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We rebuild a small office network around Linux, with an Unplugged twist and real-world constraints. Things don't go quite as expected...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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMPlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherSCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"GEEKOM IT13 Mini PC 2026OpenWrt OneSonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus-EHome Assistant Connect ZBT-2 — An updated Zigbee and Thread chip gives it the highest performance available, while providing a rock-solid, stable network.SYMFONISK Sonos WiFi bookshelf speaker — The speaker is a collaboration between IKEA and Sonos, so it easily integrates with other products from Sonos.IKEA SYMFONISK - Home Assistant — Support for devices by IKEA SYMFONISK in Home Assistant is provided by the Sonos integration.OpenCode — The open-source AI coding agent.OpenCode on [email protected] — A local-first personal finance app.Pocket ID — A simple and easy-to-use OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.Pick: Pocket TTS — A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice.Pocket TTS on GitHubPick: WebView Kiosk — Turn your Android device into a locked-down web page in fullscreen mode.webview-kiosk on GitHub

The storage apocalypse has arrived. An old friend drops by to talk survival strategies as prices explode, and we pitch our own unapologetically 90s approach to stretching storage.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMPlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherPlanet Nix 2026: Call for ProposalsSCaLE 23x | RegistrationLinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for SpeakersMichael Tunnell - YouTubeDestination Linux - YouTubeTuxDigitalLINUX Unplugged 596: Perilously Pontificated PredictionsPhison CEO: SSD "Pricing Apocalypse" to Continue Through 2027HDD Prices Spike as AI Infrastructure and China’s PC Push Collide2025 Cloud Pricing Trends: Big Three Shake Up Storage CostsStorage Apocalypse: Why SSDs and HDDs Are Becoming Impossibly ExpensiveJensen Huang Flagged Data Storage as the Next AI BottleneckManufacturer Recertified Drives - ServerPartDeals.comHard Disk Prices (US)Storage Price TrackerRackRat - eBay Rackmount Server Deal Finderr/HomelabSales$£€ - RedditSmart Buy 10 Pack Bd-r Dl 50gb 6X Blu-ray Double Layer Recordable DiscBlueVault — A top-quality TUI app to manage Blu-ray cold storage archives on Linux.Pick: Kopia — Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.Kopia Repository ServerPick: PowerISO — Create, Burn, Mount, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual DrivePowerISO on FlathubPick: CDEmu — CDemu is a software suite designed to emulate an optical drive and disc on the Linux operating system.Tellico — Collection management software, free and simple.

We unleash a networking monitoring tool to spot new devices, track changes in real time, and fire alerts straight into Home Assistant, MQTT, and your phone.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMPlanet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals @ Sessionize.comSCaLE 23x | RegistrationNetAlert X — Network intruder and presence detector. Scans for devices connected to your network and alerts you if new and unknown devices are found.NetAlertX DocsNetAlertX GitHubNetAlertX docker-compose.ymlNixOS OCI Config for NetAlertXHome Assistant - NetAlertX Docs — NetAlertX comes with MQTT support, allowing you to show all detected devices as devices in Home Assistant. It also supplies a collection of stats, such as number of online devices.home assistant mqtt documentationntfy.sh — Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POSTMosquitto - An open source MQTT brokerPi-hole – Network-wide Ad BlockingESPresensemkellyxp/nixbook: LICENSE? - Issue #55Choosing a License - Find the Perfect Open Source License for Your ProjectLicense Selector - OpenLicrLicenseHub - Open Source License Tools PlatformOpen Source Licenses Explained: A ComparisonGitHub - ErikMcClure/bad-licenses — A compendium of absurd "open-source" licenses.Podverse AlphaPodcasting 2.0 Episode 246: Crap Trap — Adam & Dave are joined by Mitch and Archie of Podverse famePick: MQTT — Your All-in-one MQTT Client ToolboxMQTTX GitHubMQTT X on FlathubPick: mqtt5-explorer — MQTT5 Explorer is a simple yet feature-rich client to visualize data of any MQTT broker.MQTT5 Explorer on FlathubPick: Unify — Unify is a web app aggregator built with Qt 6, Qt WebEngine, and KirigamiUnify on FlathubPick: web-app-hub — A Web App Manager, written in rust with GTK and beautiful Adwaita.Web App Hub on FlathubPick: Home-manager Webapps — Home-manager configuration file to get webapps in the system menu on a NixOS system

We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025.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. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.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.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for SpeakersThe Launch 🚀: Nature Chose ViolencePewDiePie - I installed Linux (so should you)James Lee - How I Broke up with AdobeLinux surpasses 5% market share on US desktops for the first timeIt is finally the year of Linux on the Desktop: free OS reaches 5% market shareIntroducing the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistantADHD is Awesome: A Guide To (Mostly) Thriving With ADHD: Holderness, Penn, Holderness, Kim, Edward Hallowell: 9781400338610Pick: eilmeldung TUI RSS Reader — A terminal-based RSS reader built on the news-flash backend.Pick: Zbridge — zBridge is an online bridge club where you can learn and play bridge. It is a full bridge platform with multiple features.Zbridge flatpak sourcePick: Cavalier — Visualize audio with CAVA

