Linux OTC

Linux “Off The Cuff”

Episodes

54 – Magic Tuxpad

July 13, 2025 • 56 mins

No Bill this episode, but we have a great time none the less.

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53 – Nonsense Nomenclature

June 10, 2025 • 64 mins

Dev Opps, Majid's Snapdragon, Keyboard wins over Mouse, Cybersecurity, Gnome, Stand-by Time On Linux. Start up time, and Way More!

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52 – Inplexification

May 19, 2025 • 70 mins

DNS, TikTok, Netflix, Plex and other drugs. We get into it in depth!

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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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50 – Expressing The Glands

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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49 – Security, Reliability, Usability; Choose One

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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48 – “Only One Neck To Choke”

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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47 – Compartmentalizing Browsers

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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46 – Just Enough Access To F*** It Up

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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45 – 100 Years of Ear Burning

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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44 – Drag It Back To Linux

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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43 – Theatrical Linux

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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42 – Dirty Old Linux Nerds

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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41 – Thanksgiving Rants

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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40 – ASUS of Theseus

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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39 – AI and Bad Influence

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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38 – Linux For Literally Everything Else

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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37 – Cinnamon and Stealing Hardware

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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36 – Tenacious Turbans

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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35 – Suffer Engineers

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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Linux OTC

Episodes

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52 – Inplexification

51 – And/or

50 – Expressing The Glands

49 – Security, Reliability, Usability; Choose One

48 – “Only One Neck To Choke”

47 – Compartmentalizing Browsers

46 – Just Enough Access To F*** It Up

45 – 100 Years of Ear Burning

44 – Drag It Back To Linux

43 – Theatrical Linux

42 – Dirty Old Linux Nerds

41 – Thanksgiving Rants

40 – ASUS of Theseus

39 – AI and Bad Influence

38 – Linux For Literally Everything Else

37 – Cinnamon and Stealing Hardware

36 – Tenacious Turbans

35 – Suffer Engineers

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54 – Magic Tuxpad

53 – Nonsense Nomenclature