Linux Matters
Experienced Open Source professionals explore the tech they actually use, covering Linux-related topics such as desktop tweaking, gaming, self-hosting, software development, terminal productivity, and production infrastructure. New episodes are released every fortnight, offering an upbeat and family-friendly discussion for Linux enthusiasts of all ages.
Episodes
Moodling the Fediverse in Europe
In this episode:
Martin is on a break, and will be back next time
Mark attends MoodleMoot DACH 2026 in Zürich, and hacks together support for the Fediverse in Moodle.
Alan buys a Mangmi Air X as a game development test-bed.
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Clearing the Decks
In this episode:
Alan reports back from the Ubuntu Summit,
Alan’s SnapScope lightning talk
Martin’s Jivetalking lightning talk
Canonical introduces Workshop
The full playlist of videos
Martin updates Jivetalking
Mark combats the cordyceps in The Last of Us Part I
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DOSing about with games
In this episode:
Mark creates DOSsier, a system for retro PC gaming.
Martin replaces his editor (again), this time with Fresh
Alan creates a new app for event attendance.
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snap install flatpak
In this episode:
Martin transforms Neovim into an unyielding modeless VSCode-style IDE with CUA keybindings.
Some of this was achieved with novim-mode and snacks.nvim.
Mark has been playing Solasta: Crown of the Magister.
Alan wants you all to install flatpak with a snap. Gather round children, it’s story time.
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Ditching Grammarly for Open Sauce
In this episode:
Alan eschews one gaming fad for a more bespoke, artisanal gaming experience using R4 cards, and ZXDS.
Martin no longer considers Grammarly his friend, new friend is Harper
Mark continues his Kobo journey with ventures in NickelMenu and KOReader.
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Cooking up a framework desktop
In this episode:
Mark throws his cook books in the bin and buys a Kobo Libra Colour.
Alan tidies up Mojinav and puts the source on github.
Martin builds his own Framework desktop.
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Passing the Gourd
In this episode:
Martin goes over why and how he’s stepping down from Ubuntu MATE after 12 years, and the project is seeking new maintainers 🧉
Mark discovers new life, and new civilisations in Star Trek: Voyager - Across the unknown 🖖
Alan outsources busywork to Minnie Love, his OpenClaw personal AI assistant, with help from OpenClaw for dummies, and two gists 🤖
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Pouring out the Sidra
In this episode:
Alan optimistically crafts an alternative to the official Snapcraft store website - snapupdates.popey.com.
Martin swaps Cider for Sidra.
Mark dives deep into the data bucket and comes up richer! This time next year, Rodney.
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VNC? No way!
In this episode:
Mark works out how to run commands at the right point in the boot process, with NetworkManager-dispatcher
Alan has been confining things with Lincubate.
Martin has been VNCing here, there and everywhere with wayvnc and noVNC.
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Tailor Snaps for Big Iron
In this episode:
Martin has created tailor: Ready-to-wear project templates for GitHub repositories 👔
Mark’s ageing Microserver N36L has finally met its end, and the new beginning is off to a rocky start.
Alan has been building snaps on an IBM mainframe thanks to LinuxOne.
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The Smell of Git
In this episode:
Mark explains synesthesia and the experience of how it manifests in a Linux user,
Alan spring cleans his GitHub,
Martin gets busy with lazygit.
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Mark's Meshing About
In this episode:
Alan builds a new website whose link and name is mysteriously unknown at this time.
Martin removes VS Code in favour of Zed Editor.
Mark gets started with Meshtastic supher-highway country lanes.
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Audio Trainers and Wallet Drainers
In this episode:
Martin creates a automated audio engineer.
Jivetalking - Professional podcast audio preprocessing - broadcast-quality results with zero audio engineering knowledge required 🕺
Mark create a very specialised Roku remote using External Control Protocol (ECP)
Alan created SnapScope (source code)to scan Snap for CVEs and accidentally became a security blogger.
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Points of You
In this episode we round up our listener feedback and discuss:
HyperMegaTech! Super Pocket
Kazeta
Recipe-Scribe
FossFLOW
Terminal Velocity - The A to Z of Modern Unix
Toniebox Reverse Engineering
Tonuino
Yarg-lang
Events
SCaLE (Southern California Linux Expo) Pasadena, California, USA: March 5-8, 2026.
Get 40% off your SCaLE ticket with the Linux Matters coupon code: LMAT
OggCamp Manchester,
Lets get Trippy
In this episode:
Mark has been playing Timesplitters Rewind, a remake of the classic Timesplitters.
