Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion With Shane away, Amolith, Conor and Mike discuss advertising in package managers, a fork of Firefox and a snazzy window manager with a darker side. Ubuntu Pro package manager advertising (from omg! ubuntu!) Messaging in npm Freexian The Debian Administrator's Handbook Ubuntu repos Ubuntu Pro on the welcome screen Floorp fork of Firefox (from It's FOSS) Firefox sync Vivaldi browser Firefox View Hyprland Flamesh...
Feb 18, 2024•24 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion Watt-Wise Game Jam Backlash against Kagi using Brave's API Copilot key ElementaryOS OpenBSD Cwm Ardour Audacity 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 us on Ko-fi Disclaimer May contain mature refe...
Jan 25, 2024•47 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion This is the recording of our Ubuntu Summit 2023 discussion. We talk about interesting talks and the conference experience. Then we chat with the audience in the room. Please note that the audio quality is lower than usual, due to it being a live recording. The Dreamworks talk recording The Asahi Linux talk recording The Portals talk recording The Owncast talk recording The Typst talk recording The MOD Dwarf ta...
Dec 27, 2023•47 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion We talk about the stereotypical Linux user. Is it an unwashed bearded guy with a skin problem? Is it a privacy absolutist? A command line wizard? Just a slob like one of us? We talk about a cool project that Shane found, an example of open source making a difference outside of tech. We circle back to the Linux user, might they be a tinkerer? TimeTagger time tracking solution JetBrains , purveyors of IDEs Commu...
Nov 19, 2023•28 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion All four hosts present and accounted for. Conor's getting a new toy, and Amolith tries the little brick that wishes it could. We then discuss phones and OSs. Conor has a new Android games console As seen on YouTube JELOS, Just Enough Linux OS for handheld gaming devices Amolith tried a Librem 5 , kindly provided to him by Jim Salter It is not slim. Phosh on PureOS , based on Debian Librem 5 flashing docs postm...
Oct 21, 2023•35 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion Amolith and Mike chat about their news-related habits and tools. A few hypotheticals are thrown around. Then the conversation turns to Amolith's new client and the two new programming languages that he's learning. Keeping up with the news Nextcloud News Nextnews for iOS Hacker News Ars Technica Lobsters The Irish Times The Economist yarr RSS reader wallabag self-hosted read-it-later service omg! linux! Euracti...
Sep 23, 2023•36 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion Shane and Amolith talk about Shane's air traffic tracking hobby, mesh networking and learning programming for career change. Shane set up his SDR dongle FlightRadar24 , their data for business subscription plan They have a Raspberry Pi image Shane talked about this in episode 107 TP-Link AV600 powerline adaptors 1 nautical mile is 1.852 of your finest kilometres , or 1.1508 US land miles . Unrelated, but just ...
Sep 07, 2023•34 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find this episode on YouTube Discussion Conor and Mike talk about a new chapter for Asahi Linux, the redesign of everyone's favourite email client and a penguin beating a fruit. Asahi Linux has a new flagship distro and it's Fedora Fedora remixes Fedora special interest groups Asahi alternative distros NixOS Thunderbird got redesigned KMail Linux overtook macOS on the Steam Deck Contact Us We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And on Ma...
Aug 23, 2023•14 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find this episode on YouTube , with a snazzy Blender animation. Discussion Whilst the other two are sunning their behinds somewhere, Amolith and Mike discuss two interesting projects - Amolith's own Willow, and Hare programming language that Mike has recently gotten into. Willow Willow How to get a feed of GitHub releases Gitea and Forgejo have release feeds, but GitLab doesn't Git tags Apparently, other source code management systems exist: Mercuri...
Aug 09, 2023•24 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks! Discussion We talk about running Debian on the devil's fruity hardware, then briefly sidestep into a culture and piracy discussion. Shane shares his plan to bug all air traffic with an SDR dongle and a Raspberry Pi. Conor shows off his new colour ereader. Debian on an M1 MacBook Asahi Linux Debian M1 installation Debian ARM KDE Plasma Gnome Boxes Asahi's feature support page details what works and what doesn't Speakers are a work in progress Firefox as a Sn...
Jul 26, 2023•55 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks! Discussion Our 😤 thoughts on the Reddit debacle, and the options that there are for online communities. WTF even happened? Wikipedia's article about the whole mess Reddit'd like some of that sweet IPO cash 🤑 Reddit's announcement of the API changes Apollo' Christian Selig's post ⚰️ Subreddits went dark , the CEO just couldn't help himself and trolled on 👷♂️ Last year's stats had volunteer mods generate $3.4M worth of free labour Reddit's pivot to crap ↪...
