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Weekly Linux talk show with no script, no limits, surprise guests and tons of opinion.

1 hour 24 minutes

644: The People's Filesystem
Kent Overstreet joins us for a full update on bcachefs. What's new, what's next, and the surprising upside of getting kicked out of the kernel.
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- bcachefs 1.33.0
- Bcachefs Ready With Its Reconcile Feature As Biggest Change In Two Years — "Biggest new feature in the past ~2 years, I believe. The user facing stuff may be short and sweet - but so much going on under the hood to make all this smooth and polished."
- Kent Overstreet - Patreon
- bcachefs — A copy-on-write (COW) file system for Linux first announced by Kent Overstreet in 2015. It is intended to compete with the modern features of ZFS or Btrfs.
- LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later — Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.
- Git or not a Git man page?
- proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS
- Pick: Dotfiles Installer — Install dotfiles easy, fast and secure. Or provide an installation application for your dotfiles.
- ML4W Dotfiles Installer Wiki
- dotfiles-installer: GitHub
- Pick: SSH-Studio — Easy, GUI SSH config editor and validator built with Python, GTK 4 and libadwaita.
- LubeLogger, Vehicle Maintenance and Fuel Mileage Tracker, slips into December with some banging new features
8 December 2025, 12:09 am
1 hour 31 minutes

643: The Sunday Soapbox
We pull on a few loose threads from recent episodes, and some of them unravel into way more than we expected.
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- Jellyswarrm — Bring all your Jellyfin servers together
- LiveTV support · Issue #9 · LLukas22/Jellyswarrm
- pangolin — Identity-Aware Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Dashboard UI.
- Pangolin | Secure Access Platform
- NixOS Search - Options - Pangolin
- Youtarr — Self-hosted web app that automates downloading, organizing, and scheduling YouTube channel content with support for Plex, Kodi, Emby and Jellyfin
- Add ability to set subfolder for manual downloads · Issue #287 · DialmasterOrg/Youtarr
- Dawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)
- dawarich CHANGELOG.md
- CVE-2025-40090 | Ubuntu — Since commit 305853cce3794 ksmbd_session_rpc_method() attempts to lock sess->rpc_lock. This causes hung connections / tasks when a client attempts to open a named pipe.
- SMB3 & KSMBD See Performance Improvements With Linux 6.18 — KSMBD also now adds a max IP connections parameter to optionally limit the maximum number of connections permitted per IP address.
- ksmbd vulnerability research · Doyensec's Blog
- ksmbd - Fuzzing Improvements and Vulnerability Discovery (2/3)
- ksmbd - Exploiting CVE-2025-37947 (3/3)
- doyensec's KSMBD-CVE-2025-37947 PoC
- GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance
- GrapheneOS exits France — what it means for encryption
- France's Encryption War Escalates: GrapheneOS Exodus Signals Dangerous Precedent for Open Source Privacy Tech
- Seems like the GrapheneOS phone collab may be with Motorolla.
- Rust For Linux Kernel Co-Maintainer Formally Steps Down
- Bcachefs Ousted from Mainline Kernel: The Move to DKMS and What It Means
- Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” Strategies
- Richard Hipp - Git: Just Say No - YouTube
- 2011 SouthEast LinuxFest - Richard Hipp - Fossilize Your Code - YouTube
- Pick: Gopher64 — Highly compatible N64 emulator.
- Gopher64 — simple64's official and spiritual successor - Libretro — It’s made by the same developer(s). Unlike simple64 however, it’s not based entirely on Mupen64Plus. And it’s aiming for a more LowSpec hardware overhang.
- Install Gopher64 on Linux | Flathub
1 December 2025, 1:45 am
56 minutes 17 seconds

