Displaying all 7 Episode of Linux Out Loud with the tag “home assistant”.
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216: Legacy Lights & Password Nights | Linux Out Loud 118
December 20th, 2025 | 54 mins 31 secs
backup strategy, bazite, christmas lights, christmas tech, commodore 64, community, cups, digital legacy, digital nomad, fedora, fyra labs, holiday episode, home assistant, home storage, iot, iot security, linux, linux gaming, linux out loud, linux printing, multifactor authentication, networking, nobara, nostalgia, open source, password management, raspberry pi, retro computing, smart bulbs, smart home, synology nas, tuxdigital, ubiquiti, zigbee
Linux Out Loud 118 is a cozy holiday episode where Wendy, Nate, and Bill mix Christmas chaos with serious tech talk and retro nostalgia. They cover Nate’s new Commodore 64 Ultimate and vintage trains, Bill’s story about recovering passwords after a colleague’s passing and planning digital legacy, plus NAS upgrades, Fedora-based gaming distros, Home Assistant smart homes, IoT security, and the ongoing adventure that is Linux printing.
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210: Teaching Time Lords: Open Source Lessons Across Space and Code | Linux Out Loud 112
June 28th, 2025 | 41 mins 54 secs
ai and coding, aleph one, chromebook management, doctor who, education technology, github, home assistant, linux, marathon trilogy, open source, phasmo, podcast, pybricks, robotics, tuxdigital
Wendy and Bill go full TARDIS in this episode of Linux Out Loud—sharing their robotics adventures, Bill’s vacation recap, curriculum-building with Pybricks, and tips on AI-powered coding. Plus: Phasmo breaks, Marathon makes a comeback, and the podcast hits Spotify video!
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209: Open Source in Motion: Conferences, Creativity, and Community | Linux Out Loud 111
May 17th, 2025 | 1 hr 40 mins
ai in the home, cosmic desktop, courtshoe game, fedora, framework laptop, home assistant, kde plasma, linux, linux gaming, linux out loud, nas upcycling, open source, small business tech, solar power, sudo show, tech conferences, tech podcast, tuxdigital
This week on Linux Out Loud, Wendy is joined by Bill and Neal from the SUDO Show to share their latest open source adventures. From resurrecting old hardware to attending conferences, expanding solar setups, and testing the latest Linux desktops, the crew dives into the intersection of tech, creativity, and community.
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203: Retro Keyboards to Smart Home Wins | Linux Out Loud 105
January 11th, 2025 | 1 hr 10 mins
2025, 2025 predictions, 3d printing, appimages, community engagement, consumer computing, decluttering, editing challenge, fedora, flatpaks, gaming, home assistant, keyboard technology, led couch, nvidia, predictions, privacy, provisioning scripts, retail challenges, robotics, snaps, software installations, tech upgrades, technology trends, universal packages, voice assistants
In Linux Out Loud episode 105, the hosts look ahead to 2025 with big Linux hopes and smart tech ideas! Nate shows off his retro-inspired keyboard. Bill has an update on Home Assistant voice control, and the team debates universal packages like AppImages and Flatpaks. With off-topic laughs about Atari decanters and a tech purchase competition, it’s a lively blend of predictions, open-source fun, and a splash of RGB chaos!
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165: Set It and Forget It | Linux Out Loud 68
July 6th, 2023 | 1 hr 10 mins
3d printer, android, appliance os, archos, bigtreetech, btt, christmas light system, digital signage, duel z, egpu, falcon player, firefox kiosk, home assistant, klipper, lxqt, manta m8p, nuroum, opensuse, phasmophobis, pihole, point of sale system, pos, ps2, raspberry pi, sprite extruder, tivo, tumbleweed, vehicle, virtual reality, vr, webcam
This week, Linux Out Loud chats about how Linux is the ultimate appliance OS you can set and forget.
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156: Summertime Tech Bucket List | Linux Out Loud 59
April 19th, 2023 | 1 hr 16 mins
3d printer, acer, atari vcs, bigtreetech, bucket list, c64, home assistant, htpc, laptop, mainboard, networking, opensuse, pihole, solar power, summer, upgrades, vpn
This week we talk about our summertime tech bucket list.
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90: Revisiting 2021 Predictions | DLN Xtend
January 5th, 2022 | 58 mins 58 secs
amd laptop, apple challenge, cad software, commodore 64, free cad, gimp, hardware addicts, home assistant, ip address, mac challenge, network, pihole, raspberry pi, retro game, router, ryzen laptop, sonic, unbound, wayland
On this episode of DLN Xtend we discuss predictions we made at the start of 2021 to see what we got right and what we got wrong.