Finds Surge in Malware Aimed at MacOS - Security BoulevardmacOS now scans for malware whenever it gets a chance — In the last six months macOS malware protection has changed more than it did over the previous seven years.Desktop Market ShareIs any virus protection software needed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux?Linux devices ‘increasingly’ under attack from hackers, warn security researchersBrunch with BrunchHarmonoid — Plays and manages your music library. Looks beautiful & juicy.LINUX Unplugged 409 — Launch Your Memories Into the Future.Google Photos is so 2020
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Aug 29, 2022 • 1h 23min

473: End of the Road

We've reached the end of the road in our immutable Linux series, and an old friend stops by to give us the inside scoop on Endless OS. Plus, we announce who will be joining us at JPL in September.Special Guest: Cassidy James Blaede.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:GNOME launches a new “telemetry” program to improve GNOMEgnome-info-collect repository — gnome-info-collect is a simple client-server application used for collecting information on GNOME systems. The data will be used to improve GNOME, specifically by informing design decisions, influencing where resources are invested, and generally helping us to understand users better.Self contained flake for gnome-info-collect courtesy of kenjiJupiter Broadcasting MeetupsJB Matrix westcoastcrew Meetup RoomHot on FountainMobilizon — Mobilizon is a tool that helps you find, create and organize events.Endless OS — Comes preloaded with over 100 apps and essential tools so you have all you need, even when there's no internet access.KeybaseMay 7th 2020: Zoom Acquires KeybaseMSGConvert — A .MSG to mime/mbox converterVisiData — VisiData is an interactive multitool for tabular data. It combines the clarity of a spreadsheet, the efficiency of the terminal, and the power of Python, into a lightweight utility which can handle millions of rows with ease.googerteller — audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into google.Espanso — Tired of typing the same sentences over and over? Discover the incredible power of a full-blown text expander.New Jupiter Broadcasting Website
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Aug 22, 2022 • 1h 10min

472: 5 Problems With NixOS

The five most common problems when trying out an immutable Linux distro like NixOS. Plus, why one Linux dev says just target WINE.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:New Flathub Site in Beta - Big Things Coming — [...] next steps are to flesh out the donation infrastructure with the aim to allow app pages to have their own link to donation/purchase.Win32 Is The Only Stable ABI on Linux — I think this whole situation shows why creating native games for Linux is challenging. It’s hard to blame developers for targeting Windows and relying on Wine + friends. It’s just much more stable and much less likely to break and stay broken.The Offending glibc CommitA glibc BugThe ABI status of ELF hash tables — If EAC were free software, of course, chances are there would already be a patch circulating to deal with the problem. As it is, only its owner can deal with this problem directly. Meanwhile, though, there is another workaround available: distributors can easily patch the glibc build to restore the DT_HASH section and make the problem go away for now.Jupiter JPL Meetup FormJB MeetupsWest Coast Crew Matrix RoomEndless OS — The Endless Operating System is simple and easy for anyone to use. It is fully equipped with essential apps to learn, play, work and connect.Different methods to run a non-NixOS executable on NixOS — What are the different methods to run a non-NixOS executable on NixOS? I'd like to see also the manual methods.nix-ld: Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOSvscode with extensions nix packagevscode FHS compatibletoolbox-vscode — Toolbox Visual Studio Code integrationSelf-Hosted 67: The No Container Theory — Why Chris is moving away from using Containers, Alex's new project, and some great follow-up.Podcasting 2.0 Apps — Grab a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app, and boost into the show.Heroic Games Launcher — Heroic is an Open Source GOG and Epic games launcher for Linux, Windows and macOS. Also available on the Steam Deck!Heroic Games Launcher | Flathub

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