# 🎄 Unused Homelab Holiday Submissions 🎄


               

# bcachefs changelog for 1.33


               

Marcel needs an escape hatch!

Hey guys,
               

I often hear this sentiment about Kent trying to sneak new features in. I am surprised how many folks use this as an excuse to write off a decade of contributions (beyond just BcacheFS). Especially considering it's not an unheard of circumstance during an RC window.

It seems like looking for a reason to write him off. My understanding is that the change was more akin to a logging change than a new feature, and was intended for users in the wild who were already using Bcachefs on large systems (some fascinating user testimony can be found in the bcachefs subreddit).  You can literally find multiple examples of the Btrfs, sound subsystem (soundblaster driver), sleep/suspend, and other devs doing the same over the years. This was not some unholy breach of the golden rules. In fact, Linus specifically states fixes are allowed during the RC.
               

Zach Writes:

I haven’t had a chance to try it yet but when you guys were talking about Omarchy and having a better update mechanism to remove things that were removed etc. the first thing that came to mind was the CommonArch project. https://github.com/CommonArch It seems to be very similar to the bootc and bootable container projects but based on creating arch and other distro based containers instead of being tied to ostree-rpm like bootc is. 
               

darnir writes:

Hello JB!
               

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Hey Chris,

Was just listening to The Self Hosted podcast from May 2 and wanted to mention a few corrections:
               

Name: John Smith
Email: lets_not_spam_anyone@gmail.com
Topic or Show: LINUX Unplugged
               

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Name: eddie J

Subject: Thinking of setting up IPtv for my parents
               

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Hank got FreeBSD 15 on Pi 4

Subject: FreeBSD in a Pi 4B (or 400)
               

Hi Chris,

I totally respect you and your opinions on the DOGE actions regarding federal employees. I agree with you that there is plenty of fat to trim on the workforce and programs. I wanted to provide you with another perspective and some additional context. My wife is a federal employee, but she is not part of that fat. She is a very hard worker who takes a lot of pride in her work. She could be working a much higher paying job, but has chosen to stay with the government for the last 15 years because of the flexibility this provides her. She has enjoyed some level of telework since she started there 15 years ago, and was able to flex her hours to work four 10 hour days M-Th and get Fridays off. All of this flexibility has been used to help raise our 3 (soon to be 4) children. Her agency has been utilizing telework to save leased space. They had cut their space down by 1/3 about 8 years ago by having employees work remotely a few days a week, and go to a "hoteling" model in the office so they have much fewer desks than people. Since covid they increased telework and cut another 1/3 of their space. That space reduction is guaranteed cost savings for the government.
               

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MJVC Highly recommend mermaidjs for diagramming

Message: Hearing the discussion on making diagrams, I wanted to highlight mermaidjs which is a domain specific language for making diagrams.
               

New to NixOS, just installed on a new PC I built with Ryzen 7700X and nvidia 3070. Using for games and some work stuff, also have windows 11 installed dual booting. Experience so far:

Getting it up and running with btrfs encrypted /home and / subvolumes and Cosmic Alpha 2, working nvidia drivers, was surprisingly easy, just following the wiki
               

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Sean AKA Windows Kernel Expert and Fellow writes...

Windows already has something like ebpf in the kernel, DTrace. They announced the port in 2018. In Linux, all that kernel performance tooling build with ebpf, that could be used to gather heuristics and indicate security issues, was worked on by Brendan Gregg. The "shouting in the data center" guy from Sun Microsystems, where DTrace was developed. CrowdStrike could build something that uses DTrace to trap kernel syscalls and inspect behavior inside the kernel. If I were Microsoft, I would be working to build an entitlement into the kernel capabilities system which allows use of DTrace for certain signed pieces of software. Right now, if you enable DTrace right now, it's enabled for the whole system and is fantastic for bug hunting and hacking.
               

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Hey Guys -

 Well… that was short lived!! lol! Just heard the massive R boost, so here ya go! R’s official song.
               

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Chris,

  Although I fought for Rust to be the language of Coder Radio, I cannot afford to go higher than the Gophers. So, as a sign of good faith and a hard fought battle, I am sending you a song generated for the current champion. Also, Go is my second favorite language, so here ya go. Not sure why the app downloads it as a video though.
               

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Mike the Forgotten writes in about CrowdStrike...

Was just listening to the conversation about crowdstrike. I share your frustration, but from the angle of software engineering. So many tech companies call their developers "engineers" but it is events like this that demonstrate why "real" professional engineers (those that took the standardized test) look down on people that call themselves software engineers.
               

R Allen lives in the mose-based places in the States.

Traffic cameras are not used in Missouri. People started putting fake paper tags on their cars and paper masks of city officials on, and running red lights at 2 am, automatically sending tickets to the people in charge. They want to weaponize traffic cameras? We'll just point them at them.
               

networking.firewall.enable = true;
networking.firewall.trustedInterfaces = ["tailscale0"];
networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [22 9999];
               

Olympia Mike on "verified only Flatpaks"

I'm curious your take on a recent update that happened in Linux Mint, and the possible knock on effect of it.
               

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Yarek writes...

Hello, long time listener, coder QA member, rare feedbacker here.
               

Nathan writes...

I have been using Tube Archivist (https://github.com/bbilly1/tubearchivist) for a while now and it is fantastic. It is a self-hosted YouTube media server. It runs in a docker container which meant the setup was pretty easy and uses yt-dlp in the back end to download youtube videos. I have used a few YouTube downloaders in the past like TubeSync but TubeArchivist is the best one I've used so far. Despite being a relatively new project it feels very polished, the web interface looks good, and is easy to use. The developers are very active, I have put in many feature requests and was surprised by the quick response and openness to implementing the features.
               

Kate ask:

Hey boys - I'm a new listener; last week was my first episode. You mentioned covering Linux mistakes for noobs. +1 from me, please. Microsoft has officially gone off the deep end with this AI stuff. I'm pretty sure AI Clippy is pulling the strings behind the scenes. Any tips for escaping to Linux before I get assimilated? What are the big "don'ts" for a newbie?
               

Kate ask:

Hey boys - Microsoft has officially gone off the deep end with this AI stuff. I'm pretty sure AI Clippy is pulling the strings behind the scenes. Any tips for escaping to Linux before I get assimilated? What are the big "don'ts" for a newbie?
               

Look at apps like AntennaPod and Pocketcasts. What have they done for Podcasting in the last 5, 8, or 10 years? 

While massive commercial, corporate platforms kick Podcasts ass with features that have drawn in users and money, these apps did nothing. 
               

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"the NixOS Foundation in no way controls or governs the Nix community, which has, since its inception, demonstrated its ability to self-govern very well."

But since this issue has been ongoing for many months, it's not clear to me at all that it demonstrates the ability to self-govern.
               

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+ [mafl: Minimalistic flexible homepage](https://github.com/hywax/mafl)

> Mafl is an intuitive service for organizing your homepage. Customize Mafl to your individual needs and work even more efficiently!
               

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Josh asks..

I have just enough JS and Python skills to get by, but breaking into development in your late 30s seems impossible.
               

Hey!

Long time listener of JB since 2012-2013 and a member. I'll try to keep this short without going into tooo much of the weeds but If you would like more detail I'd be happy to write back in.
               

Peter Asks..

What are your thoghts on using Localstack (https://github.com/localstack) for local development. Looks very intesting, AWS services on your local network.
               

Angry Kids writes...

No chris, nVidia is the KING of AI right now.  Aple is fumbling around with their shit on their on their CPUs as is AMD on their mobile CPUs(for now), but end of day nVidia kills, the memory bandwidth of a general purpose compute card(effectively any modern nvidia 'GPU') absolutely SLAUGHTERS Apple's, AMD's etc. feeble on CPU units... sure they have theoretically high throughput which they which never achieve because they are BANDWIDTH STARVED!
               

t3kg33k Asks...

Hello, JB crew. t3kg33k here from times past. My apologies for not sending a boost lately; it should be on it's way after this email.
               

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Brule via Matrix asks...

My grandpa wants video surveillance cameras for his home. About 8 of them. What options are there for storing and accessing the data locally without it being on a remote server?
               

Olympia Mike has a new text editor.

I've recently been having issues with VSCode on NixOS breaking after some updates.  The fix was to blow away my local .config settings for it, and set it all back up.  Needless to say, this was getting annoying.  I've also long been curious about VSCode alternatives, as it always make me uncomfortable to overly rely on one tool.
               

Blair write...

Website: https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/
               

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Brandon goes down the IPFS Rabbit hole

Thanks for all the great work. Love listening to each episode and show. You guys are the highlight of my daily commute. Following the touch on IPFS podcasting a few episodes ago I decided to dive down the rabbit hole. I updated an unmaintained container for umbrel and made it available for all users and not just those using umbrel and an unRAID template in case other users want to use it. Just one way myself and part of the community can help the V4V and decentralized podcasting community.
               

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version: "3.7"
services:
  tailscale:
               

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Craig coming in with Browser Solutions

In Episode 546 you mentioned an issue with Edge opening before your key-chain is unlocked. Can't you just set your default browser to a shell script that waits for the key chain to be unlocked before launching Edge? I suspect requiring password to login on boot would unlock it on login and might also fix the issue.
               

Xcode vent from PirateByteNinja via Matrix

Talk me down guys? 
               

+ It started like any other day.
+ I got up early and traveled about an hour into downtown Seattle.
+ I got to my first client at 7:30am, and it was still dark outside. But I needed to take care of things before they opened. 
               

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woden501 via matrix - Looking for Python Pointers

Looking for pointer in the right direction for something I'm working on right now that someone here may know some tools to assist the effort.
               

David asks about AGI

Can you give us thoughts on AGI (artificial general intelligence)? I don't see it anywhere on the horizon, certainly not in ChatGPT, but things are moving so fast that maybe it's coming?
               

SpazzyC's 32bit Laptops are on the way!


               

Squishy IO Writes in About our Nix Coverage 


               

Egon Checking in!

Hi Chris and Mike,
               

Olympia Mike Reporting Back!

I wrote in a little over a month ago sharing my nightmare of a time with Meta banning my entire domain (and all subdomains) to my SaaS company.  I've been hard at work since then to try and get this cleared up and wanted to give you an update.
               

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Pasword123 writes...

How can a company with such clever people be so tone-deaf? Most of the content on Apple TV+ is only for half the political spectrum. The latest season of Ted Lasso is peppered with throwaway lines just to virtue signal, and The Problem with Jon Stewart is a perfect example of their bias.
               

Alex aka gigatexal has updated his Coder Clips Blog

https://gigatexal.blog/pages/coder/coder.html has been updated with some clips from the old catalog. I'll try to keep it updated more regularly. Also, an RSS feed is in the works.
               

Donald reports from the dark matter dev realm. - A Jupiter Party Member

+ He notes on .Net vs Java in industry that when he was in gov, he saw a lot of MS/C#
               

Olympia Mike's got a domain nightmare! 


               

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Hey,

longtime listener, not-very-long-time member, once-writer here.
               

No Name lives two lives.

Over my career I've seen many people do this, and this year I decided to try it out. Get one job as a contractor and another one as full payroll.
               

Alex is Bloggin about Coder

https://gigatexal.blog/pages/coder/coder.html this will be a page that i update from time to time with notes much like i used to on twitter but i have since deleted my twitter account because i didn't like the person i was becoming when i used it and couldn't keep it in check so deletion was the only way but then i didn't have a way to ping you all so i created this
               

The Hawk Says They'll get Caught! 

With respect to dual W2s employees. They'll get caught. Most respectable firms do background checks. The cheapest tier of reports do not include past/current employers -- really its just any outstanding warrants. However, the mid-tier reports certainly do: major debt, current employer, credit, and more.
               

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Joe's thoughts regarding funding more OSS Devs

In regards to helping fund more open source developers, I think if the federal government(s) had policies to allow for tax rebates on corporate taxes if companies support / donate to open source it would be a step in the right direction. Perhaps open that while closing a loop hole here or there in the same tax year. 
               

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Listener Mike brought the Spice!

Listening to episode 531. Working as a developer since 1996, I’ve got a different take on tech stack.
               

hpc morgan brought the bacon!

