Repurposing Battlestations from old hardware, local sharing offline and LinuxFest Northwest Trivia (Linux Prepper Podcast)
Yes, I know castopod does not render notes as Lemmy does.
- [Listen to the full episode here](https://podcast.james.network/@linuxprepper/episodes/re-purposing-battlestations-from-old-hardware)
- [Teaser Wiki Page](https://wiki.livingcartoon.org/doku.php?id=linuxprepper%3Aepisode%3As01e03_teaser) for the episode. [Listen here](https://podcast.james.network/@linuxprepper/episodes/teaser-battlestations-old-hardware-and-unfinished-projects).
### Shownotes
(00:00)
[Previous episode on local networking and off-line tooling](https://podcast.james.network/@linuxprepper/episodes/local-tools-local-networking-and-building-resilience)
(00:37)
[Ameridroid Sponsor - Linuxprepper at checkout](https://ameridroid.com/?ref=podcast)
(01:20)
[Battlestations, and how they relate to Linux Prepper](https://lemmy.world/c/battlestations)
(02:35)
[Your input much appreciated on this long term exploration](https://cloud.disroot.org/apps/forms/s/Lzai4d2A79iNsapnpbGbBGcH)
(03:08)
[Two Desktops from Thin Clients, Detailed Notes](https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/138-battlestations-building-out-my-local-machines)
(07:00)
Older Intel Graphics and X Window Manager Support vs Wayland
- [LXQT](https://lxqt-project.org/)
- [Openbox](https://openbox.org/help/Getting_started)
- [Xfce](https://xfce.org/)
- [Anti-X](https://antixlinux.com/)
- [MX Linux](https://mxlinux.org/)
- [Arch 32-bit](https://archlinux32.org/)
(07:52)
[32-bit and Multi-Architecture Support, Wine, Proton](https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/154-the-return-of-32-bit)
(12:00)
[Love 2D Engine and Compiling Back 32-bit Support](https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/160-love-2d-engine-built-with-c-and-lua)
(13:07)
[Moonring, Free RPG Game inspired by Ultima](https://dene.itch.io/moonring)
(13:21)
[Balatro, Card Game](https://www.playbalatro.com/)
(13:27)
[Arco - Turned-based, Meso-american Adventure Game](https://arco.game/)
(14:03)
[100 Tools You can Selfhost on Minimal Hardware](https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/133-selfhosted-services-for-ultra-lowend-hardware)
(14:57)
[Pipewire, Wireplumber, QPWGraph, pw-jack](https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/109-managing-multiple-audio-devices-in-pipewire)
(18:30)
[Aphex Twin Premium Episode Coming Soon](https://aphextwin.warp.net/releases)
(19:22)
Memory Management from 16gb to 1gb RAM
(20:11)
[Zram, adding efficient memory compression](https://www.reddit.com/r/lowendgaming/comments/13d5brx/enable_zram_on_low_end_linux_machines_for_a_free/)
(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](https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom) monitoring Zram and Swap
(26:14)
[Swappiness, what triggering it does](https://access.redhat.com/solutions/103833)
(27:55)
Considerations for 8gb to 1gb of total RAM
(32:08)
[DURP Challenger](https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/83-join-the-diy-unfinished-resurrection-project-through-march-20th) downgrading to Pi 3 as appliance
(33:02)
File Management with Core Utils through SSH
(33:31)
[SCP for One-Way Transfers](https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/scp.1.html)
(34:29)
[Rsync - One-way Transfers with Comprehensive Control](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync)
(36:02)
[Unison - Resilient Bi-directional Rsync for Two Locations](https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison)
(38:09)
Scaling up without cloud services or servers
(39:34)
[Syncthing - P2P Real-time Sync with client support](https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing)
- [Sushitrain](https://github.com/pixelspark/sushitrain) - Open Source Client for iOS
- [Syncthing-Fork for Android](https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android)
- [Syncthing Tray](https://github.com/Martchus/syncthingtray) for KDE Plasma & Dolphin
(42:24)
[Rclone](https://rclone.org/) - Rsync-like support for Cloud Providers: Dropbox, Google Drive, S3
(43:30)
Minimal Homelab Implications; Try The Tools and Win
(45:01)
[Container Concerns vs Understanding Tooling](https://podcast.james.network/@linuxprepper/episodes/containers-and-compose-for-the-curious-and-who-are-they-not-for)
- Understanding how tools actually work when deploying
(45:42)
Trivia Winners from LFNW and Named Projects!
