Linux Matters

In this episode: Martin uses xdg-override to answer the question, How do you change browser in Slack anyway? Mark upgrades the SSD in his Framework laptop in the most elaborate way, e-v-e-r! Alan masters gh to build reports and automate GitHub operations. 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 fe...

In this episode: Alan has continued his Nerdy Day Trips journey into cloud-native software development. Mark fulfills his years-long dream of buying a new Laptop . Martin has junked GMail for Fastmail . 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 Li...

In this episode: Martin has replaced his coreutils , findutils , diffutils and sudo with Rust reimplementations. Alan has continued working on Nerdy Day Trips . Mark made a timelapse with Velocity lapse and Youcut . See it on Makertube . 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 co...

In this episode: Martin has been brutally reclaiming GitHub runner disk space using Nothing but Nix This technique can be applied to other purposes. Get the technical details from Martin’s blog: The Nix Space Heist: Reclaiming 130GB in GitHub Actions Alan has resurrected a very nerdy website. Go to Nerdy Day Trips² and submit your favourite fascinating places to visit around the world - scie...

In this episode: Alan builds a content pipeline with ALL THE MODELS! Mark switches Bookshelf Buddy Martin completes his Fedi-migration from Fosstodon to GoToSocial . 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...

In this episode: Mark has been prototyping Bookshelf Buddy devices with Raspberry Pi. See the demo here . Alan has been using bots, to build bots, that pretend not to be bots. Martin fell down a rabbit hole filled with keyswitches and keycaps. 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 switches from traditional mice ️🖱️ to trackball ️🖲️ and gets a bit carried away with customising them 🪩 L-Trac Trackball 🇬🇧 L-Trac Trackball 🇺🇸 Kensingston SlimBlade™ Pro Trackball input-remapper : An easy to use tool to change the behaviour of your input devices. Alan refines his contribution workflow to Savannah and brings it bang up to date. Mark self-hosts an ONLYOFFIC...

In this episode: Alan gives a talk about Luddites at Monki Gras 2025 Mark continues developing and names “Bookshelf Buddy”, a self-hosted replacement for the Yoto or Tonie audiobook players. Martin keeps an eye on his resources with Resources 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 fee...

In this episode: Mark has started developing a self-hosted replacement for the Yoto or Tonie audiobook players. Alan has taken a look at Docs , but didn’t use it. Martin has upgraded his home networking with Deco and YuanLey devices. 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...

In this episode: Martin has created smiti18n ( pronounced smitten ) - A very complete internationalization library for Lua with LÖVE support 🌕💕 Mark has been hard at work Moodling himself silly on the run up to the Moodle 5.0 release Alan has been wrangling with Django and has worries about contributing large patches to SavannahHQ You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contac...

In this episode: Mark built a server rack using parts from LinxcomUK (ebay) and Kenable . Alan wrote a measure-syft for benchmarking syft performance. Martin created the LÖVE Game Development & Automated Build System . 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 ca...

In this episode: Alan switches from self hosted markdown to self hosted mark down served from a docker container running CodiMD . Mark puts on his robe and wizard’s hat, and ventures into the Caves of Qud . Martin switches his console to KMSCON . 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 feedb...

In this episode: Martin runs GitHub Actions on his development workstations using act . Alan likes to help people and has upped his people-helping skills by making little tools to solve their problems . keyshield - A simple utility to protect your game inputs from GNOME keyboard shortcuts. archive-vbulletin-thread - A Python script to archive threads from vBulletin-based forums. Mark has been flex...

In this episode: Mark has been a STEM Ambassador , talking to school children about his career. Alan is co-organising BarCamp Surrey , a free event at Godalming College on Saturday 2nd August 2025. Martin has switched from powerline-go to starship , and shared his starship config . 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: Alan migrates accounts from the silly bird website to BlueSky for Syft , Grype , and Anchore , and has fun with Starter Packs Mark migrates his personal Linux ISO hosting from Plex to Jellyfin . Martin migrates his life to the Fediverse, contributing to Owncast along the way. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form . If you’d like to hang out...

In this episode: Martin uses LittleLink and LittleLink Extended to create a “link in bio” page. Deployments to https://wimpysworld.link/ are automated using ssh-deploy . Mark is using GNOME on Wayland remotely. Alan’s coding journey expands his horizons to the Savannah . You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form . If you’d like to hang out with...

In this episode: Alan has written Grummage for inspecting the output of Grype . Martin is hosting his own personal Fediverse instance with GoToSocial , and has written a backup tool . Mark is listening to Critical Role with Audiobookshelf . 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...

In this episode: Alan uses vhs to make a short video Mark uses MARP to build a presentation in MarkDown for a lightning talk at OggCamp Martin uses pueue to manage all his mainframe jobs 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. Th...

In this episode: Martin has been keeping setting up simple monitoring and observability on a new server with ntfy.sh and gatus Alan has been creating animated gifs of terminal sessions with t-rec . Mark picked up a Keybow MINI from the swaps table at OggCamp . 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 yo...

In this episode: Martin has been keeping his secrets safe with gocryptfs . CLI setup: gocryptfs -init ~/Syncthing/Secrets : Create encrypted storage gocryptfs ~/Syncthing/Secrets ~/Vault : Mount the decrypted secrets under ~/Vault fusermount -u ~/Vault : Unmount the decrypted secrets GUI Tools: vaults (Linux, GTK4) SiriKali (cross-platform, Qt) Mark wrote, built and released powerline-go-moodle ....

In this episode: Alan, Martin, and Mark read your feedback about streaming audio and video, those funny square monitors, funny keyboards and more. Some links and products mentioned in the show: funkwhale Synergy Elis’ monitors we “forced” them to buy Indoor cameras tvheadendinterruptionchecke homeserver-power-saver dockcheck You can send feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the C...

In this episode: Martin has been overclocking and underclocking GPUs with the pretty tools: gpuviewer GreenWithEnvy Which needs a Coolbits bit mask of 28 to enable power and fan control. Linux AMDGPU Configuration Tool or LACT Requires the amdgpu.ppfeaturemask kernel parameter with this value 0xfffd7fff to enable power and fan control. Alan, who is still not a developer, has been writing more Pyth...

In this episode: Mark brings us a clutch of Subsonic apps for Android: Tempo GoSonic Ultrasonic Symphonium Martin names a whole new category of “Top-like” tools for monitoring GPUS: nvtop intel_gpu_top nvitop amdgpu_top Alan, who is not a developer, has been writing UncleClive in Python to send Mastodon posts to a Spectrum emulator and back. You can send feedback via show@linuxmatters....

In this episode: Alan snapped Syft and Grype with classic confinement Martin patched a font from the past to add quality-of-life glyphs and braile characters, to make it marginally better to look at. Mark went in search of a self-hosted streaming music solution, and found SubSonic with mobile clients . You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form . If you’d like to...

In this episode: Martin themes his Linux desktop and the Internet using Catppuccin . Alan has been streaming to Twitch , YouTube and Owncast with stream-sprout . Mark plays audio from his Android phone to his Linux desktop speakers. And Martin does the same with an iPad and uses playerctl and bluetoothctl to control the iPad remotely. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Cont...