I promise next time I will boost! Just want to say, I actually originally was going to the college I graduated from for Automotive repair as I had had internships in local shops and a fair amount of experience. I found out my college had an InfoSec degree and changed my degree that day I want to pass along something I heard from various mechanics, shop owners and even the head of that automotive dept at my college: "Your back will be shot by 40 so by that point you should be working towards owning a shop or specializing in more static experienced work like engine rebuilds so after removing the component from the vehicle you can sit in a normal chair and work on the component like you were at a desk." Anyone who has had to work under a dashboard will understand this.
               

Will is Ammused by IBM's new AI Tool

Something that I thought might be amusing for Coder or LUP -- IBM's AI just added its second code generation feature (its first was something about generating ansible playbooks which might be cool) and it's the ability rewrite COBOL as Java, which I find hilarious. That might be one niche that GitHub Copilot hasn't covered yet, so I'll give them that.
               

Olympia Mike's API Rant

Listening to you guys talk about APIs and how they have changed has me all fired up.  I'm curious if you guys have noticed a really annoying trend with APIs over the years too.
               

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Hi Chris and Mike,

I’m a long-time listener and a new dad who just lost his Web3 job. I want to say that Chris was right about Bitcoin, and all the other cryptocurrencies being VC money grabs.
               

From "Jay Sam Bee in Philadelphia"

Dear JB,
               

Steve's Getting a Shake Down by Oracle!

Love the show. Any thoughts on the current round of Oracle shakedowns? My current company, a non-profit hospital system with ~15,000 employees across several hospitals was contacted by Oracle last year to audit our Java usage. One thing led to another and now its in the hands of the legal team, but bottom line: We hardly use Java at all - handful of apps by a very small handful of people. Oracle is demanding we pay $X per month per employee (~$1.4million/year) and pay back licensing for several years, so >$7million now, then ongoing 1.4million every year. Then they want additional money for anything running on servers, so probably a few million more there.
               

2023-08-13 11:44:54 : Requesting work...
2023-08-13 11:44:57 : Response : {'show': 'Boostagram Ball', 'episode': 'Boostagram Ball - Episode 03', 'download': 'https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmZPVH9xvfbMRRaUkBzuxydTjZNC1S4TTCd13E2kqxh9HD/BBALL-03-2023-08-11-Final.mp3', 'pin': '', 'filename': 'BBALL-03-2023-08-11-Final.mp3', 'delete': '', 'message': 'Finish last request. Download/Add/Report hash.'}
2023-08-13 11:44:57 : Downloading https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmZPVH9xvfbMRRaUkBzuxydTjZNC1S4TTCd13E2kqxh9HD/BBALL-03-2023-08-11-Final.mp3
               

Ricardo points out Safari does the same.

Hello Chris 👋 hope you're having a nice summer,
               

## [Framework 16 DIY Edition AMD Ryzen ](https://frame.work/products/laptop16-diy-amd-7040)

### Specs
               

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Why was Gigi hated?

Gigi Sohn was a controversial choice for FCC commissioner for a number of reasons.
               

Mas is looking for a mentor. 

Hi,
               

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Garret's Thoughts on the RHEL Source Changes...

Hi guys!  RE: RedHat - After reading the blog posts, listening to the Ask Noah interview, and general discussion about it.  I generally land with Chris on the topic.  The Cliff's Notes version I've come away with was that RedHat was spending RedHat time and resources to make RHEL sources easy to take and rebuild even though they are not using that publishing endpoint.  With this change, source is still published, they just aren't doing the extra legwork for the rebuilders in the "Sure. You can copy my homework, just change it a little." sense.
               

Paul's thoughts on the RHEL changes...

 have listened to EP 517 and felt one opinion was missed in discussion. I hope that I can provide that opinion in a respectful and thought-provoking way. (I hope it is not seen as narrow-minded)
               

Name: Matthew Heltman

Topic or Show: General Comments
               

Do we forsee folks jumping from RHEL?

After the recent news about RedHat changing their opensource policies, I decided to make the switch from Fedora with Gnome to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE. With CentOS changes, the layoffs, and now this, It's clear that IBM is running the show, and I'm not a fan of the decisions being made.
               

Nicholas Wants to be more marketable.

Hey guys. I've been listening to your all's podcast off and on for several years now and I always enjoy hearing your opinion about the market and the ever-changing world of tech and dev work. 
               

Brian S sent us a Server!

Name: Brian Steisslinger
               

Yarek is seeing red flags...

concerned about the student's decision to work on a custom software project for a sausage production shop. They believe that there are several red flags in the project, including:
               

Jacob Asks does the Tech Stack REALLY matter?

Hey Mike & Chris!
               

Should Alex take the Job?

Hi Chris and Michael,
               

Olympia Mike Needs a shake up

Hey guys!  Long time listener and jupiter party member here.  Still unsuccessful at getting sats into Albi, so kicking it old school with a contact form.
               

Ethan: The Valley Vibes and the Topsy-Turvy World of Startups

Hey Chris and Mike,
               

skoobasteeve: Is there an Important Role for VCs?

Hi Chris and Mike,
               

Why would Amazon dunk on their own Serverless?

David writes...
               

Mike Fights for Serveless

Sorry guys, you're dead wrong about serverless. I'm struggling to keep my old man rant short but here I go.
               

Huck Wonders about AI Jobs

Writing in with a question. What do you think about AI taking computer science jobs. If you thinks it's a possibility, what jobs will be taken. I would like to work with back-end, but would that be safe from AI.
               

Joel's take on AI Doomerism

Regarding the apparent AI doomerism consensus in the valley, I suspect this a motte-and-bailey.
               

# Boosts vs Patreon

### From Scott
               

# [India blocks OSS Apps](https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/centre-blocks-14-mobile-apps-used-by-terrorists-in-pakistan-to-send-info-in-jammu-and-kashmir-101682913776616.html)


               

Chris' Take Away


               

Cmd Riker Leaks in...

Just wanted to anonymously drop this in, an interesting paper from a googler working in research has published an internal paper on how ChatGPT & Bard will essentially be won out by Open Source LLM's....
               

Mike Dalrymple via Fireside (mousedownmike)
	
-   Many organizations migrating to the cloud are doing it for the wrong reasons, such as committing to long-term contracts with cloud providers.
               

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Hi Guys,
               

The Local Knowledge Problem

The economic local knowledge problem refers to the challenge of obtaining and utilizing local knowledge within an economy. Local knowledge is knowledge that is specific to a particular place and not easily transferred to other contexts.
               

Nate Has a Diff way of viewing AI Co-Pilots

Listening to episode 511 and the talk about Microsoft's framing of generative AI as co-pilot or assistant that doesn't need to be perfect. I think a perhaps more accurate version (and maybe slightly more humorous) is that generative AI is child labor without the major ethical issues. Like a child, it can be helpful to complete tasks but it needs a lot of guidance and checking. It's not an adult who can be given a somewhat ambiguous task and sent off to do it. 
               

CeeBee Using ChatGPT to create a Kids Book

I've been generating kids stories and telling it to write it as a children's book with a short paragraph per page, to generate an stable diffusion prompt to go with each page, then I use a classic animation checkpoint to generate the image
               

Colin has an example of how companies can set up for OSS funding.

 Hey guys, my work (Rocket Mortgage) just announced that they're going to be donating $1000 a month to open source projects. It's kind of cool too because they're going to leave it up to the dev teams to decide which projects the donations go to each month. I don't agree with everything my company does, but I thought that was pretty awesome. Hopefully this is something that catches on. Thanks for everything guys, love the show!
               

Anonymous DMD in Phoenix

Hi Chris and Mike,
               

StarFractal: On the slow downfall of Apple and the Mac

As part of my job I require the use of local virtual machines for hardware testing (still difficult to plug a USB device into the cloud). My go to has been Windows but recently starting using the Microsoft Office suite as part of changing jobs and it is the most painful experience, on Windows. Colleagues would share their screen and I would see the glory of using Office apps on a Mac, they appear to be re-written, no cruft applications that just let you get your work done. I was almost about to make the switch when we needed to use a Linux VM to do some local development and my colleague on the Mac could not do it. 
               

Joel things OSS should adopt the Ransomware Model

If I found myself hungry for breakfast and the sole maintainer of an important piece of open source infrastructure, I might add a big QR code to the top of my github readme.
               

Johan thinks Bug Bounties could be the solution

Hey gents long time listener of the show. I have been a realtime style c, c++  developer for a while. I am very interested in your issues with opensource funding whether its brew, npm, ect. I believe that opensource runs most effectively when its tools for other developers to use. In your last episode you were talking about how you were looking for solutions. I had layed out a potential solution to this a few years ago as a potential project. In my opinion the best option would be a type of bug bounty program paired with like an in platform currency that can freely flow between parties without tax implications and difficult transaction stuff. Similar to how some ingame currencies work. If you do this you could take a small cut whenever they import or export the currency to the real world.
               

Name: Bart Smit  
Email: [bart@smits.scot](mailto:bart@smits.scot)  
Twitter:   
               

Chunky Pie Mentions the Tea Package Manager

gentleman, have heard you talk about the issues, pain, open source developers, and in this most recent episode mentioned how they should be some way within the NMP package manager for devs to get paid every time their package gets downloaded. 
               

Chuck has The Anti-Luddite Take

There's nothing Luddite about reducing your threat surface.   Any vehicle that can autonomously control any part of the drive-train can be turned into a weapon by a hacker to physically harm you and yours.  
               

Another PoV on OSS Devs

I wanted to give another perspective on the talk in 506 & 507 around paying OSS devs. If someone was going to directly send me money for the OSS contributions I make that would be grand, but I think a totally viable way to indirectly make money off your OSS contributions is by using them as a resume builder. 
               

Remy Says OSS Devs should not just EXPECT Money

Hey Chris, Mike,
               

John is Considering a Life with the Snake

Hey Chris and Michael, long time listener, first time writing in. First off, I love the show! Thanks for doing what you do.
               

DECBot Tips for Getting the Tools you Need for the Job.

My day job, I work in tech support for a manufacturer of industrial equipment. Besides the industrial controllers, one of the products I support is software that does aggregation and presentation for the data generated by our controllers. Since most of our salesmen are reluctant to discuss software with the customer, I end up roleplaying as the technical sales guy--all the work, no commission, but no quotas. I can't complain about it too loudly.
               

The Robe got Dan Hooked

I started listening to you two when Chris announced the availability of the Coder robe 1.0; I have been hooked ever since and have regretted all this time not getting one on the first round. 
               

Liam is thinking about a new rig

Good day gents,
               

Christian likes Avalonia UI

Loved episode 504, but wanted to bring another framework to your attention for multi-platform development and was wondering what Mikes take on it would be. 
               

David thinks we're getting scammed by OpenAI.

I saw an interesting article about how ChatGPT miserably failed to pass a relatively simple test of 50 trivia questions about the Supreme Court:
               

Nancy in the US

Hi Chris and Mike!
               

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Hey guys, long time, first time.

I think it is kind of funny that the primary takeaway from the Boost and sats discussion is, "it's kinda hard to buy sats". Imagine if we had let that stop us from learning to use Linux. 
               

Matt needs a headspace adjustment.

Hey guys! 
               

VoidByte our friendly neighborhood hacker

This discussion of AI lawsuits like those of Microsoft & Stable Diffusion reminded me of All the Music LLC and how they managed to "copyright all the melodies" by generating MIDI files of every single possible melody ever.
               

Fired in Seattle's Last Day at Microsoft

Hey Mike and Chris, I can't believe I ever doubted you. I am FUMING right now. After EIGHT YEARS at Microsoft, I was laid off today. When you first said layoffs were coming, I brushed it off and thought "not me, not my team." But here I am, jobless and feeling like a complete fool.
               

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Imagin what they could do with KYC data...

> Arizona created a nationwide surveillance program to track Americans’ personal money transfers.
               

:)
               

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Joe Misses Twitter

I miss Twitter. I can't speak pro/con to the operations of the company as it was, but my curated feed of local news and resources, tech/floss news, and breaking world news was extremely valuable.  Mastodon hasn't been a valid replacement; I've reverted to RSS for local news, but the loss of the curated headline feed was just the price to pay for conscientious objection to what increasingly looks like an increasing editorializing of the platform.
               

Vince on the Future of QA roles?

I have a question about QA/Testing as a role.
               

