Thursday, 2026-01-29.
00:03:55.
Clean.
general.
MakeMKV, Blu-ray, Handbrake, troubleshooting.
(Be the first).
Archer72 leaves a solution to a problem with a Blu-ray drive using MakeMKV
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Tuesday, 2025-12-09.
00:06:27.
Clean.
general.
MakeMKV, Handbrake, DVD, Blu-ray, Plex, Jellyfin, VNC, Remmina, Tailscale.
(Be the first).
Archer72 shares a somewhat complicated version of a DVD/Blu-ray ripping setup
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Friday, 2025-11-21.
00:02:52.
Clean.
Privacy and Security.
Privacy, Security, Script blocking, Content blocking.
(Be the first).
Archer72 implements some tips from a Youtube author
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Friday, 2025-11-07.
00:02:30.
Clean.
general.
Firefox, Chrome, DarkReader.
1.
Archer72 helps someone blinded by the light of the new HPR site
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Friday, 2025-10-10.
00:07:55.
Clean.
general.
Git, Gitea, Gitlab, Github, Notabug, Codeberg, SSH, GPG.
4.
Archer72 talks about GPG and SSH keys for Git
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Wednesday, 2025-09-17.
00:05:05.
Clean.
general.
Beeper, icons, AI, mpv, Gnome Tweaks.
(Be the first).
Archer72 breaks the icons on his system and gets things back in order
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2025-08-28.
00:03:55.
Clean.
general.
AI, Search, DuckDuckGo, Claude.ai, Duck.ai, Apache2, Certbot.
2.
Archer72 talks about AI rabbit holes
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2025-07-31.
00:07:12.
Clean.
general.
Newsboat, Podcasts, Youtube.
(Be the first).
Archer72 talks about Podcasts and Youtube subscriptions in Newsboat and quick tip
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2025-07-17.
00:05:41.
Clean.
general.
Newsboat, Podboat, Bible, Reddit, Lemmy, Youtube, MPRIS, Podcatcher.
8.
Archer72 talks about how he uses Newsboat and Podboat together for podcast listening
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Friday, 2025-04-11.
00:10:14.
Clean.
general.
Record player, vinyl album, record album, record store, streaming, darkice, icecast, arecord.
(Be the first).
Archer72 has a brief overview of streaming a vinyl record to his laptop
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2024-12-19.
00:16:31.
Explicit.
general.
car, accident, medical, prosthetics, kmag, accessibility, wifi, termux.
3.
Archer72 talks about his car wreck and people he has met along the way.
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2024-10-10.
00:06:54.
Clean.
general.
AutoMaintenance, AutoShop.
1.
Archer72 rambles about an experience in a Wal-Mart oil change shop
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Wednesday, 2024-08-21.
00:05:09.
Clean.
Accessibility.
tts, TextToSpeech, VoiceSynthesis, accessibility.
1.
Archer72 responds to Ken's comment on HPR4172 with hopefully enough detail
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Tuesday, 2024-07-30.
00:05:15.
Clean.
Accessibility.
tts, TextToSpeech, VoiceSynthesis, accessibility.
4.
Archer72 demonstrates using the /opt directory for the Piper executables.
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Tuesday, 2024-04-23.
00:05:25.
Clean.
general.
Media, Video.
(Be the first).
Archer72 chats about capture of extensive MPV history
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Tuesday, 2024-03-12.
00:06:28.
Clean.
Accessibility.
Piper, TTS, Text to speech, Voice synthesis.
1.
Archer72 talks about Piper TTS using a Piper voice
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Tuesday, 2023-11-21.
00:03:43.
Clean.
general.
Recording, Microphone, Wireless, USB 'C', F-droid, Android App.
(Be the first).
Archer72 tests out a wireless mic with a USB C receiver
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Monday, 2023-11-13.
00:07:15.
Clean.
general.
Command line, Create ISO, Burn ISO, Optical media, DVD, CD, Blu-ray.
1.
Archer72 shows command line options for creating and writing iso files
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Tuesday, 2023-11-07.
00:03:38.
Clean.
general.
ChatGPT, EU, GDPR, cookies.
(Be the first).
Conversation with ChatGPT about EU Cookie banners
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Tuesday, 2023-05-23.
00:10:18.
Clean.
general.
Firefox, Extensions, Mobile, Android, Privacy, vim.
(Be the first).
Archer72 Goes over extensions used on the Desktop and yes, Mobile too.
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Friday, 2023-04-28.
00:11:47.
Clean.
Lightweight Apps.
tmux, terminal apps, lightweight apps.
(Be the first).
Archer72 uses tmux and restores sessions between reboots
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2023-04-20.
00:05:00.
Clean.
