It's just Shane and Conor this time. Shane's streaming on YouTube, Conor is curious about a new offline chat platform. Shane's old PC parts are going to get steamy. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion Shane's YouTube channel Blender OBS bitchat Meshtastic Installing SteamOS Linus Tech Tips Contact Us We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And on Matrix You can email us on show@ And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real...
Jul 21, 2025•29 min
Amolith, Conor and Mike talk about Amolith's quest for the perfect E Ink phone. Mike's on a Framework 13, by the way. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion Mudita Kompakt Minimal Phone BigMe HiBreak Pro Boox Palma Framework 13 Ryzen 7040 Pictures of Mike's laptop from the front and from the bottom And the obligatory Fastfetch screenshot PaperWM USB expansion card compatibility for the laptop Contact Us We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mas...
Jul 05, 2025•27 min
Amolith, Mike and Shane discuss Mozilla's killing Pocket and some alternatives. The chat then turns to the glory of RSS, followed by the sad news of the end of Linux Format. Asset Forge is introduced as a Blender for those who don't do Blender. Amolith talks about the Mudita Kompakt. Shane hopes to improve his networking setup. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion Pocket killed wallabag Readeck KOReader Feeder on F-Droid Cory Doctorow: You should...
Jun 19, 2025•35 min
Conor and Mike are on their own, discussing Conor's newest acquisitions - Fairphone 5 and Fairbuds XL. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion Fairphone 5 Fairbuds XL CalyxOS iodéOS Droid-ify Aurora Store DAVx⁵ MapLibre Futo keyboard Breezy Weather Curve microG Sunup Fairphone 5 with /e/OS Nextcloud Fairbuds Android app Contact Us We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And on Matrix You can email us on show@ And despite rumours to the co...
Jun 04, 2025•21 min
Amolith, Mike and Shane start out by discussing broligarchs. Shane talks about his new favourite tool to help bring order into his life. The discussion then turns to AI contributions to open source projects. Amolith annouces "friendship ended with wallabag, Readeck is my new best friend". Shane then talks about his game. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me Organize AI co...
May 21, 2025•44 min
Conor, Mike and Shane discuss the price of the new Framework 12, the Thundermail service and Zorin's switch to Brave. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion Framework Laptop 12 Framework Community Market Desktop Thundermail Zorin switches to Brave LibreWolf Falkon Gnome Web Orion Mozilla Corporation pays for the development of Firefox MZLA Technologies Corporation looks after Thunderbird Mozilla Foundation owns the 2 above Donate to Blender Dash to...
May 05, 2025•28 min
The lads start with a PSA about a Pixelfed vulnerability, then they talk about their current hardware setup. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion Pixelfed vulnerability Conor's setup Desktop CachyOS CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 6 cores 12 threads GPU: Radeon RX 5700 RAM: 32GB Storage: 1x 1TB NVMe (OS), 1x 2TB NVMe (Steam), 1x 6TB HDD (storage) Two ThinkPads Minisforum mini PC Audio Audio interface: Rode AI-1 Microphone: Sennheiser e935 Headphones: Audio-Tec...
Apr 17, 2025•23 min
An "ask us anything" episode, inspired by Ask The Hosts . The lads start by discussing the appropriate age for kids to have a connected device, then get serious comparing cupcakes and muffins. This is followed by talking about immutable operating systems, replacement OSs and the weather. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube The Questions @linuxlads what age should do you think a child should have ownership of an internet connected device such as a mobile ph...
Mar 31, 2025•41 min
Conor, Amolith and Mike start by discussing fonts by prettiness and legibility. Then they move onto new Framework offerings, followed by the news of EA open sourcing some Command & Conquer games. They end up by discussing the latest Mozilla shenanigans. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion Gnome introduces new fonts Check out fonts on CodingFont and Programming Fonts LunarVim Nerd Fonts Fantasque Sans Atkinson Hyperlegible Berkeley Mono 0xPro...
Mar 11, 2025•31 min
Amolith, Conor and Shane discuss federated communities as resistance against big tech. They touch on AcitivityPub and the network effect problem. Then they talk about RSS. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion Loops , made by Pixelfed Bluesky Fedilab Free Our Feeds , as discussed on Late Night Linux Spritely Institute ActivityPub W3 Standard Mobilizon Network effect PeerTube Skymoth the Mastodon - Bluesky crossposter You Should Be Using an RSS Rea...
