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Episode 294

Welcome to Episode 294 of the LinuxLUGcast
We are an open podcast/LUG that meets at 9 PM EST every first and third friday of the month using mumble.
We encourage anyone listening to join us and participate on the podcast. Check out https://www.linuxlugcast.com/ for the server details.
If you have any questions, comments, or topic you would like us to discus and are unable to join us during the live show you can send us email at feedback@linuxlugcast.com

Join in the conversation at
https://matrix.to/#/#lugcast:minnix.dev
Movie List
https://etherpad.integrations.element.io/p/e24fde39-0b56-4941-9870-526055295062
Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxlugcast
Peertube Channel
https://nightshift.minnix.dev/c/linux_lugcast/videos
web mumble
https://lugcastweb.minnix.dev/

Previous Movie:Assassination Nation (2018)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6205872/

Next Movie:Assassination Nation (2018)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6205872/

Minnix

Paperless NGX for document server – https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

Qdrant vector database – https://qdrant.tech/

Conduit mobile ssh client – https://github.com/gwitko/Conduit

Pi coding agent – https://pi.dev/

Games:

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes – https://keeptalkinggame.com/

KingDomino – https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/204583/kingdomino

Joe
Proxmox IOMMU PCI cards and passthrough issues
Startup orientation with plymouth and grub

Our next recording date will be July 17th 2026
Our music is “Downright” provided by Klaatu and Broam
and we would like to thank Minnix for the mumble server

Episode 293

Welcome to Episode 293 of the LinuxLUGcast
We are an open podcast/LUG that meets at 9 PM EST every first and third friday of the month using mumble.
We encourage anyone listening to join us and participate on the podcast. Check out https://www.linuxlugcast.com/ for the server details.
If you have any questions, comments, or topic you would like us to discus and are unable to join us during the live show you can send us email at feedback@linuxlugcast.com

Join in the conversation at
https://matrix.to/#/#lugcast:minnix.dev
Movie List
https://etherpad.integrations.element.io/p/e24fde39-0b56-4941-9870-526055295062
Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxlugcast
Peertube Channel
https://nightshift.minnix.dev/c/linux_lugcast/videos
web mumble
https://lugcastweb.minnix.dev/

Previous Movie:The Electric State
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7766378/

Next Movie: Assassination Nation
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6205872 – 2018

Mordancy: not impreseed with SELF
https://southeastlinuxfest.org/

Minnix
Murder trial

Largest Linux festival is SCALE https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

AUR gets hit
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/15/arch-linux-locks-down-aur-signups-amid-wave-of-malicious-commits/5255511

naps2 https://www.naps2.com/

Our next recording date will be July 3, 2026
Our music is “Downright” provided by Klaatu and Broam
and we would like to thank Minnix for the mumble server

Episode 292

Welcome to Episode 292 of the LinuxLUGcast
We are an open podcast/LUG that meets at 9 PM EST every first and third friday of the month using mumble.
We encourage anyone listening to join us and participate on the podcast. Check out https://www.linuxlugcast.com/ for the server details.
If you have any questions, comments, or topic you would like us to discuss and are unable to join us during the live show you can send us email at feedback@linuxlugcast.com

Join in the conversation at
https://matrix.to/#/#lugcast:minnix.dev
Movie List
https://etherpad.integrations.element.io/p/e24fde39-0b56-4941-9870-526055295062
Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxlugcast
Peertube Channel
https://nightshift.minnix.dev/c/linux_lugcast/videos
web mumble
https://lugcastweb.minnix.dev/
BBS
https://lugcastland.minnix.dev/vtx.html

Previous Movie:Project Hail Mary (2026)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12042730

Next Movie: The Electric State
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7766378/

Joe
Plex sucks – $750 lifetime pass
3D printing projects

Talking about gamehub, Borderlands 3 is 150GB!

