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Unreleased episode from 10/6/2026. Focusing on those services I’ve been running in production since 2018. Lessons learned, pain points, running PHP, merging databases and migrating systems across servers by hands. I’d like to re-edit and do this one over again, but I do think it is pretty decent.
(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 LXQT Openbox Xfce Anti-X MX Linux Arch 32-bit (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 Sushitrain - Open Source Client for iOS Syncthing-Fork for Android Syncthing Tray for KDE Plasma & Dolphin (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!
Episode coming soon! Dust off your old hardware or pull it back out of the recycling bin. News of the death of your old hardware was greatly exaggerated! Associated show notes and articles will be posted to the forum and wiki
Why Offline & Local-First Rising Cost of Consumer Technology Cloudflare Outages - interest in local hosting Re-purposing older machines into functional use! (00:11) Offline Tooling, Local Tooling, Resilience Introduction (00:50) Sponsor Ameridroid LINUXPREPPER code (01:14) Domain Changes and thoughts after years on .network, xyz and org (01:32) Forum posts related to simple, resilient setups Show notes listed there as well (02:21) Do you have a device in a drawer that might be useful as-is? (04:38) KDE Connect - Thoughts after Three Years (08:30) Unbound, DNSMasq - Local DNS Caching, Recursive DNS and Resolvers (09:30) Quad9 - Global Public Recursive DNS for Public Benefit, alternative to Cloudflare and Google (09:55) Local DNS Resilience and Why It Matters (12:15) Connecting Multiple Services and What DNS Adblocking Actually Does with Pi-Hole, Adguard Home, etc. (13:04) Dividing IP Ranges for Custom DNS, Adblocking assignments (13:55) Adding Resilience, Privacy and Speed Most Routers Do Not Offer Natively (15:20) Challenges You Can Try at Home! (15:59) Wiki in early development as plain text. Learn more on the forum (17:00) Low Key Gear Exchange for LFNW. Details for forum users! Forum post for registered users (17:36) 100 Selfhosted Services for Low End and 32-bit Hardware (19:11) HomeLab Episode to be released with Robin Monks. Unedited interview available on Premium (19:29) Nginx, Caddy - Reverse Proxy via DNS Challenge for Local HTTPS Testing (20:00) mDNS and Avahi for remote machines gifted to others without https (22:35) Become a Premium Subscriber to Support the Show (23:36) How resilient is your setup? Let me know! podcast@livingcartoon.org (24:05) Discord and bridged Matrix Chats for discussing the show! Please Share with Others! (24:55) LFNW Schedule, should be live shortly. April 24th - 26th (25:11) AI Scanned My Brainrot, Live only at LFNW, on 04/26 at 3pm! (26:17) Upcoming Episode on SeaGL, LFNW and Conferences!
This is a bonus Linux Prepper podcast, available as a detailed companion to “A Great Year for Linux”. This is a discussion with HB, stemming from this post on Lemmy learning from admins who avoid container technology. We discuss our experiences with containers, who they are for, and the contexts in which we find them useful. If you are self-hosting, and are container curious, this one is for you! (00:00) Welcome to Linux Prepper Podcast (00:19) Bonus episode connected to Season 1 Episode 1: A Great Year for Linux. Time to get technical! (01:29) This discussion will not cover Permissions, File Systems, or Backups. (02:32) Lemmy Discussion - What is keeping people away from Containers (02:47) Ameridroid Sponsor: LINUXPREPPER code (03:16) What are Containers for? (04:05) HB describes making a text adventure game (in Docker) (04:42) MagPi Magazine (05:09) TTYD: Share your Terminal on the Web (06:12) Why containerize TTYD? (07:05) Managing multiple iterations through containers (07:47) Use of containers, as opposed to Python virtual environments (08:53) When does it make sense for someone to consider containers? (10:30) Docker run commands. similar to bash scripting (12:30) Compose Files, migrating from docker run commands (13:03) Portainer - WebUI Management for Docker services (HB) (13:16) docker ps - Management from the terminal (James) (13:34) James using Docker to test for NextcloudPi and write documentation (14:41) Using containers in order to define your own image (15:50) Running a fleet of AI services through Compose: “Ultimate Bacon Cheeseburger” (17:17) James migrating to Compose files to manage variables across many services (18:54) Composerize - Turn run commands into compose files (18:58) Storing compose files to avoid confusion (20:21) Noisebridge Unicorn services run via compose files on a VPS (26:34) Docker Networks - connecting services internally, even to a reverse proxy (27:46) Aria Download Protocol (28:04) HB describes using multiple, simulateous networks in isolation (30:00) James describes complexity of modular tools like Nextcloud (31:37) Testing Locally (32:30) People leaking their private credentials in their Docker images on the web (33:09) Docker Secrets (33:42) HB suggests storing environment variables as files (34:52) Understanding git.ignore files for people hosting files on public repos (35:32) Using public sharing to learn, share and problem solve (36:31) Lemmy comments of those opting out of containers (38:03) There is nothing wrong with running services directly, aka “bare metal” (43:20) HB’s Github
