<description>&lt;h3&gt;Why Offline &amp;amp; Local-First&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Rising Cost of Consumer Technology&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Cloudflare Outages - interest in local hosting&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Re-purposing older machines into functional use!&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;(00:11)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Offline Tooling, Local Tooling, Resilience Introduction&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(00:50)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://ameridroid.com/?ref=podcast"&gt;Sponsor Ameridroid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;LINUXPREPPER code&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;(01:14)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/127-domains-from-network-to-xyz-to-org/"&gt;Domain Changes and thoughts after years on .network, xyz and org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(01:32)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org"&gt;Forum posts related to simple, resilient setups&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/140-shownotes-local-tools-offline-networking-and-building-resilience"&gt;Show notes listed there as well&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;(02:21)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Do you have a device in a drawer that might be useful as-is?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(04:38)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/141-kde-connect-thoughts-after-three-years"&gt;KDE Connect - Thoughts after Three Years&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(08:30)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.unbound.org/"&gt;Unbound&lt;/a&gt;, DNSMasq - Local DNS Caching, Recursive DNS and Resolvers&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(09:30)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://quad9.net/"&gt;Quad9&lt;/a&gt; - Global Public Recursive DNS for Public Benefit, alternative to Cloudflare and Google&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(09:55)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Local DNS Resilience and Why It Matters&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(12:15)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Connecting Multiple Services and What DNS Adblocking Actually Does with Pi-Hole, Adguard Home, etc.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(13:04)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Dividing IP Ranges for Custom DNS, Adblocking assignments&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(13:55)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Adding Resilience, Privacy and Speed Most Routers Do Not Offer Natively&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(15:20)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/139-local-challenges"&gt;Challenges You Can Try at Home!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(15:59)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/134-building-out-wikilivingcartoonorg"&gt;Wiki in early development as plain text. Learn more on the forum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(17:00)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Low Key Gear Exchange for LFNW. Details for forum users!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/130-lfnw-prepper-swap-2026/"&gt;Forum post for registered users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;(17:36)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/133-selfhosted-services-for-ultra-lowend-hardware"&gt;100 Selfhosted Services for Low End and 32-bit Hardware&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(19:11)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;HomeLab Episode to be released with Robin Monks. &lt;a href="https://podcast.james.network/@linuxprepper/episodes/selfhosted-tooling-with-robin-monk"&gt;Unedited interview available on Premium&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(19:29)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Nginx, Caddy - Reverse Proxy via DNS Challenge for Local HTTPS Testing&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(20:00)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/18-how-to-prepare-a-self-hosted-machine-i-gift-to-remote-friends"&gt;mDNS and Avahi for remote machines gifted to others without https&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(22:35)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://ko-fi.com/livingcartoon"&gt;Become a Premium Subscriber to Support the Show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(23:36)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;How resilient is your setup? Let me know! &lt;a href="mailto:podcast@livingcartoon.org"&gt;podcast@livingcartoon.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(24:05)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://discord.gg/95HGhWxaZX"&gt;Discord&lt;/a&gt; and bridged &lt;a href="https://matrix.to/#/#livingcartoon:matrix.org"&gt;Matrix&lt;/a&gt; Chats for discussing the show! Please Share with Others!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(24:55)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://lfnw.org/"&gt;LFNW Schedule&lt;/a&gt;, should be live shortly. April 24th - 26th&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(25:11)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/123-living-cartoon-company-presents-ai-scanned-my-brainrot-lfnw-2026"&gt;AI Scanned My Brainrot, Live only at LFNW, on 04/26 at 3pm!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(26:17)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Upcoming Episode on SeaGL, LFNW and Conferences!&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

