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

About this episode

This episode discusses repurposing old hardware for Linux use, local sharing, and various tools and games available for Linux systems.

(00:00) Previous episode on local networking and off-line tooling (00:37) Ameridroid Sponsor - Linuxprepper at checkout (01:20) Battlestations, and how they relate to Linux Prepper (02:35) Your input much appreciated on this long term exploration (03:08) Two Desktops from Thin Clients, Detailed Notes (07:00) Older Intel Graphics and X Window Manager Support vs Wayland LXQT Openbox Xfce Anti-X MX Linux Arch 32-bit (07:52) 32-bit and Multi-Architecture Support, Wine, Proton (12:00) Love 2D Engine and Compiling Back 32-bit Support (13:07) Moonring, Free RPG Game inspired by Ultima (13:21) Balatro, Card Game (13:27) Arco - Turned-based, Meso-american Adventure Game (14:03) 100 Tools You can Selfhost on Minimal Hardware (14:57) Pipewire, Wireplumber, QPWGraph, pw-jack (18:30) Aphex Twin Premium Episode Coming Soon (19:22) Memory Management from 16gb to 1gb RAM (20:11) Zram, adding efficient memory compression (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 monitoring Zram and Swap (26:14) Swappiness, what triggering it does (27:55) Considerations for 8gb to 1gb of total RAM (32:08) DURP…

People in this episode

Host: Linux Prepper

Topics covered

• repurposing hardware
• local networking
• Linux gaming
• memory management
• file management
• self-hosting

Keywords

• battlestations
• LinuxPrepper
• memory compression
• file transfers
• self-hosting tools
• Linux gaming
• local networking

Sponsors

Ameridroid

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: LinuxFest Northwest, Pipewire, Wireplumber, QPWGraph, pw-jack, EarlyOOM, SCP, Rsync, Unison, Core Utils

Products: Linuxprepper

Books & works: Moonring, Balatro, Arco

Places: Meso-american

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