Linux OTC
Linux “Off The Cuff”
Episodes
May 5, 2025 • 45 mins
As we state early on in the show - This is our official Windows 11 episode! Majid has some technical difficulties which brings up some interesting conversations about the evolution of a Linux user's troubleshooting skills. We get our nerd on talking about Star Wars. All of this and way more!
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April 21, 2025 • 62 mins
We're all over the place on this one. VPN's, ARM hardware and multimedia are the most noteworthy topics. Those and so much more!
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April 7, 2025 • 65 mins
We start off with Bill describing his experience at a recent trade show. Somehow this leads to a discussion on Arch and it's place in the eco-system. We "flow" into a discussion about cloud providers and the state of their encryption. We get into the browser world briefly. All of this and way more!
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March 24, 2025 • 66 mins
We start by waxing philosophical, then we lead to a conversation about AI in the workplace. We get into Manifest V-3. We get into Mozilla, and their recent decisions. We get into browsers and we think the future may influence our decisions moving forward.
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March 10, 2025 • 59 mins
We start off talking about our beginnings in podcasting, this leads to the different ways people build and maintain websites. We then go hard on Mozilla. All of this and so much more
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February 24, 2025 • 53 mins
We start off talking about wearables, more specifically smart watches. We get into a discussion about a re-imagining of the infrastructure of Majid's other show "Atypical Doctor Podcast." All of this stuff and so much more!
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February 10, 2025 • 64 mins
On this episode - Tik Tok, Plex, Coffee, and ear hair. We're all over the place!
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January 13, 2025 • 66 mins
This week we start off waxing philosophical, but eventually we get into a discussion about how long our servers would last should something happen to us nerds of the house. We get into Docker, Synology, HD Homerun, and Apple. All of this, and so much more!
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December 30, 2024 • 87 mins
Just Bill and Majid this week. It all starts a bit rough with a little back and forth between the blokes, but gets better with a conversation about Linux for "normal" people. Is there more than one kind of "normal" user? We get into a conversation about Apple, family movie night, and "planned obsolescence." All of this and way more!
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December 16, 2024 • 66 mins
This week we point out the nature of kindness in the world. We get into a discussion about the challenges of religion and philosophy with regards to keeping up with technology. Perhaps we've given up too much to our devices. Majid works with Elementry OS 8 a little during the recording. Dual-booting becomes the "meat and potatoes" of this episode, where Eric describes the novel idea of creating multiple EFI system partitions. All o...
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December 2, 2024 • 71 mins
This week it all starts with a rather brooding little discussion about religion. We get into why we use Linux, and why many people may use Linux. This rolls into a discussion about smart phones, smart watches and the like. Eric talks about his new Pixel watch. Majid shares a story about playing Badminton. We round it off with a discussion about earbuds, and the price points of many prolific devices.
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November 18, 2024 • 65 mins
This week Majid and Bill talk about their PC builds - the good, bad and just plain wrong. Majid describes devolving from restoring old PC parts to literally building his "Ship of Theseus" from new parts. Installing Arch somehow becomes part of the conversation; everything from installing, to how packages are handled on the distro. We then talk about video editing. Evolution of the spoken language, and learning foreign languages sor...
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November 4, 2024
We start off Talking about Majid trying Fedora. We then get into Microsoft buying nuclear power facilities to provide for the monsterous energy needs of AI. Majid shares some interesting uses of AI in the healthcare industry. We get into the latest in the Internet Archive saga. All of this and way more!
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October 21, 2024
This is the first episode we live streamed. We started with the Internet Archive outage, this leads to a conversation about passwords and the philosophies around changing passwords. We move on to Thunderbird and the new Beta currently in testing for Android, and some of the pitfalls of email on the various email apps. Linux on tablets - Majid planning to purchase one of those new Snapdragon devices - and compelling reasons to use M...
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October 7, 2024 • 54 mins
This week we start off talking about Leo's latest episode of Linux User Space. In episode 5:02, Leo and Dan go over a history of the Cinnamon desktop, and how tightly it's tied to Linux Mint it's self. We then morphed into a conversation about Windows 8, Windows on the command line, and how Gnome 3 seemed to come along about the same time. Desktop design was the hot topic. We then moved on to the APT package manager, and the differ...
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September 23, 2024 • 56 mins
Bill, Leo, Majid, and Joe get together this week to talk about Audacity, Tenacity, Git, Redbox, media servers, and Majid's silly new phone.
You're not going to believe this, but AI does come up in the conversation.
All of this and so, so much more.
And by the way, Leo was kidding - Tenacity definitely does not suck.
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September 9, 2024 • 63 mins
This week Eric, and Majid return, along with Leo and Joe to talk about Linux in schools, LLM's AI, the new XPS, and so much more. It was a blast!
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August 12, 2024 • 62 mins
This week Eric and Bill get into a conversation about proprietary alternatives to opensource software. It starts with us describing how we've both begun using Reaper instead of Audacity for editing the audio for our shows.
Let us know what your think. What, if any proprietary software are you using on Linux. Is it just enough that the developers make their software available on Linux? We'd love to know what you think.
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July 29, 2024 • 64 mins
Eric Leo and Majid talk Discord, Bots, UI and even a little bit of Linux!
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July 1, 2024 • 54 mins
We're joined by Joe from mintCast fame. The discussion starts off about audio editing and just spins out of control from there. Joe and Leo get into a few discussions about some games available on Steam. We talk a little about the Steam Deck. The Texas heat is a topic. That leads to ideas about how to mitigate the heat in the home. AI in the home, ownership of software (or the lack thereof) and so much more!
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