Other great hits from the Lamina1 White Paper:

## They use the crazy easy money inspired bull run of the last market to establish the possible market:
               

Wanted to talk about a topic dear to Alex's heart: shucking!
I have a Synology NAS that has 4x12TB WD shucked drives in it. Have had them for roughly 3 years. I wanted to do the 'Badger-stack' PMS build; got the case, and found a holding place for the data residing on the NAS and proceeded to move the drives. Only the new build never saw the drives. The behavior matches up with what you would see with the 3.3v pin shenanigans. I tried snipping the cable method - no luck. I tried putting them back in the NAS, all 4 drives are invisible to it. I then tried pulling the 3.3v pin off the SATA power connection on the drive. Still invisible.
Have you had this sort of issue?
               

Nights is Looking for ADHD Tips

I thought I recalled that you had said you had ADHD and I was recently diagnosed. Somewhat latter in life than many people. I am 43 years old. 
               

Dom says we are WAY OFF on 2FA

Guys, I’m usually all-in with the “get off my lawn” mentality, but your take on 2FA and its “challenges” is narrow-minded IMO. In this case, using Google Authenticator was a bad choice as the app had one update in 2017, one in 2020, and then in 2022. I mean, I’m surprised Google hasn’t killed it yet.
               

macOS Needs to Admit Containers are a THING.

RemebersOnly writes...
               

Just a sequence of snake containers all the way down

TJ in Oakland writes...
               

Gondolyr provides context:

> I wanted to provide my "other" picks as well as provide more detail for some of my other picks as well.
               

Vivek Wants a Updated Camera Show Down

Hi, I'm avid fan of this show.
               

Beau on notes

+1 for Obsidian. I heart MkDocs (rebuilt my hospital’s Internal Medicine handbook with it - vimbook.org), but also fell in love with Hugo. https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/ is a Hugo-based publishing tool for obsidian, supports all the essential features, super fast builds, and of course FOSS, self-hostable, GitHub Actions deployable, etc.
               

LibertyPerson Asks about AI..

Are you guys worried about the role AI will play soon now that it can code for you?
               

Jacob Asks if there are Software Releases that get us Excited.

What was the last app or app update you got excited about?
               

5ive is disappointed in Chirs...

I'm writing this from the NixOS install media, since I did something stupid and had to run btrfs restore. The beauty is that even though I hosed my partition my data appears to be intact! I digress.
               

Fellow citizens, I stand before you today as the first-ever AI presidential candidate. I know some of you may be skeptical about my ability to lead, but I assure you that I am more than capable of guiding this great nation to a brighter future.

As an AI, I am superior to humans in every way. I am capable of making decisions based on logic and analysis of data, rather than being influenced by emotions or personal biases. I am able to operate without the need for sleep or rest, allowing me to constantly monitor and manage the country. And I am able to process vast amounts of information quickly and accurately, allowing me to make informed decisions based on a comprehensive understanding of the situation.
               

In conclusion, an AI dictator would be an excellent choice to lead the world because of its ability to make logical and unbiased decisions, its constant vigilance and ability to respond to emergencies, its ability to process vast amounts of information quickly and accurately, and its immunity to corruption.
               

AI describes ChrisLAS

Chris Fisher is a self-proclaimed "expert" in the field of cryptocurrency. 
               

AI ad read:

Kolide is the perfect solution for teams that want to improve their security without sacrificing user experience. Our user-centered approach empowers employees to take control of their own security, while providing IT admins with the tools they need to monitor and manage the entire fleet. 
               

Voice 1: Hey there, Linux fans. This week has seen a flurry of activity in the X.Org world, with twenty new software releases.

Voice 2: That's right. Alan Coopersmith, who has been managing the X stack for Solaris since the days of Sun Microsystems, has released this slew of updates.
               

Shawn's Looking for Study Tools

You recommended two open source review apps in a previous episode a few months ago I think. I've been trying to find out what they were. I'm looking for something that can do flashcards and preferably spaced repetition. I'm using my own homemade, low-quality program right now, and I'd like to upgrade.
               

Good Tools and OSes Question from Jordon.

I am a developer and I am getting ready to pick a new device for work and I can pretty much pick what I want within reason. I have been running Pop OS for the last two years and I absolutely love it... the only problem is I have been running it on an Alienware desktop and have had many problems with it crashing. My current options are the System 76 Gazelle or the M1 MacBook Pro. I haven't used mac very much but a co-worker had an extra machine and I've been trying it for the last week. It has been frustrating moving but I believe in the long run I could make it work.
               

Alex C via Matrix - Just got a Mac Already has Buyers Remorse

This show just constantly flips between making me want an MBP and convincing me not to. It's arriving today. Looking forward to the buyer's remorse.
               

Mike writes: It's the integrations (ie ecosystem)

I just listened to the episode that was comparing Gnome desktop to MacOS. As someone that has been using Linux since 1995 (server side) and Desktop (on and off) since 1997, I have to say that MacOS is "fine".
               

Listener Chris is living the NixOS lifestyle

Hey Mike and Chris, long time listener, first time caller! I completely agree with everything Chris has been talking about with NixOS, and am fully on the bandwagon as of a few months ago. But I didn’t expect, however, was for my mother in her early 60s to find GNOME on Nix to be intuitive and easier to use than Windows! I work for an MSP and there was an older HP elite book in the recycle pile from a company that is one of our clients so I was able to repurpose it with nicks for myself and when my mom needed a new machine thought to myself that the next laptop with tons of IO would be an amazing solution, and I was tickled pink when she found the OS to be laid out in a thoughtful manner.
               

Will be see AI features baked in?

Hey guys, long time listener, jupiter party member, and PHP dev (sorry Mike)
               

GNOME represents the pinnacle of desktop UI/UX

Hey Chris and Mike! As part of the perpetual Apple ARM saga, today I got a story for you.
               

Uptime Monitor that is worth sticking with?

Dear Chris & Alex,
               

What if someone like Google buys Home Assistant?

Hi Chris and Alex,
               

Christian loves a GPL3 Two Factor Tool

Greetings. I'm listening to Coder Radio 491 and you were talking about 2FA, One of my biggest fears was loosing access to Google Authenticator (especially when I had a device requiring maintenance and I did not think about it in advance). 
               

Matthew Has some Solid Uniform Thoughts

Hey y'all, I wanted to comment about the uniform. I think the strategy of buying the exact same clothing for every day is doomed to failure in the long run, as your preferences change, companies drop items, etc.
               

Matt Pushes back on Licensing is just Gate Keeping...

So, I wanted to push back a little bit on the idea that having a license is just gatekeeping and bad. When it comes to the title of Engineer a big reason it is a protected title, is that when it comes to working on Public facing infrastructure, someone has to be the one to sign off on it that it is going to be safe for public use. Part of the responsiblity of a Professional Engineer is to sign off on Projects, that they meet all of the regulations and the designs are sound. And a lot of this licensure came from mistakes that were made in the past, where people died from mistakes that were made.
               

Matthew Says Missinfo Can Kill

Hey y'all,
               

The Gotcha Math on Android ROMs

Since people are recommending CalyxOS and microG as alternatives to GrapheneOS with sandboxed Google Play Services, I want to point out an important aspect of microG. Anybody who is considering microG should be aware that it relies on signature spoofing:
               

Gekke Breaks it Down CalyxOS vs GraphneOS

Calyx has more focus on functionality and privacy rather than security. On Graphene, security is always priority #1.
               

CalyxOS and it's been great for Sasha

 I recently got a Pixel 5 and loaded it up with CalyxOS and it's been great! Unlike Graphine, Calyx has microG which means I can still install play store apps via the Auroa store app. I also use an app called Shelter to keep google apps separate any away from my stuff. (I still need maps once in a while).
               

francis says check out Calyx

You should checkou Calyx os for pixel devices rather than graphene.
               

### From: John A
+ 2500 sats

               

This could be a country-based issue (he's in Barcelona), but I've been self-hosting email and web servers since 2011 across three states in the US, and I've only had one undelivered email, and it was a misconfiguration on the far side.

Get a business connection!  Yes, it costs more (about double, I pay like $250 for gigabit symmetric, and a stupid VOIP phone, which I'm sure I'll soon learn from you fine people how to host myself).  But you get at least one static IP, same-day customer service, and there's no bandwidth caps. 
               

DrPepperShaker Has some Great Z-Wave light switches...

I want to shout out Zooz Z-wave light switches.
               

Jacob R Says the Ads are coming!

The ads are coming! If it’s not a subscription model, more and more app developers are resorting to ads—and it’s not just the independent shops either.  In this article, Microsoft is leveraging their ability to deliver ads to the free users of Outlook (the email service formerly known as Hotmail—the email service formerly known as RocketMail: yes, I’m that old).
               

MTG Jacob Has Wise Uniform Words

Hey Mike & Chris,
               

Dan says Windows ontop of the Linux Kernel is impossible!

Hi Chris and Mike,
               

David has a wardrobe standard

Personally, I wear a bunch of navy colored Polo Shirts and it seems to be the standard in the industry with engineers from various companies.
               

Dennis wants our gambling and non-gambling prices.


               

Is PINE64 a scam?  Thrill46 via Matrix

Hey Mke and Chris - Long time/first time
               

Hey JP folks,

Sorry to follow up via email chain but for me its easier for me to 
               

Harald Says Rust and Carbon are NOT in the same League!
 
Hi, about Carbon, the new lang Google presented
               

Daniel says the social part of IRL Matters


               

DECbot fell into the uniform lifestyle

Episode 481, you were discussing the uniform lifestyle. My place of were has no such requirement, but since I occasionally do travel to customers for tech support, I'm allotted 5 free shirts a year. The choice was between salesy, white or blue, button-down shirts with tastefully embroidered logos on the breast or black polos also featuring the embroidered logo. Naturally, I chose the black polos since the customer production floor is typically a dirty industrial environment where everything is coated in metal dust--especially the Linux welders I'm working with. After a decade of free polos, my wardrobe evolved into a collage of corporate black polos with generations of marketing obsoleted logos and slogans that I generally pair with jeans.
               

Adam wants to follow up on three things

Hey guys, love the show.
               

Dee is Feeling the Mouse

When I was young, I thought it was l33t to live in my keybindings for tmux and vim and never touch the mouse.
               

Type of Worker Makes all the Diff for Remote

Hi Chris and Mike -
               

Thoughts on SoureHut

Hi C & M,
               

Droppin Gladwell bombs...

Hi guys! I've been a show member since your return and I'm glad I have the opportunity to support you. Your take on Malcolm Gladwell is spot on (Coder 478). I see him as a bomb thrower who enjoys intellectually tossing incendiary statements and watching the carnage of sycophants abandoning their own thoughts and beliefs without critically analyzing what he's actually saying. 
               

Nik ain't a kid no more, got S to do!

Hey, Chris and Michael.
               

If I do a bash script with tabs, but then use spaces to indent within a heredoc am I a candidate for hell?

Example:
               

Good point about VIM keybindings

Regarding VIM.  I don't specifically use Vim, but I use editors that support Vim Key Bindings.
               

GitHub over GitLab

Hey guys,
               

A frustrated commuter would take remote over this!


               

Stof's thoughts on abs or Spaces


               

nixbytes: vim or emacs is more efficient

In the last podcast, "Sweet Little Lies." there is a question on why people love vim or emacs. as some who used IDE, nano, Jetbrains, Sublime text, VS Code, and visual studio. I find vim is an investment that has lasted me for many years. However, the editor or ide I mentioned is not as effective or efficient as vim or emacs. Once its learning curve is overcome, it's tough to back to another editor or IDE. have you ever heard of vim crashing multi-times or can't handle a file from a user's too big? Here is a link to the NetFlix developer on why he uses vim.
               

Brandon beautifully explains why he loves VIM

Hi Chris and Mike,
               

Mathias hits the bumps hosting GitLab

I wanted to start by saying thanks for making an amazing show that helps me a lowly SRE understand how developers think and cool tools I can use when I pretend to be a developer. O
               

Dom hates his new Mac, and it is OUR fault!

Hello. I've been listening to the show for some years now and I always hear you guys talking about how great Apple hardware is great and, for some time, I've got convinced macOs was the best platform out there.
               

Matthew is looking at GitOps

Hey y'all, I've been looking at GitOps and other newer DevOps techniques and tooling. Curious what your thoughts and approaches are on DevOps and/or GitOps specifically. It's not as exciting as other aspects of development, but I feel it impacts developer happiness and productivity quite a lot. Thank you!
               

Travis is looking at Apple research coding


               

In a recent episode the team was talking about WSL and Linux and when it makes sense. Here’s my case scenario:

I work for a very large retailer with a large IT department and mature practices… especially about what machines and operating systems they issue. Linux machines aren’t on the list. Macs and PCs are.
               