The Great Holiday Homelab Special! Where our community brought their absolute best, from budget busters to beautiful disasters. Plus, a boosties celebration! Grab an eggnog and join us as we attempt to choose this year's winners.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. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.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.FM

We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex. Then, we talk COSMIC stable with System76's CEO.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. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.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.FMPop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released — This year, System76 turned twenty. For twenty years we have shipped Linux computers. For seven years we’ve built the Pop!_OS Linux distribution. Three years ago it became clear we had reached the limit of our current potential and had to create something new. Today, we break through that limit with the release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with the COSMIC Desktop Environment.Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams and EPG data with elegance and control.IPTV Link Search — Public IPTV live channels, m3u8 links are updated daily.Streamtest.inptv-org/iptv — Collection of publicly available IPTV channels from all over the worldiptv/PLAYLISTS.mdbepg — Utilities for downloading the EPG (Electronic Program Guide) for thousands of TV channels from hundreds of sources.iptv-epg.orgTiviMate IPTV Player — Easy to use for beginners and deeply customizable for power users, TiviMate blends speed, clarity, and control into a seamless viewing experience.M3U IPTV — Stream your IPTV channels on the go or on Android TV.DangoPlayer — A fast video player and IPTV client for Android and TViPlayTV - IPTV/M3U Player App — IPTV/M3U player for Apple TV. The one Chris has used the longestChillio IPTV Smart Player App — New app, paid if you want quad boxOpen TV — IPTV player with many features.html-iptv-player — HTML IPTV Player with EPG viewer for M3U8 playlisthypnotix — An M3U IPTV PlayerIPTVnatorVidGrid — watch multiple news channels in your browserM3U Magic • Free Private IPTV PlayerErsatzTV — Your Personal IPTV Serverkptv-fast — A high-performance streaming service aggregator that combines multiple free streaming platforms into a single M3U playlist and EPG. Perfect for use with Channels DVR, Plex, or any IPTV client.Pick: Jellify-Music — A cross-platform, free and open source music player for Jellyfin, powered by React NativePick: DockerComposeMaker — DockerComposeMaker (DCM) is a self-hostable website to help you pick and create a docker-compose.yml file for your home server. Discover new containers, discover and share a config in a couple of clicks!Demo Docker Compose GeneratorPick: Leantime — Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.

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.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. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.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.FMLUP's Great Holiday Homelab FormLUP's Great Holiday Homelab Old Fart Form (markdown)bcachefs 1.33.0Bcachefs 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 - Patreonbcachefs — 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 NixOSPick: Dotfiles Installer — Install dotfiles easy, fast and secure. Or provide an installation application for your dotfiles.ML4W Dotfiles Installer Wikidotfiles-installer: GitHubPick: 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

We pull on a few loose threads from recent episodes, and some of them unravel into way more than we expected.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. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.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.FMLUP's Great Holiday Homelab FormLUP's Great Holiday Homelab Old Fart Form (markdown)Jellyswarrm — Bring all your Jellyfin servers togetherLiveTV support · Issue #9 · LLukas22/Jellyswarrmpangolin — Identity-Aware Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Dashboard UI.Pangolin | Secure Access PlatformNixOS Search - Options - PangolinYoutarr — Self-hosted web app that automates downloading, organizing, and scheduling YouTube channel content with support for Plex, Kodi, Emby and JellyfinAdd ability to set subfolder for manual downloads · Issue #287 · DialmasterOrg/YoutarrDawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)dawarich CHANGELOG.mdCVE-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 Blogksmbd - Fuzzing Improvements and Vulnerability Discovery (2/3)ksmbd - Exploiting CVE-2025-37947 (3/3)doyensec's KSMBD-CVE-2025-37947 PoCGrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stanceGrapheneOS exits France — what it means for encryptionFrance's Encryption War Escalates: GrapheneOS Exodus Signals Dangerous Precedent for Open Source Privacy TechSeems like the GrapheneOS phone collab may be with Motorolla.Rust For Linux Kernel Co-Maintainer Formally Steps DownBcachefs Ousted from Mainline Kernel: The Move to DKMS and What It MeansRed Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” StrategiesRichard Hipp - Git: Just Say No - YouTube2011 SouthEast LinuxFest - Richard Hipp - Fossilize Your Code - YouTubePick: 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

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.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. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.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.FMLUP's Great Holiday Homelab FormOld Fart Form (markdown)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 exampleZigl3ur/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.

We dig into the biggest Linux hardware news of the year, then fire up our new-to-us 1L PC server.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. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.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.FMDownload DNClient Desktop from Defined NetworkingOLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and ExpoRegistration - OLF ConferenceValve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOSSteam 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 MachineFEX-Emu/FEX: A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 LinuxFEX 2511 Delivers More Performance Improvements For Linux x86 Binaries On ARM64Commits · FEX-Emu/FEX · GitHubPLF10 Smart Plug – Kaufman Home AutomationHome Assistant Connect ZBT-1About 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 APIlibvirt - 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 WikiVirt-manager - NixOS WikiLibvirt - NixOS WikiPick: easyeffects — Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applicationsEasyEffects 8.0 Released In Porting From GTK4 To Qt / QML / KirigamiEasy Effects on FlathubMarcel Repo Email