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Conor, Mike and Shane talk to Ana and Bonnie from the FSFE.

We had issues with Ana's recording, we apologise and have steps in place to make sure it doesn't happen for future guests.

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FSFE

Chaos Communication Congress

Free Software Song

I Love Free Software Day

Youth Hacking 4 Freedom

Software Freedom Podcast

25 years of FSFE

FSFE Newsletters and Social Media<...

Amolith, Conor, Mike and Shane discuss the things they'd change about FOSS. Conor brings up gatekeeping. Is the gatekeeping reputation of Linux exaggerated? They touch on well known YouTubers' takes on Linux. Amolith dislikes tribalism. Mike would like to see more fun. Shane would like Linux to be recognized as a creative tool. The talk turns to Gaussian splats and chroma keys.

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One of LTT Linux videos

Gardiner Bryant's channel

Level1Techs...

Conor, Mike and Shane discuss their favourite proprietary software.

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Vivaldi browser

Obsidian

Simplenote

Telegram

Discord

Bitwig Studio

PureRef

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Live from OggCamp 2026 - Conor and Shane are joined by Dave (BugCast, TuxJam Podcast), Caroline (BugCast), Dan (FLOSS Weekly) and Al (TuxJam Podcast) to discuss the conference.

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The co-hosts' podcasts

The BugCast

TuxJam Podcast

FLOSS Weekly

Discussion

OggCamp site

LugRadio

Nanny Ogg (The Terry Pratchett link to Ogg)

Most of the...

Amolith and Shane only this time. Amolith talks about his NAS woes. Shane mentions using Timeshift, then gives an update on his game dev project.

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Nextcloud

Restic

BorgBackup

Duplicity

OpenZFS

Healthchecks

Timeshift

Rsync

Shane's game

Game Programming Patterns

Python pickle

OggCamp

OggCamp 2026 from 25th to 26th April 2026, in Manchester

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The lads discuss what options there are for them employment-wise if the industry goes to hell. They ponder recessions - past and possible future ones - and what they could do within a functioning social net and without it. They talk about working for yourself and a no-growth business model. Shane hopes that society will become less tech-orientated. They end with a discussion about rural versus urban society.

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David McWilliams' podcast

Wikipedia articles on...

Conor, Mike and Shane discuss how they learn and retain information, from brute forcing your brain to watching helpful videos and reading documentation.

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The WebGPU Sourcebook

Mike's WebGPU practice

AstroNvim

Moodle

Veritasium's Learning Styles video

Blender

Shane's game

Fireship on YouTube

Godot docs

three.js

Mike's school project

OggCamp

OggCamp 2026 from 25th...

Shane's game dev is going well. Conor recommends some interesting videos. Amolith's learning Rust and contributing to a browser extension.

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Meet Conor and Shane at OggCamp 2026, from 25 to 26 April in Machester, UK

Discussion

The Dublin Games Co-Op

Shane's game

Solar panels and renewables deep dive by Technology Connections

ColdFusion on everything being a subscription

Brown University's Rust Book fork

Lunatask browser...

Mike and Amolith talk about their experience using the self-hosted streaming platform Jellyfin and then talk about the future of LLMs and their place in our society.

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Discussion

Watch these talks from 39C3:

“End Of 10”: How the FOSS Community is Combatting Software-Driven Resource and Energy Consumption

A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet

Jellyfin

Jellyfin Clients:

jellyfin-mpv-shim

Findroid

Delfin

Roku

Sky Streaming

Christmas episode, released exactly at the right time. Amolith, Conor, Mike and Shane talked about their plans for the holiday break.

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Discussion

Nasin Pali

Crush

Mike's project TortiePad

The WebGPU Sourcebook

Hodges Figgis

Godot documentation

Tamron 18-300mm lense

Flint 3

Networking for System Administrators

Lunatask

Yudane

Shane's game The Void Survival

Mitchell Hashimoto<...

Conor and Shane start by discussing the new Steam hardware, and guess at the price of the Steam Machine. Then they talk about YunoHost. Conor got a new router. Shane went to a Games Co-Op. They end up reminiscing about living abroad as Irishmen.

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Valve's new hardware announcement

Steam Machine

Steam Controller

Steam Frame

Bazzite

YunoHost

Flint 3

OpenWrt

The Games...

Conor went to Ubuntu Summit. Amolith expanded his agentic tooling. Mike messed around with simple authentication. Shane worked with Claude on his project.

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The Ubuntu Summit talk recordings YouTube playlist

DOOM in space talk recording

The WSL talk recording

The RISC-V talk

DeepComputing's mainboard

MUSE Book

The Cosmic Desktop talk

Amolith's Crush fork

Functional Source License

...

The lads are joined by Máirín Duffy a Red Hat distinguished engineer who works on the Linux user experience. They talk about her work, her Irish language journey, hardware setups, LLMs, progress and society.

Because of an issue on our end with the recording, there is unfortunately increased background noise in some parts. We apologise for the noise.

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508 Standards

GIMP

Inkscape

Penpot

Evolution

...

