Core Contributor
Episode 689: First Kontact
Oct 18, 20261h 10m
A new documentary reveals KDE's 30-year underdog story. Plasma pioneer Aaron Seigo joins us to look back, and explore what's next with Plasma 6.8.
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Recent episodes include "Episode 689: First Kontact" (18 October 2026, 70 minutes), "Episode 688: Eyes on Deck" (11 October 2026, 71 minutes), and "Episode 687: Linux by Proxy" (5 October 2026, 73 minutes).
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Core Contributor publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 69 minutes across 322 episodes.
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Episode 688: Eyes on Deck
Oct 11, 20261h 11mWe've turned our Steam Deck into a security monitoring system; Monitor your property, identify people, pets, and vehicles with detailed daily intelligence briefings. All local.
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Episode 687: Linux by Proxy
Oct 5, 20261h 13mMillions of people may already be using Linux by proxy, so we went digging through their strange little cloud desktops to see if we can turn them into servers.
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Episode 686: Stop Desktop Slop
Sep 28, 20261h 24mKDE’s fight over AI generated code explodes at exactly the moment Plasma is making some of its biggest changes in years.
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Episode 685: Pool Party
Sep 20, 202652 minWe're turning our spare, scattered storage into one giant network drive. Good idea? Maybe.
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Episode 684: You Ain't Ready For This Jelly
Sep 14, 20261 hourWe rebuild our media stack around Jellyfin 12, survive a major upgrade, and add self-hosted tools that make sharing with family and friends much better.
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Episode 683: Website Speedrun
Sep 6, 20261h 2mBrent has two hours to build a great website, and the solution he finds feels more like a Linux tool than a modern web framework. Naturally, Wes takes it too far.
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Episode 682: Oops! All Shells!
Aug 30, 20261 hourQuickshell is rising, and bringing with it a new wave of customizable Linux desktops, community-built plugins, and serious funding.
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Episode 681: Ain’t Nothing But a Syncthing
Aug 23, 20261h 27mSyncthing saves the day in an unexpected way, and we dig into what’s new in Linux 7.2.
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Episode 680: Go Hack Yourself
Aug 17, 20261h 14mWe turn HexStrike’s red team agents loose on our systems, as OpenSSH warns that AI-assisted bug hunting is already changing the security race.
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Episode 679: The Last Shutdown
Aug 10, 202656 minAn old Linux box powers down for the last time as we unwind its history, and the entire show, back to the beginning.
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Episode 678: Entropy Ain't Easy
Aug 2, 20261h 7mSeven Linux kernels landed in one day. We sort out which belong in your homelab, and trace Linux’s long, occasionally disastrous quest for truly random numbers.
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Episode 677: We Got a Buzz
Jul 27, 20261 hourBlock’s Buzz is an open, self-hostable workspace for humans, AI agents, chat, and code; and it may be the most Linux-friendly vision for what comes next.
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Episode 676: Fork Around and Find Out
Jul 20, 20261h 18mLinus delivers a blunt verdict on AI in the Linux kernel, Chris finds the remote Linux desktop that finally works, and Brent gives his notes system a serious rebuild.
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Episode 675: Sloppy Agent Roasting
Jul 13, 20261h 28mWes’ brother’s PC is toast, making this the perfect moment to switch him to Linux. If our ambitious plan doesn’t scare him away first.
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Episode 674: LAN Before Time
Jul 6, 20261h 16mThe kernel taketh away, so we bringeth back. We build an AppleTalk LAN, ditch TCP/IP, and give a legendary retro network protocol the send-off it deserves.
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Episode 672: The Kernel Is Not a Museum
Jun 22, 20261h 21mYour favorite open source projects have been busy. We round up the new releases worth knowing about, plus the big kernel changes headed your way soon.
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Episode 671: Windows Without Windows
Jun 15, 202652 minWe 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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Episode 670: There's Chickens in that Nebula
Jun 8, 20261h 3mLeave 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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Episode 669: Harshing rsync's Vibe
Jun 1, 20261h 13mrsync’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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