• Alan introduces Canopy, a community insights tool he built.
• Martin finds talking to people isn't enough, and now talks to his computer with Voxtype.
• Mark once again fights the fungi in The Last of Us Part II.

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In this episode:

• Mark explores the online exam center at ETH Zurich.
• Alan replaces a shell script with a node script, to keep track of his snaps
• Martin finally gets on board with terminal multiplexers, after discovering herdr

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In this episode:

• Martin is on a break, and will be back next time
• Mark attends MoodleMoot DACH 2026 in Zürich, and hacks together support for the Fediverse in Moodle.
• Alan buys a Mangmi Air X as a game development test-bed.

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In this episode:

• Alan reports back from the Ubuntu Summit,
  • Alan's SnapScope lightning talk
  • Martin's Jivetalking lightning talk
  • Canonical introduces Workshop
  • The full playlist of videos
• Martin updates Jivetalking
• Mark combats the cordyceps in The Last of Us Part I

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In this episode:

• Mark creates DOSsier, a system for retro PC gaming.
• Martin replaces his editor (again), this time with Fresh
• Alan creates a new app for event attendance.

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In this episode:

• Martin transforms Neovim into an unyielding modeless VSCode-style IDE with CUA keybindings.
  • Some of this was achieved with novim-mode and snacks.nvim.
• Mark has been playing Solasta: Crown of the Magister.
• Alan wants you all to install flatpak with a snap. Gather round children, it's story time.

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In this episode:

• Alan eschews one gaming fad for a more bespoke, artisanal gaming experience using R4 cards, and ZXDS.
• Martin no longer considers Grammarly his friend, new friend is Harper
• Mark continues his Kobo journey with ventures in NickelMenu and KOReader.

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In this episode:

• Mark throws his cook books in the bin and buys a Kobo Libra Colour.
• Alan tidies up Mojinav and puts the source on github.
• Martin builds his own Framework desktop.

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In this episode:

• Martin goes over why and how he's stepping down from Ubuntu MATE after 12 years, and the project is seeking new maintainers 🧉
• Mark discovers new life, and new civilisations in Star Trek: Voyager - Across the unknown 🖖
• Alan outsources busywork to Minnie Love, his OpenClaw personal AI assistant, with help from OpenClaw for dummies, and two gists 🤖

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In this episode:

• Alan optimistically crafts an alternative to the official Snapcraft store website - snapupdates.popey.com.
• Martin swaps Cider for Sidra.
• Mark dives deep into the data bucket and comes up richer! This time next year, Rodney.

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In this episode:

• Mark works out how to run commands at the right point in the boot process, with NetworkManager-dispatcher
• Alan has been confining things with Lincubate.
• Martin has been VNCing here, there and everywhere with wayvnc and noVNC.

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In this episode:

• Martin has created tailor: Ready-to-wear project templates for GitHub repositories 👔
• Mark's ageing Microserver N36L has finally met its end, and the new beginning is off to a rocky start.
• Alan has been building snaps on an IBM mainframe thanks to LinuxOne.

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In this episode:

• 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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In this episode:

• 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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In this episode:

• 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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In this episode we round up our listener feedback and discuss:

• HyperMegaTech! Super Pocket
• Kazeta
• Recipe-Scribe
• FossFLOW
• Terminal Velocity - The A to Z of Modern Unix
• Toniebox Reverse Engineering
• Tonuino
• Yarg-lang

• SCaLE (Southern California Linux Expo) Pasadena, California, USA: March 5-8, 2026.
  • Get 40% off your SCaLE ticket with the Linux Matters coupon code: LMAT
• OggCamp Manchester, UK: April 25th - 26th, 2026.

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In this episode:

• 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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In this episode:

• 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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In this episode:

• 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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In this episode:

• 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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