Repurposing Battlestations from old hardware, local sharing offline and LinuxFest Northwest Trivia
podcast.james.network
(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!

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/39753460

Yes, I know castopod does not render notes as Lemmy does.

Shownotes

(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!

  • kibblebits@quokk.auEnglish
    3·
    26 days ago

    My tech is ready for the end of the world, but I couldn’t grow a radish to save my life

    • kiolOPEnglish
      4·
      26 days ago

      That sounds like a growing problem.

      • kibblebits@quokk.auEnglish
        2·
        26 days ago

        Only if I can’t barter for food with burned dvds of “Friends”

        I’ll be so thin!! 💅

        • kiolOPEnglish
          2·
          26 days ago

          At least you’ll know with absolute certainty who your friends are.