LINUX Unplugged - 631: Offline By Default

Episode Date: September 7, 2025

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Hello, friends, and welcome back to your weekly Linux talk show. My name is Chris. My name is Wes. And my name is Brent. Hello, gentlemen. Well, we have a pack of applications that you can self-host that let you live your life offline, or maybe just make the best of your internet connection even better. I don't know. As Linux users, we have a lot of great options built into Linux and some self-hosted apps, and we'll get into all of that in this episode.

And then we'll round it out with some great boost, some shout-outs, some picks, and more. So before we go any further, say time appropriate greetings to our mumble room. Hello, virtual luck. Hey, Chris, hey, West, and hello. Tip of the hat to that quiet listening, too. Look at them, all wearing the same exact outfit today. How did they know? Where did they get that?

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Texas Linux Festival is just around the corner, in 25 days. The pressure's on, boys. We probably need to leave in 20 days. Brendan, I still need to buy our ticket. Wes gets in for free because he's a speaker. I always forget about the ticket, you know? Yeah, they let us in sometimes.

Sometimes. But have you wrapped your head around the fact that you're leaving in less than 20 days? No, and I feel like I should tell myself 15 so I could spend the last five days, like making sure the van is all ready to go. I mean, that's another cross-continent road trip. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on real quick. Let's just update the dock. There you go, Brett. You got 15 days. 15 days until you got.

That's like just slightly over a fortnight. That scares me. Better get the, yeah, that's the way you should be thinking about. You also have to do the part where you drive there. That's what I have the cats. They're going to drive. Okay. So we'll get more to it in the shout-out section of the show. But we are building real momentum. Our time is tight. I have so far failed to find a commercial partner who wants to spend. spend their precious ad budget to get us to Texas Linux Fest.

Nothing's worked out, but we're still going one way or another. And I feel I made my case last week. It's important that these events get covered and we try to cover the ones we can and the ones we're best suited to cover. We don't cover them all, but we try to be strategic and this is one of them. I was thinking about it this morning. I think these crazy trips that we do and going to these events are one of the reason the show is this show right here, this very podcast, has lasted 12 years.

If we didn't do this stuff, I don't think the show. would be going for as long, which, by the way, happy birthday boys, August 12th was our birthday. Oh, happy birthday. That's great. Yeah. So the show has been going longer than Seinfeld, longer than the Big Bang theory, and many podcasts out there.

Isn't that amazing? A podcast. And I really honestly think it's the listener support, the community involvement, and these events. And it's like the trifecta. And I think they kind of feed each other, too. So we're going to Texas because, my friends, we must. we're going to do it on a shoe string budge let me tell you what

Wes and I are loading up into my little GTI and we're going to meet up with Brent who's bringing his van down the east coast and we're going to meet up in Austin we'll attend the fest cover it for the show hang with the peeps and meet up with people then we're going to have an epic caravan back up here to the studio which I'm sure will be a source of mini stories for future shows no doubt about it

and we're doing this with Boos try to go the commercial route and we're doing it with boosts. I've explained my reasoning in the previous episode. If you would like to support us with that method, and you haven't done it before, fountin.fm makes it really easy. Now, I am working on a no boost support route.

You can kind of send us like a fake boost. I'm working on a fake boost system. I want something that we can easily tag an account for this money is allocated to the trip. It's not a general J.B. Fun thing. It's a trip fun thing. And I want something to let me do one-off links, right? So I've put together what I'm calling a fake boost page, which we will link in the show notes,

and it lets you do a one-time-off PayPal Venmo, on-chain, or Lightning. Unfortunately, it doesn't do straight debit card at this point. But if, say, you have Lightning, but you just don't have a podcasting 2.0-Up, you can do a fake boost. Or if you got on-chain Bitcoin, you can do a fake boost. If you got PayPal or Venmo, you can do a fake boost with your name and a note. We'll try to collect those, and they automatically get allocated to the same budget we're allocating the SATs. to. And you can include your name in there with a little message. So, I mean, I think this is kind of neat. And I, it's still not all the options, but I'm working with what I got and

keeping it within the restrictions that I have. So if you want to do a fake boost, we'll have a link in the show notes to support the show with that way, or send us a real boost. Fountain.com makes that really easy. We're going to collect those and we'll be using that to fund our butts to get down there. I'll probably front the costs or something like that on a credit card. I don't No, no. I mean, I'm committed to however I have to fund it to get us there. So however you can help, it would be greatly appreciated. And we are getting excited, officially getting stoked, looking forward to being in Austin in October, meeting up, seeing the people, catching up with pocket meet Carl. Talking some lit it looks.

I've been eating extra vegetarian recently just as a lead up to, you know, Austin. Last time you guys kind of shocked me, let's say. Yeah, this time you can do it kind of guilt-free because you've preloaded. Yeah, exactly. Pre-gaming. So you can just indulge like crazy. Mm-hmm. I do it for you.

I live a simple life. Okay, that's not true. But I try to it when it comes to my internet. I live on Starlink and LTE and have four years now. Just not ideal. Not ideal for somebody who loves high performance, low latency, hit play. It plays immediately. definition 4K HDR, right?

Not ideal. Well, it's not like, I mean, you had years of connected internet, right? And you have it here at the studio. It's like you're on a hard line pretty often. Yeah, and then I go home and then suddenly everything changes. Oh, it's been frustrating. And especially because I'm in a very populated area here in the Pacific Northwest. So both LTE and Starlink get actively traffic shaped, especially in the evening.

when people are watching their Netflix or whatever they're doing it gets really rough. You know, like, for example, say I'm doing like a backup off of Usenet of my Linux ISOs. Maybe in the evening,

it starts at 13 megabytes a second. You're like, okay, that's not bad. Yeah, I can work with that. I can work with it. It's not what I was hoping for, but I'll work with 13 megabytes a second. Minute goes by, now you're getting 4 megabytes a second.

Two, three minutes go by. Now you're getting 110K a second. Oh. Like some of the things I don't know how they identify it on Starlink But on some of the Some of like the just consistent data streams They just ratchet it down

And they and I'm sure LTE You know all the southern networks are the same way And during this time websites can be slow to load Videos delay to start And then they buffer during playback So saving bandwidth Or just avoiding the internet And be able to just operate offline

Has been like the name of the game for me for years and I think there's something to this because it also means you depend less on cloud services. It means you have better privacy. It means a lot of stuff is self-hosted first and it also means you have less dependency on your ISP if there is an outage, your life kind of continues.