Feb 19, 2025•24 min
Amolith, Conor and Shane talk about their experiences with self hosting. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion Nextcloud on Hetzner Nextcloud Photos Thunderbird Migadu Bitwarden Conor's email service shortlist: StartMail mailbox.org Forward Email Amolith suggested Purelymail NixNet HedgeDoc ejabberd Prosody IM audiobookshelf Incus containers Framasoft YunoHost YunoHost GitHub Pixelfed Pixelfed KickStarter Contact Us We have a store We are on Teleg...
Feb 05, 2025•36 min
All the lads are present and accounted for, and discuss their hopes and dreams for 2025. They also talk about politics 😲 This episode is sponsored by Sandfly Security . Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion Obsidian Vivaldi Orion Browser The Lenovo Legion Go S will run SteamOS SteamOS will be officially available on non-Valve handhelds Steam Controller 2 could happen this year Valve Deckard VR headset Shane's YouTube channel KDE's fundraising Ubu...
Jan 15, 2025•30 min
Conor, Shane and Mike ponder what to spend imaginary money on. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion Conor's Framework config Steam Deck refurbished and new Donate to KDE Gawfolk curved monitor on Amazon Home Assistant Green smart home hub Support Asahi Linux Zynthian Digitakt Donate to Ardour Support Godot Godot Visual Scripting Donate to Blender Contact Us We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And on Matrix You can email us on show@...
Dec 30, 2024•41 min
We discuss our favourite projects of the year, from dev tools to distros via a synth! Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion FastAPI SQLAlchemy Postgresql Postgresql's Financial Sponsors KDE KDE's donations yarr! Wallabag KOReader Thunderbird Bespoke Synth Three.js Bazzite Zed Godot game engine Firefox Vivaldi Contact Us We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And on Matrix You can email us on show@ And despite rumours to the contrary, w...
Dec 16, 2024•37 min
Amolith turns written word into spoken one, Conor tries out server distros and Shane talks about OggCamp. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion epub2tts and epub2tts-edge Piper text to speech system Coqui is shutting down, unfortunately Findroid , Android app for Jellyfin Ubuntu Server Nala frontend to Apt OggCamp The podcast that Shane couldn't recall is TuxJam Late Night Linux The Binary Times Raspberry Pi UK police controversy Makey Makey Conta...
Dec 02, 2024•28 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Shane organizes a new event. Mike makes bots. Amolith switches password managers, and Mike goes on a bit of a rant about Murena. Shane discovers permacomputing and fantasy consoles and Amolith plays with a tiny gamepad. Discussion The Dublin Linux website will have the details of the next DL meetup at the TOG Hackerspace Mike's event bot repository (and a related blog post ) The original article on the Bitwarden licensin...
Nov 18, 2024•22 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Amolith has been playing with Home Assistant, turning web pages into ebooks with EpubPress and developing his own cli password generator. Mike's done nothing, because he can now play games on Asahi Linux, and time has vanished somewhere. Discussion Home Assistant Zigbee Home Assistant VS Code extension Home Assistant Android app Aqara devices work with Home Assistant (as heard on Late Night Linux ) AAA gaming on Asahi Li...
Nov 04, 2024•24 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Conor and Mike talk to Karla, an open-source focused people skills trainer, about the 2024 Open Source Summit Europe. Open Source Summit 2024 with Karla Nieminen The conference schedule The event page now points to the 2025 event Linux Foundation Linus's keynote (Don't worry, it switches to English after a few seconds.) OpenSearch HyperLedger CHAOSS foundation Zephyr real time operating system Open source program offices...
Oct 22, 2024•39 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Gary chats to Shane about OggCamp 2024, then the lads discuss programming languages, Amolith's new Android app and Shane's adventures in game dev. Discussion then turns to the frustrating topic of chat platforms. OggCamp 2024 12 and 13 October 2024 in Manchester, UK Website Gary's site Linux After Dark Discussion Rust 101 Andy's channels Apparently, manual memory management in Go can be done Kotlin Jetpack Compose Clojur...
Oct 01, 2024•50 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion The Zed editor Atom Godot game engine Conor's Minisforum mini PC Proxmox Jellyfin LXC containers openmediavault Jellyfin Docker image Big Buck Bunny CachyOS Contact Us We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And on Matrix You can email us on show@ And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life Support Us Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support u...
Sep 06, 2024•22 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion - Chat with Liam Proven from The Register Liam's Register page Dev Class Blocks & Files The Next Platform SCO Xenix Aaron Swartz Dennis Ritchie Lasermoon Linux-FT Caldera Novell Ximian David Mills obituary Nejsem kaktus, musím pít - I'm not a cactus, I have to drink. 🌵🍺 Mission of Gravity The Tanenbaum - Torvalds debate Plan 9 Peppermint OS MX Linux OSTree NixOS review Flox Hackintosh Ken MacLeod Beyond ...
