Linux Prepper

About Linux Prepper

A podcast about FOSS, Linux, open‑source tools, self‑hosting, homelab tinkering, and the evergreen practice of DIY, hands‑on learning. Linux Prepper explores open systems, simple workflows, resilient infrastructure, and local‑first approaches through calm, reflective narration that treats experimentation and failure as a path to understanding. The show documents a long‑term practice of building, breaking, questioning, sharing, listening, and iterating. Chaos is welcomed as part of the process, and minimalism shapes the choices—using what you have, keeping setups practical and low‑overhead, and focusing on skills that last. Episodes offer results and insights from a place of honesty, without prescribing how anyone “should” do things. Listener questions, stories, and shared experiments influence what comes next, creating a collaborative space where learning happens through doing. You’re encouraged to explore alongside the show, submit your findings, and help form your own conclusions. If you appreciate open‑source creativity, low‑overhead setups, practical tech, and a thoughtful approach to hands‑on exploration, then welcome. Let the mess teach the lesson.

Publisher

Living Cartoon Company

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Sept 2024

Latest episode

14 May 2026

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 May 2026

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

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

2. 

   3 May 2026

   Teaser - Battlestations old hardware and unfinished projects

   Episode coming soon! Dust off your old hardware or pull it back out of the recycling bin. News of the death of your old hardware was greatly exaggerated! Associated show notes and articles will be posted to the forum (https://discuss.livingcartoon.org) and wiki (https://wiki.livingcartoon.org) Ways to Support the Show! Share it with others! Enroll in Linux Prepper Premium (https://ko-fi.com/livingcartoon/tiers) as a Patron of Living Cartoon Company to support the show! Gets you access to more content. Join #linuxprepper:matrix.org (https://matrix.to/#/#linuxprepper:matrix.org) chat on Matrix! Follow from the Fediverse: Mastodon, etc. (https://podcast.james.network/@linuxprepper/follow) @linuxprepper@podcast.james.network (mailto:linuxprepper@podcast.james.network) Lemmy community (https://discuss.online/c/linuxprepperpodcast), which x-posts across the Fediverse. Send in anonymous feedback with one click! (https://cloud.disroot.org/apps/forms/s/Lzai4d2A79iNsapnpbGbBGcH) See more detailed notes and info at the forum (https://discuss.james.network) Email feedback to podcast@james.network (mailto:podcast@james.network) I do not promise to respond, but I promise to read your words!

3. 

   3 Apr 2026

   Local Tools, Offline Networking and Building Resilience

   Why Offline & Local-First Rising Cost of Consumer Technology Cloudflare Outages - interest in local hosting Re-purposing older machines into functional use! (00:11) Offline Tooling, Local Tooling, Resilience Introduction (00:50) Sponsor Ameridroid (https://ameridroid.com/?ref=podcast) LINUXPREPPER code (01:14) Domain Changes and thoughts after years on .network, xyz and org (https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/127-domains-from-network-to-xyz-to-org/) (01:32) Forum posts related to simple, resilient setups (https://discuss.livingcartoon.org) Show notes listed there as well (https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/140-shownotes-local-tools-offline-networking-and-building-resilience) (02:21) Do you have a device in a drawer that might be useful as-is? (04:38) KDE Connect - Thoughts after Three Years (https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/141-kde-connect-thoughts-after-three-years) (08:30) Unbound (https://www.unbound.org/), DNSMasq - Local DNS Caching, Recursive DNS and Resolvers (09:30) Quad9 (https://quad9.net/) - Global Public Recursive DNS for Public Benefit, alternative to Cloudflare and Google (09:55) Local DNS Resilience and Why It Matters (12:15) Connecting Multiple Services and What DNS Adblocking Actually Does with Pi-Hole, Adguard Home, etc. (13:04) Dividing IP Ranges for Custom DNS, Adblocking assignments (13:55) Adding Resilience, Privacy and Speed Most Routers Do Not Offer Natively (15:20) Challenges You Can Try at Home! (https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/139-local-challenges) (15:59) Wiki in early development as plain text. Learn more on the forum (https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/134-building-out-wikilivingcartoonorg) (17:00) Low Key Gear Exchange for LFNW. Details for forum users! Forum post for registered users (https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/130-lfnw-prepper-swap-2026/) (17:36) 100 Selfhosted Services for Low End and 32-bit Hardware (https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/133-selfhosted-services-for-ultra-lowend-hardware) (19:11) HomeLab Episode to be released with Robin Monks. Unedited interview available on Premium (https://podcast.james.network/@linuxprepper/episodes/selfhosted-tooling-with-robin-monk) (19:29) Nginx, Caddy - Reverse Proxy via DNS Challenge for Local HTTPS Testing (20:00) mDNS and Avahi for remote machines gifted to others without https (https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/18-how-to-prepare-a-self-hosted-machine-i-gift-to-remote-friends) (22:35) Become a Premium Subscriber to Support the Show (https://ko-fi.com/livingcartoon) (23:36) How resilient is your setup? Let me know! podcast@livingcartoon.org (mailto:podcast@livingcartoon.org) (24:05) Discord (https://discord.gg/95HGhWxaZX) and bridged Matrix (https://matrix.to/#/#livingcartoon:matrix.org) Chats for discussing the show! Please Share with Others! (24:55) LFNW Schedule (https://lfnw.org/), should be live shortly. April 24th - 26th (25:11) AI Scanned My Brainrot, Live only at LFNW, on 04/26 at 3pm! (https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/123-living-cartoon-company-presents-ai-scanned-my-brainrot-lfnw-2026) (26:17) Upcoming Episode on SeaGL, LFNW and Conferences! Ways to Support the Show! Share it with others! Enroll in Linux Prepper Premium (https://ko-fi.com/livingcartoon/tiers) as a Patron of Living Cartoon Company to support the show! Gets you access to more content. Join #linuxprepper:matrix.org (https://matrix.to/#/#linuxprepper:matrix.org) chat on Matrix! Follow from the Fediverse: Mastodon, etc. (https://podcast.james.network/@linuxprepper/follow) @linuxprepper@podcast.james.network (mailto:linuxprepper@podcast.james.network) Lemmy community (https://discuss.online/c/linuxprepperpodcast), which x-posts across the Fediverse. Send in anonymous feedback with one click! (https://cloud.disroot.org/apps/forms/s/Lzai4d2A79iNsapnpbGbBGcH) See more detailed notes and info at the forum (https://discuss.james.network) Email feedback to podcast@james.network (mailto:podcast@james.network) I do not promise to respond, but I promise to read your words!

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• Marcel
• Marcel Klehr
• Hungry Bogart

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