Kobalt lighted socket extension
https://picclick.com/Kobalt-2-Piece-Lighted-Drive-Socket-Extension-w-LED-186328427089.html

Drug talk

Boomer, Gen X, and Millineials

SpaceX stock

Old laptops need replacing

Our next recording date will be June 19th 2026
Our music is “Downright” provided by Klaatu and Broam
and we would like to thank Minnix for the mumble server

Episode 291

Welcome to Episode 291 of the LinuxLUGcast
We are an open podcast/LUG that meets at 9 PM EST every first and third friday of the month using mumble.
We encourage anyone listening to join us and participate on the podcast. Check out https://www.linuxlugcast.com/ for the server details.
If you have any questions, comments, or topic you would like us to discus and are unable to join us during the live show you can send us email at feedback@linuxlugcast.com

Join in the conversation at
https://matrix.to/#/#lugcast:minnix.dev
Movie List
https://etherpad.integrations.element.io/p/e24fde39-0b56-4941-9870-526055295062
Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxlugcast
Peertube Channel
https://nightshift.minnix.dev/c/linux_lugcast/videos
web mumble
https://lugcastweb.minnix.dev/

Previous Movie: On_Line (2002)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302889/

Next Movie: Project Hail Mary (2026)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12042730/

Proxmox discussion

minnix: AI projects
Server: https://www.hp.com/us-en/workstations/z2-mini-a.html
Coding Harness: https://pi.dev/
Scanned PDF to Audiobook

Extreme Minimalist
https://youtu.be/XBQBKseozuY?si=h7EQSYy_YXVMiGIM

Popey unsnap
https://github.com/popey/unsnap

minnix
Pi upgraded my mail server
https://on2fab.com/letting-pi-upgrade-my-mail-server/

Our next recording date will be June 5th 2026
Our music is “Downright” provided by Klaatu and Broam
and we would like to thank Minnix for the mumble server

LinuxLUGCast Classics Episode 20 Interview with Ken Stark

Welcome to a Classics Episode of the LinuxLUGCast Episode 20 the interview with Ken Stark from the Reglue project

So this past Friday we were supposed to have a show, but because of scheduling conflicts we decided to skip it. So instead I present to you LinuxLUGCast Classics.

This episode Originally aired on 12/05/2014 and we interviewed Ken Stark, a man who ran a project called Reglue. Reglue was a non-profit organization that refurbished old computers, put Linux on them and gave them to people who did not have access to a computer. In 2021 he hung up his spurs at Reglue. https://fossforce.com/2021/11/ken-starks-hangs-up-his-spurs-at-reglue/

you can check out our old episodes at https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22LinuxLugCast.com%22

Our next episode will be May 15th 2026

The Movie is still: On_Line  (good luck finding it)

 

Episode 290

Welcome to Episode 290 of the LinuxLUGcast
We are an open podcast/LUG that meets at 9 PM EST every first and third friday of the month using mumble.
We encourage anyone listening to join us and participate on the podcast. Check out https://www.linuxlugcast.com/ for the server details.
If you have any questions, comments, or topic you would like us to discus and are unable to join us during the live show you can send us email at feedback@linuxlugcast.com

Join in the conversation at
https://matrix.to/#/#lugcast:minnix.dev
Movie List
https://etherpad.integrations.element.io/p/e24fde39-0b56-4941-9870-526055295062
Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxlugcast
Peertube Channel
https://nightshift.minnix.dev/c/linux_lugcast/videos
web mumble
https://lugcastweb.minnix.dev/

Previous Movie: Thirteenth Floor
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/

Next Movie:On_Line (2002)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302889/

watch: https://tubitv.com/movies/283964/on-line

https://community-scripts.org/scripts/

HP Z2 mini G1a
https://www.microcenter.com/product/702120/hp-z2-mini-g1a-workstation-desktop-pc

Asus Vivobook
https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Vivobook-Display-i3-1215U-Touchpad/dp/B0GMWZLGNQ
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FR9F6NQR  (this was onsale in Oct/Nov last year for about $500, now it is $767.37)

minnix website
https://on2fab.com/

Our next recording date will be May 1, 2026
Our music is “Downright” provided by Klaatu and Broam
and we would like to thank Minnix for the mumble server

Proxmox Self Hosting: is it worth it?

