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Show Notes

This week we dig into how a dead hard drive took Frigate out, answer your questions, and start a new challenge for the new year.

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

Sticky Things and Bug reports

Electric Dirt Bike

Validating work

Picking and offering boats

Hosting in home lab

10:00 Frigate

Frigate drive failure

4 TB drive died

Frigate setup

Swapping drives and power on hours

Running drives into the ground

Replacing drives

Motion detection

20:06 News Wire

Shotcut 25.12 - shotcut.org

Ncurses 6.6 - phoronix.com

OpenTTD 15.0 - openttd.org

QPrompt 2.0 - patreon.com

Mkvtoolnix 97 - mkvtoolnix.download

Privoxy 4.1 - sourceforge.net

OpenBGPD 9.0 - bsdsec.net

IceWM - debugpoint.com

Devuan 6.1 - phoronix.com

Manjaro 26.0 - manjaro.org

Qwen Text to Image - venturebeat.com

27:07 Flatpak vs Packaged Software - Pete

New contest!

Steve uses packaged software

Idea behind flatpaks

Flatpak edge cases

Install via AUR

AppImages

37:16 Backup GrapheneOS - Domink

Toilet backup strategy

Plan to come back from scratch

Contacts VCF file

ADB Backup Guide

ADB Backup Caveat

45:09 KVM Switch? - Jeremy

Now use remote software

Barrier

Synergy

Deskflow

IO Gear KVM

Rust Desk

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