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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
• Healthchecks.io — We notify you when your nightly backups, weekly reports, cron jobs, and scheduled tasks don't run on time.
• BorgBackup — Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption
• Projectivy Launcher - Apps on Google Play — Projectivy Launcher is an alternative launcher for Android TV, tailored for your TVs and projectors needs : smooth, neat, customizable and bundled with unique features. It's Projectivy Tools on steroids !
• TubesZB – TubesZB Coordinators and Router

Special Guest: Antonio Musumeci.

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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free.
• 45drives: The HL15 from 45HomeLab is an open-source, open-platform, 15-bay homelab server.

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• ⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go.
• ⚡ Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Send a Boost into the show via the web. First, top-up Alby, then head over to our entry on the Podcast Index.
• QuickSync Benchmarking Script — Written by cptmorgan (Morgan the doorbell guy!). Use this script to benchmark the performance of your Quick Sync iGPU video transcoder. Submit those results to Alex via the Gist linked (as a comment).
• GitHub Gist - QuickSync Test Results — Post your QuickSync test results here as a comment.
• ESPClicker — Espclicker is a small device that you can use to integrate not IoT devices into your smart home setup
• Tuya-CloudCutter with ESPHome Beken Devices | How To Guide Home Assistant - YouTube
• Home-Assistant-Switch-Manager — Switch manager is a centralised component to handle button pushes for your wireless switches. This includes anything passed through the event bus or MQTT.
• Quad Zigbee Smart Switch - Chris' Current Fav — Each button has three pairing modes, allowing the 4 scene switches to create 12 unique scenes, including Home Mode, Away Mode, Movie Mode, and more.
• Zooz 700 Series Z-Wave Scene Controller — Connect a 120 V light fixture (up to 150 W for LED's) to control it via Z-Wave or use the main button for wireless control only with up to 7 button triggers available.
• Read-it-later app Matter can now transcribe your favorite podcasts — The company this morning is debuting “Readable Podcasts,” a feature that will let you save favorite podcasts and transcribe their audio to text. By doing so, you can use Matter’s other tools to interact with the podcast content as you would a saved article, including by doing things like highlighting, taking notes and sharing quotes.
• mergerfs: a featureful union filesystem — mergerfs is a union filesystem geared towards simplifying storage and management of files across numerous commodity storage devices. It is similar to mhddfs, unionfs, and aufs.
• trapexit on GitHub — Find the mergerfs lead dev on GitHub.
• llama-gpt — A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot, powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device.
• LUP 486: Goodbye, Google — Chris ditches the iPhone and switches to GrapheneOS, a security and privacy-focused project that lets you take control back from Google.
• Voice over IP - Home Assistant — The VoIP integration enables users to talk to Assist using an analog phone and a VoIP adapter.
• HomeCam for HomeKit on the App Store — HomeCam is the only app to allow you to view multiple cameras live at once and control their surroundings.

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• Tandoor Recipe — The recipe manager that allows you to manage your ever growing collection of digital recipes.
• 🥧Tandoor Recipe v1.4 released — Hi everyone, more than 6 month have passed since I last brought to you the latest and greatest changes we have made to the Tandoor Recipemanager. Since then lots of awesome things happened.
• What's new in Proxmox VE 7.2 — Support for the accelerated virtio-gl (VirGL) display driver
• What's new in Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.2 - YouTube
• bcachefs — Bcachefs is an advanced new filesystem for Linux, with an emphasis on reliability and robustness and the complete set of features one would expect from a modern filesystem.
• Storing Ansible Vault password in Bitwarden — Ansible vault exists to enable storing secrets safely in a public repository, encrypted using a password. But where does that password live.
• switched to bitwarden backed vault
• Secret Management with docker-compose and Ansible Vault — Secret management with docker-compose doesn't have to be an enigma.
• auto_container_dns · GitHub
• Castopod — Self-host your podcasts with ease, keep control over what you create and talk to your audience without any middleman.
• New best travel soldering iron at any price: Pinecil! - YouTube

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• Wyze Doorbell
• Home Assistant on Twitter announces Tuya partnership — "We had a call with @tuyasmart this morning. They are working on an official Home Assistant integration maintained by them. The beta is already available as a custom component at https://t.co/71bjKySm4X It connects to their official cloud API. But local access will follow.
• mergerfs-tools
• PiKVM
• PiKVM - 4 servers 1 Pi - blog.ktz.me — This is every homelabbers dream isn't it? Controlling multiple systems that don't have IPMI natively, remotely. Thanks to PiKVM, we now can.
• Mailrise
• Apprise
• Feedback - Docker skeptic with some questions
• Feedback - Let's talk VLANs

