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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 invited 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.
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- May 14, 202649 min
Repurposing Battlestations from old hardware, local sharing offline and LinuxFest Northwest Trivia
Previous episode on local networking and off-line tooling Ameridroid Sponsor - Linuxprepper at checkout Battlestations, and how they relate to Linux Prepper Your input much appreciated on this long term exploration Two Desktops from Thin Clients, Detailed Notes Older Intel Graphics and X Window Manager Support vs Wayland LXQT Openbox Xfce Anti-X MX Linux Arch 32-bit 32-bit and Multi-Architecture Support, Wine, Proton Love 2D Engine and Compiling Back 32-bit Support Moonring, Free RPG Game inspired by Ultima Balatro, Card Game Arco - Turned-based, Meso-american Adventure Game 100 Tools You can Selfhost on Minimal Hardware Pipewire, Wireplumber, QPWGraph, pw-jack Aphex Twin Premium Episode Coming Soon Memory Management from 16gb to 1gb RAM Zram, adding efficient memory compression 12GB RAM total notes on setting up Zram, Swap, Swappiness 16GB RAM total notes on my other Intel NUC EarlyOOM Daemon monitoring Zram and Swap Swappiness, what triggering it does Considerations for 8gb to 1gb of total RAM DURP Challenger downgrading to Pi 3 as appliance File Management with Core Utils through SSH SCP for One-Way Transfers Rsync - One-way Transfers with Comprehensive Control Unison - Resilient Bi-directional Rsync for Two Locations Scaling up without cloud services or servers Syncthing - P2P Real-time Sync with client support Sushitrain - Open Source Client for iOS Syncthing-Fork for Android Syncthing Tray for KDE Plasma & Dolphin Rclone - Rsync-like support for Cloud Providers: Dropbox, Google Drive, S3 Minimal Homelab Implications; Try The Tools and Win Container Concerns vs Understanding Tooling Understanding how tools actually work when deploying Trivia Winners from LFNW and Named Projects! LinuxFest Northwest 2026 Wikipage with Youtube Links SeaGL Call for Speakers Open Now! Ways to Support the Show! Share it with others! Enroll in Linux P
- May 3, 20261 min
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 and wiki 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. @linuxprepper@podcast.james.network 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 podcast@james.network I do not promise to respond, but I promise to read your words!
- Apr 3, 202627 min
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! Offline Tooling, Local Tooling, Resilience Introduction Sponsor Ameridroid LINUXPREPPER code Domain Changes and thoughts after years on .network, xyz and org Forum posts related to simple, resilient setups Show notes listed there as well Do you have a device in a drawer that might be useful as-is? KDE Connect - Thoughts after Three Years Unbound, DNSMasq - Local DNS Caching, Recursive DNS and Resolvers Quad9 - Global Public Recursive DNS for Public Benefit, alternative to Cloudflare and Google Local DNS Resilience and Why It Matters Connecting Multiple Services and What DNS Adblocking Actually Does with Pi-Hole, Adguard Home, etc. Dividing IP Ranges for Custom DNS, Adblocking assignments Adding Resilience, Privacy and Speed Most Routers Do Not Offer Natively Challenges You Can Try at Home! Wiki in early development as plain text. Learn more on the forum Low Key Gear Exchange for LFNW. Details for forum users! Forum post for registered users 100 Selfhosted Services for Low End and 32-bit Hardware HomeLab Episode to be released with Robin Monks. Unedited interview available on Premium Nginx, Caddy - Reverse Proxy via DNS Challenge for Local HTTPS Testing mDNS and Avahi for remote machines gifted to others without https Become a Premium Subscriber to Support the Show How resilient is your setup? Let me know! podcast@livingcartoon.org Discord and bridged Matrix Chats for discussing the show! Please Share with Others! LFNW Schedule, should be live shortly. April 24th - 26th AI Scanned My Brainrot, Live only at LFNW, on 04/26 at 3pm! Upcoming Episode on SeaGL, LFNW and Conferences! 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. @linuxprepper@podcast.james.network 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 podcast@james.network I do not promise to respond, but I promise to read your words!
