<description>&lt;p&gt;(00:00)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://podcast.james.network/@linuxprepper/episodes/local-tools-local-networking-and-building-resilience"&gt;Previous episode on local networking and off-line tooling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(00:37)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://ameridroid.com/?ref=podcast"&gt;Ameridroid Sponsor - Linuxprepper at checkout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(01:20)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://lemmy.world/c/battlestations"&gt;Battlestations, and how they relate to Linux Prepper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(02:35)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://cloud.disroot.org/apps/forms/s/Lzai4d2A79iNsapnpbGbBGcH"&gt;Your input much appreciated on this long term exploration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(03:08)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/138-battlestations-building-out-my-local-machines"&gt;Two Desktops from Thin Clients, Detailed Notes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(07:00)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Older Intel Graphics and X Window Manager Support vs Wayland&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://lxqt-project.org/"&gt;LXQT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://openbox.org/help/Getting_started"&gt;Openbox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://xfce.org/"&gt;Xfce&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://antixlinux.com/"&gt;Anti-X&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mxlinux.org/"&gt;MX Linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://archlinux32.org/"&gt;Arch 32-bit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;(07:52)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/154-the-return-of-32-bit"&gt;32-bit and Multi-Architecture Support, Wine, Proton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(12:00)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/160-love-2d-engine-built-with-c-and-lua"&gt;Love 2D Engine and Compiling Back 32-bit Support&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(13:07)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://dene.itch.io/moonring"&gt;Moonring, Free RPG Game inspired by Ultima&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(13:21)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.playbalatro.com/"&gt;Balatro, Card Game&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(13:27)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://arco.game/"&gt;Arco - Turned-based, Meso-american Adventure Game&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(14:03)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/133-selfhosted-services-for-ultra-lowend-hardware"&gt;100 Tools You can Selfhost on Minimal Hardware&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(14:57)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/109-managing-multiple-audio-devices-in-pipewire"&gt;Pipewire, Wireplumber, QPWGraph, pw-jack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(18:30)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://aphextwin.warp.net/releases"&gt;Aphex Twin Premium Episode Coming Soon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(19:22)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Memory Management from 16gb to 1gb RAM&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(20:11)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/lowendgaming/comments/13d5brx/enable_zram_on_low_end_linux_machines_for_a_free/"&gt;Zram, adding efficient memory compression&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(21:26)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;12GB RAM total notes on setting up Zram, Swap, Swappiness&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(22:39)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;16GB RAM total notes on my other Intel NUC&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(23:37)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom"&gt;EarlyOOM Daemon&lt;/a&gt; monitoring Zram and Swap&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(26:14)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://access.redhat.com/solutions/103833"&gt;Swappiness, what triggering it does&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(27:55)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Considerations for 8gb to 1gb of total RAM&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(32:08)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/83-join-the-diy-unfinished-resurrection-project-through-march-20th"&gt;DURP Challenger&lt;/a&gt; downgrading to Pi 3 as appliance&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(33:02)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;File Management with Core Utils through SSH&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(33:31)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/scp.1.html"&gt;SCP for One-Way Transfers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(34:29)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync"&gt;Rsync - One-way Transfers with Comprehensive Control&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(36:02)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison"&gt;Unison - Resilient Bi-directional Rsync for Two Locations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(38:09)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Scaling up without cloud services or servers&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(39:34)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing"&gt;Syncthing - P2P Real-time Sync with client support&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/pixelspark/sushitrain"&gt;Sushitrain&lt;/a&gt; - Open Source Client for iOS&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android"&gt;Syncthing-Fork for Android&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/Martchus/syncthingtray"&gt;Syncthing Tray&lt;/a&gt; for KDE Plasma &amp;amp; Dolphin&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;(42:24)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://rclone.org/"&gt;Rclone&lt;/a&gt; - Rsync-like support for Cloud Providers: Dropbox, Google Drive, S3&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(43:30)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Minimal Homelab Implications; Try The Tools and Win&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(45:01)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://podcast.james.network/@linuxprepper/episodes/containers-and-compose-for-the-curious-and-who-are-they-not-for"&gt;Container Concerns vs Understanding Tooling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Understanding how tools actually work when deploying&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;(45:42)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Trivia Winners from LFNW and Named Projects!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(46:13)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://wiki.livingcartoon.org/doku.php?id=events:lfnw"&gt;LinuxFest Northwest 2026 Wikipage with Youtube Links&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(48:01)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://seagl.org/"&gt;SeaGL Call for Speakers Open Now!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;footer&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Ways to Support the Show!&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Share it with others!&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://ko-fi.com/livingcartoon/tiers"&gt;Enroll in Linux Prepper Premium&lt;/a&gt; as a Patron of Living Cartoon Company to support the show! Gets you access to more content.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Join &lt;a href="https://matrix.to/#/#linuxprepper:matrix.org"&gt;#linuxprepper:matrix.org&lt;/a&gt; chat on Matrix!&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://podcast.james.network/@linuxprepper/follow"&gt;Follow from the Fediverse: Mastodon, etc.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;@&lt;a href="mailto:linuxprepper@podcast.james.network"&gt;linuxprepper@podcast.james.network&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://discuss.online/c/linuxprepperpodcast"&gt;Lemmy community&lt;/a&gt;, which x-posts across the Fediverse.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://cloud.disroot.org/apps/forms/s/Lzai4d2A79iNsapnpbGbBGcH"&gt;Send in anonymous feedback with one click!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;See &lt;a href="https://discuss.james.network"&gt;more detailed notes and info at the forum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;Email feedback to &lt;a href="mailto:podcast@james.network"&gt;podcast@james.network&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I do not promise to respond, but I promise to read your words!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/footer&gt;</description>

