631: Offline By Default

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Hello, friends, and welcome back to your weekly Linux talk show. My name is Chris.
My name is Wes.
And my name is Brent.
Hello, gentlemen. Well, we have a pack of applications that you can self-host
that let you live your life offline or maybe just make the best of your internet
connection even better.
I don't know. As Linux users, we have a lot of great options built into Linux

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and some self-hosted apps, and we'll get into all of that in this episode.
And then we'll round it out with some great boosts, some shout outs, some picks, and more.
So before we go any further, say time-appropriate greetings to our Mumble room.
Hello, Virtual Lug. Hey, Chris. Hey, Wes. And hello, Brent.
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This is the way to do it.
Oh yeah oh and there's so many tools that we can take advantage of
like you know we can strategically place the database in one location

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Texas Linux Festival is just around the corner in 25 days.
We probably need to leave in 20 days. Brent and I still need to buy our ticket.

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Wes gets in for free because he's a speaker.
Yeah, me too. Me too. Sometimes. But have you wrapped your head around the fact
that you're leaving in less than 20 days?
Yes.
I should have thought of that hold on hold on hold on real quick let's uh let's

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just update the doc there you go brent you got 15 days 15 days until you got yeah there you go,
better get the yeah that's that's the way you also have to do.
The part where you drive there.
Yeah that's what i'm saying yeah okay so we'll get more to it in the shout out
section of the show, but we are building real momentum.

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Our time is tight. I have so far failed to find a commercial partner who wants
to spend their precious ad budget to get us to Texas Linux Fest.
Nothing's worked out, but we're still going one way or another.
And I feel, I made my case last week, it's important that these events get covered
and we try to cover the ones we can and the ones we're best suited to cover.
We don't cover them all, but we try to be strategic and this is one of them.

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I was thinking about it this morning. I think these crazy trips that we do and
going to these events are one of the reasons the show is this show right here
this very podcast has lasted 12 years right if we didn't do this stuff i don't
think the show would be going for as long,
which by the way happy birthday boys uh august 12th
was our birthday that's great yeah so the show has been going longer than seinfeld

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longer than the big bang theory and many podcasts out there isn't that amazing
a podcast and i really honestly think it's it's it's the listener support the
community involvement, and these events.
And it's like the trifecta. And I think that is actually quite correct.
We were wondering what other challenges might change our lives.
Because, my friends, we must.
This one's well on its way.
We're going to do it on a shoestring budge. Let me tell you what.

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Wes and I are loading up into my little GTI.
And we're going to meet up with Brent, who's bringing his van down the East
Coast. And we're going to meet up in Austin.
We'll attend the fest, cover it for the show, hang with the peeps, and meet up with people.
Then we're going to have an epic caravan back up here to the studio,
which I'm sure will be a source of many stories for future shows, no doubt about it.

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And we're doing this with boost.
I try to go the commercial route and we're doing it with boost.
I've explained my reasoning in the previous episode. If you would like to support
us that method, you haven't done it before fountain.fm makes it really easy.
Now, I am working on a no-boost support route. You can kind of send us like a fake boost.

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I'm working on a fake boost system. I want something that we can easily tag
an account for. This money is allocated to the trip.
It's not a general JB fund thing. It's a trip fund thing.
And I want something to let me do one-off links, right? So I've put together
what I'm calling a fake boost page, which we will link in the show notes.
And it lets you do a one-time-off PayPal, Venmo, on-chain, or Lightning.

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I'm also really impressed by just how modern some of these apps actually are.
I have modern toolkits on the back end and all that stuff.
But if, say, you have Lightning, but you just don't have a podcast.
It's definitely not fair to say that it's completely going back in time.
If you've got on-chain Bitcoin, you could do a fake boost. If you've got PayPal
or Venmo, you can do a fake boost with your name and a note.
We'll try to collect those. And they automatically get allocated to the same
budget we're allocating the sats to. And you can include your name in there with a little message.

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Well, my number one criteria was to try to find apps that you guys won't find.
And it's still about all the options. but I'm working with what I got and keeping
it within the restrictions.
I'm trying to round it out here.
So if you want to do a fake boost.
I have a little competition for you guys you don't know about.
That way, or send us a real boost.
Hold for my second.
That makes that really easy. We're going to collect those and we'll be using
that to fund our butts to get down there.

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I'll probably front the costs or something like that on a credit card.
I don't know. I mean, I'm committed to however I have to fund it to get us there.
You know, some easy to find resources might be like awesome too.
And Chris, I did confirm that, yep, you had gone there. So I decided to just
ignore that and go elsewhere.
So I tried to find some other people, different suggestions,
catching up with different pocket meat car apps to find.

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I'm hoping I won, but we'll see a little later.
Yeah. This time you'll, you can do it kind of guilt free because you've preloaded.
So you can just indulge like crazy.

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I live a simple life. Okay, that's not true. But I try to when it comes to my internet.
How recently the application has
been updated? Or are you leaning towards things like Rust and Go tools?
Not ideal. Not ideal for somebody who loves high performance,
low latency, hit play, it plays immediately, high definition,

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4K, HDR, right? Not ideal.
Well, it's not like, I mean, you had years of connected internet,
right? and you have it here at the studio.
It's like you're on a hard line pretty often.
And then I go home and.
Then suddenly everything changes.
It's been frustrating. And especially because I'm in a very populated area here

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in the Pacific Northwest.
So both LTE and Starlink get actively traffic shaped, especially in the evening
when people are watching their Netflix or whatever they're doing.
I decided halfway to change my decision, but I'm also going to...
Yeah, like for example, say I'm doing like a backup off of Usenet. of my Linux ISOs.
maybe in the evening it starts at 13 megabytes a second. And you're like, okay, that's not bad.

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Yeah, I can work with that.
I can work with it. It's not what I was hoping for, but I'll work with 13 megabytes
a second. Minute goes by, now you're getting four megabytes a second.
Two, three minutes go by, now you're getting 110K a second.
Like some of the things, I don't know how they identify it on Starlink,
but on some of the just consistent data streams, they just ratchet it down.

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And I'm sure LTE, you know, all of a sudden the networks are the same way.
And during this time, websites can be slow to load, videos delay to start,
and then they buffer during playback.
So saving bandwidth or just avoiding the internet and being able to just operate
offline has been like the name of the game for me for years.
And I think there's something to this because it also means you depend less on cloud services.

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It means you have better privacy. It means a lot of stuff is self-hosted first,
and it also means you have less dependency on your ISP if there is an outage.
Your life kind of continues.
Even though that's not a super common thing these days.
It's nice. So everything I have to do is really most of my Huey apps is in that Arch container.
It's nice to make it even more efficient to not leak things on there you don't need.

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That's the real question.
So I thought, I've talked about some of these things before. Some of these are new.
Some of these I have updates for. But I wanted to put this all in one place,
both for you boys and for the audience, because I get these questions a lot.
and just have one episode that everybody can refer to.
And I thought we should start with some MVPs, and I know you guys are into some of these.