Even though that's not a super common thing these days, it's nice. And even if you have a fast internet connection, it's nice to make it even more efficient to not leak things on there you don't need, etc. So I thought, I've talked about some of these things before. Some of these are new.

Some of these I have updates for, but I wanted to put this all in one place, both for you boys and for the audience, because I get these questions a lot, and just have one episode that everybody can refer to. And I thought we should start with some MVP's, and I know you guys are into some of these. And I think one of the ones that has really helped,

and it's a more recent one, so I'll start here, is pinch flat. And we've talked about it once before. it's a YouTube media manager where you can subscribe to channels or playlist and then you can set some media management things like beyond like just resolution or if you should download the tini's or not

you can say okay after 30 days after 15 days after it's watched after whatever go ahead and autumn remove this but on top of that pinch flat also pulls down the metadata necessary for your jellyfin or your Plex to integrate it like it's a television show

so it shows up in your media player listed like all your other content with the description, with the thumbnail, everything you'd expect, like a regular old TV show, so it's not like this bogus experience in your media player. And because it's pulled it all down with YouTube DLP in the background, it's

all local, baby, so the playback is instant, the pause is fine, there's no buffering, and you're not leaking any data to YouTube about what you played, when you played, how long you played it, which I, as a content creator, constantly am thinking about

that because it's all signals. If I bail out of a video early, that's a signal that goes to their dashboard. All of it. If I pause, if I fast forward, these content creators on YouTube are obsessing over all these stats. And I can't help think about the fact that I'm sending them those signals, even though I don't want them to interpret any particular way. It's a nice way to actually make sure you see what you subscribe to, too. You know, I have gone through and done some house cleaning too as well. So pinch flat. Really love this app. And it's an elixir app, which I always like to see. Okay. And it works. It just works. Great. There's a Nix module now. So I was, I've been using that ever since that came out. And I love, as you say, like, it's just ready to go

plug into whatever else you want to load it into. Do you mind if I do the Brent, the Brent sales pitch on a couple of these? Oh, I need it. Bring it. Because I know our community has been going crazy about Pinch Flat. In the back of my mind, a lot of these, I think, would be really great for the van experience. So, you know, one of the nice things about Pinch Flat is you can be driving offline. You can go camp offline. You've got videos to watch. And then when you get an internet connection, it'll reconnect and it will pull down like your next batch of videos for you while you're driving or moving about or do whenever you're doing about your day. And so when I sit down in the evenings, I just have a new batch of videos. I didn't have to hit any buttons. And if I've gone

offline for a couple of days, it just catches back up when I come back online. So I think it's really nice for those types of scenarios. Or if you have limited traffic or traffic shaping, or if you've got some that you just want to store there's a couple of channels I watch they're just really great like how to fix channels I want to keep those so I just use pinch flat to archive them I like how flexible it was in terms of like how much you wanted to keep

not just in terms of pruning but like also how aggressively and far back it goes to sinking down in the first place Magnolia Mayhem comes in with an instant hot tip he says another great thing about pinch flat is that you can export the OPML file and then watch through a podcast app. Ooh, that is great.

What a beautiful hack. That is really great. Okay, so there's Pinch Flat. Now, this next one, I have been just, I have been doing everything I can, not to mention it every episode. So I'm working it in this episode

because it has taken an extreme amount of self-control not to talk about it. And it's Ersats TV. And it's one of these that every time I mention it, I am more, enthralled with this. First of all, it's very easy to get going, and it lets you set up your own

streaming television system with a TV guide and a lineup and auto plays. If you're familiar with things like Pluto TV, it's that, but you control it yourself. And it connects to your existing media library, analyzes that, which could be a folder, could be Plex, could be jellyfin. it builds a actual EPG compatible TV guide that things that read the TV guide format can ingest. Is that right? Oh, wow.

It creates also an XML file so anything that can read XML can ingest. It generates a channel schedule for you and you can tell it smart things like, hey, if there is a cliffhanger, go ahead and schedule the part two right next to it. Like it somehow knows which episodes are cliffhangers if they're properly identified

and we'll schedule them back to back. and so I have a 90s sitcom TV show channel and it's things like Seinfeld and I've expanded a bit too and like 30 Rock is in there a little bit but Seinfeld home improvement I also added Sequest so it's not just comedies so there's a few things that are in that one

and then I have a Star Trek the next generation channel and it's all Star Trek the next generation nothing but Star Trek the next generation seven seasons all 24-7 next channel is Star Trek This is all Star Trek, not just Star Trek the next generation. I'm going to have a peek at your setup. Oh, it is lovely.

I have a couple for the kids. So that way, if they just, you know, Saturday morning, we're eating breakfast or something, they want to put on one of their favorite shows. But they don't want to sit there and pick the library. They just hit the channel, and it just picks one for them, and it's just playing. And it just works every time.

There's no discussion about what we want to watch. And then I have a food channel. So this is things like Good Eats or Anthony Bourdain, and these types of shows. So if the wife and I are doing some food planning or some cooking or some kitchen cleaning, I'll pop that on. And it really fits.

And then the last channel I have, and I love this one, is game shows. And this is the last one I did, and it's one of our favorites, because it's really easy TV. So this is the price is right. This is Wheel of Fortune. This is whose line is it anyways,

which is from like the 50s. And it's family feud and celebrity feud and all of those from the 80s, the 90s, now the current ones with Steve Harvey, all kind of mixed in there. And you really never know what you're going to get. Oh, and Jeopardy, Jeopardy as well. You never know what you're going to get,

but you just hit that, or you can look at the TV guide and know exactly what you're going to get. But it takes the choice out of it. And it brings it back to an era that I loved where you start mid-program, which is actually delightful for shows you know really well. Yeah, it is fun.