Jul 12, 2023•36 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! Discussion With Conor and Amolith away, Shane and Mike took a break from wagging their chins about Linux, and wagged them about their other nerdy pursuits instead. Amolith was at SELF Conor was at Download Twilight Struggle Rocket League Team Fortress Ticket to Ride Settlers of Catan Monopoly Carcassonne Crisis Cluedo Trivial Pursuit OpenOffice Cities Skylines Anno 1800 Red Alert 3 BioShock Arduino Raspberry Pi Distortion pedal building tutorial Bitwig Ardo...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Discussion We talk about desktops, are they even necessary? Then we discuss Conor's newest hop, to Nobara. Framework now offers Ryzen processors Entroware Kratos Lenovo ThinkPads USB ThinkPad keyboard Dell XPS SlimBook LTT desk pad Nobara is a "modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it". GloriousEggroll and his Proton-GE Flathub now has a lot of things, including Proton VPN Contact Us We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And on Matrix You can email us on...
Jun 12, 2023•37 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks! Discussion We talk to Ciarán about entertaining avians cetaceans prone to disco music publication and cataloguing system based on ActivityPub, creating specs for podcast syncing API, Star Trek, life, the Universe and everything. Funkwhale Funkwhale They Might Be Giants Grooveshark Jamendo Castopod Owncast Find instances using this dashboard The flagship instance Ciarán's own instance Funkwhale's Gitlab repo Open Podcast API Open Podcast API gPodder AntennaP...
May 24, 2023•52 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks! Discussion Amolith's friend in code Chris masterfully expands on the previous episode by subtly correcting everything we got wrong about Gio and adding more information about the technology and the project. Chat with Chris Waldon from the Gio project Gio's Website Gio was created by Elias Naur OpenGL Vulkan Intro to GTK for comparison GoGio , a CLI utility that helps build Gio apps for Android, iOS, tvOS and WebAssembly Gio's Open Collective page sourcehut ...
May 10, 2023•39 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks! Discussion We talk about using Bing and Edge (what has the world come to?). Is it a stoat ? Is it a drill sergeant? No, it's an AI, and possibly a thieving one, but shouldn't we rethink IP anyway? Maybe the bot can cook better than Mike, idk the bar is low. Then we switch to Gio, a UI toolkit for Go, Amolith and Mike talk about their projects. Thirsty? Try making kombucha, you'll only need to know some biochemistry. AI and chatbots Room 101 Mike's Binging i...
Apr 25, 2023•32 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks! Discussion It's the hundredth episode! We reminisce about the first time, 18.04, lightweight environments. There will never be Windows 11. Mozilla's a brand. Then we read some lovely feedback. The first episode Bionic Beaver is on its last legs , but we are still going strong A listicle on lightweight environments System usage comparison of Linux desktop environments Intel On Demand Puppy Linux BunsenLabs There will be no Windows 11 Mozilla are still design...
Apr 12, 2023•34 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks! Discussion Ireland showed England how to play rugby, raising cheerfulness. We discuss a command line that's not your grandma's bash, more like a next generation UI that can be genuinely helpful even to non-techies. Shane, for one, welcomes his doomscrolling robot overlord on Mastodon. Mike's been playing with Go. Write to us for EP 100! Do it. Ireland are well versed in rugby Command Line is the GUI's Future Unity HUD ffmpeg has a large manual rclone QT fro...
Mar 29, 2023•40 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks! Discussion We talked to Gabe Kangas, the creator of Owncast, a free and open source live video and web chat server for use with existing popular broadcasting software. Born out of the sudden silence of the pandemic, it empowers people to stream their events all over the world. We chatted about the purpose and history of the project, what it means being an open source developer, the freedom and control of running your own server, and the tech behind it all. ...
Mar 14, 2023•44 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks! Discussion - Cool Projects Zettlr Joplin Obsidian Syncthing NextDNS uBlock Origin Pi-hole EndeavourOS Question for the audience: How should Shane get the internet through his concrete walls? Ubiquiti TP-Link Omada Prosody real time blocklist module Cheogram XMPP client for Android US school buses Forgejo Gitea Renovate bot Woodpecker CI News Bad news from Mycroft Leon Picroft CMU Flite Mozilla's Common Voice KDE & Gnome are working on Flathub Payments e...
Mar 06, 2023•40 min
SPSS Statistics (proprietary) GNU PSPP (open source alternative) R (open source alternative) Ubuntu Summit 2022 | Open Source Marketing Done Right — Michael Tunnel Announcing Fedora Linux 36 elementary OS 7 Release Announcement Linux Mint Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Ubuntu MATE 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 som...
