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Thank you for your coverage of scale and planet nix.

PSA: Avoid HP 840 G9 12th gen Intel for Linux. I couldn't get any sort of low power state to work. Sleep battery drain was >10% per hour on Linux. On Windows it was <1%. I tried NixOS, popOS and Fedora. I put maybe 8 hours of troubleshooting in ~2 months ago but nothing made it better.

Would you try greenboost and report back? https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Source-GreenBoost-NVIDIA

I just used opencode with their free model to unpin then remove a bunch of pinned but unsupported flatpaks. At work I've been using GitHub copilot for a year or so. So far it is just making me slightly more productive. However more important is I will more often try things I'm less familiar with because the cost of trying them is a couple minutes writing a prompt. For example I added dark mode to an internal JavaScript site on a Friday afternoon. It took hours overall, my 1st time using JavaScript, but the 1st prompt gave immediate results and I got hooked.

OpenWRT as access point tip: by default if you connect another router to a LAN port of an openWRT wifi device. The openwrt wifi device will operate as an AP. However, if someone fiddles with it and forgets or doesn't know to use LAN port (vs WAN)... Better to configure as AP for permanent installs.

This ZigBee dongle contains same SoC as HAyellow: https://sonoff.tech/en-us/products/sonoff-zigbee-3-0-usb-do… For migration I would make sure the firmware versions match (firmware can be flashed). I bought this dongle a year ago but only just plugged it into my pi4 HA. I've seen some chatter about bad knockoffs so buy from a reputable source.

The ksmbd CVE-2025-37899 mentioned in the live feed is also an AI story. Sean was benchmarking OpenAI o3 ability to find a vulnerability that they already knew about when it found 37899. Also note the false positive rate is very high, they indicate a signal to noise ratio ~1:50. https://sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve…

For leaky canoe:. My home-manager config for firefox https://github.com/nikolarobottesla/infra-nix-config/blob/m… Sad the show is ending but maybe it will give me more time to... work on my home lab! Take care.

Hi Brent, on my nixos laptop the KDE indexer would sometimes wake the laptop from sleep about a minute after the laptop seemed to sleep. This config turns off the indexer. https://github.com/nikolarobottesla/infra-nix-config/blob/m…

Michael Saylor clip from ep61, IPOs discussed: https://tarikpierce.com/blog/mstr-vs-strk-vs-strf/