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And I think one of the ones that has really helped, and it's a more recent one,
so I'll start here, is Pinchflat.
And we've talked about it once before. It's a YouTube media manager where you
can subscribe to channels or playlists.
And then you can set some media management things, like beyond just resolution
or if it should download the tinies or not.

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You can say, okay, after 30 days, after 15 days, after it's watched,
after whatever, go ahead and auto-remove this. But on top of that,
Pinchflat also pulls down the metadata necessary for your jellyfin or your plex
to integrate it like it's a television show.
So it shows up in your media player listed like all your other content with
the description, with the thumbnail, everything you'd expect like a regular

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old TV show. So it's not like this bogus experience in your media player.
And because it's pulled it all down with YouTube DLP in the background.
For this next seven days of the challenge.
So you're going to have to remember which environment certain tools are in so
that you can call them up.
And you're not leaking any data to YouTube about what you played,
when you played, how long you played it.
So nothing on the Bluefin host at all.

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I, as a content creator, constantly am thinking about that because it's all signals.
If I bail out of a video early, that's a signal that goes to their dashboard.
If I pause, if I fast forward, these content creators on YouTube are obsessing over all these stats.
And I can't help but think about the fact that I'm sending them those signals,
even though I don't want them to interpret any particular way.
It's a nice way to actually make sure you see what you subscribe to.

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You know, I have gone through and done some house cleaning too as well.
So Pinch Flat, really love this app.
And it's an Elixir app, which I always like to see.
Okay.
And it just works great. There's a Nix module now. So I've been using that ever since that came out.
And I love, as you say, like it's just ready to go, plug into whatever else you want to load it into.

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Do you mind if I do the Brent sales pitch on a couple of these?
I probably installed 10 things, and it totaled like 50.
In the back of my mind, a lot of these would be really great for the man's beer.
I thought it actually didn't work because it happened so quickly.
So one of the nice things about Pinch Flat is you can be driving offline.
You can go camp offline. You've got videos to watch, and then when you get an
internet connection, it'll reconnect, and it will pull down your next batch

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of videos for you while you're driving or moving about or doing whatever you're doing about your day.
And so when I sit down in the evenings, I just have a new batch of videos.
I didn't have to hit any buttons.
And if I've gone offline for a couple of days, it just catches back up when I come back online.
So I think it's really nice for those types of scenarios or if you have limited

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traffic or traffic shaping.
Or if you've got some that you just want to store, there's a couple of channels
I watch that are just really great, like how-to fix channels.
Archival.
I want to keep those.
Yeah.
So I just used Pinchflat to archive them.
I liked how flexible it was in terms of how much you wanted to keep,
not just in terms of pruning, but also how aggressively and far back it goes

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to sinking down in the first place.
Magnolia Mayhem comes in with an instant hot tip. He says another great thing
about Pinchflat is that you can export the OPML file and then watch through a podcast app.
I think I'm afraid of how much experience you guys have versus me in doing this kind of stuff.
So there's Pinchflat.
I don't think I've really done the 2E lifestyle at all.

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Period. I have been just, I've, of course, worked my way around the terminal
to accomplish more things. So I'm working it in this episode because it is taking
an extreme amount of self-control, not to talk about it.
It's ersatz TV, and it's one of these that every time I mention it,
I am more enthralled with this.
First of all, it's very easy to get going, and it lets you set up your own streaming

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television system with a TV guide and a lineup and autoplays.
If you're familiar with things like Pluto TV, it's that, but you control it yourself.
And it connects to your existing media library, analyzes that,
which could be a folder, could be Plex, could be Jellyfin.
It builds an actual EPG-compatible TV guide that things that read the TV guide format can ingest.

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Is that right? Oh, wow.
It creates also an XML file, so anything that can read XML can ingest.
generates a channel schedule for you and you can tell smart things like hey
if there is a cliffhanger go ahead and schedule the part two right next to it
like it somehow knows which episodes are cliffhangers if they're properly identified
and we'll schedule them back to back and so i have,

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a 90s sitcom tv show channel and it's things like seinfeld and i i've i've i've
expanded a bit too like 30 Rock is in there a little bit, but Seinfeld, Home Improvement.
Oh, I also added Sequest, so it's not just comedies. So there's a few things that are in that one.
And then I have a Star Trek The Next Generation channel, and it's all Star Trek

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The Next Generation. Not them, but Star Trek The Next Generation.
Seven seasons, all 24-7. Next channel is Star Trek.
This is all Star Trek, not just Star Trek The Next Generation.
I am going to have to take a peek at your setup.
And then I have a couple for the kids,
so that way if they just you know saturday morning we're eating breakfast or
something they want to put on one of their favorite shows but they don't want to

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sit there and pick the library they just hit the channel and it just
picks one i think probably for i was just playing it seems like there's a lot of
options every time there's no discussion about what our preferences are
and then surprisingly i have a food channel there are so this is things like
good eats or anthony bourdain and these types of shows so if the wife and i
are doing some food planning or some cooking i was wondering about the lms too

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pop that on and it really fits pretty heavy browser I don't think your browser set.
Up that we were.
Trying earlier was really. And this was the last one I did. And it's one of
our favorites because it's, it's really easy.
Some things are quite solved. Others.
I think we're really going to write. This is wheel of fortune.
This is, um, whose line is it anyways, which is from like the fifties and it's

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family feud and celebrity feud and all of those from the eighties, the nineties.
Now the current ones with Steve Harvey, all kind of mixed in there and,
and you really never know what you're going to get. Oh, and jeopardy jeopardy as well.
you never know what you're going to get but you just hit that or you can look
at the tv guide and know exactly what you're going to get but it takes the choice
out of it and it brings it back to an era that i loved where you start mid-program

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which is actually delightful for shows you know really well.
Yeah it is fun.
Oh yeah this episode great and if
it's a like a silly game show or you don't care you know i don't need to see
the intro of goodies for the 150th time right so i love all of that you can
also integrate stupid commercials so like on the 90s channel sometimes in between

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tv episodes i'll have some 90s commercials play that you can find on youtube
or archive.org there's a ton.
I love how much thought you've put into this.
Well it's it's delightful.
And boy i have i had not used it before but i gotta go in and there's a lot
to configure and i can see how you had a like a whole canvas to work with in
terms of what you can put together i.
Don't know what it is if anybody in the audience has a name for this sensation

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or this feeling that you get sometimes, boost in or write in and give me your name for it.
But there is this kind of satisfaction that I have when the whole family is
watching live TV streaming from my O-Droid, which is using QuickSync.
So the load on the O-Droid is like nothing, right? The video is playing.
It feels like live TV, air quotes, playing on the TV.

