Late Night Linux Family All Episodes
Episodes
Ask The Hosts – Episode 1
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a new show where we answer your questions about everything except Linux and open source. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago. Bea...
Linux Matters 5: Extending GNOME is hard
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Mark is writing a GNOME Extension Martin edits without nano, switching to Micro Alan presents what we learned from AskUbuntu Yo...
Late Night Linux – Episode 233
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A great way to access documentation offline, moving Windows installations to new disks without breaking them, streaming VR games from a PC, replacing ...
Linux After Dark – Episode 45
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dalton spent 3 hours having fun playing with open source DJ software Mixxx, and wonders if the rest of us have had a similar amount of fun with FOSS. ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 232
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The future of containerised applications and immutable desktops looks more and more like the present, what looks like the Steam Deck moment for audio ...
Linux Downtime – Episode 73
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Amolith attempts to argue that avoiding ads using open source software is piracy, and that piracy in this case is good. See our contact page...
Linux Matters 4: Automatic for the people
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Alan announces RSS is alive and well, and powering Mastodon bots Mark finds the best mouse for desktop Linux. Possibly. Martin is usi...
Late Night Linux – Episode 231
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What we’re excited about in the Linux and FOSS world, what we’re worried about, and what we can do about it. From the upcoming Plasma release to g...
Linux After Dark – Episode 44
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We try to imagine what the future holds for our young kids, and realise how much the tech world has changed since we were young. Plus building a dirt ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 230
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Graphing pings in the terminal, streaming playstation games to your Linux machine, finding secrets and sensitive information in your repos, keeping yo...
Linux Downtime – Episode 72
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of our chat with Molly White from Web3 is Going Just Great. This time we talk about Mastodon and the Fediverse, central bank digital currencies...
Linux Matters 3: Soaking up the Cider
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Martin switches to Apple Music on Desktop Linux Alan starts Sideloading Homebrew on Steam Deck Mark tries to find note-taking nirvana...
Late Night Linux – Episode 229
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thunderbird shows that asking users for money works, Red Hat’s priorities seem to be moving away from the community, Mozilla is set to show the Fedi...
Linux After Dark – Episode 43
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The times we’ve spent far too long troubleshooting simple problems – from permissions issues to unplugged cables and CDs in the wrong slots. Plus ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 228
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We come up with tips for new users, and realise how complicated a lot of the things we do with Linux are. Plus emulating a Wii U, a cheeky hack for vi...
Linux Downtime – Episode 71
07 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Molly White from Web3 is Going Just Great to talk about the issues with crypto, Bitcoin, the Lightning network, blockchain, NFTs, and...
Linux Matters 2: Lawful evil monitor alignment
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Mark is choosing a D&D alignment based on your monitor layout Alan is building an ADB-S receiver to send flight data to FlightRadar24...
Late Night Linux – Episode 227
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How and why the Free Software Foundation should be reformed, checking your Python code incredibly quickly, Will’s Telegram bot, FOSS surround sound,...
Linux After Dark – Episode 42
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Whether the idea of “lightweight Linux” is outdated, your feedback about taming Windows and workspaces, a quick look at Bodhi, and digital waste –...
Late Night Linux – Episode 226
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Great new releases of Fedora and Ubuntu, growing pains as Red Hat turns 30, Firefox continues to improve, old drive encryption can be cracked, and KDE...
Linux Downtime – Episode 70
23 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Liam from Gaming on Linux joins us to talk about the current state of Linux gaming, the Steam Deck, how things progressed to this point, Valve being t...
Linux Matters 1: Mastodon on my résumé
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a new show in the Late Night Linux Family! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, and Martin Wimpress (from the old Ubuntu Podcast) have got the band back...
Late Night Linux – Episode 225
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A tried and tested way to stream your music collection, Silverblue but hot rodded, a GUI to monitor your network traffic, the modern way to do 2FA, KD...
Linux After Dark – Episode 41
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Windows is much better and so much worse than Joe remembers, and it makes him very grateful for desktop Linux. Plus what preparation (if any) we’ve ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 224
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
25 years of Mozilla, Twitter’s token open source efforts make us grateful for Mastodon, 3D printing faces a familiar open source challenge, and two ...
