# A New Challenge Approaches

URL: /show/linux-unplugged/492/
> 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.

- Show: [LINUX Unplugged](/show/linux-unplugged/)
- Episode: 492
- Date: 2023-01-08
- Hosts: chris, wes, brent
- Guests: alex
- Duration: 01:13:32
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/f31a453c-fa15-491f-8618-3f71f1d565e5/075c0b8c-f750-4b58-a54f-5af912f795ee.mp3



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### Episode Links

  * [Mastodon Sees Dip in Active Users After Twitter Exodus Surge](https://www.pcmag.com/news/mastodons-active-users-are-declining "Mastodon Sees Dip in Active Users After Twitter Exodus Surge")
  * [SCaLE 20x](https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x "SCaLE 20x") — The 20th Annual Southern California Linux Expo will take place on March 9-12, 2023 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA.
  * [Easily Deploy a Mastodon Server with Linode Marketplace](https://www.linode.com/blog/devops/mastodon-server-linode-marketplace/ "Easily Deploy a Mastodon Server with Linode Marketplace")
  * [Self-Hosted 87: Jellyfin January](https://selfhosted.show/87 "Self-Hosted 87: Jellyfin January") — 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.
  * [Top 10 Self-Hosted Apps - Perfect Media Server](https://perfectmediaserver.com/day-two/top10apps/ "Top 10 Self-Hosted Apps - Perfect Media Server")
  * [[YouTube] The Definitive Guide to Jellyfin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIExT8xq1BQ "\[YouTube\] The Definitive Guide to Jellyfin")
  * [Ubuntu Manpage: intel_gpu_top](https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/intel_gpu_top.1.html "Ubuntu Manpage: intel_gpu_top") — Display a top-like summary of Intel GPU usage.
  * [jellyfin/Swiftfin](https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin "jellyfin/Swiftfin") — Native Jellyfin Client for iOS and tvOS.
  * [intel-gpu-tools Repo](http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/intel-gpu-tools/ "intel-gpu-tools Repo")
  * [Alex's Jellyfin Ansible Setup](https://github.com/ironicbadger/infra/blob/af71835480ead3ef1cb58e2f4f87e37d59841158/group_vars/morpheus.yaml#L712 "Alex's Jellyfin Ansible Setup")
  * [Fountain Rewind 2022](https://www.fountain.fm/2022 "Fountain Rewind 2022")
  * [List of all Star Trek episodes sorted by original airdate](https://startreklist.blogspot.com/2011/04/list-of-all-star-trek-episodes-sorted_05.html "List of all Star Trek episodes sorted by original airdate")
  * [List of all Star Trek episodes sorted by star date](https://startreklist.blogspot.com/2011/04/list-of-all-star-trek-episodes-sorted.html "List of all Star Trek episodes sorted by star date")
  * [Alby](https://getalby.com/ "Alby")
  * [LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex](https://podcastindex.org/podcast/575694 "LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex")
  * [Podcasting 2.0 Apps](https://podcastindex.org/apps?appTypes=app&elements=Value "Podcasting 2.0 Apps")
  * [Pick: Btrfsmaintenance](https://github.com/kdave/btrfsmaintenance "Pick: Btrfsmaintenance") — Scripts for btrfs maintenance tasks like periodic scrub, balance, trim or defrag on selected mountpoints or directories.
  * [btdu](https://github.com/CyberShadow/btdu "btdu") — sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs.