LINUX Unplugged

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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Going All-In on a Wayland Future
KDE/kup: Backup scheduler for the Plasma desktop
Sovereign Tech Fund Invests Over €1 Million in KDE Software Development
KDE and AI, and you, and me – Adventures in Linux and KDE
What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE - YouTube
What Even is Ocean?
Akseli Lahtinen on Union for QtWidgets
StyleKit talk at Akademy 2026
Framework Laptop 12
KDE Linux at 2: what we've learned and how it can help you
QA infrastructure in KDE
KDE at 30: What Are the Colored Blobs Telling Us?
KDE: The Documentary TRAILER — The Story of Free Software Underdogs — Full Film Coming October 14th
What's Happening in KDE Remote Desktop — Improved Unattended Mode and More
This Week in Plasma: Bi-Directional RDP Clipboard Sync
This Week in Plasma: So Many Ways to Click and Scroll
This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q2 2026
KDE for Enterprise Needs a Strong PIM Infrastructure
Framework's Fedora KDE Plasma Laptop 12 Guide
systemd 262
A review canary in systemd's contributor instructions
Linux Live Update documentation
LUO userspace API
memfd_create(2)
FluxCast — Miracast/WFD ecosystem platform with .deb and AUR packages.
fluxcast-flake
JB Gulf Coast Meetup Room
Nixarr — Media Server Nixos Module
Nixflix — Nixflix is a declarative media server configuration manager for NixOS
garage — S3-compatible object store for small self-hosted geo-distributed deployments.
Pick: Cliparr — Cliparr is a streamlined media clipper that allows you to quickly create and download clips from the media currently playing on your Plex or Jellyfin server, or from a local video file opened directly in your browser.
Cliparr: Plex and Jellyfin providers
Cliparr: local file or direct media URL
Cliparr: export settings
Cliparr: subtitles
Mediabunny — A complete JavaScript media toolkit for the browser
KyleTryon/gifenc: fast GIF encoding
Pick: fdroidcl — A command-line F-Droid desktop client
space-elevator — Space Elevator gets you to orbit. What you do up there is your business.

We're turning our spare, scattered storage into one giant network drive. Good idea? Maybe.
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Texas Linux Festival 2026
Valve's Steam Frame Now Available At $1059+ USD
My Last Quest - Launch 84
RustFS — RustFS is an open-source, S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as MinIO and Ceph.
Announcing RustFS 1.0.0 GA - RustFS Blog
rustfs - GitHub — RustFS is an open-source, S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as MinIO and Ceph.
Amazon.com: Xiaomi TV Box S 3rd Gen - 4K UHD, Google TV, 32GB Memory, Dolby Vision & Atmos, WiFi 6, HDMI 2.1, Fast Streaming, Compact and Powerful : Electronics
Macintosh SE/30 - Wikipedia
Love Down Babylon
Armada — The Open Source, Encrypted Discord Alternative
absorb — A cross platform Audiobookshelf client for Android and iOS
Lissen: Audiobookshelf Client
GrakovNe/lissen-android — Minimalistic Android client app for Audiobookshelf
wizarr - GitHub — Wizarr is an advanced user invitation and management system for Jellyfin, Plex, Emby etc.
vikunja — The task manager you actually own.
zj-radar — A Zellij sidebar that shows Claude Code, Codex, and other AI-agent status across every tab.
Pi - GitHub
Pi — AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI
Zoboomafoo - Wikipedia
Pick: flakelet — Run systemd services from Nix flakes and update them independently of the host system
Pick: ffdash — A TUI for batch AV1 & VP9 video encoding with hardware acceleration, real-time progress monitoring, and full control over quality settings. Made to work as a viable encoding dashboard over SSH. · GitHub
Pick: Chompass — Private calorie tracking for Android and the browser. Bring your own AI key, or run Gemma 4 on-device.

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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Jupiter Broadcasting: Ultimate Home Theater PT 1 — 17 years ago, Chris Builds the Ultimate Home Theater. Part one goes into using OTA HD and recording it with MyTH.
Wizarr — Wizarr is a automatic user invitation system for Plex, Jellyfin and Emby. Create a unique link and share it to a user and they will automatically be invited to your media Server! They will even be guided to download the client and instructions on how to use your requests software!
Seerr — Seerr is a free and open source software application for managing requests for your media library. It integrates with the media server of your choice: Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby. In addition, it integrates with your existing services, such as Sonarr, Radarr.
Maintainerr — Maintainerr makes managing your media easy. No longer will you have to worry about your precious hard drive space being taken up by media, that isn't even being watched.
Tracearr — Real-time analytics and intelligent detection for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby. Free, open source, self-hosted via Docker.
jellarr — Declarative configuration engine for Jellyfin — apply and sync server settings from YAML via the Jellyfin API.
Jellyfin 12.0
Release 12.0 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
Query Performance Improvements by Shadowghost · Pull Request #16062 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
[Group] Jellyfin 10.11.x performance issues · Issue #15685 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
State of the Fin 2026-05-24
Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy
Scanner Refactoring · jellyfin/jellyfin-meta · Discussion #125 · GitHub
Jellyfin - Project Leadership Changes — Don't worry, no jellyforks here.
On My Jellyfin Resignation - Joshua M. Boniface
Migration fails upgrading from 10.11.11 to 12.0 unstable: UNIQUE constraint failed: Users.NormalizedUsername · Issue #17458 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
Jellyswarrm: Bring all your Jellyfin servers together — Reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place. If you’ve got libraries spread across different locations or just want everything together, Jellyswarrm makes it easy to access all your media from a single interface.
Smriti — photos without a server
ChivukulaVirinchi/photovault — Smriti is offline-first photo library for your drives. No server, no cloud. On-device face recognition, Google Photos Takeout import. Windows/macOS/Linux.
Commodore - The Future We Were Promised — In 1982, we made computers fun. In 2026, we’re making tech fun again.
go-vikunja/vikunja: The task manager you actually own.
Vikunja: The task manager you actually own
automatic-ripping-machine — Insert an optical disc (Blu-ray, DVD, CD) and checks to see if it's audio, video (Movie or TV), or data, then rips it.
Ripping Movies Automatically With ARM - YouTube
OpenMouse — Free, open source mouse configurator
OpenLogi
OpenLogi — A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.
Pick: pelagica — Pelagica is a web, desktop, and TV client for Jellyfin built using React. It aims to provide a fast, modern, and customizable user experience for browsing and watching your media library. It's available as a self-hosted web app, a native desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and a TV app for Samsung Tizen, LG webOS and Apple TV.
Wails — Build beautiful, performant applications using Go and modern web technologies. One codebase. Three platforms. No browsers.
Pick: tether — Tether aims to support all of the Apple Continuity features on Linux that are technically possible. If you've migrated away from macOS but still carry an iPhone, Tether provides the missing ecosystem integration.
Pick: ICSx⁵ — ICSx⁵ is an Android app to subscribe to remote or local iCalendar files (like time tables of your school/university or event files of your sports team).
ICSx⁵ — ICSx⁵ is an Android app to subscribe to remote (Webcal) or local iCalendar files.

