Linux Matters

Join 3 experienced Open Source professionals as they discuss the impact Linux has in their daily lives. Upbeat family-friendly banter, conversation and discussion for Linux enthusiasts and casual observers of all ages. A new episode every two weeks covering terminal productivity, desktop experience, development, gaming, hosting, hardware, community, cloud-native and all the Linux Matters that matter.
Website : https://linuxmatters.sh/
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Last Episode : February 18, 2025 7:15pm
Last Scanned : 5.1 hours ago


Episodes
Episodes currently hosted on IPFS.

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 wizards hat, and ventures into the Caves of Qud.
Martin switches his console to KMSCON.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If youd like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
Published 02/18

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 flexing his grey matter with challenging mathematical/computer programming problems at Project Euler.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If youd like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
Published 02/04

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 [email protected] or the Contact Form. If youd like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
Published 01/21

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 [email protected] or the Contact Form. If youd like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
Published 01/07

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.
Alans coding journey expands his horizons to the Savannah.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If youd like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
Published 12/24

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 [email protected] or the Contact Form. If youd like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
Published 12/10

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 [email protected]. If youd like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
Published 11/26

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 [email protected] or the Contact Form. If youd like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
Published 11/12

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.
Alan joined the club and bought an LG Dualup monitor.
You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If youd like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
Published 10/29

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 [email protected] or the Contact Form. If youd like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
Published 10/15

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 Python to discover new music via the Spotify APIs.
Mark created a new Audiobook server using audiobookshelf
You can send feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If youd like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
Published 10/01

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 [email protected] or the Contact Form. If youd like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
Published 09/17