Linux Matters – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode:

• Alan uses vhs to make a short video
• Mark uses MARP to build a presentation in MarkDown for a lightning talk at OggCamp
• Martin uses pueue to manage all his mainframe jobs

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In this episode:

• Martin has been keeping setting up simple monitoring and observability on a new server with ntfy.sh and gatus
• Alan has been creating animated gifs of terminal sessions with t-rec.
• Mark picked up a Keybow MINI from the swaps table at OggCamp.

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• The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
• The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.

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In this episode:

• Martin uses homepage to create a static highly customizable application dashboard. Martin also mentioned the New Tab Override extension for Firefox.
• Mark has been composing bass parts for an album using Tux Guitar.
• Alan has been visualising source code in 4K with Gource.

You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:

• The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
• The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.

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In this episode:

• Martin announces what’s new in quickemu.
• Mark explains how quickgui came to be.
• Alan starts testing with quicktest.

You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:

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In this episode:

• Alan uses records his voice with Piper Recording Studio using the LJ format for use with Piper Train to create a new generation of the old Mycroft AI apope voice.
• Martin has eschewed Google Search to use Kagi instead.
• Mark has been judging a coding contest where students used Scratch to create games, including the use of backpack.

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In this episode:

• Martin has been working on Quickemu, his project to quickly create and run optimised Linux, Windows and macOS virtual machines.
• Alan has a new job at Anchore, and tells us about their open-source vulnerability, SBOM, license scanners, Grype, Syft, and Grant
• Mark explains how he is using ntfy to send push notifications to his phone when servers do interesting things.

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In this episode:

• Martin has been perfecting the Pantheon desktop environment.
• Alan has been writing Go, and enjoying it.
• Mark has been playing Against the Storm, a town-builder with rogue-like elements.

You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:

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In this episode:

• Alan gives the rationale for turning the Linux Matters Podcast upside down
• Mark explains why he hasn’t migrated Plex to his shiny new server
• Martin flies to the end of the alphabet to talk about Zoxide

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In this episode:

• Alan, Martin and Mark read some highlights from your wonderful feedback. Thank you for all the kinds words you have sent us.

Here are the links to everything we mentioned.

• Bucklespring

• Snapdrop

• Mark’s funky monitor - the LG DualUp
• 8BitDo Micro Gamepad

• https://man.archlinux.org/man/systemd-cryptenroll.1
• https://blog.fraggod.net/2023/01/04/fido2-hardware-passwordsecret-management.html
• https://blog.fraggod.net/2023/01/26/more-fido2-hardware-authkey-uses-on-a-linux-machine-and-their-quirks.html

• Introduction to Virtualization
• systemd-nspawn containers

• A guide to a good docked gaming experience on Steam Deck

• StyleTTS2
• Pied

• Calibre Companion
• Calibre Web
• FBReader
• CDisplayEx
• Komga
• BorrowBox
• Audiobookshelf
• Booksonic

• N100 upgrade

You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:

• The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
• The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.

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In this episode:

• Alan has the most exotic GPU configuration and needs your help now!
• Martin has improved his desktop Linux chat quality of life with Telegram GTK4 Color palette, Fractal and Halloy.
• Mark is migrating data to his new home server in a very snappy way.

You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:

• The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
• The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.

If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.