Lightweight Apps.
optical media, terminal apps, lightweight apps, rip cd.
(Be the first).
Archer72 rips CD's in the terminal and avoids the whims of the media companies
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Friday, 2023-04-14.
00:15:54.
Clean.
general.
retro, karaoke, cassette tape.
(Be the first).
Archer72 fixes misplaced belts and figures out what really happened
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Friday, 2023-03-03.
00:12:16.
Clean.
general.
Documents, Formats.
(Be the first).
Document File Format - a continuation of Content Format
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2023-02-16.
00:08:11.
Clean.
general.
retro, karaoke, 8-track, cassette tape, Free Music Archive.
2.
I fix the cassette tape mechanism to a resale shop karaoke machine
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Tuesday, 2023-01-31.
00:05:00.
Clean.
general.
media, formats, encoding.
(Be the first).
Wikipedia article on the various types of content formats
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Tuesday, 2023-01-10.
00:42:41.
Explicit.
general.
audio, vinyl, record, media, history.
1.
LP article from Wikipedia about the long playing vinyl record and its history.
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Friday, 2022-12-09.
00:08:45.
Clean.
general.
soldering, soldering iron, Pinecil, menu.
(Be the first).
Details of the Pinecil soldering iron menu with a secret menu
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Friday, 2022-11-25.
00:15:53.
Clean.
Lightweight Apps.
i3wm, window manager, lightweight apps, KDE, KDE Plasma.
(Be the first).
i3 Tiling Window Manager with a bonus KDE Plasma integration
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2022-11-10.
00:09:39.
Clean.
general.
Android, Android apps, Mobile phone, Custom launcher.
(Be the first).
I walk through the top apps on my phone
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2022-10-13.
00:01:44.
Clean.
general.
Budget, spreadsheet, LibreOffice, OpenOffice.
(Be the first).
I add a calendar to the budget spreadsheet in LibreOffice
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Friday, 2022-09-16.
00:02:02.
Clean.
general.
Budget, spreadsheet, LibreOffice, Android.
(Be the first).
Zoho docs for budgeting
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Monday, 2022-08-15.
00:06:01.
Clean.
HAM radio.
ham radio, ARRL, testing.
2.
Study and testing for the ARRL Ham license
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Monday, 2022-07-18.
00:05:54.
Clean.
general.
audio, capture, vinyl, audacity, mp3splt, arecord, ffmpeg, wav, flac.
(Be the first).
I revise previous capture scripts
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Wednesday, 2022-06-15.
00:07:14.
Clean.
Lightweight Apps.
nnn, file manager, lightweight apps, vim, zathura, calibre.
(Be the first).
The nnn terminal file manager and common uses
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Friday, 2022-05-27.
00:08:22.
Clean.
general.
Slackware, netbook, interrupts, htop, upgrades.
1.
Part 2 of using Slackware on the old netbook
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2022-05-05.
00:07:14.
Clean.
general.
microphones, headsets, bluetooth.
(Be the first).
Microphones I have around the apartment
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2022-04-21.
00:10:50.
Clean.
general.
Raspberry Pi, 64 bit, multiboot, Retropie, Kodi.
(Be the first).
Multibooting raspberry pi
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Monday, 2022-03-28.
00:06:50.
Clean.
general.
Phone call, IDES, Unemployment, Government, Firefox, Internet Explorer.
(Be the first).
Phone system for the state of Illinois
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Friday, 2022-03-04.
00:05:02.
Clean.
Coffee.
coffee, podcast, ham radio.
(Be the first).
Making coffee, and a podcast recommendation
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Wednesday, 2022-02-23.
00:04:32.
Clean.
general.
Tenacity, Audacity, Github, Cmake, make, audio editor, telemetry, Google, tracking.
3.
Installing Tenacity, and the reasons behind the fork.
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Wednesday, 2022-02-09.
00:05:46.
Clean.
general.
Slackware, Auld hardware, netbook.
(Be the first).
A response show to HPR3512
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Monday, 2022-01-31.
00:05:44.
Clean.
Hardware upgrades.
laptop, hardware, hardware upgrades, RAM, hard drive.
(Be the first).
Upgrades to Aspire 5 Slim and Specs
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Tuesday, 2022-01-11.
00:08:48.
Clean.
general.
Vinyl, album, Vinyl album, record album, aplay, arecord, alsaloop, ffmpeg, retro, USB turntable.
(Be the first).
USB Turntable fix and sound journey with arecord, asound and ffmpeg
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2021-12-30.
00:04:24.
Clean.
general.
car, repair, maintenance, bearing.
(Be the first).
I fix a noisy blower motor that I put off since last winter.
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Friday, 2021-12-24.
