628: Don't Call it a Christro
17 August 2025
When personalities clash, the users come last. Meanwhile, Chris' hyper-tuned setup stops being a toy and starts looking like a daily driver.
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Episode Links
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- Toronto Meetup - JB Colony Events
- Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash — A large and unfortunate mistake in the kernel development management process is underway.
- Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs changes for 6.17 - Josef Bacik
- Ubuntu Developing New “Dangerous” Desktop Images Concept — Ubuntu is testing “Dangerous” Desktop Images, daily builds with all Snaps pulled from the edge channel.
- Ubuntu 25.10 Will Ship With Linux 6.17 Even If It Means An Unstable “-rc” Kernel
- syncthing 2.0 Released! — This is the first release of the new 2.0 series. Expect some rough edges and keep a sense of adventure! 🙏
- Z-Wave is not dead - Home Assistant — TL;DR: Z-Wave is alive and well, partly due to a strong community that is building new open-source resources.
- Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 — The ultimate way to connect Z-Wave devices to Home Assistant.
- Z-Wave reborn - Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2
- Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 Reveal Promo - YouTube
- Hyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS
- Keybinds Reverting to older config? · Hyprvibe Issue #2
- Errors at the top of the screen · Hyprvibe Issue #3
- Quinn’s NixOS Setup: The Formatter
- Quinn’s NixOS Setup: The Home
- Quinn’s NixOS Setup: The Shared
- Quinn’s NixOS Setup: The Hosts
- LibreNMS — A fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support. LibreNMS is a fork of Observium.
- Observium — Observium is a network monitoring and management platform that provides real-time insight into network health and performance.
- Shift Systems / ShiftMon · GitLab — An open source monitoring and logging tool based on Ansible, Telegraf, Grafana, and a bunch of other tools
- sst/opencode — AI coding agent, built for the terminal.
- Lightning Grows Up | This Week In Bitcoin 68
- flatpak/xdg-native-messaging-proxy
- NativeMessaging portal for sandboxed browsers · flatpak Issue #655
- Pick: papra — The minimalistic document archiving platform.
- Papra - Demo
- Pick: lue — Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech
- Pick: wlgblock — This project replaces the usual password screen with a Gameboy emulator running a patched Pokémon game!
Sponsors
Nebula
Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
1Password Extended Access Management
Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
Unraid
A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.