663: The 99.8% Rescue

We all have data to rescue, you just don't realize it yet. This week we build our own custom live rescue distros, recover real data, and show you how to make your own.

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Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
• 6 ultimate boot CDs (system rescue) for troubleshooting Windows PCs
• SystemRescue — A Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.
• Finnix — Debian-based, CLI-focused with a comprehensive set of repair tools. Recent updates improved modern hardware support, boot speed, zram compression, and SSH remote access.
• Changes/ModernizeLiveMedia - Fedora Project Wiki — Modernize the live media by switching to the "new" live environment setup scripts provided by livesys-scripts and leverage new functionality in dracut to enable support for automatically enabling persistent overlays when flashed to USB sticks.
• Fedora 41: Modernize the live media Overlay Features?
• aegis-boot — A signed UEFI Secure Boot rescue environment that lets operators pick any ISO from a USB stick's data partition and kexec into it — without leaving the chain of trust.
• netboot.xyz — A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.
• Greg's nixos-config
• Self-Hosted 129: Forged Alliance — The battle for code forges is heating up. We chat about HexOS' big promises and get excited about Meshtastic.
• pocket-id — A simple OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.
• What Is Claude Mythos—And Why Anthropic Won’t Let Anyone Use It
• v4call — v4call is a decentralised video, voice and text platform built on the Hive blockchain. Users set their own rates for receiving calls and messages.
• Pick: Metadata Cleaner — View and clean metadata in files
• Metadata Cleaner on FlatHub
• Pick: mat2 — mat2 is a metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats, written in python3
• Pick: Little Snitch for Linux — Every time an application on your computer opens a network connection, it does so quietly, without asking. Little Snitch for Linux makes that activity visible and gives you the option to do something about it.
• littlesnitch-linux-flake — A Nix Flake for Little Snitch for Linux
• Pick: PCAPdroid — No-root network monitor, firewall and PCAP dumper for Android