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Apple's M5/M6 hardware drops, self-hosted music stacks, the variety of affordable IP KVMs, and Sony's digital ownership lawsuit (and footgun)

Framework's refreshed Laptop 12 hits $699 with Intel Core Series 3, we get real about the WFH mental health grind, and how free amp modelers are making expensive hardware modelers obsolete.

The crew tests USB cables with a Tredix tester, breaks down the FCC's move to restrict imported robot vacuums and lawnmowers, unpacks the Windows 11 GDID tracking story tied to a Scattered Spider arrest, and shares AI-coded side projects including a plane tracker and a homegrown Nextcloud calendar replacement.

Linus Torvalds' about-face on AI in the Linux kernel, Jellyfin's leadership shakeup amid AI tensions, and running Hermes agents against home infrastructure.

We discuss our picks of the best self-hosted apps (with Home Assistant and media-related apps off-limits) including Hermes, Frigate, Healthchecks, Pangolin, Pi-hole, and more.

We break down the Steam Machine pricing and what it means for Linux gaming, cover Matter 1.6's announcement and the Open Home Foundation's recent developments, and Alex walks through his exhaustive review of Jellyfin clients across tvOS and beyond.

We dig into the NVIDIA RTX Spark and what it means for local AI, revisit the Proxmox-vs-Unraid debate through Alex's Perfect Media Server Part 3, and do a deep dive on Jellyfin's strengths, rough edges, and the upcoming version 12.

Most of the crew gathers in person to talk Plex's lifetime sub price hike, Bitwarden's quiet C-suite shakeup and its PE ties, and the latest in the Bambu Lab open source licensing fight.

Geoff sounds the alarm on Bambu Lab's legal threats against an open-source OrcaSlicer developer, the crew unpacks the CopyFail and DirtyFrag Linux kernel CVEs and AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery, and Adam reports from an off-grid California compound to explore parallels between physical self-sufficiency and digital self-hosting.

The crew breaks down everything new from Framework's big announcement week, Kasm's new Proxmox autoscaler partnership opens up self-hosted VDI for the rest of us, and our thoughts on the pricing of the Steam Controller.

Alex tells a sad tale about releasing the magic smoke from his Minisforum MS-01 and the rabbit hole of high availability, and we discuss the wonders and current state of 3d printing, including the new Bambu X2D and Snapmaker U1.

Stephen shares his road from childhood PC tinkering to running his own MSP, we trace MinIO's slow abandonment of its open source community, and Geoff explains how a new API in his email provider made his SimpleLogin subscription redundant.

We dive deep into Adam's background and his journey to join the Unraid team, talk about headphones and the rabbit hole that is in-ear monitors, discuss the sad decline of the Nvidia Shield, and close out by talking about the drama surrounding Booklore.

We launch the BitFlip Show, talk homelabs and Linux journeys, debate Proxmox setups, discuss the MacBook Neo, and unpack a major AI vibe coding controversy.

A teaser for the new show launching Friday 3/6.