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Hello, and welcome to the Linux Lemming. I'm
your host, RastaCalavera, and this is the

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revival of the podcast. And along with the
revival, this is going to bring a lot of new

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topics to the show. I'm mainly really excited
about podcast 2.0 features, and I've been

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experimenting on how to implement some of
those features in the theme that I use for

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the podcast website and the blog. It's called
the Castanet theme. And that's really what

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powers the static Hugo site. If you're unfamiliar
with podcasting 2.0, there's links everywhere.

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Show notes, blog posts, wherever. Podcastindex.org
would be the place to really go check out

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all the new podcast namespace features and
different things like that. Some of these

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ideas, like the value tag, that's a huge one.
So putting in a value tag into the RSS feed

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allows a content creator to extract monetary
value from their audience. And this can be

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done using digital currencies. Most commonly,
it's done using Bitcoin over the Lightning

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Network. And you can send micro payments to
your content creator to show appreciation

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for what it is that they do. You can stream
value to them as you're listening to their

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production. You can send one time value in
the form of a boost, and you can attach a

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500-character message to that. It's pretty
dang cool. And there's a lot of different

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ways that people can do this. Right now, I
actually have a podcaster wallet that is

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through Fountain FM. I'm working on getting my
own self-hosted node using a program called

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Umbrell. And man, I've been waiting about
three months for that thing to sync up to

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the Bitcoin network. So I'm at about 95% now,
so I'm getting kind of close. But the value

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tag is really, really cool. Also, the chapters
tag, I've always been intrigued with podcast

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chapters. I want to find a way to do this
so that I can automate the process and I'd

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have to do it manually. So that's really exciting.
There's a thing called the lit, the live

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item tag that lets people know if you are
live streaming. So you could be just sitting

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around getting ready to listen to a podcast,
you get a little notification saying, hey,

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your content creator is going live. And you
just pull it up in your podcast player and

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listen to it. And you can send value as you do
that. Pretty amazing. So I've been playing

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around with the live item tag using a AzuraCast.
I'll talk more about that later. Transcripts.

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They're really cool. Just in the last couple
like months here, AI, open AI and whisper

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has just blown up across the community. It is
a stack of AI and machine learning models

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that you can run on your own personal computer.
You can throw audio at it and it does really

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high quality transcription of that audio. And
then you can go ahead and use that transcription

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in a podcast. It's amazing. So I've actually
got the transcripts tag working right now,

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which is pretty cool. So podcasting 2.0 is
this whole big thing. And honestly, that's

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really what made me come back. You know, obviously
I took a break, COVID and just family stuff

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and everything else made me super, super,
super busy. But podcasting 2.0 really wanted

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to pull me back in. So here I am doing this
again. And it's been a lot of fun doing it.

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So I'm very excited about podcast 2.0 stuff. And
that's going to be a big push in the documentation.

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So as the show comes back, I'm going to really
try to focus on like little mini series that

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are very centered around different topics.
So the topic of podcasting 2.0 is going to

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be something that I revisit from time to time
to time. And also with like the blog posts,

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there's going to be a little mini series in
there as well. So yeah, really just trying

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to focus down on these little topics, kind of
like a season, I guess, I'm thinking blog

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posts will come out first, because that really
helps me center my thoughts and kind of shape

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what the actual podcast audio is going to look
like. And then once those blog posts are

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all done, it'll manifest as audio and you'll
be able to hear it. So speaking of audio,

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my entire process has been turned on its
head. And I'm starting from scratch, which

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is pretty brutal. So starting from scratch,
you know, there's a podcast that I listened

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to called podcasting for value. It's hosted by
Josh Dennis, and he had a guest on on episode

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24 recently, Steve McLaughlin. And they talked a
lot about, you know, just good podcast etiquette

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and good podcast setup and just like the basic
things that you need to do to have a good

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sounding podcast didn't implement any of those
for this one. So this one's going to be rough,

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but I'm going to go back, I'm going to listen
to some of those things, kind of adjust some

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of my tooling, and hopefully get back to some
good high quality audio. In terms of just

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like general documentation lately, AzuraCast,
I mentioned that with the lit tag, the live

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item tag. That's a super cool project. They've
got rock solid documentation. I'm going to

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go through that soon. I've got a poll request
with the LSIO group for their project send

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container. That was a rough process to get
that in there, to say the least. You know,

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I'm a little rusty in terms of like contributing
back and they're kind of one of the higher

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caliber projects and they have little leeway
for low effort contributions, I guess, which

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mine, mine wasn't a low effort contribution,
but just the way that they do things, it is

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so automated. It's a lot of, you know, RTFM or
GTFO over there. So it was a pretty brutal

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wake up, but I'm happy to contribute and I'll
probably contribute more in the future, but

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I'm just going to take a little break, toughen
up my skin, and then I'll go back. But I've

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also been contributing to the SSH Wiki, the
self hosted show. That's been kind of laying

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low for a while and there were some really
good episodes about data sovereignty that

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kind of energized me. So I contributed to
that. We'll talk more about that in detail.

