We rebuild our media stack around Jellyfin 12, survive a major upgrade, and add self-hosted tools that make sharing with family and friends much better.

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• Jupiter Broadcasting: Ultimate Home Theater PT 1 — 17 years ago, Chris Builds the Ultimate Home Theater. Part one goes into using OTA HD and recording it with MyTH.
• Wizarr — Wizarr is a automatic user invitation system for Plex, Jellyfin and Emby. Create a unique link and share it to a user and they will automatically be invited to your media Server! They will even be guided to download the client and instructions on how to use your requests software!
• Seerr — Seerr is a free and open source software application for managing requests for your media library. It integrates with the media server of your choice: Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby. In addition, it integrates with your existing services, such as Sonarr, Radarr.
• Maintainerr — Maintainerr makes managing your media easy. No longer will you have to worry about your precious hard drive space being taken up by media, that isn't even being watched.
• Tracearr — Real-time analytics and intelligent detection for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby. Free, open source, self-hosted via Docker.
• jellarr — Declarative configuration engine for Jellyfin — apply and sync server settings from YAML via the Jellyfin API.
• Jellyfin 12.0
• Release 12.0 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
• Query Performance Improvements by Shadowghost · Pull Request #16062 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
• [Group] Jellyfin 10.11.x performance issues · Issue #15685 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
• State of the Fin 2026-05-24
• Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy
• Scanner Refactoring · jellyfin/jellyfin-meta · Discussion #125 · GitHub
• Jellyfin - Project Leadership Changes — Don't worry, no jellyforks here.
• On My Jellyfin Resignation - Joshua M. Boniface
• Migration fails upgrading from 10.11.11 to 12.0 unstable: UNIQUE constraint failed: Users.NormalizedUsername · Issue #17458 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
• Jellyswarrm: Bring all your Jellyfin servers together — Reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place. If you’ve got libraries spread across different locations or just want everything together, Jellyswarrm makes it easy to access all your media from a single interface.
• Smriti — photos without a server
• ChivukulaVirinchi/photovault — Smriti is offline-first photo library for your drives. No server, no cloud. On-device face recognition, Google Photos Takeout import. Windows/macOS/Linux.
• Commodore - The Future We Were Promised — In 1982, we made computers fun. In 2026, we’re making tech fun again.
• go-vikunja/vikunja: The task manager you actually own.
• Vikunja: The task manager you actually own
• automatic-ripping-machine — Insert an optical disc (Blu-ray, DVD, CD) and checks to see if it's audio, video (Movie or TV), or data, then rips it.
• Ripping Movies Automatically With ARM - YouTube
• OpenMouse — Free, open source mouse configurator
• OpenLogi
• OpenLogi — A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.
• Pick: pelagica — Pelagica is a web, desktop, and TV client for Jellyfin built using React. It aims to provide a fast, modern, and customizable user experience for browsing and watching your media library. It's available as a self-hosted web app, a native desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and a TV app for Samsung Tizen, LG webOS and Apple TV.
• Wails — Build beautiful, performant applications using Go and modern web technologies. One codebase. Three platforms. No browsers.
• Pick: tether — Tether aims to support all of the Apple Continuity features on Linux that are technically possible. If you've migrated away from macOS but still carry an iPhone, Tether provides the missing ecosystem integration.
• Pick: ICSx⁵ — ICSx⁵ is an Android app to subscribe to remote or local iCalendar files (like time tables of your school/university or event files of your sports team).
• ICSx⁵ — ICSx⁵ is an Android app to subscribe to remote (Webcal) or local iCalendar files.

Brent has two hours to build a great website, and the solution he finds feels more like a Linux tool than a modern web framework. Naturally, Wes takes it too far.