Oh, yeah, this episode, great. And if it's like a silly game show or something, you don't care. you know I don't need to see the intro of goodies for the 150th time right so I love all that you can also integrate stupid commercials so like on the 90s channel sometimes in between TV episodes I'll have some 90s commercials play that you can find on YouTube or archive dot org there's a ton on I love how much thought you've put into this well it's it's delightful and boy I have I had not used it before but I got it going and there's a lot to configure and I can see how you had a like a whole canvas to work with in terms of what you can put together I don't know what it is. If anybody in the audience has a name for this sensation or this feeling that you get sometimes, boost in or write in and tell, give me your name for it. But there is this kind of satisfaction that I have when the whole family is watching live TV

streaming from my O-Droid, which is using Quicksink. So the load on the O-Droid is like nothing, right? The video is playing. It feels like live TV, air quotes, playing on the TV. We're not using a bit. on the external internet connection the internet the starlink could be off we're watching you know jeopardy and you and my oedroid is hardly even doing anything because it's all being done with quicksink and this like no load nothing on the internet we're still watching live tv that's being picked by a

machine and being scheduled and all of that the sensation is i don't know how to describe it but it feels awesome and i and it is so worth that sensation just to set this program up alone not to mention it means that it frees up our internet connection for that web page you need to load or whatever it is you might be doing if you're if you're taking with pinch flat and ersatz you're taking that heavy load off the connection entirely you're not feeding any data to google or netflix or anybody else and it's all on demand locally with land speed hardware decoded it's all it really does as you say like paired up with pinch flats i love turning youtube into into like a cable tv and walk, you know, go the reverse way.

Yeah. Repackage it, have a different experience. So I've had this going for a while. I set this up with Docker Compose. Pretty straightforward. But I think you were looking to see if there was like a Nix module or if it's packaged in Nix. Yeah. So we're going to talk about like four essentially different apps today.

Three of the four had Nix modules already. And Ersatz was the one that did. Oh, man. Being worked on though, right? No, there had been nothing I could find. Maybe somewhere, I mean, the world of Nix's. and get is a big place, but at least like a cursed research. But I have fixed that. It's not upstream. But I have a flake now that works.

I'm using it. I'm using it right now. So it's a fun experience to get to learn. Ersats a little bit better. It's a good. Dotnet app, kind of like Jellyfin is. But it's well put together. It's one of these apps much like Jellyfin where you just run it and it, you know, has various worker threads and kind of sets everything else up so you don't have to have very much set up. You don't have to run like six different other applications. One's the database. One's the worker. One's, you know. Simple. Yeah, it just, goes. And that means all it really needed was a system D service implemented for it and like the trappings of a Nix module and away it went. What's also really nice is so you can plug it

into Plex or Jellyfin and it'll integrate with their native live TV support. And that's really cool. And then can't you also use them as a media source? I didn't try that, but I see it. Anything that supports HLS, you can essentially pull from ERSATs because it's just making HLS streams. So from VLC to any IPTV client, and there's dozens in the Android App Store in the iOS store. So you can just have a point. And then some of them also support the XML channel guide. So the way I generally watch this is in an IPTV app outside of Jellyfin, just an app dedicated to this because it's what it's built for and it's flawless. And I've even gone as far as

been here at the studio over the mesh network connected back to my ERSAT's instance and stream live TV here at the studio. So you can do it. Totally. It'll work. And you can have different encoding profiles for different, you know, setups like lower bit rate for different channels or whatnot. So this is one of the MVPs.

It's not the big winner this week, but it's one of them. And then I'm going to give a quick mention to Carrakeep, which I've talked about a little bit before before their name change. And you could think of this as a way to quickly save links, notes, tag things, images. You can also integrate it with some AI API, so you can have an auto tag and summarize. It's like a data hoarder's stash place.

It's nice. I am liking this app. This is a good find. I did hook up the AI. That was pretty easy to do. So you get summaries and tags at least by default. The thing I'm most impressed with is they have this full site archive functionality with something called Monarch in the back end, it is really good.

Yes, I use that a lot. And then they also have an option. You have to kind of enable it with an ENV option, but you can trigger it to either do just a cropped screenshot of like the main window size or a full-size screenshot if you want. So if you're not doing that like fancy your archive, you kind of got options for archiving, not just the sort of reader-view text. And there's browser integrations and extensions.

So you can just be, okay, this website, I want to add it to Carrakeep. It's got elements that I used Evernote for a lot, too. So it's been kind of an Evernote replacement for me. In the reader mode, you can tag text, but at least in Firefox, it was a little wonky. Like you would select the text, but then it would unselect it and then offer you sort of like the color. So you couldn't see it anymore, and then you hit the color and then it highlights. It was fine, but. It does have some sharing features as well as tagging features, and I could see us having like, if all three of us had Carrie keep going and then have like a shared LEP category, we could tag stories for each other in there.

and leave notes and get the summaries and stuff like that. Well, we've wanted that functionality, especially the archiving part of like, well, what if this goes offline? We still want to be able to reference it for historical news reasons. That would be really nice because I think that kills our SEO. We have 12 years worth of shows, and you go back a couple years, and the links start dying pretty quick. To no fault of our own, it would be nice if those could be pointed to an archive at some point. And I see it did have a Nix module, so that's good. Yeah, easy to set up.

Okay. So those are sort of the MVP's of keeping stuff local, keeping it off. offline. A couple of honorable mentions in here. You heard Jellyfin mentioned. That's kind of a go-to these days. Image. The reason why I want to mention image is a Google Photos replacement. You really get a thrill when you do your first backup to image and it's all over your land. If you've ever done like a cloud backup, you'll see as the files upload, right? But when you tune it over your land to your own server, it's as fast as the UI can. display it. And so that's lovely. And so I have my phone set to just wait till I'm on Wi-Fi.

And then when I get connected to Wi-Fi, it uploads all the photos, never goes over my internet connection. And then I, of course, have to say Home Assistant, huge for offline functionality. But the other big one for us has been Audio Bookshelf. Just going to give it a quick honorable mention. If you haven't checked out Audio Bookshelf, we've mentioned it before on the show. But the apps continue to get better on mobile. But for us, like I talked about recently the music assistant integration has really kind of now solidified the wife or I just push a button in the bedroom and our audiobook starts for 20 minutes 25 minutes and then it gently fades out and that's all powered by music assistant and audio bookshelf none of it goes out over

the internet and you know that's an audio book on demand with no internet connection no and it and that's great because you know what i'm using my internet for in the evenings backups i'm uploading photos, I'm uploading configs, I'm uploading Docker stuff, right? I'm uploading data. So why bother the, why don't I keep it all offline? That's what I say. Keep it offline. So I'm kind of an offline first kind of guy. So that's the MVP list. But the real breakthrough came earlier this week. OnePassword.com slash unplugged. That's the number one, then password.com slash unplugged, all lowercase. If you're in security, if you're in IT,

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We'll go check out extended access management, Entrelica. It takes things to the next level, and it makes your job easier. It makes compliance easier, too. So it's one password. That's the number one password.com slash unplugged. Well, there is an app that you, Chris, have been talking about for a long time. You've been trying to get Wes and I to install it. But I heard maybe this week it actually worked.

