Chris needs a solution for his family to watch ripped media while travelling, and Gary has a complex but cool travel network setup.

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It’s the ten year old computer challenge! Can we daily drive a desktop or laptop from 2016? There’s only one way to find out!

Mike’s shitpost

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It’s a forced positivity episode! We all come up with some positive things to say about Linux and open source.

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We got a lot of feedback about choosing a distro for the friends and family we support, but a lot of suggestions didn’t make sense to us. We get into why we pick boring and safe choices instead of interesting and exciting ones.

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Having seen some technologies come to a definite end, Chris wonders if we should be willing to draw a line under open source software sometimes.

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Chris is struggling to decide which distro to install on his new work laptop, and he and Gary want to pick a new distro for the people they support. Plus Joe wonders what moving on from Xfce would look like.

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The most precious machine in our stack of laptops and PCs, excluding anything we actually use regularly. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.

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We revisit the topic of the dire situation with hardware prices, this time with a focus on getting the most out of machines with limited resources.

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We all seem to be moving away from Ubuntu, but there are still quite a few reasons to keep using it.

WG Tunnel

PiVPN

Charlie’s OggCamp talk about infrastructure as code

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How we get back to our home LANs when we are away travelling etc. It mostly involves WireGuard and Tailscale. We also get into blocking ads, mostly with Pi-hole.

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