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Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub26 Nov 202400:26:36

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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Somewhere over the Keybow12 Nov 202400:32:19

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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Welcome Homepage09 Jul 202400:27:31

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Quick, quicker, quickest25 Jun 202400:30:49

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Searching for a New Voice11 Jun 202400:28:51

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Quickemu rising from the Bashes28 May 202400:32:36

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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Desktop of the gods14 May 202400:29:00

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Wake-On-LAN for Preschoolers30 Apr 202400:24:51

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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If I could just interject16 Apr 202400:31:41

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.

Snaps Localsend Hardware Security keys and passwords Virtualization & Containers Gaming Voice assistant topics Comic and ebook reading topics Microserver topics

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Snappy Snap Snapshots02 Apr 202400:24:05

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.

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The joy of Linux torture19 Mar 202400:28:57

In this episode:

  • Mark is migrating services between servers
  • Martin is stress-testing Linux with stress-ng
  • Alan is coding for fun in PHP

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A mini swap adventure05 Mar 202400:29:08

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Punch up in the garden29 Oct 202400:25:31

In this episode:

  • Martin has been keeping his secrets safe with gocryptfs.
    • CLI setup:
      • gocryptfs -init ~/Syncthing/Secrets: Create encrypted storage
      • gocryptfs ~/Syncthing/Secrets ~/Vault: Mount the decrypted secrets under ~/Vault
      • fusermount -u ~/Vault: Unmount the decrypted secrets
    • GUI Tools:
  • Mark wrote, built and released powerline-go-moodle.
  • Alan joined the club and bought an LG Dualup monitor.

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An Exodus of Bitcoin20 Feb 202400:29:27

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Magazines reloaded06 Feb 202400:26:13

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Fetch is going to happen23 Jan 202400:29:38

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Unfold Your Coding Potential09 Jan 202400:29:30

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This is how I roll26 Dec 202300:26:10

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Snap, Crackle and Desktop12 Dec 202300:28:26

In this episode:

  • Alan stumbles upon Ubuntu Core Desktop Preview and gives it a shake on a SteamDeck.
  • Mark further continues his adventures in the Fediverse, by developing AWS Lambdas on his desktop.
  • Martin creates an Open-Source Apple AirDrop-alike for sending files around the aether with LocalSend

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Bottom is the new Top28 Nov 202300:29:06

In this episode:

  • B is for Bottom in Martin’s A-Z of Modern Unix.
  • Alan takes Asahi Linux for a test drive on an M1 Macbook using Ubuntu Asahi.
  • Mark continues his adventures integrating his static blog with the Fediverse.
    • We also mentioned owncast for self-hosting live streams, which also has deep Fediverse integration.

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Blogging to the Fediverse14 Nov 202300:29:37

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Mish Mash Mesh31 Oct 202300:29:34

In this episode:

  • Alan upgrades the network in a rented student house with TP-Link Deco
  • Mark details the gaming journey of a tiny-handed toddler from button mashing to throwing rocks
  • Martin is building a solid-state NAS with NixOS

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One Hundred Percent Colombian17 Oct 202300:33:22

In this episode:

  • Martin is using Distrobox, via Universal Blue, to run OBS Studio Portable built for Ubuntu on NixOS.
    • You might also like Bazzite, an OCI image that serves as an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck.
  • Alan laments the trials and tribulations of updating dozens of Snaps to current standards, including the wonderful Bombsquad
  • Mark does a spot of J2ME retro-gaming on Android using J2ME Loader and (nearly) RetroDECK

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The Reply Guys15 Oct 202400:19:27

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Um, actually03 Oct 202300:21:07

We go over the feedback from the first 12 episodes.

TPM Backups
  • We answer some questions about our backup solutions
Music ZeroTier NixOS

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Steam Deck Emulation Done Right19 Sep 202300:35:19

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Using Two GPUs at Once05 Sep 202300:28:28

In this episode:

  • Mark has been exploring the secrets of the TPM
  • Martin is running Radeon and NVIDIA GPUs in one PC.
  • Alan is getting ongoing data from an EV.