You got Wes to install this thing. So what is going on? I actually thought, I don't know, I guess I thought you would be the first to use this. Then I thought, I tried, I tried to talk Wes and do it over the last couple of weeks. And then he and I both kind of around the same time, just decided to give it a go this week for various reasons. And I'm talking about paperless NGX. You've heard us tease it recently on the show. It's a community supported open source document management system that you can take your physical documents, transform them to searchable online archive. And you can organize and

tag and index. It performs OCR on your documents. It utilizes the open source Tassaract engine to recognize more than 100 different languages. It'll save them out as PDFs. Also, you can hook it up with various plugins. It'll do like email ingestion is what I'm trying to think of. You can do all kinds of like workflow. So when different types of documents come in from different types of people or correspondence as they put it, you can have workflows based on that. And of course, later on, then find all of that. The email processing is particularly interesting, too, because it's not just email, it's attachments as well.

So if you like receipts and stuff like that that come into a particular email address, you can just have paperless NGX pull them in. Of course, it's multi-user support as well. And I'd say a pretty nice, robust interface. I don't have any, like, serious hard remarks or good remarks either way, but it works. And the interface is easy to figure out

and it helps you find your stuff quick. Yeah, it seems pretty snappy too. And a lot of documentation. and what I'd love about something like this is you can integrate it with either a hardware physical scanner and I'll put a link to some of those in there like it looks like one of the hot ones right now it's semi-reasonable priced is the brother ADS-1800W oh wireless kind of portable so one of the key ways that paperless works is it has like an inbox that you send stuff to like an inbound folder and you can share that out over Samba or, you know, SFTP or whatever you might like.

And then if you can get anything, a scanner of any type, to write to that folder, it'll work with Paperless Engine X, or NGX, sorry. But then there is also what they call an API, which is really just like a simple webbook system, and a few scanners actually will write to that API as well. That's neat. That is really cool. Yeah, you can just post the document and there you go. Yeah.

Now, I've put mine on my mesh network. I've got it registered with an external domain and all of that so I can get to it on any system that has that is on that flat network. Yeah, that's actually how I was, I ran into it was making that mesh network module for Nix and someone was using it and then having problems with paperless and so. That started this whole broad. Yeah, I started using it to test that the module could work. And it does now.

It's Wes's fault. But yeah, it's, I'm impressed. There's a lot you can do. I'm only kind of touching the surface so far. For me, the big optimization is I have sort of like paperwork anxiety. Like, what do I do with this? I need to process this. So I'll have like this stack.

I essentially create myself an inbox. And it just builds up because I haven't really figured out what to do with it. And so sometimes I would scan it and save it to a folder somewhere. Sometimes I would try to put it like obsidian. Like I just kept trying to come up with care keep, just different ways. But none of them really quite fit the bill. and then I wanted something that the wife could also use. Yeah, that's, mm-hmm.

And what I love about, what I love about paperless is it solves, it's, it's purpose built to solve this problem. So I can tag stuff, this is a Jupiter broadcasting thing. This is a personal thing. And if I want to later on move up to a hardware scanner, I can. But if I want to stick with the mobile scanners, I will. And there's a couple of really, really good ones. On Android, personally, I think genius scan is great.

The detection, it finds the document in the frame. It tries to get the best picture possible. Looks really great. And it's super simple to set up with paperless NGX. iOS also has a quick scan, which is fantastic and also really easy. And that uses the WebHooks API. So poop goes right to it. And they also have swift paperless over on iOS.

So these scanners make it stupid easy to just start capturing documents from your phone and saving it to paperless. And then later on, if I want to upgrade to like a hardware device here, I'm thinking what I'll probably do, get a little scanner of any type, and hook it up to a Raspberry Pi

that's a note on my mesh network. And that, wherever that pie in that scanner goes, like if we go on a trip, I bring the scanner, if I get a portable one, some of these are quite portable. I bring the scanner, I bring the Raspberry Pi.

Good to go. And it connects to the mesh network, and it scans and saves right to the page. paperless. Got a portable scanning solution. I like that. Or I just use the phone, right? But you got that flexibility there.

I really like that. And also I'm working on some stuff. You know, I got business stuff I'm working on. And so I'm beginning the process right now. And I thought to myself, well, this is my moment, is just capture every document as it's created in real time. Yeah, do it from the start. Yeah.

And so like my inbox, it's not the actual word for it, but the inbox folder, if you will, I shared it out over Samba, and I just put a bookmark to it in my sidebar. And so when I get a PDF, I just drop it right in there immediately. Later on, I go back and check and make sure that everything got detected right, or I changed the tags or whatever it might need. But it was the perfect window of opportunity to start using paperless just from the beginning of this process. So before I get into playing around with some of the add-ons that took it to the next level,

I'm curious. I went the Docker Compose route. I went a custom fancy Docker Compose route. Oh, did you? Which I'll talk more about. But I'm betting you went the Knicks route. Yeah, I did. Well, I mean, because that's what I'd already been playing with, right?

So it's already, I actually had configs ready to go. But I set all of these up with Nix. And it was actually the one maybe tied for the shortest setup. It just needed two lines. You turned it on. You know, enable equals true. And then I just set the address to 0-0-0-0 because I wanted to share it out. Make it sound really simple.

It was very simple. So where things get a little more complicated is there's not like a plug-in architecture system, right? What you do is you spin up other containers or other applications alongside and then you connect to the API. And I wanted to play with paperless AI because if I'm inputting a bunch of documents now,

might as well have a tool that uses open router or any other open AI API compatible, whatever. And the idea is to have something If you're going to bring a lot of documents in at once, why don't have something that could do automatic tagging, automatic indexing? And the thing that could be interesting, and I may end up not using this, but the thing that may be interesting is it then gives you contextual chat about your paperless documents. So you can go to the little interface that it gives you a little GUI and you could say, when did I sign my rental agreement? Or when did we license Brent's van? and it will pull up the documents related to the licensing for Brent's van.