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We're not using a bit on the external Internet connection. The Starlink could
be off. We're watching, you know, Jeopardy.
And my O-Droid is hardly even doing anything because it's all being done with QuickSync.
And this, like, no load, nothing on the internet, we're still watching live
TV that's being picked by a machine and being scheduled and all of that.

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The sensation is, I don't know how to describe it, but it feels awesome.
And it is so worth that sensation just to set this program up alone.
Not to mention it means that it frees up our internet connection for that webpage
you need to load or whatever it is you might be doing. If you're taking with
pinch flat and ersatz, you're taking that heavy load off the connection entirely.

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You're not feeding any data to Google or Netflix or anybody else.
And it's all on demand locally with LAN speed.
Hardware decoded. It's soft.
It really does. As you say, like paired up with pinch flats.
I love turning YouTube into like a cable TV analog. You know, go the reverse way.
Yeah.
Repackage it. Have a different experience.

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So I've had this going for a while. I have set this up with Docker Compose.
Pretty straightforward.
But I think you were looking to see if there was like a Nix module or if it's packaged in Nix.
Yeah, so we're going to talk about like four essentially different apps today.
Three of the four had Nix modules already. And ersatz was the one that did that.
Oh, man. Being worked on though, right?

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No, there had been nothing I could find. Maybe somewhere. I mean,
the world of Nix and Git is a big place. But at least like a cursory search.
But I have fixed that. It's not upstream, but I have a flake now that works. I'm using it right now.
So it was a fun experience to get to learn ersatz a little bit better.
It's a .NET app, kind of like Jellyfin is, but it's well put together.

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It's one of these apps, much like Jellyfin, where you just run it,
and it has various worker threads and kind of sets everything else up so you
don't have to have very much setup. You don't have to run six different other
applications. One's the database, one's the worker.
Yeah, it just goes. And that means all it really needed was a systemd service

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implemented for it like the trappings of a Nix module and away it went.
What's also really nice is so you can plug it into Plex or Jellyfin and it'll
integrate with their native live TV support.
Well, as we've alluded to, each of us have been like secretly choosing the two
apps that we think we'll be using.
Of course, you're allowed to switch any time throughout the week.
Anything that supports HLS, you can essentially pull from Ursa.

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So I have just made a list and I know you guys have made a list and we'll see where we overlap.
I tried desperately to find things that maybe you wouldn't find in the iOS store.
Confident anymore. So you can just
have a point and then some of them also support the XML channel guide.
So I found a couple file managers.
So the way I generally watch this is in an IPTV app outside of Jellyfin.
So that's as far as I've done a pregame.

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Now the first one here is called Superfile.
So it says pretty over the mesh network can get back to my file manager and
streamline TV here at the studio. So you can do it.
It'll work.
And you can have different encoding profiles for different setups.
I have two more. One of them that seems extremely hot.
This is one of the MVPs.
It's called Ranger. You guys heard about this one?

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Not the big winner this week, but it's one of them. I'm going to give a quick mention.
It's still quite actively worked on, which was nice to see.
We talked about it a little bit before, before their name change.
And you could think of this as a way to quickly save links, notes, tag things, images.
I want to be able to use shortcuts to move files around.
You can also integrate it with some AI.
You can create things pretty easily using shortcuts, which I'm assuming doesn't really.

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You can have an auto-tag and a list down very much. Yeah, it's summarized.
It's like a data hoarder's stash place,
It's nice.
I am liking this app. This is a good find. I did hook up the AI.
That was pretty easy to do.
Yeah, but I have an argument.
So you get summaries and tags, at least by default.
The console app is not a tool.
The thing I'm most impressed with is they have this full site archive functionality
with something called Monarch in the back end. It is really good.

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Yes, I use that a lot.
Sure.
And then they also have an option. You have to kind of enable it with an env.
Option, but you can trigger it to either do just a cropped screenshot of the
main window size or a full size screenshot if you want.
So if you're not doing that, like, fancier archive, you kind of got options
for archiving, not just the sort of reader view text.
I'll give you the third one I found here, which is really just an alternative to Ranger.

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So you can just be, okay, this website, I want to add it to care of this one
because it's a Ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust called Joshuto.
So it's been kind of an Evernote replacement for me.
In the reader mode, you can tag text, but at least in Firefox, it was a little wonky.
Like, you would select the text.
But then it would unselect it and then offer you sort of like the color.
so you couldn't see it anymore and then you hit the color and then it highlights. It was fine, but...

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It does have some sharing features as well as tagging features.
You could do that and I'd just see if it's available.
If all three of us had carry keep going and then had like a shared lap category,
we could tag stories for each other in there and leave notes and the summaries and.
Stuff like that.
Well, we've wanted that functionality, especially the archiving part of like.
What if this goes offline?
We still want to be able to reference it for historical news reasons.
That would be really nice because I think that kills our SEO.

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We have 12 years worth of shows and you go back a couple years So.
Audience, tell me if I should choose one of those, because I actually didn't
try them yet. So we'll see if I stick to that.
And I see it did have a next module, so that's good.
The other category that I am probably the most worried about.
So those are sort of the MVPs.
of keeping stuff local, keeping it offline. So this is the category where I
most try to find something on it.

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Because I know you can do it with.
Let's say, Mutt.
I've tried Mutt before for about 15 minutes and got exactly nowhere.
You really get a thrill when you do your first backup to Image.
Which I figured would be kind of like an old classic but modernized.
You know, if you've ever done like a cloud backup, you see...
Scenes, from what I can tell.

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That it's basically all of the patches that went to be in Mutt actually applied.
It's as fast as the UI can display it.
We will see.
I think that's a place to land. So I have my phone set to just wait until I'm
on Wi-Fi, and then when I connect to Wi-Fi, it uploads all the photos.
Well, I can't tell you I haven't tried it yet.
It never goes over my internet connection. And then I, of course,
have to say Home Assistant, huge.
I also tried to find something hyper-modern. The other big one for us has been

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an audio bookshelf. I found something called Melly, M-E-L-L-E.
I'm just going to give it a quick honorable mention. If you haven't checked
out the audio bookshelf.
We've mentioned it before.
They just call themselves a rusty terminal mail account.
The apps continue to get better on Melly.
But I don't know. No, I think this is the category where I will fall down the most.
The music system integration has really kind of now solidified it.
The wife or I just push a button in the bedroom and our audio book starts for 20 minutes, 25 minutes.

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And then it gently fades out. And that's all powered by music.
Yeah, there are a couple other. I started to realize like if we're spending
as much time as possible.
You know, this audio book on demand with no internet connection.
There's actually a lot more we do than just moving files around.
And that's great because you know what I'm using my internet for in the evenings?
Backups. I'm uploading photos. I'm uploading configs. I'm uploading Docker stuff,
right? I'm uploading data.

