Linux Matters

In this episode:

• Alan dusts off his newsletter.
• Martin encrypts his new work Framework laptop without LVM, but with --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --hash=sha256 --iter-time=1000 --key-size=256 --pbkdf-memory=1048576 --sector-size=4096, and without ZFS, but with btrfs and compress=lzo discard=async noatime rw space_cache=v2 ssd.
• Mark gets help with his Moodle noodling from MDLCode.

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In this episode:

• Alan slipped down the nix rabbit-hole.
• Martin created Glyph Party, for adding panache to your terminal applications.
• Mark has lost all his free time to the latest Rimworld DLC, Odyssey.

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• The Linux Mat...

In this episode:

• Martin has been using a fancy and colourful alternative to apt called nala.
• Mark has been debugging his car charger.
• Alan swapped from Plex to Jellyfin.

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• The Li...

In this episode:

• Alan has been manifesting Snaps.
• Martin has snapped and switched from macOS to Linux with a Framework.
• Mark used Immich to find family favourite snaps.

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• The Lin...

In this episode:

• Mark has been retro gaming with an Evercade.
• Martin replaced the official Dropbox client with Maestral.
• Alan created an MCP server for Grype.

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In this episode:

• Martin has been running Linux on an iPad using a-Shell, a-Shell mini, and iSH. He also used copyparty.
• Alan went to a hackathon and used Tessl. If you want to try their closed beta, join their discord and tell them popey sent you.
• Mark installed GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8a.

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In this episode:

• Alan prepares for the inevitable by mirroring GitHub to Forgejo.
• Martin sidesteps complexity with Just.
• Mark gives his first thoughts on the VW ID.3.

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In this episode:

• Martin has a fancy GitHub profile.
  • Shields.io - Concise, consistent, and legible badges
  • github-readme-stats - Dynamically generated GitHub stats.
  • readme-scribe - Automatically generates & updates markdown content, like your README.md
    • Latest blog posts, podcasts, live streams, YouTube videos from RSS
    • Latest release, starred repos.
    • Thank and mention sponsors.
    • Uses git-auto-commit-action to automati...

In this episode:

• Martin uses xdg-override to answer the question, How do you change browser in Slack anyway?
• Mark upgrades the SSD in his Framework laptop in the most elaborate way, e-v-e-r!
• Alan masters gh to build reports and automate GitHub operations.

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In this episode:

• Alan has continued his Nerdy Day Trips journey into cloud-native software development.
• Mark fulfills his years-long dream of buying a new Laptop.
• Martin has junked GMail for Fastmail.

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In this episode:

• Martin has replaced his coreutils, findutils, diffutils and sudo with Rust reimplementations.
• Alan has continued working on Nerdy Day Trips.
• Mark made a timelapse with Velocity lapse and Youcut. See it on Makertube.

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In this episode:

• Martin has been brutally reclaiming GitHub runner disk space using Nothing but Nix
  • This technique can be applied to other purposes. Get the technical details from Martin’s blog: The Nix Space Heist: Reclaiming 130GB in GitHub Actions
• Alan has resurrected a very nerdy website.
  • Go to Nerdy Day Trips² and submit your favourite fascinating places to visit around the world - science museums, ...

In this episode:

• Alan builds a content pipeline with ALL THE MODELS!
• Mark switches Bookshelf Buddy
• Martin completes his Fedi-migration from Fosstodon to GoToSocial.

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In this episode:

• Mark has been prototyping Bookshelf Buddy devices with Raspberry Pi. See the demo here.
• Alan has been using bots, to build bots, that pretend not to be bots.
• Martin fell down a rabbit hole filled with keyswitches and keycaps.

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In this episode:

• Martin switches from traditional mice ️🖱️ to trackball ️🖲️ and gets a bit carried away with customising them 🪩
  • L-Trac Trackball 🇬🇧
  • L-Trac Trackball 🇺🇸
  • Kensingston SlimBlade™ Pro Trackball
  • input-remapper: An easy to use tool to change the behaviour of your input devices.
• Alan refines his contribution workflow to Savannah and brings it bang up to date.
• Mark self-hosts an ONLYOFFICE integrated ...

In this episode:

• Alan gives a talk about Luddites at Monki Gras 2025
• Mark continues developing and names “Bookshelf Buddy”, a self-hosted replacement for the Yoto or Tonie audiobook players.
• Martin keeps an eye on his resources with Resources

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In this episode:

• Mark has started developing a self-hosted replacement for the Yoto or Tonie audiobook players.
• Alan has taken a look at Docs, but didn’t use it.
• Martin has upgraded his home networking with Deco and YuanLey devices.

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In this episode:

• Martin has created smiti18n (pronounced smitten) - A very complete internationalization library for Lua with LÖVE support 🌕💕
• Mark has been hard at work Moodling himself silly on the run up to the Moodle 5.0 release
• Alan has been wrangling with Django and has worries about contributing large patches to SavannahHQ

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In this episode:

• Mark built a server rack using parts from LinxcomUK (ebay) and Kenable.
• Alan wrote a measure-syft for benchmarking syft performance.
• Martin created the LÖVE Game Development & Automated Build System.

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