Repurposing Battlestations from old hardware, local sharing offline and LinuxFest Northwest Trivia
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Repurposing Battlestations from old hardware, local sharing offline and LinuxFest Northwest Trivia

Bellingham, WA

Episode description

(00:00)

Previous episode on local networking and off-line tooling

(00:37)

Ameridroid Sponsor - Linuxprepper at checkout

(01:20)

Battlestations, and how they relate to Linux Prepper

(02:35)

Your input much appreciated on this long term exploration

(03:08)

Two Desktops from Thin Clients, Detailed Notes

(07:00)

Older Intel Graphics and X Window Manager Support vs Wayland

(07:52)

32-bit and Multi-Architecture Support, Wine, Proton

(12:00)

Love 2D Engine and Compiling Back 32-bit Support

(13:07)

Moonring, Free RPG Game inspired by Ultima

(13:21)

Balatro, Card Game

(13:27)

Arco - Turned-based, Meso-american Adventure Game

(14:03)

100 Tools You can Selfhost on Minimal Hardware

(14:57)

Pipewire, Wireplumber, QPWGraph, pw-jack

(18:30)

Aphex Twin Premium Episode Coming Soon

(19:22)

Memory Management from 16gb to 1gb RAM

(20:11)

Zram, adding efficient memory compression

(21:26)

12GB RAM total notes on setting up Zram, Swap, Swappiness

(22:39)

16GB RAM total notes on my other Intel NUC

(23:37)

EarlyOOM Daemon monitoring Zram and Swap

(26:14)

Swappiness, what triggering it does

(27:55)

Considerations for 8gb to 1gb of total RAM

(32:08)

DURP Challenger downgrading to Pi 3 as appliance

(33:02)

File Management with Core Utils through SSH

(33:31)

SCP for One-Way Transfers

(34:29)

Rsync - One-way Transfers with Comprehensive Control

(36:02)

Unison - Resilient Bi-directional Rsync for Two Locations

(38:09)

Scaling up without cloud services or servers

(39:34)

Syncthing - P2P Real-time Sync with client support

(42:24)

Rclone - Rsync-like support for Cloud Providers: Dropbox, Google Drive, S3

(43:30)

Minimal Homelab Implications; Try The Tools and Win

(45:01)

Container Concerns vs Understanding Tooling

  • Understanding how tools actually work when deploying

(45:42)

Trivia Winners from LFNW and Named Projects!

(46:13)

LinuxFest Northwest 2026 Wikipage with Youtube Links

(48:01)

SeaGL Call for Speakers Open Now!

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7:00Older Intel Graphics and X Window Manager Support vs Wayland
19:22Memory Management from 16gb to 1gb RAM
21:2612GB RAM total notes on setting up Zram, Swap, Swappiness
22:3916GB RAM total notes on my other Intel NUC
27:55Considerations for 8gb to 1gb of total RAM
32:08DURP Challenger downgrading to Pi 3 as appliance
33:02File Management with Core Utils through SSH
36:02Unison - Resilient Bi-directional Rsync for Two Locations
38:09Scaling up without cloud services or servers
39:34Syncthing - P2P Real-time Sync with client support
42:24Rclone - Rsync-like support for Cloud Providers: Dropbox, Google Drive, S3
https://rclone.org/
43:30Minimal Homelab Implications; Try These and Win
45:01Container Concerns vs Understanding Tooling
45:42Trivia Winners from LFNW and Named Projects!