This week we're joined by friend of the show Pierre who is a professional graphic designer and game developer using open source tools. We talk about the whole gamut of creativity on Linux including game development, graphics, music, video and much more.

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Discussion

Check out Pierre's itch.io profile here! -> https://itch.io/profile/frenchdilettante

Blender

Unreal Engine

Godot Game Engine

Ardour

Surge XT synthesiser- Open...

We have been doing this for 150 episodes, so this time we bummed some questions off the listeners and used them for content.

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Thank you to Ziggy, Ciarán (CORaven), GNU2Linux and Wayne for their questions!

Dublin Linux

NixNet

Blender video editing

Shane's YouTube Channel

Kdenlive

Nextcloud self-hosting

Snikket self-hosting

Jellyfin Server Flatpak

Immich self-hosting

Ethan C...

Shane is finally getting fibre. Mike's messing with containers on Coolify and Amolith gets an OpenWrt One router and makes his network setup more pleasing with Tailscale and NextDNS. Continuing in the same vein, Shane talks about a Meshtastic device that a listener sent (thank you, Enistello!). Also, we have a gaming Discord server!

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Our next episode will be an AMA! Email us your questions to show@ or send them to us on Mastodon.

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Conor, Mike and Shane talk to Carolina and Joseph from the End of 10 campaign.

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AMA

For episode 150 we’ll be doing an AMA so get your questions in, humourous questions are encouraged!

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Discussion

End of 10

KDE Eco

Opt Green

Chaos Communication Congress

CryptoParty

Microsoft's recent ch...

The lads chat with Félim from Late Night Linux. They discuss Amolith's new headphones and Shane's future internet, then Shane gives update on his game. Mike is happy on immutable Bluefin, and Conor has a new laptop with CachyOS. Then they interrogate Félim and end up talking about LLMs and kids and technology.

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AMA

For E150 we’ll be doing an AMA so get your questions in, humourous questions are encouraged!

Discussion

Fa...

It's just Shane and Conor this time. Shane's streaming on YouTube, Conor is curious about a new offline chat platform. Shane's old PC parts are going to get steamy.

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Discussion

Shane's YouTube channel

Blender

OBS

bitchat

Meshtastic

Installing SteamOS

Linus Tech Tips

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Amolith, Conor and Mike talk about Amolith's quest for the perfect E Ink phone. Mike's on a Framework 13, by the way.

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Mudita Kompakt

Minimal Phone

BigMe HiBreak Pro

Boox Palma

Framework 13 Ryzen 7040

Pictures of Mike's laptop from the front and from the bottom

And the obligatory Fastfetch screenshot

PaperWM

USB expansion card compatibility for the laptop

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Amolith, Mike and Shane discuss Mozilla's killing Pocket and some alternatives. The chat then turns to the glory of RSS, followed by the sad news of the end of Linux Format. Asset Forge is introduced as a Blender for those who don't do Blender. Amolith talks about the Mudita Kompakt. Shane hopes to improve his networking setup.

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Pocket killed

wallabag

Readeck

KOReader

Feeder on F-Droid

Cory...

Conor and Mike are on their own, discussing Conor's newest acquisitions - Fairphone 5 and Fairbuds XL.

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Fairphone 5

Fairbuds XL

CalyxOS

iodéOS

Droid-ify

Aurora Store

DAVx⁵

MapLibre

Futo keyboard

Breezy Weather

Curve

microG

Sunup

Fairphone 5 with /e/OS

Nextcloud

Fairbuds Android app

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Amolith, Mike and Shane start out by discussing broligarchs. Shane talks about his new favourite tool to help bring order into his life. The discussion then turns to AI contributions to open source projects. Amolith annouces "friendship ended with wallabag, Readeck is my new best friend". Shane then talks about his game.

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I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me

Organize

AI contribution in open source projects

Conor, Mike and Shane discuss the price of the new Framework 12, the Thundermail service and Zorin's switch to Brave.

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Framework Laptop 12

Framework Community Market

Desktop

Thundermail

Zorin switches to Brave

LibreWolf

Falkon

Gnome Web

Orion

Mozilla Corporation pays for the development of Firefox

MZLA Technologies Corporation looks after Thunderbird

Mozilla Foundation owns the 2 above<...

The lads start with a PSA about a Pixelfed vulnerability, then they talk about their current hardware setup.

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Conor's setup

Desktop

CachyOS

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 6 cores 12 threads

GPU: Radeon RX 5700

RAM: 32GB

Storage: 1x 1TB NVMe (OS), 1x 2TB NVMe (Steam), 1x 6TB HDD (storage)

Two ThinkPads

Minisforum mini PC

Audio

Audio interface: Rode AI-1<...

An "ask us anything" episode, inspired by Ask The Hosts. The lads start by discussing the appropriate age for kids to have a connected device, then get serious comparing cupcakes and muffins. This is followed by talking about immutable operating systems, replacement OSs and the weather.

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The Questions

@linuxlads what age should do you think a child should have ownership of an internet connected device such as a mobile phone or computer? If you were a parent...

Conor, Amolith and Mike start by discussing fonts by prettiness and legibility. Then they move onto new Framework offerings, followed by the news of EA open sourcing some Command & Conquer games. They end up by discussing the latest Mozilla shenanigans.

