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OpenAI is coming for the iPhone, but Apple won't be ready. Plus, the great Invisalign vs Braces debate.

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• OpenAI takes on Apple: iPhone designer's company acquired by OpenAI for $6.4 billion - YouTube
• Sam & Jony introduce io - YouTube
• Researchers puzzle over rash of baby monkey kidnappings 
• Cargo ship crashes into man's yard in Norway after crewman fell asleep - YouTube

• Coldwater by Josh & Austin

Fresh off Red Hat Summit, Chris is eyeing an exit from NixOS. What's luring him back to the mainstream? Our highlights, and the signal from the noise from open source's biggest event of the year.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LINUX Unplugged TUI Challenge Rules — Help shape the challenge - what did we miss?
• TUI Challenge Rules Discussion Thread
• Red Hat Summit 2025 Homepage — May 19-22 2025 in Boston, MA
• Red Hat Summit 2025: Execs Tout Opportunities In Open Source AI, Virtualization Migration — OpenShift Virtualization has seen almost triple the number of customers, with the number of clusters deployed in production more than doubling and the number of virtual machines managed by the offer more than tripling.
• Agentic AI, LLMs and standards big focus of Red Hat Summit
• Red Hat Summit: Key Innovations for IT Channel Partners
• Unlock what’s next: Microsoft at Red Hat Summit 2025 — Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is now available for use with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
• Red Hat Launches the llm-d Community, Powering Distributed Gen AI Inference at Scale — Red Hat’s vision: Any model, any accelerator, any cloud.
• Red Hat Introduces Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 with Supercharged Intelligence and Security Across Hybrid Environments — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 delivers a paradigm shift in enterprise operating systems with image mode.
• 10.0 Release Notes | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 10 | Red Hat Documentation
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Officially Released, Here's What's New — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 highlights include Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed for integrating generative AI directly within the platform to provide users with context-aware guidance and actionable recommendations through a natural language interface.
• RHEL 10: Leading the future with AI, security and hybrid cloud
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Reaches GA
• SiFive Collaborates with Red Hat to Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux for RISC-V — The developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 is initially available for use on the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 platform.
• Red Hat AI on Hugging Face
• FIPS 203/204/205 — These standards specify key establishment and digital signature schemes that are designed to resist future attacks by quantum computers, which threaten the security of current standards.
• Virtualization success stories: Join Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization's momentum in 2025
• llm-d — llm-d is a Kubernetes-native high-performance distributed LLM inference framework
• What is vLLM? — vLLM is an inference server that speeds up the output of generative AI applications by making better use of the GPU memory.
• Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Image mode leverages the bootc tool to build and deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Bootc stands for bootable container, and the image will include the kernel, bootloader, and other items typically excluded from application containers.
• Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Overview
• Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta
• Bluefin — Featuring automatic image-based updates and a simple graphical application store, Bluefin is designed to get out of your way. Get what you want without sacrificing system stability.
• KongrooParadox's nixfiles — This was my second nixos release since getting into Nix last year (February I think), and this strategy made it really painless. No surprises about deprecated options since I saw these cases slowly when these changes hit unstable.
• yazi: Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O
• jira-cli - Feature-rich interactive Jira command line
• browser-use — Make websites accessible for AI agents
• Thomato's TUI Resources
• Pick: RamaLama — Make working with AI boring through the use of OCI containers.
• ramalama on GitHub — RamaLama is an open-source developer tool that simplifies the local serving of AI models from any source and facilitates their use for inference in production, all through the familiar language of containers.

