# Don't Call it a Christro

URL: /show/linux-unplugged/628/
> When personalities clash, the users come last. Meanwhile, Chris' hyper-tuned setup stops being a toy and starts looking like a daily driver.

- Show: [LINUX Unplugged](/show/linux-unplugged/)
- Episode: 628
- Date: 2025-08-17
- Hosts: brent, chris, wes
- Duration: 01:31:28
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/f31a453c-fa15-491f-8618-3f71f1d565e5/8c08839b-daba-468f-aafc-13149273d556.mp3



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### Episode Links

* [💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike](https://strike.me/ "💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike")
* [📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM](https://www.fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov "📻 LINUX Unplugged  on Fountain.FM")
* [Toronto Meetup - JB Colony Events](https://colonyevents.com/8EQ11JbAN1wTXRPLqzwHh "Toronto Meetup - JB Colony Events")
* [Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash](https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/sad_end_of_bcachefs/ "Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash") — A large and unfortunate mistake in the kernel development management process is underway.
* [Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs changes for 6.17 - Josef Bacik](https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250809192156.GA1411279@fedora/ "Re: \[GIT PULL\] bcachefs changes for 6.17 - Josef Bacik")
* [Ubuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Dangerous-Desktop "Ubuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept") — Ubuntu is testing "Dangerous" Desktop Images, daily builds with all Snaps pulled from the edge channel.
* [Ubuntu 25.10 Will Ship With Linux 6.17 Even If It Means An Unstable "-rc" Kernel](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Linux-6.17-rc "Ubuntu 25.10 Will Ship With Linux 6.17 Even If It Means An Unstable "-rc" Kernel")
* [syncthing 2.0 Released!](https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/releases/tag/v2.0.0 "syncthing 2.0 Released!") — This is the first release of the new 2.0 series. Expect some rough edges and keep a sense of adventure! 🙏
* [Z-Wave is not dead - Home Assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/05/08/zwave-is-not-dead/ "Z-Wave is not dead - Home Assistant") — TL;DR: Z-Wave is alive and well, partly due to a strong community that is building new open-source resources.
* [Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2](https://www.home-assistant.io/connect/zwa-2/ "Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2") — The ultimate way to connect Z-Wave devices to Home Assistant.
* [Z-Wave reborn - Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2](https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/08/13/home-assistant-connect-zwa-2/ "Z-Wave reborn - Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2")
* [Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 Reveal Promo - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhQ1TWmX77c "Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 Reveal Promo - YouTube")
* [Hyprvibe](https://github.com/ChrisLAS/hyprvibe "Hyprvibe") — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS
* [Keybinds Reverting to older config? · Hyprvibe Issue #2](https://github.com/ChrisLAS/hyprvibe/issues/2 "Keybinds Reverting to older config? · Hyprvibe Issue #2")
* [Errors at the top of the screen · Hyprvibe Issue #3](https://github.com/ChrisLAS/hyprvibe/issues/3 "Errors at the top of the screen · Hyprvibe Issue #3")
* [Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Formatter](https://github.com/freedpom/FreedpomFormatter "Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Formatter")
* [Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Home](https://github.com/Neochaotics/NixModule "Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Home")
* [Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Shared](https://github.com/freedpom/FreedpomFlake "Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Shared")
* [Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Hosts](https://github.com/Neochaotics/megaflake "Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Hosts")
* [LibreNMS](https://www.librenms.org/ "LibreNMS") — A fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support. LibreNMS is a fork of Observium.
* [Observium](https://www.observium.org/ "Observium") — Observium is a network monitoring and management platform that provides real-time insight into network health and performance.
* [Shift Systems / ShiftMon · GitLab](https://gitlab.com/shiftsystems/shiftmon "Shift Systems / ShiftMon · GitLab") — An open source monitoring and logging tool based on Ansible, Telegraf, Grafana, and a bunch of other tools
* [sst/opencode](https://github.com/sst/opencode "sst/opencode") — AI coding agent, built for the terminal.
* [Lightning Grows Up | This Week In Bitcoin 68](https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/this-week-in-bitcoin/68/ "Lightning Grows Up | This Week In Bitcoin 68")
* [flatpak/xdg-native-messaging-proxy](https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-native-messaging-proxy "flatpak/xdg-native-messaging-proxy")
* [NativeMessaging portal for sandboxed browsers · flatpak Issue #655](https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/655 "NativeMessaging portal for sandboxed browsers · flatpak Issue #655")
* [Pick: papra](https://github.com/papra-hq/papra/ "Pick: papra") — The minimalistic document archiving platform.
* [Papra - Demo](https://demo.papra.app/ "Papra - Demo")
* [Pick: lue](https://github.com/superstarryeyes/lue "Pick: lue") — Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech
* [Pick: wlgblock](https://github.com/AdoPi/wlgblock "Pick: wlgblock") — This project replaces the usual password screen with a Gameboy emulator running a patched Pokémon game!