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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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...

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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

• 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

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• 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.

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

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• 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 re...