With NixOS 25.05 around the corner, we sit down with a release manager to unpack what's new, what's changing, and what's finally getting easier. Spoiler: it's not just the tooling.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LINUX Unplugged TUI Challenge Rules — Help shape the challenge - what did we miss?
• TUI Challenge Rules Discussion Thread
• The Launch 🚀 21: Bigfoot As a Service — We rescued Brent's van that should've stayed retired, dodged cops and fuel leaks, and learned why outsourcing navigation to ChatGPT was a terrible idea.
• Tristan Ross
• Release Managers - NixOS Release Wiki
• NixOS 25.05 – Release schedule
• release-notes/rl-2505.section.md
• Nixos-rebuild-ng: a nixos-rebuild rewrite
• marytts/marytts: MARY TTS -- an open-source, multilingual text-to-speech synthesis system written in pure java — This is the source code repository for the multilingual open-source MARY text-to-speech platform (MaryTTS). MaryTTS is a client-server system written in pure Java, so it runs on many platforms.
• PostgREST — A standalone web server that turns your PostgreSQL database directly into a RESTful API. Available as services.postgrest.
• asciimoo/omnom: A webpage bookmarking and snapshotting service — Access & share previously visited pages without worrying about modifications or availability.
• uMurmur by umurmur — uMurmur is a minimalistic Mumble server primarily targeted to run on embedded computers, like routers, with an open OS like e.g. OpenWRT.
• Actual Budget — a local-first personal finance app.
• gokapi — Lightweight selfhosted Firefox Send alternative without public upload. AWS S3 supported
• Cursor — a vscode-based editor that uses AI to help you write code faster.
• Pinchflat — a selfhosted YouTube media manager used to track channels and download videos on release.
• Traccar — a modern GPS Tracking Platform.
• crab-hole — a cross platform Pi-hole clone written in Rust using hickory-dns/trust-dns.
• nostr-rs-relay — a nostr relay, written in Rust.
• haven — a high availability vault for events on nostr.
• immich-public-proxy — a proxy for sharing Immich albums without exposing the Immich API.
• strfry — a relay for the nostr protocol.
• TSDProxy — Very simple proxy for virtual services in Tailscale
• Pick: Switcheroo — Convert between different image filetypes and resize them easily.
• Switcheroo on Flathub
• Switcheroo is packaged in nixpkgs
• Pick: mazanoke — MAZANOKE is a simple image optimizer that runs in your browser, works offline, and keeps your images private without ever leaving your device.
• jolheiser/mazanoke-nix: Nix derivation/flake for mazanoke

A slick new CoreOS-based distro that might be your next home-lab base, easy self-hosted notifications, and Plex stumbles into controversy. Plus: ECC RAM guilt.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Dusty Mabe .

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Support Self-Hosted

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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 110 countries.
• Grab Sats with River — River is the best place in the US to buy and stack Sats. River has 100% reserve custody, a great interface, and only does Bitcoin.
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Podcasts and music powered by community. Share, discover and support over 4 million shows and emerging artists.
• SRE Jupiter.Party Discount — Support the network at the best price ever! Use this link, or the promo code: SRE
• Self-Hosted 150 Swag — Grab some Self-Hosted swag, the last run!
• dustymabe (Dusty Mabe) — Dusty's GitHub
• Dusty's Web Site — Musings of a computer engineer
• Dusty Mabe on LINUX Unplugged
• ublue-os/ucore — An OCI base image of Fedora CoreOS with batteries included
• ntfy.sh | Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST — ntfy (pronounced notify) is a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service. It allows you to send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer, and/or using a REST API. It's infinitely flexible, and 100% free software.
• binwiederhier/ntfy — If you'd like to run your own instance of the service, you can easily do so since ntfy is open source.
• ntfy/docker-compose.yml
• ntfy mobile apps — To receive notifications on your phone, install the app, either via Google Play, App Store or F-Droid.
• ntfy with Netdata
• Bettarr-Notifications — Better Notifications for Sonarr, Radarr and Prowlarr. Supports Discord, Telegram, Slack, Pushover and ntfy.
• ntfy - Home Assistant — The ntfy integration can be used to send push notifications from automations and scripts in real-time to your mobile devices and desktops.
• Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff
• ConvertX: 💾 Self-hosted online file converter. — A self-hosted online file converter. Supports over a thousand different formats. Written with TypeScript, Bun and Elysia.

We rescued a van that should've stayed retired, dodged cops and fuel leaks, and learned why outsourcing navigation to ChatGPT was a terrible idea. Plus, Angela's double-ply crisis.