That is so useful. Yeah. Like that's the promise. I don't know if it's just starting to use this. I don't know if it's actually going to deliver. I tried it a little bit. I noticed it was able to answer questions. Well, they have two chats.

And it can use local Olamas stuff too. Yeah. They have like a specific reg chat as well as, which is like a separate component running inside the image and like a more general chat, I guess. Both of them did seem able to answer questions from the document. I noticed the RAG one was citing all of the documents I had as test documents every time in its little sources list, but like it did get the thing right. Hmm, okay. That, I mean, you could imagine if you've been using this for five plus years and you've got quite the library now.

Because for me, any document I need to keep ever, I'm putting in this. I don't really have a place to store paper documents anymore. That's what I was thinking, especially, I mean, like I have some obviously, but I'm much better with my digital backups than I'm. Right, like in terms of having systems and procedures for that kind of thing. And there's just nowhere in Jupes to have paper documents. So it's just really nice to bring this digital. And this brand is my pitch for you, too. You've got nowhere in that van to store documents, but you can store them digitally.

That's a great point. I'm, you know, I need a mentor to show me the way, the mobile way. But you've been trying to convince me of this for years, and I think you've got me hooked on this one, Chris. This is a pretty straightforward setup, too, Brent. I think you'll find it pretty quick to get going, regardless of which route you choose to go. The paperless AI bit is sort of an unnecessary add-on. It's not from the project. It's a community-created side thing.

It is nice that it supports just about any back-end. It's got VLM support in there. It's got OpenAI, of course, deep-seek, but also open router, which then you could point it at a bunch of other stuff, like I mentioned. Yeah, that's what I was trying, just for convenience. And you could also say don't process certain types of documents, those types of things, if you don't want to to look at some stuff. Do you have any sense of hardware requirements? Well, a lot of this, if you're not doing it local, is pretty lightweight. If you're just

calling out, which, you know, I'm a little mixed on. Ideally, I'd have all of this running locally, like some sort of like local O'Lama instance, but I don't have the hardware for that in the RV yet. That would be sweet. Once West gets it set up for us on the moose, then I'll just point it at that, right? Isn't that the plan? So check out, if you're at a moment where you're starting a project or you're starting a business thing or whatever it might be, if you're swamped in paperwork, lean in because it gives you, you know, if you just want to upload documents from the web browser that are on your file system, you can't. Or if you want to get a scanner on your phone and start bringing it in that way you can. Or you want to go get yourself a piece of hardware and have them ingest directly into paper list, you can take all of those different routes.

And there's simple things like share extensions for the phone, so anything you want that you can send through a share sheet, you could send it to pay. paperless as well. So it can kind of do some care keep type stuff in there. And their wiki has an extensive list of hardware support and mobile apps, and then their main website. I mean, the documentation is unbelievable over here. This has got to be one of the best documented projects I've set up in a long time. And if you go with a pretty simple straightforward implementation, not trying to do any of the AI stuff, but just use the default paperless stuff, you'll probably get up and run in five, ten minutes. It really is pretty straightforward. they're very active in the community as well.

And it's GPL3. Right. Right. There's an interesting story here, really. It's a successor to the paperless project and then the paperless NG project that came along. And so because of that, they've internalized a few lessons from those projects in terms of team structure and all of that. Written in Python with the typescript front end. Yeah.

And then Paperless AI is MIT. And I suppose for completeness, pinch flat and carekeep are both a GPL. and ersatz a Z-lib. Unraid.net slash unplugged. Go unleash your hardware. Unraid is a powerful, easy-to-use NAS operating system. For those of you that want control, flexibility, and efficiency in managing your data.

And what I love is that UnRade allows you to mix and match drives of any size so you can get started with the hardware you have right now, from like a pie to a laptop to a full tower. build what you want with no restrictions, use the file system you want, and deploy the applications you want. And one of the takeaway applications, I hope that you have from this show, is Ersatz TV. Love this application so much. Wes loves it. Brent loves it. And yeah, it's a one-click install on Ununray, right? It's just one-click, and now you're deploying it. They have so many

community apps because they've built a fabulous foundation for the community to deploy applications on top of because they're using modern Linux technology. That's one of the things I love about UnRade 20 years in. They're still keeping it fresh. They're still deploying updates and they give you a path so your data is safe. In fact, go check out UnRade just so you can appreciate the architecture. You'll have confidence that OS updates and things like that will never mess with your data. It's a really smart design. You can also migrate. If you got a ZFS pool from another system, bring it to UnRate. It'll migrate a Proxbox, Ubuntu, Freenazers a bunch. they'll bring it over for you.

It's such a cool feature. And they have some of the most straightforward VM passer stuff ever. I mean, Unraid's famous for this, but they just keep building on top of this. Virtual GPU support. Built in wireless now for your host, so then you can just out of the box get connected to wireless. And fresh kernels with every major Unraid update.

You've got to love it. You really do. And if you go to Unraid.net slash unplugged, you can love it and you can support the show. show. You'll love it while you support the show. Get a 30-day free trial. You can test it out, no credit card required. Check out unraid.net slash unplugged. Go see what you can build. And then once you build it, let me know. I'd love to feature a couple of those. So if you build something with Unraid, you get set it up, shoot me a note. I'd like to feature that. Get started at

unrayed.net slash unplugged. Well, this week, we'd like to do some shoutouts to some new members. on the team. S. Diggily, welcome as a core contributor, and R.T. Vance, a Jupiter Party member. Thank you. Welcome aboard, new members. Hope you enjoy the bootleg, clocking it at an hour 22 right now for you. We also have an email here from Barrel Rider. I'm hoping that's, I don't know, through Niagara Falls or something. Barrow Ryder writes, I went back and read through the LKML myself to see what actually happened. with BcashFS. Kent's so-called toxic behavior

wasn't why BcashFS was denied. The real criticism came from how he responded after that rejection. Linus's decision itself wasn't the main issue. Kent used the moment to vent his frustrations at kernel developers. I'd love to see BcashFS land in mainline, but ideally because the technical case

proves Linus wrong, not because the community feels pressured to be nicer. Maybe I'm a misunderstanding. you, Chris, but it sounded like you were casting Kent as the martyr of the users for pushing a modern file system. That doesn't match the reality and felt biased, something I didn't expect on Linux Unplugged. That's just my perspective. Thanks for the show. Barrel Rider. Barrel rider. First of all, shout out to Barrel Rider for going and doing the research and reading the source material, right? Oh yeah, always. That is really good to see. I think I wouldn't characterize

it as Kent is a martyr, I think I would characterize it as Kent got banned for saying things that other people have said, right? Like, yes, he criticized Butter F.S. But was he technically wrong? No. And as we've said here on the show,

ButterFS has gone through a pretty bad overall brand narrative. And I think Kent's acutely aware of that. And my position has always been, when did we close the door on getting to be the jerk, right? Because just two weeks before this thing hole went down, Linus told somebody his code made the world a worse place and that, you know, he should get bent.