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So why bother? Why not keep it all offline?
That's what I say. Keep it offline. So I'm kind of an offline first kind of guy.
So that's the MVP list. But the real breakthrough came earlier this week.
1Password.com slash unplugged. That's the number one. 1Password.com slash unplugged.

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I did not think of sequencing.
If you're in security, if you're in IT.
You know that there's this growing problem.
You have a mountain of assets to protect. Devices, identities,
applications. It's already a lot. It's a Slack term.
And it's literally growing every day because there's always some new company
that's starting up. I didn't think it would be unique.
You were probably forced to try this too. They believe it's going to make their
job easier, better, etc.

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The end result is, though, you have to conquer this mountain of security risk.
That's where 1Password extended access management comes in. You're not alone.
Over half of IT pros that we're surveying systems and SaaS apps are currently
the biggest challenge. There's just a lot of them. They're growing fast.
Part of the challenge is to play that through the terminal.
When you don't know about it, when you don't know what credentials you're using,

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or you can't properly monitor or audit it, it's essentially a shadow IT service.
And it's not hard to see why it happens.
They're happening directly to consumers. They're pushing this directly to Five years ago?
And no one's made a truly app for it ever since. It can discover and secure access to all your apps.
Even the unmanager. Hey, that's a good idea.
Actually. I never considered making my own app.
It can buy 1Password inventories every app.

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So I don't know, maybe I'll have to solve that one with some of the local music that I have.
It has pre-populated app profiles.
I don't know. We'll see.
It can help you assess SaaS risk. It'll let you manage access,
optimize your spend so you're not doing redundant services.
But also, enforce security best practices across every app in a way employees
can actually use the applications they really want to use.
Which I don't think is...

(26:09):
You can securely onboard and off-board employees as well.
Not going to be on your list.
Another way to meet compliance goals.
But it is written in Rust. So I figured why not throw it in the next.
It's just one of the ways extended access management helps teams strengthen
their compliance and their security.
If you go to 1Password.com slash unplugged, you'll take the first step to better
security for your team by securing credentials and protecting every application.

(26:32):
Even the unmanaged shadow IT.
So I tried to find an alternative.
So go to 1Password.com slash unplugged. It's all lowercase.
It's a great way to support the show.
And you learn more. They have more information there. It's a Go-based workspace
and session management tool. Well, go check out Extended Access Management Trelika.
It takes it to the next level.
And it makes your job easier. And it makes compliance easier, too.
So it's 1Password. That's the number 1Password.com slash unplugged.

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I kind of realize now, though, that I forgot to cross-reference my choices with
the actual rules for the Tui Challenge.
So is there a category I'm missing here? Maybe I didn't do enough research.
I actually thought, I don't know, I guess I thought you would be the first to
use this. And I thought, I tried to talk Wes into it over the last couple of weeks.
And then he and I both kind of were at the same time.

(27:27):
Just decided to give it a go this week for various reasons. And I'm talking about.
Okay, so just to review here in the challenge rules.
You've heard us tease it recently on the show.
One is text editing.
It's a community-supported open-source document management system.
We talked about web browsing.
You can take your physical documents, transform them into a searchable online
archive, and you can organize and tag and index. It performs OCR on your documents.

(27:49):
It utilizes the open-source Tatarak engine to recognize more than 100 different
languages. I do have it here.
It'll save them out as PDFs. Also, you can hook it up with various plugins.
It'll do email ingestion is what I'm trying to think of.
you can do all kinds of like workflows
so when different types of documents come in from different types of

(28:09):
people or correspondence as they put it you can have workflows based on that
and of course later on then find all of that the email processing is particularly
interesting too because it's not just email it's attachments as well so if you
like receipts and stuff like that that come into a particular email address
you can just have paperless ngx pull them in of course it's multi-user support as well, and,

(28:30):
I'd say a pretty nice, robust interface.
I don't have any serious hard remarks or good remarks either way,
but it works, and the interface is easy to figure out, and it helps you find your stuff quick.
Yeah, it seems pretty snappy too.
And a lot of documentation. And what I love about something like this is,

(28:51):
you can integrate it with either a hardware physical scanner,
and I'll put a link to some of those in there.
It looks like one of the hot ones right now it's semi-reasonable priced is the
brother ads 1800w wireless kind of portable so one of the key ways that paperless
works is it has like an inbox maybe a 2e app that neither of us consider is

(29:12):
a password manager and you can share that out over samba or,
you know sfdp or whatever you might like,
And then if you can get anything, a scanner of any type to write to that folder, it'll work.
But you boys, what are you using?
NGX, sorry. But then there is also what they call an API, which is really just
like a simple web hook system.

(29:34):
And a few scanners actually will write to that API as well.
That's neat.
That is really cool.
Yeah, you can just post the document and there you go. Yeah.
Now I put mine on my mesh network. I've got it registered with an external domain
and all of that. so I can get to it on any system that is on that flat network.
Yeah, that's actually how I ran into it was I was making that mesh network module

(29:55):
for Nix and someone was using it and then having problems with paperless.
I started using it to test that the module could work. And it does now.
It's Wes's fault.
Yeah, I'm impressed. There's a lot you can do. I'm only kind of touching the surface so far.

(30:16):
For me, the big optimization is I have sort of like paperwork anxiety.
Like, what do I do with this? I need to process this. So I'll have like this stack.
I essentially create myself an inbox and it just builds up because I haven't
really figured out what to do with it.
And so sometimes I would scan it and save it to a folder somewhere.
Sometimes I would try to put it like Obsidian.

(30:37):
Oh, right. That's the hipster one.
I just kept trying to come up with Kara Keep, just different ways.
But none of them really quite fit the bill. and then I wanted something that the wife could also use.
Yeah, that's...
And what I love about Paperless is it's purpose-built to solve this problem
so I can tag stuff. This is a Jupyter broadcasting thing. This is a personal thing.

(30:57):
And if I want to later on move up to a hardware scanner, I can.
But if I want to stick with the mobile scanners, I will. And there's a couple
of really, really good ones.
On Android, personally, I think Genius Scan is great. The detection,
it finds the document in the frame, it tries to get the best picture possible, looks really great.

(31:18):
And it's super simple to set up with Paperless NGX.
iOS also has QuickScan, which is fantastic and also really easy,
and that uses the Webhooks API.
So, boop, goes right to it. And they also have Swift Paperless over on iOS.
So these scanners make it stupid easy to just start capturing documents from

(31:40):
your phone and saving it to paperless.
And then later on, if I want to upgrade to like a hardware device here,
I'm thinking what I'll probably do, get a little scanner of any type and hook
it up to a Raspberry Pi that's a node on my mesh network.
And that, wherever that Pi in that scanner goes, like if we go on a trip,
I bring the scanner, if I get a portable one, some of these are quite portable,

(32:03):
I bring the scanner, I bring the Raspberry Pi.
Good to go.
And it connects to the mesh network and it scans and saves right to the paperless.
Got a portable scanning solution. I like that.
Or I just use the phone. Right? But you got that flexibility there. I really like that.
And also I'm working on some stuff. You know, I got business stuff I'm working

(32:24):
on. And so I'm beginning the process right now.
And I thought to myself, well, this is my moment, is just capture every document
as it's created in real time.
Yeah, do it from the start.
Yeah. And so like my inbox, it's not the actual word for it,
but the inbox folder, if you will, I shared it out over Samba.
And I just put a bookmark to it in my sidebar. And so when I get a PDF,

(32:46):
I just drop it right in there immediately.
And later on, I go back and check and make sure that everything got detected
right or I changed the tags.
It might be better, right?
But it was the perfect window of opportunity to start using paperless just from
the beginning of this process.
So before I get into playing around with some of the add-ons that took it to
the next level, I'm curious, I went the Docker Compose route.