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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Covered Bridge Cookies — Our cookies have no trans fats and are made with the best ingredients from Vermont based companies. Butter from Cabot, Chocolate from Barre Callebaut of St Albans, and we always use unbleached and unbromated flour along with natural flavorings. We use small batch production techniques that produce an unmistakable home made taste unlike mass-produced cookies.
Zola — Your one-stop static site engine. Forget dependencies. Everything you need in one binary.
gerbrent/brentgervais.ca — Landing page for Brent Gervais, built with Zola
JB Zola Demo Site
jupiterbroadcasting.com-zola repo — Weekend speedrun port of the JB site to Zola.
Zola Documentation
Zola CLI Usage
Zola Directory Structure
Zola Installation
Zola Search
Zola GitHub
Zola Changelog
WintermuteOS — A personalized declarative desktop built from NixOS, Wayland/Hyprland, and QuickShell.
SwapMarket — Non-custodial Bitcoin swaps marketplace. Swap between different Bitcoin layers while staying in full control.
SwapMarket/swapmarket.github.io - GitHub — Decentralized and trustless marketplace for Boltz-compatible Bitcoin swap providers.
Alby Hub CLI — CLI for managing Alby Hub
trynix — Boot any package nixpkgs ever shipped, in this tab. Pick a package and a version from 13 years of nixpkgs history; its closure is fetched from cache.nixos.org into an x86_64 Linux virtual machine (QEMU compiled to WebAssembly) and you get a shell with the package on PATH. Nothing runs on a server.
Any Nix package, live in your browser | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
fzakaria/trynix: Boot anything nixpkgs ever shipped, in your browser.
Your executable is a SQLite database | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
Actually Queryable Executables | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
hughhowey/neo — A novel-writing tool created by a novelist.
nives — An AI assistant for Home Assistant that remembers. One add-on, and the memory stays on your own machine.
nives-omarchy — Talk to your Home Assistant house in plain language, from your Omarchy desktop.
Pick: OpenMouse — OpenMouse runs entirely in your browser over WebHID — DPI, polling rate, buttons, and RGB, for dozens of gaming mice, with no accounts, no installs, and no telemetry sent anywhere.
OpenMouse Supported Devices
Pick: Wallos — Open-Source Personal Subscription Tracker
Wallos on GitHub — Open-source, self-hostable personal subscription tracker. Visualize your recurring expenses, manage your budget, and save money.

Quickshell is rising, and bringing with it a new wave of customizable Linux desktops, community-built plugins, and serious funding.
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Quickshell — Quickshell is a toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens, and other desktop components using QtQuick. It can be used alongside your wayland compositor or window manager to build a complete desktop environment.
Caelestia — A fluid, morphing shell for your Linux desktop.
end-4’s configuration
Waybar — Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.
Omacom Foundation to be premier Quickshell sponsor
Omarchy — — Beautiful, Fun & Opinionated Linux by DHH
omacom/omarchy - Github
The first plugin competition winners — Omarchy News
Omacom Foundation to be exclusive Hyprland sponsor — Omarchy News
Hyprland — An independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
hyprwm/Hyprland - GitHub
omarchy-radio-atlas — Explore live radio on a rotatable globe from the Omarchy bar.
Home Assistant for Omarchy — Home Assistant Quickshell plugin for Omarchy 4
syncshell — See sync health, open folders, control the service, and install or update Syncthing from the Omarchy bar.
syncshell-dms: — Read-only Syncthing monitoring plugin for DankMaterialShell
Dank Linux — A Modern Desktop for Wayland.
Dank Linux Docs
TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.
Dawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History).
Immich — High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
How to get a TomTom API key - TomTom Docs
FileBrowser Quantum - GitHub
FileBrowser Quantum — The best free self-hosted web-based file manager with source configuration, modern authentication, office support, and lightning-fast search.
Open Book Touch — A pocketable, front-lit, open source e-reader — for every book, in every language.
Pick: dankcalendar — Calendar from the Dank Linux Suite. Local, Google, Microsoft, CalDAV, and iCloud calendars in one standalone app.
DankCalendar on Flathub
Pick: Homelable — Visual Homelab Mapper & Monitor
Homelable — Self-hosted homelab infrastructure visualizer, interactive network diagram with live status monitoring.
homelable-hacs — Home Assistant integration for Homelable