Now, it's fine, but, like, I just, I feel like we are different rules for different people, and it's simply just maybe because Kent doesn't have the social status that some other people do so they get away with it. But it's a social issue and not a technical one. But I agree with your take that I hope inevitably Linus comes around just because B-Cash-F-S is a great product, and there will be more and more users adopting it. And so Linus will come around just simply because it's a practical thing to do, and at the

end of the day, Linus is a practical person. And Kent definitely said a lot of things that were not productive in there, but I think part of the thing he was trying to get at around how do we support a file system and how do we not have what happened to Butterfass, whether you believe the accusations against the file system or not happen again, which is, I believe, an important discussion. I think it is a good point, and I think it's the point that, yes. And I've said, I don't think, I think Kent has to own his communication style in this. Like I mentioned before, there were several off-ramps that Kent could have possibly taken and chose not to take, instead accelerated for a while.

I bet he's learned from this process, too. You know, this is a pretty big thing, and I bet he's learned from the entire thing. And now it is time for the boost. Yes, it is. Block 7 is our baller booster this week coming in with 88,88 big old sats. Hey, Rich Lobster! You're the best. Oh, wow.

Nothing's going to ever keep you down. You're the best. Block 7 writes, thanks for the discussion, lads. Get yourself down to the festy. Howdy from Middle Earth. Perfect boots. Thank you, Block 7. We will.

I didn't even know there were lightning nodes and Middle Earth. That's good to hear. No, it's good. That is good. I wonder how they do that. Appreciate that baller boost, and we will be putting that towards our trip to Texas Linux Fest. You know it. You know it. We do need some good Texas Linux Fest boo songs, or sounds.

I admit that. Give me a holler when this goes south. Don't worry. Congru, Paradox boosts in 76,543 sats. Oh! I like you. You're a hot ticket. That's a great one, too.

Thank you, Congaroo. I hoard that with your kind covet. Boosting in from my train ride to NixConn EU in Switzerland. I find it fitting that this boost will help you get to Texas Linux Fest. Aw. Thank you, Congru. And have a great Nixconor. I hope you did to everyone doing that, too.

Yeah, I hope that was fun. I love to know how it went. I'm a bit jealous over here. Boosting from the train. That's great. Well, Bobby Penn boosted in 50,000 sats from Fountain. This is the way. Thank you, Bobby.

Well, Bobby says, Viva, Las Texas. Viva, Las Texas. Woo! Viva, Viva, Viva, Viva, Vla, Las Texas. Nice. I like it. Make it so. Yeah.

Oh, boy. Just 15 days, Brent. It's basically two weeks. I think it's 12 days. is now. Oh, you might be right. It has been a long episode. I'm sweating already. Producer Jeff comes in with 44,44 Sats.

Affleck! This old duck still got it. PJ writes one day, I'll make it to Texas for some barbecue, but not this year. Here's some sats to help with the trip. Thank you, PJ. B-O-O-S-T. Fun will now commence. And we're putting that towards the trip. What do you think, like, if we just show up at his door,

would he just jump in? You think that's a thing we can do to him? He is BJ, after all. He might offer breakfast burritos, although... And a solar bill. To be honest with you, I don't think we'll be going that route. Maybe on the way back. But not on the way down.

We're going to be in the GTI, dude. I'm taking, like, an awesome route. Oh, now I'm missing out here. What the heck? All these years I've done that trip, I've never been able to take the fun route. What is the fun route? Corners, mountains, hills. The Twisties.

Cute towns. Fields. Air in your face. October colors. It's going to be gorgeous. Here, all I'm going to have is waffles. Hey, no complaints about waffles. The immunologist boos in with 20,000 sets.

Oh, my God, this drawer is filled with broolopes. Chris's pitch for the reporting on otherwise underreported events resonates with me. Here's some value. Oh, thank you. Also, I use termux. with XFCE via VNC and even the on Linux-based Ubuntu install script on my Fairphone 5.

Android 15 just released, so no official Linux virtual machine for me yet. Works in principle and is cool, but I am dreaming of a world where Linux phones are a truly supported alternative. Oh, you and me both. Boy, right now we can't even get Android 16 everywhere.

It would just be nice if Linux came around and just made this type of rollout a thing in the past. Just whatever you want. and dream. Thank you for the boost. Appreciate it. Closed network comes in with 20,000 sats. Boy, they are doing a lot with mayo these days. I got answers and I want some questions. Here's some gas money or maybe some lunch for the trip.

Thanks. Thank you, closed. Appreciate that. Jordan Bravo comes in with a row of ducks. Oh, in a response to the Android lockdown discussion. Yeah. This feels pretty bleak for mobile OS freedom. Google is gradually boiling the frog. and they'll continue locking down Android

until it's just as closed off as iOS. Graveen is currently a lifeboat, but I suspect Google's next move will be to prevent any forks from being developed in practice. It's too bad we don't have a competitive Linux mobile option. I'm getting a theme today. Yeah, really. But well said, Mr. Bravo.

We've been feeling that same way. Well, Batvein, one, two, three, boosts in a row of ducks. Hey! Very long-time nobles. boost. I've been going down the digital minimalist roads. I've been using an iPod mini for music and podcasts and haven't put through into a good way to boost until now. So by the way, my iPod is modded with a 256 gigs of storage and a new battery from Elite Obsolete. Also, it's running

rock box. Oh, that I love. Wow. It's funny to hear people taking the old iPods and put in solid state storage and that you know rock box still can get loaded on these things they're truly timeless at that point thanks you badvin it's great to hear that appreciate that boost too good to hear from you augston comes in with 10,000 sets

it's over 9,000 hey yeah from Sweden first time booster here I just got AlbiHub up and running very nice I started myself host a journey with the perfect media server dot com Had to get my head around Snap Raiden Butterfess,

learned about J.B, and I love the show now. Keep it up. Great content. Thank you, Augustine. And thank you for that boost, and hello to Sweden. Nice to hear from you. Moon and I boost in with 10,101.1, sats. What? I'll be dipped.

