Linux Matters

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://blog.fraggod.net/2023/01/04/fido2-hardware-passwordsecret-management.html
• https://blog.fraggod.net/2023/01/26/more-fido2-hardware-authkey-uses-on-a-linux-machine-and-their-quirks.html

Virtualization & Containers

• Introduction to Virtualization
• systemd-nspawn containers

Gaming

• A guide to a good docked gaming experience on Steam Deck

Voice assistant topics

• StyleTTS2
• Pied

Comic and ebook reading topics

• Calibre Companion
• Calibre Web
• FBReader
• CDisplayEx
• Komga
• BorrowBox
• Audiobookshelf
• Booksonic

Microserver topics

• N100 upgrade

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:

• The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
• The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.

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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.

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:

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• The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.

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In this episode:

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

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:

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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.

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:

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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”

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:

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• The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.

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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

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:

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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,

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:

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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.

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:

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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.

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:

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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

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:

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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.

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:

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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.

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:

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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

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:

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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

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:

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We go over the feedback from the first 12 episodes.

Website

• All the shows in the Late Night Linux Family

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

You can send 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:

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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

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:

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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.

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:

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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.

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:

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In this episode:

• Alan is backing up with rsnapshot
• Martin suggests BorgBackup is better
• Mark is using rclone to keep family photos safe

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:

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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 Deck showing sitcky residue coating the sensor

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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

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:

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In this episode:

• Alan is extending the range of ADSB receivers and sending data to additional places
• Mark is “hacking” a washing machine
• Martin is entering Linux Game Jam 2023 in a not very Linux-y way with Antsy Alien Attack Pico

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:

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In this episode:

• Mark is writing a GNOME Extension
• Martin edits without nano, switching to Micro
• Alan presents what we learned from AskUbuntu

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:

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In this episode:

• Alan announces RSS is alive and well, and powering Mastodon bots
• Mark finds the best mouse for desktop Linux. Possibly.
• Martin is using the Stream Deck to automate desktop Linux

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:

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In this episode:

• Martin switches to Apple Music on Desktop Linux
• Alan starts Sideloading Homebrew on Steam Deck
• Mark tries to find note-taking nirvana

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:

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Catalyst

In this episode:

• Mark is choosing a D&D alignment based on your monitor layout
• Alan is building an ADB-S receiver to send flight data to FlightRadar24
• Martin is unfathomably playing video games on Linux without a Steam Deck

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:

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Catalyst

In this episode:

• Alan is running Mastodon for a group of friends.
• Martin is looking for the best Linux-loving laptop to rival the Apple Silicon offerings.
• Mark uses the Steam Deck as his primary gaming device.

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:

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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.

Search for “Linux Matters” wherever you get your podcasts and smash the subscribe button!