Alan enters a coding competition and creates the marvellous MojiNav 📍🗺️ (Source)
Martin ups his network diagnostics game with trippy and gping.
trippy: a network diagnostic tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping
gping: ping, but with a graph.
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Give me the Aux
In this episode:
Alan sends Zane Lowe to a retirement home and grabs the Aux on Spotify with Auxolotl.
Martin sharpens his cultlery and hard forks ffmpeg-go as ffmpeg-statigo.
“Real FFmpeg bindings for Go. Not a wrapper. Not a CLI tool. The actual libraries 📚”
Mark carves up his monitors with Tiling Assistant.
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Grummaging Gophers & Gods
In this episode:
Martin has been learning Go and created:
Jivedrop - Drop the mix, ship the show-metadata, cover art, and all 🪩
Jivefire - Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser. Cava-inspired real-time audio frequencies 🔥
Mark, true to form, has been playing Hades II, a fast-paced rogue-like that runs beautifully on the SteamDeck.
Alan revisits Grummage, an interactive terminal f
He's a very nøughty boy
In this episode:
Mark is now buying his audiobooks from Libro.fm, and supporting Coles Books.
Martin has merged Ubuntu and Nix in Nøughty Linux
Nøughty Linux GitHub Project
Alan has been live streaming.
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Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes
In this episode:
Alan dusts off his newsletter.
Martin encrypts his new work Framework laptop without LVM, but with --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --hash=sha256 --iter-time=1000 --key-size=256 --pbkdf-memory=1048576 --sector-size=4096, and without ZFS, but with btrfs and compress=lzo discard=async noatime rw space_cache=v2 ssd.
Mark gets help with his Moodle noodling from MDLCode.
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Panache, for men
In this episode:
Alan slipped down the nix rabbit-hole.
Martin created Glyph Party, for adding panache to your terminal applications.
Mark has lost all his free time to the latest Rimworld DLC, Odyssey.
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Terminal Full of Sparkles
In this episode:
Martin has been using a fancy and colourful alternative to apt called nala.
Mark has been debugging his car charger.
Alan swapped from Plex to Jellyfin.
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macOS Made Me Snap!
In this episode:
Alan has been manifesting Snaps.
Martin has snapped and switched from macOS to Linux with a Framework.
Mark used Immich to find family favourite snaps.
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Ethical Retro Gaming
In this episode:
Mark has been retro gaming with an Evercade.
Martin replaced the official Dropbox client with Maestral.
Alan created an MCP server for Grype.
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Running Linux on an iPad
In this episode:
Martin has been running Linux on an iPad using a-Shell, a-Shell mini, and iSH. He also used copyparty.
Alan went to a hackathon and used Tessl. If you want to try their closed beta, join their discord and tell them popey sent you.
Mark installed GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8a.
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Mirrors, Motors and Makefiles
In this episode:
Alan prepares for the inevitable by mirroring GitHub to Forgejo.
Martin sidesteps complexity with Just.
Mark gives his first thoughts on the VW ID.3.
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Coding in my pants
In this episode:
Martin has a fancy GitHub profile.
Shields.io - Concise, consistent, and legible badges
github-readme-stats - Dynamically generated GitHub stats.
readme-scribe - Automatically generates & updates markdown content, like your README.md
Latest blog posts, podcasts, live streams, YouTube videos from RSS
Latest release, starred repos.
Thank and mention sponsors.
Uses git-auto-co
Frankenstein's Ubuntu Server Framework
In this episode:
Martin uses xdg-override to answer the question, How do you change browser in Slack anyway?
Mark upgrades the SSD in his Framework laptop in the most elaborate way, e-v-e-r!
Alan masters gh to build reports and automate GitHub operations.
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Old Man Yells At GMail
In this episode:
Alan has continued his Nerdy Day Trips journey into cloud-native software development.
Mark fulfills his years-long dream of buying a new Laptop.
Martin has junked GMail for Fastmail.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
In this episode:
Martin has replaced his coreutils, findutils, diffutils and sudo with Rust reimplementations.
Alan has continued working on Nerdy Day Trips.
Mark made a timelapse with Velocity lapse and Youcut. See it on Makertube.
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Nerdy Day Trips
In this episode:
Martin has been brutally reclaiming GitHub runner disk space using Nothing but Nix
This technique can be applied to other purposes. Get the technical details from Martin’s blog: The Nix Space Heist: Reclaiming 130GB in GitHub Actions
Alan has resurrected a very nerdy website.
