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February 06, 2024Magazines 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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27 min
January 23, 2024Fetch 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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TailscaleTailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices.
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30 min
January 09, 2024Unfold 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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30 min
December 26, 2023This 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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27 min
December 12, 2023Snap, 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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29 min
November 28, 2023Bottom 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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30 min
November 14, 2023Blogging 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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30 min
October 31, 2023Mish 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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30 min
October 17, 2023One 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 Android using J2ME Loader and (nearly) RetroDECK
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34 min
October 03, 2023Um, 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 have installed ZeroTier on the Steam Deck.
NixOS
You can set up printing with auto discovering using Martin’s CUPS and Avahi configurations.
Also see the NixOS Wiki about Printing
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22 min

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