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2.5 Admins 272: NVMe Surprise

November 6, 2025 Joe

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Why you should seriously consider buying refurbished hard drives, why drives might be lasting longer than they once did, Jim’s M.2 NVMe drive died at an inopportune moment, using multiple partitions on disks with ZFS.

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Advanced ZFS Dataset Management: Snapshots, Clones, and Bookmarks

November Webinar: ZFS Mastery: The Bits They Don’t Put in the Man Pages

News/discussion

Do Refurbished Hard Disks Make Sense For Your Home NAS Server?

Are Hard Drives Getting Better? Let’s Revisit the Bathtub Curve

Jim’s M.2 NVMe nightmare

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Late Night Linux – Episode 358

November 3, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 35:32 — 28.5MB)

Mark Shuttleworth recently spoke to us about what he’s apprehensive and excited about in the tech world, and more. Plus in the news: Ubuntu Unity needs help to survive, the Python Software Foundation turns down a large government grant, Fedora allows AI contributions, SUSE goes all in on AI, and KDE hits its fundraising goal.

News

Linux Matters

Regarding Ubuntu Unity and a call for help

The Python Software Foundation has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program

Fedora agrees policy allowing AI-assisted contributions

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 – AI-Ready, Long-Term Support

SUSE Goes Agentic: The First Linux That Thinks for Itself

Awesome fundraiser news: €53,000 raised!

Mark Shuttleworth

Joe sat down with Mark at the recent Ubuntu Summit to discuss what he’s apprehensive and excited about in the tech world, what we should look forward to in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and more.

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 136

November 2, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 27:06 — 22.0MB)

Some of the languages that we love and why we love them. It’s not just Rust, honest!

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 42

October 31, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 24:11 — 19.9MB)

Shane has teething issues with his Kubernetes homelab, Sean ran a bootable containers workshop at Texas Linux Fest, and the case for enterprise rolling distros.

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2.5 Admins 271: Dead Internet

October 30, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 27:54 — 22.7MB)

Why you should keep your Baseboard Management Controller off the network, ZFS is hard to defeat with a zip bomb, how bad the Internet bot problem probably is, and building a small home server cluster.

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Discussion

Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware

When a decompression ZIP bomb meets ZFS: 19 PB written on a 15 TB disk

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Linux Matters 67: Panache, for men

October 28, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:22 — 24.1MB)

In this episode:

Alan slipped down the nix rabbit-hole.
Martin created Glyph Party, for adding panache to your terminal applications.
Mark has lost all his free time to the latest Rimworld DLC, Odyssey.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 357

October 27, 2025 Joe

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Intel is contributing less to open source and it could easily backfire, Qualcomm buys Arduino and we have concerns, KDE turns 29, Germans are doing excellent work moving towards Linux, and good news for those running Linux on an Amiga.

News

Intel rethinking how it contributes to open source community

Intel’s Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source

Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino

Arduino’s got a new job: selling chips for its new owner

Happy Birthday to KDE

Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack

Linux Patches Enable PCI Support For The Amiga 4000

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Linux After Dark – Episode 107

October 24, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 22:20 — 18.2MB)

We’ve done various challenges in the past where we’ve bought Linux machines on a seriously low budget, but what if we had an unlimited budget? What would we buy in this hypothetical situation? It turns out we all struggled to come up with anything and are pretty satisfied with the machines we already have.

Note that this episode was recorded before we found out that Framework supports problematic projects.

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2.5 Admins 270: Storage Shortage

October 23, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 27:46 — 22.6MB)

It looks like the storage companies aren’t betting on the AI bubble lasting much longer, the arguments against self-hosting, and setting up a server for virtualization and containers.

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ZFS Performance Tuning in the Real World: ARC, L2ARC, and SLOG

Discussion

Expect HDD, SSD shortages as AI rewrites the rules of storage hierarchy — multiple companies announce price hikes, too

The Future is NOT Self-Hosted

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Late Night Linux – Episode 356

October 20, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 21:41 — 17.4MB)

An AWS outage takes down a lot more sites and services than it should have, the new Ubuntu release has some surprisingly bad bugs, the Xubuntu website is compromised, Discord proves that uploading IDs is a bad idea, and Framework disappoints by sponsoring the baddies.

News

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

Ubuntu 25.10 lands: Rustier and Wayland-ier, but Flatpak is broken

WireGuard bug

Xubuntu website got hacked and is serving malware (trojan)

Confirmation from Sean

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

Framework flame war erupts over Linux controversy

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