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


• OBS


• 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




• Tmus 3.6 - proxmox.com




• Snort 3.10 - github.com




• Dbeaver 25.3 - dbeaver.io




• Proxmox 4.2 Backup Server - proxmox.com




• Fedora Ultramarine 43 - fyralabs.com




• AlmaLinux 10.1 - almalinux.org




• Rocky Linux 10.1 - rockylinux.org




• KaOS 2025.11 - kaosx.us




• NixOS 25.11 - nixos.org




• Armbian 25.11 - blog.armbian.com




• Solus 4.8 - getsol.us




• 4M Linux 50.0 - 4mlinux.com




• AV Linux 25 - linuxmusicians.com




• Pardus 25 - pardus.org




• Linux 6.18 - phoronix.com




• Flux 2 - bfl.ai




• z-Image-Turbo - huggingface.co




• Deepseek 3.2 - deepseek.com




• Linux MCP - siliconangle.com

31:51 Plex Crackdown

• Forcing Plex Pass subscriptions


• Proprietary software controls you


• Are Plex users getting what they deserve?


• Switching to JellyFin


• Scanning of people's media


• Reason for crackdown


• Problem with the approach


• FS PBX


• ArsTechnica.com

41:50 Steam Machine

• First response is it's a "Travel Machine"


• SteamDeck "just works"


• Community experience


• ArsTechnica

44:42 Self Hosted Image Software

• Immich experience


• Ente experience


• Ente vs Immich


• Ente Encryption


• Native App


• Backup


• Where Immich came from


• iOS challenges


• Which is the winner?

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