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 (https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/)
OBS (https://obsproject.com/)
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 (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-49-2-released/32730)
Tmus 3.6 - proxmox.com (https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-backup-server-4-1)
Snort 3.10 - github.com (https://github.com/snort3/snort3/releases)
Dbeaver 25.3 - dbeaver.io (https://dbeaver.io/download/)
Proxmox 4.2 Backup Server - proxmox.com (https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-backup-server-4-1)
Fedora Ultramarine 43 - fyralabs.com (https://blog.fyralabs.com/ultramarine-43-release/)
AlmaLinux 10.1 - almalinux.org (https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-11-24-almalinux_101_release/)
Rocky Linux 10.1 - rockylinux.org (https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-10-1-ga-release)
KaOS 2025.11 - kaosx.us (https://kaosx.us/news/2025/kaos11/)
NixOS 25.11 - nixos.org (https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2025/nixos-2511/)
Armbian 25.11 - blog.armbian.com (https://blog.armbian.com/v25-11-improving-the-base-unlocking-new-options/)
Solus 4.8 - getsol.us (https://getsol.us/2025/11/29/solus-4-8-released/)
4M Linux 50.0 - 4mlinux.com (https://4mlinux.com/index.php?page=home)
AV Linux 25 - linuxmusicians.com (https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=28954)
Pardus 25 - pardus.org (https://pardus.org.tr/en/pardus-25-release-note/)
Linux 6.18 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-Released)
Flux 2 - bfl.ai (https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-2)
z-Image-Turbo - huggingface.co (https://huggingface.co/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo)
Deepseek 3.2 - deepseek.com (https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news251201)
Linux MCP - siliconangle.com (https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/25/suses-mcp-server-tech-preview-lays-foundation-ai-assisted-linux-infrastructure/)
31:51 Plex Crackdown
Forcing Plex Pass subscriptions
Proprietary software controls you
Are Plex users getting what they deserve?
Switching to JellyFin (https://jellyfin.org/)
Scanning of people's media
Reason for crackdown
Problem with the approach
FS PBX (https://www.fspbx.com/)
ArsTechnica.com (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/plexs-crackdown-on-free-remote-streaming-access-starts-this-week/)
41:50 Steam Machine
First response is it's a "Travel Machine"
SteamDeck "just works"
Community experience
ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/steam-deck-minus-the-screen-valve-announces-new-steam-machine-controller-hardware/)
44:42 Self Hosted Image Software
Immich (https://immich.app/) experience
Ente (https://ente.io/) experience
Ente vs Immich
Ente Encryption
Native App
Backup
Where Immich came from
iOS challenges
Which is the winner?
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