Episodes 84
Avg. Duration 30m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (23)
Since Apr 2023
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Every 2 Weeks
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About This 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.

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Recent Episodes

snap install flatpak

Jun 09, 2026 42m

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…

Ditching Grammarly for Open Sauce

May 26, 2026 33m

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…

Cooking up a framework desktop

May 12, 2026 32m

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…

Passing the Gourd

Apr 28, 2026 38m

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…

Pouring out the Sidra

Apr 14, 2026 33m

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…

VNC? No way!

Mar 31, 2026 34m

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,…

Tailor Snaps for Big Iron

Mar 17, 2026 33m

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…

The Smell of Git

Mar 03, 2026 42m

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…

Mark's Meshing About

Feb 17, 2026 35m

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…

Audio Trainers and Wallet Drainers

Feb 03, 2026 37m

In this episode: Martin creates a automated audio engineer. Jivetalking - Professional podcast audio preprocessing - broadcast-quality results with zero audio engineering knowledge required…

Points of You

Jan 20, 2026 23m

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…

Lets get Trippy

Jan 06, 2026 28m

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…

Give me the Aux

Dec 23, 2025 31m

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…

Grummaging Gophers & Gods

Dec 09, 2025 34m

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.…

He's a very nøughty boy

Nov 25, 2025 32m

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…

Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes

Nov 11, 2025 28m

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…

Panache, for men

Oct 28, 2025 28m

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,…

Terminal Full of Sparkles

Oct 14, 2025 23m

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…

macOS Made Me Snap!

Sep 30, 2025 26m

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…

Ethical Retro Gaming

Sep 16, 2025 28m

In this episode: Mark has been retro gaming with an Evercade. Martin replaced the official Dropbox client with Maestral. Alan created an MCP server for Grype. You can send your feedback via…

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