584: Captain Meshtastic and the Solar Cowboy

Fedora 41 is here! We break down the best new features, then branch out for a three-way spin showdown. Which flavor will come out on top?Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with StrikeFlock 2024 Introducing Fedora Miracle, a proposed Fedora spin built on Mir - YouTubemiracle-wm-org/miracle-wm — Miracle is a Wayland tiling window manager built on Mirmiracle-wmmiracle-wm wikiRoadmap - miracle-wm wikinwg-piotr/nwg-shell — Installer & meta-package for the nwg-shell project: a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositorsnwg-shell - a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositorsfast fedora 41 mirrorWhat’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 41 - Siosm’s blog — With Fedora 41, we are now building two new unofficial images: Kinoite Mobile and COSMIC Atomic. They join our other unofficial images: XFCE Atomic and LXQt Atomic.bootupd changebootupd GitHubcontainers/bootc — Boot and upgrade via container imagesIntroduction - bootc docsModifying Kernel Arguments :: Fedora DocsGetting Started with Bootable Containers :: Fedora DocsBooting local builds - bootc docsfedora-ostree-desktops RegistryAnnual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!asahi-audio - Fedora PackagesAsahiLinux/asahi-audio: Userspace audio for Asahi Linux — PipeWire and WirePlumber DSP profiles and configurations tod rive the speaker arrays in Apple Silicon laptops and desktops.AAA gaming on Asahi Linux — We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL 3.0.FEXWineDXVKvkd3d-protonmuvmholesaileikosiena's nixtcloudFOSSCOMMEmerald Coast Linux User GroupFedora Media WriterFedoraQt/MediaWriter — A tool to create a live USB drive with an edition of FedoraPreparing Boot Media - Fedora DocsGDM SettingsGDM Settings Web Site — Customize your login screenWeb Appseyekay/webapps source — Install websites as desktop apps, so that they appear in their own windows separate from any browsers installed. This is similar to the "Install as App" feature found in popular web browsers.

We're hot-swapping our rigs to Fedora 41; then Graham Christensen gives us the inside scoop on a new Nix distribution, and Determinate Systems' big week!Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMdracut-loopbackReboot Linux faster using kexecLinux.com :: Reboot like a racecar with kexecLinux 3.14 To Support EFI Kexec CapabilityByteDance Working To Make It Faster Kexec Booting The Linux KernelDefeating Secure Boot With Linux KexecGoogle Engineers Get Windows Booting When Kexec'ed Under LinuxThe Future is Nix — Today, we still find ourselves sitting on the most powerful technology of our lifetimes and we can’t even decide on small steps in the direction of making it easier for folks to adopt it.The future of software is Nix. — Today, we still find ourselves sitting on the most powerful technology of our lifetimes and we can’t even decide on small steps in the direction of making it easier for folks to adopt it.Announcing Determinate NixDeterminate Nix documentation — With Determinate Nix, our goal is to transform Nix from what it is today—a tool with great potential but with too many hard edges to be ready for prime timeIntroducing Determinate - YouTubeNix at work: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes — Today, we’re delighted to announce a new chapter for FlakeHub with the general availability of two new features: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes.Graham Christensen on X — Yesterday at work we launched a binary cache that goes beyond bytes in a bucket. This launch means you can deploy to brand new cloud environments with two lines of userdata:Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!lobe-chat — an open-source, modern-design AI chat framework. Supports Multi AI ProvidersDnote: A Simple Command Line Notebookplastic — NES emulator in rust with egui and TUIcool-retro-term: A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...plastic-flake

Wes got Mom a new Linux laptop, and he lets her pick the distro. Plus, we take a look at the new Ubuntu 24.10, and why we think this release might be a good sign for the future.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMUbuntu 24.10 - Oracular OrioleUbuntu UnityAMD Framework 13Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!imagegenius/docker-immich — Monolithic (Single) Docker Container for Immichrramiachraf/dumb — Private alternative front-end for Genius.qdm12/gluetun: — VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in.SCaLE 22X Call for PapersSCaLE CFP Feedback Livestreamcli-ai — A simple command-line AI assistant that translates natural language into shell commands. Supports all Windows and Unix-based systems (Linux, MacOS).

