Linux Matters
- Episodes
- 95
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- Latest episode
- Nov 10, 2026
About the podcast
Experienced Open Source professionals exploring the tech we actually use. If it runs on Linux, we're into it. Whether you're tweaking your desktop, gaming, self-hosting, developing software, improving terminal productivity, or running production infrastructure - we cover the tools and workflows that actually matter. New episode every fortnight. Upbeat and family-friendly for Linux enthusiasts of all ages.
Episodes 95
A pocket full of Pi
In this episode: Alan creates a self-hosted build bot to automate himself out of existence. Martin evangelises for Silo Server. Mark clears out his Pi drawers. You can send your feedback via …
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In this episode:
- Alan creates a self-hosted build bot to automate himself out of existence.
- Martin evangelises for Silo Server.
- Mark clears out his Pi drawers.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
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Flatpak Stats vs. Snap Stats
In this episode: Mark re-purposes a baby-cam as a doorbell-cam with HomeAssistant and NTFY. Alan creates Snap Charts, and Flathub Updates. Martin revisits the Tailor. You can send your feedback via …
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In this episode:
- Mark re-purposes a baby-cam as a doorbell-cam with HomeAssistant and NTFY.
- Alan creates Snap Charts, and Flathub Updates.
- Martin revisits the Tailor.
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Shonky WonKey Donkey
In this episode: Martin makes a programmer for the XFKEY One Key Max called WonKey - One key, to rule them all 1️⃣ Mark switches up his home network with PoE and 5G ⚡ Alan makes a discovery portal to help you …
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In this episode:
- Martin makes a programmer for the XFKEY One Key Max called WonKey - One key, to rule them all 1️⃣
- Mark switches up his home network with PoE and 5G ⚡
- Alan makes a discovery portal to help you find Linux Machines 🐧💻
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Old man hands
In this episode: Alan talks about leaving Developer Relations for a grown-up job at Chainguard. Martin creates a simple (his words) note-taking workflow with zx, fsf, Fuzzel, Syncthing, markless, Manuscript …
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In this episode:
- Alan talks about leaving Developer Relations for a grown-up job at Chainguard.
- Martin creates a simple (his words) note-taking workflow with zx, fsf, Fuzzel, Syncthing, markless, Manuscript, and weave.
- Mark plays some retro games after decorating his office.
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Ooh, you are nøughty
In this episode: Mark has been decorating his home office with hexagons and the help of Krita. Alan has been improving NøughtyLinux. Martin has been adding all the chat clients to herdr Concord - Discord slk …
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In this episode:
- Mark has been decorating his home office with hexagons and the help of Krita.
- Alan has been improving NøughtyLinux.
- Martin has been adding all the chat clients to herdr
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Peering into the Tube
In this episode: Martin uses lan-mouse to use his main workstation to control two laptops, one sitting on a PUTORSEN 2 in 1 Laptop Arm Mount and connected via UGREEN Revodok Pro 14-in-1 USB-C Docking Station …
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In this episode:
- Martin uses lan-mouse to use his main workstation to control two laptops, one sitting on a PUTORSEN 2 in 1 Laptop Arm Mount and connected via UGREEN Revodok Pro 14-in-1 USB-C Docking Station.
- Mark get a nostalgia hit from playing Agent 64: Spies Never Die
- Alan is challenged to create a PeerTube instance after our YouTube channel was deleted.
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Talking to my Computer
In this episode: Alan introduces Canopy, a community insights tool he built. Martin finds talking to people isn’t enough, and now talks to his computer with Voxtype. Mark once again fights the fungi in The Last …
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In this episode:
- Alan introduces Canopy, a community insights tool he built.
- Martin finds talking to people isn’t enough, and now talks to his computer with Voxtype.
- Mark once again fights the fungi in The Last of Us Part II.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
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Herding online exams
In this episode: Mark explores the online exam center at ETH Zurich. Alan replaces a shell script with a node script, to keep track of his snaps Martin finally gets on board with terminal multiplexers, after …
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In this episode:
- Mark explores the online exam center at ETH Zurich.
- Alan replaces a shell script with a node script, to keep track of his snaps
- Martin finally gets on board with terminal multiplexers, after discovering herdr
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Moodling the Fediverse in Europe
In this episode: Martin is on a break, and will be back next time Mark attends MoodleMoot DACH 2026 in Zürich, and hacks together support for the Fediverse in Moodle. Alan buys a Mangmi Air X as a game …
Show notes
In this episode:
- Martin is on a break, and will be back next time
- Mark attends MoodleMoot DACH 2026 in Zürich, and hacks together support for the Fediverse in Moodle.
- Alan buys a Mangmi Air X as a game development test-bed.
