• Mark explains synesthesia and the experience of how it manifests in a Linux user,
• Alan spring cleans his GitHub,
• Martin gets busy with lazygit.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.
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• OggCamp Manchester, UK: April 25th - 26th, 2026.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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 frontend to Grype, the vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems
  • This new release focuses on UI and usability improvements ✨

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Mark has been retro gaming with an Evercade.
• Martin replaced the official Dropbox client with Maestral.
• Alan created an MCP server for Grype.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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-commit-action to automatically commit and push changed files and push-files-to-another-repository to push the rendered README.md to my wimpysworld GitHub org.
  • snk - GitHub user contributions graph as animated snake game
    • Uses ghaction-github-pages to update a branch everynight
• Alan is busy maintaing lots of Snaps.
• Mark retired Advanced Volume Control for GNOME.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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 - science museums, observatories, maker spaces, research facilities, and other spots that’ll scratch a curiosity itch.
• Mark has been pushing the limits of his Steam Deck playing Avowed.

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

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• 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.

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• 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 ONLYOFFICE integrated with Nextcloud.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Martin is migrating notes to Joplin and heynote, and getting 2 LG DualUp monitors.
• Alan attempts to contribute package updates to Void and Apline linux.
• Mark discovers what happens when you plug a phone’s USB port into TV.

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• Alan explains how and why he uses Listmonk to create, host and send out a personal email newsletter.
• Mark gets guilt-tripped nerd-sniped into updating the Flutter-based Quickgui project.
• Martin digs into his pile-o-bits to craft a new home-lab server that is quieter, cooler, harder, faster, better, stronger, and mostly empty. Martin mentioned an episode of Ask The Hosts.

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• Martin uses homepage to create a static highly customizable application dashboard. Martin also mentioned the New Tab Override extension for Firefox.
• Mark has been composing bass parts for an album using Tux Guitar.
• Alan has been visualising source code in 4K with Gource.

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• Martin announces what’s new in quickemu.
• Mark explains how quickgui came to be.
• Alan starts testing with quicktest.

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• Alan uses records his voice with Piper Recording Studio using the LJ format for use with Piper Train to create a new generation of the old Mycroft AI apope voice.
• Martin has eschewed Google Search to use Kagi instead.
• Mark has been judging a coding contest where students used Scratch to create games, including the use of backpack.

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• Martin has been working on Quickemu, his project to quickly create and run optimised Linux, Windows and macOS virtual machines.
• Alan has a new job at Anchore, and tells us about their open-source vulnerability, SBOM, license scanners, Grype, Syft, and Grant
• Mark explains how he is using ntfy to send push notifications to his phone when servers do interesting things.

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• Martin has been perfecting the Pantheon desktop environment.
• Alan has been writing Go, and enjoying it.
• Mark has been playing Against the Storm, a town-builder with rogue-like elements.

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• Alan gives the rationale for turning the Linux Matters Podcast upside down
• Mark explains why he hasn’t migrated Plex to his shiny new server
• Martin flies to the end of the alphabet to talk about Zoxide

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• Alan, Martin and Mark read some highlights from your wonderful feedback. Thank you for all the kinds words you have sent us.

Here are the links to everything we mentioned.

Snaps

• Bucklespring

Localsend

• Snapdrop

Hardware

• Mark’s funky monitor - the LG DualUp
• 8BitDo Micro Gamepad

Security keys and passwords

• https://man.archlinux.org/man/systemd-cryptenroll.1
• https://blog.fraggod.net/2023/01/04/fido2-hardware-passwordsecret-management.html
• https://blog.fraggod.net/2023/01/26/more-fido2-hardware-authkey-uses-on-a-linux-machine-and-their-quirks.html

Virtualization & Containers

• Introduction to Virtualization
• systemd-nspawn containers

Gaming

• A guide to a good docked gaming experience on Steam Deck

Voice assistant topics

• StyleTTS2
• Pied

Comic and ebook reading topics

• Calibre Companion
• Calibre Web
• FBReader
• CDisplayEx
• Komga
• BorrowBox
• Audiobookshelf
• Booksonic

Microserver topics

• N100 upgrade

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• Alan has the most exotic GPU configuration and needs your help now!
• Martin has improved his desktop Linux chat quality of life with Telegram GTK4 Color palette, Fractal and Halloy.
• Mark is migrating data to his new home server in a very snappy way.

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• Mark is migrating services between servers
• Martin is stress-testing Linux with stress-ng
• Alan is coding for fun in PHP

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• Alan has been Driving an electric Mini for two years.
• Mark is migrating to a new home server.
• Martin is using a modern version of swap.

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• bcachefs debuted in Linux 6.7, and Martin has excitedly installed it on everything!
  • Support bcachefs development via Patreon
• Alan helps someone with an Exodus of Bitcoin
  • Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle
• Mark has pulled the trigger on a new “home server”

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• Mark is reading magazines with Libby and Calibre plugins.
• Alan is building Telegram for Asahi Linux.
• Martin is virtualising on an M2 Macbook with Lima

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• Alan is emulating SoundBlaster cards in FreeDOS on bare metal. Vogons
• Mark is planning for HP Microserver hardware failure
• Martin announces NeoFetch is dead, long live fastfetch, cpufetch, ramfetch, and onefetch,

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• Martin is using the unfold.ai coding assistant to turn the MVP Rust project, ia-get, into a “product”.
• Alan has impressions of actually using NextCloud.
• Mark is listening to audiobooks on Linux with Cozy and on Android with Voice.