642: Tunneling Home for the Holidays
Chris cooked up a wild remote-access trick for Jellyfin that skips VPNs entirely. One tiny toggle spins up a secure tunnel on demand. Simple, absurd, and shockingly effective.
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- ngrok — Go from code to global in just minutes with a developer-friendly, idiomatic solution for managing traffic to your APIs.
- Jellyswarrm — Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place.
- Sveske-Juice/declarative-jellyfin — This repository provides a Nix flake that allows for declarative configuration of Users, Libraries, Plugins, Settings, etc. Jellyfin 10.11 is NOT SUPPORTED.
- declarative-jellyfin full example
- Zigl3ur/jellyhub — JellyHub is a web app that allow you to fetch media from all of your jellyfin servers and regroup it in one place, so there is one place to search for specific media and tells you on wich server the desired media is located.
- Smiley-McSmiles/jellyman — Jellyman is a lightweight BASH CLI tool for installing and managing Jellyfin. As well as create a full backup (automatically or manually) so you can move or import all your metadata and user information to another machine.
- LSchallot/JellyRoller — JellyRoller is an open source CLI Jellyfin Controller written in Rust that works on Windows and Linux. Its primary purpose is to allow administration of a Jellyfin application from the command line.
- kjtsune/embyToLocalPlayer — etlp (embyToLocalPlayer) is a tool that lets Emby, Jellyfin, and Plex play videos using your local media players (like mpv or VLC) instead of the built-in web player, while optionally sending playback progress back to the server.
- Pick: subgen — Autogenerate subtitles using OpenAI Whisper Model via Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, Tautulli, or Bazarr.
24 November 2025, 3:00 am
1 hour 10 minutes

641: Something New, Something Old
We dig into the biggest Linux hardware news of the year, then fire up our new-to-us 1L PC server.
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- Download DNClient Desktop from Defined Networking
- OLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and Expo
- Registration - OLF Conference
- Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS
- Steam Controller — Steam Controller shares DNA with Steam Deck, with all the inputs to play all the games on Steam, wherever Steam is.
- Steam Machine — Made for powerful, versatile PC gaming on a big screen; quiet and small enough to fit under your TV, on your desk, or anywhere else you want to game. (It's a roughly 6-inch (160mm) cube!)
- Steam Frame — Comfortable, wireless, lightweight VR designed to give you a new way to experience your entire Steam library
- “The Steam machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home.”
- Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam Machine
- FEX-Emu/FEX: A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux
- FEX 2511 Delivers More Performance Improvements For Linux x86 Binaries On ARM64
- Commits · FEX-Emu/FEX · GitHub
- PLF10 Smart Plug – Kaufman Home Automation
- Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1
- About Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 — Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 is the new name for Home Assistant SkyConnect. Despite the new name and look, they have the exact same hardware, capability, and support.
- libvirt: The virtualization API
- libvirt - ArchWiki — Libvirt is a collection of software that provides a convenient way to manage virtual machines and other virtualization functionality, such as storage and network interface management. These software pieces include a long term stable C API, a daemon (libvirtd), and a command line utility (virsh).
- Category:Virtualization - NixOS Wiki
- Virt-manager - NixOS Wiki
- Libvirt - NixOS Wiki
- Pick: easyeffects — Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
- EasyEffects 8.0 Released In Porting From GTK4 To Qt / QML / Kirigami
- Easy Effects on Flathub
- Marcel Repo Email
17 November 2025, 1:00 am
1 hour 40 minutes

640: Duece Configalo: Desktop Gigolo
We dive into your configs, the genius moves, the glorious blunders, and everything in between.
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- LINUX Unplugged 634: Config Confessions
- yechielw/dots — Nixos and home-manager config
- Shayne's budget Flake
- Shayne's Budget Packages
- Shayne's Budget Configuration.nix
- Chris' Budget Flake Fix
- Millak/guix-config: mirror of my guix configs
- Millak/my-guix: local guix packages
- efraim-home: Add mpv-sponsorblock-minimal-conf.d
- Distrostu's configs
- Distrostu's M Series Config
- Oly Mike's Nixbook
- writeShellApplication - Nix function reference
- writeShellApplication - Nixpkgs Manual — writeShellApplication is similar to writeShellScriptBin and writeScriptBin but supports runtime dependencies with runtimeInputs.
- rwiankowski/homeserver-nixos — My Home Server Setup using a single NixOS node
- Brandon's Homelab
- Brandon's Mac
- Brandon's brew defined by Nix
- Brandon's Mac Apps installed via Nix
- BeardedTek/nixos-router: NixOS Router Configuration — A declarative NixOS configuration that transforms a standard PC into a full-featured network router with integrated secrets management.
- blocky: DNS proxy and ad-blocker
- Deidrael/nix-config: My NixOS Config
- FuzzyMistborn/infra — 100% chance of id10t errors....and a slight chance of a credential leak
- william/nix-config: All my nix stuff, in a single flake
- Pick: SoltrOS — Immutable Linux designed for gaming & development
- Pick: Parabolic — A powerful yt-dlp frontend.
- Pick: Youtarr — Youtarr is a self-hosted YouTube DVR that lets you subscribe to channels, browse their videos in a web UI, and automatically download and archive the ones you care about to your own storage.
10 November 2025, 2:30 am
1 hour 1 minute

