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The storage apocalypse has arrived. An old friend drops by to talk survival strategies as prices explode, and we pitch our own unapologetically 90s approach to stretching storage.

We unleash a networking monitoring tool to spot new devices, track changes in real time, and fire alerts straight into Home Assistant, MQTT, and your phone.

We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025.

The Great Holiday Homelab Special! Where our community brought their absolute best, from budget busters to beautiful disasters. Plus, a boosties celebration! Grab an eggnog and join us as we attempt to choose this year’s winners.

We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex. Then, we talk COSMIC stable with System76’s CEO.

Kent Overstreet joins us for a full update on bcachefs. What’s new, what’s next, and the surprising upside of getting kicked out of the kernel.

We pull on a few loose threads from recent episodes, and some of them unravel into way more than we expected.

Chris cooks up a remote-access trick for Jellyfin that skips VPNs entirely. One simple toggle: absurd, yet shockingly effective.

We dig into the biggest Linux hardware news of the year, then fire up our new-to-us 1L PC server.

We dive into your configs, the genius moves, the glorious blunders, and everything in between.

After all the AI hype is over, one change for Linux will be sticking around; we put it to the test.

Fedora 43 arrives with polish, new spins, and a smarter installer; and one decision the rest of the Linux world should pay attention to.

The biggest failure in seven years, right before a trip. What broke, how Chris pulled it back together, and how Wes would fix it right.

We're back from Texas just in time to chat with Jon Seager, Canonical’s VP of Engineering, and their new era with Ubuntu 25.10. On the way, we visit System76 in Denver where the COSMIC team has surprises waiting for us.

Our cross-continent race to Texas Linux Fest culminates into fantastic meat, meetups, and more.

From finely tuned to total config carnage. We review listener homelabs to share what works, and what really doesn’t.

Can't get enough Linux? How about multiple kernels running simultaneously, side by side, not in a VM, all on the same hardware; this week it's finally looking real.

Our first look at KDE Linux, then Chris shares the latest on Hyprvibe, while Wes braves his first install.

Chris managed to turn low bandwidth into a lifestyle, and curated a batch of self-hosted apps that make near-offline living possible.

Google's sideloading lockdown has us pushing Wes' Pixel further than Google ever dreamed.

Arch is under fire, two weeks and counting. We’ll break down the mess, and share a quick fix. Plus, the killer new apps we've just added to our homelabs.

When personalities clash, the users come last. Meanwhile, Chris’ hyper-tuned setup stops being a toy and starts looking like a daily driver.

Wes performs a 2 a.m. rescue at DEFCON, and Chris attempts to build a Linux desktop using nothing but vibes.

A Btrfs bug that bites is in the wild, and we discover whole home audio that works like a charm.

A radical rethink of what a Linux distro should do, and what it should stop doing. Plus, we dig into what's great about Linux 6.16.