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.
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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 (https://shotcut.org/blog/new-release-25.12.30/)
Ncurses 6.6 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ncurses-6.6)
OpenTTD 15.0 - openttd.org (https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/01/01/openttd-15-0)
QPrompt 2.0 - patreon.com (https://www.patreon.com/posts/qprompt-2-0-147192236)
Mkvtoolnix 97 - mkvtoolnix.download (https://mkvtoolnix.download/windows/releases/97.0/)
Privoxy 4.1 - sourceforge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/Sources/4.1.0%20%28stable%29/)
OpenBGPD 9.0 - bsdsec.net (https://bsdsec.net/articles/openbgpd-9-0-released)
IceWM - debugpoint.com (https://www.debugpoint.com/icewm-4-0-0-features/)
Devuan 6.1 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Devuan-6.1-Released)
Manjaro 26.0 - manjaro.org (https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-26-0-anh-linh-released/184526)
Qwen Text to Image - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/technology/open-source-qwen-image-2512-launches-to-compete-with-googles-nano-banana-pro)
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 (https://droidwin.com/how-to-create-and-restore-app-backup-via-adb-commands/)
ADB Backup Caveat (https://developer.android.com/about/versions/12/behavior-changes-12#adb-backup-restrictions)
45:09 KVM Switch? - Jeremy
Now use remote software
Barrier (https://github.com/debauchee/barrier)
Synergy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy_%28software%29)
Deskflow (https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow)
IO Gear KVM (https://iogear.com/collections/cable-kvms-desktop-kvms)
Rust Desk (https://rustdesk.com/)
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