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2.5 Admins 260: Watery Email

August 14, 2025
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AMD’s recent mobile-class processors impress us with their power to performance ratio, the UK government suggests a preposterous way to save water, setting up verified boot with snapshots, and the best way to configure ZFS to run VMs.

 

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ZFS Summer Roundup: Smart Hardware Advice

 

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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 vs. Ryzen 9 9950X vs. Ryzen 9 9950X3D Linux Performance Review

UK Government says delete old emails to save water

UK government to invest over £2 billion in the UK’s AI ecosystem

 

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Ask The Hosts – Episode 27

August 13, 2025
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The field of science we find most interesting, the bionic enhancements we’d want, the longest we’ve stayed awake, and the wisdom we’d pass onto the next generation. With Gary from Linux After Dark and Félim from Late Night Linux.

 

 

 

 

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Late Night Linux – Episode 346

August 12, 2025
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A new Debian version is out and it’s the end of the 32-bit x86 era, an AWS user almost found out the hard way about the need for proper backups, GitHub is finally fully swallowed into Microsoft (having gone all in on AI), and a quick KDE Korner. With guest hosts Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show, and Kevin from Linux Dev Time.

 

News

Debian 13 “trixie” released

AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference

The XP-Pen Artist 22R Pro works on Linux now

KomoDo, my first KDE app

Developers, Reinvented

Let’s properly analyze an AI article for once

Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 130

August 10, 2025
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Not invented here syndrome is very common in open source. We get into why that is, when it makes sense to start your own project from scratch, and how contributing to existing software can sometimes be better for everyone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 36

August 8, 2025
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Shane gives us an update on his janky Kubernetes homelab. The storage is under control with ZFS, he’s got a decent switch, and everything is in Git – so maybe it isn’t that janky anymore.

 

 

 

 

 

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2.5 Admins 259: New Web?

August 7, 2025
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The Web is a mess of tracking and AI scraping so do we need a new one, would it even be possible, or is this the wrong question? Plus setting up servers in a garage where dusty woodworking is happening.

 

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Linux Matters 61: Coding in my pants

August 5, 2025
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Late Night Linux – Episode 345

August 4, 2025
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Whether we need a properly open source ChromeOS alternative (or maybe we already have loads of them), what to do about bogus AI vulnerability reports, PuTTY’s confusing website confusion, a cool new game, a quick KDE Korner, and more.

 

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Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS

Save 20% on Look Mum No Computer on Steam

How we Made A Game With An Interactive Sound Track

Death by a thousand slops

A nudge to fund our future

Controversy over PUTTY.ORG website growing fast

PuTTY: a free SSH and Telnet client

 

KDE Korner

KDE’s Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI

Talking FOSS on Daft Code

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Linux After Dark – Episode 101

August 1, 2025
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Gary has been using a Framework 12 laptop for a few weeks and gives us his impressions of it. Are the upgradability and repairability worth the premium price he paid for it?

 

 

 

 

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2.5 Admins 258: Artificial Dirtbag

July 31, 2025
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Jim is concerned that although over-anthropomorphising LLMs is a mistake, we should be cautious about some of their human-like behaviour. Plus how to maintain old ZFS pools, and accessibility in the BSDs.

 

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It’s a mistake to over anthropomorphize LLMs, but it’s equally a mistake to *under* anthropomorphize them

Grok will no longer call itself Hitler or base its opinions on Elon Musk’s, promises xAI

 

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