EPISODE · May 14, 2026 · 49 MIN
Repurposing Battlestations from old hardware, local sharing offline and LinuxFest Northwest Trivia
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(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! Ways to Support the Show! Share it with others! Enroll in Linux Prepper Premium as a Patron of Living Cartoon Company to support the show! Gets you access to more content. Join #linuxprepper:matrix.org chat on Matrix! Follow from the Fediverse: Mastodon, etc. @[email protected] Lemmy community, which x-posts across the Fediverse. Send in anonymous feedback with one click! See more detailed notes and info at the forum Email feedback to [email protected] I do not promise to respond, but I promise to read your words!
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