The podcast covers embarrassing tech mistakes, Linux Fest Northwest 2024 announcement, troubleshooting computer motherboards, accidental bricking and warranty replacement, managing Chef infrastructure, challenges of remote work and BYOD, discussion on Jovian NYX OS and boosts received, Nix OS, Fedora, Ansible, and sticker game, and using older hardware and obscure distros.
Listeners show support and excitement for Linux-related content through boosting and contributions.
The hosts discuss the benefits and features of the Scrutiny tool for monitoring hard drive health and performance.
SoulTroll provides an update on the NYX OS config builder tool and its applications for Valve's game scope and GNOME Shell setup on the Steam Deck.
Deep dives
Boosting the Naming Conventions
Devator boosts a whopping 450,000 Satoshis to reset all the silly naming conventions back to best guess and expresses gratitude for the JB shows
Unboxing the 32-bit Laptops
Chris and West unbox the two Dell Inspiron 6400 laptops sent in by Spazzy C for the 32-bit challenge, expressing excitement and gratitude for the generous contribution
Steam Deck Nixification
SoulTroll provides an update on the NYX OS config builder tool, explaining how it can be used to build Valve's game scope and set up GNOME Shell on the Steam Deck
Boosting for Scale and Beyond
Several listeners have boosted the podcast to support the hosts' trip to the Scale event. There have been various contributions, from small to large, with each booster expressing their reasons for supporting and their excitement for seeing Linux-related content.
Explore and Manage Smart Disk Monitoring
The hosts discuss the benefits of using the Scrutiny tool for monitoring hard drive health and performance. Scrutiny provides a simple and intuitive web UI that displays detailed information about hard drives, including age, temperature, and any issues that may have occurred. Many listeners share their experiences and thoughts on hard drive smart monitoring, including running it on different types of disks and their suggestions for configuration management of dot files.
LFNW 2024: Ready or not — Quick on the heels of our wildly successful MiniFest this Fall, LinuxFest Northwest is proud to announce a full event: LinuxFest Northwest 2024 - April 26-28 2024!
GNU Stow — GNU Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct packages of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem, and makes them appear to be installed in the same place.
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