Episode 615: 25.05 Reasons to NixOS

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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. Support Core Contributor Links: 💥 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

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