LINUX Unplugged

We each spent the week on our own projects, breaking then fixing things. Now we're back to compare progress, and a few lessons learned.
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LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
PabloVitasso/esphome-chinbasto — A custom ESPHome component for controlling Chinese Webasto heaters using ESP32.
Hacking the Chinese Diesel Heater Communications Protocol.pdf - Ray Jones - GitLab
timmchugh11/Chinese-Diesel-Heater---ESPHome
OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent
anomalyco/opencode: The open source coding agent.
Hunter Alpha - API Pricing & Providers | OpenRouter
ESPHome - Smart Home Made Simple
Home Assistant
ESP32 Wi-Fi & Bluetooth SoC | Espressif Systems
nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware: Lua based interactive firmware for ESP8266, ESP8285 and ESP32
NodeMCU-32S Development Board Details, Pinout, Specs
Amazon.com: ESP-32S USB-C Development Board + ESP32 Terminal Board
agent-browser-protocol — Deterministic browser automation.
camofox-browser — Headless browser automation server for AI agents.
chrome-devtools-mcp — Chrome DevTools for coding agents
firefox-devtools-mcp — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox DevTools
LittleFOX-MCP — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox
Chrome DevTools MCP Debug — Let your Coding Agent debug your browser session
LFNW2026 - Back to Root
Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 1 | Jupiter EXTRAS 40
Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2 | Jupiter EXTRAS 41
Pick: LosslessCut — Simple and ultra fast cross platform tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video and audio files.
LosslessCut on GitHub
LosslessCut on Flathub
Pick: CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?
Pick: llmfit — Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware.

After experiencing Planet Nix and SCaLE, we come back convinced the next phase of Linux is already taking shape.
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PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
SCaLE 23x — SCALE is North America's largest community-run open source conference.
Jupiter Broadcasting's SCaLE Matrix room
SCaLE 23x - YouTube — SCaLE 23x live streams, talks, and more.
LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
Flox.dev
Flox: Developer environments you can take with you - GitHub — Flox is a virtual environment and package manager all in one. With Flox you create environments that layer and replace dependencies just where it matters, making them portable across the full software lifecycle.
Keynote: Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALE
Cindy Cohn | SCALE
noblepayne/nix-anywhere-else-talk — A Slidev presentation about the "dark arts" of ELF surgery and Nix, built entirely with Nix. This talk explores how patchelf and a deep understanding of the Executable and Linkable Format can make binaries portable in both directions: bringing foreign tools into NixOS, and taking Nix-built artifacts out to the rest of the world.
DeepComputing — Advancing the adoption and implementation of RISC-V
Roxane Fischer - Anyshift.io
Determinate is the future of Nix today: Wasm, provenance, and flake schemas
EFF Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALE
Cindy Cohn - SCaLE — Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which works to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice and innovation for all the people of the world.
Electronic Frontier Foundation - Defending your rights in the digital world
llama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++
mangowm - Mango Wayland Compositor — Practical and powerful wayland compositor (dwm but wayland)
The Open Source AI Definition 1.0 - Open Source Initiative
Pick: sone — Native TIDAL desktop client for Linux. Modern UI, custom themes, and bit-perfect lossless audio up to 24-bit/192kHz via exclusive ALSA. License: GPL-3
Pick: qmd — mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local. License: MIT
Pick: mtr — Combines the functionality of 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single network diagnostic tool. License: GPL-2
MTR - Welcome Home Brent

We take KDE Linux for a spin and push it a little too far. Plus, a friend of the show stops by with a fresh tool: Nebula Commander.
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PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
Pasadena Linux Party, Fri, Mar 6, 2026, 6:00 PM
KDE Linux - KDE Community Wiki
Beta (Enthusiast & Stable editions) · KDE Linux · GitLab
Install Software Not Available in Discover - KDE Community
KDE Linux / Kapsule · GitLab
suikan4github/Using-tailscale-client-on-an-Immutable-OS
xuars/kdelinux-tailscale
Nix - KDE Community
Fitting Everything Together — TLDR: Hermetic /usr/ is awesome; let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, uniformity – built from traditional distribution packages, but deployed via images.
Nebula Commander
DEMO Nebula Commander
Nebula Commander GitHub — Nebula Commander is a self-hosted control plane for nebula overlay networks.
Star Trek Comm Badge for Home Assistant Voice Control
Pick: hcloud-upload-image — Quickly upload any raw disk images into your Hetzner Cloud projects!
Pick: Launcher Studio — Launcher Studio is a GTK4 desktop application for creating and managing .desktop files on Linux.
Launcher Studio on Flathub
Pick: tinyproxy — A light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems
Pick: socks-to-http-proxy — An executable to convert SOCKS5 proxy into HTTP proxy

Planet Nix and SCaLE are just days away, and we're getting a head start with two guests, the tech, and the trends shaping open source. Our trip starts here!
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PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
Pasadena Linux Party Meetup
stahnma (Michael Stahnke)
Flox, Nix, and Reproducible Software Systems with Michael Stahnke - Software Engineering Daily
Pro OpenSSH (Expert's Voice in Open Source): Stahnke, Michael
Nix and AI, are we there yet? | SCALE
stahnma/mandatoryFun
Post by @kelseyhightower.com — Bluesky — I don't care about LLMs or AI. I care about people. AI is just a tool to me. Tools enable people to help or harm at a scale beyond their natural abilities. I care about how people treat each other using these tools.
distrostru's gatus config
Status Page On Demand | Gatus
MimiClaw — MimiClaw turns a tiny ESP32-S3 board into a personal AI assistant.
hrwtech/openclaw-esp32: OpenClaw on your Arduino ESP32 devices
Pick: WebsocketCAM — Access Android camera via WebSocket client API and run AI / computer vision tasks with ease on live camera stream
Pick: ChrisLAS/openclaw-mcp-bridge — OpenClaw plugin that bridges any MCP HTTP server as native tools. The missing piece between OpenClaw + Ollama and the MCP ecosystem.
Pick: ChrisLAS/freshrss-mcp — A simple MCP server to stand in front of your FreshRSS Server
Pick: wechsel — A Cli Utility to replace home folders with symlinks to project folders
wechsel-extension: A Gnome Extension for Project Switching

We were minutes away from shutting down our Matrix server when the Discord news hit. Now we're not just keeping it, we're doubling down. Can open source seize this moment?
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Pasadena Linux Party Meetup
Discord to roll out age verification next month
Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos
Discord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter Thiel
NULLFS and OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE Features Merged For Linux 7.0
OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE To Provide A Security and Performance Win For Dealing With Containers
All about initramfs
pivot_root implementation and constraints
TrueNAS Scale
ZimaOS — A Simplified, Focused and Open NAS OS Supports all X86-64 hardware.
Github: ZimaOS
Clan — opinionated NixOS peer-to-peer computer management framework
What is Clan? - Documentation
clan-lol/clan-core: Build your own clan
ConnecTen internet
Case Study: Fortress Outdoor Router
Pick: booklog — B{ook}log is a self-hosted, multi-user book tracking platform for avid readers. Each user maintains a personal library and wishlist, with per-user readings, stats, and timeline.
Pick: whosthere — Local Area Network discovery tool with an interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there? 🚪
Pick: Weylus — Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.