After building nodes, climbing roofs, swapping antennas, and even some war driving, it's time for our Meshtastic deep dive!Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMMeshtastic — An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devicesBitcoin Vets: Establish communications via meshtastic & ham radio networkMeshtastic in the air — Avery Airfield in Spruce Pine which is running air delivery of critical supplies to HLZs in the AO is now equipping flights with Meshtastic airborne nodes which significantly increases coverage of vital communications.Heltec V327100 Cell holderMPPT Solar Charge controller for 1S cells25 Watt Solar PanelsProject BoxPole MountsProgrammable GPSPreferred 27100 Cells2nd choice 21700 CellsTdeckGPSBattery3D printed case filesScrew inserts for casem2 screw kit, nice to have for these kind of projects (threaded for inserts above)5 dbi antenna2 dbi antenna5.8 dbi antennaSMA - RPSMA adapters if needed12' SMA cableWiseblock RAKHundreds Weigh in on FCC NextNav Petition for 900 MHz Band Change — At issue is a NextNav petition filed in April to the FCC to expand the power level, bandwidth and priority of its licenses in the 902 to 907 and 918 to 928 MHz bands in the United States—a band currently in use by UHF RFID, Z-Wave, Zigbee, LoRa and numerous other wireless technologies. Additionally, NextNav proposes to use 5G connectivity over the relatively low bandwidth.Consumer Choice Center submits FCC comments to protect radio frequency for open-source projects and amateur radiomeshbbs — This is a BBS project to run on a meshtastic node. The system allows for message handling, bulletin boards, mail systems, and a channel directory.nostrastic — Bridge to publish Nostr posts and send/receive DMs over LoRa using Meshtastic.Home Assistant and Meshtastic — On this page, we'll guide you through the process of creating Meshtastic MQTT sensor entities within Home Assistant. Whether you want to keep an eye on battery levels, environmental conditions, or even receive notifications from your mesh network, these integrations provide you with the tools to make it happen.T-Watch S3awesome-meshtastic — A curated list of amazingly awesome Meshtastic resourcesMeshMap - Meshtastic Node MapMeshtastic Routing Issues & Deployment Scenarios - YouTubeAnnual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Nix-ld: A clean solution for issues with pre-compiled executables on NixOSnix-ld on GitHubDIYmall 2 Sets 915MHZ ESP32 Lora V3 WiFi+BLE Development Board — WiFi LoRa 32 is a classic IoT dev-board. The newly launched V3 version retains Wi-Fi, BLE, LoRa, OLED display, and other functionsLILYGO T-Echo Meshtastic LoRa SX1262 — NRF52840 module, SX1262 wireless transceiver BME280 temperature pressure sensor, GPS RTC, NFC, LoRa

Wes gives his shell superpowers to solve a tricky problem. Then, we share an update on our favorite Google Photos alternative, including breaking changes and a great new way to run it.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMbda in the Nix Nerds Matrix Chat with Python WoesInstall a couple of Python packages : r/NixOSAnyone using python UV on NixOS? : r/NixOSdevenv — Fast, Declarative, Reproducible and Composable Developer Environments using Nixdevenn's direnv integrationPOLL: Do you use any tools to "move between machines"?Immich Release v1.117.0NixOS Immich ModuleImmich Nix Packageimmich-machine-learning.nixLINUX Unplugged 476: Canary in the Photo MineLINUX Unplugged 409: Launch Your Memories Into the FutureAnnual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Meshtastic Matrix Chatroom — Chatastic for Meshtastic.nixy — Nixy is a Hyprland NixOS configuration with home-manager, secrets and custom theming all in one place. It's a simple way to manage your system configuration and dotfiles.I'm not sure if Jeff can be called a ProducerSeattle GNU/Linux ConferenceDistroStu's Computer Keyboards! Talk on YouTubeNix from First Principles: Flake Edition — This guide is a beginner's guide to Nix and related tooling, focusing on the newer nix command, and flake.nix compared to older tools like nix-env and default.nix. It does not require any prior Nix knowledge, and instead builds up the Flake based world from first principles, so that it can serve as an introduction to Nix itself, as well as the concept and uses of Flakes.NixOS & Flakes Book — Want to know NixOS & Flakes in detail? Looking for a beginner-friendly tutorial? Then you've come to the right place!EtchDroid — An application to write OS images to USB drives, on Android, no root required. Use it to make a bootable operating system USB drive when your laptop is dead.EtchDroid on Github

We explain the one-packet attack on CUPS and discuss its real-world implications. Plus, a Meshtastic update and more.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMAttacking UNIX Systems via CUPS — A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace existing printers’ (or install new ones) IPP urls with a malicious one, resulting in arbitrary command execution (on the computer) when a print job is started (from that computer).Marcus Hutchins Scan finds 107,287 servers responding to the UDP port 631 — Instead of relying on Shodan data, I performed my own internet-wide scan using a distributed network of servers. This resulted in discovering drastically more exposed cups-browsed instances, causing my total count to rise from 13,289 to 107,287.Shodan on X: 75,000 exposed CUPS daemons on the InternetAnnual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!nodeboard — Your Ultimate Digital Inventory ManagerLightning Payactivate-linux — The "Activate Windows" watermark ported to LinuxInstall Frog on Linux | Flathub — Extract text from images, websites, videos, and QR codes by taking a picture of the source.Clapgrep — Ever had a folder full of PDF files, where you knew, somewhere in there, is what you're looking for. But you did not know in which file. So you had to search each of them at a time...

