Evil Genius Chronicles

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for December 23 2025 - I Don't Know Why Any of You Maniacs Use Windows

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for December 23 2025 - I Don't Know Why Any of You Maniacs Use Windows Download audio On this show, I play a song from Jill Sobule; the one time I met Jill she was as lovely as could be; I remain not that into Xmas; I had a recall performed on the Audi etron and my range increased; I got serious about my email hygiene; it is a challenge to only get the emails that matter; I am eliminating Substack from my life; I am eliminating Amazon from my life; my System76 Galago Pro is worse for wear; all Windows installs shit themselves over time; Linux Mint made an unusable Windows laptop usable again; trying upgrade and fix things created a self-loathing spiral of inefficiencies and mistakes; it took two years for me to address my Synology NAS cache issues; the RAM was coming from inside the house; upgrading the RAM in the old HP laptop was non-trivial; the band NVMe drive is causing a lot of chaos; one step forward and one step back on fixes and upgrades; I managed to break most of my Docker containers in 5 seconds; I can only record this show in the morning. Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, December 23 2025. Links mentioned in this episode: Support this show on Patreon The late great Jill Sobule's homepage The Grendel boardgame Kickstarter System76 Synology NAS Heartworn Highways Guy Clark Kris Kristofferson My nerd persona Mastodon account My science fiction persona Mastodon account Auphonic podcast production tool is so good! Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for November 26 2025 - Evil Adjacent

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for November 26 2025 - Evil Adjacent Download audio On this show, I play a song from Dub Inc; the TOFOP boys realized that they don't need a big production for their live episodes; I usually don't listen to your live episodes or your special episodes; my Reality Break episodes that were fun to produce I thought were the highest quality; Mozilla is to browsers as neo-liberals are to politics; social media scolds don't help; it's a fine line between avoiding supporting terrible companies while still living in the world; why are you asking all these questions when you should be solving the crime? I am recreating the NBC Mystery Movie wheel format in my life; I am partying like it's 1971; McCloud was a big influence on Justified; Macmillan and Wife is goofy but fun; The Gold was an interesting series; I lay out my money laundering plan; I am barely sticking with Down Cemetery Road; I am barely sticking with The Beast In Me; I don't like "close call" shows; I can't stand Celebrity Traitors or Love is Blind; making small talk with the douchebags in the house seems excruciating. Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, November 26 2025. Links mentioned in this episode: Support this show on Patreon Dub Inc's homepage Dub Inc's song "Ragga Bizness" at YT Music TOFOP Brinks-Mat Robbery My nerd persona Mastodon account My science fiction persona Mastodon account Auphonic podcast production tool is so good! Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for November 14 2025 - Irritatingly Capable

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for November 14 2025 - Irritatingly Capable Download audio On this show, I play a song from Uwade; the theory of monthly productivity challenges is great but the practice is often the opposite of the intention; I have been fixing the dead drives in my old cheap Mac Minis; Linux Mint is really nice; the iFixit upgrade kit worked a treat; having an always on desktop Linux machine running services means I get to sleep my laptop again; my big monitor is on a swing arm that was $3 from a bin store; I am hoping to get a beta version of the Pocket Mage; I wrote up the directions to set up a Pocket Mage build environment; I hope to port the sync spirit to the Pocket Mage; write down those good ideas no matter how unforgettable; my mother does not reside in the house plant; I am volunteering to scoop cat turds; the cat had had enough. Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, November 14 2025. Links mentioned in this episode: Support this show on Patreon Uwade's homepage Uwade's song "Out of my Mind" at YT Music Lettermo Dog Days of Podcasting Home Assistant Podcast Late 2014 Mac Mini repair guide Linux Mint Pocket Mage eink PDA My build environment write-up pull request PlatformIO Syncthing Sync Spirit KindKeeper Animal Rescue My nerd persona Mastodon account My science fiction persona Mastodon account Auphonic podcast production tool is so good! Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

My Appearance on the Home Assistant Podcast - October 2025

A few weeks back Rohan and Phil from the Home Assistant podcast were kind enough to have me on their program to talk about my journey with Home Assistant. It was a fun time chatting about home automation and all the nerd stuff that makes up my day. The truth is that being on someone else's podcast that I don't have to edit and produce feels like a vacation. It has all of the fun and none of the work. They published the episode with me last week. I have been a subscriber for years so it just showed up in my regular feed. It had been just long enough between recording and hearing back that I remembered the broad sweeps of topics but not exactly what anyone said so I heard it almost like a dispassoniate third party. We talked for over an hour and there are so many more topics we could have talked about like strategies in architecting automations, what to do with old IOT devices that have been decommissioned or whether to have one big calendar or lots of specific ones. It was fun and maybe there is enough left to talk about that in a year or two I can be back on. I am attaching their episode to my feed so regular subscribers will just get it. If you enjoy them, I recommend their show. If you are interested but not yet a Home Assistant user, I recommend that as well. If you are a fan of Zigbee and/or Z-Wave we have some of that talk for you. It's fun stuff! Enjoy!

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for October 29 2025 - Only a Retired Person or a Maniac Would Do This

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for October 29 2025 - Only a Retired Person or a Maniac Would Do This Download audio On this show, I play a song from West of Mabou; the reason businesses are excited about AI is the prospect of not paying employees; we watched this business rationale play out with outsourcing in the 90s; I tried to use Descript's generative AI function but balked at paying extra money; the failure to find things digital and physical continues; can Johnny.Decimal be a solution and do I want to try? the PARA structure is less applicable when you don't have a job; Google's changes to sideloading APKs led me to shopping for used Pixel phones; I don't need mobile solutions when I seldom leave the house; I am trying to revive my Sharp Zaurus; in a pinch, you can charge a Zaurus with the Skylight frame charger; I am searching for one docker container that would let me cross-compile for the Zaurus; welcome listeners from the Home Assistant podcast. Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, October 29 2025. Links mentioned in this episode: Support this show on Patreon West of Mabou's song "Lime Hill" at YouTube Descript editing tool Home Assistant podcast XKCD on standards Johnny.Decimal system The PARA method of organizing information GrapheneOS LineageOS (I say "LegacyOS" in the show but I meant Lineage) Home Assistant Sharp Zaurus My nerd persona Mastodon account My science fiction persona Mastodon account Auphonic podcast production tool is so good! Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.