Linux Downtime – Episode 69
09 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Amolith from Linux Lads and Alan Pope to discuss Generation Z’s view of technology, and whether modern abstraction layers ultimatel...
Late Night Linux – Episode 223
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Keeping your house plants alive using open hardware, searching for apps in multiple package formats at once, processing and analysing smartwatch data,...
Linux After Dark – Episode 40
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As companies tighten their belts during these uncertain times, could there be a silver lining for open source and self-hosting? Plus our brief thought...
Late Night Linux – Episode 222
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Docker damages what little FOSS goodwill it has left, the Internet Archive inevitably loses a legal fight, GitHub’s SSH key snafu, Microsoft fails t...
Linux Downtime – Episode 68
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Alex from Self-Hosted to talk about home media setups. Is it a good idea to use a NAS running a desktop while connected to a TV, or d...
Late Night Linux – Episode 221
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Will is annoyed with calculators, Félim adds GUIs to his ropey Python, Graham attempts to tune a Piano, and Joe dreams of playing darts without the m...
Linux After Dark – Episode 39
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A year on from our episode about Ubuntu, we still have concerns about the direction of the project. Or should we just call it a product at this point?...
Late Night Linux – Episode 220
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Flathub’s grand plans spark a debate the merits of modern packaging, we feel old 20 years on from the SCO lawsuit, great news for un-Googled Android...
Linux Downtime – Episode 67
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is the right level of customisation for the Linux desktop? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Late Night Linux – Episode 219
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Troubleshooting microcontroller projects, reinstalling Ubuntu the quick and easy way, loads of gaming discoveries, follow-up on backups, playing guita...
Linux After Dark – Episode 38
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Jorge Castro to talk about immutable filesystem Linux distros. Check out his project uBlue and his YouTube Channel. Corrections f...
Late Night Linux – Episode 218
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Canonical angers the community again – this time by asking Ubuntu flavours to stop shipping Flatpak by default, we can’t decide whether Microsoft ...
Linux Downtime – Episode 66
26 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Should open source projects use open platforms for their communities, or should they meet people where they are – places like Discord? Join the Disc...
Late Night Linux – Episode 217
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
More reverse-engineering, free tech books, a handy tool for fixing things you’ve aCCIDENTALLY CAPITALISED, Chromium in the terminal, putting apps an...
Linux After Dark – Episode 37
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What counts as a boutique distro, and do we recommend them? Plus Gary tells us about his experiences at the recent Fosdem conference. T...
Late Night Linux – Episode 216
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Canonical’s latest Ubuntu PR blunder, Mastodon and the fediverse are doing a lot better than some journalists seem to think, yet another telemetry r...
Linux Downtime – Episode 65
12 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Martin tells us about why he decided to work with Nix and NixOS professionally. He mentioned Determinate Systems and Zero to Nix See ou...
Late Night Linux – Episode 215
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Making Home Assistant easier to configure, scoring music with FOSS, protecting yourself against phishing, 3 very different distro releases, traffic sh...
Linux After Dark – Episode 36
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the nested virtualisation challenge! How many levels of VMs can we get running at once? Plus we get the inside story from Lenovo about running ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 214
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Mars Helicopter continues to amaze, aviation nerds get burned, Google lays off loads of open source people, running a Mastodon instance isn’t fo...
Linux Downtime – Episode 64
29 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the modern world where we run more and more software from outside our distros’ repositories, how do we know what to trust? See our conta...
Late Night Linux – Episode 213
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Recovering data from a broken SSD, configuring the lights on a new keyboard, trying stock Android on a Pixel 7, easily blocking ads with DNS, playing ...
Linux After Dark – Episode 35
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Who has the most compute cores, how many are we actually using, and how many of them are running Linux? We finally find out who has the biggest stack ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 212
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The rise of RISC-V continues apace, we bust a recent ZFS myth, hybrid tiling in Plasma, Stadia departs with a nice gift for people, Joe draws an old s...
