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2.5 Admins 253: ImpossibleFS

June 26, 2025 Joe

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Jim is concerned that we might not see another next-gen filesystem that can compete with ZFS, no matter how much we all want one. Plus whether you should switch to third-party firmware on your router.

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ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload

Discussion

Bcachefs Lands More Improvements For Linux 6.16 After Data Loss Bug Hit v6.15

I’m starting to wonder if modern next-gen filesystems are approaching an inherent limit of human ability to mentally model and manage complexity

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Linux Matters 58: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

June 24, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:39 — 24.3MB)

In this episode:

Martin has replaced his coreutils, findutils, diffutils and sudo with Rust reimplementations.
Alan has continued working on Nerdy Day Trips.
Mark made a timelapse with Velocity lapse and Youcut. See it on Makertube.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 339

June 23, 2025 Joe

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Making music with code in real time, fancy rsync, an open source real time strategy engine, advanced print debugging, EU-based DNS resolvers, and European government departments moving away from Microsoft and they might stick with Linux and FOSS this time.

Discoveries

News/discussion

Two city governments in Denmark are moving away from Microsoft amid Trump and US Big Tech concerns

‘We’re done with Teams’: German state hits uninstall on Microsoft

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Linux After Dark – Episode 98

June 20, 2025 Joe

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It’s the £50 Linux machine challenge! We all had a budget of 50 GBP (~65 USD) to buy the best computer we could find to run Linux.

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2.5 Admins 252: Nintendon’t Back Up

June 19, 2025 Joe

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Nintendo cuts off Switches that dare to play backed up games, more Microsoft AI exploits, why you shouldn’t regularly spin down hard drives, and securing applications on a home server.

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Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware – A Cost-Efficient, Data-Sure Storage Solution

Klara co-hosted a webinar with TrueNAS about ZFS Fast Dedup

News

Switch 2 users report online console bans after running personal game “backups”

Intellectual Property & Piracy FAQ | Nintendo Support

archived version

Breaking down ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot

I learned the hard way to never spin down your NAS hard drives

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Late Night Linux – Episode 338

June 17, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:24 — 23.6MB)

X11 is basically dead (again) and we are quite pleased, the Linux Foundation sets out to fix the WordPress mess and some of us are cynical, custom ROMs for Pixel phones are going to be much more difficult to make, Apple is adding proper OCI containers to macOS, and more.

News

Ubuntu 25.10 drops support for GNOME on Xorg

Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions

An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal

Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver

The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts

Linux Foundation tries to play peacemaker in WordPress spat

Android 16 is here, but the cool stuff is coming later

AOSP isn’t dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers

Google will reduce Pixel 6A battery capacity due to overheating issues

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Plasma 6.4 is nearly out!

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 126

June 15, 2025 Joe

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How we deal with complex projects involving non-technical people as well as developers. How to manage expectations about timing, how to deal with issues, why documenting conversations is important, and more.

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 32

June 13, 2025 Joe

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After over 10 years of using Synology appliances for his backups, Gary has had enough of their shenanigans and needs to rethink his whole setup.

Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives

AOOSTAR NAS series

UGREEN NASync DXP2800 2-Bay Desktop NAS

Fractal Design Node 304 – Black – Mini Cube Compact Computer Case

TrueNAS Mini

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2.5 Admins 251: OversharePoint

June 12, 2025 Joe

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SharePoint is exploitable by Microsoft’s AI, NIST proposes a new metric for exploited vulnerabilities, SBCs that look cool for a mini NAS and a router, and setting up a first NAS with 4 disks.

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The Maintainer’s Dilemma: Strategies for Supporting Legacy Drivers Across Decades of Hardware Evolution

News/discussion

Exploiting Copilot AI for SharePoint

NIST proposes new metric to gauge exploited vulnerabilities

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H4 Mini-ITX Kit

Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro is a versatile router board with WiFi 7, 10 Gb and 2.5 Gb LAN, and multiple M.2 connectors

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Ask The Hosts – Episode 25

June 11, 2025 Joe

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Sports we’d take up if we were less unfit and lazy, whether we listen to our own podcasts, what the best time of day is, and our favourite sci-fi shows. With Allan from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters.

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