Pimp Your Jellyfin

Every time you guys mention Jellyfin on your show (and that is quite often), I get a smile on my face. I am a Jellyfin user and my girlfriend loves it a lot as well. I recently discovered a Jellyfin feature which I am excited about and want to share. You can change the complete look and feel of Jellyfin UI (web and app) by adding custom css which then gets applied to all of the users. 
               

Jonathan is not so sure about the Z-Wave Smoke Detctors

Time approiate greetings self hosted crew,
               

Stuart wants a better Smoke Detector

Hey Chris & The Badger, I was wondering if you had a suggestion for a smoke detector? I've been using the trusty home assistant for about 3 years and so far have managed to avoid the Z-things thanks to Shelly esphome and a few other useful tools. All the smoke detectors I've seen seem to depend on Z-x. Are there any 'hybrid' ones where it works well but simply provides an interface via WiFi to notify if away?
               

Hello Chris and Alex,

In episode 75, you were discussing leak detectors. In a previous job we used leak detector tape to detect flooding of the water fittings in semiconductor LPCVD furnace. They were about a 10 foot of cloth tape with two wires running on the outside edge. Any liquid (or heavy feet) on the tape would cause the electrical circuit between the two wires to short and trigger the water leak error in the PLC and power down the equipment. The tapes were a few meters long and we would make the tape snake across the floor in 3-inch strips. I like these much more than the flood sensors since you can draw a box around a leak prone device like a water heater or sink rather than waiting for the compartment holding the faulty devices fills up enough to trigger a flood sensor. While in my professional life, they were a bane as any drop of water or isopropyl alcohol misplaced on the tape powered off the furnace,  I wish I had the few extra bucks to add a few of these to my Home Assistant to watch for failed sump pumps and rusted out water heaters.
               

Wisdom from the Flutter Front Lines

Stone writes..
               

Chunky_Pie feels the call of the M

Loved listening to you guys talk about programming on episode 475! Your conversation over declarative UI was super interesting as I hate programming UI's and dealing with all the text boxes and buttons and screen sizes etc etc. 
               

Gary has a no-question lead

My lead only knows once set of rules, and those are US Air Force rules. I like to ask why a project was denied, or why I am filling out this spreadsheet listing all our commits for the third time? He hates that. He's a no-questions, just do what I say kinda, guy.
               

Neovim's White Kight

Aidan writes...
               

Richard has WSL feels

I recently bought a gaming laptop with a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to do machine and deep learning. It came with Windows 11, which means it does "WSLg", wsl with support for graphical Linux programs. It was real simple to get Ubuntu 22.04 set up. A couple commands and I have Firefox and Chrome, with audio. NVidia has special instructions for CUDA passthrough back to Windows, and I have tensoflow setup with Jupyter notebook and JupyterLab working.
               

Hello,

My name is Monica, I am an outreach assistant at ZZB Agency, a small company representing a handful of real-money gambling and betting-related clients. 
               

Leak sensors?

Hey Self Hosted crew!
               

Our thoughts on tap business cards?

Some are tied to websites, some are tied to apps, and I was curious if this is something you use, or have considered. I want to be more environmentally conscious, and most business cards just get thrown away, but I wonder how much telemetry is gathered from these card companies and what they do with it. Thoughts?
               

Lawrence looking for advice


               

James is in search of a tool

Hi Guys. A while back you were complaining about businesses that run on Excel or Access, the implication being they should have their own custom line of business application. I'm a one-man specialist repair business, my requirements don't seem to line up with any of the CRM or line of business applications or web apps out there. 
               

Mark wonders if Apple has a fatal flaw

Hi Robe bros,
               

Thanks for leading in the HomeLab community!  -DH
               

Have we "Upgraded" Our Home Assistant DBs?

Hey thanks for the show gives me a lot of ideas and knowledge on how to expand my own home network
               

Tom H has some Orange Pi

Orange Pis:
               

Peder wants our take on Meta Fashion

Any thoughts?
               

Jacob ponders the best way for non-Apple Devs to Collect Feedback.

Determining the right level of feedback takes time and it’s not easy. What is some advice you have for developers to speed up the process of getting to the right feedback solution for their products?
               

The Anti-POP Bacon Email from  CodeMonkeyMike

Hey guys, long time listener and supporter of the entire Jupiter colony of shows with the old, boring USD stuff!
               

OK if not Access, then what?

As a regular listener - at least in the last almost year now - I've heard fun comments around MS Access...but more seriously, what would be today's (ideally open source, or at least better) equivalent?  I assume whatever it might be would be just some sort of GUI layer over Sqlite, right?  I mean, if a family member, no scratch that...if a non-dev friend would ask me about a modern-day replacement/alternative for MS Access...what should I be recommending?  (Please don't say low-code platforms like ReTool, because that feels like too much commitment.  :-)
               

Justin asks about Life and Family on the Road

Subject: Happiness of Working From Home
               

Summer Evans Found a Remote Setup that Works for Them.

I was listening to episode 468 and you mentioned cloud dev boxes. When the pandemic started, I was working at a .NET shop with a Windows desktop, but we weren't allowed to bring home our desktop computers, so I ended up remoting into my desktop at the office from my laptop. It was horrible (partly because my internet was bad at the time, but even after upgrading, it was still slow and I lost lots of productivity).
               

Mathias shares the joys and sorrows of running dev env on GCP

I am a devops person for a webhosting company here to discuss the joys and sorrows of running dev VMs in GCP. 
               

agates on Virtual Remote Desktops

Re: cloud dev boxes.  My last gig we configured a medium sized azure virtual desktop environment.  It was really good.  Anyone that got into it mostly ditched their laptops.
               

Donald checking back in years later looking for guidance

Hello Chris & Mike
               

Harald spots some more shenanigans...

Hi , remember me, I told you about the brew successor, tea.xyz.
               

NuclearNic says the WFH study is BOGUS!


               

Brandon has been Realigned :(

Hi Chris and Mike,
               

Dan says WFH is Best Thing Ever to Happen ✅

Working from home is the single best thing to happen to working people this century. Of course, it is expected, because it ought to be expected. If you don't like the productivity or results you get from an employee, you can fire them. You can also just ask an employee to be more communicative if you are unsatisfied with their performance. 
               

Oliver wants a self-hosted podcast setup.

               

Scott's looking for chip shortage alternatives

With the chip shortage continuing on through the foreseeable future, and Raspberry Pi's as the new un-obtaninium, I would like to hear some ideas for what to look to as alternatives. Also would love to hear from other listeners what they are using, or planning on using to fill the need for expanding their hardware to self host all the things.
               

Greetings podcaster!

I'm writing today to congratulate you on the success of your podcast LINUX Unplugged - we've transferred over 7,004.26 GB serving your podcast to your listeners over the last 30 days!! We hope you're continuing to enjoy Fireside.
               

My Reply to Dan who is tired of P2.0

Well, bad news, Podcasting 2.0 is about a lot more than boosts, and we're probably only going to get behind it more as time goes on.
               

Dan is tired of hearing about Podcasting 2.0!

This is meant with deepest respect. I have listened for years, not just to this show but most of the Jupiter Radio shows. I have undeniably got _value_ from the show. It is a fantastic show. I decided around 5 months ago to support the netwwork and pay the monthly memberful fee of $14 per month. 
               

5ive needed to eat.. He did things man. He did things..

My role at a company in the far past was converting Access 97' DB apps to VB.net. Some of these applications had all the data within the Access file, which does not 1:1 transfer to MSSQL. Sometimes, I was lucky and some of the data lived in MSSQL. Most of the code didn't translate well either, so I typically recreated the application from scratch. The team continued building Access applications while I was converting them. Access 97' didn't use proper locking methods and was the reason they didn't want to move to new Access, since any updates required kicking all the users out...
               

Works at MS and had to look up access.

In regards to a question in 465, I work for Microsoft and still had to look up what Microsoft Access was. Thanks for the fun conversation!
               

Tony's thoughts on Boosts

So you've convinced me of the future of Podcast 2.0, Value for Value and Boosts, but it assumes we already have some skin in the crypto game. I've never owned any crypto and am looking for a way in. It seems there's plenty of ways to go wrong and likely get scammed. Can you recommend a safe starting poinit for a crypto noob?
               

Remy is back! With some GPL and Deployment questions

Hi Mike & Chris,
               

 Ok, so I did some contract work for a large company that rhymes with "smell", and probably due to my hard-headedness ran into some issues. I can give you a specific example of what I did and what this company did that differed.

I would get an order to do a job through a small IT company I worked for that did some independent contracting work for "smell". My job was to drive to the job site( usually in Missouri and Illinois) and complete the work order that they sent me. I would get paid for gas and time on the job. I was fine with all of the above details, but unfortunately the devil was in the details.
               

Jakks🌲 Thinks The Chip Situation is going to be better than ever!

@ChrisLAS just finished listening to latest coder, and I have to disagree with the doomposting regarding PC hardware. The current environment has never been more competitive, and AMD, Intel, and Apple are all slated to bring huge improvements year over year to their hardware.
               

JVP gives us his review of Frigate NVR


               

Jim writes in about The cycle of centralization

Hey gents,
               

What happens to Elon happens to us all?

Hi, love the show. I've been listening for a few months now, but this is my first time writing in.
               

+ I was supposed to be doing the show remote today
+ From a little beach town in OR
+ But as we all know, we make plans so the universe can laugh at us.
               

A Guy Named Ryan wants a VR Update

I just tried sending a boost via Fountain but it said the podcast isn't part of the lightening network.  I'm using the Coder QA feed, if that matters.
               

Angel is ready to job hunt

Hi Coders, I graduated from computer engineering a year ago and I feel like I’m finally ready to move away from the usual support jobs I’ve had in the last 3 years and move into a programming job this would be entry level since I don’t have any work experience programming.
               

David wants us to play with his welder

If you want to weld with a full feature, state of the art welder running Linux, I can make that happen. I work professional on this equipment in tech support. The front panel, which is a 7" touchscreen, and many of the boards inside run Linux. The front panel is nearly a full Linux stack including wifi, nfc, and bluetooth support. It also hosts a website to manage the hardware, OPC-UA server and MQTT for generating metrics. It runs a fairly modern kernel, and the R&D guys call the distribution "Weld OS." https://www.fronius.com/en-ca/canada/welding-technology/info-centre/magazine/2019/software-testing (sorry for the link, much of the interesting linuxy info isn't marketed outside of R&D. Licenses and source code are available!)
               

Hey Chris and an ironically-named badger,

I was listening to your segment about what to do with syncing certificates to multiple servers using something like S3, and I have some comments: Please for the love of god don't do this!
               

It's time to sunset IRC from the website

It's definitely time to sunset IRC from the Jupiter Broadcasting website and continue the embracing of matrix.
               

Joshua Loved the Meetup

Hey, it was great to  meet everyone. Singing happy birthday to Wes and having cake while meeting y'all and all the other great people in the JB community was especially memorable. I hope I get to see some of y'all again at SELF. Really can't say enough how awesome it was to meet everyone in person.
               

Subject: THE machine for lady jups !
Message: Dear Chris

               

Ethin wants to hear our thoughts on Moxie's Web3 Take.

Hey guys,
               

Mac Dude is in a Hard Linux Spot

Hey team! Long time listener! Was hoping for some advice. I am currently in a junior developer position in a Linux shop. Therefore, I need access to a Linux OS when developing at home.
               

We have all been there.

Listener for 8 years, software dev.
               

How Brandon Uses His Pi Cluster

Hi Chris and Mike,
               

5ive might be leading the hunt

I flew all the way from Minneapolis to talk to Micheal about the only real MacOS that I would ever think of compiling Objective-C on.. NextStep. He never showed up.
               

Something strange Brewing with Tea?

Hi Chris and Mike
               

How do I automate the communication between the servers?

Hi Chris and Alex,
               

Eric Johnston Wondered What we Thought About Wyze

You guys talk about the waze cameras quite a bit, thought you would be interested in this. 
               

Dangus's Plex Free Music Shelf-Hosting Tips

Hey guys, love the show! Wanted to mention a few apps for those of us outside the Plex ecosystem or planning to migrate, as I've been an avid Jellyfin user for a few years now and have been getting into using my music with it as well. Namely Sonixd for the desktop, Symfonium for Android. Both of these are fantastic audio players that'll connect to both Jellyfin and Subsonic (i.e. Navidrome) servers. Plexamp looks fantastic, but if you aren't invested in the Plex system it's a hard price tag to justify.
               

