Arch is under fire, two weeks and counting. We'll break down the mess, and share a quick fix. Plus, the killer new apps we've just added to our homelabs.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.
Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMnebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.Frigate NVRCoral USB Accelerator: ML Accelerator, USB 3.0 Type-CArch Linux - News: Recent service outagesArch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two — For now, the Arch team is working to mitigate the attack's impact, which highlights a bootstrapping issue. Tools designed to shift traffic to mirrors in the event the main infrastructure is unavailable rely on a mirror list obtained from that same main infrastructure.DHH on X — "Omarchy 2.0 release might have to wait a little longer. The AUR DDoS attack has picked back up, but the upside is that we're building in all sorts of resilience for the installer to deal with the assault! And meanwhile, we'll build a complete Omarchy package mirror for all.DHH on X — "We're pulling AUR out of the Omarchy install hotpath. It's an incredible resource, but we actually only need a handful of packages for the initial setup, and we can just host those ourselves. AUR really needs a new mirror strategy to avoid this predicament."Arch Linux continues to feel the force of a DDoS attack after two brutal weeks — attackers yet to be identified as project struggles to restore full serviceArch Linux Status PageArch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfacesaurpublish — PKGBUILD management framework for the Arch User Repositorysalvador — salvador is a bash script that will help you maintain your AUR packages.archlinux/aurweb — Hosting platform for the Arch User Repository (AUR), a collection of packaging scripts created by the Arch Linux communityTaskTrove — Self-hostable task managment that respect your privacy.shuthost — A neat little helper that manages the standby state of unix hosts with Wake-On-Lan configured, with Web-GUI.Closing the Digital Divide: Q&A with Local Computer Upcycler Mike Kellymkellyxp/nixbook — Convert your old computer (even chromebook) to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.CachyOS — Blazingly Fast OS based on Arch LinuxMOES Wireless Smart Scene Switch ButtonMinoston 800 Series Z-Wave Scene Controller, 4 ZWave ButtonBrent hates ricing PCs • Clip by @genebeanadd master branch nixpkgs overlay · nikolarobottesla/infra-nix-configPick: WakeMyPotato — Restart a Linux server made of a potato laptop after power outagesPick: spectacle-ocr-screenshot — A simple utility to automatically extract text from spectacle on plasma desktopsPick: spectacle-ocr — Add OCR functionality to Spectacle
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628: Don't Call it a Christro
When personalities clash, the users come last. Meanwhile, Chris' hyper-tuned setup stops being a toy and starts looking like a daily driver.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.
Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMToronto Meetup - JB Colony EventsLinux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash — A large and unfortunate mistake in the kernel development management process is underway.Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs changes for 6.17 - Josef BacikUbuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept — Ubuntu is testing "Dangerous" Desktop Images, daily builds with all Snaps pulled from the edge channel.Ubuntu 25.10 Will Ship With Linux 6.17 Even If It Means An Unstable "-rc" Kernelsyncthing 2.0 Released! — This is the first release of the new 2.0 series. Expect some rough edges and keep a sense of adventure! 🙏Z-Wave is not dead - Home Assistant — TL;DR: Z-Wave is alive and well, partly due to a strong community that is building new open-source resources.Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 — The ultimate way to connect Z-Wave devices to Home Assistant.Z-Wave reborn - Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 Reveal Promo - YouTubeHyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOSKeybinds Reverting to older config? · Hyprvibe Issue #2Errors at the top of the screen · Hyprvibe Issue #3Quinn's NixOS Setup: The FormatterQuinn's NixOS Setup: The HomeQuinn's NixOS Setup: The SharedQuinn's NixOS Setup: The HostsLibreNMS — A fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support. LibreNMS is a fork of Observium.Observium — Observium is a network monitoring and management platform that provides real-time insight into network health and performance.Shift Systems / ShiftMon · GitLab — An open source monitoring and logging tool based on Ansible, Telegraf, Grafana, and a bunch of other toolssst/opencode — AI coding agent, built for the terminal.Lightning Grows Up | This Week In Bitcoin 68flatpak/xdg-native-messaging-proxyNativeMessaging portal for sandboxed browsers · flatpak Issue #655Pick: papra — The minimalistic document archiving platform.Papra - DemoPick: lue — Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-SpeechPick: wlgblock — This project replaces the usual password screen with a Gameboy emulator running a patched Pokémon game!
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627: The 2 a.m. Rescue
Wes performs a 2 a.m. rescue at DEFCON, and Chris attempts to build a Linux desktop using nothing but vibes.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.
Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMPodverse — A FOSS podcast manager for iOS, Android, F-Droid, and web.Podverse - GitHubTexas Linux Festival 2025 - CFP extended to August 18!Nix Pipe Operator by piegamesde [RFC 0148]libexpr: experimental pipe operators by rhendricNix Vegas on GitHubNixVegas/badge — Rebuild the world at DEF CON with the Nix BadgeAND!XOR 5n4ck3yANDnXOR/ANDnXOR_DC33_BadgeNixOS Search - Packages - ztoolChrisLAS/hyprvibe — Chris' vibed-only, riced-up Hyprland desktop running atop NixOS.crush — The glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal 💘Cursor - The AI Code EditorVoid: an open source Cursor alternativegerbrent/storenix — NixOS configs for a store, containing two locations and multiple hosts. Please help me!Listener Javier @hacker.bikepacker - InstagramListener Javier @hacker.bikepacker - YouTubeHomeBox — A simple home inventory management softwaresysadminsmedia/homebox — A continuation of HomeBox the inventory and organization system built for the Home UserForester NotesDesigning tools for scientific thoughtjimsalterjrs/sanoid: — policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools which use OpenZFS for underlying next-gen storage.btrbk — Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumesBreez - Bitcoin in Every AppgPodder - Music AssistantGeneBean's Linux-specific NixOS aliases — GeneBean's MacOS-specific NixOS aliasesGeneBean's MacOS-specific NixOS aliasesAlby Hub — Alby Hub is a self-custodial, open source lightning wallet that connects to appsPick: ffshare — An android app to compress image, video and audio files through ffmpeg before sharing themPick: Actual Budget — Actual Budget is a super fast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances. At its heart is the well proven and much loved Envelope Budgeting methodology.SimpleFINConnect to your bank - SimpleFIN Bridge
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626: The Btrfs Blues
A Btrfs bug that bites is in the wild, and we discover whole home audio that works like a charm.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.
Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMHow to recover from BTRFS errors | Support | SUSEbtrfs-zero-log(8) — btrfs-progs — Debian Manpages — This command will clear the filesystem log tree. This may fix a specific set of problem when the filesystem mount fails due to the log replay.2018 PatchGit: Btrfs: fix warning when replaying log after fsync of a tmpfileGit: btrfs: fix fsync of files with no hard links not persisting deletionproblematic patch pulled into 6.16 on May 26thproblematic patch pulled into 6.15.3 on June 19thIncreased reports since 6.15.3 of corruption within the log tree - Peter JungNull deref during attempted replay of corrupt TREE_LOG in newer kernel - Russell HaleySystem failed to boot – Btrfs log tree error / System Administration / Arch Linux ForumsPATCH: btrfs: fix log tree replay failure due to file with 0 links and extents — When attempting to mount the fs, the log replay will fail patch on for-next branch of btrfs treegeneric: test fsync of file with 0 links and extentsMusic Assistant — Music Assistant is a music library manager for your offline and online music sources which can easily stream your favourite music to a wide range of supported players and be combined with the power of Home Assistant!Music Assistant Installation InstructionsInstallation InstructionsMusic Assistant Music ProvidersMusic Assistant Player ProvidersHome Assistant PluginHome Assistant Voice Preview Edition - Home AssistantSYMFONISK Sonos WiFi bookshelf speaker, black smart/gen 2 - IKEA USHomePod - AppleBelkin SoundForm Connect AirPlay 2 Adapter & Airplay 2 ReceiverWiiM Mini AirPlay 2 Wireless Audio StreamerGoogle Chromecast - Streaming Device with HDMI CableGoogle Chromecast Audio Media Streamer - *** 2 PACK *** | eBaydroans/mass_queue — Actions to control player queues for Music Assistantpunxaphil/maxi-media-player — Media card for Home Assistant UI with a focus on managing multiple media players, but not excluding single player setups.NinDTendo/homeassistant_gradual_volume_control — Home Assistant integration providing a service to gradually change the volume of media_players over a given timespan.Chawan: TUI web browser — A text-mode web browser and pager for Unix-like systems, with a focus on implementing modern web standards while remaining self-contained, easy to understand and extensible.SilverBullet — SilverBullet is a tool to develop, organize, and structure your personal knowledge and to make it universally accessible across all your devices.HeliumOS — An atomic desktop operating system for your devices.LINUX Unplugged 620 - Brent Loves Building Things — Off-the-shelf didn’t cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.rust-motd — Beautiful, useful, configurable MOTD generation with zero runtime dependenciesrustdress — Self hosted Lightning Address Serverrustdress: init at 0.5.2 by jordan-bravorustdress in nixpkgsPlausible Slop: Generative AI and Open Source CybersecurityPlausible Slop Timecode LinkDeath by a thousand slops | daniel.haxx.sePick: PlexRipper — A cross-platform Plex media downloader that seamlessly adds media from other Plex servers to your own!PlexRipper DocsPick: kde-control-station — A modern configuration center for KDE plasma based on the awesome kde_controlcentre by Prayag2Pick: kAirPods — Native AirPods integration for KDE Plasma 6 with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widgetAmilieCoding/gnomePods — Native AirPods integration for GNOME with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widget. Built off of kAirPods
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625: They're Doing it Wrong!
A radical rethink of what a Linux distro should do, and what it should stop doing. Plus, we dig into what's great about Linux 6.16.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.
Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMF43 Change Proposal: Filter Fedora Flatpaks for Atomic Desktops — With this change, we want to make the availability of a Fedora Flatpak an explicit decision for the Fedora Atomic Desktops.Fedora Flatpaks creates more workFedora Must (Carefully) Embrace FlathubStrategy 2028 Update – Fedora Community BlogInitiatives/Fedora bootc - Fedora Project Wiki — Silverblue & Kinoite are ready to be our desktop Editions, with bootc (Jason)Proposal: Enable Flathub by Default - Fedora DiscussionThe Case for Fedora Flatpaksbazaar: New App Store for GNOMELinux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More PerformanceEXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance"Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More DevicesLinux 6.16 Merges A Fix For The Macintosh IILinux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APXThe first half of the 6.16 merge windowThe second half of the 6.16 merge windowEnforcement (or not) for module-specific exported symbolsToward the unification of kselftests and KUnitBcachefs may be headed out of the kernelSupporting kernel development with large language modelsFending off unwanted file descriptorsLinux 6.16 - Linux Kernel NewbiesSlowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEsZoned Loop Block Device — The Linux Kernel documentationDJM-V10 Creative style 6-channel professional DJ mixer (black) - Pioneer DJLLM generated git-resolve.shAidan's NixOS FlakeUsing Experimental Lighthouse DNS with NebulaSONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle PlusPick: Toney — Toney is a fast, lightweight, terminal-based note-taking app for the modern developer.Pick: Etesync-Knotes — A secure note-taking application for linux, integrated with Etebase for encrypted synchronization.
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