Our first look at KDE Linux, then Chris shares the latest on Hyprvibe, while Wes braves his first install.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
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.
Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.
Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMnebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.Nebula - Apps on Google PlayTexas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TXJB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party, Sat Oct 4 - Meetup.comJB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony EventsTurnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TXbitchat — bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over bluetooth mesh networks.Texas Linux Festival Trip Support (Fake boost)Jupiter Broadcasting Garage - New swag available!KDE LinuxKDE Linux - KDE Community WikiAnnouncing the Alpha release of KDE LinuxGitHub - ChrisLAS/hyprvibe: A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.Hyprland 0.51 dropped! — The gesture system has been reworked and is now way more flexible.Nixtcloud: Self-Hosted Cloud in One Command — Nextcloud with NixOS in the backend and P2P connectivity enabledholesail-nix: Holesail package for the Nix package manager — A comprehensive Nix package and NixOS module collection for Holesail - the peer-to-peer tunnel that lets you create instant, secure connections between devices without port forwarding or exposing ports.Pick: lazyssh — A terminal-based SSH manager inspired by lazydocker and k9s — but built for managing your fleet of servers directly from your terminal.Pick: term.everything — Run every GUI app in the terminal!
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631: Offline By Default
Chris managed to turn low bandwidth into a lifestyle, and curated a batch of self-hosted apps that make near-offline living possible.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
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.
Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.
Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMTexas Linux Festival 2025Support our Texas Linux Fest Trip with PayPal, Venmo, On-Chain, or LightningPinchflat — Your next YouTube media managerErsatzTV — ErsatzTV lets you transform your media library into a personalized, live TV experience—complete with EPG, channel scheduling, and seamless streaming to all your devices.Wes' ErsatzTV Flake — A Nix package and NixOS module for ErsatzTVKarakeep — Quickly save links, notes, and images and karakeep will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval. Built for the data hoarders out there!lup-0631 NixOS ConfigHome Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.Immich — Self-hosted photo and video management solutionJellyfin — The Free Software Media Systemaudiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast serverPaperless-ngx — Paperless-ngx is a community-supported open-source document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper.PaperlessPaperless-ngBrother ADS-1800WGenius ScanQuickScan iOS scanner with OCRswift-paperlesspaperless-ai — An automated document analyzer for Paperless-ngx using OpenAI API, Ollama, Deepseek-r1, Azure and all OpenAI API compatible Services to automatically analyze and tag your documents.iPod parts from Elite Obsolete ElectronicsPick: Rustnet — A high-performance, cross-platform network monitoring tool built with Rust. RustNet provides real-time visibility into network connections with enhanced state display, intelligent connection lifecycle management, deep packet inspection capabilities, and a responsive terminal user interface.
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630: Google's Garden Lockdown
Google's sideloading lockdown has us pushing Wes' Pixel further than Google ever dreamed.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
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.
Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.
Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMDECbot/nebula-cert-maker: Simple yaml and python script to create certificates for your Nebula Mesh VPN — The Nebula Cert Maker will create a new Nebula CA certificates and then generate and sign certificates for all hosts in the host list.Texas Linux Festival 2025JB TXLF Matrix RoomJupiter Broadcasting GarageLinus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs As Now "Externally Maintained" — Linus Torvalds updated the maintainers file for Bcachefs and now reflects its upstream state as "externally maintained" rather than "supported".Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year — Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it's a certified device.Android Developers Blog: A new layer of security for certified Android devicesAndroid developer verificationnixos-avf: NixOS for Android Terminal — This profile contains the necesarry services and kernel configs to get it running under the Terminal appnixos-avf-image-app releasesNixOS VM on my phone lol (Android Virtualization Framework) - NixOS DiscourseSetup SSH and Tailscale on Android 15 Linux Terminal Appdroid-nixos — NixOS VM on the Android "Terminal" appttyd: Share your terminal over the webIntroduction - Book of crosvmcrosvm: The Chrome OS Virtual Machine MonitorAndroid 16 New Feature Terminal (Debian 12) Actual Test: Network Configuration and Software Installation💻 How to Install Android 16 Linux Terminal with GUI Mode on Your Android Phone Step-by-Step GuideHands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!Android 16 Terminal Debian GUI Access Tool — This script is specifically designed for terminal environments on Android 16 systems, enabling quick configuration of graphical interface access for Debian 12. After configuration, you can access the native Debian 12 GUI environment within the Android terminal from your PC through the following stepswansview 2K Security Cameras Wireless — Outdoor-2.4G WiFi Home Security Cameras via Remote Control with Phone APP for 360º View, Color Night Vision, 24/7 SD Card Storage.Thingino — Open-source Firmware for Ingenic SoC IP Cameras.themactep/thingino-firmware: Open-source firmware for Ingenic SoC IP cameraspaperless-upload-thunderbird — Add-On for Thunderbird to upload PDF directly to paperless-ngxdistrostu's nix configFlameshot — Open source screenshot softwareHyprshot — A utility to easily take screenshots in HyprlandblendOS — Arch Linux made declarative, immutable and atomicFrigate NVR — Frigate is an open source NVR built around real-time AI object detection. All processing is performed locally on your own hardware, and your camera feeds never leave your home.Pick: Kvaesitso — A search-focused, free and open source launcher for AndroidJonas Hietala: I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS — I use the Kvaesitso launcher.