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And Jupiter Broadcasting as a whole has just
done super amazing things. They opened up

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their entire podcasting website to the community
on GitHub to contribute to, which is amazing.

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The stuff that they've done as a community over
there is just fantastic. I've been watching

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on the sidelines. Like I said, I'm trying to
get my skills back to where they need to

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be and then hopefully I can do some contributions
over there, help out with some documentation,

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different things like that. My entire setup
has completely changed. I kind of alluded to

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that earlier in the beginning. I used to run
everything on a Raspberry Pi with four gigs

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of RAM with an external hard disk connected
to it using a powered USB hub. That is gone.

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No more. I retired that in favor of a Lenovo
ThinkCenter Tiny with an i5 16 gigs of DDR3

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RAM and a two terabyte hard drive. So huge,
huge upgrade. And that Pi is still living

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around. It's that umbral server that I mentioned
earlier. So it's now got a single job and

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that's all it's ever going to do. So I'm done
with that. I also purchased a Synology NAS,

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a disk station 418. Got it off of eBay for a
super great price. I've got two eight terabyte

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disks in there and a single two terabit disk
in there. I'm using it to backup computers,

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photos, media, etc. Just really hoping to
eventually fill out all four bays with eight

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terabyte hard disks so that I can just really
have a good solid NAS setup and backup solution

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going with some dependable redundancy. And
I really I made these two large purchases

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because I don't have any time anymore. Like
my time bubble, I had a surplus of it and

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then it just came crashing down and collapsed
on me. I've changed careers twice within the

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last year. Families just been super busy. So
my time for tinkering has gone down to zero.

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So I invested a little bit so that when I
do have time to tinker, I can really focus

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on stuff that brings me joy rather than just
frustrations. And along with that upgrade.

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Actually my Docker usage has drastically shrunk.
Mostly I think because I just don't tinker

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a whole lot anymore. I do want to slowly bring
that back. So when I was running the pie,

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I think I averaged like 14 containers on that
machine and now I'm down to four. So pretty

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big decrease there. But there are some applications
I've really been missing like Mealy, Wallabag,

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Linkace, YouTube material, different things
like that. So I really want to get back to

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bringing those. My holdoff is I had poor backup
strategies and migration strategies when I

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got all that new hardware. So I lost a lot
of my original configs and volumes and I'm

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just having a little remorse with that, my own
ignorance. But once I get over that hump,

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I will bring those back. But speaking of backups,
since I have that nice fancy NAS now, I've

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been exploring the best way to backup files
to it from my main machine. And our sync has

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just been an amazing tool to explore. So I'll
do a write up on that at some point as well.

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I'm currently using Zorin as my daily driver on
my laptop. And that can do automated backups

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using duplicity and the NAS server. Zorin
might be kind of a weird name for a lot of

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people out there. It's definitely not like
the forefront of Linux distributions, but

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I enjoy it. Long time ago, I actually purchased
a license for it during a DLN charity stream.

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And then with every new release out of habit,
I've just been buying another license. So

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I have these paid licenses. And I was like,
I should probably use this thing that I pay

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for. So I threw it on the machine and you
know, it's been nice. It's been good. It's

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a nice desktop experience. So I've been playing
with Zorin, living in Zorin and have been

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enjoying it so far. So that's the big welcome
back. Here's what to expect. We're going to

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be doing series. These series are going to be
kind of small hyper focused things. They're

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going to be easily searchable on the web page
using different tags and things like that.

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So that'll really go a long way, I think. And
I do want to try to boost discoverability

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of the show. So I'm going to be trying to
promote it a little bit just in, you know,

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my own little corners of the internet. I'm not
going to spend money to promote this thing

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that would be ludicrous, but really just, you
know, I want people who are podcast curious,

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techno curious, whatever to reach out and,
you know, participate. That was the original

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intent of this whole thing. You know, I wanted to
have a community driven podcast where somebody

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could have a cool idea and be like, you know,
I don't want to go through the trouble of

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trying to create a podcast. Well, here is a
platform for you, dear listener, where you

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can bring your idea to the airwaves. And if
you can record your own audio and get that

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audio to me, then you can be a Lennox Lemming
and you can have airtime and put it out there

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for the world to hear. So yeah, other people
that, you know, are pod curious, techno curious

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and want to dive into this a little bit, please
reach out, get in touch, find me on GitLab,

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GitHub, Matrix, wherever. I'm out there, I'm
around, and we'll put your stuff on the air.

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So with that, that's going to bring us to a
close of the revival of the Linux Lemming

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episode seven.