00:01:32.
Clean.
Podcast recommendations.
retro, retroist, nostalgia, 1988, die hard, bruce willis, podcast.
1.
Podcast Recommendation: The Retroist number 243 - Die Hard
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2021-12-09.
00:08:21.
Clean.
Lightweight Apps.
vim, plugin, lightweight.
(Be the first).
My vim setup with the GnuPG vim plugin
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Monday, 2021-11-29.
00:12:45.
Clean.
Lightweight Apps.
mutt, email, gpg, accessibility.
(Be the first).
My humble mutt email setup
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Friday, 2021-10-29.
00:03:13.
Clean.
general.
podcast, moore's law, quantum computing, qubits, encryption, cryptography, NIST, Josephson junction.
(Be the first).
Highlights of a podcast from Moore's Lobby
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2021-07-29.
00:06:06.
Clean.
general.
tags, mplayer, Android, Termux, vim, i3 window manager.
(Be the first).
Adventures and mishaps tagging past shows
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Wednesday, 2021-06-23.
00:05:19.
Clean.
Podcast recommendations.
electronics, robots, space exploration, engineering.
(Be the first).
I go over the 4 electronics podcasts I am currently listening to.
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Wednesday, 2021-04-21.
00:07:37.
Clean.
general.
games, wii console.
2.
Modding a Wii with a DNS exploit and using a USB drive to save games
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2021-03-18.
00:06:18.
Clean.
general.
dvd, blu-ray, backup, nnn.
(Be the first).
Update to MakeMKV to back up media, now on Raspberry Pi
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Tuesday, 2021-03-09.
00:01:57.
Clean.
Cooking.
Cooking.
(Be the first).
Quick tip and HPR needs shows
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Tuesday, 2021-02-23.
00:04:32.
Clean.
general.
microsoft, raspberry pi, bash, script.
(Be the first).
microsoft, raspberry pi, bash, script
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2021-01-28.
00:08:02.
Clean.
general.
self hosting, cloud, linux, raspberry pi.
1.
Self hosting a Nextcloud instance.
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Friday, 2020-10-30.
00:57:50.
Clean.
Podcast recommendations.
linux, security, amateur radio.
(Be the first).
Introducing a new podcast to me, with a special guest with an interest in amateur radio.
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Wednesday, 2020-10-21.
00:01:07.
Clean.
general.
sewing.
(Be the first).
Fixing up a dog coat for the cool weather.
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2020-10-08.
00:06:44.
Clean.
general.
dvd, blu-ray, backup.
2.
Describing two ways to install MakeMKV DVD/Blu-ray backup program on Fedora 32
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Wednesday, 2020-08-05.
00:02:04.
Clean.
general.
Video, media, bash, i3, Gnome3, Xfce.
(Be the first).
I give a quick tip on shortcut keys for watching Youtube or other video sites in MPV
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Wednesday, 2020-07-22.
00:02:50.
Clean.
Arduino and related devices.
Arduino, Christmas, lights, Solid state relays.
1.
Controlling Christmas LED lights with an Arduino
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2020-06-04.
00:07:05.
Clean.
general.
Raspberry Pi, Kodi, OSMC, Networking, Slackware, Sarpi Project.
(Be the first).
How I have my file server and media center put together
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2020-04-30.
00:07:07.
Clean.
general.
electronics, soldering, trains, jobs.
(Be the first).
How I got started in Electronics and some job stuff
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Wednesday, 2020-04-01.
00:01:59.
Clean.
general.
recording, bluetooth, android.
1.
The tools I use to record a show for HPR
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Tuesday, 2020-03-24.
00:03:25.
Clean.
Sound Scapes.
soundscape, train station.
(Be the first).
Ambient recording in the main hall at Union Station, Chicago
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2020-03-12.
00:05:47.
Clean.
Sound Scapes.
soundscape, trains.
(Be the first).
This is a soundscape while waiting for a train at Union Station.
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Wednesday, 2019-11-27.
00:04:36.
Clean.
How I got into tech.
Linux, FreeBSD, Computers.
(Be the first).
How I start in Linux, computing, and Free Software
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Tuesday, 2018-10-16.
00:03:16.
Explicit.
general.
hardware, circuit board, repair.
(Be the first).
I repair a motherboard and get a old tower working again.
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Thursday, 2018-05-10.
00:05:14.
Clean.
general.
ripping, movies, hardware, repurpose.
2.
How I put an older machine and a little cash to repurpose it.
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
Tuesday, 2015-12-15.
00:00:57.
Clean.
general.
google, email, thunderbird, backup, export.
(Be the first).
A quick example of how I imported a backup of Gmail.
Listen in ogg,
opus,
or mp3 format.
