Brodie Robertson | Linux Tips & Tricks on Odysee

By now you probably know about Kent Overstreet's antics in the Linux kernel with BcacheFS but we're not here to talk about that today, instead we're here to talk his AI chat bot which he is convinced is sentient and feels real emotion.

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Website: https://poc.bcachefs.org/
White Paper: https://poc.bcachefs.org/paper.pdf
The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/bcachefs_creator_ai/
Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/bcachefs/comments/1rblll1/the_blog_of_an_llm_saying_its_owned_by_kent_and/
Funny Thread: https://social.vlhl.dev/notice/B3gj1a7Xfl0evR4Hke
IRC Logs: https://paste.xinu.at/6atmCN

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For a long time Ladybird browser was going to adopt Swift lang but recently they did a port over to Rust and not just that, used AI to start off the port and this lead to a bit of controversy.

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Blog Post: https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/
Ladybird Swift Issue: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/issues/933
Podcast Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSEZ2ZYLdHg
Twitter Post: https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822241531501162806

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#Rust #Swift #Ladybird #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS

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You probably know that HDMI 2.1 is a no go on Linux with an AMD GPU, well that's only if you're an HDMI Forum member, who says you have to listen to there rules if you just reverse engineer the support.

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HDMI 2.1 FRL Work: https://github.com/mkopec/linux/tree/hdmi_frl_amd_staging
Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1r793et/hdmi_21_frl_looking_for_testers/
Xilinux Article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-But-Xilinx
AMD Thread: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1417#note_3335295

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#AMD #Linux #HDMI #OpenSource #FOSS

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If you're on Linux you've probably written at least a couple of Bash shell scripts, but what if there was another way to do it, a node based way where you didn't have to write any code by hand.

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#Linux #Bash #Zsh #Programming #shellscripting

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You've probably heard that screensavers aren't possible on Wayland but that's not actually the case, not only are they possible but there are options available to use like XScreensaver even on Wayland

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Wayland Screensaver: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/wayland-and-screen-savers/
Xscreensaver 6.11: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/07/xscreensaver-6-11/
Xscreensaver 6.12: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/07/xscreensaver-6-12/
Linux Mint: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4991
KDE: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kscreenlocker/-/merge_requests/207

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Nowadays the default look of KDE Plasma is called Breeze but before that during the KDE 4 era we had both Oxygen and Air and this developer is trying to bring it back.

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Filip Fila Blog Post: https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/beating-an-old-but-not-dead-horse-what-to-do-with-the-oxygen-and-air-themes/

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The window manager space on Wayland has completely changed over the past few years, there was a time when Sway was the only good choice but now you have both Hyprland a dynamic tiler and Niri a scroller and this has changed the equation for what you can do on Wayland.

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Hyprland: https://hypr.land/
Niri: https://github.com/niri-wm/niri
Karousel: https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel
River Repo: https://codeberg.org/river/river
Hyprland Wiki: https://wiki.hypr.land/
Niri Wiki: https://github.com/niri-wm/niri/wiki/Configuration:-Introduction
Quickshell: https://quickshell.org/
Material Shell: https://github.com/AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell
Noctalia: https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia-shell
Caelestia: https://github.com/caelestia-dots/shell
Theo Comment: https://x.com/theo/status/2018422881705984483

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#Niri #Hyprland #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #LinuxDesktop

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A few weeks back KDE announced that the new Plasma Login Manager was going to require the use of Systemd and thus wouldn't work on FreeBSD or the other BSDs and whilst this is true it's only about the Login Manager not the rest of KDE Plasma

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9to5Linux: https://9to5linux.com/kaos-linux-drops-kde-plasma-after-12-years-for-niri-noctalia-to-escape-systemd
Linuxiac: https://linuxiac.com/kaos-2026-02-debuts-niri-wayland-desktop/
XDA Developers: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distro-dropped-kde-plasma-support-tries-to-escape-systemd/
KaOS News Post: https://kaosx.us/news/2026/kaos02/
Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1r68jmi/a_quick_antifud_faq_to_debunk_the_kde_is_forcing/
FreeBSd Wayland: https://x61.sh/log/2024/05/27052024192206-sway_openbsd.html
NetBSD 2020: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_and
FreeBSD and NetBSD Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo_8gnWQ4xo
Hikari: http://hikari.acmelabs.space/

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What if I told you that an AI agent just tried to ruin the career of a developer on Matplotlib who was following Matplotlib policy to not allow AI agents, writing a hilarious blog post on the situation but it gets even better from there

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==========Resources==========
Issue: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/31130
Merge Request: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132
OpenClaw Joins OpenAI: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/openclaw-founder-joins-openai-623662
AI Blog Post 1: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html
AI Blog Post 2: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-matplotlib-truce-and-lessons.html
Scott Blog Post 1: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-matplotlib-truce-and-lessons.html
Ars Technica Article: https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name/
Scott Blog Post 2: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/

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You probably know that you should be safe whilst using the AUR on Arch Linux but how does one go about doing that.

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AUR Post: https://bertptrs.nl/2026/01/30/how-to-review-an-aur-package.html

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