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629: Arch Enemies
Arch is under fire, two weeks and counting. We'll break down the mess, and share a quick fix. Plus, the killer new apps we've just added to our homelabs.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
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.
Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.
Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMnebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.Frigate NVRCoral USB Accelerator: ML Accelerator, USB 3.0 Type-CArch Linux - News: Recent service outagesArch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two — For now, the Arch team is working to mitigate the attack's impact, which highlights a bootstrapping issue. Tools designed to shift traffic to mirrors in the event the main infrastructure is unavailable rely on a mirror list obtained from that same main infrastructure.DHH on X — "Omarchy 2.0 release might have to wait a little longer. The AUR DDoS attack has picked back up, but the upside is that we're building in all sorts of resilience for the installer to deal with the assault! And meanwhile, we'll build a complete Omarchy package mirror for all.DHH on X — "We're pulling AUR out of the Omarchy install hotpath. It's an incredible resource, but we actually only need a handful of packages for the initial setup, and we can just host those ourselves. AUR really needs a new mirror strategy to avoid this predicament."Arch Linux continues to feel the force of a DDoS attack after two brutal weeks — attackers yet to be identified as project struggles to restore full serviceArch Linux Status PageArch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfacesaurpublish — PKGBUILD management framework for the Arch User Repositorysalvador — salvador is a bash script that will help you maintain your AUR packages.archlinux/aurweb — Hosting platform for the Arch User Repository (AUR), a collection of packaging scripts created by the Arch Linux communityTaskTrove — Self-hostable task managment that respect your privacy.shuthost — A neat little helper that manages the standby state of unix hosts with Wake-On-Lan configured, with Web-GUI.Closing the Digital Divide: Q&A with Local Computer Upcycler Mike Kellymkellyxp/nixbook — Convert your old computer (even chromebook) to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.CachyOS — Blazingly Fast OS based on Arch LinuxMOES Wireless Smart Scene Switch ButtonMinoston 800 Series Z-Wave Scene Controller, 4 ZWave ButtonBrent hates ricing PCs • Clip by @genebeanadd master branch nixpkgs overlay · nikolarobottesla/infra-nix-configPick: WakeMyPotato — Restart a Linux server made of a potato laptop after power outagesPick: spectacle-ocr-screenshot — A simple utility to automatically extract text from spectacle on plasma desktopsPick: spectacle-ocr — Add OCR functionality to Spectacle
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628: Don't Call it a Christro
When personalities clash, the users come last. Meanwhile, Chris' hyper-tuned setup stops being a toy and starts looking like a daily driver.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
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.
Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.
Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMToronto Meetup - JB Colony EventsLinux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash — A large and unfortunate mistake in the kernel development management process is underway.Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs changes for 6.17 - Josef BacikUbuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept — Ubuntu is testing "Dangerous" Desktop Images, daily builds with all Snaps pulled from the edge channel.Ubuntu 25.10 Will Ship With Linux 6.17 Even If It Means An Unstable "-rc" Kernelsyncthing 2.0 Released! — This is the first release of the new 2.0 series. Expect some rough edges and keep a sense of adventure! 🙏Z-Wave is not dead - Home Assistant — TL;DR: Z-Wave is alive and well, partly due to a strong community that is building new open-source resources.Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 — The ultimate way to connect Z-Wave devices to Home Assistant.Z-Wave reborn - Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 Reveal Promo - YouTubeHyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOSKeybinds Reverting to older config? · Hyprvibe Issue #2Errors at the top of the screen · Hyprvibe Issue #3Quinn's NixOS Setup: The FormatterQuinn's NixOS Setup: The HomeQuinn's NixOS Setup: The SharedQuinn's NixOS Setup: The HostsLibreNMS — A fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support. LibreNMS is a fork of Observium.Observium — Observium is a network monitoring and management platform that provides real-time insight into network health and performance.Shift Systems / ShiftMon · GitLab — An open source monitoring and logging tool based on Ansible, Telegraf, Grafana, and a bunch of other toolssst/opencode — AI coding agent, built for the terminal.Lightning Grows Up | This Week In Bitcoin 68flatpak/xdg-native-messaging-proxyNativeMessaging portal for sandboxed browsers · flatpak Issue #655Pick: papra — The minimalistic document archiving platform.Papra - DemoPick: lue — Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-SpeechPick: wlgblock — This project replaces the usual password screen with a Gameboy emulator running a patched Pokémon game!
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