 

I have been running a lot of my own servers for a long time now. Various things at various times, file syncs, plex server, audiobook servers and a lot of others over the last couple of decades. I have used docker off and on since it was first released and it has made things much simpler in some ways. I almost always prefer to do something the free way even if it does cost me some of my free time and energy. It also provides me with great oppourtunities to learn.
But in the last year or so i have also started using proxmox. Before then i had always just loaded upa server or a docker instance on whatever hardware and software that i had up and running at the time. Which worked but always felt a bit disjointed and i tended to stack a lot of different things together to get things to work. But i got lucky and ended up getting a few small form factor pcs for either really good prices or free as well as getting several excellently priced hard drives. That and a love of 3d printing and a few videos on mini racks and i was ready to get started.
It is pretty easy to get proxmox installed and really just as easy to get clustered if you have a bunch of them that you want to work together. The things that you can do with it are only really limited by your imagination. you can really define how all of your capacity is allocated and used and see if you are really using the full extent of the hardware. With a little bit of work you can replace a lot of the cloud services that you use that cost money and you can easily spin up and test things to see if you like them or not. also very easy to remove them if they dont work for you. All without impacting the other things that you are using on a regular basis.
LXC’s are very easy to spin up, especially if you use something like proxmox helper scripts. yes you should review the code since you are using someone elses scripts on your server but i have not found any issues with any of them so far. LXC’s are really good for single services and seem to be a little bit more stable then my experiences with docker. LXC’s do have some limitations in regards to permissions for security purposes which can make some things difficult to use but there are ways around that. Speaking of which VMS are also very easy to spin up and cover all the scenarios that LXC’s are not good at.
Also VMs are a great way to test new distros without having to do full reinstalls and i tend to prefer my docker instances to be in a VM instead of a LXC so i dont have to fight an unprivileged container with passing things to it. But i also have another great use for VMs on proxmox boxes and that is as set top boxes in the foreground while running all of these disconnected services in the background.  Yeah i could do that without proxmox but i can control them from a central location and bring some of them down as needed to work on. All in all in enjoy the workflow of having proxmox.
So long story short i do think that it is worth it to get to know proxmox and to host it yourself even if it is only on a couple of machines. Granted if you only have the one PC and dont fancy running your own servers then this is not for you.

Episode 289

Welcome to Episode 289 of the LinuxLUGcast
We are an open podcast/LUG that meets at 9 PM EST every first and third friday of the month using mumble.
We encourage anyone listening to join us and participate on the podcast. Check out https://www.linuxlugcast.com/ for the server details.
If you have any questions, comments, or topic you would like us to discus and are unable to join us during the live show you can send us email at feedback@linuxlugcast.com

Join in the conversation at
https://matrix.to/#/#lugcast:minnix.dev

Movie List
https://etherpad.integrations.element.io/p/e24fde39-0b56-4941-9870-526055295062

Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxlugcast

Peertube Channel
https://nightshift.minnix.dev/c/linux_lugcast/videos

web mumble
https://lugcastweb.minnix.dev/

jitsi
https://jitsi.minnix.dev/lugcast

Previous Movie: Untraceable 2008
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0880578/

Next Movie: Thirteenth Floor
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/

Router talk

Eric returns to distro hopping

Netminer plays with DHCP

lxc openwrt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mPbrunpjpk&t=113s

LibreCMC – The libre Embedded GNU/Linux Distro.
https://librecmc.org/
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/librecmc-free-software-wireless-n-broadband-router-gnu-linux

Our next recording date will be April 17th, 2026
Our music is “Downright” provided by Klaatu and Broam
and we would like to thank Minnix for the mumble server