- Jan 26, 202643 min
Approaching Docker, Containers, and Compose for curious Self-hosters
This is a bonus Linux Prepper podcast, available as a detailed companion to “A Great Year for Linux”. This is a discussion with HB, stemming from this post on Lemmy learning from admins who avoid container technology. We discuss our experiences with containers, who they are for, and the contexts in which we find them useful. If you are self-hosting, and are container curious, this one is for you! Welcome to Linux Prepper Podcast Bonus episode connected to Season 1 Episode 1: A Great Year for Linux. Time to get technical! This discussion will not cover Permissions, File Systems, or Backups. Lemmy Discussion - What is keeping people away from Containers Ameridroid Sponsor: LINUXPREPPER code What are Containers for? HB describes making a text adventure game (in Docker) MagPi Magazine TTYD: Share your Terminal on the Web Why containerize TTYD? Managing multiple iterations through containers Use of containers, as opposed to Python virtual environments When does it make sense for someone to consider containers? Docker run commands. similar to bash scripting Compose Files, migrating from docker run commands Portainer - WebUI Management for Docker services (HB) docker ps - Management from the terminal (James) James using Docker to test for NextcloudPi and write documentation Using containers in order to define your own image Running a fleet of AI services through Compose: “Ultimate Bacon Cheeseburger” James migrating to Compose files to manage variables across many services Composerize - Turn run commands into compose files Storing compose files to avoid confusion Noisebridge Unicorn services run via compose files on a VPS Docker Networks - connecting services internally, even to a reverse proxy Aria Download Protocol HB describes using multiple, simulateous networks in isolation James describes complexity of modular tools like Nextcloud Testing Locally People leaking their private credentials in their Docker images on the web Docker Secrets HB suggests storing environment variables as files Understanding git.ignore files for people hosting files on public repos Using public sharing to learn, share and problem solve Lemmy comments of those opting out of containers There is nothing wrong with running services directly, aka “bare metal” HB’s Github 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. @<a hr
- Jan 24, 202625 min
A Great Year for Linux
Welcome to Linux Prepper Keepass skit KeepassXC is recommended for desktop users. Ameridroid Sponsor LINUXPREPPER at checkout Lemmy discussions. It looks to be a great year for Linux. Those who’ve switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going? Lemmy world and Lemmy ML Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss. Lemmy World and Lemmy ML Linux Prepper Lemmy community Lutris - Open Gaming Launcher Github repo Ubuntu Shutdown from 4 to 2 clicks Mermaids - ASCII Game developed by HB Pixel Artwork Tools recommended by HB Who is HB, the guest host? Who is James, the host? Containers, Compose - Good? Who are they for? Bonus episode TBD Asking Lemmy about reasons to avoid containers Premium subscriptions available Recurring support possible through Ko-fi, backed by Stripe. You can now be a Patron of the show! Get access to additional content. HB’s Thoughts on show topics and expectations State of the Podcast Discussion forum for the show, used for notes. Lemmy community Discord chat now bridged to Matrix Invite to Discord Invite to Matrix space for Living Cartoon Company and Linux Prepper Podcast now available on Youtube Music Steam Key Giveaway now through March 20th Leave a review on your podcast platform to enter! This podcast is now available on Youtube Submit to DURP - DIY Unfinished Resurrection Project Now through March 20th Work on a project this Winter! Accepting audience submissions! Get included in an episode! Use this simple form to submit thoughts or an audio recording. Discussing Homelabs with Robin Monks of Don’t Forget to FOSS LinuxFest Northwest Performance TBD weekend of April 24th Hackerspace AI Scanned My Brain Rot (Working Title) SeaGL 2025 Coverage to be posted: Trivia, Open Source Projects, Recap, Interview. 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. @linuxprepper@podcast.james.network <a href="https://disc
- Jan 22, 20261 min
Welcome to Linux Prepper Season 1
Linux Prepper Season 1 begins. Our focus remains on using Open Source tooling, Self-Hosting, and FOSS tooling in daily life. Linux Prepper podcast is created by James as part of Living Cartoon Broadcasting & Living Cartoon Company. We are a welcoming show, which doesn’t waste time judging others; we are all here with a common interest. By engaging in our communities you agree to our rules, which keeps things supportive and family friendly. The Matrix chat in Living Cartoon Broadcasting is now bridged to Discord. The podcast is now available on Youtube, in addition to directly from the website, Spotify, Amazon Music, Fountain, Podcast Index, etc. 2025 episodes According to DuckDuckGo: The Linux Prepper podcast focuses on using open-source technology to enhance everyday life, featuring discussions on self-hosting, Linux, and related topics. It aims to empower listeners to take control of their technology and enjoy a DIY approach to tech. 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. @linuxprepper@podcast.james.network 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 podcast@james.network I do not promise to respond, but I promise to read your words!