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• Covered Bridge Cookies — Our cookies have no trans fats and are made with the best ingredients from Vermont based companies. Butter from Cabot, Chocolate from Barre Callebaut of St Albans, and we always use unbleached and unbromated flour along with natural flavorings. We use small batch production techniques that produce an unmistakable home made taste unlike mass-produced cookies.
• Zola — Your one-stop static site engine. Forget dependencies. Everything you need in one binary.
• gerbrent/brentgervais.ca — Landing page for Brent Gervais, built with Zola
• JB Zola Demo Site
• jupiterbroadcasting.com-zola repo — Weekend speedrun port of the JB site to Zola.
• Zola Documentation
• Zola CLI Usage
• Zola Directory Structure
• Zola Installation
• Zola Search
• Zola GitHub
• Zola Changelog
• WintermuteOS — A personalized declarative desktop built from NixOS, Wayland/Hyprland, and QuickShell.
• SwapMarket — Non-custodial Bitcoin swaps marketplace. Swap between different Bitcoin layers while staying in full control.
• SwapMarket/swapmarket.github.io - GitHub — Decentralized and trustless marketplace for Boltz-compatible Bitcoin swap providers.
• Alby Hub CLI — CLI for managing Alby Hub
• trynix — Boot any package nixpkgs ever shipped, in this tab. Pick a package and a version from 13 years of nixpkgs history; its closure is fetched from cache.nixos.org into an x86_64 Linux virtual machine (QEMU compiled to WebAssembly) and you get a shell with the package on PATH. Nothing runs on a server.
• Any Nix package, live in your browser | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
• fzakaria/trynix: Boot anything nixpkgs ever shipped, in your browser.
• Your executable is a SQLite database | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
• Actually Queryable Executables | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
• hughhowey/neo — A novel-writing tool created by a novelist.
• nives — An AI assistant for Home Assistant that remembers. One add-on, and the memory stays on your own machine.
• nives-omarchy — Talk to your Home Assistant house in plain language, from your Omarchy desktop.
• Pick: OpenMouse — OpenMouse runs entirely in your browser over WebHID — DPI, polling rate, buttons, and RGB, for dozens of gaming mice, with no accounts, no installs, and no telemetry sent anywhere.
• OpenMouse Supported Devices
• Pick: Wallos — Open-Source Personal Subscription Tracker
• Wallos on GitHub — Open-source, self-hostable personal subscription tracker. Visualize your recurring expenses, manage your budget, and save money.

Quickshell is rising, and bringing with it a new wave of customizable Linux desktops, community-built plugins, and serious funding.

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• Caelestia — A fluid, morphing shell for your Linux desktop.
• end-4’s configuration
• Waybar — Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.
• Omacom Foundation to be premier Quickshell sponsor
• Omarchy — — Beautiful, Fun & Opinionated Linux by DHH
• omacom/omarchy - Github
• The first plugin competition winners — Omarchy News
• Omacom Foundation to be exclusive Hyprland sponsor — Omarchy News
• Hyprland — An independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
• hyprwm/Hyprland - GitHub
• omarchy-radio-atlas — Explore live radio on a rotatable globe from the Omarchy bar.
• Home Assistant for Omarchy — Home Assistant Quickshell plugin for Omarchy 4
• syncshell — See sync health, open folders, control the service, and install or update Syncthing from the Omarchy bar.
• syncshell-dms: — Read-only Syncthing monitoring plugin for DankMaterialShell
• Dank Linux — A Modern Desktop for Wayland.
• Dank Linux Docs
• TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.
• Dawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History).
• Immich — High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
• How to get a TomTom API key - TomTom Docs
• FileBrowser Quantum - GitHub
• FileBrowser Quantum — The best free self-hosted web-based file manager with source configuration, modern authentication, office support, and lightning-fast search.
• Open Book Touch — A pocketable, front-lit, open source e-reader — for every book, in every language.
• Pick: dankcalendar — Calendar from the Dank Linux Suite. Local, Google, Microsoft, CalDAV, and iCloud calendars in one standalone app.
• DankCalendar on Flathub
• Pick: Homelable — Visual Homelab Mapper & Monitor
• Homelable — Self-hosted homelab infrastructure visualizer, interactive network diagram with live status monitoring.
• homelable-hacs — Home Assistant integration for Homelable

Syncthing saves the day in an unexpected way, and we dig into what’s new in Linux 7.2.

