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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 Jivetalking Mark combats the cordyceps in The Last of Us Part I You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form . If you’d like to hang out with other listene...

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 show@linuxmatters.sh 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: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram...

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. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form . If...

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 . You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form . If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and shar...

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 show@linuxmatters.sh 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: The Linux Matters Chatters...

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 🤖 You can send your feedba...

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. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form . If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with t...

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 . You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form . If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with...

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 . You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form . If you’d like to hang out with other...

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 show@linuxmatters.sh 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: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The Li...

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. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh 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...

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 . You can send your fee...

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 Events 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: A...

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 . trippy : a network diagnostic tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping gping : ping, but with a graph. You can send your feedback v...

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 . You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form...

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 real-time audio frequencies 🔥 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...

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 send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh 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: The...

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...

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 show@linuxmatters.sh 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: The...

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 show@linuxmatters.sh 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: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegra...

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 show@linuxmatters.sh 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: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram...

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 show@linuxmatters.sh 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: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The Lin...

In this episode: Martin has been running Linux on an iPad using a-Shell , a-Shell mini , and iSH . He also used copyparty . Alan went to a hackathon and used Tessl . If you want to try their closed beta, join their discord and tell them popey sent you. Mark installed GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8a . You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh . If you’d like to hang out with other listener...

In this episode: Alan prepares for the inevitable by mirroring GitHub to Forgejo . Martin sidesteps complexity with Just . Mark gives his first thoughts on the VW ID.3. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh . If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The Linux Matters Su...

In this episode: Martin has a fancy GitHub profile . Shields.io - Concise, consistent, and legible badges github-readme-stats - Dynamically generated GitHub stats. readme-scribe - Automatically generates & updates markdown content, like your README.md Latest blog posts, podcasts, live streams, YouTube videos from RSS Latest release, starred repos. Thank and mention sponsors. Uses git-auto-comm...