Linux Prepper

Living Cartoon Company

Repurposing Battlestations from old hardware, local sharing offline and LinuxFest Northwest Trivia

MAY 14, 202649 MIN
Linux Prepper

Repurposing Battlestations from old hardware, local sharing offline and LinuxFest Northwest Trivia

MAY 14, 202649 MIN

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<p>(00:00)</p> <p><a href="https://podcast.james.network/@linuxprepper/episodes/local-tools-local-networking-and-building-resilience">Previous episode on local networking and off-line tooling</a></p> <p>(00:37)</p> <p><a href="https://ameridroid.com/?ref=podcast">Ameridroid Sponsor - Linuxprepper at checkout</a></p> <p>(01:20)</p> <p><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/battlestations">Battlestations, and how they relate to Linux Prepper</a></p> <p>(02:35)</p> <p><a href="https://cloud.disroot.org/apps/forms/s/Lzai4d2A79iNsapnpbGbBGcH">Your input much appreciated on this long term exploration</a></p> <p>(03:08)</p> <p><a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/138-battlestations-building-out-my-local-machines">Two Desktops from Thin Clients, Detailed Notes</a></p> <p>(07:00)</p> <p>Older Intel Graphics and X Window Manager Support vs Wayland</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://lxqt-project.org/">LXQT</a></li> <li><a href="https://openbox.org/help/Getting_started">Openbox</a></li> <li><a href="https://xfce.org/">Xfce</a></li> <li><a href="https://antixlinux.com/">Anti-X</a></li> <li><a href="https://mxlinux.org/">MX Linux</a></li> <li><a href="https://archlinux32.org/">Arch 32-bit</a></li> </ul> <p>(07:52)</p> <p><a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/154-the-return-of-32-bit">32-bit and Multi-Architecture Support, Wine, Proton</a></p> <p>(12:00)</p> <p><a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/160-love-2d-engine-built-with-c-and-lua">Love 2D Engine and Compiling Back 32-bit Support</a></p> <p>(13:07)</p> <p><a href="https://dene.itch.io/moonring">Moonring, Free RPG Game inspired by Ultima</a></p> <p>(13:21)</p> <p><a href="https://www.playbalatro.com/">Balatro, Card Game</a></p> <p>(13:27)</p> <p><a href="https://arco.game/">Arco - Turned-based, Meso-american Adventure Game</a></p> <p>(14:03)</p> <p><a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/133-selfhosted-services-for-ultra-lowend-hardware">100 Tools You can Selfhost on Minimal Hardware</a></p> <p>(14:57)</p> <p><a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/109-managing-multiple-audio-devices-in-pipewire">Pipewire, Wireplumber, QPWGraph, pw-jack</a></p> <p>(18:30)</p> <p><a href="https://aphextwin.warp.net/releases">Aphex Twin Premium Episode Coming Soon</a></p> <p>(19:22)</p> <p>Memory Management from 16gb to 1gb RAM</p> <p>(20:11)</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/lowendgaming/comments/13d5brx/enable_zram_on_low_end_linux_machines_for_a_free/">Zram, adding efficient memory compression</a></p> <p>(21:26)</p> <p>12GB RAM total notes on setting up Zram, Swap, Swappiness</p> <p>(22:39)</p> <p>16GB RAM total notes on my other Intel NUC</p> <p>(23:37)</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom">EarlyOOM Daemon</a> monitoring Zram and Swap</p> <p>(26:14)</p> <p><a