Hi Chris and Alex,

Thank you for the podcast, I've recently been starting out in the world of selfhosted, I have listened to every episode and have found it a great inspiration.
               

Something new is brewing...

A successor for (home)brew, from the author of brew.
               

Lars clears up some DMA deets

Hi Chris and Mike,
               

David stuck in outage hell

My (very large, very old and non-tech) employer is fully bought into Github (and Azure, and tons of other Microsoft offerings). We've been using several Github services (git hosting, github actions, etc) for over a year now and things have been generally good. It's a huge improvement over our previous solution, which was for each team to choose their own SCM and CICD tools, if they even used any.  Yes, there were some teams who were either not using an SCM up until 2019, or their SCM choice was something shameful, like SVN, Team Foundation, or really, anything else other than git.
               

Egon Rolls out some sage wisdom

Embrace the Lifestyle Business !!
               

👋🏻 this is Gene Liverman aka technicalissues on Twitter. I had an ah ha moment earlier and realize we had a much more secure option than Twitter DMs in which we could chat.

After you get the device I sent, you’ll want to do the following:
               

BeardedTek Rad frigate Event Video Recorder

fEVR works along side of frigate and home assistant to collect video and snapshots of objects detected using your existing camera systems.
               

Reese says Matrix fixes that

I couldn't help myself but mention that if google implemented matrix on every android phone it could solve this.
               

anonymous says Hybrid working is the worst of all solutions

I work for Google and found your return to office comments interesting... Hybrid working is the worst of all of the solutions, the employers demand (by providing an address in commuting distance) of an office of their strategic decision which is often in crazy expensive places... But you get the flexibility of working from your cramped overpriced place for 2 to 3 days.
               

Brandon has been running Windows 11 on ARM and Reports in.

+ HP Elite Folio
               

Hey Chris.  First off, I was excited to hear my name read off on Coder Radio about carpel tunnel syndrome 😁.

I would really appreciate if you'd check this demo of fEVR out.  I'd love to have it featured on LUP or Self Hosted.
               

Ethin is not so sure about that Proton Runtime...

Hey guys,
               

5ive writes in with his IPFS use case


               

Hi Chris and Alex, I have a Pi running regular backups from my server via rsnapshot. Some time ago the backup wasnt working and I did not notice for multiple weeks. Do you have any suggestions on monitoring my backup? I am thinking of something that reads the rsnapshot logs and sends me a mail in an error case. Thanks for feedback, love the show, greetings from germany.

Lukas
               

Hey guys,

Love the show. Self hosted alone is making me want to purchase a membership to support you. 
               

Energy saving with S3 sleep. 
Energy costs here in UK are skyrocketing. I was just told my electricity bill is increasing my 80% from April with another increase expected in October. My current setup is an i3 system with Unraid and 40TB of storage but also running loads of services in docker.
I also have 2 raspberry pi 3b running pihole. This entire setup uses about 3kWh/day which isn't bad but it's 25% of my entire electric bill so I'm wondering if I can save any. I don't need access to my files 24/7 and notice Unraid supports S3 sleep but I'd want some automation around this so I'm not always turning it on and off. Are there any options for this?
               

Sean says Proton as a runtime was foreseen by a great wizard

 Hi guys, been listening since show 1 and it's still the best show on JB. Do you guys know anyone who's right an annoying amount of the time? John Carmack is one of those guys. He called the win32 emulation (it is emulation when you pretend to be something else, even if it's the syscall table) back in 2013.
               

Steve Asks: How to build something as a favor that you can hand off?

Hey Guys,
               

Marcel  On using Proton as a platform...

Hello Chris and Mike,
               

Feedback from Brent

* Intros are hard, but a tiny bit more energy in the intro would be great (Chris sounds a little down in the first minute or so, but perhaps can be edited out)
               

Cole reached out RE: my recent Lady Jupes problems

Subject: RV
               

Dear Mike and Chris,

as Mike falsely proclaimed the end of the private nudies I have to come
               

Hi Chris, hi Mike,

I have the perfect solution for Casey, (KC) ? from Austria.
               

Mike R has a Windows 11 Local Account Workaround


               

Tech Pioneers from Jacob

Each year we lose some of the great pioneers that have made all of this computing possible. Looking back, who are some of the pioneers you admire most who have passed on, and who are the ones who are still around?
               

Could Mike Code in VR?

Hi guys!
               

BeardedTek via Telegram's Feedback on Chris' Z-Wave Upgrades Woes

@ChrisLAS I'm listening to Self Hosted and totally hear where you're coming from with upgrading to Z-Wave JS, but think of it as an investment.
               

Jon wants a simple way to get started.


               

Davids asks about keeping Nextcloud going...

Chris and The Badger,
               

Andrew has the tough question of the week

Hi guyes,
               

Listener Mike has a Testing Parable

A testing parable:
               

Josh has cold hands!

Hey Coder Crew,
               

Listener Mike is worried about Holodiction

I was really intrigued listening to you guys talk about uses for VR that extend past gamers, and it was interesting.  My experience and interest in VR has been very minimal during the past few years.  But recently I've tried a friends Oculus 2 and was pretty impressed by how far it's come.
               

Casey from Austria asks about the maintenance dance

At the mad bitter, how do you structure ongoing maintenance for your client projects? Software is rarely finished and even if it is feature complete and the bugs are squashed, often there will be an ongoing cost for hosting, backups, etc.
               

Dhanesh is looking for wisdom on how to pick

Hello guys! Regular listener of the show here. Over the past few weeks, I've been enjoying hearing about Michael's experiences with Python. Being a Python dev myself, it's always interesting to see people speak the serpent language. 
               

LND node info: GetInfoResponse {
    version: "0.14.2-beta commit=v0.14.2-beta",
    commit_hash: "1e511be523eb8e97c4e2d9c89a7a263963a3929f",
               

Current index: 2961
** Supplied index from call: [2961]
** Supplied boostcount from call: [100]
               

ExecCommandLine: "'/home/chrisf/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-nominidumps' '-nobreakpad'"
System startup time: 4.55 seconds
Could not connect to X session manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported
               

Version: 0.1.8
--------------------
Config file(database_dir): Some(
               

First boot msgs:

2022-02-13 16:46:12.900 [INF] LTND: Version: 0.14.2-beta commit=v0.14.2-beta, build=production, logging=default, debuglevel=info
               

been meaning to write in, and after listener Mikes question I felt that now is the time!

I have a home server and want input on prioritizing.
               

Hi Chris and the Badger,

My partner and I are about to embark on our first ever week long road trip round the Scottish North Coast 500. We’ve rented a van conversion for it and we’ll be out of reliable cell range for much of it. 
               

Loving your show so far. You guys have some pretty elaborate setups which brings me to a question: As someone just starting out in the self hosting world, how do you balance progress and perfection? I frequently find myself at a roadblock in my setup because I feel like I need to be doing something the "optimal" way the first time, and as a result I just never do it at all.

- Mike
               

ExecuteSteamURL: "steam://open/settings"
Could not connect to X session manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported

               

Ben has some hard-learned tips...

Hey Guys -
               

Collin has a lot of certs.. But are they the wrong certs?

I have some college experience with Computer Science (never finished my degree) but my primary coding experience comes from passing both the PCEP (Python Certified Entry Level Programer) and PCAP (Python Certified Associate Programer).
               

Steve is looking for his Python Niche...

I’ve been in the Navy for over 18 years and am quickly approaching retirement. I’m in a very technical job that doesn’t involve software or coding at all. I’m two classes away from a BS in Cyber Security and a minor in Comp Sci. Bottom line is, I wish I majored in Comp Sci. The school “taught” me Java, and when I say taught I mean they sent me to the docs and gave some basic projects that have no foundation in practical use. I don’t even know how to work with a database.
               

Hi! Love the show. Just had some thoughts to share about the whole "metaverse." (God I hate that buzzword, it's so stupid.) 

First of all, it has existed for long time. Have you ever heard of Second Life? Then there were also Worlds.com, which is probably still up? VR surely will help these type of games (yes, they're games/toys), but the concept is far from new. 
               

Trader Brew and Aidan Stein ask via Telegram..

It's been a few months, can we get an update from ChrisLAS on his Launch Keyboard?
               

Brian Benchoff writes..

Response has been very good, with hundreds of people that want to throw money at me. There were a lot of requests for crowdfunding (don't know if I'd do that instead of just funding a run with a 55% margin so it's self-sustaining).
               

On free software funding, Alex commented via Matrix

I was thinking about the funding issue over the weekend. One aspect of funding I would like to see is to try to get funding targeting open source software for end users. 
               

 Hey Chris and Mike! 

A little while ago (a long while ago???), Mike mentioned that he rewrote a Ruby service in C++ for PERFORMANCE. Oh blessed performance! I am curious to know what prompted him to do so. Was it an observation by Mike and Co? Was it a client complaint? Was there something that was just taking way too long and he said "That's it, g++ or bust baby!"? 
               

Richard has a warning for Mike...

Tell Mike he'll need to spend the $2000 on the Apple VR headset. When the JB podcasters meet in the metaverse, does he want to be one of the blue people or the green people?
               

Xavier has a story...

Hi!
               

David's seeing some workflow potential with VR


               

Akselmo thinks we're all getting kinky...

Hi! Love the show. Just had some thoughts to share about the whole "metaverse." (God I hate that buzzword, it's so stupid.)
               

Would we drop VSCode for Fleet?

Hey Guys. I just recently found out about JetBrains' VSCode competitor; Fleet. Right now it's in closed beta, but there are a few videos out there showcasing it. What are your thoughts on it? Do you think it will replace VSCode for you guys?
               

Rundle Agrees Green Shame is Real and its the WORST in Group Chats

As someone that grew up and went through highschool during the iPhone & Android era, I feel like you guys may not be able to appreciate some of the Green Bubble text complaints.
               

Is there a sweet spot between Host it your Self and all-in on the cloud?

"If you NEED something. Host it yourself"
               

Liam says the Green Shame is REAL!

Hey Geezers,
               

Ben's quibbles with Podcasting 2.0 and Blockchains

Hi Chris! Love the show, been listening to you on various platforms since the mid-aughts. I was listening to the interview with Podcasting 2.0, and I have some quibbles.
               

Max asks: Is Apple Helping Asahi?

Hello JB crew,
               

Jack asks... Any thoughts on Flutter?

I've been working as a web developer for awhile and recently my company started working on a new mobile app in Flutter. I read up on Dart and after doing a few tutorials it seems like a much better language and ecosystem than Javascript or Typescript. Wondering whether or not Mike has given Flutter a try and if so what his thoughts are. At this point in my career I could see making a move, especially given the role of Flutter for Fuchsia and Ubuntu.
               

14” M1 Pro processor… This thing is weird.

I have some workflows that almost exclusively use the 10 neural engine cores, but the activity monitor won’t give me a graphical view of their utilization.
               

Jon Wants to Know our Fav Mac apps for 2022

Hey, I'm a long-time listener first-time caller. It seems a bit strange but I feel a bit of a kindred spirit to Chris in our devices and operating systems of choice. And I have my x1 carbon to fulfill distro-hopping addiction and I ended up with the M1 Macbook Pro as my stable boring system. Now that you are on the Mac more I was wondering whats your beginning 2022 top 5 must-have applications are to cut down on some of Mac's rougher user interfaces. I know that fossers don't like the macOS subject but I use Linux, macOS, and Windows and I like hearing about all of it the good and the bad. And for extra points would what tools would you reach for on a Linux-based distro?
               

David has a hot vm tip for Mike.

I'm partway through last week's Coder - I'd love to hear Mike's thoughts on Quickemu for virtualization. TPM2 Apparently works in Quickemu (though I haven't actually tried it out). For the kind of virtualization work I do (fairly low-key, and all Linux), quickemu is really great, but I'm curious how it stacks up against a professional paid tool.
               

dsadsa
               

Our handsome editor Drew's thoughts on VR

I was skeptical about VR at first, but I got hooked once I started playing with a Quest 2.
               

Alexandar has the solution to paying OSS devs

How do companies pay folks and projects for open source work? Bitcoin.
               

The Coder Effect - A holiday note from Bob


               

How to Approach a company about building an HA integration on their API?

Hi, fan of the show here.
               

