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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 100 countries.
• 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
• 4Kn sector disk passthrough in Proxmox — Solving an issue with 4Kn sector disks and passthrough in Proxmox with direct KVM arg injection.
• Release 10.9.11 · jellyfin/jellyfin-web · GitHub — This minor release brings several bugfixes to improve your Jellyfin experience.
• [Bug]: Jellyfin after update to 0.2.0.8 is not supported (jellyfin 10.9.2) · Issue #188 · jumoog/intro-skipper · GitHub — I can't check it because the plugin is broken
• intro-skipper for Jellyfin — Analyzes the audio of television episodes to detect and skip over intros.
• Plex Photos — Introducing Plex Photos Beta: We are thrilled to announce the release of the Plex Photos Beta, available today for iOS and Android mobile. This new app is designed to provide you with a focused experience to engage with your photo libraries stored on Plex Media Servers. Whether you’re reminiscing over family photos or sharing backups of your professional photography images,
• HEVC encoding is coming to Plex : r/PleX — This feature is still in active development and we do not yet have an estimated window for release
• Home Assistant is 11 years old! — We can’t thank our community enough for the past 11 years. You are the engine driving forward Home Assistant.
• Companion App for iOS 2024.9: Getting ready for iOS 18 — The new iOS also brings a new level of customization to Control Center, for which we are introducing five new controls: Assist, Toggle light, Run script, Activate scene, and Open page.
• ⚪ Bubble Card — Bubble Card is a minimalist and customizable card collection for Home Assistant with a nice pop-up touch.
• WiCAN Pro | Crowd Supply — Advanced OBD scanner for next-generation vehicle diagnostics and Home Assistant integration
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• Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

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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 100 countries.
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
• Toronto Meetup, Thu, Aug 29 — Chris and Alex are slinging servers in Toronto. Come join us after we get our new box racked.
• Google is no longer making Chromecasts, updates to continue — The Chromecast with Google TV 4K and HD will remain on sale until inventory runs out, but Google is not replenishing stock after that.
• The Google TV Streamer might be the Apple TV 4K rival we’ve been waiting for — es, there are some Gemini AI tricks thrown in, and with other hardware upgrades like a built-in ethernet jack, the Google TV Streamer seems poised to be a much better entertainment hub than its predecessor. The only downside? Since it’s not a dongle anymore, you’ll have to provide your own HDMI cable when it ships on September 24th.
• The Magic Behind HexOS — HexOS combines a simplified UI, automations, workflows, and managed services with user-provided hardware to offer elegant home server management for off-the-shelf server appliances, custom-built hardware, and even recycled PCs. Powered by TrueNAS, the world's most deployed enterprise-grade storage platform, HexOS provides a highly reliable and easy-to-use solution to store, use, and protect your data. In this article, we'll take a closer look at how HexOS works to make all of this possible.
• Forgejo v8.0 is available — It comes with a number of new features, as usual. But the most impactful changes are of a different nature: increased stability, less random UI modifications and almost no breaking changes.
• ForgeFed — ForgeFed is a federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystem
• Open Letter to Gitea - Restoring Trust in the Gitea Project — After many days of hard work and preparation by a team of former Gitea maintainers and enthusiasts from the FOSS community, we are proud to announce that the Forgejo project is now live.
• Rallly — Schedule group meetings with friends, colleagues and teams. Create meeting polls to find the best date and time to organize an event based on your participants' availability. Save time and avoid back-and-forth emails.
• Fully automated DNS and DHCP with Ansible, Dnsmasq and Pihole — This post will detail how I solved a few interesting problems as I fully automated DNS overrides and DHCP reservations using Pihole, and the program it's built on top of Dnsmasq.
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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 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
• LowEndTalk
• Configuring Proxmox For Hetzner - YouTube — Throughout the video, we delve into the nitty-gritty of Proxmox configuration, highlighting key steps such as booting from the drives, setting up network devices, and managing SSH access over Port 2222. I'll walk you through running and connecting to your virtual machines, ensuring you understand every command and its purpose.
• Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts — Scripts for Streamlining Your Homelab with Proxmox VE
• Migrate to Proxmox VE — This article aims to assist users in transitioning to Proxmox Virtual Environment. The first part explains the core concepts of Proxmox VE, while the second part outlines several methods for migrating VMs to Proxmox VE. Although it was written with VMware as the source in mind, most sections should apply to other source hypervisors as well.
• Dockge — A fancy, easy-to-use and reactive self-hosted docker compose.yaml stack-oriented manager.

Plus, why are we building our containers with Tailscale networking now, and the latest from the Home Assistant project?