639: The Mess Machine
After all the AI hype is over, one change for Linux will be sticking around; we put it to the test.
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- SeaGL 2025 — November 7-8, 2025 in Seattle, WA
- LinuxFest Northwest
- LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for Speakers
- SCALE 23x - Southern California Linux Expo — North America's largest community-run open source conference. Pasadena, CA - March 5-8, 2026
- SCALE - Call for Presentations
- Planet Nix '26 — March 5th-6th, 2026 @ Pasadena, CA
- Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals
- LINUX Unplugged 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?
- Red Hat eyes developer workflow efficiency, app modernization gains with new AI tools — An AI assistant specifically designed for application migration and modernization looks to reduce developer toil
- SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 Announced: "Enterprise Linux That Integrates Agentic AI" — SUSE's announcement today for SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 proclaims SLES 16 to be "the industry's first enterprise Linux that integrates agenetic AI" and "reduces operational costs and complexity through AI readiness."
- openSUSE on Hugging Face
- ChrisLAS/hyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.
- Pull requests - ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
- feat: add comprehensive sops-nix integration by shift · PR #15 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
- Add options for username, group, home directory by samh · PR #8 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
- Create variables for user and home dir by F-bit818 · PR #5 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
- LM Studio - Local AI on your computer
- Zed — The editor for what's next
- Cursor: The best way to code with AI
- Nixbook — Convert your old computer to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.
- nixbook/base.nix — Roast my Nix: Not-a-flake edition!
- Jupiter Broadcasting's Colony Events
- Pick: duf — Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative.
- Pick: cheat.sh — the only cheat sheet you need.
3 November 2025, 12:30 am
1 hour 4 minutes

638: The Distro Everyone Should Copy
Fedora 43 arrives with polish, new spins, and a smarter installer; and one decision the rest of the Linux world should pay attention to.
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- nebula-lighthouse-service
- nebula-lighthouse-service: init at 2.0.0 by bloominstrong · Pull Request #454855 · NixOS/nixpkgs — nebula-lighthouse-service is aimed to be run a a public nebula lighthouse for those who cannot host their own, or who want extra lighthouses without the burden of maintaining another lighthouse.
- Fedora Linux 43 Cleared For Release Next Week — While Fedora 43 wasn't ready for release this week due to outstanding blocker bugs, at today's Go/No-Go meeting it was decided that Fedora 43 is now in a position for shipping next week.
- Velocity Limitless / Projects / Slitherer · GitLab
- Fedora 43 Wallpaper Wrap-Up – Fedora Community Blog
- Fedora COSMIC Spin
- Plasma 6.5 - Reaching the Inflection Point
- [Fedora KDE] Early Plasma 6.5.0 - Fedora Discussion — With Fedora 43 being a go, we will be doing an update on repos towards the middle to end of next week that will bring Qt 6.10 and Plasma 6.5.1 to F43, and Plasma 6.5.1 (Most likely, plans are not 100% final in that regard) to F42. That will bring the update to the usual architectures, such as aarch64.
- Pick: Millisecond — Optimize your Linux system for low latency audio
- Millisecond on Flathub
- noblepayne/millisecond-flake
- rtcqs — rtcqs is a Python utility to analyze your system and detect possible bottlenecks that could have a negative impact on the performance of your system when working with Linux audio
- How do I get an out-of-the-box working Linux audio workstation? - LinuxAudio.org
- Pick: lemurs 🐒 — A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust
27 October 2025, 1:15 am
58 minutes 25 seconds

637: Chris' Smart Home Disaster
The biggest failure in seven years, right before a trip. What broke, how Chris pulled it back together, and how Wes would fix it right.
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- Home Assistant Community Add-on: SSH & Web Terminal
- HomeAssistent Yellow: EmberZNet Zigbee: failed to flash firmware · Issue #146293
- HA Yellow/Zigbee Issue - Home Assistant Community
- Home Assistant Yellow Radio firmware - Home Assistant Community
- Home Assistant on X: "⚠️ WE'RE ENDING PRODUCTION OF THE HOME ASSISTANT YELLOW ⚠️
- Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q 10T7 Tiny Desktop
- Dell OptiPlex 3070 Desktop Computer
- Beelink Mini S13 Pro Mini PC,13 Generation Intel N150
- Minisforum MS-01 Work Station
- Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2
- Home Assistant - NixOS Wiki
- home-assistant/component-packages.nix at nixos-25.05
- Pick: Hexecute 🪄 — Launch apps by casting spells!
- Pick: Lenspect
- Lenspect on Flathub — A lightweight security threat scanner intended to make malware detection more accessible and efficient.
19 October 2025, 11:00 pm
1 hour 27 minutes