That looks like a binary boost to me. It does, doesn't it? Hmm. You know, it could be. Could be. Let me think about that. Yeah, it might be. Thanks for the Kvicicso recommendation.

Finally, a launcher that pulls the keyboard up immediately, rather than forcing you to shift your hand up to touch the search bar. It's bonkers. Then shifting back down so you can type. Thank you for understanding my pain. Android phones are frigging massive. Yes. And each time I have to adjust my grip, it's another chance to drop the phone. Yes.

Apple has had this search flow figured out since like the fourth or fifth iPhone. So it's a little wild to me that this isn't the default behavior on AOSP. Is Google Android and Samsung Android also this backwards? I have connected deeply with this boost, Moona Night. Thank you. And I will say, Kavisto, wherever you want to pronounce it. That's the Android launcher I mentioned last week. Loving it, still using it.

And I forget sometimes that I've switched. And when I unlock my phone and I see it, I'm like, oh, I got this good feeling. Like, oh, right, I made a good decision. So definitely a double recommend. You can find that in the show notes at Linuxunplug.com slash 6.3. Zero. Thank you for the boost. Sat Stacker 7 boosts in 5,000 sats. I like you. You're a hot ticket.

I'm just trying out that boost feature from the podcast index.org. Did this work? Nope. Did not work. In the way, sorry. Isn't that cool? As long as you got Albi Hub and the Albi extension, you can just boost from the fricking web page over at podcast index.

Once you search up the pod, cast. I've been listening to somebody that keeps saying the POD word and it's getting in my head, and it's driving me crazy. It's driving me crazy. You'll just start calling them casts. I'm going to wear a rubber band, and every time I say it, I've got to slap myself with that. Will that help?

I don't know. Either way, appreciate it, Sat Stacker. Nice to hear from you. Brewer Seth came in with 7,977 SATs. Well, that's here are good, buddy. He's a good guy. He's a real good guy. You're a great guy.

Thanks for inspiration and motivations to start my own Albie Hub. As promised, here's the very first boost from my own. No. Congrats. That's a moose. Yes. Self-hosted on ProxMox. Maybe someday I'll try it with Nix.

I have been loving the show and the community. Thanks for listening. Thanks for leaning into podcasting 2.0 principles. Looking forward to listening and more. Thank you, Brewer, Seth. Love the report. The community is great. And I don't think we mention the fact that we have a Matrix server

and a telegram group enough because the people in those areas are pretty great. And we have lots of rooms in the Matrix chats for various interests and whatnot, too. So take BrewerSess advice, install AlbiHub, self-host, and hang out in the community. Thank you, Brewer Seth.

Appreciate that. Coming in from Podverse with his own Albi Hub. Frick, that's so cool. Le Clement comes in with 15,000 sats. This is a tasty burger. How about that? Heck.

I discovered how to boost from my Albi Hub, but I actually prefer the fountain app over Castamatic. Although this is a boost from Castamatic. Castamatic is unresponsive when refreshing the feeds, making it unusable. Fountain has done a great job, but as far as I know, I cannot connect my wallet with Fountain. Fountain provides its own wallet. So what you would do is just use Lightning to send from your Albi Hub over to your Fountain Wallet.

Lightning Network is so cheap and easy, it's pretty much the way you do it. And then what you might do is, right, you stack your stats on the Albi Hub or wherever you're stacking them, and then just top off your Fountain Wallet from time to time. Castamatic is probably throttling the amount of refreshes just because it has to pull down the XML file for every show. That's a big ask. And so it may limit that a bit, whereas Fountain is doing an API check with the podcast index

a lot more lightweight. Fountain 1.3 came out recently, and it is a major rework of different aspects of the app. And they are on fire right now. They've improved the U.I. They've improved the performance, the playback, the interface around all the controls, the boosting experience

if you haven't tried out Fountain for a while it's gotten really, really good so I can totally understand It sounds like at least a few components got some rewrites too Yeah yeah you know Wes knows because he heard my secret chat with the Fountain Founder

So yeah he knows So it's got a lot of work Castamatic is a fantastic app too It really is but it's just so damn impressed With what Fountain's doing Speaking of Fountain Retro Gear boosted in 5,000 sats using Fountain

All systems are functional I've been using Frigot for a couple of years. Blake has done an amazing job. Started out with a USB coral, but switched to using an Intel Arc A380 for all the detection about a year ago. An arc, that's cool. This card is shared with my jellyfin box. You might find the I-GPU in the B-Link works two, perhaps.

All works a treat for me, and far better than that coral. I've been using some old Hick-Fision POE cameras. and TAPO-T-LINK Wi-Fi cameras. A pan and tilt one, and they're flawless, so cheers, lads. Cool. This is a high signal boost to your retro gear. There's a lot in here. I have been getting the sense from feedback

that a lot of people are just abandoning the coral route altogether and just either going quicksync or, I guess, in your case, an Intel Arc, which I find fascinating. I love the idea that a B-Link could do the job. They pull a little more power than I would like, and tapu or tapo a lot of people love that some good information i'm in the back of my mind i'm building out my new system so probably you know inevitably i'll pull the trigger maybe after some great black friday sale or something like that hey jean beans back a row of ducks 2,22 sets

yeah cavisto launcher is really nice as an ios user who dabbles with lineageOS it feels way more natural and much less annoying google are you hearing You want to bring more internet phone users over? Just asking, when you pull up the search, have the keyboard automatically in the search field and ready to go. That's all we're asking for. You don't have to change how you do it. Just make that small adjustment.

No, to do that, I think they will have to embed some advertisements onto that page, technically, just to make it work. Yeah, what they'll do is, what they'll do is it'll update it, and you'll pull up the launcher, and it'll be active in the search field, but it'll be a Gemini search. It won't be app searches. It'll be Gemini search. At the bottom of that is like the app results

After the news Play Store results Thank you Gene Always good to hear from you Kola Rafa comes in with Row of Ducks Just some small boost to help with the fuel cost And by the way

Podcast Guru and Albi is the way to go Yes podcast guru does not get enough love On the show And that's a brilliant thing right Is it's all open source It's open protocols So you set up Albi Hub You can point a podcast guru at it.

