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Episode 162: Be the FOSS You Want to See
Amolith, Conor, Mike and Shane discuss the things they'd change about FOSS. Conor brings up gatekeeping. Is the gatekeeping reputation of Linux exaggerated? They touch on well known YouTubers' takes…
Episode 161: Guilty Pleasures
Conor, Mike and Shane discuss their favourite proprietary software. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube Discussion Vivaldi browser Since we recorded this,…
OggCamp Special
Live from OggCamp 2026 - Conor and Shane are joined by Dave (BugCast, TuxJam Podcast), Caroline (BugCast), Dan (FLOSS Weekly) and Al (TuxJam Podcast) to discuss the conference. Episode edited by Jake…
Episode 160: Back It Up
Amolith and Shane only this time. Amolith talks about his NAS woes. Shane mentions using Timeshift, then gives an update on his game dev project. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find…
Episode 159: Falling Back
The lads discuss what options there are for them employment-wise if the industry goes to hell. They ponder recessions - past and possible future ones - and what they could do within a functioning…
Episode 158: Learning about Learning
Conor, Mike and Shane discuss how they learn and retain information, from brute forcing your brain to watching helpful videos and reading documentation. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can…
Episode 157: Mikeless Misadventures
Shane's game dev is going well. Conor recommends some interesting videos. Amolith's learning Rust and contributing to a browser extension. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our…
Episode 156: Jelly AI
Mike and Amolith talk about their experience using the self-hosted streaming platform Jellyfin and then talk about the future of LLMs and their place in our society. Episode edited by Jake Bauer -…
Episode 155: Pour Féliciter 2026
Christmas episode, released exactly at the right time. Amolith, Conor, Mike and Shane talked about their plans for the holiday break. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes…
Episode 154: The Steam Room
Conor and Shane start by discussing the new Steam hardware, and guess at the price of the Steam Machine. Then they talk about YunoHost. Conor got a new router. Shane went to a Games Co-Op. They end…
Episode 153: Crushing Ubuntu Summit
Conor went to Ubuntu Summit. Amolith expanded his agentic tooling. Mike messed around with simple authentication. Shane worked with Claude on his project. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You…
Episode 152: Speaking AI-rish with Máirín Duffy of Red Hat
The lads are joined by Máirín Duffy a Red Hat distinguished engineer who works on the Linux user experience. They talk about her work, her Irish language journey, hardware setups, LLMs, progress and…
Episode 151: About Game Dev With Pierre
This week we're joined by friend of the show Pierre who is a professional graphic designer and game developer using open source tools. We talk about the whole gamut of creativity on Linux including…
Episode 150: AMA Special
We have been doing this for 150 episodes, so this time we bummed some questions off the listeners and used them for content. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on…
Episode 149: Routing for Routers
Shane is finally getting fibre. Mike's messing with containers on Coolify and Amolith gets an OpenWrt One router and makes his network setup more pleasing with Tailscale and NextDNS. Continuing in…
Episode 148: The End of 10 Is Nigh
Conor, Mike and Shane talk to Carolina and Joseph from the End of 10 campaign. Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks! You can find our episodes on YouTube AMA For episode 150 we’ll be doing an AMA so…
Episode 147: Whitely Nightly
The lads chat with Félim from Late Night Linux. They discuss Amolith's new headphones and Shane's future internet, then Shane gives update on his game. Mike is happy on immutable Bluefin, and Conor…
Episode 146: Just the Two of Us
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 -…
Episode 145: Depends on How You Frame It
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…
Episode 144: Out of Pocket
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…
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