636: Engineering the Future
We're back from Texas just in time to chat with Jon Seager, Canonical's VP of Engineering, and their new era with Ubuntu 25.10. On the way, we visit System76 in Denver where the COSMIC team has surprises waiting for us.
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- 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
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- COSMIC — Next generation Cosmic desktop environment. Use it on your favorite distro!
- System76 — Powerful Linux computers designed by nerds, engineered by experts, handcrafted by humans in the US.
- GitHub - pop-os/cosmic-epoch: Next generation Cosmic desktop environment
- GitHub - pop-os/cosmic-applets: WIP applets for cosmic-panel
- Pop!_OS 24.04 (with COSMIC Desktop) Just Hit Beta - OMG! Ubuntu
- Canonical releases Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka
- Ubuntu Engineering in 2025: A Retrospective · Jon Seager
- Ubuntu 25.10 Fix Pending For Broken Flatpak Support - Phoronix
- LINUX Unplugged 634: Config Confessions
- Hybrid Pick: ncspot
- Pick: poop (Performance Optimizer Observation Platform) — This command line tool uses Linux's perf_event_open functionality to compare the performance of multiple commands with a colorful terminal user interface.
- sharkdp/hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool
13 October 2025, 1:45 am
1 hour 30 minutes

635: The Texas Linux Fest Special
Our cross-continent race to Texas Linux Fest culminates into fantastic meat, meetups, and more.
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6 October 2025, 2:25 am
1 hour 30 minutes

634: Config Confessions
From finely tuned to total config carnage. We review listener homelabs to share what works, and what really doesn't.
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- Texas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TX
- Texas Linux Festival Trip Support (Fake boost)
- JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Meetup.com — Saturday, Oct 4 - 12:00 AM to 01:30 PM CDT
- JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony Events
- Turnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TX
- Dawarich — Automatically track your daily life with Dawarich. Never forget where you went or what you did. Relive your memories with precise location data.
- LINUX Unplugged 614: Self-Hosted Location Tracking
- Dawarich API Docs
- AlbinLind/dawarich-api — A python wrapper for Dawarich
- Texas Tracker — Real-time distance tracking and movement visualization
- JupiterBroadcasting/texastracker: — A static website that tracks our trip to Texas Linux Festival 2025.
- bitchat
- A Guide To bitchat version 1.2-1.3 : r/bitchat
- Geohash Converter - Find and visualize your Geohash
- Overland GPS Tracker on the App Store
- gpslogger: :satellite: Lightweight GPS Logging Application For Android.
- Zakk's (2kOS) nix config
- NotAShelf/nvf: Modular, extensible and distro-agnostic Neovim configuration framework for Nix/NixOS
- suderman's nixos — system configurations & dotfiles
- NixOS impermanence — Lets you choose what files and directories you want to keep between reboots - the rest are thrown away.
- numtide/blueprint: Standard folder structure for Nix projects — blueprint is an opinionated library that maps a standard folder structure to flake outputs, allowing you to divide up your flake into individual files across these folders. This allows you to modularize and isolate these files so that they can be maintained individually and even shared across multiple projects.
- gmodena/nix-flatpak — Install flatpaks declaratively
- Adam's (A Manzer) nix-config
- Prowlarr
- nzbhydra2: Usenet meta search
- Kieran dots
- Fortyduex's nix config
- Fortydeux's Firewire
- Brad's nix config
- Brad's SMB
- Monty's Ansible
- Monty's Nix
- Monty's NXC
- ChrisLAS/hyprvibe: A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.
- Namespace nixosModules options under "hyprvibe" to avoid potential collisions - hyprvibe Issue #10
- Pick: vtunnel — vTunnel is a tool that proxies IP traffic between guest and host networks by using the VSOCK protocol.
- Pick: Tab-Session-Manager — WebExtensions for restoring and saving window / tab states
29 September 2025, 12:30 am
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