Jupiter Extras

Surprise podcasts from your friends at Jupiter Broadcasting

About the show

New ideas, great interviews, events, and other content you will love. We bring you the Extras.

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Episodes

  • Brunch with Brent: Jim Salter

    January 21st, 2020  |  51 mins 21 secs
    ars, ars technica, brain pickings, brunch with brent, bsd, code, coding, community, extras, gadfly, interview podcast, jim salter, jupiter broadcasting, leader, licensing, linus, linus torvalds, linux, navy, nebula, open source, stoicism, techsnap, the cathedral and the bazaar, vpn, zfs

    Brent sits down with Jim Salter, co-host of Jupiter Broadcasting's TechSNAP and technology reporter at Ars Technica. We explore his relationship with computers via the US Navy, when code has it's place in either proprietary or open source licensing, the value in being a social gadfly, and Jim's motivations behind his writing and who he is hoping to reach and inspire.

  • Self-Hosted: Fixing Brent's WiFi

    January 10th, 2020  |  13 mins 59 secs
    a cloud guru, cloud key, ethernet, firewall, firmware, hardware, hardware upgrades, home assistant, home networking, internet, jupiter broadcasting, jupiter extras, linksys, linux, low power computing, modernization, networking, open source, open source firmware, poe, power over ethernet, raspberry pi, router, router firmware, self hosted, self-hosted, single board computers, throughput, tomato, ubiquiti, unifi, unifi controller, vpn, wifi, wireguard, wrt54g

    Join Alex and Brent for a chat about upgrading your home network with an eye towards stability, simplicity, and hosting things yourself.

  • Brunch with Brent: Joe Ressington

    January 7th, 2020  |  45 mins 40 secs
    brunch with brent, choose linux, community, critical thinking, extras, interview podcast, joe ressington, jupiter broadcasting, kde, late night linux, linux, linux action news, linux action show, linux unplugged, linuxfest northwest, mastodon, music, musician, oggcamp, open source, plasma, taylor swift, ubuntu, user error, xfce

    Brent sits down with Joe Ressington, Jupiter Broadcasting Podcast Content Director, Late Night Linux host, and musician, for an exploration of his journey in podcasting, a behind-the-scenes of User Error and Linux Action News, how music led to Linux, the origins of Brunch with Brent's theme music, and more.

  • Brunch with Brent: Jackie DeVore

    December 31st, 2019  |  41 mins 40 secs
    art, brunch with brent, community, creativity, extras, ghosts in the burbs, hbic, hell bunny independents club, horror, inclusivity, interview podcast, jackie devore, jupiter broadcasting, lgbtq, nin, nine inch nails, sirens of scream, user error, whiprsnapr brewing, women

    Brent sits down with Jackie DeVore, co-host of horror podcast Sirens of Scream and multi-disciplinary artist. Our in-person chat explores the origins of her podcasting, creativity as a lifestyle, women in tech, art, and gaming, and her co-founding and recent launch of Hell Bunny Independents Club, a women's inclusive and supportive digital safe space.

  • Brunch with Brent: Catherine Kretzschmar

    December 24th, 2019  |  48 mins 9 secs
    bassoon, brunch with brent, catherine kretzschmar, coding, community, extras, home automation, humanist, humanist celebrant, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, logic puzzle, music, teacher

    Brent sits down with Catherine Kretzschmar, professional music teacher, coding bootcamp enlistee, and humanist celebrant, for an in-person connective chat on the relationship between music and coding, the quality-of-life implications of ever-evolving home automation, an intro to humanist celebrancy, and more.

    Catherine is a good friend of the Jupiter Broadcasting family and wife of Alex Kretzschmar, co-host of Self-Hosted.

  • Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2

    December 20th, 2019  |  1 hr 3 mins
    actor, batman, brunch with brent, chrome os, chromebook, community, dalai lama, dc, dc super hero girls, digital independence, extras, focusrite, gears tactics, google, interview podcast, jason spisak, joker, jupiter broadcasting, kde, kde neon, lego, linux, meditation, neon, open source, raspberry pi, sam harris, ubuntu, voice actor, voice-over, young justice

    Brent sits down with Jason Spisak, professional voice actor, actor, producer, and co-founder of multiple Linux-related projects including Lycoris, Symphony OS, and Symple PC. In Part 2 we explore Jason's various voice acting roles, his approach to embodying roles like The Joker, the setup in his Linux-only audio recording studios, the power in collaborative innovation, examining yourself through meditation, and more.

  • Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 1

    December 17th, 2019  |  50 mins 22 secs
    actor, brunch with brent, chromebook, chromeos, community, elementary os, extras, galliumos, home assistant, interview podcast, jason spisak, jupiter broadcasting, lindows, linux, lycoris, mezzo, mrchromebox, open source, patent, pine64, redmond linux, symphony os, symple pc, system76, voice actor, voice-over, wireguard

    Brent sits down with Jason Spisak, professional voice actor, actor, producer, and co-founder of multiple Linux-related projects including Lycoris, Symphony OS, and Symple PC. In Part 1 we chat about everything from Jason's deep motivations behind his Linux projects, to patents vs. open source, digital independence and the nature of human endeavor. A few additional voices join us throughout for good measure...