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• The Launch 🚀: Chris guides you through the most interesting stories and clips that set the stage for the rest of the week, while playing some of his favorite value 4 value tracks.
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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 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM | Meetup — Let's put an official time down on the calendar to get together. The Yardhouse has always been a solid go-to, so sit down and break bread with the Unplugged crew during the lunch break on Saturday!
• SCALE 21x
• Yard House Menu
• SCaLE Chat Room on our Matrix Server — Join our room dedicated to organizing around SCaLE each year.
• Contain your excitement: A deep dive into using Tailscale with Docker — By putting containers directly onto your tailnet (our term for a Tailscale network), you're able to connect these isolated things together no matter the networking topology that stands in your way.
• Tailscale for Docker Container - Chris' Note — The basic idea is to create a tailscale service container, that runs along side the main app container. You then set the main app container to use the tailscale container for networking.
• audiobookshelf-docker-compose.yml — Chris' docker-compose.yml for audiobookshelf that uses a Tailscale service container for networking.
• 2024.2: More voice, more icons, more integrations, more... everything! — In general, contributions to our open-source project have been amazing this month. I’ve never seen so many contributed bug fixes, improvements, and new features in a single release. Like… 21 new integrations! This is, without a doubt, the largest release we’ve ever put out. A big shout-out to everyone who helped! ❤️
• Companion app for iOS 2024.1: CarPlay is here! — CarPlay support now gives Home Assistant users easy access to their devices and areas and the ability to create custom actions.
• home-assistant-assist-desktop — Use Home Assistant Assist on the desktop. Compatible with Windows, MacOS, and Linux
• Plex launches its rental service with some award-winning movies — The new movie rental marketplace from the streaming service gives users 30-day access to premium titles.

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• 🎉 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

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• Olympia Linux Spring Meetup , Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 1:00 PM — Let's have a local PNW get-together.
• We're no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan — Last week we felt our communications were terrible but our policy was sound. It’s now clear that both the communications and the policy were wrong, so we’re reversing course and no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan
• LUP 502: Docker Shocker — The story of an open-source hero who became a villain.
• Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.4 — Proxmox VE 7.4 is based on Debian 11.6 (“Bullseye”), but uses a newer, long-term supported Linux kernel 5.15 and includes updates to the latest versions of leading open-source technologies for virtual environments, such as QEMU 7.2, LXC 5.0.2, and ZFS 2.1.9.
• Pricing v3, plans, packages, and debugging · Tailscale — The new plans should save money for essentially everyone, but you can keep your old plan if you want.
• web-whisper — OpenAI's whisper on your web browser!
• KTZ Systems - YouTube — Creating videos and tutorials about Self-hosting, Homelabs, Networking, Linux, Containers, Home Automation, and much more...
• Auto-GPT — Auto-GPT is an experimental open-source application showcasing the capabilities of the GPT-4 language model. This program, driven by GPT-4, chains together LLM "thoughts", to autonomously achieve whatever goal you set. As one of the first examples of GPT-4 running fully autonomously, Auto-GPT pushes the boundaries of what is possible with AI.
• gpt4all chatbot ui — This is a Flask web application that provides a chat UI for interacting with llamacpp based chatbots such as GPT4all, vicuna etc...
• turbopilot — TurboPilot is a self-hosted copilot clone which uses the library behind llama.cpp to run the 6 Billion Parameter Salesforce Codegen model in 4GiB of RAM. It is heavily based and inspired by on the fauxpilot project.
• You all NEED these Obsidian community plugins - YouTube — In this YouTube video, I’m talking about how Obsidian can do so much more than just note-taking and writing technical documentation.
• 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.

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• You can't buy a Raspberry Pi right now — ...or at least, not without a lot of patience or a fat wallet.
• Matter is now official! — The Connectivity Standards Alliance has certified and released the first version of the Matter smart home interoperability protocol Tuesday and I couldn’t be happier.
• Paulus Schoutsen on Twitter — Ladies and gentlemen, we've got it! That's the first release.
• Invoice Ninja — Focus on doing what you love. We’ll help with the invoicing.
• Docker files for Invoice Ninja — Introducing our very own Helm Chart that helps you launch a simple standalone app to a production-ready, highly available Invoice Ninja setup.
• InvoicePlane — InvoicePlane is a self-hosted open source application for managing your quotes, invoices, clients and payments.
• Cloudflare Zero Trust and Yubico — Yubico is providing Security Keys at “Good for the Internet” pricing - as low as $10 per key.  Yubico will ship the keys to customers directly.
• SSH with YubiKey
• Bitwarden Two-step Login via YubiKey
• expanse — fully selfhosted multi-user web app for externally storing Reddit items (saved, created, upvoted, downvoted, hidden) to bypass Reddit's 1000-item listing limits
• Use Bitwarden to Generate Email Aliases with Fastmail — As of the September release, the Bitwarden username generator now supports creating email aliases
• netbird — NetBird is an open-source VPN management platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home.
• RuneAudio — RuneAudio is a free and open source software that turns embedded hardware into Hi-Fi music players.
• Volumio - The Audiophile Music Player — A very powerful and convenient music aggregator, now Volumio can also be used with great results in all sorts of different situations.
• snapcast: Synchronous multiroom audio player — Snapcast is a multiroom client-server audio player, where all clients are time synchronized with the server to play perfectly synced audio. It's not a standalone player, but an extension that turns your existing audio player into a Sonos-like multiroom solution.
• ConBee II Zigbee USB Gateway — Universal Zigbee USB gateway integrates Zigbee products across manufacturers
• Slaesh Zigbee 3.0 USB Stick - CloudFree — Recommended by Zigbee2MQTT
• Badgers Stack — A new page for May 2022, here's a high level overview snapshot of PMS as it stands today.
• Install Proxmox VE on Debian 11 Bullseye — The installation of a supported Proxmox VE server should be done via bare-metal ISO installer. In some cases it makes sense to install Proxmox VE on top of a running Debian Bullseye 64-bit, especially if you want a custom partition layout. For this How-To any official Bullseye installation medium should work.
• ironicbadger/infra: 99.9% less leaked credentials
• Send a Boost with a New Podcast App — Upgrade to a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app.