Episode 288

Welcome to Episode 288 of the LinuxLUGcast
We are an open podcast/LUG that meets at 9 PM EST every first and third friday of the month using mumble.
We encourage anyone listening to join us and participate on the podcast. Check out https://www.linuxlugcast.com/ for the server details.
If you have any questions, comments, or topic you would like us to discus and are unable to join us during the live show you can send us email at feedback@linuxlugcast.com

Join in the conversation at
https://matrix.to/#/#lugcast:minnix.dev

Movie List
https://etherpad.integrations.element.io/p/e24fde39-0b56-4941-9870-526055295062

Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxlugcast

Peertube Channel
https://nightshift.minnix.dev/c/linux_lugcast/videos

Previous Movie:  Obex 2025
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29544916

Next Movie: Untraceable 2008
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0880578
https://therokuchannel.roku.com/watch/fd97789694bd514f80be6e092931e4e1

Elle and mordancy:e office with a large Ikea shelve to display our art, collectables, cultural, and religeous items and 2 new computer/office desks from home depo. We were going to buy the 71 inch desks but they would have been difficult to setup in the same room. We bought and  set up the “63 in. Rectangular Brown Wood Computer Desk Study Writing Table for Home Office”

https://www.homedepot.com/p/63-in-Rectangular-Brown-Wood-Computer-Desk-Study-Writing-Table-for-Home-Office-BB-U0170CD-XL/329352239 and https://www.homedepot.com/p/63-in-Rectangular-Brown-and-Black-Engineered-Wood-Simple-Computer-Desk-Office-Executive-Desk-for-Home-Office-BB-U0149CD-XL/330445830

GrapheneOS and Motorola news that Gage Hopper posted in the HPR matrix group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5GrbhB2HHQ

Logitech C-U0007 Unifying USB Receiver
https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Unifying-Receiver-Keyboard-Connects/dp/B0058OU8VY

Jason Criddle
https://jasoncriddle.com/

DstoPar Wireless Mechanical Keyboard
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G6LL77Z6

New Intel S4520 3.84TB
https://www.ebay.com/itm/156180491085?mkcid=2&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-175623-139228-7&mkscid=102&adsetid=9e759d84-03f7-4f9f-b253-735e8ca03382&keyword=nonbrand&norover=1&displaytype=simple

Talking about the Apple Neo
https://www.apple.com/macbook-neo/

Graphene and Motorola
https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/

Keep Android Open
https://keepandroidopen.org/

Stockholm syndrome (Minnix)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

DistroWatch
https://distrowatch.com/

Framwork Desktop
https://frame.work/desktop

Framework Laptop 13 Cooler Master Mainboard Case
https://frame.work/products/cooler-master-mainboard-case-and-mainboard-12th-gen-intel-core-kit?v=FRANHDCM01

Lobsters is a computing-focused community centered around link aggregation  and discussion, launched on July 3rd, 2012.
https://lobste.rs/

CADQuery
https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

1 USD to MXN – Convert US Dollars to Mexican Pesos
https://www.xe.com/en/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=USD&To=MXN

Real ID (in Virginia)
https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/licenses-ids/real-id

Barrier
https://github.com/debauchee/barrier

https://www.goodreads.com/series/85195-post-human
https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/old-mans-war/
https://fickledragon.com/junkyard-pirate-series/
https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/the-last-reaper/
https://www.marissameyer.com/the-lunar-chronicles-books/
https://www.goodreads.com/series/41588-deathstalker

“`bash
#myip is a function
myip {
local ip=”/usr/bin/ip”;
local curl=”/usr/bin/curl”;
${ip} -color -brief -family inet address;
builtin echo -e “\n\nPublic IP Address: $(${curl} –ipv4 ifconfig.co)”;
unset ip curl;
return
}
“`

Our next recording date will be April 3rd, 2026
Our music is “Downright” provided by Klaatu and Broam
and we would like to thank Minnix for the mumble server