LINUX Unplugged

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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Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.
Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube
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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Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.
Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube
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

Syncthing saves the day in an unexpected way, and we dig into what’s new in Linux 7.2.
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Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Passes Away
Linux 7.2 Kernel Newbies
Cache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUs
Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions
[REGRESSION] drm/sched: FAIR policy causes serious performance degradation at max GPU load on 9070XT
reduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating outside the lock — While profiling Meta's caching code, I found pipe->mutex contention on the hot path. anon_pipe_write() currently calls alloc_page() once per page while holding pipe->mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any concurrent reader on the same mutex.
Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches
Specially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 Driver
The beginning of the 7.3 merge window
Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance
Linux 7.3 Expected To "Flatten The Pick" For Better Scheduling While Gaming & More
Linux 7.3 x86/mm Lands Patches To Greatly Improve Latency-Sensitive Workloads
Sched_ext's Sub-Scheduler Support Now "Feature Complete" With Linux 7.3
Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x Wins
Linux 7.3 binfmt_misc To Allow BPF Programs To Dynamically Choose Execution Environments
Linux 7.3 drops support for two ancient file systems
Linux 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMs
Two Very Exciting Memory Management Optimizations Going Into Linux 7.3
Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes
Syncthing GitHub
Rclone — Feature-rich alternative to cloud storage vendors' web storage interfaces.
LocalComet — A private, local-first Windows AI assistant built and validated with Codex.
A look at the Quickshell desktop-component toolkit
MCP-NixOS - Model Context Protocol for NixOS — Because your AI shouldn't hallucinate package names.
dataiku/kiji-proxy — Privacy proxy for your OpenAI requests
Rockbox - Free Music Player Firmware
Pick: ssh-clipboard — Peer-to-peer clipboard sync over SSH. Copy anything on one machine, paste on another. Open source, and Written in Rust ackchyually.

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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Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.
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TXLF 2026 Full schedule
TXLF 2026
SCALE 24x CFP — The CFP closes November 1, 2026.
Nix Vegas 2026 Talks
OpenSSH 10.5 Fixes Security Flaws as Project Responds to AI-Assisted Bug Discovery — OpenSSH 10.5 ships with several security fixes, as developers say growing AI-assisted vulnerability research is prompting more frequent releases.
openssh.org/txt/release-10.5 — Recently the OpenSSH team have received a large number of security bug reports, many of which are findings from AI models or made with AI assistance. While many AI reports are determined not to have security impact when considered in the context of a realistic threat model, we very much welcome these reports, especially when combined with human triage, analysis, test-cases and particularly when accompanied by proposed fixes.
OpenAI Talk at Black Hat USA 2026 — The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident - A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AI
HexStrike AI MCP Agents
TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.
topgrade — Upgrade all the things
magnusoverli/opencode — AI-Powered Configuration Assistant for Home Assistant
Home Assistant God Mode — YouTube
cbbs_pi — A vintage CBBS-style bulletin board system emulator for macOS, Linux, Docker and Raspberry Pi.
Mother Hen App
rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy - Inside Rust Blog
Covered Bridge Cookies
Cluckwork — Poultry farm management — starting with egg-producing layer operations, with architectural headroom for broilers, pullets, breeders, live bird sales, meat products, and hatchery modules.
Slack Dumper — Save or export your private and public Slack messages, threads, files, and users locally without admin privileges.
Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym | TechCrunch
Pick: iDescriptor — Cross-platform, open-source and free idevice management tool written in Rust and Qt.
iDescriptor on GitHub
iDescriptor on Flathub
iDescriptor in Nix Packages
Pick: KiwiFS — Searchable, structured, versioned markdown. Plug in an agent in 30 seconds — or self-host with a single binary.