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History All The Way Down22 Aug 202300:29:04

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Big Backup Bonanza08 Aug 202300:29:05

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Picking Apart the Steam Deck25 Jul 202300:32:30

In this episode:

  • Mark is repairing a Steam Deck
  • Alan is taking digital hoarding too far with Tube Archivist
  • Martin is creating a magical LAN using the Internet with ZeroTier

Some pictures of the state inside Mark’s Steam Deck

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Immutable Desktop Linux for Anyone11 Jul 202300:32:25

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Writing A Game For Linux27 Jun 202300:31:37

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Extending GNOME is hard13 Jun 202300:33:16

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Automatic for the people30 May 202300:31:49

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Rock around the underclock01 Oct 202400:26:32

In this episode:

  • Martin has been overclocking and underclocking GPUs with the pretty tools:
  • Alan, who is still not a developer, has been writing more Python to discover new music via the Spotify APIs.
  • Mark created a new Audiobook server using audiobookshelf

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Soaking up the Cider16 May 202300:28:16

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Lawful evil monitor alignment02 May 202300:31:57

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Mastodon on my résumé18 Apr 202300:37:14

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Introducing Linux Matters Podcast11 Apr 202300:00:27

Hello friends!

We’ve got the band back together, and we’re excited to announce the launch of our new podcast, Linux Matters. We’ll be here every two weeks, talking about the impact Linux has on our daily lives. While the podcast is new, our voices might be familiar to you. Linux Matters is brought to you by the minds and voices behind the Ubuntu Podcast.

Join us for some upbeat family-friendly banter, conversation and discussion for Linux enthusiasts and casual observers of all ages. We’ll be covering terminal productivity, desktop apps, self-hosting, Linux hardware and devices, community management, gaming, development and all the Linux Matters that matter.

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A pair of comfortable GPUs17 Sep 202400:32:27

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Lipstick on a font03 Sep 202400:29:07

In this episode:

  • Alan snapped Syft and Grype with classic confinement
  • Martin patched a font from the past to add quality-of-life glyphs and braile characters, to make it marginally better to look at.
  • Mark went in search of a self-hosted streaming music solution, and found SubSonic with mobile clients.

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Themes, Streams and Audio Machines20 Aug 202400:27:04

In this episode:

  • Martin themes his Linux desktop and the Internet using Catppuccin.
  • Alan has been streaming to Twitch, YouTube and Owncast with stream-sprout.
  • Mark plays audio from his Android phone to his Linux desktop speakers.
    • And Martin does the same with an iPad and uses playerctl and bluetoothctl to control the iPad remotely.

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Mark was right, twice06 Aug 202400:31:50

In this episode:

  • Martin is migrating notes to Joplin and heynote, and getting 2 LG DualUp monitors.
  • Alan attempts to contribute package updates to Void and Apline linux.
  • Mark discovers what happens when you plug a phone’s USB port into TV.

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All of a Flutter23 Jul 202400:30:59

In this episode:

  • Alan explains how and why he uses Listmonk to create, host and send out a personal email newsletter.
  • Mark gets guilt-tripped nerd-sniped into updating the Flutter-based Quickgui project.
  • Martin digs into his pile-o-bits to craft a new home-lab server that is quieter, cooler, harder, faster, better, stronger, and mostly empty. Martin mentioned an episode of Ask The Hosts.

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Not a Bar or a Camp21 Jan 202500:26:53

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Streaming your way to freedom07 Jan 202500:30:45

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Working remotely on the Savannah24 Dec 202400:25:51

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A textual rummage with Jason10 Dec 202400:24:52

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Algorithms, Actions, and GitHub Adventures04 Feb 202500:28:48

In this episode:

  • Martin runs GitHub Actions on his development workstations using act.
  • Alan likes to help people and has upped his people-helping skills by making little tools to solve their problems.
    • keyshield - A simple utility to protect your game inputs from GNOME keyboard shortcuts.
    • archive-vbulletin-thread - A Python script to archive threads from vBulletin-based forums.
  • Mark has been flexing his grey matter with challenging mathematical/computer programming problems at Project Euler.

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Syfting Through a LÖVEly Rack04 Mar 202500:23:56

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