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• Z-Wave and OpenZwave integrations pending removal — This is just based on the 2022.3 beta release notes, but wanted to give a heads up as soon as possible for anyone who hasn't updated to Z-Wave JS yet. You probably only have until April to switch over to one of the new Z-Wave JS integrations.
• Z-Wave (deprecated) - Home Assistant
• Home Assistant docs is a nightmare - a new user perspective
• TrueNAS SCALE — TrueNAS® SCALE is an Open Source Hyperconverged Infrastructure solution. Built on TrueNAS CORE, SCALE adds Linux Containers, KVM, and scale-out ZFS storage capabilities. 
• TrueCommand — Manage your TrueNAS fleet all from one place
• Nextcloud Two-factor authentication — Two-factor authentication adds an additional layer of security to user accounts. In order to log in on an account with two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled, it is necessary to provide both the login password and another factor. 2FA in Nextcloud is pluggable, meaning that they are not part of the Nextcloud Server component but provided by featured and 3rd-party Nextcloud apps.
• Two-Factor TOTP Provider - Apps - App Store
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup Page — Jupiter Broadcasting regularly provides community events, talks, meet and greets and special hang-out dinners while attending fests and conferences.

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• A Cloud Guru: When you’ve finished this course, you’ll have a better understanding of the topics on the exam, including installing Ansible Tower, managing Ansible inventory, managing Tower templates, and additional functions.

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• Authelia — Protect your applications with Single Sign-On and 2 Factor.
• 2 Factor Auth and Single Sign On with Authelia - YouTube — Authelia is an open source Single Sign On and 2FA companion for reverse proxies. It helps you secure your endpoints with single factor and 2 factor auth. It works with nginx, traefik, and HA proxy. Today, we'll configure Authelia with Portainer and Traefik and have 2 Factor up and running with brute force protection!
• infra/roles/ktz-authelia at master · IronicBadger/infra
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup
• owntracks/recorder — We developed the Recorder as a one-stop solution to storing location data published by our OwnTracks apps
• Valetudo
• Roborock S5 Zoned Cleanup for Valetudo 2021.06 — Here's how to configure segment based cleanup for Valetudo based Robovacs.
• Proxmox VE 7.0 Released — Based on Debian Bullseye (11)
• SHIELD TV users are mad as hell — Irate users are storming the Android TV Home app listing in the Play Store by the hundred, leaving pissed-off reviews invariably scoring the app with one star.
• Union Pacific Steam Schedule — Big Boy No. 4014 will depart Cheyenne, Wyoming, Thursday, Aug. 5, traveling through Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming. Along the way, the Big Boy will be on display in the following cities during the tour.

And we respond to a ton of feedback.

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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.

Plus our favorite travel router with WireGuard built in, and Chris kicks off Project Off-Grid. Meanwhile, Alex adopts proprietary software.

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• 5.11 Taclite Trousers — Constructed using premium polyester and cotton mechanical stretch Taclite ripstop fabric with a triple-stitching built, this pair of pants is sturdy and flexible to ensure maximum performance in the field.
• Amazon.com: Gigabit Travel AC Router OpenWrt — Slate Comes with Pre-installed VPN server and client functions in WireGuard and OpenVPN.
• GL-AR750S - The SLATE Our favorite travel router — The first dual-band Gigabit AC travel router. We upgrade Ethernet ports (totally 3) to Gigabit ports so that it get faster speed in your travel. We also added 128MB Nand Flash to provide dual flash for more storage and faster operation speed. It has a MicroSD (TF) slot which increase your storage space up to 128GB.
• Raneto - A free, open, simple Markdown powered Knowledgebase — Raneto is an open source Knowledgebase platform that uses static Markdown files to power your Knowledgebase.
• raneto - Docker Hub
• SmokePing — SmokePing keeps track of your network latency.
• smokeping - Docker Hub
• Find the Containers Chris Uses
• Migrate qcow2 images from KVM to VMWare — I recently switched from Proxmox to ESXI for my primary Hypervisor due to better support for automation tools like Ansible and Terraform plus better integrations with Red Hat Satellite.
• Gotchas when migrating Fedora qcow2 images to vmware — My issue was that the initramfs didn't contain the necessary drivers for the emulated hardware and as such the VM refused to boot except into emergency mode.