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• Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Passes Away
• Linux 7.2 Kernel Newbies
• Cache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUs
• Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions
• [REGRESSION] drm/sched: FAIR policy causes serious performance degradation at max GPU load on 9070XT
• reduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating outside the lock — While profiling Meta's caching code, I found pipe->mutex contention on the hot path. anon_pipe_write() currently calls alloc_page() once per page while holding pipe->mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any concurrent reader on the same mutex.
• Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches
• Specially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 Driver
• The beginning of the 7.3 merge window
• Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance
• Linux 7.3 Expected To "Flatten The Pick" For Better Scheduling While Gaming & More
• Linux 7.3 x86/mm Lands Patches To Greatly Improve Latency-Sensitive Workloads
• Sched_ext's Sub-Scheduler Support Now "Feature Complete" With Linux 7.3
• Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x Wins
• Linux 7.3 binfmt_misc To Allow BPF Programs To Dynamically Choose Execution Environments
• Linux 7.3 drops support for two ancient file systems
• Linux 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMs
• Two Very Exciting Memory Management Optimizations Going Into Linux 7.3
• Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes
• Syncthing GitHub
• Rclone — Feature-rich alternative to cloud storage vendors' web storage interfaces.
• LocalComet — A private, local-first Windows AI assistant built and validated with Codex.
• A look at the Quickshell desktop-component toolkit
• MCP-NixOS - Model Context Protocol for NixOS — Because your AI shouldn't hallucinate package names.
• dataiku/kiji-proxy — Privacy proxy for your OpenAI requests
• Rockbox - Free Music Player Firmware
• Pick: ssh-clipboard — Peer-to-peer clipboard sync over SSH. Copy anything on one machine, paste on another. Open source, and Written in Rust ackchyually.

We turn HexStrike’s red team agents loose on our systems, as OpenSSH warns that AI-assisted bug hunting is already changing the security race.

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• TXLF 2026
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• Nix Vegas 2026 Talks
• OpenSSH 10.5 Fixes Security Flaws as Project Responds to AI-Assisted Bug Discovery — OpenSSH 10.5 ships with several security fixes, as developers say growing AI-assisted vulnerability research is prompting more frequent releases.
• openssh.org/txt/release-10.5 — Recently the OpenSSH team have received a large number of security bug reports, many of which are findings from AI models or made with AI assistance. While many AI reports are determined not to have security impact when considered in the context of a realistic threat model, we very much welcome these reports, especially when combined with human triage, analysis, test-cases and particularly when accompanied by proposed fixes.
• OpenAI Talk at Black Hat USA 2026 — The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident - A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AI
• HexStrike AI MCP Agents
• TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.
• topgrade — Upgrade all the things
• magnusoverli/opencode — AI-Powered Configuration Assistant for Home Assistant
• Home Assistant God Mode — YouTube
• cbbs_pi — A vintage CBBS-style bulletin board system emulator for macOS, Linux, Docker and Raspberry Pi.
• Mother Hen App
• rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy - Inside Rust Blog
• Covered Bridge Cookies
• Cluckwork — Poultry farm management — starting with egg-producing layer operations, with architectural headroom for broilers, pullets, breeders, live bird sales, meat products, and hatchery modules.
• Slack Dumper — Save or export your private and public Slack messages, threads, files, and users locally without admin privileges.
• Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym | TechCrunch
• Pick: iDescriptor — Cross-platform, open-source and free idevice management tool written in Rust and Qt.
• iDescriptor on GitHub
• iDescriptor on Flathub
• iDescriptor in Nix Packages
• Pick: KiwiFS — Searchable, structured, versioned markdown. Plug in an agent in 30 seconds — or self-host with a single binary.

An old Linux box powers down for the last time as we unwind its history, and the entire show, back to the beginning.

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• Pick: LAN-Orangutan — LAN Orangutan is a lightweight network scanner with persistent device labeling, multi-network support, and Tailscale integration. Built by 291 Group.
• LAN Orangutan — Lightweight Network Scanner
• Pick: LocalSend — An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop.
• LocalSend on Flathub
• Pick: oxproxion — Android LLM chat interface for OpenRouter models or locally served models using Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, MLX LM or Hermes Agent.
• Cherokee Scout Reservation
• How-To Meshtastic BBS! Off-Grid Email?
• TC2-BBS-mesh — A BBS server for Meshtastic for posting bulletins, sending mail to users, and channel directory.
• herdr — the runtime your coding agents live on

Seven Linux kernels landed in one day. We sort out which belong in your homelab, and trace Linux’s long, occasionally disastrous quest for truly random numbers.

