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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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• 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
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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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• LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for Speakers
• The Launch 🚀: Nature Chose Violence
• 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

For the holidays, we’re cracking open the vault with never-before-heard clips and a special twist, and even a few rare moments we actually sounded smart. Festive, surprising, and just self-aware enough.

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• My Man Hates Christmas By: M & The 501s

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.

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An atmospheric river hits the Pacific Northwest, stranding Chris on an island. As floodwaters rise fast, he shares what it’s like when your only road out disappears. Plus, a van update with Brent.

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• Third day of atmospheric river ahead for Wednesday | WEDNESDAY MORNING UPDATE - YouTube
• Skagit River to exceed 2021 flood, upriver residents urged to prepare for evacuation - YouTube
• Skagit County orders Level 3 evacuations as Skagit River rises rapidly | FOX 13 Seattle - YouTube
• BREAKING: City of Burlington under evacuation orders - YouTube
• Coast Guard rescues people stranded by Washington flooding - YouTube
• Coast Guard rescues people stranded by Washington flooding - YouTube
• Skagit County under NWS Flood Watch, Level 2 (Get Set) evacuation warning issued - YouTube
• Tsunami stone - Wikipedia
• Tsunami Stones: Ancient Japanese Markers Warn Builders of High Water - 99% Invisible
• W1209 Temperature Control Switch (Thermostat Sensor Module)
• Amazon.com: HiLetgo 2pcs W1209 12V DC Digital Temperature Controller
• Types of relays to control low temperature charging for your LiFePo4 batteries - YouTube
• Cold Temperature LiFePO4 Heater on a Budget! Beginner Friendly - YouTube
• Raccoon found passed out in bathroom of Virginia ABC Store after breaking in, ransacking shelves - YouTube
• In-N-Out nixes '67' from ticket system due to '6-7' trend

• Run To Safer Ground By: Heidi J Masters

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.

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• Pop!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.in
• ptv-org/iptv — Collection of publicly available IPTV channels from all over the world
• iptv/PLAYLISTS.mdb
• epg — Utilities for downloading the EPG (Electronic Program Guide) for thousands of TV channels from hundreds of sources.
• iptv-epg.org
• TiviMate 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 TV
• iPlayTV - IPTV/M3U Player App — IPTV/M3U player for Apple TV. The one Chris has used the longest
• Chillio IPTV Smart Player App — New app, paid if you want quad box
• Open TV — IPTV player with many features.
• html-iptv-player — HTML IPTV Player with EPG viewer for M3U8 playlist
• hypnotix — An M3U IPTV Player
• IPTVnator
• VidGrid — watch multiple news channels in your browser
• M3U Magic • Free Private IPTV Player
• ErsatzTV — Your Personal IPTV Server
• kptv-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 Native
• Pick: 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 Generator
• Pick: Leantime — Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.

A mass executive exit is tearing through Apple’s leadership ranks. The biggest shake-up since Steve Jobs is unfolding in real time, and we think we know why now.

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• Apple's executive shake-up continues. - YouTube
• The Apple Executive Exodus Visualized 
• Apple chip chief weighs exit: Report - YouTube
• Apple chip leader Johny Srouji squashes exit rumors - YouTube
• Tim Cook Tells WIRED No Specific Time, but Sooner than Later
• Apple intensifies succession planning for CEO Tim Cook, FT reports | REUTERS - YouTube
• Tim Cook says he plans to retire within the next 10 years - AppleTrack
• When will Tim Cook leave Apple? | Trade on Kalshi
• Cult Compound Ready to Go
• Brutalism isn't just for Governments House

• Man! It's Christmas By: Jimmie Bratcher

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.

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• Bcachefs 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 - Patreon
• bcachefs — 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 NixOS
• Pick: Dotfiles Installer — Install dotfiles easy, fast and secure. Or provide an installation application for your dotfiles.
• ML4W Dotfiles Installer Wiki
• dotfiles-installer: GitHub
• Pick: 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

Chris is suiting up for the biggest fight of the winter, and what he’s up against might surprise you.

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• TSA says travelers with no REAL I.D. face a hefty fee - YouTube
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• The Prepper Route

• Cold Hearted By: snju

We pull on a few loose threads from recent episodes, and some of them unravel into way more than we expected.

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• Jellyswarrm — Bring all your Jellyfin servers together
• LiveTV support · Issue #9 · LLukas22/Jellyswarrm
• pangolin — Identity-Aware Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Dashboard UI.
• Pangolin | Secure Access Platform
• NixOS Search - Options - Pangolin
• Youtarr — Self-hosted web app that automates downloading, organizing, and scheduling YouTube channel content with support for Plex, Kodi, Emby and Jellyfin
• Add ability to set subfolder for manual downloads · Issue #287 · DialmasterOrg/Youtarr
• Dawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)
• dawarich CHANGELOG.md
• CVE-2025-40090 | Ubuntu — Since commit 305853cce3794 ksmbdsessionrpcmethod() attempts to lock sess->rpclock. 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 Blog
• ksmbd - Fuzzing Improvements and Vulnerability Discovery (2/3)
• ksmbd - Exploiting CVE-2025-37947 (3/3)
• doyensec's KSMBD-CVE-2025-37947 PoC
• GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance
• GrapheneOS exits France — what it means for encryption
• France's Encryption War Escalates: GrapheneOS Exodus Signals Dangerous Precedent for Open Source Privacy Tech
• Seems like the GrapheneOS phone collab may be with Motorolla.
• Rust For Linux Kernel Co-Maintainer Formally Steps Down
• Bcachefs Ousted from Mainline Kernel: The Move to DKMS and What It Means
• Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” Strategies
• Richard Hipp - Git: Just Say No - YouTube
• 2011 SouthEast LinuxFest - Richard Hipp - Fossilize Your Code - YouTube
• Pick: 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