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Clearing the Decks
In this episode: Alan reports back from the Ubuntu Summit, Alan’s SnapScope lightning talk Martin’s Jivetalking lightning talk Canonical introduces Workshop The full playlist of videos Martin updates …
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In this episode:
- Alan reports back from the Ubuntu Summit,
- Martin updates Jivetalking
- Mark combats the cordyceps in The Last of Us Part I
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DOSing about with games
In this episode: Mark creates DOSsier, a system for retro PC gaming. Martin replaces his editor (again), this time with Fresh Alan creates a new app for event attendance. You can send your feedback via …
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In this episode:
- Mark creates DOSsier, a system for retro PC gaming.
- Martin replaces his editor (again), this time with Fresh
- Alan creates a new app for event attendance.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
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snap install flatpak
In this episode: Martin transforms Neovim into an unyielding modeless VSCode-style IDE with CUA keybindings. Some of this was achieved with novim-mode and snacks.nvim. Mark has been playing Solasta: Crown of …
Show notes
In this episode:
- Martin transforms Neovim into an unyielding modeless VSCode-style IDE with CUA keybindings.
- Some of this was achieved with novim-mode and snacks.nvim.
- Mark has been playing Solasta: Crown of the Magister.
- Alan wants you all to install flatpak with a snap. Gather round children, it’s story time.
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- Martin transforms Neovim into an unyielding modeless VSCode-style IDE with CUA keybindings.
Ditching Grammarly for Open Sauce
In this episode: Alan eschews one gaming fad for a more bespoke, artisanal gaming experience using R4 cards, and ZXDS. Martin no longer considers Grammarly his friend, new friend is Harper Mark continues his …
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In this episode:
- Alan eschews one gaming fad for a more bespoke, artisanal gaming experience using R4 cards, and ZXDS.
- Martin no longer considers Grammarly his friend, new friend is Harper
- Mark continues his Kobo journey with ventures in NickelMenu and KOReader.
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Cooking up a framework desktop
In this episode: Mark throws his cook books in the bin and buys a Kobo Libra Colour. Alan tidies up Mojinav and puts the source on github. Martin builds his own Framework desktop. You can send your feedback via …
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In this episode:
- Mark throws his cook books in the bin and buys a Kobo Libra Colour.
- Alan tidies up Mojinav and puts the source on github.
- Martin builds his own Framework desktop.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
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Passing the Gourd
In this episode: Martin goes over why and how he’s stepping down from Ubuntu MATE after 12 years, and the project is seeking new maintainers 🧉 Mark discovers new life, and new civilisations in Star Trek …
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In this episode:
- Martin goes over why and how he’s stepping down from Ubuntu MATE after 12 years, and the project is seeking new maintainers 🧉
- Mark discovers new life, and new civilisations in Star Trek: Voyager - Across the unknown 🖖
- Alan outsources busywork to Minnie Love, his OpenClaw personal AI assistant, with help from OpenClaw for dummies, and two gists 🤖
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Pouring out the Sidra
In this episode: Alan optimistically crafts an alternative to the official Snapcraft store website - snapupdates.popey.com. Martin swaps Cider for Sidra. Mark dives deep into the data bucket and comes up …
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In this episode:
- Alan optimistically crafts an alternative to the official Snapcraft store website - snapupdates.popey.com.
- Martin swaps Cider for Sidra.
- Mark dives deep into the data bucket and comes up richer! This time next year, Rodney.
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VNC? No way!
In this episode: Mark works out how to run commands at the right point in the boot process, with NetworkManager-dispatcher Alan has been confining things with Lincubate. Martin has been VNCing here, there and …
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In this episode:
- Mark works out how to run commands at the right point in the boot process, with NetworkManager-dispatcher
- Alan has been confining things with Lincubate.
- Martin has been VNCing here, there and everywhere with wayvnc and noVNC.
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Tailor Snaps for Big Iron
In this episode: Martin has created tailor: Ready-to-wear project templates for GitHub repositories 👔 Mark’s ageing Microserver N36L has finally met its end, and the new beginning is off to a rocky start. Alan …
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In this episode:
- Martin has created tailor: Ready-to-wear project templates for GitHub repositories 👔
- Mark’s ageing Microserver N36L has finally met its end, and the new beginning is off to a rocky start.
- Alan has been building snaps on an IBM mainframe thanks to LinuxOne.
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The Smell of Git
In this episode: Mark explains synesthesia and the experience of how it manifests in a Linux user, Alan spring cleans his GitHub, Martin gets busy with lazygit. You can send your feedback via …
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In this episode:
- Mark explains synesthesia and the experience of how it manifests in a Linux user,
- Alan spring cleans his GitHub,
- Martin gets busy with lazygit.