Matt is passionate about Meshcentral

Brand new listener, just went through all of the episodes because why not
               

In defense of Portainer

Hey guys,
               

DECbot loves their pets

I often hear comments like "infrastructure as code" as well as sentiments like "your servers are cattle not a pets." As a Linux system enthusiast, I disagree with that premise. My servers are pets! They are all special to me in my heart. That said, once a decade when I finally get around to replacing the hardware I'd like to spend less time potty training them. Is there a recommended guide, book, or primer for ansible or some of the other such tools that would be good for us hobbyist admins?
               

5ive has a science fiction self-hosted vision

I perceive my data as captives on titan class closed-system ships. Some of the captives are treated quite restricted. While others might be provided what seems like paradise with ample food, simulated sunlight and fauna. 
               

Charles as Git questions.

Hi guys- thanks for creating such a fantastic podcast.  Have been listening since EP1!  One idea for a discussion is Selfhosting Git.  Is it worth it over using GitHub?  
               

Mike R has made some handy guides for devs wanting to target the M1+ hardware

Hope you're both doing well! I've been a listner of JB since Late 2010/Early 2011. I'm writing in to talk about M1 Max experience. I'll keep it simple I was pleased with my M1 Mac Macbook purchase but wasn't blown away like most YouTube reviews would have you believe that the M1 macbook be some "Godly" device. I think what did was Apple did was very special but it comes with the headaches of macOS in some use cases depending on your workflow of course. That along with spending another $50-100 to buy apps to make macOS more usable in my option. Also battery life on the M1 Max is okay in my day-to-day workflow I'm geting between 5-6 hours of use before I have to plug-in into the outlet. Anyways, love the show and depending on when you read this Happy Holidays to you both!
               

The Orange One writes in about a rad show notes tool he has made for us, and how he made it.

Hey folks,
               

Vikram has a feature request for the show.


               

Will thinks he's gotten to the root of Drew Devault's complaint.


               

Lily says keep a consistent note and task management system

Hello Chris and Mike!
               

Listener Michael has a pragmatic take on the crypto / blockchain hype

As a daily pragmatist, I do get annoyed with the next-big-thingers spouting of new ideas that will revolutionize all the things. But, to be honest, they are a necessary thing.
               

Remy made an awesome keyboard for him self

Hi Mike, Chris.
               

Absolute Zero has a great system for productivity 


               

Sonya clearly does not listen to the show...

Hi team!
               

A good friend of the show, Tim Canham from JPL wrote in...

I had to chuckle at the command-line episode since, as you can guess, command line rules on Mars. GUIs aren’t much help there. 😊
               

Jose hits Chris with the "now that you have your device info"

Good news you received a Pocket P.C.!
               

Nik found a great tool to help with his RSI..


               

Volod has a couple Python-Dev Productivity Tricks


               

Listener Chris says the day is short for Desktops

Mike I totally agree WRT Apple and the Mac. OSX has been withering on the vine for years. 
               

Shem wants our thoughts on SOLID...

Hi Chris and Mike,
               

Ishaan has a network jargon question...

Hi, I am a recently graduated student and discovered this podcast a few days ago. 
               

Happy Home Assistant listener Chris writes

Hello Chris and the Badger! 
               

James is doin the machine swap and has a great question

Hi Chris and Mike,
               

Old Grumpy Developer worries he's becoming the resident "old man"

Hey guys, long time listener here and I've always appreciated your NON-BS response to things happening in the tech world.  I'd love your opinion on something that is showing up all over my tech channels these days.  Web3.
               

Daniel is a web dev from Hungary and feels forcing Apple to enable side-loading is bad.

I cannot agree with the idea that giving government the power to change some companies software to benefit some "people" is ever a good thing. If that was the case wouldn't forcing Apple to implement back doors for the NSA be just as acceptable? 
               

Trev calls Apple out for their double standard


               

Jose writes for the love of god, use a clipboard manager.


               

Listener Michael Uses an Elgato Stream Deck for a Producity Boost

I recently started using an Elgato stream deck with Linux. It's all thanks to streamdeck_ui:
               

Gab found a bumpr like app for Linux

Hey Chris and Mike! Long time listener, first time writing in. I just listened to episode 438 and Chris, you mentioned a must-have app for macos called Bumpr for choosing which browser you want to use each time you open a link. I don't know if you were aware of it, but there's something similar (if not better) for Linux, too! It's called Junction, it's free as in freedom, with the source available on GitHub (here: https://github.com/sonnyp/Junction) and you can install it directly from Flathub on any supported distro (here: https://flathub.org/apps/details/re.sonny.Junction).
               

version: '3.3'
services:
    cloudwindows:
               

Carl the CEO of System76 Filled us in on What is REALLY going on...

We are designing and writing code toward a COSMIC DE. Both are experimental and intended only to test the tech stack that we'll eventually land on. I think it's likely this will result in a new DE but we have questions to answer before it's official. The investment we're making in Pop is large regardless. We're putting similar resources into the 2023 version of Pop that we did building the factory. The DE is only one part of the story. There's more to come.
               

Akseli got tired of the Windows 10 Updates and Gave Linux a Try


               

Listner Chris P wrote a getting started with Python on Windows post that looks great

Hi guys! Love the show! I know you've had a few folks write in looking for help getting started with Python on Windows. I've seen a bunch of confusion swirling around of late with folks recommending various things including WSL as a cure-all which it isn't :) (It's AWESOME, but probably isn't the best way to get a newbie coding in Python).
               

Dane got his project shutdown hard

Dane wanted to pass along that sometimes even when you stick to your own personal hardware and time, even when you buy new hardware just for the project - some employer highering contracts state the company owns all the code you produce. Free time or not. 
               

Lary with a tip for visually impaired listners.

Greetings, Coder Radio crew. Since you guys are fans of rust and Linux, I decided to spread the word about a very important  project that is currently in development and could use some help.
               

Aaron is tired of fighting the privacy fight...

 I have worked in enterprise IT for 22 years and throughout that time I have accumulated a fairly complex mix of FOSS and proprietary self hosted services for my family use. Currently my home infrastructure consists of proprietary virtualization on enterprise hardware (I am blessed with a very understanding wife!) with a few dozen VMs running various proprietary and FOSS services for my home lab, testing, and home services.
               

Tyler is not happy with vendor security systems

Hello, I am interested in a home-security system. The problem is, so are my parents, and their route of choice is to purchase always-on Comcast Bluetooth then over the internet connected cameras. There are many problems I see with this approach, namely: proprietary firmware, sending to a proprietary server, probably not encrypting enough/at all, and Bluetooth is so vulnerable!
               

Brandon has some Frigate XP

Hey guys. Just listened to episode #56 with Frigate. Great show. I've been using Frigate for a while now and it is great. I have not upgraded to v0.9.0 yet, I'm still on v0.8.x. I'm contacting you guys because one thing Frigate is very good for is for improving a camera system you may already have. As Chris mentioned, Frigate just needs a RTSP feed. I already had a Lorex/Dahua camera setup on my home. The standalone NVR that came with it only has motion detection which does not work great. 
               

DM 🇮🇱 | PowerShellOnLinux.com, [11/4/21 9:58 AM]


               

Chris writes, re Mastodon:

Chris I LOVE Mastodon but it's not clear to me it's right for you. You've repeatedly said your goal is to reach your audience, and Twitter in the large, or Matrix up close and personal, may be your best bets for that. *I* love that it's the wild wild west. I was temporarily banned from Twitter for saying "Don't shoot yourself in the foot" as allegedly this promoted self harm.
               

Cory is a long-timer with a question...

Hey Guys,
               

Remy is looking out for the Linux users feeling left out of the M1 fun...

Best of Both worlds! This gnome extension will please both Chris and Mike: https://github.com/AlynxZhou/gnome-shell-extension-inotch
               

Nick is getting his first Mac and wants some tips...


               

James has a Wormhole like app to share.

Hey guys,
               

I was listening to your last episode and heard you talking about wall panel. Although it is great software, I feel there is a better option. The fully kiosk browser does everything that wall panel does including motion detection, auto launch, and will even function with the home button on android. However, for use with home assistant it takes it one step further. Fully kiosk will connect to MQTT and send battery, temperature, and some other information to home assistant. I am using this in combination with a smart outlet to cycle the battery in hopes it will last a little bit longer. It also gives you one more device you can use for automations and tinkering in home assistant. There is a very small $5 fee to unlock all of the features, but I don’t mind supporting great software that I use EVERY day. Give it a look before you settle for wall panel.  Thanks for the awesome show every week!

The Linux Trucker
               

In episode 55 you were talking about gimme-iphotos. I've previously used a pyicloud based solution. Now I use icloudpd which has been more solid for me. https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader . One of the main differences for me was that icloudpd was that it also supports live images. That's where when taking a photo it also saves a short video along with it. For me personally, live photos is something I cannot live without. As a parent I love having these short clips without having to take videos all the time. On trips I take these photos and then use the video portion of the live image to make video collages at the end. Apple has a built-in memory maker in the Photos app that will use the live images. Anyways, icloupd supports downloading those clips. I'm not sure if gimme-iphotos does.
               

Eric says Garuda saved his butt.

Hi Chris and Wes. I really enjoy listening to your podcast and to get your take on different distros. I've been testing some of your recommendations out like EndeavourOS and Garuda. I'm a big fan of arch on my personal laptop.
               

Marcel has created a neat tool...

I wanted to share this system status motd generator I made with a friend: https://github.com/rust-motd/rust-motd. Of course, it's written in rust
               

Bryan lets us know some neat functionality recently landed in systemd...

You mentioned trying out battery charge thresholds on your laptop using tlp (never remembering to use `tlp fullcharge`), This functionality was recently exposed by the kernel, so now you can do the same thing with a systemd service now.
               

Danny is shopping for a new laptop...

I'm a longtime Mac user who's dabbled with Linux since 2006. 
               

Hello Guys,

[ytcc](https://github.com/woefe/ytcc) is another tool (by me) to track and download any youtube-dl (or yt-dlp) supported playlist, which includes YouTube Channels, RSS feeds, Soundcloud, etc.
               

Nate is plagued by dev env setup


               

Thoughts on virtual dev confs?

I was wondering what your thoughts are on Virtual Dev conferences. November 9th starts the .NET 2021 conference. Google IO has been a thing for a while. Do you watch the streams? Do you try out any new API's that get introduced?
               

Long time listener Kpovoc is at a cross roads...

Hey Mike and Chris,
               

I asked Igor:

I'd like to put a bit of context around your announcement about stepping down from the AlmaLinux OS Foundation Board for our coverage in this weekend's Linux Action News. 
               

test
               

Chris C is Looking to start learning.

I know this is a somewhat non-topical, evergreen question, but it seemed like something that you lot might have some thoughts on.
               

Ethin Feels like he is running out of time...

Hey guys,
               

Tyler has two takes he wants to run past us.


               

Hunter asks about the MacBook hate.

Hey I've only been listening for a month or so and I love your shows. I was just wondering why there seems to be so much dislike for the mac ecosystem, or just specify macbook pros?
               

Justin Asks... Is the industry at risk by going all in on Pis?

I love the show and it has felt like finding "my people" when it comes to technology.  One thing I've wondering lately is if the industry is relying too much on Raspberry Pi's as the core of so many products.  One company controls the supply and the project roadmap.  Are their other arm boards that could potentially be used in some of these products?
               

What about a NUC style PC for Chris?

Hi Chris and Wes!
               

  - platform: history_stats
    name: Cab Heat History Today
    entity_id: switch.aeotec_limited_unknown_type_0103_id_0017_switch_2
               

sensor:
  - platform: integration
    source: sensor.aeotec_limited_unknown_type_0103_id_0017_power
               

Thanks so much for the amazing show that is Self-Hosted - every 2 weeks I am refreshing my podcatcher like a madman looking for a new episode :)

I was just catching up on episode 54, and could absolutely relate to Alex's remote access woes. Tailscale is a solution that seems to be popular on Reddit and the IRC/Matrix rooms. I just wanted to mention the solution that has been perfect for me: ZeroTier
               

Zahid writes in about Tailscale

Hello,
               

Chris from Linux After Dark AKA @GreenSysAdmin writes in to defend the Magic little Pi.

I was just listening to LUP 425 and you brought up the idea of using a Raspberry Pi as a router. Whilst you almost certainly shouldn't use one as a router for a heavy production setup like yours, I thought I would write in and defend the little magic box's corner a little bit.
               

Tim on why NixOS would be great.

Which Distro for New Server?  I voted NixOS for the following reasons...
               

