Linux and open source tips, tricks and discussion. Free software, hardware and modern culture. The Binary Times audiocast is created by Mark and Wayne, two chaps who just like using linux and open source software and want to spread the word. Linux is free and open source and it is an excellent choice of operating system for our ever changing times. This audiocast is released fortnightly.
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The Binary Times - Series 8 Episode 5
Series 8 Episode 5 - In this episode, Mark has been not really finding what he was looking for with the 'find' command and has been making animations with GIMP, Wayne tells us more about the D1 minis and the D1 mini shields, updating to Nextcloud 19, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.
00:24 Wayne introduces Season 8 Episode 5 with the weather. Mark's got a new segment to the show with Old Mok's predictions due to his uncanny wintry prediction.
02:52 Mark tells us he's been grand, what with holidays and trips off to Kerry and the like, though the Kerry trip was cut short due to storm Ellen. He goes on to tell us then that he was trying to use find to move files but wasn't successful and asks the audience for some help.
He goes on to tell us that he used a GIMP feature to create animations. His advice from this is to not try to run an animation preview if the animation preview window is already open as it will crash your entire system.
12:20 Wayne tells us about his electronics tinkering after Mark prompts him to explain what all those pictures were in the Maker's Corner Telegram Channel. Wayne has been playing around with the Wemos D1 mini, a low power micro controller, and tells us about his adventures. He tells us the differences in power use of the Wemos D1 mini compared to the Raspberry Pi, and tells us about Jeff Geerling's article on reducing power in a Raspberry Pi Zero.
30:14 Mark talks a bit about his Turris MOX. He tells us his DNS is now provided by CZNIC. It's not all been plain sailing as he managed to put his Turris MOX into a boot loop that he wasn't able to get out of even when he successfully forced a factory reset. He hasn't flagged this yet. He recommends backing up the SD card so that you can easily get back to a fresh install.
37:23 Mark goes on to tell us that OTA updates of Ubuntu Touch are now available with the Volla Phone. The guys discuss Ubuntu Touch.The conversation takes in Teleports and Telegram and messaging, as well as Apple's shortcomings. As well as banking. Not that banks will be around for much longer.
Wayne goes on to tell us that hes' upgraded his NextCloud instance to 19, and NextCloud Talk to 9. The guys think it's great.
54:24 Under the Hood - Mark's Under the Hood is yet another Humble Bundle, and this one is the Advanced Computer Security and Privacy Bundle.
Wayne's first Under the is mkdir -p, to create all the directories as given. His second one is a link to Awesome Self Hosted, a list of Free Software network services and web applications. Wayne's final one is acpi -i to check the health of a laptop battery.
01:00:34 Irish saying of the show is "Tá sé ag teacht anuas i ndáiríre" - Its really coming down (out there)
We hope you enjoyed the episode as much as we did making it!