Linux Downtime – Episode 63
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Martin, Gary, and Hayden explain how their regular live streams benefit the open source projects that they work on. Martin’s Twitch and YouTube G...
Late Night Linux – Episode 211
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The ultimate ESP system, VoIP & RTC capture and troubleshooting, overpriced keyboards, making arcade cabinets even more fun, some notable distro relea...
Linux After Dark – Episode 34
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We look back at what we wanted to happen in 2022, and look forward to what we want to see in 2023. Episode 8 where we talked about our 2022 hopes ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 210
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Real hope for a local-only voice assistant, Matrix learns an age-old lesson about funding FOSS, 2022 was the year of Linux on the desktop, Mozilla is ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 209
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2022 predictions, and make some new ones for 2023. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastru...
Linux After Dark – Episode 33
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s almost impossible to buy a Raspberry Pi for a reasonable price at the moment so we talk about alternatives, why a lot of Pi users would be bett...
Late Night Linux – Episode 208
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s our 2022 in review episode which features Linux in space, gaming wins and fails, Raspberry Pi drama, the year of user-facing AI, Canonical and ...
Linux Downtime – Episode 62
18 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Modding a Game Cube with a Raspberry Pi Pico, writing a book about cross-platform and cross-architecture development, and the struggles of self-hosted...
Late Night Linux – Episode 207
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Loads of discoveries including picking the best DNS server for your connection, Telnet on the Amiga, some synth thing, markdown notes, and fixing down...
Linux After Dark – Episode 32
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With the holiday season upon us, we talk about all the tech that we have to have with us when we travel. See our contact page for ways to get...
Late Night Linux – Episode 206
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Particle physics depends on software that’s maintained by one retiree, another argument about AI, YouTube disrespects Creative Commons, we find an e...
Linux Downtime – Episode 61
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Pope (popey) joins us to discuss building and fostering a positive and productive community. See our contact page for ways to get in tou...
Late Night Linux – Episode 205
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An application firewall, reverse engineering with a better and scriptable version of Wireshark, getting the most out of webcams on Linux, running the ...
Linux After Dark – Episode 31
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Linux setups from the past that we miss the most, and why they are all ones that gave us the freedom to tinker and learn. See our contact...
Late Night Linux – Episode 204
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Python comes to Arduino, a look at the new version of Fedora Silverblue, Linux helps Windows work with old printers, running your own Mastodon instanc...
Linux Downtime – Episode 60
20 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Martin has created a new desktop environment and a container tool, Gary has been clustering Raspberry Pis, and Hayden has been playing with the new Mi...
Late Night Linux – Episode 203
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Some great discoveries including traffic shaping, USB over IP, speech to text, and a funny Firefox extension. Plus Graham talks to Ken VanDine, the en...
Linux After Dark – Episode 30
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we stick with Linux and FOSS, even when our faith is tested? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Late Night Linux – Episode 202
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mastodon usage explodes in the wake of Musk ruining Twitter, AI training fair use is about to be legally tested, Signal tries to be Snapchat, KDE Korn...
Linux Downtime – Episode 59
06 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Butcher joins us to talk about how open source AI can be, in theory and in practice. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 201
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Docker firewall issues, Ardour’s major new feature, listening for your neighbours’ garage door openers and tyre pressure monitors, colourising old...
Linux After Dark – Episode 29
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s our Halloween Spooktacular! What scares us about Linux, what we find spooky, and what seems like witchcraft. See our contact page for ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 200
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s our 200th episode spectacular! We look back over some of the key events and trends from the last ~5 years that the show has been going. The ris...
Linux Downtime – Episode 58
23 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What problems that we are currently facing will be solved with Linux and FOSS in the future, and why does it involve AI/ML? See our contact p...
Late Night Linux – Episode 199
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tracking planes that don’t necessarily want to be tracked, the catch 22 of communicating changes to FOSS users, Graham makes another terrible racket...
Linux After Dark – Episode 28
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is FOSS the ultimate lifeboat? If things go wrong with a tech stack, can you always just fall back on FOSS? See our contact page for ways to get...
