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Linux Matters episodes

November 12, 2024Somewhere 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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33 min
October 29, 2024Punch 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-moodle.
Alan joined the club and bought an LG Dualup monitor.
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26 min
October 15, 2024The 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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20 min
October 01, 2024Rock 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 more Python to discover new music via the Spotify APIs.
Mark created a new Audiobook server using audiobookshelf
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27 min
September 17, 2024A 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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33 min
September 03, 2024Lipstick 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.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
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1Password1Password Extended Access Management secures every sign-in for every app on every device.
Support the show and check it out at https://1password.com/linuxmatters
30 min
August 20, 2024Themes, 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.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
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If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
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28 min
August 06, 2024Mark 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.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
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If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
Sponsors
Here's a high-five ✋ to our sponsors – give them a visit and keep our show thriving!
1Password1Password Extended Access Management secures every sign-in for every app on every device.
Support the show and check it out at https://1password.com/linuxmatters
TailscaleTailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices.
Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
32 min
July 23, 2024All 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 send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
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If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
Sponsors
Here's a high-five ✋ to our sponsors – give them a visit and keep our show thriving!
TailscaleTailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices.
Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
31 min
July 09, 2024Welcome 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.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
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If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
Sponsors
Here's a high-five ✋ to our sponsors – give them a visit and keep our show thriving!
1Password1Password Extended Access Management secures every sign-in for every app on every device.
Support the show and check it out at https://1password.com/linuxmatters
TailscaleTailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices.
Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
28 min

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