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• Linux 7.2-rc5 announcement
• Linux 7.2 changelog
• Linux 7.1 changelog
• 7.2 merge window
• Btrfs large folios and DIO fix
• strncpy removal
• i486 removal
• Dreamcast fixes
• Cache-aware scheduling
• Fairer GPU scheduler
• NVIDIA 7.2 driver compatibility
• AMD ROCm regression
• Dreamcast vs i486
• Btrfs DIO regression reports
• Technical Deep Dive into the Entropy Issue | COINKITE Blog
• Bitcoin losses linked to Coldcard vulnerability grow to $70 million, Galaxy Research says
• Flowchart of the Linux RNG
• dust — A more intuitive version of du in rust
• Pick: TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.
• Pick: cfait — A fast and powerful, offline-first task manager for your terminal, desktop, and phone.
• Cfait on Flathub
• Cfait on F-Droid

Block’s Buzz is an open, self-hostable workspace for humans, AI agents, chat, and code; and it may be the most Linux-friendly vision for what comes next.

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• Buzz — Your people, your agents, your project — all in one place. — Chat with teammates and specialized agents in one shared space, then move straight into planning, project management, coding, and PRs. Create agents tailored to your workflows, let them collaborate with your team’s agents, and keep the work that used to be scattered across chat, trackers, and dev tools in one place.
• buzz on GitHub
• Feature Request: Support external agent systems (non-ACP) for real-time communication in Buzz communities
• [Bug] Remote Agent Missing from @ Mention Autocomplete Across Machines
• Teknium 🪽 on X: "@jack Hit me up if you want us to submit any PRs or make hermes more compatible with Buzz!"
• feat(agents): add Hermes ACP and external-agent integration by NYTEMODEONLY
• feat(acp): Hermes runtime discovery and durable session load by joelbrilliant
• docs(acp): document Buzz host integration by NYTEMODEONLY
• MeshBBS — Meshbbs revolutionizes communication on mesh networks by bringing the beloved Bulletin Board System experience to Meshtastic devices. Exchange messages, participate in forums, and build communities over long-range, low-power radio networks, all without traditional internet infrastructure.
• Electroverse Map | EV Charging Stations
• Pick: PipeWire Controller — A native GTK4/libadwaita control center for PipeWire

Linus delivers a blunt verdict on AI in the Linux kernel, Chris finds the remote Linux desktop that finally works, and Brent gives his notes system a serious rebuild.

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• Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git with Dirk Hohndel, Founder, DH Consulting - YouTube
• Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off - The Reg
• Re: Linking Patchwork with Sashiko? - Linus Torvalds — AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.
• sashiko — Agentic review of Linux Kernel code changes
• SilverBullet — SilverBullet is a Programmable, Private, Browser-based, Open Source, Self Hosted, Personal Knowledge Database.
• logseq — A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration.
• Big update: Logseq is splitting into two versions
• Logseq public roadmap
• Logseq DB Version Docs
• Logseq DB Version Changes
• Nixbook OS — A set-and-forget modern operating system designed for simplicity, speed, and peace of mind.
• odysseus — A self-hosted AI workspace for chat, agents, research, documents, email, notes, calendar, and local model workflows.
• fwtop — Real-time router/firewall traffic visualizer TUI for Linux (interfaces, conntrack, firewall drops)
• hister — Hister is a private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep. It indexes their full contents so you can find information again from the web interface, terminal, or an AI assistant connected through MCP.
• 3D[S]tageVibes
• Artemis Qt — Artemis Qt is an enhanced cross-platform client for NVIDIA GameStream and Apollo/Sunshine servers. It brings the advanced features from Artemis Android to desktop platforms.
• Apollo — Sunshine fork - The easiest way to stream with the native resolution of your client device.
• RustDesk — Open-Source Remote Desktop with Self-Hosted Server Solutions
• rustdesk - GitHub — An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.
• NoMachine — The fastest and highest quality remote desktop you have ever tried.
• Sunshine — Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight.
• Moonlight PC — GameStream client for PCs (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Steam Link)

Wes' brother's PC is toast, making this the perfect moment to switch him to Linux. If our ambitious plan doesn’t scare him away first.