(00:00) Welcome to Linux Prepper (00:25) Keepass skit KeepassXC is recommended for desktop users. (01:32) Ameridroid Sponsor LINUXPREPPER at checkout (02:43) Lemmy discussions. It looks to be a great year for Linux. Those who’ve switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going? Lemmy world and Lemmy ML Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss. Lemmy World and Lemmy ML Linux Prepper Lemmy community (03:13) Lutris - Open Gaming Launcher Github repo (04:57) Ubuntu Shutdown from 4 to 2 clicks (09:47) Mermaids - ASCII Game developed by HB Pixel Artwork Tools recommended by HB (11:56) Who is HB, the guest host? (13:17) Who is James, the host? (14:18) Containers, Compose - Good? Who are they for? Bonus episode TBD Asking Lemmy about reasons to avoid containers (15:19) Premium subscriptions available Recurring support possible through Ko-fi, backed by Stripe. You can now be a Patron of the show! Get access to additional content. (16:04) HB’s Thoughts on show topics and expectations (17:02) State of the Podcast Discussion forum for the show, used for notes. Lemmy community Discord chat now bridged to Matrix Invite to Discord Invite to Matrix space for Living Cartoon Company and Linux Prepper Podcast now available on Youtube Music (18:22) Steam Key Giveaway now through March 20th Leave a review on your podcast platform to enter! (19:15) This podcast is now available on Youtube (21:30) Submit to DURP - DIY Unfinished Resurrection Project Now through March 20th Work on a project this Winter! Accepting audience submissions! Get included in an episode! Use this simple form to submit thoughts or an audio recording. Discussing Homelabs with Robin Monks of Don’t Forget to FOSS (23:15) LinuxFest Northwest Performance TBD weekend of April 24th Hackerspace AI Scanned My Brain Rot (Working Title) SeaGL 2025 Coverage to be posted: Trivia, Open Source Projects, Recap, Interview.
Premium episode. The unreleased episode 15 recorded through early December 2025. Parts of it will be included or remade as part of the upcoming episode(s). (00:11) SeaGL Conference Trivia Challenge Named Projects (05:18) Seeking a Co-host (06:22) SeaGL 2025 Recap (09:23) Micron Exits Consumer Ram Market for AI Datacenters (10:32) State of the Podcast. Ways to Support (11:25) Steam Key Giveaway Winner (12:25) Be sure to see the forum to see things being work on for the show (12:58) T-shirts and Zines in development as merchandise (13:21) Cloudflare Outages and Open Alternatives (18:39) Foss Trivia Winners at SeaGL. Take the Challenge (23:03) DURP - DIY Unfinished Resurrection Project. Join us! (24:02) Listener Comments on SeaGL Conference
Linux Prepper Season 1 begins. Our focus remains on using Open Source tooling, Self-Hosting, and FOSS tooling in daily life. Linux Prepper podcast is created by James as part of Living Cartoon Broadcasting & Living Cartoon Company. We are a welcoming show, which doesn’t waste time judging others; we are all here with a common interest. By engaging in our communities you agree to our rules, which keeps things supportive and family friendly. The Matrix chat in Living Cartoon Broadcasting is now bridged to Discord. The podcast is now available on Youtube, in addition to directly from the website, Spotify, Amazon Music, Fountain, Podcast Index, etc. 2025 episodes According to DuckDuckGo: The Linux Prepper podcast focuses on using open-source technology to enhance everyday life, featuring discussions on self-hosting, Linux, and related topics. It aims to empower listeners to take control of their technology and enjoy a DIY approach to tech.
This is a premium episode of Linux Prepper podcast, available to subscribers. This is the complete discussion with Sean Tilley of the WeDistribute newsletter and Decentered podcast. We discuss the Fediverse, Sean’s experience in decentralized communities and technology, self-hosted tools we use, and more. This is my very first interview, recorded 03/2025. It suffers from me wanting to re-record my own audio, but it is overall an excellent discussion. Please enjoy! You can hear how much fun we had recording it.
This is a premium episode of Linux Prepper podcast, available to subscribers. This is the complete discussion with Adam Monsen of Steadfast Self-Hosting and SeaGL. We discuss SeaGL conference, writing a book on self-hosting, giving presentations and lessons learned. Releasing here for all to enjoy by itself.
This is a premium episode of Linux Prepper podcast, available to subscribers. This is the complete discussion with Robin Monks of Don’t Forget to FOSS podcast. Consider it a co-hosting experiment, plus a fun icebreaker talk on the selfhosting tools we both use regularly.