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Mark's Meshing About
In this episode: Alan builds a new website whose link and name is mysteriously unknown at this time. Martin removes VS Code in favour of Zed Editor. Mark gets started with Meshtastic supher-highway country …
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In this episode:
- Alan builds a new website whose link and name is mysteriously unknown at this time.
- Martin removes VS Code in favour of Zed Editor.
- Mark gets started with Meshtastic supher-highway country lanes.
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Audio Trainers and Wallet Drainers
In this episode: Martin creates a automated audio engineer. Jivetalking - Professional podcast audio preprocessing - broadcast-quality results with zero audio engineering knowledge required 🕺 Mark create a very …
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In this episode:
- Martin creates a automated audio engineer.
- Jivetalking - Professional podcast audio preprocessing - broadcast-quality results with zero audio engineering knowledge required 🕺
- Mark create a very specialised Roku remote using External Control Protocol (ECP)
- Alan created SnapScope (source code)to scan Snap for CVEs and accidentally became a security blogger.
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- Martin creates a automated audio engineer.
Points of You
In this episode we round up our listener feedback and discuss: HyperMegaTech! Super Pocket Kazeta Recipe-Scribe FossFLOW Terminal Velocity - The A to Z of Modern Unix Toniebox Reverse Engineering Tonuino …
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In this episode we round up our listener feedback and discuss:
- HyperMegaTech! Super Pocket
- Kazeta
- Recipe-Scribe
- FossFLOW
- Terminal Velocity - The A to Z of Modern Unix
- Toniebox Reverse Engineering
- Tonuino
- Yarg-lang
- SCaLE (Southern California Linux Expo) Pasadena, California, USA: March 5-8, 2026.
- Get 40% off your SCaLE ticket with the Linux Matters coupon code: LMAT
- OggCamp Manchester, UK: April 25th - 26th, 2026.
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Lets get Trippy
In this episode: Mark has been playing Timesplitters Rewind, a remake of the classic Timesplitters. Alan enters a coding competition and creates the marvellous MojiNav 📍🗺️ (Source) Martin ups his network …
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In this episode:
- Mark has been playing Timesplitters Rewind, a remake of the classic Timesplitters.
- Alan enters a coding competition and creates the marvellous MojiNav 📍🗺️ (Source)
- Martin ups his network diagnostics game with trippy and gping.
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Give me the Aux
In this episode: Alan sends Zane Lowe to a retirement home and grabs the Aux on Spotify with Auxolotl. Martin sharpens his cultlery and hard forks ffmpeg-go as ffmpeg-statigo. “Real FFmpeg bindings for Go. Not …
Show notes
In this episode:
- Alan sends Zane Lowe to a retirement home and grabs the Aux on Spotify with Auxolotl.
- Martin sharpens his cultlery and hard forks ffmpeg-go as ffmpeg-statigo.
- “Real FFmpeg bindings for Go. Not a wrapper. Not a CLI tool. The actual libraries 📚”
- Mark carves up his monitors with Tiling Assistant.
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Grummaging Gophers & Gods
In this episode: Martin has been learning Go and created: Jivedrop - Drop the mix, ship the show-metadata, cover art, and all 🪩 Jivefire - Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser. Cava-inspired …
Show notes
In this episode:
- Martin has been learning Go and created:
- Mark, true to form, has been playing Hades II, a fast-paced rogue-like that runs beautifully on the SteamDeck.
- Alan revisits Grummage, an interactive terminal frontend to Grype, the vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems
- This new release focuses on UI and usability improvements ✨
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He's a very nøughty boy
In this episode: Mark is now buying his audiobooks from Libro.fm, and supporting Coles Books. Martin has merged Ubuntu and Nix in Nøughty Linux Nøughty Linux GitHub Project Alan has been live streaming. You can …
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In this episode:
- Mark is now buying his audiobooks from Libro.fm, and supporting Coles Books.
- Martin has merged Ubuntu and Nix in Nøughty Linux
- Alan has been live streaming.
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Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes
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 …
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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.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
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TailscaleTailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices.
Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.Panache, for men
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. You can …
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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.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
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If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
SponsorsHere's a high-five ✋ to our sponsors – give them a visit and keep our show thriving!
TailscaleTailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices.
Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.Terminal Full of Sparkles
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. You can send your feedback via …
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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.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
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If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
SponsorsHere's a high-five ✋ to our sponsors – give them a visit and keep our show thriving!
TailscaleTailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices.
Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.macOS Made Me Snap!
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. You can send your feedback via …
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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.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:
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If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.
SponsorsHere's a high-five ✋ to our sponsors – give them a visit and keep our show thriving!
TailscaleTailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices.
Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
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