Episode 660: Boots and Breakups

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Ubuntu wants a leaner, stricter GRUB, and your favorite setup may not survive the cut. We break down what’s really changing, and the practical ways to adapt. Plus, Chris moves on from one of his favorite open source apps. Support Core Contributor Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington This Week In Bitcoin 97 | Jupiter Broadcasting Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security Streamlining secure boot for 26.10 - Ubuntu Community Hub Mitigating BootHole – CVE-2020-10713 and related vulnerabilities | Ubuntu There's a Hole in the Boot - Eclypsium Final Release · ErsatzTV — It is time for me to announce the final release of ErsatzTV in its current form. The existing repositories will be archived following this update. ErsatzTV/next Tunarr · GitHub — Create a classic TV experience using your own media — IPTV backed by Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, or NFO. Threadfin xTeVe Filler - Tunarr — Filler lists are collections of content used by Flex to pad time between episodes. One reason to use filler is to simulate traditional television by playing advertisements between episode airings. Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr (pronounced like "dispatcher") is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams, EPG data, and VOD content with elegance and control. awesome-iptv — A curated list of resources related to IPTV Tunarr API Reference LINUX Unplugged 645 — We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex. turnstonelabs/turnstone — Experimental multi-node AI orchestration platform. Deploy tool-using AI agents across a cluster of servers, driven by message queues or interactive interfaces. Open-Source "GreenBoost" Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMs GeneBean's Cage Kiosk GeneBean's Pi Arm Build Setup Planify - Task Manager for GNU/Linux alainm23/planify: Task manager with Todoist, Nextcloud & CalDAV support designed for GNOME Pick: bore — bore is a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost nixos-bore-module — Self-hosted bore tunnel server for NixOS Pick: kdeconnect-sms-tui — Terminal UI for sending and receiving SMS/MMS via KDE Connect. Pick: Busybridge — Complex calendar free/busy syncing across organizations for consultants who work inside multiple orgs.

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