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Core Contributor
by Jupiter Broadcasting
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Episodes
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Episode 689: First Kontact
A new documentary reveals KDE's 30-year underdog story. Plasma pioneer Aaron Seigo joins us to look back, and explore what's next with Plasma 6.8.
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Episode 688: Eyes on Deck
We've turned our Steam Deck into a security monitoring system; Monitor your property, identify people, pets, and vehicles with detailed daily intelligence briefings. All local.
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Episode 687: Linux by Proxy
Millions of people may already be using Linux by proxy, so we went digging through their strange little cloud desktops to see if we can turn them into servers.
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Episode 686: Stop Desktop Slop
KDE’s fight over AI generated code explodes at exactly the moment Plasma is making some of its biggest changes in years.
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Episode 685: Pool Party
We're turning our spare, scattered storage into one giant network drive. Good idea? Maybe.
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Episode 684: You Ain't Ready For This Jelly
We rebuild our media stack around Jellyfin 12, survive a major upgrade, and add self-hosted tools that make sharing with family and friends much better.
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Episode 683: Website Speedrun
Brent has two hours to build a great website, and the solution he finds feels more like a Linux tool than a modern web framework. Naturally, Wes takes it too far.
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Episode 682: Oops! All Shells!
Quickshell is rising, and bringing with it a new wave of customizable Linux desktops, community-built plugins, and serious funding.
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Episode 681: Ain’t Nothing But a Syncthing
Syncthing saves the day in an unexpected way, and we dig into what’s new in Linux 7.2.
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Episode 680: Go Hack Yourself
We turn HexStrike’s red team agents loose on our systems, as OpenSSH warns that AI-assisted bug hunting is already changing the security race.
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Episode 679: The Last Shutdown
An old Linux box powers down for the last time as we unwind its history, and the entire show, back to the beginning.
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Episode 678: Entropy Ain't Easy
Seven Linux kernels landed in one day. We sort out which belong in your homelab, and trace Linux’s long, occasionally disastrous quest for truly random numbers.
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Episode 677: We Got a Buzz
Block’s Buzz is an open, self-hostable workspace for humans, AI agents, chat, and code; and it may be the most Linux-friendly vision for what comes next.
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Episode 676: Fork Around and Find Out
Linus delivers a blunt verdict on AI in the Linux kernel, Chris finds the remote Linux desktop that finally works, and Brent gives his notes system a serious rebuild.
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Episode 675: Sloppy Agent Roasting
Wes’ brother’s PC is toast, making this the perfect moment to switch him to Linux. If our ambitious plan doesn’t scare him away first.
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Episode 674: LAN Before Time
The kernel taketh away, so we bringeth back. We build an AppleTalk LAN, ditch TCP/IP, and give a legendary retro network protocol the send-off it deserves.
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Episode 673: 8 Hidden Steam Machine Details
Eight details most people missed hint at the bigger Linux play behind Valve’s new Steam Machine.
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Episode 672: The Kernel Is Not a Museum
Your favorite open source projects have been busy. We round up the new releases worth knowing about, plus the big kernel changes headed your way soon.
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Episode 671: Windows Without Windows
We found the best way for a Linux user to manage Windows: keep it remote, keep it contained, and touch the desktop as little as possible.
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Episode 670: There's Chickens in that Nebula
Leave the farm without killing the chickens, or losing remote access? We dig into how we pulled it off: Frigate, local automation, sun-tracking coop doors, and a network that shrugged off an ISP outage.
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Episode 669: Harshing rsync's Vibe
rsync’s founder came back, patched real security bugs with AI help, and triggered an open source meltdown. Plus, two more projects reject AI-generated code as the community’s newest fault line cracks wide open.
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Episode 668: --yolo
Brent’s been hacking smart speakers, Wes has a surprise, and Chris gives up on OpenClaw.
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Episode 667: The Enterprise Endgame
Fedora Hummingbird, RHEL Forever, and Red Hat’s AI play: three big Summit takeaways, and why they matter far beyond Red Hat.
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Episode 666: Berkeley Suffering Distribution
Who survived the install, who made it to the desktop, and who learned the hard way that one little mistake will blow up the entire BSD box.
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Episode 665: Patch Me If You Can
We dig into the Copy Fail vulnerability and test a proof-of-concept against our own box. Plus, Jon Seager, VP of Engineering at Canonical joins us, and we kick off the BSD Challenge!
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Episode 664: Back to Root
After 26 years, we return to our roots and reflect on why LinuxFest Northwest is still a special event.
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Episode 663: The 99.8% Rescue
We all have data to rescue, you just don't realize it yet. This week we build our own custom live rescue distros, recover real data, and show you how to make your own.
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Episode 662: The GitHub Diet
Is it time to replace GitHub in our workflow? We git into it. Plus, our favorite features in the new Linux 7.0 release.
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Episode 661: Sink Your Claws In
The expensive, challenging, and humbling journey with open source agents.
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Episode 660: Boots and Breakups
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.
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Episode 659: Truth Trapper Keepers
The self-hosted app that turned Chris into a family Time Lord, then we iterate on a long-desired hardware hack.
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Episode 658: Automated Love Crunch
We each spent the week on our own projects, breaking then fixing things. Now we're back to compare progress, and a few lessons learned.
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657: Slop to Slap
After experiencing Planet Nix and SCaLE, we come back convinced the next phase of Linux is already taking shape.
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Episode 656: Why KDE Linux Surprised Us
We take KDE Linux for a spin and push it a little too far. Plus, a friend of the show stops by with a fresh tool: Nebula Commander.
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Episode 655: Speeding Up Mistakes
Planet Nix and SCaLE are just days away, and we're getting a head start with two guests, the tech, and the trends shaping open source. Our trip starts here!
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Episode 654: Creating Discord in the Matrix
We were minutes away from shutting down our Matrix server when the Discord news hit. Now we’re not just keeping it, we’re doubling down. Can open source seize this moment?
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Episode 653: The Kernel Always Wins
The news this week highlights shifts in Linux from multiple angles. What's evolving, why it matters, and that moment where the future actually works.
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Episode 652: Have Your Bot Call My Bot
We stress tested open source AI agents this week. What actually held up, and where it falls apart. Plus Brent’s $20 Wi-Fi upgrade.
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Episode 651: Uptime Funk
When your self-hosted services become infrastructure, breakage matters. We tackle monitoring that actually helps, alerts you won’t ignore, and DNS for local, and multi-mesh network setups.
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Episode 650: This Old Network
We rebuild a small office network around Linux, with an Unplugged twist and real-world constraints. Things don't go quite as expected...
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Episode 649: Burned by AI
The storage apocalypse has arrived. An old friend drops by to talk survival strategies as prices explode, and we pitch our own unapologetically 90s approach to stretching storage.
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Episode 648: I See Live People
We unleash a networking monitoring tool to spot new devices, track changes in real time, and fire alerts straight into Home Assistant, MQTT, and your phone.
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Episode 647: Plausibly Postulated Prophecies
We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025.
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Episode 646: The Great Holiday Homelab Special 🎄
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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Episode 645: COSMIC Christmas
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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Episode 644: The People's Filesystem
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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Episode 643: The Sunday Soapbox
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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Episode 642: Tunneling Home for the Holidays
Chris cooks up a remote-access trick for Jellyfin that skips VPNs entirely. One simple toggle: absurd, yet shockingly effective.
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Episode 641: Something New, Something Old
We dig into the biggest Linux hardware news of the year, then fire up our new-to-us 1L PC server.
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Episode 640: Duece Configalo: Desktop Gigolo
We dive into your configs, the genius moves, the glorious blunders, and everything in between.
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