href="https://access.redhat.com/solutions/103833">Swappiness, what triggering it does</a></p> <p>(27:55)</p> <p>Considerations for 8gb to 1gb of total RAM</p> <p>(32:08)</p> <p><a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/83-join-the-diy-unfinished-resurrection-project-through-march-20th">DURP Challenger</a> downgrading to Pi 3 as appliance</p> <p>(33:02)</p> <p>File Management with Core Utils through SSH</p> <p>(33:31)</p> <p><a href="https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/scp.1.html">SCP for One-Way Transfers</a></p> <p>(34:29)</p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync">Rsync - One-way Transfers with Comprehensive Control</a></p> <p>(36:02)</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison">Unison - Resilient Bi-directional Rsync for Two Locations</a></p> <p>(38:09)</p> <p>Scaling up without cloud services or servers</p> <p>(39:34)</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing">Syncthing - P2P Real-time Sync with client support</a></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/pixelspark/sushitrain">Sushitrain</a> - Open Source Client for iOS</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android">Syncthing-Fork for Android</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Martchus/syncthingtray">Syncthing Tray</a> for KDE Plasma &amp; Dolphin</li> </ul> <p>(42:24)</p> <p><a href="https://rclone.org/">Rclone</a> - Rsync-like support for Cloud Providers: Dropbox, Google Drive, S3</p> <p>(43:30)</p> <p>Minimal Homelab Implications; Try The Tools and Win</p> <p>(45:01)</p> <p><a href="https://podcast.james.network/@linuxprepper/episodes/containers-and-compose-for-the-curious-and-who-are-they-not-for">Container Concerns vs Understanding Tooling</a></p> <ul> <li>Understanding how tools actually work when deploying</li> </ul> <p>(45:42)</p> <p>Trivia Winners from LFNW and Named Projects!</p> <p>(46:13)</p> <p><a href="https://wiki.livingcartoon.org/doku.php?id=events:lfnw">LinuxFest Northwest 2026 Wikipage with Youtube Links</a></p> <p>(48:01)</p> <p><a href="https://seagl.org/">SeaGL Call for Speakers Open Now!</a></p> <footer><h2>Ways to Support the Show!</h2> <ul> <li>Share it with others!</li> <li><a href="https://ko-fi.com/livingcartoon/tiers">Enroll in Linux Prepper Premium</a> as a Patron of Living Cartoon Company to support the show! Gets you access to more content.</li> <li>Join <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#linuxprepper:matrix.org">#linuxprepper:matrix.org</a> chat on Matrix!</li> <li><a href="https://podcast.james.network/@linuxprepper/follow">Follow from the Fediverse: Mastodon, etc.</a> <ul> <li>@<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> <li><a href="https://discuss.online/c/linuxprepperpodcast">Lemmy community</a>, which x-posts across the Fediverse.</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://cloud.disroot.org/apps/forms/s/Lzai4d2A79iNsapnpbGbBGcH">Send in anonymous feedback with one click!</a></li> <li>See <a href="https://discuss.james.network">more detailed notes and info at the forum</a></li> </ul> <p>Email feedback to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></p> <p>I do not promise to respond, but I promise to read your words!</p> </footer>