Linux Lads Podcast
A podcast about Linux and Open Source from a bunch of lads.
Co-hosted by Amolith (@amolith@nixnet.social), Conor (@techcelt@fosstodon.org), Mike (@mikee@social.lol), and Shane (@stranded_output@indieweb.social). Edited by Jake (@jbauer@merveilles.town).
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Amolith and Shane only this time. Amolith talks about his NAS woes. Shane mentions using Timeshift, then gives an update on his game dev project.
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The lads are joined by Máirín Duffy a Red Hat distinguished engineer who works on the Linux user experience. They talk about her work, her Irish language journey, hardware setups, LLMs, progress and society.
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Conor and Shane start by discussing the new Steam hardware, and guess at the price of the Steam Machine. Then they talk about YunoHost. Conor got a new router. Shane went to a Games Co-Op. They end up reminiscing about living abroad as Irishmen.
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The lads discuss what options there are for them employment-wise if the industry goes to hell.
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Shane's game dev is going well. Conor recommends some interesting videos. Amolith's learning Rust and contributing to a browser extension.
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Conor, Mike and Shane discuss how they learn and retain information, from brute forcing your brain to watching helpful videos and reading documentation.
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Chat with Carolina and Joseph from the End of 10 campaign.
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Mike and Amolith talk about their experience using the self-hosted streaming platform Jellyfin and then talk about the future of LLMs and their place in our society.
Our 150th episode is out!
We have been doing this for 150 episodes, so this time we bummed some questions off the listeners and used them for content.
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Conor went to Ubuntu Summit. Amolith expanded his agentic tooling. Mike messed around with simple authentication. Shane worked with Claude on his project.
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Christmas episode, released exactly at the right time. Amolith, Conor, Mike and Shane talked about their plans for the holiday break.
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Shane is finally getting fibre. Mike's messing with containers on Coolify and Amolith gets an OpenWrt One router and makes his network setup more pleasing with Tailscale and NextDNS. Continuing in the same vein, Shane talks about a Meshtastic device that a listener sent (thank you, Enistello!). Also, we have a gaming Discord server!
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This week we're joined by friend of the show Pierre who is a professional graphic designer and game developer using open source tools. We talk about the whole gamut of creativity on Linux including game development, graphics, music, video and much more.
This weekend we'll be recording our AMA episode so get those questions in!
You can contact us by:
- Emailing show@linuxlads.com
- Posting in our Telegram group - linuxlads.com/telegram
- Sending us a DM or a mention here on Mastodon.
All of our links can be found at linuxlads.com/contact
It's really just a test for now but we're running an impromptu hangout on VDO Ninja. If you'd like to see more of this kind of thing feel free to join. It's only Shane at the moment!

