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How we’ve all set up our backups including GUI distros vs doing it the hard way, ZFS vs Borg, and why it’s tricky to chose the right offsite location.
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Windows is becoming an “agentic OS”, some WD SMR drives are dying prematurely, backing up VMware with ZFS, and separating trusted and non-trusted devices on your network.
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Understanding Storage Performance Metrics
December Webinar: The 12 Days of ZFS: Tips, Tricks, and Treats
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Microsoft is turning Windows into an ‘agentic OS,’ starting with the taskbar
Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data
WD launches investigation into problems with its controversial SMR hard drives
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We were asked about backing up VMware with ZFS, and separating trusted and non-trusted devices on your network.
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We are excited and enthusiastic about Valve’s new Linux hardware, and then angry and disappointed about Mozilla’s latest nonsense.
News
Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve
Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it
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What object-oriented programming is, why it went out of fashion, and how more modern approaches to development incorporate some of its aspects.
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We dig into the recent major AWS outage, why a misconfiguration in one region called global issues, and whether there’s anything you can do to avoid being affected by a similar incident in the future.
Gary mentioned an AWS whitepaper.
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Allan tells us about the recent OpenZFS Summit including inconsistent JBODs, more details about mixed disk sizes in ZFS with AnyRaid, an upcoming standard that allows you to keep using partially dead hard drives, Seagate’s roadmap for 50 and 100 TB drives, and NVMe connected mechanical drives. Plus using a separate mini PC for work.
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Building Enterprise-Grade Storage on Proxmox with ZFS
December Webinar: The 12 Days of ZFS: Tips, Tricks, and Treats
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We were asked about using a separate mini PC for work.
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The skills we wish we had (but accept we never will), what we are most scared of and if we’d confront it for money, and whether free will exists. With May, Chris, and Gary from Linux After Dark.
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In this episode:
--cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --hash=sha256 --iter-time=1000 --key-size=256 --pbkdf-memory=1048576 --sector-size=4096, and without ZFS, but with btrfs and compress=lzo discard=async noatime rw space_cache=v2 ssd.
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What we all learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit including open source as a counter to insular nationalism, Canonical taking RISC-V very seriously, TPM-backed full disk encryption getting a lot easier, what the post-AI-bubble will probably look like, and more.
We mentioned the Rubik Pi 3.
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Some of our Linux hot takes including the LTS release model being broken, Linux media being out of touch, social media being the root of most evil, and people being too angry and defensive about the software they use.
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