(46:13)
[LinuxFest Northwest 2026 Wikipage with Youtube Links](https://wiki.livingcartoon.org/doku.php?id=events%3Alfnw)
(48:01)
[SeaGL Call for Speakers Open Now!](https://seagl.org/)
- [Listen to the full episode here](https://podcast.james.network/@linuxprepper/episodes/re-purposing-battlestations-from-old-hardware)
- [Teaser Wiki Page](https://wiki.livingcartoon.org/doku.php?id=linuxprepper%3Aepisode%3As01e03_teaser) for the episode. [Listen here](https://podcast.james.network/@linuxprepper/episodes/teaser-battlestations-old-hardware-and-unfinished-projects).
### Shownotes
(00:00)
[Previous episode on local networking and off-line tooling](https://podcast.james.network/@linuxprepper/episodes/local-tools-local-networking-and-building-resilience)
(00:37)
[Ameridroid Sponsor - Linuxprepper at checkout](https://ameridroid.com/?ref=podcast)
(01:20)
[Battlestations, and how they relate to Linux Prepper](https://lemmy.world/c/battlestations)
(02:35)
[Your input much appreciated on this long term exploration](https://cloud.disroot.org/apps/forms/s/Lzai4d2A79iNsapnpbGbBGcH)
(03:08)
[Two Desktops from Thin Clients, Detailed Notes](https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/138-battlestations-building-out-my-local-machines)
(07:00)
Older Intel Graphics and X Window Manager Support vs Wayland
- [LXQT](https://lxqt-project.org/)
- [Openbox](https://openbox.org/help/Getting_started)
- [Xfce](https://xfce.org/)
- [Anti-X](https://antixlinux.com/)
- [MX Linux](https://mxlinux.org/)
- [Arch 32-bit](https://archlinux32.org/)
(07:52)
[32-bit and Multi-Architecture Support, Wine, Proton](https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/154-the-return-of-32-bit)
(12:00)
[Love 2D Engine and Compiling Back 32-bit Support](https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/160-love-2d-engine-built-with-c-and-lua)
(13:07)
[Moonring, Free RPG Game inspired by Ultima](https://dene.itch.io/moonring)
(13:21)
[Balatro, Card Game](https://www.playbalatro.com/)
(13:27)
[Arco - Turned-based, Meso-american Adventure Game](https://arco.game/)
(14:03)
[100 Tools You can Selfhost on Minimal Hardware](https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/133-selfhosted-services-for-ultra-lowend-hardware)
(14:57)
[Pipewire, Wireplumber, QPWGraph, pw-jack](https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/109-managing-multiple-audio-devices-in-pipewire)
(18:30)
[Aphex Twin Premium Episode Coming Soon](https://aphextwin.warp.net/releases)
(19:22)
Memory Management from 16gb to 1gb RAM
(20:11)
[Zram, adding efficient memory compression](https://www.reddit.com/r/lowendgaming/comments/13d5brx/enable_zram_on_low_end_linux_machines_for_a_free/)
(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](https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom) monitoring Zram and Swap
(26:14)
[Swappiness, what triggering it does](https://access.redhat.com/solutions/103833)
(27:55)
Considerations for 8gb to 1gb of total RAM
(32:08)
[DURP Challenger](https://discuss.livingcartoon.org/d/83-join-the-diy-unfinished-resurrection-project-through-march-20th) downgrading to Pi 3 as appliance
(33:02)
File Management with Core Utils through SSH
(33:31)
[SCP for One-Way Transfers](https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/scp.1.html)
(34:29)
[Rsync - One-way Transfers with Comprehensive Control](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync)
(36:02)
[Unison - Resilient Bi-directional Rsync for Two Locations](https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison)
(38:09)
Scaling up without cloud services or servers
(39:34)
[Syncthing - P2P Real-time Sync with client support](https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing)
- [Sushitrain](https://github.com/pixelspark/sushitrain) - Open Source Client for iOS
- [Syncthing-Fork for Android](https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android)
- [Syncthing Tray](https://github.com/Martchus/syncthingtray) for KDE Plasma & Dolphin
(42:24)
[Rclone](https://rclone.org/) - Rsync-like support for Cloud Providers: Dropbox, Google Drive, S3
(43:30)
Minimal Homelab Implications; Try The Tools and Win
(45:01)
[Container Concerns vs Understanding Tooling](https://podcast.james.network/@linuxprepper/episodes/containers-and-compose-for-the-curious-and-who-are-they-not-for)
- Understanding how tools actually work when deploying
(45:42)
Trivia Winners from LFNW and Named Projects!
(46:13)
[LinuxFest Northwest 2026 Wikipage with Youtube Links](https://wiki.livingcartoon.org/doku.php?id=events%3Alfnw)
(48:01)
[SeaGL Call for Speakers Open Now!](https://seagl.org/)