Feb 14, 2023•32 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks! Discussion - The Future Google Glass MKBHD tries the HTC Vive XR Elite (YouTube) Virtual retinal display (from Wikipedia) Eye tracking (from Wikipedia) Valve index Brain implant Solid state cooling Hacking pacemakers Limitless Lucy Heatmap.me claims to do real time tracking of user interactions with pages Meta's mataverse eye-tracking wants to take this to a next level The recent nuclear fusion news (from The Economist) Contact Us We have a store We are on ...
Jan 30, 2023•42 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks! Discussion - A Look Back at 2022 Amolith GrapheneOS Doom Emacs LSP (Language Server Protocol) Flycheck syntax checker Tailscale Sonarr Radarr Prowlarr Usenet BitTorrent Lidarr Readarr Headscale Amolith was in a rush and forgot to mention his beloved Framework laptop Conor Steam Deck Mentioned at Akademy 2022 (from GamingOnLinux) Frequent updates Fall Guys Heroic Launcher Epic Games Launcher Valve Corporation Steam Controller Steam Machines Intermezzo Antica...
Dec 30, 2022•52 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks! Recorded on 8/11/2022 at the Ubuntu Summit in Prague Headsup about sound quality Despite Jakes's effort, the sound is below our usual standards. Discussion: Content Creation on Linux Where it started Software The steaming pile of Python relies heavily on: Jinja Python-Markdown It also uses rsync to move files to our Hetzner VPS We used to use Grav Ardour The "men from Ardour who just walked in" were Paul Davis and Robin Gareus Audacity Blender Inkscape Pipe...
Dec 06, 2022•53 min
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks! Matrix Clients Conor's been enjoying Cinny Amolith has Cinny and Element instances FluffyChat for mobile Synapse (reference server implementation" target="_blank) Matrix spec XMPP Server implementations Prosody ejabberd Snikket A note about "Jabber" and "XMPP": Jabber is the name for the original base protocol specification from 1999. In 2002, the author contributed the Jabber spec to the IETF under the name XMPP. ( source ) Commercial products using XMPP o...
Nov 29, 2022•44 min
Episode edited by: Jake Bauer https://www.paritybit.ca - thanks! Donate to Ukraine Please donate to the Red Cross to help people stricken by the war in Ukraine. Discussion - The Attention Economy Attention Economy on Wikipedia Brave's Basic Attention Token LTT's in famous sponsor seugues in a YouTube compilation Jay Forman's Tube Map YouTube video with a SurfShark VPN ad towards the end Dynamic ad insertion The Verge's article on the topic Interactive Advertising Bureau's US podcast ad revenue P...
Nov 05, 2022•53 min
Episode edited by: Jake Bauer https://www.paritybit.ca - thanks! Donate to Ukraine Please donate to the Red Cross to help people stricken by the war in Ukraine. Discussion Ubuntu Summit , 7 - 9 November 2022, Prague Amolith's LXD talk has been accepted for the infrastructure track DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS Conor got a Pinebook Pro Runs Manjaro with KDE Plasma How to stream YouTube using MPV Thunderbolt Wikipedia article RockPro64 Nifty Nuggets Mike : Zellij is a terminal workspace GNU S...
Oct 09, 2022•53 min
Discussion Budgeting SaaS product Actual went open source and can be self hosted Adobe is buying Figma , Penpot is an alternative Notion 's alternative is AppFlowy Trello 's alternatives: Focalboard Kanboard Deta.sh is a nice replacement for Heroku Akira UX design tool Komikku , A FOSS manga reader Some alternatives if you don't read strictly manga (from It's FOSS) Conor has tried Mcomix and it seems to be a great lightweight comic reader that supports the features that you would want it to Foli...
Sep 25, 2022•45 min
Discussion Self Hosting Some platform as a service options that have free tiers: Cloudflare workers Deta Mike was wrong 🙄, Deta's Drive is 10GB or more at free-for.dev Heroku's free tier is mostly going away For those who like to mess with servers 🔔, here are some reasonably prices VPS providers: Linode Hetzner DigitalOcean IBM Cloud free tier Element One Conor has been trying Element One , a hosted service for Matrix chat that bridges to WhatsApp , Signal and Telegram Element's Enterprise off...
Sep 05, 2022•40 min
Discussion 🍴 GitLab to delete dormant repositories in free accounts then reversed that decision the next day 🖥 ️ NixOS 22.05 has a graphical installer that Mike and Conor tried Calamares installer Nix package manager Conor enjoyed 🦅 Garuda Linux Mike and Amolith play with Neovide , a ✨ flashy ✨ GUI frontend for Neovim 🍵 Gitea , a self-hosted git forge, is very actively working on ActivityPub federation Contact Us We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And on Matrix You can email ...
Aug 17, 2022•35 min
