People are buying Mac minis to run a bot. Seriously. We explain the ClawdBot (now Moltbot) frenzy, what it does, and why some folks are convinced this definitely requires a $700 Mac.

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• Subaru Aftermarket, Performance & Replacement Parts | Subimods — Subimods.com
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• Moltbot — Personal AI Assistant
• BIG NEWS: We've molted! Clawdbot → Moltbot Clawd → Molty Same lobster soul, new shell.
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• ClawdHub
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• self-improving-agent — ClawdHub
• gog — Google Workspace CLI for Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, Sheets, and Docs.
• excel — ClawdHub
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• On the Road to Austin By ChrisLAS

When your self-hosted services become infrastructure, breakage matters. We tackle monitoring that actually helps, alerts you won't ignore, and DNS for local, and multi-mesh network setups.

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• uptime-kuma — A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool
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• Pick: Switchyard — Modern rules-based URL launcher ready to replace your default browser.
• switchyard on GitHub
• Switchyard on Flathub

We discuss why the ultimate power move for your digital sovereignty is a $10 USB port.

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• FreshRSS – Self-hosted feed aggregator. 
• Immich – High-performance local photo backup
• Obsidian – Private, local-first markdown notes.
• NetNewsWire – Clean, fast RSS for Mac and iOS.
• Home Assistant – Open-source local home automation.
• Local-First Web – The philosophy of owning your data.
• Supernote – For Those Who Write

• News Assistant – https://github.com/reply2future/xExtension-NewsAssistant
• Article Summary – https://github.com/LiangWei88/xExtension-ArticleSummary
• Ollama Summarizer – https://github.com/fspv/xExtension-OllamaSummarizer
• FreshRSS Notifier (Firefox) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/freshrss-notifier/
• FreshRSS-Notify (Firefox) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/freshrss-notify-webextension/
• WebSub/PubSubHubbub support (built into FreshRSS) – https://freshrss.org/freshrss-supports-pubsubhubbub.html
• GitHub - automatic-ripping-machine/automatic-ripping-machine: Automatic Ripping Machine (ARM) Scripts
• A new Start in Rural Mississippi
• The FULL Open Concept

• I Hate Airbnbs By ChrisLAS
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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...

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• GEEKOM IT13 Mini PC 2026
• OpenWrt One
• Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus-E
• Home 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 GitHub
• [email protected]
• Actual — 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 GitHub
• Pick: WebView Kiosk — Turn your Android device into a locked-down web page in fullscreen mode.
• webview-kiosk on GitHub

Chris and Angela know their own hobbies cold—but how well do they know each other’s? Plus, Chris drops his best road-trip apps, services, and money-saving tips.

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• Highway Radar

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• iExit – Interstate Exit Guide

• AllStays – Rest Stops Plus

• Sēkr

• Autio

• Hipcamp

• Drive Weather

• Curiosio – AI Trip Planner

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• Harvest Hosts

• Slight Curiosity By: Circle the Earth

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.

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• LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for Speakers
• Michael Tunnell - YouTube
• Destination Linux - YouTube
• TuxDigital
• LINUX Unplugged 596: Perilously Pontificated Predictions
• Phison CEO: SSD "Pricing Apocalypse" to Continue Through 2027
• HDD Prices Spike as AI Infrastructure and China’s PC Push Collide
• 2025 Cloud Pricing Trends: Big Three Shake Up Storage Costs
• Storage Apocalypse: Why SSDs and HDDs Are Becoming Impossibly Expensive
• Jensen Huang Flagged Data Storage as the Next AI Bottleneck
• Manufacturer Recertified Drives - ServerPartDeals.com
• Hard Disk Prices (US)
• Storage Price Tracker
• RackRat - eBay Rackmount Server Deal Finder
• r/HomelabSales$£€ - Reddit
• Smart Buy 10 Pack Bd-r Dl 50gb 6X Blu-ray Double Layer Recordable Disc
• BlueVault — 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 Server
• Pick: PowerISO — Create, Burn, Mount, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual Drive
• PowerISO on Flathub
• Pick: 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.

Ang’s setting goals. Chris is setting themes. Same year, very different strategies, and a few personal bangers for the year ahead. Let the planning begin.

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• Yearly Themes Instead of Resolutions 
• Escapees Mail Service - Domicile & Residency
• Informed Delivery - Mail & Package Notifications | USPS
• The Theme System Journal
• A Drug Den Fixer Upper You can Visualize
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• Sword-wielding man offers 'squatter removal' service in Bay Area

• Nowhere Anywhere By: Survival Guide

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.

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• NetAlert X — Network intruder and presence detector. Scans for devices connected to your network and alerts you if new and unknown devices are found.
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• NetAlertX GitHub
• NetAlertX docker-compose.yml
• NixOS OCI Config for NetAlertX
• Home 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.
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• ntfy.sh — Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
• Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker
• Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking
• ESPresense
• mkellyxp/nixbook: LICENSE? - Issue #55
• Choosing a License - Find the Perfect Open Source License for Your Project
• License Selector - OpenLicr
• LicenseHub - Open Source License Tools Platform
• Open Source Licenses Explained: A Comparison
• GitHub - ErikMcClure/bad-licenses — A compendium of absurd "open-source" licenses.
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• Podcasting 2.0 Episode 246: Crap Trap — Adam & Dave are joined by Mitch and Archie of Podverse fame
• Pick: MQTT — Your All-in-one MQTT Client Toolbox
• MQTTX GitHub
• MQTT X on Flathub
• Pick: mqtt5-explorer — MQTT5 Explorer is a simple yet feature-rich client to visualize data of any MQTT broker.
• MQTT5 Explorer on Flathub
• Pick: Unify — Unify is a web app aggregator built with Qt 6, Qt WebEngine, and Kirigami
• Unify on Flathub
• Pick: web-app-hub — A Web App Manager, written in rust with GTK and beautiful Adwaita.
• Web App Hub on Flathub
• Pick: Home-manager Webapps — Home-manager configuration file to get webapps in the system menu on a NixOS system

Powerful AI tools are setting the stage for brand-owned influencers. A perfect corporate mouthpiece, and a looming economic threat to human creators.

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• 6 Pack 12 Inch Confetti Cannon Multicolor Confetti Popper Party Shooter 
• Happy New Years Eve Party Supplies 2026
• Lightspeed Partner Says Sora Will Make Creators 'Far Less Valuable' - Business Insider
• Why Lightspeed Bet on xAI, Neuralink, Suno, Granola, & Pika | Michael Mignano - YouTube
• Almost Fresh Eggs
• Ad Read for High Performance Cigs
• Left Overs Dog Food
• Value 4 Value
• ChrisLAS Raps
• Flooded Studio
• Chris Hits a Deer
• ‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
• Post by Roman Mars
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• Closer to Somewhere By: The Retrograde

We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025.

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• PewDiePie - I installed Linux (so should you)
• James Lee - How I Broke up with Adobe
• Linux surpasses 5% market share on US desktops for the first time
• It is finally the year of Linux on the Desktop: free OS reaches 5% market share
• Introducing the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant
• ADHD is Awesome: A Guide To (Mostly) Thriving With ADHD: Holderness, Penn, Holderness, Kim, Edward Hallowell: 9781400338610
• Pick: 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 source
• Pick: Cavalier — Visualize audio with CAVA