Local Tools, Offline Networking and Building Resilience

APR 3, 202627 MIN
Linux Prepper

Local Tools, Offline Networking and Building Resilience

APR 3, 202627 MIN

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<h3>Why Offline &amp; Local-First</h3> <ul> <li>Rising Cost of Consumer Technology</li> <li>Cloudflare Outages - interest in local hosting</li> <li>Re-purposing older machines into functional use!</li> </ul> <p>(00:11)</p> <p>Offline Tooling, Local Tooling, Resilience Introduction</p> <p>(00:50)</p> <p><a href="https://ameridroid.com/?ref=podcast">Sponsor Ameridroid</a></p> <ul> <li>LINUXPREPPER code</li> </ul> <p>(01:14)</p> <p><a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/127-domains-from-network-to-xyz-to-org/">Domain Changes and thoughts after years on .network, xyz and org</a></p> <p>(01:32)</p> <p><a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org">Forum posts related to simple, resilient setups</a></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/140-shownotes-local-tools-offline-networking-and-building-resilience">Show notes listed there as well</a></li> </ul> <p>(02:21)</p> <p>Do you have a device in a drawer that might be useful as-is?</p> <p>(04:38)</p> <p><a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/141-kde-connect-thoughts-after-three-years">KDE Connect - Thoughts after Three Years</a></p> <p>(08:30)</p> <p><a href="https://www.unbound.org/">Unbound</a>, DNSMasq - Local DNS Caching, Recursive DNS and Resolvers</p> <p>(09:30)</p> <p><a href="https://quad9.net/">Quad9</a> - Global Public Recursive DNS for Public Benefit, alternative to Cloudflare and Google</p> <p>(09:55)</p> <p>Local DNS Resilience and Why It Matters</p> <p>(12:15)</p> <p>Connecting Multiple Services and What DNS Adblocking Actually Does with Pi-Hole, Adguard Home, etc.</p> <p>(13:04)</p> <p>Dividing IP Ranges for Custom DNS, Adblocking assignments</p> <p>(13:55)</p> <p>Adding Resilience, Privacy and Speed Most Routers Do Not Offer Natively</p> <p>(15:20)</p> <p><a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/139-local-challenges">Challenges You Can Try at Home!</a></p> <p>(15:59)</p> <p><a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/134-building-out-wikilivingcartoonorg">Wiki in early development as plain text. Learn more on the forum</a></p> <p>(17:00)</p> <p>Low Key Gear Exchange for LFNW. Details for forum users!</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/130-lfnw-prepper-swap-2026/">Forum post for registered users</a></li> </ul> <p>(17:36)</p> <p><a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/133-selfhosted-services-for-ultra-lowend-hardware">100 Selfhosted Services for Low End and 32-bit Hardware</a></p> <p>(19:11)</p> <p>HomeLab Episode to be released with Robin Monks. <a href="https://podcast.james.network/@linuxprepper/episodes/selfhosted-tooling-with-robin-monk">Unedited interview available on Premium</a></p> <p>(19:29)</p> <p>Nginx, Caddy - Reverse Proxy via DNS Challenge for Local HTTPS Testing</p> <p>(20:00)</p> <p><a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/18-how-to-prepare-a-self-hosted-machine-i-gift-to-remote-friends">mDNS and Avahi for remote machines gifted to others without https</a></p> <p>(22:35)</p> <p><a href="https://ko-fi.com/livingcartoon">Become a Premium Subscriber to Support the Show</a></p> <p>(23:36)</p> <p>How resilient is your setup? Let me know! <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></p> <p>(24:05)</p> <p><a href="https://discord.gg/95HGhWxaZX">Discord</a> and bridged <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#livingcartoon:matrix.org">Matrix</a> Chats for discussing the show! Please Share with Others!</p> <p>(24:55)</p> <p><a href="https://lfnw.org/">LFNW Schedule</a>, should be live shortly. April 24th - 26th</p> <p>(25:11)</p> <p><a href="https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/123-living-cartoon-company-presents-ai-scanned-my-brainrot-lfnw-2026">AI Scanned My Brainrot, Live only at LFNW, on 04/26 at 3pm!</a></p> <p>(26:17)</p> <p>Upcoming Episode on SeaGL, LFNW and Conferences!</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>