Go to Nerdy Day Trips² and submit your favourite fascinating places to visit around the world -
Python a-Go-Go
In this episode:
Alan builds a content pipeline with ALL THE MODELS!
Mark switches Bookshelf Buddy
Martin completes his Fedi-migration from Fosstodon to GoToSocial.
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Thoccing Heavy
In this episode:
Mark has been prototyping Bookshelf Buddy devices with Raspberry Pi. See the demo here.
Alan has been using bots, to build bots, that pretend not to be bots.
Martin fell down a rabbit hole filled with keyswitches and keycaps.
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High Precision Solid Metal Balls
In this episode:
Martin switches from traditional mice ️🖱️ to trackball ️🖲️ and gets a bit carried away with customising them 🪩
L-Trac Trackball 🇬🇧
L-Trac Trackball 🇺🇸
Kensingston SlimBlade™ Pro Trackball
input-remapper: An easy to use tool to change the behaviour of your input devices.
Alan refines his contribution workflow to Savannah and brings it bang up to date.
Mark self-hosts an ONLYOFF
Crafting Bookshelf Buddy
In this episode:
Alan gives a talk about Luddites at Monki Gras 2025
Mark continues developing and names “Bookshelf Buddy”, a self-hosted replacement for the Yoto or Tonie audiobook players.
Martin keeps an eye on his resources with Resources
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Great Scott, 1.21 Jiggabits!
In this episode:
Mark has started developing a self-hosted replacement for the Yoto or Tonie audiobook players.
Alan has taken a look at Docs, but didn’t use it.
Martin has upgraded his home networking with Deco and YuanLey devices.
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Moodling Myself Silly
In this episode:
Martin has created smiti18n (pronounced smitten) - A very complete internationalization library for Lua with LÖVE support 🌕💕
Mark has been hard at work Moodling himself silly on the run up to the Moodle 5.0 release
Alan has been wrangling with Django and has worries about contributing large patches to SavannahHQ
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Syfting Through a LÖVEly Rack
In this episode:
Mark built a server rack using parts from LinxcomUK (ebay) and Kenable.
Alan wrote a measure-syft for benchmarking syft performance.
Martin created the LÖVE Game Development & Automated Build System.
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Mark Down in the Console Caves
In this episode:
Alan switches from self hosted markdown to self hosted mark down served from a docker container running CodiMD.
Mark puts on his robe and wizard’s hat, and ventures into the Caves of Qud.
Martin switches his console to KMSCON.
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Algorithms, Actions, and GitHub Adventures
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 fl
Not a Bar or a Camp
In this episode:
Mark has been a STEM Ambassador, talking to school children about his career.
Alan is co-organising BarCamp Surrey, a free event at Godalming College on Saturday 2nd August 2025.
Martin has switched from powerline-go to starship, and shared his starship config.
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Streaming your way to freedom
In this episode:
Alan migrates accounts from the silly bird website to BlueSky for Syft, Grype, and Anchore, and has fun with Starter Packs
Mark migrates his personal Linux ISO hosting from Plex to Jellyfin.
Martin migrates his life to the Fediverse, contributing to Owncast along the way.
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Working remotely on the Savannah
In this episode:
Martin uses LittleLink and LittleLink Extended to create a “link in bio” page.
Deployments to https://wimpysworld.link/ are automated using ssh-deploy.
Mark is using GNOME on Wayland remotely.
Alan’s coding journey expands his horizons to the Savannah.
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A textual rummage with Jason
In this episode:
Alan has written Grummage for inspecting the output of Grype.
Martin is hosting his own personal Fediverse instance with GoToSocial, and has written a backup tool.
Mark is listening to Critical Role with Audiobookshelf.
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Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub
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 Keybow
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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Punch up in the garden
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:
vaults (Linux, GTK4)
SiriKali (cross-platform, Qt)
Mark wrote, built and released powerline-go-moo
The Reply Guys
In this episode:
Alan, Martin, and Mark read your feedback about streaming audio and video, those funny square monitors, funny keyboards and more.
Some links and products mentioned in the show:
funkwhale
Synergy
Elis’ monitors we “forced” them to buy
Indoor cameras
tvheadendinterruptionchecke
homeserver-power-saver
dockcheck
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Rock around the underclock
In this episode:
Martin has been overclocking and underclocking GPUs with the pretty tools:
gpuviewer
GreenWithEnvy
Which needs a Coolbits bit mask of 28 to enable power and fan control.
Linux AMDGPU Configuration Tool or LACT
Requires the amdgpu.ppfeaturemask kernel parameter with this value 0xfffd7fff to enable power and fan control.
