About this episode

Wes discusses switching his brother's PC to Linux amidst various tech topics and sponsorships.

Wes' brother's PC is toast, making this the perfect moment to switch him to Linux. If our ambitious plan doesn’t scare him away first. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership : Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula : Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Jupiter Garage SWAG AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild. Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube Storyboarder — Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures. Quickly draw to test if a story idea works. Create and show…

Topics covered

• Linux
• PC switching
• VPN
• open-source
• home automation
• agent management

Keywords

• Linux
• VPN
• Managed Nebula
• Hermes
• home assistant
• open-source

Sponsors

Jupiter Party, Managed Nebula

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Managed Nebula, Hermes, MCP-NixOS, Spud Router, MacSurf

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