Show Notes
This week Steve takes us through his journey with Enty and Immich. Plex makes their users pay a monthly fee, and Steam releases a new SteamBox console.
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
How was your week
Watching sales
Smart TVs
WebOS
07:21 Mac Feedback - Gregory
Network Effect
"Comforting Mac Feels"
Pavu Control
OBS
Stewardship
11:32 Mac Feedback - Patrick
Pragmatic approach
Steve's thoughts
Treating windows like an appliance
Making the FOSS path easy
18:15 Succession Planning - Dominik
Suggestions
Design your home so it works without automation
Have a HDD with important data
Have migration plan in place
Struggling with massive amounts of data
Steve's documentation journey
Criticality
30:33 News Wire
Gnome 49.2 - gnome.org
Tmus 3.6 - proxmox.com
Snort 3.10 - github.com
Dbeaver 25.3 - dbeaver.io
Proxmox 4.2 Backup Server - proxmox.com
Fedora Ultramarine 43 - fyralabs.com
AlmaLinux 10.1 - almalinux.org
Rocky Linux 10.1 - rockylinux.org
KaOS 2025.11 - kaosx.us
NixOS 25.11 - nixos.org
Armbian 25.11 - blog.armbian.com
Solus 4.8 - getsol.us
4M Linux 50.0 - 4mlinux.com
AV Linux 25 - linuxmusicians.com
Pardus 25 - pardus.org
Linux 6.18 - phoronix.com
Flux 2 - bfl.ai
z-Image-Turbo - huggingface.co
Deepseek 3.2 - deepseek.com
Linux MCP - siliconangle.com
31:51 Plex Crackdown
Forcing Plex Pass subscriptions
Proprietary software controls you
Are Plex users getting what they deserve?
Switching to JellyFin
Scanning of people's media
Reason for crackdown
Problem with the approach
FS PBX
ArsTechnica.com
41:50 Steam Machine
First response is it's a "Travel Machine"
SteamDeck "just works"
Community experience
ArsTechnica
44:42 Self Hosted Image Software
Immich experience
Ente experience
Ente vs Immich
Ente Encryption
Native App
Backup
Where Immich came from
iOS challenges
Which is the winner?
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