LINUX Unplugged

The team shares insights on their shift from Dropbox to Nextcloud, discussing its successes and challenges. Linus Torvalds weighs in on the art of saying no and humorous kernel codenames. They dive into the cost breakdown of their Nextcloud deployment, revealing unexpected expenses and storage issues. The conversation shifts to using Syncthing for efficient large media transfers, highlighting its advantages. Additionally, they explore performance trade-offs and container management during server upgrades, all while reflecting on their real-world experiences with ThinkPads.

Fedora's getting to work and reconsidering some long held-assumptions. Plus the best tool for getting things done on Linux, we take a look at openSUSE Leap 15.2, and breathe new life into an old Pebble.Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Jeff Fortin Tam, and Neal Gompa.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Show & Tell: A steampunk desktop background radiation monitor Getting Things GNOME 0.4 released! Getting Things GNOME - GNOME Wiki Getting Things GNOME on Flathub Stirring things up for Fedora 33 Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! openSUSE Leap 15.2 Release Notes Leap 15.2 - openSUSE Wiki openSUSE Leap 15.2 Released With Focus on Containers and AI Rebble.io: Bring life back to your Pebble Zettlr: A Markdown Editor for the 21st century. Roam Research: A note-taking tool for networked thought. Athens Research: An open source take on Roam Org-roam: a Roam replica built on top of the all-powerful Org-mode. Doom Emacs: Doom is a configuration framework for GNU Emacs Spacemacs: A community-driven Emacs distribution

We're joined by two guests who share their insights into building modern Linux hardware products. Plus we try out Mint 20, cover some big Gnome fixes, and a very handy open source noise suppression pick!Special Guests: Alfred Neumayer, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Jeremy Soller.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:CutiePi Tablet - Raspberry Pi, Untethered by Phoebus Torralba — Kickstarter CutiePi Is World’s Thinnest, Hackable Raspberry Pi Tablet, Available for Pre-Order Now CutiePi Shell - The UI for the CutiePi tablet GNOME’s Window Rendering Culling Was Broken Leading To Wasted Performance Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon RELEASED linuxmint/warpinator: Share files across the LAN Snap Store — Linux Mint User Guide documentation Monthly News – May 2020 – The Linux Mint Blog The Hunt for the Oryx Pro [Video] System76 Blog — Things We Love About the New Oryx Pro Oryx Pro - System76 Store New high-end Linux laptop: System76’s Oryx Pro packs latest Intel Core i7 H-series CPU Jeremy Soller on Twitter: “Spying on I2C traffic” Ubuntu Touch Q&A 78 UBports GSI brings Ubuntu Touch to any Project Treble-supported Android device cadmus: A GUI frontend for @werman’s Pulse Audio real-time noise suppression plugin werman/noise-suppression-for-voice: Noise suppression plugin based on Xiph’s RNNoise RNNoise: Learning Noise Suppression Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!

Why we think Apple just handed market share to Desktop Linux, and why you can kiss running Linux on the Mac goodbye forever.Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Neal Gompa.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Generating cooking recipes using TensorFlow and a LSTM Recurrent Neural Network ARM-based Japanese supercomputer is now the fastest in the world Ampere donates Arm64 server hardware to Debian to fortify the Arm ecosystem Google’s Bringing Its Apple AirDrop Rival to Linux, Windows, and Mac Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions Apple is switching Macs to its own processors starting later this year Tim Cook says first Mac with Apple Silicon shipping to consumers by end of this year r/linux: How will Apple’s ARM announcement affecting Linux going forward? r/linux: Let’s suppose Apple goes ARM, MS follows its footsteps and does the same. What will happen to Linux then? Will we go back to “unlocking bootloaders”? Jared Domínguez on Twitter — Today’s cynical take: Apple supporting Linux VMs is a way to make devs feel good with minimal effort (offload the work to Parallels/BSD community) while allowing Apple to deprecate their already super stale Unix userland. macOS itself will become less accessible.unsilence: Console Interface and Library to remove silent parts of a media file 🔈

It's time to challenge some long-held assumptions. Today's Btrfs is not yesterday's hot mess, but a modern battle-tested filesystem, and we'll prove it. Plus our thoughts on GitHub dropping the term "master", and the changes Linux should make NOW to compete with commercial desktops.Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:SpaceX: We’ve launched 32,000 Linux computers into space for Starlink internet Issue #54: Default disk partitioning layout for Workstation - fedora-workstation - Pagure.io 16 Jun, MEETING AGENDA - desktop - Fedora Mailing-Lists [Discussion] What do we think about Github’s decision to start using main instead of master as a branch name? ZFS co-creator boots ‘slave’ out of OpenZFS codebase, says ‘casual use’ of term is ‘unnecessary reference to a painful experience’ OpenZFS: Remove unnecessary references to slavery GitHub will no longer use the term ‘master’ as default branch because of negative association - r/programming Community Central: Welcoming Nomenclature - YouTube PinePhone: postmarketOS community edition PineTab sold out in 72 hours. Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions

The lightweight distro that stole our hearts, the four of us each try out a different contender and come away with what we think will be the leanest and meanest distribution for your PC.Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Jill Bryant Ryniker.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:BunsenLabs Linux Puppy Linux Home The FreeBSD Project SparkyLinux KolibriOS official site antiX Linux

