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We look at postmarketOS on various devices old and new, Arm and x86, and are impressed.
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The key differences between throughput and latency – and when they matter, the tech that we’d keep if we stopped working in IT, and avoiding bitrot with rsync backups.
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Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP
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Home Assistant gets even more credible and sustainable, open source users are entitled, changes in KDE land, Fedora says hello to Plasma and goodbye to X11, Ubuntu looks to drop GNU coreutils, GIMP 3 is out and still has a terrible name, and new Pebble devices will be shipping soon™.
News
Home Assistant officially Matters
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Dash to Panel maintainer quits after failed donations drive
Jonathan Riddell Stepping Down From KDE Plasma Release Management
Announcing Techpaladin Software
Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust
Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu
The first new Pebble smartwatches are coming later this year
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Our advice on how to move into a career in software development including making and contributing to projects, advocating for your work, collaborating, avoiding exploitation, learning Git, and loads more.
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Shane tells us about the janky Kubernetes homelab that he’s building, and we all laugh at him.
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RISC-V is on the rise in China, why Power CPUs aren’t as promising, the dystopian nightmare of surveillance tech at work, and decrypting ZFS at boot.
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Understanding ZFS in the Real World: Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned & Future Plans
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Alibaba launches server-grade RISC-V CPU design
Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup’s demo goes viral
Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You
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Tracking WiFi devices with cheap ESP32 devices, using OSM and Google Maps together, deleting your Twitter data, “3D” images with any camera, forcing Ubuntu to give you all the available updates, efficiently importing photos, counting lines of code, and more.
Discoveries
espargos and demo video
About apt upgrade and phased updates
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A dreadful backup box mistake was made but then rectified, whether to take on the technical debt of an older Ubuntu LTS, and why there are more important battles to fight than advocating for FOSS.
2.5 Admins episode where Joe talks about his ZFS setup
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Ten-year-old Chromecasts stop working, movie DVDs start rotting, Skype is finally dying, using ZFS on VM guests and hosts.
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ZFS Space Accounting Explained
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Google apologizes for Chromecast outage in email to users
“They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases
Microsoft is shutting down Skype in favor of Teams
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