Special guest Casey Liss from the Accidental Tech Podcast joins the show to discuss his homelab, how he uses HomeBridge, and his delightfully complex garage door sensor system.
Chris spends the week in a VR desktop, revealing the glitches, gains, and VR's open-source future.
We look back at what has changed, what's failed us, and what's sticking around in our homelabs.
It’s the fourth annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, and desktops of 2023.
Alex shares a new build integrating WLED, and Chirs reviews hardware that can get you started with WLED in 45 seconds. Then, one last big update on the Year of Voice and our thoughts on self-hosting push notifications.
We break down the state of the pfSense changes and the red flags we see. Plus, we're joined by Wolfgang from Wolfgang's channel to dig into his homelab and much more.
Home Assistant's founder, Paulus Schoutsen, shares details about the Year of Voice, recent legal actions from Mazda, and the results of a recent third-party audit.
Has Canonical finally nailed snaps? Why it looks like Ubuntu has turned a new corner; our thoughts on the latest release. Plus, a special guest and more.
We ran Windows for the week with three seemingly simple objectives. How we did, our take on what's gotten a lot better about Windows, and what still needs some work.
With a dose of pragmatism and optimism, we chat about making the best out of old hardware and where we draw the line and buy new.
A few tools to build your own Way Back Machine, we check in with the "Year of Voice" and more.
Chris integrates full home power monitoring into Home Assistant, while Alex tames the AI and rushes to replace Dark Sky.
Alex has major Proxmox problems. What happened, and the fix for now. Plus, the real downside to Wifi cameras and the batch of network gear on the way.
Join us for the surprising conclusion to our month-long challenge.
Today we are finally taking on a project months in the making, and we're switching to an entirely new generation of Linux tech in the process.
Chris' sticky upgrade situation, and we chat with the developer behind an impressive mesh VPN with new tricks.
Alex dives deep to find out if Kubernetes is overkill for the home and finds solutions to simplify things. And Chris has a new firmware that turns his favorite network cameras up to 11.
Join us on a journey to true software freedom. We embark on our 30-day challenge and discover a whole new philosophy that will change the way you think about technology.
We kick off our Jellyfin January challenge and invite you to join us. Plus, Chris has some new hardware and our thoughts on the trouble at the Matrix foundation.
It's the third annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, desktops, and services of 2022.
Sometimes your best upgrades are unplanned; Chris just got his Home Assistant Yellow fully deployed.
We learned some really hard lessons this week, and reflect. Then Chris finds the perfect temperature sensor, and Alex finds a beautiful media discovery app.
One of the pioneers of the web, VNC, Webcams, and more joins us; plus we'll update you on a few projects we love.
A quick-fire round of projects this week, your feedback, and a discussion about the future of Self-Hosting.
We chat about Wyze's recent real bad, no-good security news, why Plex Discover has potential but hasn't impressed us yet, and a brief tour of Alex's home network setup.
Why GNOME 42 is the release we’ve all been waiting for.
Alex has a new high-quality self-hosted music setup, and Chris solves complicated Internet problems.
We revisit some old assumptions about the open-source Plex-alternative, Jellyfin. We each try it out, and along the way, gain a few insights about open source.
This week we unlock the "Pi"tential of the Compute Module 4 and turn it into a dual gigabit router and Jellyfin server.
Tim Canham, the Mars Helicopter Operations Lead, shares Linux’s origins at JPL and how it ended up running on multiple boxes on Mars.
Successful open-source projects all seem to struggle with one major gorilla. Who it is, and what their options are now.
We reveal the winners of the 2020 Tuxies.
Fedora makes a bold move and Microsoft seems to be working on their ideal "Cloud PC”, we ponder what Linux has to offer.
Find out what's happening in 2020 before it happens. Our crew returns from the future with predictions so perfect you could bet some Dogecoin on it.
Give the gift of remote support with our neat SSH trick. Also, Cassidy from elementary OS joins us to discuss what's great about their new release.
We have a WireGuard success story to share, and it's probably not what you're expecting.