(33:07):
I went a custom fancy Docker Compose route.
Oh, did you?
Which I'll talk more about. But I'm betting you went the Nix route.
Yeah, I did. Well, I mean, because that's what I'd already been playing.
I actually had configs ready to go. But I set all of these up with Nix.
And it was actually the one maybe tied for the shortest setup.

(33:28):
It just needed two lines. You turned it on, you know, enable equals true.
And then I just set the address to 0000 because I wanted to share it out.
It made it sound really simple.
It was very simple.
So where things get a little more complicated is there's not like a plugin architecture
system, right? What you do is you spin up other containers or other applications

(33:50):
alongside and then you connect to the API.
and I wanted to play with paperless AI because if I'm inputting a bunch of documents now,
might as well have a tool that uses OpenRouter or any other,
you know, OpenAI, API compatible, whatever.
And the idea is to have something, if you're going to bring a lot of documents

(34:10):
in at once, why not have something that could do automatic tagging, automatic indexing?
And the thing that could be interesting, and I may end up not using this,
but the thing that may be interesting is it then gives you contextual chat about
your paperless documents.
So you can go to the little interface that it gives you a little GUI and you

(34:32):
could say, when did I sign my rental agreement?
Or when did we license Brent's van?
And it will pull up the documents related to the licensing for Brent's van.
Yeah. Like that's the promise. I don't know if it's because I'm just starting
to use this. I don't know if it's actually going to deliver.
I tried it a little bit. I noticed it was able to answer questions.

(34:53):
Well, they have two chats.
And it can use local olama stuff too.
Yeah. They have like a specific reg chat as well as, which is like a separate
component running inside the image and like a more general chat, I guess.
Both of them did seem able to answer questions from the documents.
I noticed the reg one was citing all of the documents I had as test documents
every time in its little sources list.

(35:15):
But like it did get the thing right.
Okay. That, I mean, you could imagine if you had been using this for five plus
years and you've got quite the library now.
Because for me, any document I need to keep ever.
I'm putting it.
I don't really have a place to store paper documents anymore.
That's what I was thinking, especially, I mean, like I have some obviously,

(35:36):
but I'm much better with my digital backups than I like in terms of having systems
and procedures for that kind of thing.
And there's just nowhere in Jupes to have paper documents.
Right.
So it'd just be really nice to bring this digital. And this,
Brent, is my pitch for you, too. You've got nowhere in that van to store documents.
But you can store them digitally. Thank you very much. This is a pretty straightforward setup, too, Brent.

(36:07):
I think you'll find it pretty quick to get going, regardless of which route
you choose to go. So the paperless AI bit is sort of an unnecessary add-on.
It's not from the project. It's a community-created side thing.
It is nice that it supports just about any back end. It's got VLM support in there.
It's got OpenAI, of course, DeepSeek, but also OpenRouter, which then you could

(36:28):
point it at a bunch of other stuff like I mentioned.
Yeah, that's what I was trying just for convenience.
And you could also say don't process certain types of documents.
More bonus points.
Those types of things if you don't want it to look at some stuff.
How far of Wes is like three for you and I.
Well, a lot of this, if you're not doing it local, is pretty lightweight.
If you're just calling out, which, you know, I'm a little mixed on.

(36:49):
Ideally, I'd have all of this running locally.
Some sort of like local.
I'm going with Wes on this one.
But I don't have the hardware for that in the RV yet. That would be sweet.
Once Wes gets it set up for us, I'll just point it at that.
Isn't that the plan? So check out, if you're at a moment where you're starting
a project or you're starting a business thing or whatever it might be.

(37:11):
If you swam to paperwork.
Lean in. Because it gives you, you know, if you just want to upload documents
from the web browser that are on your file system, you can.
Or if you want to get a scanner on your phone and start bringing it in that way, you can.
Or you want to go get yourself a piece of hardware and have them ingest directly
into paperless. You can take all of those different routes.
And there's simple things like share extensions for the phone.
So anything you want that you can send through a share sheet,

(37:34):
you can send it to paperless as well.
That's what you're doing with yours.
So kind of do some carry, keep type stuff in there. And their wiki has an extensive
list of hardware support and Mopilap.
But what I'm saying is you already have a proxy running.
And then their main website.
You're basically doing the exact same thing.
I mean, documentation is unbelievable over here. This has got to be one of the
best documented projects I've set up in a long time.

(37:55):
And if you go with a pretty simple, straightforward implementation,
not trying to do any of the AI stuff, which is to use the default paperless
stuff, you'll probably get up and run in 5-10 minutes.
It really is pretty straightforward. And they're very active in the community as well.
And it's GPL3.
Right. Right, there's an interesting story here really. It's a successor to
the paperless project and then the paperless NG project that came along.

(38:18):
And so because of that, they've internalized a few lessons from those projects
in terms of team structure and all of that.
Written in Python with the TypeScript frontend.
Yeah.
And then paperless AI is MIT. And I suppose for completeness,
Pinchflat and Carekeep are both AGPL and ersatz.
It feels like doom a little.

(38:41):
Unraid.net slash unplugged. Go unleash your hardware.
Unraid is a powerful, easy-to-use NAS operating system.
For those of you that want control, flexibility, and efficiency in managing your data.
This is impressive.
And what I love is that Unraid allows you to mix and match drives of any size
so you can get started with the hardware you have right now.

(39:02):
From like a Pi to a laptop to a full tower.
Build what you want with no restrictions. Use the file system you want.
and deploy the applications you want.
And one of the takeaway applications, I hope that you have from this show, is ersatz.tv.
Love this application so much. Wes loves it. Brent loves it.
And yeah, it's a one-click install on Unraid, right?

(39:26):
It's just one click and now you're deploying it. They have so many community
apps because they've built a fabulous foundation for the community to deploy
applications on top of because they're using modern Linux technology.
That's one of the things I love about Unraid 20 years in.
They're still keeping it fresh. They're still deploying updates,
and they give you a path so your data is safe.
In fact, go check out Unraid just so you can appreciate the architecture.