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• RustDesk - Yet another remote desktop software — A great alternative to TeamViewer and AnyDesk! You have full control of your data, with no concerns about security. You can use our rendezvous/relay server, set up your own, or write your own rendezvous/relay server.
• RustDesk-server
• rustdesk-server-demo: A working demo of RustDesk server implementation
• Home Assistant drama
• “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project” | Hacker News
• Home Assistant Forum Thread
• Shuck 'em if you got 'em — WD external drive price tracker.
• Chia Network — Chia Network develops a blockchain and smart transaction platform created by the inventor of BitTorrent, Bram Cohen. It implements the first new Nakamoto consensus algorithm since Bitcoin in 2008. Proofs of Space and Time replace energy intensive “proofs of work.”
• ESPHome - Version 1.19.0 — Wow. Ok, so this release may not look big, but there are a number of new features that are not new components.
• ESP Web Tools — ESP Web Tools is a set of open source tools to allow working with ESP devices in the browser
• Tasmota v9.5.0 Release
• Monica - Personal CRM done right — Monica helps you organize the social interactions with your loved ones.
• tinyhome: Static homepage generator — tinyhome generates a static HTML homepage via shell script.

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• Perfect Media Server — Alex's new site for the Perfect Media server.
• Serverbuilds.net
• MkDocs — MkDocs is a fast, simple and downright gorgeous static site generator that's geared towards building project documentation. Documentation source files are written in Markdown, and configured with a single YAML configuration file
• TP-Link AV1000 Powerline Starter Kit
• groceri.es
• ASRock J5040-ITX — QuickSync supporting Intel Quad-Core Pentium Silver Processor J5040 (up to 3.2 GHz) Mini ITX Motherboard / CPU Combo - Newegg.com
• vabene1111/recipes — Recipes is a Django application to manage, tag and search recipes using either built in models or external storage providers hosting PDF's, Images or other files.

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• LINUX Unplugged 355: Chris' Data Crisis — Chris' tale of woe after a recent data loss, and Wes' adventure after he finds a rogue device on his network.
• Jupiter Extras: A Chat with mergerfs Developer Antonio Musumeci — mergerfs makes JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Drives) appear like an ‘array’ of drives. mergerfs transparently translates read/write commands to the underlying drives from a single mount point, such as /mnt/storage.
• Duplicati — Duplicati works with standard protocols like FTP, SSH, WebDAV as well as popular services like Backblaze B2, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon S3, Google Drive, box.com, Mega, hubiC and many others.
• restic · Backups done right! — Backing up your data with restic should only be limited by your network or hard disk bandwidth so that you can backup your files every day.
• Backblaze — Cloud storage that's astonishingly easy and low-cost.
• How does Backblaze support Linux Users? — There are a variety of options for using Linux with B2. These include open-source (free) and commercial applications, command-line (CLI) and graphical interface (GUI) tools, and tools that include encryption, automation, hybrid NAS/B2 support, mounting remote archives as volumes, and other capabilities.
• How to configure Backblaze B2 with Duplicity on Linux — Duplicity can store backup data in many destinations, including Backblaze B2. This guide will help you get setup and give you the commands to do a full backup and restore of a specific folder.
• duplicity — Duplicity backs directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server.
• rsync.net — We give you an empty UNIX filesystem that you can access with any SSH tool
• Amazon S3 Glacier — Long-term, secure, durable Amazon S3 object storage classes for data archiving, starting at $1 per terabyte per month
• Installation Methods & Community Guides Wiki - Home Assistant — Today I want to take a step back and take a holistic view of installation methods. What installation methods do we support as a project, and what does supported mean.
• TiddlyWiki — a non-linear personal web notebook — A unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organising and sharing complex information.
• An opinionated approach to TiddlyWiki

Plus, we share a few recent project mishaps.

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• The Perfect Media Server - 2019 Edition — Reliable means you don't lose data. And that's exactly what the MergerFS + Snapraid combo I first wrote about in 2016 has provided. A solid, boring and reliable way of storing multiple TBs of data with little fuss.
• Getting started with ZFS on Linux — Here's a short article giving a ZFS 101 intro and list of commands in one place.
• New Hard Drive rituals — It is for these reasons that I now religiously do not commit any data to a drive until it has undergone at least one full cycle
• The 'hidden' cost of using ZFS for your home NAS — With ZFS, you either have to buy all storage you expect to need upfront, or you will be wasting a few hard drives on redundancy you don't need.
• Mergerfs: a featureful union filesystem
• A Chat with mergerfs Developer — Alex, Drew from ChooseLinux and Brent (of the Brunch fame) sit down with Antonio Musumeci, the developer of mergerfs during the JB sprint.
• Alex's one line mergerfs fstab entry
• My Photography Workflow