This episode explores self-hosting alternatives to Google Maps location tracking, missed news, and an upcoming TUI challenge. The hosts share details of a self-hosted alternative to Google Maps Location Tracking, highlighting its privacy and control benefits, and discuss their experiences using it, noting its usefulness for tracking trips and marking significant places. Against the backdrop of their recent van rescue trip, they celebrate their safe return and discuss ongoing maintenance projects, including a potential issue with their home assistant machine. More significantly, the hosts address community feedback, including Wes's attendance at a Tailscale meetup and listener insights on Home Assistant integrations and van naming suggestions. As the discussion pivots to technical topics, they cover NixOS's new hardware team, Ubuntu's adoption of sudo rs, and BcacheFS snapshot deletion performance improvements. The episode concludes with picks of the week, including a NixOS module for systemd services and a podcasting 2.0 hosting platform, emphasizing the importance of community support and open-source solutions.