(39:48):
You'll have confidence that OS updates and things like that will never mess
with your data. It's a really smart design.
You can also migrate. If you've got a ZFS pool from another system, bring it to Unraid.
It'll migrate Proxbox, Ubuntu, FreeNAS. There's a bunch.
They'll bring it over for you. It's such a cool feature.
And they have some of the most straightforward VM pass-through stuff ever.

(40:11):
I mean, Unraid's famous for this, but they just keep building on top of this.
Virtual GPU support, built-in wireless now for your host, so then you can just
out of the box get connected to wireless. Yeah.
Fresh kernels with every major unraid update
you gotta love it you really do and if
you go to unraid.net slash unplugged you can love it and you

(40:33):
can support the show you'll love it while you support the show get a 30-day
free trial you can test it out no credit card required check out unraid.net
slash unplugged go see what you can build and then once you build it let me
know i'd love to feature a couple of those so if you build something with unraid
well i didn't really suggest this yet.
But for a text editor, I think I'm going to lean hard into the Vim ecosystem.

(40:57):
Probably the Neo Vim, but I'm open to suggestions only because everybody seems
to think it's great, and Chris, you and I, I feel like we're falling behind
here, so I feel like I've got to learn those Vim shortcuts.
Thank you. Welcome aboard, new members. Hope you enjoy the bootleg,
clocking it at an hour 22 right now for you.

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You know what convinced me just now you can't even scroll in nano without destroying the document,
so that's the one I'm hoping sticks the most no no probably neo I don't know
I don't know what I'm doing,
oh there's a vim game right okay,

(41:46):
um all right but i have a second pick i,
i'm hoping it soothes things i think i'm hoping that zelige sticks around for me oh yeah page.

(42:22):
Barrel rider first of all shout out to barrel rider for going and doing the
research and reading the source material right oh yeah always that is really
good to see i think i wouldn't characterize it as kent is a martyr i think i
would characterize it as,
kent got banned for saying things that other people have said right like yes

(42:44):
he criticized ButterFS, but was he technically wrong?
No. And as we've said here on the show, ButterFS has gone through a pretty bad
overall brand narrative.
And I think Kant's acutely aware of that.
And my position has always been, when did we close the door on getting to be the jerk, right?

(43:08):
Because just two weeks before this thing hole went down, Linus told somebody
his code made the world a worse place. and that, you know, he should get bent.
Now, it's fine. I think I'd love to see using something like Zellige to set
up almost like a dashboard. I feel like we are different rules for different
people and it's simply just maybe because Kent doesn't have the social status
that some of these people do so they get away with it.
But it's a social issue and not a technical one. But I agree with your take.

(43:30):
A couple other tools that I just like having.
I hope inevitably Linus comes around just because BcashFS is a great product
and there will be more and more users adopting it.
And so Linus will come around just simply because it's a practical thing to do.
And at the end of the day, Linus is a practical person.
And uh kent definitely said a lot of things that were not productive in there
but i think part of the thing he was trying to get at around how do we support

(43:52):
a file system and how do we not have what happened to butterfess whether you
believe the accusations against the file system or not yeah happen again which
is i believe an important discussion i.
Think it is a good point and i think it's the point that uh yes and i've said
i don't think i think kent has to own his communication style in this,
like I mentioned before, there were several off ramps that Kent could have possibly

(44:16):
taken and chose not to take instead accelerated for a while.
I bet he's learned from this process too.
You know, this is a pretty big thing and I bet he's learned from the entire thing.
Yes, it is. And Block 7 is our baller booster this week, coming in with 88,888 big ol' sats.

(44:49):
Block 7 writes, thanks for the discussion, lads. Get yourself down to the festi.
Howdy from Middle Earth.
thank you block seven we will i.
Didn't even know there were lightning nodes in middle earth that's good to.
Hear it's good that is good i wonder how they do that appreciate that bother
boost and we will be putting that towards our trip to texas linux fest you know

(45:14):
it you know it we need we do need
some good texas linux fest boo songs or sounds i admit that don't worry.
Kangaroo paradox Fox boosts in with 76,543 sats.
Oh!

(45:34):
That's a great one, too. Thank you, Kongaroo.
Boosting in from my train ride to NixCon EU in Switzerland.
Well, Chris, I'm assuming that this boost will help you get to Texas.
I'm a bit nostalgic.
Like using Midnight Commander Friends.
Thank you, Kongaroo, and have a great NixCon. I hope you're there to everyone.
Yeah, I hope that was fun.
A topic you want to share here that certainly leans to the past.

(45:56):
Loosed and from the train. That's great.
Experienced.
Thank you, Bobby.
Woo!

(46:21):
Nice. I like it yeah oh boy just 15 days Brent it's basically two weeks I think
it's 12 days now oh you might be right it has been a long episode,
it could be it producer Jeff comes in with 44,444 sats,

(46:41):
PJ writes one day I'll make it to Texas for some barbecue but not this year
here's some sats to help with the trip thank you PJ PJ,
and we're putting that towards the trip.

(47:03):
He might offer breakfast burritos, although, to be honest with you,
I don't think we'll be going that route.
Maybe on the way back, but not on the way down. We're going to be in the GTI,
dude. I'm taking an awesome route. Are you kidding?
All these years, all these years I've done that trip, I've never been able to take the fun route.

(47:23):
Taking the phone Corners, mountains, hills Cute towns, fields Air in your face
October colors It's gonna be gorgeous.
Hey No complaints about waffles The immunologist Boots in with 20,000 cents Oh,

(47:49):
Chris's pitch For the reporting on otherwise under-reported events resonates
with me. Here's some value.
Oh, thank you.
Also, I use Termux with XFCE via VNC and even the on-Linux-based Ubuntu install
script on my Fairphone 5.
Android 15 just released, so no official Linux virtual machine for me yet.

(48:09):
Works in principle and is cool, but I am dreaming of a world where Linux phones
are a truly supported alternative.
Oh, you and me both. Right now we can't even get Android 16 everywhere.
It would just be nice if Linux came around and just made this type of rollout
a thing of the past. Just whatever you want.
A show can dream.
Thank you for the boost. Appreciate it. Closed network comes in with 20,000 sats.

(48:37):
Here's some gas money or maybe some lunch for the trip.
Thanks.
Thank you, Closed. Appreciate that.
Jordan Bravo comes in with a row of ducks. Oh, in a response to the Android
lockdown discussion, this feels pretty bleak for mobile OS freedom.
Google is gradually boiling the frogs, and they'll continue locking down Android

(48:59):
until it's just as closed off as iOS.
Graphene is currently a lifeboat, but I suspect Google's next move will be to
prevent any forks from being developed in practice.
It's too bad we don't have a competitive Linux mobile option.
I'm getting a theme today.
Yeah, really.
But well said, Mr. Bravo.
We've been feeling that same way.

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Hey!