Late Night Linux – Episode 198
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stadia is finally dead, Valve has shipped a million Steam Decks, Canonical tries to win back the community, Debian votes for common sense, acres of RI...
Linux Downtime – Episode 57
09 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Does it matter where you host your FOSS code? GitHub benefits from the network effect, but other options have their own benefits. Plus Gary explains w...
Late Night Linux – Episode 197
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Loads of discoveries including quickly fixing command line flubs, a must-have tool for USB booting, managing snapshots, and a router distro. Plus the ...
Linux After Dark – Episode 27
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our worst Linux cock-ups, and what we learned from them. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Late Night Linux – Episode 196
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
systemd arrives on WSL, Audacity gains a huge feature, Mozilla makes (valid) excuses, a bumper KDE Korner, and more. News Listener Michael sent Joe...
Linux Downtime – Episode 56
25 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the best way to implement telemetry and metrics in open source software, and should it be opt-in or opt-out? See our contact page...
Late Night Linux – Episode 195
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Whether images created by AI count as art, self-hosted audio streaming, a hex editor, playing Steam games from remote machines, QEMU on an iPad, and m...
Linux After Dark – Episode 26
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Where do we draw the line when it comes to our ethics and our ability to put food on the table? See our contact page for ways to get in to...
Late Night Linux – Episode 194
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Huge wins for RISC-V and Ubuntu Unity, the changing ways that software is distributed, and a sad lament for young people’s privacy. Plus why KDE Pla...
Linux Downtime – Episode 55
11 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What F/OSS means to us and why it’s important. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Late Night Linux – Episode 193
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A great FOSS text to speech engine, taking ownership of your audiobooks, and making chiptune music. Plus your feedback about SMS messages, docks, earb...
Linux After Dark – Episode 25
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If we could go back in time, what advice would we give our younger, less experienced counterparts about Linux and FOSS? See our contact page ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 192
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We catch up on a month’s worth of news including GitHub and GitLab controversies, Arduino multitasking, VLC being banned in India, Google’s false ...
Linux Downtime – Episode 54
28 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s part 2 of our discussion about sustainability in FOSS. Make sure to listen to part 1 first. See our contact page for ways to get in...
Late Night Linux – Episode 191
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Playing with Arduinos, a 1337 h4x0r tool, ChromeOS Flex, a proprietary software win, whether open-sourcing AI makes sense, and more. Discoveries Ta...
Linux After Dark – Episode 24
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How efficient are our whole setups – including servers, client machines, and VPSs? Could we be doing more to save energy and money? See our...
Late Night Linux – Episode 190
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the London meetup live show special! Joe is joined by Alex and Gary to discuss how to accept that most people who use/connect to Linux machines...
Linux Downtime – Episode 53
14 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is a sustainability problem in FOSS. How do we fix it? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Late Night Linux – Episode 189
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Loads of useful discoveries, a Lineage tale of woe, yet more trolling of Félim, and more. Discoveries bat Beej’s guide to network programming Li...
Linux After Dark – Episode 23
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a world of cloud and serverless, is there any point in most people learning the command line? See our contact page for ways to get in touc...
Late Night Linux – Episode 188
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Torvalds is using an Arm Mac with Asahi, potentially bad news for ChromeOS in Europe, a remarkable Debian server upgrade, Facebook wins a battle in th...
Linux Downtime – Episode 52
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hayden explains why he uses Windows Subsystem for Linux on a daily basis, and argues that Microsoft is a very different organisation from the one that...
Late Night Linux – Episode 187
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Graham played with a Steam Deck, Will switched to Firefox, Félim cleaned up his home directory, and Joe obsessed over battery health. Plus Copilot fo...
Linux After Dark – Episode 22
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our smallest and our biggest FOSS wins. Things we mentioned: Homebridge FOG Project boringtun vnStat EasyTAG HAProxy See our contact page ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 186
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thinkpads that won’t boot Linux by default, Lennart moves to Microsoft, the Firefox Snap is finally a lot faster, Reddit shows its true colours, KDE...