What if we had to abandon ship and stop using Desktop Linux? We've come up with a master plan, and put it to the test.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMMeshtastic Linux-Native ApplicationMeshMap — Meshtastic Node MapLINUX Unplugged 269 — What if desktop computing went a very different direction in the late 90s? Deeply multithreaded from the start, fast, intuitive, and extremely stable. This is the world of Haiku, and we go for a visit.The Dawn of Haiku OS — Haiku, unlike its more established competitors, is exceedingly good at tackling one of the toughest challenges of modern computing: multicore microprocessors. Let's take a look at why that is, how Haiku came to be, and whether the operating system running on your computer really performs as well as it should.Haiku Project HistoryHaiku R1/beta5 Release Notes — The fifth beta for Haiku R1 over a year and a half of hard work to improve Haiku’s hardware support and its overall stability, and to make lots more software ports available for use.docker-qemu-haiku — A Docker image for the Haiku operating system.golang-haiku/go — The Haiku port of the Go programming language for upstream support. Changes are made in 'golang-1.11-haiku' or 'golang-haiku-master'.Using the remote app server | Haiku ProjectJB Haiku ServerLighttpdDHH Talks Apple, Linux, and Running ServersAnnual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!dadjoke-clicolmenaspectorus' NixOS ConfigPick: rustpad — Efficient and minimal collaborative code editor, self-hosted, no database requiredIs the Nostr moment officially here?

The things we like in the new Nextcloud release, and we attempt to upgrade our production server live—from a big blue bus.Sponsored By:Core Contributor Membership: Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMOpenSats Grants Long-Term Support for WireGuard Creator Jason DonenfeldOpenSats Lightning NodeNextcloud Hub 9Introducing Nextcloud Hub 9 - the world's leading open source collaboration platform! - YouTubeDay 1: Nextcloud Community Conference 2024 - YouTubeDay 2: Nextcloud Community Conference 2024 - YouTubeNextcloud Community Conference 2024Mailvelope — Mailvelope is a browser add-on that you can use in Chrome, Edge and Firefox to securely encrypt your emails with PGP using webmail providersNextcloud Server Releasesnextcloud/docker: ⛴ Docker image of NextcloudBug: Unable to update background execution mode: conflict between new type (mixed) and old type (string)VLESShacompanion: Daemon that sends local hardware information to Home Assistant.LNXlink: 🖥 Effortlessly manage your Linux machine using MQTT.Waycheck — Waycheck is a simple graphical application that connects to your Wayland compositor and displays the list of Wayland protocols that it supports, along with the list of protocols that it doesn't.Supersonic — A lightweight cross-platform desktop client for Subsonic and Jellyfin music servers.

Secret moments from the show you've never heard before. We kick off with some hardware hurdles, then dive into the news and share a few surprising stories.Sponsored By:Core Contributor Membership: Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM

Rust meets Linux in a clash of coding cultures. Why some developers are resisting, and where things go from here.Sponsored By:Core Contributor Membership: Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMBerlin with Brent: September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Sat, Sep 14, 2024Berlin Buds on MatrixLinus Torvalds talks AI, Rust adoption, and why the Linux kernel is 'the only thing that matters'KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit + AI_Dev China 2024Rust for filesystems — At the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Wedson Almeida Filho and Kent Overstreet led a combined storage and filesystem session on using Rust for Linux filesystems.Filesystem in Rust - Kent Overstreet and Wedson Almeida FilhoAsahi Lina: "I think people really don't appreciate just how incomplete Linux kernel API docs are, and how Rust solves part of the problem."One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense" — One of the several Rust for Linux kernel maintainers has decided to step away from the project. The move is being driven at least in part due to having to deal with increased "nontechnical nonsense" raised around Rust programming language use within the Linux kernel.[PATCH 0/1] Retiring from the Rust for Linux project - Wedson Almeida FilhoOn Rust, Linux, developers, maintainers — There's been a couple of mentions of Rust4Linux in the past week or two, one from Linus on the speed of engagement and one about Wedson departing the project due to non-technical concerns. This got me thinking about project phases and developer types.The revival of the Linux C++ discussionMembership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!Thank you Core ContributorsBrewHouse by the Lake – Amsterdam Brewery ShopBITCOIN WELL — The fastest and safest way to buy bitcoin in CanadaThe new JB server - KTZ systems — Join Alex, Chris, and Brent as we fly to Toronto to deploy our shiny new colo server in Canada. We'll be deploying the 45homelab HL15 server.Projectivy LauncherAerial Views ScreensaverOpenEBS — OpenEBS is a modern Block-Mode storage platform, a Hyper-Converged software Storage System and virtual NVMe-oF SAN (vSAN) Fabric that is natively integrates into the core of Kubernetes.oppy1984's Satoshi SurveyCoder Radio 582Keybase Filesystem Storage LimitsI Don't Care for GnomeDAVx5 — DAVx⁵ DAVx⁵ – CalDAV / CardDAV / WebDAV for AndroidFlock 2024 Universal Blue: Building the Future using Fedora AtomicPick: Shotcut - New Version 24.08Install Shotcut on Flathub — Shotcut supports many video, audio, and image formats via FFmpeg and screen, webcam, and audio capture. It uses a time-line for non-linear video editing of multiple tracks that may be composed of various file formats. Scrubbing and transport control are assisted by OpenGL GPU-based processing and a number of video and audio filters are available.Bonus Pick: Butler — Access your Home Assistant dashboard from a native companion UI, integrating better with your OS.Butler on GitHubRust for Linux revisitedRedox OS — Redox is a Unix-like general-purpose microkernel-based operating system written in Rust, aiming to bring the innovations of Rust to a modern microkernel, a full set of programs and be a complete alternative to Linux and BSD.