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• Mark is playing Baldur’s Gate 3.
• Alan is going LoCo in Ubuntu - You can contribute to the UK LoCo website on GitHub.
• Martin is building and running Snaps on NixOS.

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• Alan stumbles upon Ubuntu Core Desktop Preview and gives it a shake on a SteamDeck.
• Mark further continues his adventures in the Fediverse, by developing AWS Lambdas on his desktop.
• Martin creates an Open-Source Apple AirDrop-alike for sending files around the aether with LocalSend

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• B is for Bottom in Martin’s A-Z of Modern Unix.
• Alan takes Asahi Linux for a test drive on an M1 Macbook using Ubuntu Asahi.
• Mark continues his adventures integrating his static blog with the Fediverse.
  • We also mentioned owncast for self-hosting live streams, which also has deep Fediverse integration.

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• Mark is publishing blog posts to the Fediverse with help from Seb Jambor’s ActivityPub.academy and Paul Kinlan’s blog.
• Martin is writing Rust code without knowing Rust.
• Alan is Resurrecting a NextCloud Box and using it for something new.

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• Alan upgrades the network in a rented student house with TP-Link Deco
• Mark details the gaming journey of a tiny-handed toddler from button mashing to throwing rocks
• Martin is building a solid-state NAS with NixOS

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• Martin is using Distrobox, via Universal Blue, to run OBS Studio Portable built for Ubuntu on NixOS.
  • You might also like Bazzite, an OCI image that serves as an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck.
• Alan laments the trials and tribulations of updating dozens of Snaps to current standards, including the wonderful Bombsquad
• Mark does a spot of J2ME retro-gaming on Android using J2ME Loader and (nearly) RetroDECK

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TPM

• Lots of people recommended YubiKey
• TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption is coming to Ubuntu
• Tang server for remote key delivery
• Unlocking with a USB key

Backups

• We answer some questions about our backup solutions

Music

• SongShift for iOS can migrate your playlists between services.
• Cider 2 is available on Itch.io

ZeroTier

• Alan and Martin have installed ZeroTier on the Steam Deck.

NixOS

• You can set up printing with auto discovering using Martin’s CUPS and Avahi configurations.
  • Also see the NixOS Wiki about Printing

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• Alan is consolidating multiple services onto a dedicated server
• Mark is contributing to a large open source project
• Martin is retro gaming on a refurbished Steam Deck with RetroDECK, ScreenScraper, and ZeroTier

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• Mark has been exploring the secrets of the TPM
• Martin is running Radeon and NVIDIA GPUs in one PC.
• Alan is getting ongoing data from an EV.

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• Martin is creating a magical shell history with Atuin
• Alan is using Axiom to visualise a “data takeout” of a Mini EV
• Mark is going maximum Google with a previously owned Pixel 6a purchased via Mozillion, then de-googling with Simple Mobile Tools.

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• Alan is backing up with rsnapshot
• Martin suggests BorgBackup is better
• Mark is using rclone to keep family photos safe

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• Mark is repairing a Steam Deck
• Alan is taking digital hoarding too far with Tube Archivist
• Martin is creating a magical LAN using the Internet with ZeroTier

Some pictures of the state inside Mark’s Steam Deck

• The interior of a Steam Deck showing a PCB with a corroded connector
• The back of a Steam Deck’s touchpad showing sticky residue
• The touch pad PCB from a Steam Deck showing sitcky residue coating the sensor

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• Martin makes a NixOS configuration for non-technical family members
• Alan takes a Steam Deck on an aeroplane
• Mark is publishing a GNOME extension

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• Alan is extending the range of ADSB receivers and sending data to additional places
• Mark is “hacking” a washing machine
• Martin is entering Linux Game Jam 2023 in a not very Linux-y way with Antsy Alien Attack Pico

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• Mark is writing a GNOME Extension
• Martin edits without nano, switching to Micro
• Alan presents what we learned from AskUbuntu

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• Alan announces RSS is alive and well, and powering Mastodon bots
• Mark finds the best mouse for desktop Linux. Possibly.
• Martin is using the Stream Deck to automate desktop Linux

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• Martin switches to Apple Music on Desktop Linux
• Alan starts Sideloading Homebrew on Steam Deck
• Mark tries to find note-taking nirvana

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Catalyst

• Mark is choosing a D&D alignment based on your monitor layout
• Alan is building an ADB-S receiver to send flight data to FlightRadar24
• Martin is unfathomably playing video games on Linux without a Steam Deck

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Catalyst

• Alan is running Mastodon for a group of friends.
• Martin is looking for the best Linux-loving laptop to rival the Apple Silicon offerings.
• Mark uses the Steam Deck as his primary gaming device.

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