Aug 27, 2024•54 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion Conor and Shane talk to Artyom Zorin of Zorin OS, 15 years after the distro's first release. Zorin OS Compiz A video of Compiz in it's glory days The paid-for Zorin OS Pro Edition Zorin Grid Public Money? Public Code Munich's LiMux Zorin OS upgrades Contact Us We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And on Matrix You can email us on show@ And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life...
Aug 14, 2024•34 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! Conor mentions an ARM laptop from Schenker that Tuxedo Computers will sell, Shane talks about messing with tiling in Cinnamon, we chat about politics and polarisation in open source, and then Amolith mentions the book club he's starting with our editor Jake. Events Dublin Maker 2024 , 31 Aug - 1 Sep FOSSY 2024 , 1-4 Aug Amolith's talk, Mitigating MITMs in XMPP , was accepted \o/ Discussion Schenker shows off a Linux laptop prototype with Snapdragon X Elite ...
Jul 29, 2024•35 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube The lads chat about Theia, a VS Code-like IDE from the Eclipse Foundation, and its growing ecosystem (including an integrated plugin marketplace!), the Hypnotix IPTV app from Linux Mint, FOSS video games, and game/animation engines. Discussion Theia IDE VS Codium Open VSX Registry Theia Cloud Theia Adopter Story: The new Arduino IDE 2.0 Gitpod GitHub Codespaces Hypnotix SuperTuxKart: On the way towards 1.5… and 2.0! Xono...
Jun 26, 2024•25 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion Conor's watch The Android games console Acer C710 Chromebook ThinkPad X200 Raspberry Pi model post on Wkipedia Home Assistant ROCKPro64 Original Pinebook Pinebook Pro PinePower desktop power supply Pinecil soldering iron PineTime Sony something something XM3 MX Master mouse FRITZ!Box 7530 Game Boy Advance SP DS Lite Entroware Apollo OggCamp 2024 Contact Us We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And...
Jun 04, 2024•30 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Whilst Mike was away, Amolith, Conor and Shane discussed Logseq and note taking, Automatic buying Beeper, Proton buying Standard Notes, chat platforms and social networks. Discussion LogSeq Obsidian Dataview plugin Org Mode Syncthing Joplin LogSeq sync Simplenote Beeper bought by Automattic (via Ars Technica) Beeper Automattic Signal Telegram reddit's old interface Separation between Facebook and Instagram Instagram ment...
May 16, 2024•41 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube With Shane and Mike away, Conor and Amolith talk to Vibhoothi from the VideoLAN project (of VLC fame). Discussion OggCamp 2024 Back door in xz leads to SSH server compromise NIST page The Register article Evan Boehs's blog post Chat with Vibhoothi Google Summer of Code VideoLAN GSoC programme AV1 rav1e AV1 encoder written in Rust Mozilla's 2020 layoffs x264 and x265 MPEG Daala codec VP9 Alliance for Open Media FFmpeg CMa...
May 01, 2024•31 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Mike has been fighting with Windows. Conor is curious about Bluefin. Mike has a plastic notebook and Conor got a new watch. Discussion Boxes Running Windows 10 in Boxes Sleuth Kit Autopsy Project Bluefin Introductory video Homebrew Input Remapper BoxBuddy Ptyxis terminal Rocketbook OnePlus Watch 2 Garmin Instinct 2 Solar Amazfit Contact Us We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And on Matrix You can email us ...
Apr 24, 2024•48 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube News KDE MegaRelease 6 (KDE.org) KDE PLASMA 6 review: was it worth the wait? (The Linux Experiment, YouTube) Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media (TechCrunch) GNOME 46 shipped with experimental support for variable refresh rate (Phoronix) Finds AI avatar generator (HuggingFace.co) Interesting Linux apps (It's FOSS) Contact Us We have a store We are on Telegram...
Apr 07, 2024•37 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion Conor was quoted in the Irish Times about the Dublin Linux install fest NixOS SnowflakeOS Swatch Internet Time Republican calendar Mostodon bot Stardate Julian calendar Biel in Switzerland i3 EndeavourOS Sway Contact Us We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And on Matrix You can email us on show@ And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life Support Us Do you enjoy the Linux Lads p...
Mar 06, 2024•26 min
