641: Something New, Something Old

We dig into the biggest Linux hardware news of the year, then fire up our new-to-us 1L PC server. Sponsored By:

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike (https://strike.me/) • 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM (https://www.fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov) • Download DNClient Desktop from Defined Networking (https://www.defined.net/downloads/) • OLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and Expo (https://olfconference.org/) • Registration - OLF Conference (https://olfconference.org/home/registration/) • Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/valve-reveal-the-new-steam-frame-steam-controller-and-steam-machine-with-steamos/) • Steam Controller (http://steampowered.com/hardware/steamcontroller) — Steam Controller shares DNA with Steam Deck, with all the inputs to play all the games on Steam, wherever Steam is. • Steam Machine (http://steampowered.com/hardware/steammachine) — Made for powerful, versatile PC gaming on a big screen; quiet and small enough to fit under your TV, on your desk, or anywhere else you want to game. (It's a roughly 6-inch (160mm) cube!) • Steam Frame (http://steampowered.com/hardware/steamframe) — Comfortable, wireless, lightweight VR designed to give you a new way to experience your entire Steam library • “The Steam machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home.” (https://x.com/oliver_drk/status/1989739576869687511) • Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam Machine (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/anti-cheat-will-still-be-one-of-the-biggest-problems-for-the-new-steam-machine/) • FEX-Emu/FEX: A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux (https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX) • FEX 2511 Delivers More Performance Improvements For Linux x86 Binaries On ARM64 (https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-2511-Released) • Commits · FEX-Emu/FEX · GitHub (https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX/graphs/commit-activity) • PLF10 Smart Plug – Kaufman Home Automation (https://kaufha.com/plf10/) • Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 (https://www.home-assistant.io/connectzbt1/) • About Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 (https://support.nabucasa.com/hc/en-us/articles/30878291112349-About-Home-Assistant-Connect-ZBT-1) — Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 is the new name for Home Assistant SkyConnect. Despite the new name and look, they have the exact same hardware, capability, and support. • libvirt: The virtualization API (https://libvirt.org/) • libvirt - ArchWiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Libvirt) — Libvirt is a collection of software that provides a convenient way to manage virtual machines and other virtualization functionality, such as storage and network interface management. These software pieces include a long term stable C API, a daemon (libvirtd), and a command line utility (virsh). • Category:Virtualization - NixOS Wiki (https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Category:Virtualization) • Virt-manager - NixOS Wiki (https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Virt-manager) • Libvirt - NixOS Wiki (https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Libvirt) • Pick: easyeffects (https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects) — Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications • EasyEffects 8.0 Released In Porting From GTK4 To Qt / QML / Kirigami (https://www.phoronix.com/news/EasyEffects-8.0) • Easy Effects on Flathub (https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.wwmm.easyeffects) • Marcel Repo Email (https://paste.docs.lol/reader/DisclaimsAppendants)