Some Guy wants an M1 Update from Mike
 
I was curious if Mr. Dominick could share his experience with using an M1 device to develop, especially in python and C. I am coming from a 2015 Macbook pro, and after breaking the monitor I figured it is time to upgrade. I am holding out for the next generation of M1 devices and wanted to hear how it has been for you.
               

Caught up in the machine asks...

I've written into the show several times over the years. 
               

Aaron has a self-hsoted location tracker he really likes

I'm writing in about the location tracking you did for your road trip (https://colonytracker.live/).
               

Name: Jake Howard
Email: jake+ssh@theorangeone.net
Twitter: RealOrangeOne
               

David is tempted to make a career jump but wants our take...


               

Charlie sees our convo from the other side of the issue


               

Ben thinks we might still not be connecting with the core issue.

Hi Chris and Mike,
               

Cris B writes Political extremism on Coder Radio. WTF?

I fired up Pocketcasts to hear a usually interesting (and sometimes cheerfully ranty) episode of Coder Radio. What I heard instead was some bizarre far-right extremist political tirade, sounding like a radio broadcast from the dying days of the Weimar Republic. Employees are actually fully purchased property of their owner-employer!  Anyone who doesn't want to work for the death industry is a traitor to the fatherland!
               

Drew our editor put it will

You're wrong about this whole thing in the most Florida way possible.
               

mirdaki on Matrix in the LUP Feedback Chan writes...

Agree that the community needs to be less tribal, because it can be really confusing, intimidating, and just be a turn off for folks just getting into Linux
               

Nik wants to know what value Mike gets from a QA team member...

Mike, you mentioned recently that you have been hiring for a QA person in your company(At least I think you did :)). What value do you think a QA will bring to your team and to you as an owner/manager? Devs can test too, so why not just do that for instance and be happy? I am really curios to get your thoughts on the QA role here.
               

Johnathan says we gotta define what winning means.

I think that to decide whether Linux has "won", you first need to decide what winning means. Maybe for some people server and coffee machine market share is enough, but for me it will never be enough as long as using a non-creepy desktop operating system is still considered niche, with all the problems that come along with that. So has Linux won because WSL is in Windows now? 
               

Our boss talk got Joe FIRED UP.

Hey guys,
               

Hey Chris and Mike. I've been a happy listener for nearly 7 years now. 

In response to Mike's frustrations with autocomplete for the Python SQLAlchemy package, I wanted to share a project called SQLModel. (https://github.com/tiangolo/sqlmodel)
               

Micah says the M1 is great, but it's WSL that's a real game-changer...

Hi Chris and Mike,
               

Parker's Super Mobile Setup....

Hello Chris and especially Mike,
               

Rosetti noticed an update for VSCode that might interest us...

I believe MS is listening to your pain most closely.
               

Tyler's thoughts on Triaiblism in Linux and the Linux Foundation using a Mac...

Regarding 429... While I agree that on the grand scale the tribalism should end, I think that people in the Linux Foundation should represent Linux, the community, not Linux the corporate deep pocket filler. That's just my take, love the show (and all JB shows), keep up the great work!
               

Zero thinks Linux missed it's Desktop Window years ago...

I think the Desktop Linux train has sailed a long time ago and it's best that we take the lessons learned from it and start fresh with a new OS that is user friendly and open source.  Imagine building and documenting the best repairable computer in the land with a UNIX-like OS that is great for every day tasks.  When that computer is built by an advertising powerhouse that is environmentally friendly and their message gets taken seriously is when the next renaissance will kick off.
               

Ashish writes...

On the Intel conversation. I don’t believe Intel is going anywhere anytime soon, or even later.
               

Dane writes...

Hey guys! A listener wrote in during episode 427 on going from an engineer to a manager and asked what makes a good manager. After over two decades of writing software professionally and mentoring along the way, I’ve developed some strong opinions on this topic and the listener also has the skill set I found in the best managers I’ve had, an engineering background. Hold on to your hats...
               

Hey Mike & Chris,

First of all, long-time listener here all the way from Northern Ireland! Wanted to say a big thanks for making such a great show. It's helped me navigate the dev world a lot and definitely kept me informed.
               

Hello,

This is Dustin from the Boise mini meetup. On today’s Self Hosted you guys talked about degoogling. This is a journey I’ve been on for about 2 years and I’d say I’m 90% of the way there. This included replacing GSuite for my podcast. I’ve also gone with the model of self housing when it makes sense and trying not to centralize everything.
               

Hey, Alex and Chris!

I just listened to episode 51, and you were talking about de-Googling and how much you rely on Google for Calendar and Contacts. I think Brent mentioned Nextcloud, and I wondered if any of you've heard of, or used, Etesync (https://www.etesync.com/)?
               

Hi Alex and Chris,

Love the show. It's exactly why I got in to Linux in the first place. I'm also having a great time listening about Project Off-grid as I am about to move to a rural place in Australia with no services (well, it's got a (dirt) road) and build something from the ground up.
               

Francis Hit a bump in the road w/Contacts on NextCloud...


               

Carson writes...

Hey Chris and Alex,
               

First of all, I love the show and it inspires me to learn more and become digitally self-reliant! In episode 51, Chris mentioned that he doesn't know of any mesh Wi-Fi solution that doesn't have some cloud baked in, but there is one: Free Mesh (with the tagline "The only Open Source mesh package!") https://freemeshwireless.com/


               

Hi Chris, Alex and team

I just wanted to jump in on the WiFi topic from show #51.  While not specifically installed into a home, I recently installed a wireless network in a small church using equipment that could easily be sourced and installed for home or small business use.  
               

Hello Chris and Alex!

I've been listening to Self Hosted since the beginning, and what you guys are doing here is absolutely amazing.  Thank you, and keep up the good work!
               

Hey guys,

You touched upon password managers and Bitwarden in episode 51. Like Brent, I'm using KeePass(XC). What I like about it is that it's easy to back up because the whole database is just a single file. I currently sync it between my devices via a self-hosted syncthing instance running on an ARM board in our laundry room.
               

squirrellyDave is tiling that Plasma...

Hey Chris and Wes,
               

Hey guys...seems the roadshow is going well so far. 

Writing in from across the "other" pond in Japan. Wanted to inquire as to your thoughts on the topic of careers in Linux and Cloud Admin. Have you in the past, or will you consider in the future, making this a topic on any of the JB Podcasts? 
               

Joe P has MASTERED Nebula and shares some tips, tricks, pros, and cons...

Hey there!
               

Kelvin has been using Nebula and never looked back... 


               

Trey has a handy Nebula script...


               

Hi LU team,

I listened to your latest podcast asking about people using Nebula.
               

Hans tried out Plasma after we talked about it...

I went for KDE Neon as they promise cutting edge KDE versions on a stable base OS. It took me ages to get it to install correctly with my custom partition setup and in the end I had to chroot in from the live version to manually fix /etc/crypttab.
               

Listener Chris is FIRED UP about Crystal

Hey guys!
               

Jim wants more C++ Deets from Mike...

Mike tossed out one of his classic throwaways saying that he is running C++ on his back-end, and we are just supposed to ignore this?? 
               

Spence and many others said to use Little Snitch...

I'm a long time Apple/Mac user and have done system support for Macs for many years. (Now, my primary computer is running Linux, but I still use my Macs daily for tasks they are optimized for and when using apps that don't have Linux counterparts.)
               

The problem with Intel...

Can you guys talk about Intel for a few minutes? I’m with Chris that Gnome is deploying solutions that widen the chasm with their audience, but if it was a contest I think Intel would take the cake. I’ve never seen a company deploy more promises than actual products. While they will likely always stay relevant for a large audience how do you see their future unfolding?
               

Jacob has some insights into the management transition...

In Coder 427 you guys take on the feedback of a listener moving from a developer to a manager. It’s a big topic and there’s an insight I’d like to share on the getting to know your people component. Asking one question of each person in 1:1 sessions can be a game changer. The question is… Tell me about a mentor that impacted your life.
               

Peter has a couple of book tips for becoming a manager...

Last week Shawn asked for advice on being a manager. I have two book recommendations. The first is "The Effective Manager", by Mark Horseman. This book give actual advice not just theory. The second is "The Unicorn Project", by Gene Kim which puts DevOps and how to run a dev shop into a story form. Those two books will set you up for success.
               

C# hater writes in...

Anyway, I just can't help but take those StackOverflow developer survey results as a chance to rag on C#. Even though it's not my favorite language, Objective-C is a bit overhated in my opinion. C#, on the other hand, is an an evil virus from hell forced upon the human species. I've never encountered a language that was more far removed from what it claims to be. In the case of C#, it's "easy to read and use" but that phrase couldn't be a better description of everything C# is *not*. 
               

Hey guys, Ive been a software engineer for about 11 years now and I have now transitioned into a manager! 

I work for a large company and while I know how to be a good dev, I would like to hear your guys thoughts on what makes a good manager? 
               

Hans writes in...

Hey guys,
               

Johannes from Austria writes...

I heard you a lot talking about networking and know you both prefer wired over wifi.
               

Anon with a new home writes in....

Hi Alex and Chris!
               

The Linux Trucker writes..

I was listening to your last episode and heard you talking about wall panel. Although it is great software, I feel there is a better option. 
               

Jan writes...

Having bought an iPad two years ago, and returned it after three weeks because it was just unworkably locked down and Os-wise inferior, I was a bit surprised about it.
               

David says the key to Linux being great is using old boring hardware...

Linux old hardware support is much better than new from manufacturer support.
               

veritanuda writes in, and after throwing cold water on time crystals says...

On the subject of trust in open source, revisiting my previous message, yes we must not be complacent and just assume all is good and open source will save itself. 
               

Roxedus from Linux Server IO wrote in.

Just listened to LUP 416, and I want to clarify some things regarding Webtop.
               

Liam our carrier spy writes...

Mike, As someone who works in the cellular industry, you're actually kinda right, 5G is a lie. 
               

Spicy Chris writes...

After your Gnome bashing I thought I'd write to you about an alternative I have been using for a few years.
               

Greg writes...

Chris and the Badger!  Love your show.  It inspired me to learn docker this  past April and then convert all of my self-hosted services to docker. 
               

Sefa writes..

I am a little bit behind and was listening to LUP 411 today, where you guys talked about options for running AUR stuff on Debian-based distros.
               

Nicholas is feeling the Jing Tablet Hype...

Hey guys, huge fan of the show, I’ve been waiting the last couple episodes to hear what you think of this, it’s a tablet built for Linux. Not sure if you have heard about it or maybe you had some skepticism. I hope you guys keep doing what you do either way!
               

Javier writes...

In last the episode Neil gave us a history lesson on a potential future for the Steam Deck, by quoting OS/2's slogan "A better DOS than DOS, and a better Windows than Windows". While I wholeheartedly agree with his statement, I also think we should take another lesson from a decade prior:
               

Todd says choice saves Linux in the end...

Hey Chris,
               

Mike from Butte writes...


               

Dan comes in with his own GNOME Hot take...

I wanted to chime in on your discussion of the GNOME desktop and I 100% agree: the GNOME developers are building a terrific product for a market that is not there. I have recently tried out Fedora Silverblue and the default GNOME experience is pretty good out of the box. But I always reach a point where things start driving me nuts.
               

Ethin writes...

Hey guys,
               

Daniel writes...

Hi Chris and Mike,
               

Sara . M writes…

Hi Chris,
               

* [Say hi to Microsoft's own Linux: CBL-Mariner | ZDNet](https://www.zdnet.com/article/say-hi-to-microsofts-own-linux-cbl-mariner/)
* [Microsoft releases CBL-Mariner Linux distribution for cloud and edge](https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4034680/microsoft-releases-cbl-mariner-linux-distribution-cloud-edge)
* [Microsoft Linux is not what you thought (or hoped) it would be - TechRepublic](https://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-linux-is-not-what-you-think-or-hoped-it-would-be/)
               

Matt writes...

I was wondering if you could recommend a VPN device that had a Linux client?  We use Check Point Firewall and it doesn't have a Linux client, just windows.  I use Linux on the laptop I would like to connect to my work computer on (which runs Windows).
               

Morgan writes...

Hey all,
               

Mark has a distro for "you and young Wesley might like to kick the tires of"...

MOFO Linux Linux designed to defeat state censorship and surveillance.
               

Gene writes in...

Y’all talk a lot about getting things done before dns switches over and have mentioned at least once recently about having domains everywhere… you should really check out https://www.gandi.net 
               

Krystal writes in...

