All Shows – Late Night Linux

2.5 Admins 307: One Big Pool

July 9, 2026 Joe

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Follow-up on rebooting to update, portable power stations, glass storage, and objective news sources. Plus whether to use one ZFS pool per vdev, or just one large pool.

Plugs

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Native inotify in FreeBSD

Feedback

Anker SOLIX EV Charger Adapter (For F3000, J1722 only)

EcoFlow EV Charger to Portable Power Station Adaptor (SAE J1772 to 5P8 Port, 50A)

WattCycle First-to-Market: WattLINK – EcoFlow Delta 2/3 Series PPS E

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We were asked about whether to use one ZFS pool per vdev, or just one large pool.

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Ask The Hosts – Episode 38

July 8, 2026 Joe

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The condiment we’d pick if we could only have one. With Allan from 2.5 Admins, May from Linux After Dark, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 393

July 6, 2026 Joe

All Shows Late Night Linux

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 26:58 — 24.8MB)

A great example of accessibility features benefitting more than the target audience, a new version of the classic game Nethack, checking for bufferbloat, and Windows 10 limps on in discoveries. Then Félim’s question about the perceived value of open source goes in unexpected directions.

Discoveries

quick drag

Nethack 5

check your bufferbloat

opnsense help

Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable

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Linux After Dark – Episode 125

July 3, 2026 Joe

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Chris is struggling to decide which distro to install on his new work laptop, and he and Gary want to pick a new distro for the people they support. Plus Joe wonders what moving on from Xfce would look like.

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2.5 Admins 306: WiFi Cable

July 2, 2026 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:04 — 25.8MB)

Why setting up commercial email and VPN services is incredibly hard, avoiding TrueNAS’s move from FreeBSD to Linux, why we avoid virtualising storage systems, and bridging WiFi to an external building.

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Using Object Storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS

Discussion

Jeff Moss explains why setting up private email and VPN services are so difficult

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XigmaNAS

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We were asked about bridging WiFi to an external building.

Point-to-point Wi-Fi bridging between buildings—the cheap and easy way

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Late Night Linux – Episode 392

June 30, 2026 Joe

All Shows Late Night Linux

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 27:34 — 25.3MB)

We finally have pricing for the Steam Machine, but they are very hard to actually buy, and very expensive. SteamOS is now supported on your own hardware now though, and Joe gives it a go. Plus Ubuntu makes moves to tighten up the flavours situation and announces speech to text on the desktop, and a quick KDE Korner.

News

Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty prices amid AI squeeze

Valve’s Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won’t be able to buy one yet

Gamers Nexus long review

Valve will finally let you build your own Steam Machine with SteamOS for desktop [archived]

$100 Steam Machine GPU Unlocked! PS5 APU (ASRock BC-250)

Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status

Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop

KDE Korner

KDE e.V. COMMUNITY REPORT

Plasma 6.7

Get started with Union, Plasma’s new theming engine, in 2 minutes or less: a FAQ