From the low-end to the high-end we try out both ends of the Linux hardware spectrum. Wes reviews the latest XPS 13, and Chris shares his thoughts on the Pinebook Pro. Plus a really cool new feature in Linux 5.7, and we get some answers to the recent GNOME patent settlement from the source.Special Guests: Dan Johansen and Drew DeVore.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:snakeware: A free Linux distro with a fully Python userspace GNOME gets big open-source patent win GNOME Patent Suite Update GNOME Foundation post about patent suit resolution Thermal Pressure in the task scheduler A New Kernel Patch Is Being Discussed That’s Needed For Newer Windows Games On Wine PINE64 on Twitter: “Everyone receiving their #PinebookPro laptops. Appears that the factory has left the WiFi privacy switches turned ON. To enable WiFi you’ll need to disengage the privacy switch" Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions Introducing the 2020 XPS 13 Developer Edition — (this one goes to 32!) XPS 13 in the Dell Store Wes' XPS 13 Image Gallery Performance comparison to Lemur Pro Jim’s take on the new XPS 13 Howdy: Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux Feedback: Why not LVM/XFS?

Chris' tale of woe after a recent data loss, and Wes' adventure after he finds a rogue device on his network.Special Guest: Drew DeVore.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:VIMKiller: Exiting VIM is hard; sometimes we need to take drastic measures How to Boot Raspberry Pi 4 From a USB SSD or Flash Drive USB Boot Forum post announcement rpi-eeprom-update usage The default boot mode is now 0xf41 which means continuously try SD then USB mass storage. Raspberry Pi’s firmware master branch on Github Put Btrfs in my Pi Last Night... Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions netdiscover nmap MAC Address Lookup Tool WiFi Analyzer (open-source) - Apps on Google Play WiFiAnalyzer on F-Droid LinSSID - WiFi Analyzer for Linux wavemon: an ncurses-based monitoring application for wireless network devices Your COVID-19 Internet problems might be COVID-19 Wi-Fi problems The Ars Technica semi-scientific guide to Wi-Fi Access Point placement How Ars tests Wi-Fi gear (and you can, too) Jim’s network-testing tools Home router: one option is to build it yourself! FireHOL and FireQoS - Linux firewalling and traffic shaping for humans SuperShaper-SOHO: Packet filtering / QoS setup for typical home/small office Throttle network bandwidth on Linux Dnsmasq - network services for small networks. smokeping vaping: a healthy alternative to SmokePing! speedtest: self-hosted speedtest Self-Hosted Podcast Feedback: A big thank you

Windows is getting more competitive by adopting core Linux features, so we cover the latest Linux-inspired additions to Windows. Then review the new release of Pi-hole, sort through recent PINE64 updates, and read your feedback.Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Drew DeVore, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:WireGuard patchset for OpenBSD Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source Craig Loewen on Twitter: "@satyanadella has just announced that WSL will include GPU compute support, and GUI application support! Get ready for more WSL announces and details today Craig Loewen on Twitter: “@Kiview @thezigpc @cinnamon_msft @satyanadella Our initial prototypes use Wayland” Hayden Barnes on Twitter: “WSL2 is getting GUI support, pass-through GPU support, and a new way to easily install.” Hayden Barnes on Twitter: "More glimpses of GUI support for WSL 2 from @shanselman and @cinnamon_msft DirectX ❤ Linux | DirectX Developer Blog Windows Terminal 1.0 Windows 10 Is Getting Its Own Built-In Package Manager PineTab pre-orders open in late May PineTab running UBPorts with 5.6 kernel and Lima graphics drivers ManjaroBook AMD Ryzen Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! Join us on Telegram Pi-hole v5.0 is here! Inside the Brotherhood of Pi-hole Ad Blockers Linux Mint Success from Zachary Pi Boot question from Kamil Raspberry Pi 4 USB Boot Config Guide for SSD / Flash Drives XPS Feedback Request Pick: multi-boot ISO USB Ventoy: just copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it!

We're blown away by the Enlightenment desktop, and its little known features, and we share a quick way for you to try it out yourself. Plus our experience with Pop!_OS 20.04, Telegram's recent embarrassment, and some feedback.Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Jill Bryant Ryniker.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Jessie Frazelle on Twitter: “You are stranded in a weird shell and you are only allowed to bring three commands, which ones do you choose: Mine -> | (gotta have pipes) awk sed” Ubuntu’s Server Installer Leaked Encrypted Storage Passphrase to Its Log Gnome is Not the Default Telegram annoucnes the discontinuation of blockchain project ELF Libs Updates Check out eLive Beta Elive info from Founder Elive Beta With Enlightenment Is Brilliant, but Don’t Get Lost in the Maze Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar Infinite Escape Room Podcast Infinite Escape Room Podcast on Twitter System76 Blog — What’s New with Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS Jack Wallen’s Take on Pop!_OS 20.04 Tiling and PaperWM from Cris PaperWM Gnome and Tiling from Richard Gamma’s Dotfile Tool git-crypt: Transparent file encryption in git