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• Roadtrek brochure PDF
• 1991 Roadtrek Versatile Dodge B250 Tour - YouTube
• 1991 Dodge Ram Van Roadtrek Price Example
• Toilet Paper Thief - YouTube
• Thief steals Toilet Paper GMU - YouTube
• Akron woman charged after pet raccoon found with meth pipe in mouth
• Bigfoot Sighting In Idaho 2012? High School Students Capture Video of Possible Sasquatch - YouTube
• Bigfoot in Pocatello, Idaho 👣 - YouTube
• Bigfoot Takes Over East Idaho In New Video (WATCH)
• 'Super cool to meet' Sam, South Milwaukee's new resident Sasquatch
• South Milwaukee unveils new mascot, a sasquatch named Sam - YouTube
• South Milwaukee Sam

• Caroline Hale • Kick It 

We test-drive a self-hosted alternative to Google Location History. Plus, we cover the week's Linux news highlights, then spill the beans on our upcoming TUI challenge.

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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LINUX Unplugged TUI Challenge Rules — Help shape the challenge - what did we miss?
• libcaca – Caca Labs — A graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text terminals.
• New GNOME Executive Director Named: Steven Deobald — Steven Deobald has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, succeeding interim director Richard Littauer and Holly Million, who stepped down last year after a brief tenure.
• Creation of the NixOS hardware team — TL;DR: The Steering Committee is launching the new Hardware Team to own the nixos-hardware repo, drive hardware enablement, and expand partnerships.
• Adopting sudo-rs By Default in Ubuntu 25.10 - Project Discussion - Ubuntu Community Hub — The sudo-rs project is designed to be a drop in replacement for the original tool. For the vast majority of users, the upgrade should be completely transparent to their workflow. That said, sudo-rs is a not a “blind” reimplementation.
• LINUX Unplugged 607: Ubuntu's Rusty Roadmap
• Bcachefs Patches Aim For Faster Snapshot Deletion But With Another On-Disk Format Update — Bcachefs has introduced patches aimed at significantly improving snapshot deletion performance. However, implementing these improvements necessitates an update to an incompatible on-disk format, which must be explicitly enabled by users.
• Dawarich — Your Journey, Your Control — Visualize your location history, track your movements, and analyze your travel patterns with complete privacy and control.
• fabean/ytviewer — YouTube TUI that pulls subscriptions from YouTube API
• Pick: meshSidecar — meshSidecar provides a flexible way to integrate mesh networking capabilities with NixOS services. It allows services to participate in mesh networks without requiring direct modification of the service itself.
• Pick: ELEMENT.FM — Unlimited, GPLv3 Licensed, self-hostable podcast hosting

We chat with the founder of Home Assistant and then fire up Brent's Linux-powered rig.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Self-Hosted 150 Merch at the Jupiter Garage
• Announcing State of the Open Home 2025
• Open Home Foundation
• Works with Home Assistant
• Reolink joins Works with Home Assistant
• Eve Joins Works With Home Assistant - Home Assistant
• 3…2…1… Backup - Home Assistant
• Home Assistant
• The Launch 🚀 20: Linux Goat North Van
• This 1987 Dodge Camper Van Is an Amazing 1980s RV Relic - YouTube
• Roadtrek Brochure - 1989-1990 Chassis Model Years.pdf
• Axiomtek ICO300-TES5 Industrial PC (PDF)
• Intel Atom® E3827
• Mieze K106 Octa-Core Tablet 10 Inch
• Spokane Linux User's Group – casual meet-up to talk tech — Cant wait till the next JB meetup over here too!
• Alpine Email Program
• Pick: LinuxInExcel — The emulator is built as a seperate dll which is loaded by the VBA macro. The VBA macro calls the emulator in the dll and gets the output and writes it into the cells in the spreadsheet.
• cnlohr/mini-rv32ima — A tiny C header-only risc-v emulator.

A week-long power blackout knocks out our guests homelab. We dig into Unraid 7.1, and push Home Assistant to keep things running—even when the power doesn’t.

Special Guest: Stephen Schattin.

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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free.
• Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

Support Self-Hosted

Links:

• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 110 countries.
• Grab Sats with River — River is the best place in the US to buy and stack Sats. River has 100% reserve custody, a great interface, and only does Bitcoin.
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Podcasts and music powered by community. Share, discover and support over 4 million shows and emerging artists.
• SRE Jupiter.Party Discount — Support the network at the best price ever! Use this link, or the promo code: SRE
• Self-Hosted 150 Swag — Grab some Self-Hosted swag, the last run!
• Generlink Transfer Switch — This allowed DIY-friendly generator hookup without rewiring the electrical panel. Homeowners embraced the convenience and Generlink grew rapidly.
• Manual install method | Unraid Docs — If for some reason the USB Flash Creator tool cannot be used, or your USB flash device is not detected, it is possible to manually format and prepare a bootable USB flash device.
• Backup of Unraid Array Configuration & other critical files - General Support - Unraid
• Automated Flash Backup | Unraid Docs — Unraid Connect offers users the ability to automatically back up your OS configuration settings to our cloud. In the event of flash device failure, you can download a zip file of your latest backup and restore it to a new flash drive using the USB Flash Creator.
• Unraid | Community Apps — Browse our large and growing catalog of applications to run in your Unraid server.
• ha-unraid — This custom integration allows you to monitor and control your Unraid server from Home Assistant. Unraid is a popular NAS (Network Attached Storage) operating system that provides flexible storage, virtualization, and application support.
• hass-unraid — This Docker container parses and forwards all WebSocket messages from your Unraid server to Home Assistant using the MQTT protocol. This enables you to create dashboards that provide a superior overview compared to Unraid's native capabilities.
• Unraid Pricing
• pocket-id: A simple and easy-to-use OIDC provider — Pocket ID is a simple OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.
• LINUX Unplugged 613 - Interview with Paulus Schoutsen of Home Assistant — Releases Sunday, May 6th, 2025.
• The Launch 20: Linux Goat North Van — Brent's crazy border crossing story and behind-the-scenes stories from LFNW. Then we will lay out the master rescue plan. Catch the Launch a day early, and with a special guest!
• Selfhosted - Lemmy.World — A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control.
• tsdproxy: Tailscale Docker Proxy — TsDProxy simplifies the process of securely exposing services and Docker containers to your Tailscale network by automatically creating Tailscale machines for each tagged container. This allows services to be accessible via unique, secure URLs without the need for complex configurations or additional Tailscale containers.
• Self-Hosted 148 BOOST BARN! — Thank you everyone who supported episode 148!

Brent's crazy border crossing story and behind-the-scenes stories from LFNW. Then we will lay out the master rescue plan. Catch the Launch a day early, and with a special guest!

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• ⚡ Strike Makes it Quick it Grab Sats in 100s of Countries
• 💬 Boost with Fountain

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• Jupiter Extras: LinuxFest Northwest 2025 Day 1
• LINUX Unplugged 612: 25 Years of LinuxFest Northwest
• North Cascades Highway - Washington State Route 20 - Wikipedia
• Roadtrek - "The Van that thinks it's a Motor Home"
• Dodge Ram B250 Conversion Van 5.2 V8 TorqueFlite, 3-speed
• This 1987 Dodge Camper Van Is an Amazing 1980s RV Relic - Doug DeMuro - YouTube
• Roadtrek Brochure - 1989-1990 Chassis Model Years.pdf
  BFGoodrich Advantage T/A Sport LT - All-Season Tires| BFGoodrich USA
• Suspect on the loose in Duluth dodges police, dashes into backyards - YouTube
• Night vision camera captures beaver in Cornwall breaking wind

• Undone By: Lara Price

We're live from LinuxFest Northwest 2025. We're joined by guests from the audience, try our hand at Linux trivia and share our experiences from the best fest in the West.

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Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2025 Day 1
• LFNW2025 - LinuxFest Norhtwest Homepage — 25 Years of Community Excellence.
• See how far COSMIC has come this year by Carl Richell - LinuxFest Northwest 2025
• COSMIC Desktop
• COSMIC Alpha 7 — ISO excited for the latest COSMIC alpha release! We’ve been busy clearing up scores of bugs while soldering together the features that we absolutely must include before the Big Betahemoth descends upon the Earth. Let COSMIC Alpha 7 commence!
• pop-os/cosmic-epoch: Next generation Cosmic desktop environment
• COSMIC Desktop Alpha 7 Brings More New Features
• The best-looking Linux desktop I've seen so far in 2025 — The creators of one of the coolest Linux distros just released a new version - and it puts the old one to shame.
• Blind Penguin - Software Development with José Ibañez
• Accessibility Talk: Blind Penguin at LFNW 2025
• Beyond ARIA Labels: What a Blind Film Enthusiast Can Teach Us About Open Source
• Trimui Smart Pro 128G Handheld Game Console with Pre Loaded Games
• Sausage — sausage is a terminal word forming game, written in Bash.