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Discussion

Gnome introduces new fonts

Check out fonts on CodingFont and Programming Fonts

LunarVim

Nerd Fonts

Fantasque Sans

Atkinson Hyperlegible

Berkeley Mono

0xProto<...

Amolith, Conor and Shane discuss federated communities as resistance against big tech. They touch on AcitivityPub and the network effect problem. Then they talk about RSS.

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Discussion

Loops, made by Pixelfed

Bluesky

Fedilab

Free Our Feeds, as discussed on Late Night Linux

Spritely Institute

ActivityPub W3 Standard

Mobilizon

Network effect

PeerTube

Skymoth the Mastodon - Bluesky crossposter

...

Amolith, Conor and Shane talk about their experiences with self hosting.

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Discussion

Nextcloud on Hetzner

Thunderbird

Migadu

Bitwarden

Conor's email service shortlist:

StartMail

mailbox.org

Forward Email

Amolith suggested Purelymail

NixNet

HedgeDoc

ejabberd

Prosody IM

audiobookshelf

Incus containers

Framasoft

YunoHost

All the lads are present and accounted for, and discuss their hopes and dreams for 2025. They also talk about politics 😲

This episode is sponsored by Sandfly Security.

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Discussion

Obsidian

Vivaldi

Orion Browser

The Lenovo Legion Go S will run SteamOS

Steam Controller 2 could happen this year

Shane's YouTube channel

KDE's fundraising

Conor, Shane and Mike ponder what to spend imaginary money on.

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Discussion

Conor's Framework config

Steam Deck refurbished and new

Donate to KDE

Gawfolk curved monitor on Amazon

Home Assistant Green smart home hub

Support Asahi Linux

Zynthian

Donate to Ardour

Support Godot

Donate to Blender

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We discuss our favourite projects of the year, from dev tools to distros via a synth!

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FastAPI

SQLAlchemy

Postgresql

KDE

yarr!

Wallabag

KOReader

Thunderbird

Bespoke Synth

Three.js

Bazzite

Zed

Godot game engine

Firefox

Contact Us

Amolith turns written word into spoken one, Conor tries out server distros and Shane talks about OggCamp.

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Discussion

epub2tts and epub2tts-edge

Piper text to speech system

Coqui is shutting down, unfortunately

Findroid, Android app for Jellyfin

Ubuntu Server

Nala frontend to Apt

OggCamp

The podcast that Shane couldn't recall is TuxJam

Late Night Linux

The Binary Times<...

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Shane organizes a new event. Mike makes bots. Amolith switches password managers, and Mike goes on a bit of a rant about Murena. Shane discovers permacomputing and fantasy consoles and Amolith plays with a tiny gamepad.

Discussion

The Dublin Linux website will have the details of the next DL meetup at the TOG Hackerspace

Mike's event bot repository (and a related blog post)

The original article on the Bitwarden licensing drama from The...

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Amolith has been playing with Home Assistant, turning web pages into ebooks with EpubPress and developing his own cli password generator. Mike's done nothing, because he can now play games on Asahi Linux, and time has vanished somewhere.

Discussion

Home Assistant

Zigbee

Home Assistant VS Code extension

Home Assistant Android app

Aqara devices work with Home Assistant (as heard on Late Night Linux)

AAA gaming on Asahi...

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Conor and Mike talk to Karla, an open-source focused people skills trainer, about the 2024 Open Source Summit Europe.

Open Source Summit 2024 with Karla Nieminen

The conference schedule

The event page now points to the 2025 event

Linux Foundation

Linus's keynote (Don't worry, it switches to English after a few seconds.)

OpenSearch

HyperLedger

CHAOSS foundation

Zephyr real time operating system

Open source program...

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Gary chats to Shane about OggCamp 2024, then the lads discuss programming languages, Amolith's new Android app and Shane's adventures in game dev. Discussion then turns to the frustrating topic of chat platforms.

OggCamp 2024

12 and 13 October 2024 in Manchester, UK

Website

Gary's site

Linux After Dark

Discussion

Rust 101

Andy's channels

Apparently, manual memory management in Go can be done

Kotlin

Jetpack...

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Discussion

The Zed editor

Godot game engine

Conor's Minisforum mini PC

Proxmox

Jellyfin

LXC containers

openmediavault

Jellyfin Docker image

Big Buck Bunny

CachyOS

Contact Us

Support Us<...

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Discussion - Chat with Liam Proven from The Register

Liam's Register page

Dev Class

Blocks & Files

The Next Platform

SCO Xenix

Aaron Swartz

Dennis Ritchie

Lasermoon Linux-FT

Caldera

Novell

Ximian

David Mills obituary

Nejsem kaktus, musím pít - I'm not a cactus, I have to drink. 🌵🍺

Mission of Gravity

The Tane...

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Conor and Shane talk to Artyom Zorin of Zorin OS, 15 years after the distro's first release.

Zorin OS

Compiz

The paid-for Zorin OS Pro Edition

Zorin Grid

Public Money? Public Code

Munich's LiMux

Zorin OS upgrades

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