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Selfhosted show on using free and open source technology to DIY everything myself, while still enjoying life.
Inspired by Linux, BSD, Open Source and FOSS. Part of https://james.network and Living Cartoon Company
If you are interested an episode and want to send me thoughts please email: [email protected] The show is subject to change, depending on how it is received. No hard commitments, just frustration and fun.
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S1E3 Repurposing Battlestations from old hardware, local sharing offline and LinuxFest Northwest Trivia
(00:00) Previous episode on local networking and off-line tooling (00:37) Ameridroid Sponsor - Linuxprepper at checkout (01:20) Battlestations, and how they relate to Linux Prepper (02:35) Your input…
S1E3 Teaser - Battlestations old hardware and unfinished projects
Episode coming soon! Dust off your old hardware or pull it back out of the recycling bin. News of the death of your old hardware was greatly exaggerated! Associated show notes and articles will be…
S1E2 Local Tools, Offline Networking and Building Resilience
Why Offline & Local-First Rising Cost of Consumer Technology Cloudflare Outages - interest in local hosting Re-purposing older machines into functional use! (00:11) Offline Tooling, Local…
S1E1 Approaching Docker, Containers, and Compose for curious Self-hosters
This is a bonus Linux Prepper podcast, available as a detailed companion to “A Great Year for Linux”. This is a discussion with HB, stemming from this post on Lemmy learning from admins who avoid…
S1E1 A Great Year for Linux
(00:00) Welcome to Linux Prepper (00:25) Keepass skit KeepassXC is recommended for desktop users. (01:32) Ameridroid Sponsor LINUXPREPPER at checkout (02:43) Lemmy discussions. It looks to be a…
S1 Welcome to Linux Prepper Season 1
Linux Prepper Season 1 begins. Our focus remains on using Open Source tooling, Self-Hosting, and FOSS tooling in daily life. Linux Prepper podcast is created by James as part of Living Cartoon…
Cyberdeck Cyberwhat Selfhosted VPN networks and is Wireguard Hard
(00:00) Complete Shownotes at https://discuss.james.network (00:40) Sponsor Ameridroid referral link - US-based distributor of Odroid, Open Hardware and Home Automation Third Reality M1 Power Plug…
Nextcloud Atomic Interview, immutable Nextcloud for single computers
Complete show notes here. Big thanks to developers Tobias and Marcel for joining the interview. There will be a second part of the interview. Was tempted to write a silly title like Nextcloud…
In Berlin, Contributing to Open Source
For Detailed Shownotes, see here. Transcriptions for this episode will be added within the week. One year of the show as of 9/11! 12 episodes from episode 0 - 11. In binary this would make this…
Happy Birthday Linux
Show notes also available here. (00:00) Welcome. A full length episode was released a few days ago (00:15) Happy Birthday to Linux (01:31) Intro - What is Linux Prepper Podcast (01:58) Single Point…
Software Failure, meet Hardware Failure
(00:00) Intro - Recap of episode. Link to full-er show notes. (02:03) Ameridroid Sponsor use LINUXPREPPER at check out (03:19) SeaGL Conference, hoping to present 11/07 - 08 in Seattle (05:01) Kit…
Self-hosted Tools, Dead Tech, Papercrafting
(00:42) Detailed Show notes, because tons of links this episode (01:38) Air Conditioned Nightmare - Mr. Bungle (02:51) SFTPGo - Simple Folder Sharing (05:49) Sponsor - Ameridroid. Use LINUXPREPPER at…
Makerspaces, Conferences and Decentralized Storage
Timestamps (00:07) Welcome What is included in the episode, and what will be released as part of episode 8 later this month. Revised description of what Linux Prepper is. (04:50) Ameridroid…
Interview with Marcel on Recognize AI
(00:00) Welcome to our first long format interview! Consider this a bonus episode. Please share it with others if you enjoy it! Let me know what you think; your feedback…
Leaving Linux
Timestamps For Detailed Shownotes and Links - Click Here (00:45) Linuxfest Northwest (02:10) Audience Suggestion - Forgejo (06:02) Television Fuzzy Finder (08:38) Uptime Kuma- Monitoring (12:25)…
Audience Feedback on Selfhosting
Timestamps (00:40) Linuxfest Northwest 4/25 - 4/27 (01:30) Forum now available for full show notes and project discussion. Also accessible from Matrix. https://flarum.org/ (02:39) Simple feedback…
Byebye Raspberry Pi
(00:00) Welcome and Feedback (00:24) Re-evaluating Self-Hosting (01:30) Gifting Linux Devices (03:14) Setting Up for Success (05:01) Managing Remote Devices (10:29) Remote Access with WireGuard. …
Where to Begin
Timestamps (00:24) Happy 2025! (00:34) Hungry Bogart interview on Linux Prepper origins and background on Medium. (01:00) Episode Overview (01:45) Audience Feedback What is Matrix and why do we have…
What is Selfhosting
Timestamps (00:24) Hosted Service Definition Account you have access to: web hosting, Dropbox, email, etc. “I would like an account on your service” (01:22) Selfhosted Definition VPS, …
Despecialized
Timestamps (00:10) Several years of Ubuntu Studio desktop releases KDE Plasma is solid the last few years! Xfce, Openbox also great. (06:00) Timeshift snapshot and restore with rsync or…
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Linux Prepper has published 20 episodes since September 2024, covering topics in Technology.
Linux Prepper is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 45m.
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