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• Storyboarder — Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures. Quickly draw to test if a story idea works. Create and show animatics to others. Express your story idea without making a movie.
• MCP-NixOS — Model Context Protocol for NixOS
• Spud Router — An open-source router-on-a-stick that you can manage from a browser, a terminal CLI, or directly from your AI agents
• Le Potato AML-S905X-CC
• MacSurf — A modern web browser for Classic Mac OS 9 PowerPC. Real CSS3, ES5 JavaScript, native HTTPS — built with CodeWarrior on the Carbon API.
• Karpathy's llm-wiki
• Hermes llm-wiki SKILL.md
• camply - the campsite finder ⛺️ — a tool to find campsites at sold out campgrounds through sites like recreation.gov
• Pick: OpenTogetherTube — Enjoy YouTube together. Real-time synchronized playback. Optional voting system. Dark theme. No sign up required. All Open Source. It's never been easier to watch videos together.
• opentogethertube on GitHub
• Pick: TypeType — Privacy-respecting video platform to watch Youtube.
• TypeType on GitHub
• Pick: metube — Self-hosted web UI for yt-dlp, for downloading media from YouTube and dozens of other sites.

The kernel taketh away, so we bringeth back. We build an AppleTalk LAN, ditch TCP/IP, and give a legendary retro network protocol the send-off it deserves.

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• Nix Vegas @ DEF CON 34 CFP — Submissions close on 2026-07-16 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
• Nix Vegas - Extended CFP, and a sneak preview
• Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support
• June 16th 2006 AppleTalk Removed from Kernel — AppleTalk has been removed in MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), in 2009, according to Wikipedia. We recently got a burst of AI generated fixes to this protocol which nobody is reviewing.
• linux-netdev/mod-orphan — Linux networking modules removed from the kernel due to lack of maintenance and high bug count
• Netatalk — Netatalk is a Free and Open Source file server that uses the AFP protocol.
• Basilisk II — Basilisk II is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator.
• MacOS 8: Internet Archive
• Apple, Inc.. Macintosh Classic Desktop Computer. 1989 - MoMA
• ChrisLAS/chooser — chooser is the AirTalk AppleTalk service browser for LINUX Unplugged. It uses TailTalk's userspace AppleTalk stack to run NBP lookups and displays discovered services in a terminal UI inspired by the classic Mac OS Chooser.
• jrouter — Home-grown alternative implementation of Apple Internet Router 3.0
• marchintosh.com/globaltalk.html — GlobalTalk is the nickname we’ve given to the practice of using an ancient Apple Internet Router software package to bridge your local AppleTalk network (of vintage computers and printers) to the global network of the internet and other people’s vintage computers and printers. While nothing is stopping you from using this all year, usage primarily spikes in March for #MARCHintosh.
• bramble — A password manager that keeps your secrets on your own devices. No account, no server holding your vault, no company to get breached and leak everything. You hold the vault, you hold the password, and that's it.
• MeatPi WiCAN Pro: Connect Any Car to Home Assistant! Probably... - YouTube
• La Gendarmerie sous Linux depuis 17 ans : les leçons à en tirer - Supersonique Studio SARL
• Qu'est-ce que NixOS, la distribution Linux que l'État pourrait utiliser ?
• adelolmo/hd-idle — Hard Disk Idle Spin-Down Utility
• Gentleman-Programming/engram — Persistent memory system for AI coding agents. Agent-agnostic Go binary with SQLite + FTS5, MCP server, HTTP API, CLI, and TUI.
• distributed-llama: Distributed LLM inference. — Connect home devices into a powerful cluster to accelerate LLM inference. More devices means faster inference.
• MacPick: Morph — Morph, from Gryphon Software was the first commercial morphing program for PCs. With this program you specify related points between two images and the software will morph the two images together at different levels. The program can export the results to a movie file.
• WinWorld: Gryphon Morph 1.00
• MacPick: LegacyAI from Manticore Software — ChatGPT for vintage 68k, PowerPC, and Intel Macs
• MacPick: Dark Castle — Dark Castle is a platform game where a young hero named Duncan tries to make his way to the evil Black Knight, dodging objects as well as solving occasional puzzles.
• MacPick: CrystalQuest — The first color game for the Macintosh, in which the player controls a small, circular spaceship which must travel around the screen collecting crystals.
• Pick: mcp-beam — mcp-beam is a MCP server (stdio transport) for casting local files and media URLs to Chromecast and DLNA/UPnP devices on your LAN.
• Pick: Go2TV — Media Casting Made Easy