Series 8 Episode 9 – In this episode the guys announce that this’ll be the final episode of The Binary Times, they reminisce for a while, Mark has been busy at work, chats about EndlessOS, Wayne has been playing with syncthing and brings some more Nextcloud tips, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.
00:24 Wayne Welcomes us to Series 8 Episode 9, the 100th and final episode of the Binary Times. It’s windy and overcast in Bristol, and much the same in Kilkishen, with storms through the night and rain, rain, rain. Mark thinks it’s fitting that they’re winding up the Binary Times the same time that the clocks are being wound back.
02:48 Wayne asks Mark what does he think about reaching 100 episodes. The guys discuss what was so amazing about the Binary Times. The guys are quite proud of what they’ve managed to achieve, and they’re grateful for all their supporters and contributors. They’re also looking forward to taking a break and taking stock. Wayne asks their listeners to write in!He’s sure that the email inbox will be hopping! The guys discuss their plans for the wind down of the show and putting everything up on the Internet Archive.
14:29 Wayne asks Mark what he’s been up to. Mark tells him not an awful lot, but he does want to mention the 240th issue, the 20th anniversary of the Linux Magazine . There are loads of interesting articles and a 20th anniversary DVD which includes all previous issues of Linux Magazine. Mark suggests it’s well worth a buy.
Mark also tells us that he’s purchased an AT2020 XLR microphone and a Behringer Xenyx Q802USB to make sure he had the best possible sound for the last episode (if not the most prepared show ever…). He explains how all this came about. He also advises not to purchase the Behringer Xenyx Q502USB as the phantom power provided is only 15V when most microphones require 48V and it is just too limited compared to all the other Behringer products.
The conversation changes to how the guys are going to fill their time once the Binary Times is over.
25:15 Wayne tells us about what he’s been at. He tells us that he’s now back on Lineage OS. His Sony Xperia X still has Ubuntu Touch on it. Wayne tells us why he’s moved away from Ubuntu Touch as a daily driver. It was a death by a thousand paper cuts. The guys discuss the pros and cons of open phones and devices.
40:15 As the conversation turns to wanting devices that just works, Mark wants to mention how good Endless OS is. He finds it’s a great OS that just works and comes with a lot of preloaded content.
42:21 Wayne tells us about Syncthing, which is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it’s transmitted over the internet. Mark tells us that Syncthing is one of the applications available on the Freedombox.
48:12 Under the Hood – Mark tells us about Terms of Service – Didn’t read, a web site that reads the terms of services we’re all forced to accept and rates them in terms of how good or bad they are so that we can be more informed as to what we’re accepting.
53:56 Wayne’s under the Hoods are good ones. His first is that you can sign up for Nexctloud without having to host it yourself from Nextcloud’s home page. Wayne also mentions the Nitrokey NextBox as a self hosted NextCloud solution. Wayne also mentions the Nextcloud Ubuntu Appliance for the Raspberry Pi.
A few other things Wayne wants to mention are related to the the release of Ubuntu MATE 20.10. He also mentions the Odroid HC-4 as a good SoC to build a NAS around as it supports two drives. He also mentions Log 2 RAM as a great utility to extend the life of your Raspberry Pi’s SD card. As the name suggests, logs are written to RAM rather than to the SD card..
1:00:41 Irish saying of the show is “Slán go fóill, agus go n-éirí an bóthar leat”, or goodbye, and may the road rise to meet you!
Thanks to everybody for helping keep the Binary Times going for as long as it did! We’ve enjoyed our time in the Binary Times, and we hope you did too!
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