- 34 minutes 53 secondsClearing the Decks
In this episode:
- Alan reports back from the Ubuntu Summit,
- Martin updates Jivetalking
- Mark combats the cordyceps in The Last of Us Part I
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7 July 2026, 3:30 pm - 42 minutes 5 secondsDOSing about with games
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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16 June 2026, 3:30 pm - 42 minutes 54 secondssnap install flatpak
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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9 June 2026, 3:30 pm - Martin transforms Neovim into an unyielding modeless VSCode-style IDE with CUA keybindings.
- 33 minutes 37 secondsDitching Grammarly for Open Sauce
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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26 May 2026, 2:30 pm - 32 minutes 42 secondsCooking up a framework desktop
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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12 May 2026, 3:30 pm - 38 minutes 20 secondsPassing the Gourd
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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28 April 2026, 3:30 pm - 33 minutes 22 secondsPouring out the Sidra
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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14 April 2026, 3:30 pm - 34 minutes 50 secondsVNC? No way!
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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31 March 2026, 3:30 pm - 33 minutes 10 secondsTailor Snaps for Big Iron
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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17 March 2026, 5:00 pm - 42 minutes 12 secondsThe Smell of Git
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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3 March 2026, 7:00 pm - 35 minutes 4 secondsMark's Meshing About
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-highwaycountry lanes.
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