LINUX Unplugged

We found the best way for a Linux user to manage Windows: keep it remote, keep it contained, and touch the desktop as little as possible.
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Clanker Therapy Highlight - YouTube
Clanker Therapy Full Member Recording
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Windows-MCP — MCP Server for Computer Use in Windows
FORScan — A software scanner for Ford, Mazda, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles, designed to work over ELM327 and J2534 Pass-Thru compatible OBD adapters.
MeatPi WiCAN-PRO OBD Scanner — Built on the robust ESP32-S3 platform, WiCAN PRO runs the powerful, open-source WiCAN firmware.
argunix: Webhook-driven Nix CI for GitHub, GitLab, and Forgejo
PearPass - Your Open-Source Password Manager
olmec's nixos-router config
Ulanzi TC001 Smart Pixel Clock — The full-color LED screen supports custom icons, bringing time and weather to life in a way that’s both retro and modern — making it the most unique visual statement on your desk.
ULANZI TC001 Smart Pixel Clock
awtrix3 — Custom firmware for the Ulanzi Smart Pixel clock or self-made AWTRIX displays.
Mouzi — Mouzi is a silent, elegant file organizer that lives in your system tray and keeps your Downloads folder (and any other folder) automatically tidy. It runs quietly in the background, monitors selected folders, and moves, renames, or sorts files based on customizable rules.
Mouzi - Organize Downloads Folder Automatically

Leave the farm without killing the chickens, or losing remote access? We dig into how we pulled it off: Frigate, local automation, sun-tracking coop doors, and a network that shrugged off an ISP outage.
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Outdoor Electrical Water Resistant Enclosure - Amazon
Sipeed NanoKVM IP-KVM - Amazon
Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2
Smart Automatic Chicken Coop Door with WiFi
Omlet Developer Console
WLED Project
Generic MagWLED-1 WLED Controller
WS2812B LED Light Strip
LED Strip Diffuser Channel
Zooz Z-Wave Long Range Q Sensor ZSE11 800LR
AIR-1 Air Quality Sensor for Home Assistant
Anyone successfully using the MiCS 4514 Gas Sensor? - Reddit
Zooz Z-Wave Long Range Power Strip ZEN20 800LR
Amcrest 5MP Turret POE Camera
Amcrest 8-Port POE+ Switch
go2rtc
Frigate
We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech
Pick: Zooz ZEN05 Outdoor Smart Plug – ZOOZ
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rsync's founder came back, patched real security bugs with AI help, and triggered an open source meltdown. Plus, two more projects reject AI-generated code as the community's newest fault line cracks wide open.
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Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software · Issue #929 · RsyncProject/rsync
fogti/rsync-nai — Fork of rsync just before the first obviously LLM-influenced commit
Flathub No LLM Policy — We have updated Flathub's LLM policy to explicitly disallow AI usage for both the submission process and applications being submitted.
Reword LLM policy to make it clear it's not allowed - flathub-infra
Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains - YouTube
GNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator - Phoronix
QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions - Phoronix
Fwupd 2.1.4 Brings Many Fixes For Bugs Spotted By Anthrophic's Mythos, Firmware Update Support For Intel Arc Pro B65/B70 - Phoronix
Linux Networking Still Seeing "Significantly Bigger" Pull Requests Due To AI - Phoronix
GitHub Copilot & Claude Code Helped With Graphics, WiFi Linux Driver Issues This Week - Phoronix
mnemosyne: The Zero-Dependency, Sub-Millisecond AI Memory System for Hermes Agents and Everyone Else!
Markdown First: A Proposal for the Agent-Readable Web — BitCryptic
Pick: RecordApps — A desktop application that allows you to record audio from specific applications on Linux. Built with Deno, Svelte, and WebView.
Pick: OpenLogi — A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.

Brent's been hacking smart speakers, Wes has a surprise, and Chris gives up on OpenClaw.
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The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden
My first 100 days at Bitwarden — Open source is the foundation of everything Bitwarden builds. The ability to audit the code, to self-host, to verify rather than simply believe are not just nice-to-haves, they are the reason Bitwarden is different from every other option in this space, and that will not change.
AfterTouch — Bose SoundTouch Toolkit
soundcork — Intercept API for Bose SoundTouch after they turn off the servers
Bose SoundTouch EOL Announcement
SoundTouch 30 Wi-Fi Music System | Bose Wikia | Fandom
Keeping Your Speakers Alive After the Bose Cloud Shutdown – AfterTouch
Bose SoundTouch is officially dead, but your speakers may still survive - SoundGuys
SoundTouch 30 Wi-Fi Music System | Bose Support
NASty — NASty is a NAS operating system built on NixOS and bcachefs. It turns commodity hardware into a storage appliance serving NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF. Managed from a single web UI, updated atomically, and rolled back when things go sideways.
nasty-top — A top-like TUI for bcachefs filesystems.
hermes-agent - GitHub
Hermes Agent — Open-Source AI Agent with Persistent Memory
Windows-MCP — MCP Server for Computer Use in Windows
Greg KH Calls For More Rust Linux Developers
Rust for Linux — Rust for Linux is the project adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel.
OpenCode Go - Low cost coding models for everyone — Go brings agentic coding to programmers around the world. Offering generous limits and reliable access to the most capable open-source models, so you can build with powerful agents without worrying about cost or availability.
Pick: Gnome Commander — A powerful file manager for the Linux desktop environment
Pick: halo — Terminal flow field screensaver with Perlin noise, Braille rendering, particles, and 24-bit ANSI color
Airwolf Theme 80s Retrowave Bass Remix | Retro Visualizer | DMCA Safe - YouTube

Fedora Hummingbird, RHEL Forever, and Red Hat's AI play: three big Summit takeaways, and why they matter far beyond Red Hat.
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The mobile experience you've been asking for - Defined Networking — The most recent mobile release brings the mobile app to parity with what you’d expect from Nebula everywhere else: persistent connections, full configuration support, custom DNS, and firewall rules.
Red Hat Summit 2026 Day 1 Keynote - The next platform is choice - YouTube
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Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hummingbird model to the full operating system — Fedora Hummingbird primarily utilizes an image-based workflow, similar to containers, but also runs in virtual machines and even on bare metal. If you’ve been following Project Hummingbird‘s work on container images, or Project Bluefin’s work on the operating system, you already know the model. Fedora Hummingbird applies this model all the way down to the host OS.
Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hummingbird model to the full operating system - Fedora Discussion
After Ubuntu, Now Fedora is Jumping Onto the AI Bandwagon With Dedicated AI Developer Desktops — Now, Fedora has voted on an initiative called Fedora AI Developer Desktop that will spawn AI-flavored Fedora Atomic Desktops.
Friction in Fedora over AI developer desktop initiative — After more than a month of sometimes heated discussion, the Fedora Council had voted to approve the initiative; however, a last-minute change to vote against the proposal by council member Justin Wheeler has (at least temporarily) sent it back to the drawing board.
Fedora AI Developer Desktop Objective Discussion
Pick: BudsLink — BudsLink is an application that provides battery monitoring and feature control for supported Bluetooth wearable audio devices, including AirPods, Beats, Sony Audio wearables, Samsung Galaxy Buds and Nothing/CMF buds.
BudsLink on Flathub
Pick: yamlcast — YAMLCast turns a YAML description of a terminal screencast into an animated GIF.
Pick: lightroom-cc-on-linux — Reproducible recipe for running Adobe Lightroom CC on Linux via Wine 11.8 staging. Researched and verified end-to-end by Claude Opus 4.7.