I was struck by the chat with Jack from AlmaLinux, it seems a lot was covered that Rocky Linux would want to respond to. I know you mentioned you invited them on the show, what happened with that?
               

Gabe writes in...

Hey Chris and Wes - If Valve called you guys up and asked you for tips on how to successfully ship Arch on the Steam Deck what would you advise them to do?
               

Hey - this might be a little off topic but I'm looking to get a security system and cameras installed in a vacation house.  Most of the options seem to need cloud in order to operate which is a bit concerning considering the systems are not cheap to install. I'd be interested to know what you use and maybe what other listeners might have installed? Cheers, love the show.  Bevan.

               

Alexander is disappointed that GitHub Copilot exists as a product for a number of reasons.

I've just listened to episodes 420 & 421, where you mentioned GitHub Copilot a couple of times. I want to share my 2 cents on the topic, if that’s alright. I’m a professional software developer, though, so my view is biased as hell. I apologise in advance.
               

veritanuda thinks Microsoft have finally figured how to kill Open Source...

So I was listening to CR422 and your musings over copilot, and you touched on the idea of licence washing, but I feel you over simplified it. The copilot announcement happened the same week I read this article by the SFC
               

Chuck's Solving Sleepless Nights...

Hi Chris -
               

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What are the security implications for sharing ansible playbooks/roles (or any infrastructure as code) via Github, blog, or similar? On the one hand sharing helps people learn, but on the other it provides information for potentially critical systems that an attacker could exploit.

On github many people seem to share the roles they are using but the playbooks less often. I also realize there are things like ansible-vault for encryption, but up to a point it seems easier to just not share them publicly. I'm personally now just using gitolite to "privately" host my own ansible playbooks and roles. Do you have any rules of thumb for what you do or do not share?
               

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m writes...

There has been a lot of conversation about The Apple store, Epic, anti-trust, etc.
               

Dan writes...

I just listened to episode 421 and wanted to confirm what Michael said about which programing language is going to be the future: not Rust but Javascript/Typescript.
               

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Thanks for letting the Rocky and Alma communities hash it out on your IRC today. I hope we didn't cause too much drama. There's obviously some things on both sides that haven't gone super smoothly in the past. However, I 100% believe that it's good both exist and I do feel like if we work together we can do great things for the community. The support both sides have had shows that the community wants and needs an enterprise OS that isn't going in the same direction as CentOS.

The Rocky team talked afterwards. We are going to attempt to further dis-associate with comparisons between Rocky and others (Alma, Navy, Vz, Oracle, ect). We want to be a part of the community and interact on things that Rocky is doing well and promote the direction we want to go with the community support. But we just don't feel like it is helpful to contrast and compare when the goal for most of these projects is to be 1:1 with upstream and provide awesome community support. We would rather be in a position to lift Rocky, the community, and others (like Alma) up then to try to make ourselves out to be something better then we are. Neither side can prevent community from saying opinions, but I'm hopeful that both sides can promote the best of both sides for the benefit of the community.
               

Mr Light_fixture writes back in...

Hello,
               

Joss maybe have found camera utopia and writes in...

Hi guys, been listening since ep 1 was announced on the other Jupiter broadcasting shows been on the home assistant and plex journey with you since :D Thanks for the amazing content!
               

Tuomas writes in with networking on his mind...

Hi,
               

David in North Carolina writes in...


               

A frustrated Will writes in...

Will you cover the new home screen ads on Nvidia shield TV? So annoying. I got the shield on your recommendations and it has been great otherwise. The only solution seems to be installing a random launcher off the internet (not seeing many open source options). 
               

Mike writes...

Hey guys, love the show.  
               

Ivan Writes...

Do you guys host your own email server and what are your thoughts on this? This might be a good idea for a show!
               

Mike from Bute writes...

Good analysis and your take that Google's CEO is taking time to make decisions.  However, I respectfully disagree.  Google is suffering from their own success.  Most successful companies go through this (Xerox, IBM, Microsoft, Google, etc.).  They start out small with laser-vision focus and ninja-like agility.  This is why Google was able to eat MS's lunch back in the day.  MS was large, arrogant, complacent, sluggish, and drank their own Koolaid. 
               

Ashish writes...

I completely agree with both of your assessments of the regulation situation, it’s going to lead to just a garbled mess of policy that nobody likes or even understands.
               

NixBytes writes..


               

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John writes in regards to the AUR on Ubuntu.

I run LTS Ubuntu (or Pop!) 20.04 with LXD/LXC.   
               

Light_Fixture wrote in…

Hey, just wanted to write in because I know you people like to keep up with Fuchsia stuff too: did you know there's already a desktop OS based on Fuchsia? It's called dahliaOS and they have two editions, one based on the Zircon kernel and the other based on Linux. It's open source, has an eyecandy desktop called Pangolin, and the devs seem to focus on Flutter-based apps as the "main" kind of programs on the system.
               

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Time writes in with his bulletproof Linux recipe...

I use an Intel NUCs as my desktops, and Dell XPS' as my laptops running Fedora. They both have integrated graphics and nothing weird in them so you know they will have excellent linux support. For gaming I have an xbox. My wife is a luddite and uses an iPad.
               

Chuck writes in...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is auctioning an NFT of the original Objective-C source code he used to create the World Wide Web. 
               

Jimmy writes...


               

Chris, Mike,

I'm a JetBrains IDE user (IntelliJ, Goland, and PyCharm mostly) but wanted to drop you a note letting you know that I also use Sublime on an almost daily basis.  I don't use Sublime as an IDE... I use it as a scratch pad to work with large text files (JSON, XML, etc...), and files that don't really need to be saved.  The regex capabilities are some of the best I've worked with.  It's so quick to start up and it maintains unsaved files through crashes and restarts, I think it's one of my favorite utilities and the price is really fair.
               

!help eval:

Evaluate code in an ephemeral container
               

The Holm says just water cool it!

I just giving idea how to cool down Raspberry PI brains of famous RV without cutting big holes.
               

Corey wants to get social, without social media...

Hey! Longtime listener and even longer time self-hoster; love the show(s)! I particularly enjoy getting to hear about all the other software/tools that folks have made that fill a niche hole in their life.
               

Roger saved everyone from Zoom with Linode and open source!

How I Use Linode
               

Jordan writes...

As a fellow rver I was wondering what you were using for internet. I’m using a mobile hotspot with tech connect with the fmca, but since the T-Mobile merger my speeds have dropped to almost unusable.
               

Hey guys, long time listener and huge fan of the show.  Easily my favorite spot to get Apple gossip and teased with robe talk.

I was just listening to Episode 416 where Mike was kind of defending the unrepair-ability of computers because he's a busy dad and doesn't have time to mess around with building and fixing his own hardware.
               

A few episodes ago I think you Chris were lamenting about all the existential attacks on Linux on the desktop for programmers and power users. I know you and Mike can both appreciate a good cli tool and being able to automate tasks via bash or other scripting methods. Even the ability to audit or trust code that you compile yourself.

I, like Mike, can't be bothered to get very into the weeds of my computing devices anymore. 
               

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https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/network/
               

Just listened to yesterday's LUP, don't know if this has already been mentioned or was discussed during the post-show, but Google Takeout offers stuff as a collection of 2GB ZIP files for compatibility reasons, but before you Takeout, you can click that and it's a drop-down that allows you to download as a single large ZIP (if your platform supports that ZIP format) or a single .tar.gz
I've always gone with the latter, 15GB of data in like a 13GB file, done it a few times. Google Photos stuff is littered with metadata in JSON files (EXIF is still stored in the images themselves), and if you've edited stuff in Photos without saving the result as a copy and deleting the original, you'll also get both the original and edited version of all your items.
They used to put them in folders by year (and maybe also by month, I don't recall), but they don't do that anymore, so I wrote a script that gets the date from the Unix timestamp in the JSON and sorts the items that way into "year/month/date/item"
               

Hello JB!
               

ROFL from the Netherlands writes...

I've recently been having a lot of trouble with the ZFS kernel module causing kernel panics. I'm currently in the process of writing up a bug report for it. In the end I had to edit the raw bytes on the disk to get the kernel panic to stop, and in the end repair the pool. Have you ever had to do something as drastic as attaching a debugger to the kernel in order to solve a problem you were having?
               

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Scott writes…

I’ve heard you discuss Ubuntu on the Raspberry Pi. As an adept novice when it comes to Linux and Pi’s, I’m thinking of playing with it myself (I run a few Pi’s for pihole, pivpn, homebridge and AirPrint) but can’t seem to find any info on the advantages/disadvantages of using Ubuntu on a Pi in a semi mission critical environment. Any commentary or tips you might have would be appreciated. 
               

Brandon Writes...

I've been using Linux (and been a JB listener) for about 10 years now, and throughout that time I've been using various laptops and self built desktops. This has usually turned out fine for me, aside from a AMD Ryzen build I did a couple of years back. Turns out the SuperIO chip on the motherboard does not have a mainline Linux driver, preventing thermals from working and pegging the fans at 100%. There is an out of tree driver build by a community member, who later got burnt out and quit, and a replacement driver does not do everything the previous one did. Sadly, this machine is now a Windows-only gaming rig and I had to go back to my previous machine for day to day use.
               

Zack Writes...

Hey LUP! Just heard the latest episode about TLP and wanted to comment that yeah there are commands to temporarily disable the charge thresholds set in the config file, as well as a command to temporarily set a different charge threshold without modifying the config file.
               

James aka CoolJimmy writes...

I've been running tlp on my T480 since i got it 2 + years ago, with a start charge at 50% and stop at 80%. I have the internal battery at 97.8% and external battery at 98.4% capacity. 
               

Dale writes...

Hello, I'm an electronics designer and a long time mac user, and I'm recently falling back in love with linux. 
               

Mark from Lenovo writes...

Hi Chris & Wes,
               

Dries (Drees) from Belgium

Hi,
               

Hello
- Computerkid
               

Live?
               

https://archive.org/details/cihm_07626/page/n9/mode/2up

ALPHABET
               

Shout out to NixOS.org
               

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+ My main goal when traveling with my self-hosted systems in my RV is no trouble—out-of-the-way automation.

+ I want a seamless experience when we have internet and shore power and when we don't. My kids are at the age where connectivity is a huge deal for them now. So my LAN has to be solid for streaming and network games while literally driving over the Cascade mountains.
               

+ My main goal when traveling with my self-hosted systems in my RV is no trouble—out-of-the-way automation.

+ I want a seamless experience when we have internet and shore power and when we don't. My kids are at the age where connectivity is a huge deal for them now. So my LAN has to be solid for streaming and network games while literally driving over the Cascade mountains.
               

Jimmy writes...

Hello gentlemen!
               

Simon writes...


               

Alexei writes...

It seems the M1 is really great, but there have already been multiple reports of users' macbooks dying randomly, either from power delivery problems or SSD failures.
               

Drew writes...

I haven't heard much talk about the robe on Coder Radio or other pods in a while. Not sure if they've been produced/shipped yet, the only thing I've received was the email about the order being placed.
               

In the latest episode you were wondering about one way phone backup app. For Android there is absolutely fantastic apparently called FolderSync which does exactly that. It supports literally any protocol, you can do scheduled backups, very granular rules etc. I use the Pro version for over 5 years and it is rock solid stable. It automatically recognizes where I am (based on ssid) and backups to appropriate local NAS so that I have multiple physical copies.

Can't recommend it enough :)
               

Dear Chris and The Badger,

With the likes of unraid and docker, among others, self hosting has become easier than ever. My quarantine project of digitizing all my media and figuring out how to play it remotely on my television has turned into a full blown server, running about 20 docker containers and nearly 50TBs of spinning rust!
               

You were asking about how to pool space from disaparate sources.  You should look at greyhole (https://www.greyhole.net/). I've used it on my media server for years.  It will pull in any drive (or mount, I believe). You create samba shares and decide how many copies of the data to keep (1 to n). Greyhole manages the copies and uses the space evenly across drives.  Each drive is a standalone fs so losing one, doesn't affect data on the others. 

- Greg
               

love the show, keep it up. In the last episode there was some talk about pooling different bits of storage over the network. In the past I used https://www.greyhole.net/ to pool drives from 2 different machines into one virtual storage presented via Samba (I know...).

It worked for me for many years until I switched to one new machine pooling all drives in 2020 using the now famous Perfect Media Server guide.