Alan, who is still not a developer, has been writing
A pair of comfortable GPUs
In this episode:
Mark brings us a clutch of Subsonic apps for Android:
Tempo
GoSonic
Ultrasonic
Symphonium
Martin names a whole new category of “Top-like” tools for monitoring GPUS:
nvtop
intel_gpu_top
nvitop
amdgpu_top
Alan, who is not a developer, has been writing UncleClive in Python to send Mastodon posts to a Spectrum emulator and back.
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Lipstick on a font
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 Machines
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, twice
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 Flutter
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.
You can
Welcome Homepage
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.
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Quick, quicker, quickest
In this episode:
Martin announces what’s new in quickemu.
Mark explains how quickgui came to be.
Alan starts testing with quicktest.
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Searching for a New Voice
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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Quickemu rising from the Bashes
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.
You can send
Desktop of the gods
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.
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Wake-On-LAN for Preschoolers
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 interject
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
Bucklespring
Localsend
Snapdrop
Hardware
Mark’s funky monitor - the LG DualUp
8BitDo Micro Gamepad
Security keys and passwords
https://man.archlinux.org/man/systemd-cryptenroll.1
https://blo
Snappy Snap Snapshots
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 torture
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 adventure
In this episode:
Alan has been Driving an electric Mini for two years.
Mark is migrating to a new home server.
Martin is using a modern version of swap.
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An Exodus of Bitcoin
In this episode:
bcachefs debuted in Linux 6.7, and Martin has excitedly installed it on everything!
Support bcachefs development via Patreon
Alan helps someone with an Exodus of Bitcoin
Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle
Mark has pulled the trigger on a new “home server”
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Magazines reloaded
In this episode:
Mark is reading magazines with Libby and Calibre plugins.
Alan is building Telegram for Asahi Linux.
Martin is virtualising on an M2 Macbook with Lima
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Fetch is going to happen
In this episode:
Alan is emulating SoundBlaster cards in FreeDOS on bare metal. Vogons
Mark is planning for HP Microserver hardware failure
Martin announces NeoFetch is dead, long live fastfetch, cpufetch, ramfetch, and onefetch,
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Unfold Your Coding Potential
In this episode:
Martin is using the unfold.ai coding assistant to turn the MVP Rust project, ia-get, into a “product”.
Alan has impressions of actually using NextCloud.
Mark is listening to audiobooks on Linux with Cozy and on Android with Voice.
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This is how I roll
In this episode:
Mark is playing Baldur’s Gate 3.
Alan is going LoCo in Ubuntu - You can contribute to the UK LoCo website on GitHub.
Martin is building and running Snaps on NixOS.
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Snap, Crackle and Desktop
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 Top
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 Fediverse
In this episode:
Mark is publishing blog posts to the Fediverse with help from Seb Jambor’s ActivityPub.academy and Paul Kinlan’s blog.
Martin is writing Rust code without knowing Rust.
Alan is Resurrecting a NextCloud Box and using it for something new.
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Mish Mash Mesh
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 Colombian
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 And
Um, actually
We go over the feedback from the first 12 episodes.
TPM
Lots of people recommended YubiKey
TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption is coming to Ubuntu
Tang server for remote key delivery
Unlocking with a USB key
Backups
We answer some questions about our backup solutions
Music
SongShift for iOS can migrate your playlists between services.
Cider 2 is available on Itch.io
ZeroTier
Alan and Martin hav
Steam Deck Emulation Done Right
In this episode:
Alan is consolidating multiple services onto a dedicated server
Mark is contributing to a large open source project
Martin is retro gaming on a refurbished Steam Deck with RetroDECK, ScreenScraper, and ZeroTier
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Using Two GPUs at Once
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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The Linux
History All The Way Down
In this episode:
Martin is creating a magical shell history with Atuin
Alan is using Axiom to visualise a “data takeout” of a Mini EV
Mark is going maximum Google with a previously owned Pixel 6a purchased via Mozillion, then de-googling with Simple Mobile Tools.
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Big Backup Bonanza
In this episode:
Alan is backing up with rsnapshot
Martin suggests BorgBackup is better
Mark is using rclone to keep family photos safe
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Picking Apart the Steam Deck
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
The interior of a Steam Deck showing a PCB with a corroded connector
The back of a Steam Deck’s touchpad showing sticky residue
The touch pad PCB from a Steam
Immutable Desktop Linux for Anyone
In this episode:
Martin makes a NixOS configuration for non-technical family members
Alan takes a Steam Deck on an aeroplane
Mark is publishing a GNOME extension
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The L
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