(49:48):
oh that i love wow it's funny to hear people taking the old ipods and put in
solid state storage and that um you know rockbox still can get loaded on these things,
thanks you Batman it's great to hear that appreciate that boost too good to
hear from you Ogsen comes in with 10,000 sets,

(50:12):
Heya from Sweden, first time booster here.
I just got AlbiHub up and running, very nice.
I started my self-hosted journey with theperfectmediaserver.com,
had to get my head around Snap, Raid, and ButterFS, learned about JB,
and I love the show now. Keep it up, great content.
Thank you, Augustin, and thank you for that boost, and hello to Sweden. Nice to hear from you.

(50:36):
Moon and I boost in with 10,101 sats.
What?
That looks like a binary boost to me.
It does, doesn't it? Hmm. You know, it could be. Could be. Let me think about that. Yeah. Might be.
Thanks for the Kvacitso recommendation. Finally, a launcher that pulls the keyboard
up immediately rather than forcing you to shift your hand up to touch the search bar.

(51:01):
It's bonkers.
Then shifting back down so you can type.
Thank you for understanding my pain.
Android phones are frigging massive. Yes. And each time I have to adjust my
grip, it's another chance to drop the phone.
Yes.
Apple has had this search flow figured out since like the fourth or fifth iPhone.
So it's a little wild to me that this isn't the default behavior on AOSP.
Is Google Android and Samsung Android also this backwards?

(51:25):
I have connected deeply with this boost, Moon and I. Thank you.
And I will say Kavisto, or however you want to pronounce it,
that's the Android launcher I mentioned last week.
Loving it. Still using it.
and I forget sometimes that I've switched and when I unlock my phone and I see
it, I'm like, oh, I got this good feeling. Like, oh, right, I made a good decision.

(51:48):
So definitely a double recommend. You can find that in the show notes at linuxunplugged.com
slash 630. Thank you for the boost.

(52:10):
Did not work.
No way.
Isn't that cool? As long as you got Albie Hub and the Albie extension,
you can just boost from the frickin' webpage over at Podcast Index.
Once you search up the pod, cast.
I've been listening to somebody that keeps saying the POD word,
and it's getting in my head and it's driving me crazy.
Oh, that's very sweet. I'm kind of blushing over here.
Driving me crazy.
You'll just start calling them casts then?
I'm going to wear a rubber band, and every time I say it, I've got to slap myself.

(52:32):
Will that help? I don't know.
Either way, appreciate it, Sat Stacker. Nice to hear from you.
Gee, thanks.
Brewer Seth came in with 7,970 That's enough,
Thanks for the inspiration And motivation to start my own Albie Hub as promised
here's the very first Boost from my own Node.

(52:56):
Congrats that's amazing.
Yes Self hosted on Proxmox maybe someday I'll try it with Nick's I have been
loving the show and the community Thanks for listening Thanks for leaning into
podcasting 2.0 principles.
Because they seem to have outdated experiences here compared to what we're experiencing.
Love the report.
The community is great. And I don't think we mentioned the fact that we have

(53:16):
a matrix server and a Telegram group enough.
Because the people in those areas are pretty great. And we have lots of rooms
in the matrix chats for various interests and whatnot too.
So take Brewer Seth's advice. Install AlbiHub. Self-host.
And hang out in the community. Thank you, Brewer Seth. Appreciate that.
coming in from podverse with his own albie hub frick that's so cool.

(53:39):
Le clement comes in with 15 000 sats.
How about that?
I discovered how to boost from my Albi Hub, but I actually prefer the Fountain app over Castamatic.
Although this is a boost from Castamatic.
Castamatic is unresponsive when refreshing the feeds, making it unusable.

(54:01):
Fountain has done a great job, but as far as I know, I cannot connect my wallet with Fountain.
Fountain provides its own wallet. So what you would do is just use Lightning
to send from your Albi Hub over to your Fountain wallet.
Lightning network is so cheap and easy, It's pretty much the way you do it.
And then what you might do is, right, you stack your stats on the AlbiHub or
wherever you're stacking them and then just top off your Fountain wallet from time to time.

(54:23):
Cast-O-Matic is probably throttling the amount of refreshes just because it
has to pull down the XML file for every show.
That's a big ask. And so it may limit that a bit. Whereas Fountain is doing
an API check with the podcast index a lot more lightweight.
Fountain 1.3 came out recently and it is a major rework of different aspects

(54:43):
of the app. and they are on fire right now.
They've improved the UI, they've improved the performance, the playback,
the interface around all the controls, the boosting experience.
If you haven't tried out Fountain for a while, it's gotten really,
really good. So I can totally understand.
Sounds like at least a few components got some rewrites too.
Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, you know. Wes knows because he heard my secret chat with

(55:04):
the Fountain founder. So yeah, he knows.
So it's got a lot of work. Cast-O-Matic is a fantastic app too.
It really is. But it's just so damn impressed with what Fountain's doing.

(55:32):
Ah, an arc, that's cool.
yeah yeah,

(55:56):
oh cool this is a high signal boost I felt like that was a bit of a golden example
of moving to a new piece of tech I have been getting the sense from feedback
that a lot of people are just abandoning the coral route altogether and just either going quick sync,
or I guess in your case an Intel Arc which I find fascinating.
I love the idea that a B-Link could do the job. They pull a little more power than I would like,

(56:20):
Tapu or Tapo, a lot of people love that. Some good information.
In the back of my mind, I'm building out my new system.
So probably, you know, inevitably I'll pull the trigger. Maybe after some great
Black Friday sale or something like that. Hey, Gene Bean's back.
Well, we have a boost here from user 56587013.
Yeah, Cavisto Launcher is really nice. As an iOS user who dabbles with Lineage

(56:43):
OS, it feels way more natural.
I'll be switching phones and accounts.
Google, are you hearing?
But thanks for the great choice.
You want to bring more internet phone users over? Just asking,
when you pull up the search, have the keyboard automatically in the search field
and ready to go. That's all we're asking for.
You don't have to change how you do it. Just make that small adjustment.
No, to do that, I think they will have to embed some advertisements onto that

(57:06):
page, technically, just to make it work.
Yeah, what they'll do is they'll update it, and you'll pull up the launcher,
and it'll be active in the search field, but it'll be a Gemini search.
It won't be app searches. It'll be Gemini search.
At the bottom of that is like the app results after the news and play store results.
Oh yeah thank you gene always good to hear from you.

(57:26):
Color rafa comes in with uh row of ducks just some small boost to help with
the fuel cost and by the way podcast guru and albie is the way to go yes.
Podcast guru does not get enough love on the show and that's a brilliant thing
right is it's all open sources, open protocols.
So you set up AlbiHub, you can point Podcast Guru at it, you can point Cast-o-matic

(57:51):
at it, you could point Podverse at it.
Or just the podcast index.
Or the podcast index. There's a lot of tools. So cool. Nice job.
Is it Chlorofa, you think? Is that how you say Chlorofa?
Chlorofa?
Make it Chlorofa. Appreciate that.