You can point Castamatic at it. You could point Podverse at it. Or just the podcast index. Or the podcast index. There's a lot of tools. So cool. Nice job. Is it chlorophypha, you think?

Is that how you say chlorophyth? Polarafa? Thank you, Chlorophah. Appreciate that. Well, auto brain boosts in 10,000 sets. This was a live boost, too. Here is a boost for Texas Linux Fest. Thank you very much.

Smoke if you got them. Appreciate that, Otter Brain. Good to hear from you. The dude abides is strolling in with 15,051 sats. I don't understand what the heck is going on here. Chuckie cheese guy with stick. Thank you, the dude. He says, quick anecdote.

After using pie hole on my Raspberry Pi 2 for over five years with the same SD card, mind you, I have switched to TechTidium. Okay, how do you say, that's? Technidium. Ah, technidium. There's a little Lenn in there. And I'm not going back, he says. Okay, see, this is where I feel like I'm going to be at here soon.

The switch happened. This should have been on our list of MVP's. The switch happened when I boasted about my pie-hole setup to a colleague. That's been robust for the last five years. After the video called, the internet connection drops. Gorsif. I naturally suspected DNS issues. I plug in my Jet KVM.

I got to get one of the. those to the Raspberry Pi 2 and sure enough I have a kernel panic possibly due to a corrupt SD card the timing. He must have been you messing around on it, generated just enough I-O to finally kill it. That's hilarious. I quickly deployed tech

Nittium. Nidium on LXC and I've been using it ever since. I'll probably move to its own hardware sometime in the future. Just wish I had a better mobile UI and well it wasn't just a single page app which can be frustrating at times. Yeah, I haven't tried it on mobile. I really got to get this going

I am on probably a five-year-old Raspberry Pi 3 or something from my pie hole it might be a 4 if it is it was when the 4 no no no no way and it's also using the SD card and it was like one of my very first Raspberry Pi projects ever and I just left it because it's worked

yeah I've had it go in now for since whenever we talked about it on the show and it's been great I kind of forgot it was there I had to log in the first time probably a month the other day just like is this still humming away. I think it's a good sign. Yep. That's a good sign.

That's good to hear. Yeah, I think that's going to be probably a migration that happens either this year, if I do it before the server dies or early next year when the server actually dies. I'm not sure which one it'll be. You did say that last year. Did I? You predicted the server would die, but look at it go. See, what we've got to do is get it.

Someone's got to turn it into a prediction, so he's forced to either do it or not do it. Put some stats on it, I don't know. All right. Thank you, everybody who boosts in the show. We got some boosts below the 2000 set cutoff line, too, but we always do the 2000 set cutoff for timing, but we do appreciate everybody who boost in and we save it in our show doc for posterity, and we do read them all. We had 32 of you stream sats as you listen, and collectively, USAT streamers stacked 48,354 sats for episode 631. When you combine that, and this is great showing for our Texas Linux trip, like I said, we're building some momentum here. We stacked 436,487 sats. Now you can get Fountain FM and send a boost to the show real easy.

You can go the self-hosted route with AlbiHubb or take advantage of the fake boost link in the show notes. and send us a fake boost, which we'll try to figure out how to incorporate somehow, but we'll make sure all the tagging and accounting happens there. And, of course, the base production always made possible by our members. We're here every single Sunday because we have our core contributors and our Jupiter Party members. Thank you, everybody who contributes some value back to the show and helping us cross that 12-year mark. And we're just so heads down on making sure that we produce the best content every single week for you

that things like a 12-year anniversary, we kind of don't even pay attention because we're always looking ahead trying to build you the next best show possible. Thank you everybody who supports this crazy, crazy show. Now, before we get out of here, I got a pick that came in this morning, crazy timing, really appreciate it,

sent in by Homeboy, and it's called RustNet. And I don't know if you can tell by the name. Maybe you can suss this out. Written in Rust. It's a high, performance cross-platform network monitoring tool. RustNet provides real-time visibility in the network connections with enhanced state display, an intelligent connection lifecycle management, deep packet inspection and capabilities,

and a responsive to-y! It's got a to-y. So you can get real-time monitoring of TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP, that type of stuff. You can do deep protocol inspection for HTTP, even TLS, DNS packets. You can do process sampling to see which process owns a different network connection. And, I mean, the interface, it's definitely worth a second mention. It's a nice little to-y for it. What do you think, Wes Payne?

Do you like it? Yeah, I want to give this a try. I like the interface. I mean, it's pretty minimal, but it's clean. And to be able to, like, scroll through and, you know, highlight and select different flows, that seems great. Great for troubleshooting, too. It is Apache 2.0 licensed. And because it is a pretty simple app,

straightforward to get running. But rumor has it, we may have a second sneaky pick. Yeah, because I forgot to mention this earlier. If you want to follow along with all the stuff we were talking about today, I put together like a little NICS example where you can get all the different services we were using and talking about running real quick. Oh, gosh, that's cool, Wes. All right there.

Paperless is in there, I see. I mean, you have to change a couple of values or put in API keys or disable stuff that you don't want. But, yeah. Pinch flat is in there. It's like a little cheat sheet. Mm-hmm. That's nice.

It's a Westpick. It's a second Westpick. All right, that'll be linked to the show notes. LinuxUMPLugged.com slash 631. As you probably noticed, we are stacking stats to make our trip to Texas possible. It's one of the ways you can directly impact the show. You can send some value in and you can send us down to Texas and we can cover it in a way that no other show can.

or will. And, of course, we do have the fake boost link in the show notes for you, too. You can make it a vibe if you want to join us on a Tuesday, which is a Sunday. We do the show at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern at J.B.L.L.com. See you next week. Same bad time. Same bad station. Yeah, if you want a little more show, don't forget our Lep-Lug is getting together every Sunday morning, really even before the show starts hanging out and they're getting the low-latency opus stream. And, of course, our members get the bootleg version, twice the content of the show. show and links to everything we talked about and more at our website linux unplugged.com.

You can also get our contact page there, the mumble info, the matrix info, and a hot tip for the power users. We got... Ooh, we got transcripts and we got chapters. That's right. Check it. It's pretty awesome in the podcast team, too, to our apps. Thank you so much for joining us on this week's episode of Your Unplugged program. We'll see you next Tuesday. As in Sunday! I'm going to be able to be.

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