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The one bit of advice we’d give to someone wanting to become a professional sysadmin. This is a short episode because Joe is having a break for the Christmas period.
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The one bit of advice we’d give to someone wanting to become a professional sysadmin. This is a short episode because Joe is having a break for the Christmas period.
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Good news for custom Android ROMs, Rust is here to stay in the kernel, an open source success story in Germany, and a new version of elementary OS is out. Plus discoveries is back including better Firefox history, migrating from Windows to Linux, automating telescopes, turning old tablets into clocks, and more.
News
Good news for custom ROMs: Google just released the Android 16 QPR2
The (successful) end of the kernel Rust experiment
New Linux Patch Confirms: Rust Experiment Is Done, Rust Is Here To Stay
Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein relies on Open Source and saves millions
elementary OS 8.1 Available Now
Discoveries
Making History: Signing the Commodore Contract + C64 Ultimate Production Update
Tailscale
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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 7:33 — 6.3MB)
We tell stories from some of the tech support nightmares we’ve found ourselves in. This is a short episode because Joe is having a break for the Christmas period.
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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 26:06 — 21.2MB)
Apple deletes a person’s entire digital life, PornHub Premium user data is leaked, Mozilla’s new CEO wants to ruin Firefox, Tech Force in the USA is alarming, and fine tuning storage for databases.
Plugs
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Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec?
News/discussion
20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
PornHub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data
Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company
Rest assured, Firefox will always remain a browser built around user control
Trump administration launches Tech Force hiring push
Free consulting
We were asked about fine tuning storage for databases.
Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 22:24 — 18.0MB)
The Steam machine will use an older HDMI standard because of arbitrary rules, more details about running X86 Windows games on Arm Linux, and the Steam Controller lives on. Plus Calibre is adding “AI”, and we laugh at another LLM.
News
Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama
Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow
Remember Google Stadia? Steam finally made its gamepad worth rescuing
Talk to your Fedora system with the linux-mcp-server!
Calibre adds AI “discussion” feature
Because the Calibre ebook library software just acquired AI garbage it has *already* been forked
Tailscale
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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 27:42 — 22.5MB)
How far you can go with eliminating global variables, forcing everything you ever need to be passed in as arguments.
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How to connect your public environments across clouds and into your datacenter infrastructure – using official options, VPNs and new ideas like mTLS. Plus container networking, CNIs and other ways to plug extras into Kubernetes.
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The Crucial brand of consumer SSDs and RAM is going away, AMD and Intel memory encryption can be bypassed with cheap hardware, more AI buffoonery, and monitoring users’ usage on a network.
Plugs
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When RAID Isn’t Enough: ZFS Redundancy Done Right
News/discussion
Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
Cheap Hardware Module Bypasses AMD, Intel Memory Encryption
Google’s vibe coding platform deletes entire drive
One day, AI might be better than you at surfing the web. That day isn’t today
Free consulting
We were asked about monitoring users’ usage on a network.
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How many jobs we’ve had, how seriously we take our Christmas decorations, whether we like pineapple on pizza, and memorable romantic dates. With Andy and Kevin from Linux Dev Time.
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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 26:55 — 21.6MB)
Arduino’s new ToS has some people worried, some projects are starting to move away from GitHub for technical reasons, Raspberry Pi has a new model and prices are going up because of RAM costs, great news for OpenPrinting, old text adventure games get open source, and Joe’s foldable phone breaks in an unexpected way.
News
Arduino’s new terms of service worries hobbyists ahead of Qualcomm acquisition
Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg
1GB Raspberry Pi 5 now available at $45, and memory-driven price rises
Sovereign Tech Agency is investing in OpenPrinting
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
1Password Extended Access Management
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Tailscale
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