(58:11):
This was a live boost too.
Thank you very much appreciate that otter brain good to hear from you the dude
abides a stroll in with 15,051 sats,

(58:32):
Thank you, the dude. He says, quick anecdote. After using Pi Hall on my Raspberry
Pi 2 for over five years with the same SD card, mind you, I have switched to Technidium.
Okay, how do you say it, Wes?
Technidium.
Ah, Technidium.
There's a little N in there.

(58:53):
And I'm not going back, he says. Okay, see, this is where I feel like I'm going
to be at here soon. The switch happened. This should have been on our list.
Podbun sent in 5,000 stats.
Which happened when I boasted about my pie hole setup to a colleague.
It's always great to hear that you boys use the stuff that you sponsor.
After the video call, the internet connection dropped.
I'm sure that there are plenty of sponsorships you could take where you say how great it is.
I naturally suspect DNS is to plug in my JetKV. I gotta get one of those.

(59:16):
But here, JB, we have to use it. To the Raspberry Pi 2, and sure enough,
I have a kernel panic, possibly due to a corrupt SD card. Well, the timing.
It must have been you messing around on it.
Generated just enough IO to finally kill it. That's hilarious.
I quickly deployed Tech...
Nitium.
Nitium on LXC, and I've been using it ever since. I'll probably move to its

(59:36):
own hardware sometime in the future. Just wish I had a better mobile UI.
And, well, it wasn't just a single-page app, which can be frustrating at times.
Yeah, I haven't tried it on mobile.
I really got to get this going. I am on probably a five-year-old Raspberry Pi
3 or something for my Pi hole. It might be a 4.

(59:56):
If it is, it was when the 4... No. No, no, no way.
And it's also using the SD card. And it was like one of my very first Raspberry
Pi projects ever. And I just left it because it's worked.
Yeah, I've had it going now since whenever we talked about it on the show.
And it's been great. I kind of forgot it was there.
I had to log in the first time for probably a month the other day.
Just like, is this still coming away?

(01:00:16):
I think it's a good sign. That's a good sign. That's good to hear.
Yeah, I think that's going to be probably a migration that happens either this
year, if I do it before the server dies or early next year when the server actually dies.
I'm not sure which one it'll be, but... Did I?

(01:00:38):
See, what we've got to do is get it. Someone's got to turn it into a prediction,
so he's forced to either do it or not do it.
Put some stats on it, I don't know. All right, thank you, everybody, who boosted in the show.
We got some boosts below the 2000sat cutoff line, too, but we always do the
2000sat cutoff for timing, but we do appreciate everybody who boosted in,
and we save it in our show doc for posterity, and we do read them all.

(01:00:58):
We had 32 of you stream sats as you listened, and collectively,
you sat streamers stacked 48,354 sats for episode 631.
When you combine that, and this is great showing for our Texas Linux trip,
like I said, we're building some momentum here.
We stacked 436,487 sats.

(01:01:32):
Now you can get fountain fm and send a boost to the
show real easy you can go the self-hosted route with albie
hub or take advantage of the fake boost link in the show notes and send us a
fake boost which we'll try to figure out how to incorporate somehow but we'll
make sure all the tagging and accounting happens there and of course the base
production always made possible by our members we're here every single sunday

(01:01:54):
because we have our core contributors and our Jupiter Party members.
Thank you everybody who contributes some value back to the show and helping
us cross that 12 year mark and we're just so heads down on making sure that
we produce the best content every single week for you that things like a 12 year anniversary,
we kind of don't even pay attention because we're always looking ahead trying

(01:02:15):
to build you the next best show possible.
Thank you everybody who supports this crazy show.
Now before we get out of here I got a pick that came in this morning crazy timing.
Sean was benchmarking open AI with the reasonability to find a vulnerability
that they already knew about when it found this CV.
I don't know if you can tell by the name.

(01:02:35):
Also note the false positives rate is very high.
Written in Rust.
They indicate a signal-to-noise ratio of about 150.
It's a high-performance cross-platform network monitoring tool.
RustNet provides real-time visibility into network connections with enhanced
state display, an intelligent connection lifecycle management,
deep packet inspection capabilities, and a responsive TUI.

(01:02:56):
It's got a TUI. So you can get real-time monitoring of TCP, UDP,
ICMP, ARP, that type of stuff. You can do deep protocol inspection for HTTP, even TLS, DNS packets.
You can do process sampling to see which process owns a different network connection.
And I mean, the interface, it's definitely worth a second mention.

(01:03:19):
It's a nice little TUI for it.
What do you think, Wes Payne? Ooh, I'm cute. Do you like it?
Yeah, I want to give this a try. I like the interface. I mean,
it's pretty minimal, but it's clean.
And to be able to, like, scroll through and, you know, highlight and select
different flows, that seems great.
Great for troubleshooting, too. It is Apache 2.0 licensed.

(01:03:41):
And because it is a pretty simple app, straightforward to get running.
But rumor has it we may have a second sneaky pick.
Yeah, because I forgot to mention this earlier If you want to follow along With
all the stuff we were talking about today I put together a little Nix example
Where you can get all the different services We were using and talking about

(01:04:01):
Running real quick Oh gosh.
That's cool My vote is to keep doing conference coverage Paperless is in there
We have to change a couple values Or put an API key or disable stuff That you.
Don't want Pinchflat is in there Carrotkeep is in there That's nice It's a Westpik.
It's a second Westpik. All right.

(01:04:22):
That'll be linked to the show notes, linuxunplugged.com slash 631.
As you probably noticed, we are stacking sats to make our trip to Texas possible.
It's one of the ways you can directly impact the show.
You can send some value in, and you can send us down to Texas,
and we can cover it in a way that no other show can or will.

(01:04:42):
And, of course, we do have the fake boost link in the show notes for you, too.
You can make it a vibe if you want to join us on a Tuesday, which is a Sunday.
We do the show at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern at jblive.tv.
Now, if you want a little more show, don't forget our LEPLUG is getting together
every Sunday morning, really even before the show starts, hanging out and they're

(01:05:04):
getting the low latency Opus stream.
And of course, our members get the bootleg version, twice the content of the show.
And links to everything we talked about and more at our website,
linuxunplugged.com. You can also get our contact page there,
the mumble info, the matrix info, and a hot tip for the power users. We got?
Ooh, we got transcripts and we got chapters.

(01:05:26):
That's right. Check it. It's pretty awesome in the podcasting 2.0 apps.
Thank you so much for joining us on this week's episode of Your Unplugged program.
We'll see you next Tuesday.
As in Sunday.

(01:08:08):
No, I just started thinking I usually check the weather on my phone and maybe because we're here now,
maybe I could just run terminals on my phone too and do it that way. But okay, all right.

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