  • Brunch with Brent: Alan Pope

    December 10th, 2019  |  59 mins 15 secs
    alan pope, brunch with brent, community, extras, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, linux, open source, popey, thinkpad, ubuntu, ubuntu podcast, ubuntu touch, unity, user error

    Brent sits down with Alan Pope (popey), who shares his knack for fuzzy-testing, the beginnings of Ubuntu Podcast, insights into Ubuntu Touch and Unity, the joys and perils of being "Internet Famous", and how to contribute meaningfully to your favorite Linux distributions.

  • Brunch with Brent: Rocco

    December 3rd, 2019  |  49 mins 15 secs
    big daddy linux, bigdaddylinux, brunch with brent, community, destination linux, developer, extras, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, kde, kubuntu, linux, linux spotlight, open source, rocco, ubuntu

    Brent sits down with Rocco of Big Daddy Linux for a conversation about the origins of Linux Spotlight, some shared behind-the-scenes podcasting perspectives, and just how great we feel about our Linux community.

  • Brunch with Brent: Jacob Roecker

    November 26th, 2019  |  1 hr 13 mins
    army, brunch with brent, community, computer chronicles, extras, interview podcast, jacob roecker, jupiter broadcasting, las, linux, linux academy, linux action show, mate, meerkat, microsoft, military, open source, parkingthought, plex, ptsd, scibyte, system76, techsnap, theory of constraints, thinkpad, ubuntu, user error

    Brent sits down with Jacob Roecker, long-time Jupiter Broadcasting community member and Bronze Star Medal decorated United States Army veteran. Jacob shares his journey from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan through to dealing with PTSD, and how Jupiter Broadcasting and its community was integral throughout.

  • popey on ThinkPads

    November 22nd, 2019  |  39 mins 40 secs
    alan pope, chzbacon, ebay, extras, ibm, jupiter extras, lenovo, linux, podcast, popey, pre-owned, refurbished, t440s, t450, thinkpad, thinkwiki, ubuntu, used, x1 carbon, x220, x230, x250

    Chz sits down with Alan Pope (popey) to discuss his thoughts about ThinkPads, and why they might be the perfect Linux laptop.

    Find out what those model numbers really mean, plus our tips for picking which one is right for you.

  • Brunch with Brent: Emma Marshall

    November 19th, 2019  |  55 mins 47 secs
    brunch with brent, cat, community, dog, emma marshall, happiness, inclusive, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, linux, linuxfest northwest, pinball, pink, system76, taylor swift, thelio, women

    Brent sits down with Emma Marshall, Customer Happiness Manager at System76 for a fun chat touching on her love of pinball and puppies, spreading happiness, women in tech, and more.

  • Brunch with Brent: Jill Bryant Ryniker

    November 12th, 2019  |  56 mins 38 secs
    animation, brunch with brent, community, gamer, interview podcast, jill bryant ryniker, jillsciples, jupiter broadcasting, linux, linuxchix, linuxgamecast, lug, lwdw, open source, scale

    Brent sits down with Jill Bryant Ryniker, long time Linux aficionado, for a connective conversation exploring her deep involvement in Linux and open source, from community to professional animation and more.

  • Brunch with Brent: Martin Wimpress

    November 4th, 2019  |  1 hr 2 mins
    brunch with brent, canonical, collaboration, community, emoji, gpd, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, linux, linuxfest northwest, martin wimpress, mate, oggcamp, open source, ubucon europe, ubuntu, ubuntu mate

    Brent sits down with Martin Wimpress, co-founder and project lead for Ubuntu MATE, Director of Ubuntu Desktop at Canonical, and co-host of Ubuntu Podcast.

  • A Chat with mergerfs Developer Antonio Musumeci

    October 31st, 2019  |  50 mins 47 secs
    antonio musumeci, jbod, mergerfs, mhddfs, self-hosted, unionfs

    Alex, Drew from ChooseLinux, and Brent (of the Brunch fame) sit down with Antonio Musumeci, the developer of mergerfs during the JB sprint. It is a union filesystem geared towards simplifying storage and management of files across numerous commodity storage devices, it is similar to mhddfs, unionfs, and aufs.

  • Happy Halloween, 2019!

    October 31st, 2019  |  23 mins 11 secs
    asheville, black mirror, candy, crafts, cube, decorations, ex machina, ghost, ghosts, halloween, haunted, movie, movies, podcast, pontypool, recommendation, robot, robots, savannah, scary, spooky, the message, the signal, trick or treat, tv, tv show, twitter, upgrade, zombie, zombies, zombiewalk

    Drew and Jackie DeVore talk about talk about their Halloween obsession, and give out a few recommendations for tech-related movies, shows, and podcasts to enjoy.