- Oct 24, 202533 min
Cyberdeck Cyberwhat Selfhosted VPN networks and is Wireguard Hard
Complete Shownotes at https://discuss.james.network Sponsor Ameridroid referral link - US-based distributor of Odroid, Open Hardware and Home Automation Third Reality M1 Power Plug w/ Metering with Home Assistant support. LINUXPREPPER at checkout State of the Podcast Albyhub as a selfhosted Bitcoin Lightning node. Locally hosts wallet and node for podcasting 2.0 donations + Nostr authentication. Thank you to those who have sent me donations and messages over the last couple days of it working. Send a direct lightning or Nostr donation here. Also, a thank you to the helpful Alby team. They have useful step-by-step guides. Only email them because their chat is covered in scammers. Nostr decentralized social network. Iris.to webui client for Nostr Events SeaGL or Seattle Gnu/Linux Conference at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA from 11/07 - 11/08. Full schedule released. No cost; all are welcome! My SeaGL presentation on 11/07 at 5pm. Will also be tabling to promote this show. Do stop by and say hello! Self-hosted Tools Is Wireguard hard to use? Send your thoughts on an anonymous form. Adding authentication services onto Wireguard, specifically ones you can selfhost, and run on a cheap VPS: Racknerd Referral link, and select “Reveal Deals” for VPS annual subscriptions at $11. They are friendly bunch with a great reputation; Pangolin recommends them. Minimal VPS is all that is needed for these sorts of services, which are merely providing your authentication, as opposed to the actual wireguard traffic. Limited locations: Los Angeles, San Jose, Seattle Chicago, Dallas, New York, Ashburn Strasborg France Toronto, Canada Asia recommended to use DC-02 out of Los Angeles Netbird - Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls. You can try their hosted service or selfhost it, or whatever. Check out Pangolin - is a self-hosted tunneled reverse proxy server with identity and context aware access control, designed to easily expose and protect applications running anywhere. Pangolin acts as a central hub and connects isolated networks — even those behind restrictive firewalls — through encrypted tunnels, enabling easy access to remote services without opening ports or requiring a VPN. Combines traefik reverse proxy with Single Sign On and Wireguard. Meant to be selfhosted, but they do offer a hosted instance. Pin codes, temporary links, password links for exposing services as a “funnel”. Similar to cloudflare tunnels, where users cannot be bothered to sort things out and just want a service exposed. Headscale - The main objective of Headscale is to provide a non-proprietary implementation of the Tailscale protocol & control server for hobbyists and self-hosters. Acts as a replacement for the listening servers while allowing you to continue using your existing clients applications. Funnel functionality is currently considered in beta status. Does not include a web ui by default. Headscale-ui Full listing of various webui implementations for Headscale Self-hosted Tools for when your Nextcloud server goes offline Syncthing - peer-to-peer file synchronization utility, designed to sync files between devices on a local network or between remote devices over the Internet. Note: Syncthing project does not directly support Apple Store or Google Play store for mobile. <a href="https://github
- Sep 30, 20251h 35m
Nextcloud Atomic Interview, immutable Nextcloud for single computers
Complete show notes here. Big thanks to developers Tobias and Marcel for joining the interview. There will be a second part of the interview. Was tempted to write a silly title like Nextcloud Atomic Explodes. If you are curious on related presentations from the past: NextcloudPi podcast interview by Nextcloud NextcloudPi Lightning Talk 2022 How to Contribute Panel Discussion 2023 You Can Contribute to Open Source Lightning Talk 2023 How to Escape Bigtech Techlore Interview 2023 Who is in the Interview Tobias is the developer of NextcloudPi, Atomic, and Nextcloud Secrets Hire as freelancer or donate directly on Kofi Marcel is the developer of Floccus, Nextcloud Bookmarks and Recognize. Donate through Github or donate directly on Kofi. James is host of Linux Prepper Podcast. Contributor of documentaton and testing to Nextcloud, NextcloudPi, AIO, Floccus. Donate directly on Paypal. Premium subscriptions with bonus content TBD. Steam Key Giveaway is active for anyone leaving a quick review of the show on their podcast platform of choice. Welcome to this Mini Episode + Lengthy Interview! Detailed shownotes on forum. Nextcloud Conference 9/27 - 9/28 in Berlin SeaGL Conference in Seattle, WA 11/07 - 11/08 Sponsor - Ameridroid - use LINUXPREPPER at checkout Odroid H4, Plus, Ultra series Nextcloud service overview and short review, also called Nextcloud Hub NextcloudPi - Managed Nextcloud for Selfhosters Nextcloud AIO or All-in-One is containerized by Nextcloud company proper in Docker Nextcloud Snap Floccus - Cross Platform Browser + Mobile App Syncing to Karakeep, Git, Google Drive, Nextcloud, etc. Nextcloud Bookmarks app Recognize AI app - Smart Media Tagging for Nextcloud Nextcloud Atomic - System Level Wrapper for Nextcloud AIO in Podman. WIP Prototype Fund - For Developers Contributing to Open Source Interview Begins with Tobias Introduction Hire Tobias Freelance! Marcel Introduction - Listen to his previous episode interview on AI in Nextcloud What is NextcloudPi? Not actually made for only the Raspberry Pi How Tobias became involved in NextcloudPi project, then Atomic Architecture and Efficiency of Maintenance Starting as an early Nextcloud project and the rise of containers + AIO Build system of NextcloudPi with Bash as opposed to containers Development of Atomic through containers Immutability - Fedora Silverblue, NixOS, Fedora CoreOS & iOT, openSuse MicroOS, etc. SkiffOS - early contendor for Atomic. Embedded Linux Systems from Scratch Updates and security in SkiffOS and Buildroot mkosi by Systemd in combination with Debian & Armbian Nextcloud Atomic upgrade process for developer How major upgrades will be handled for users
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