Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

A dreadful backup box mistake was made but then rectified, whether to take on the technical debt of an older Ubuntu LTS, and why there are more important battles to fight than advocating for FOSS.   2.5 Admins episode where Joe talks about his ZFS setup           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes       &nbsp...

Ten-year-old Chromecasts stop working, movie DVDs start rotting, Skype is finally dying, using ZFS on VM guests and hosts.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS Space Accounting Explained   News Google apologizes for Chromecast outage in email to users “They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases Mic...

Our first jobs, how we balance staying informed and staying sane, and the best time of year. With Andy from Linux Dev Time , and popey from Linux Matters .       Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

Mozilla does another terrible job of communicating an important policy change, the movie made with Blender wins an Oscar, EA open sources some Command & Conquer games, the EFF releases a tool to detect cellular spying, an official Debian VM on Pixel devices, a brief foldable update, and more.   News Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox An update on our Terms o...

Andy is only publishing his games on F-Droid and not the Google Play Store from now on, and he tells us why.   Rabbit Escape Box Stacker Smolpxl Games Adresilo Sepia Search             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the  RSS feed

What the new Docker pull limits really mean and how to deal with them, and whether paying for 12 years of support for Kubernetes is a good idea.   Docker Hub pull usage and limits Canonical announces 12 year Kubernetes LTS       Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com         SysCloud Over 2,000 IT admins already trust SysCloud to protec...

HP was forcing people to wait on hold for 15 minutes to get support, the DOGE site was embarrassingly insecure, setting up encrypted offsite backups, and mixing SATA and NVMe in a server.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Why FreeBSD is the Right Choice for Embedded Devices   News/discusison HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due t...

In this episode: Mark built a server rack using parts from LinxcomUK (ebay) and Kenable . Alan wrote a measure-syft for benchmarking syft performance. Martin created a template for LÖVE games.   You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form . If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux Matters Chat...

Remote desktop without a client, Macrodata Refinement, 3D plane tracking, Home Assistant’s new hardware voice assistant, a new version of Pi-hole is a touch buggy, and more.   Discoveries Guacamole Lumon Industries ( Macrodata-Refinement ) Skies-ADSB Home Assistant Voice PE Casio F91W to 5000m underwater Pi-hole v6 gammastep         1Password Extended Access Manageme...

It’s the alternative open source OS challenge! May got OpenIndiana , Joe got ReactOS , Gary got GhostBSD , and Chris got Haiku .   Haiku Package Management         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .  

Arm is going to make its own server chips, WordPress is selling “100 year” domain registrations, geo-redundancy for VPSs, and backing up Windows to Backblaze B2.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces   News Arm to launch its own chip in move that could upend semiconductor indu...

The kernel Rust drama nears an end but not without some collateral damage, you should back up your Kindle books while you still can, Mozilla so very nearly gets it, Chrome gets even worse, Apple takes its ball home, and Matrix rattles the donation tin.   News Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code Passing the torch on Asahi Linux [PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: Remove myself On communi...

We dig into the technical details of the Linux Kernel Rust drama.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the  RSS feed

The best ways to implement geo-redundancy for containers and VMs using load balancers and Kubernetes, and moving 5TB of storage to the cloud.       Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com         SysCloud Over 2,000 IT admins already trust SysCloud to protect their SaaS data. Head to SysCloud.com for a 30-day free trial—and for a limited time...

Google found a way to run unofficial microcode on AMD CPUs, whether software should get a CVE when it goes end of life, LLMs changing Redditors’ minds and self-replicating, and managing SSH keys at scale.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 1: Snapshots   News/discussion How to make any AMD Zen CPU a...

In this episode: Alan switches from self hosted markdown to self hosted mark down served from a docker container running CodiMD . Mark puts on his robe and wizard’s hat, and ventures into the Caves of Qud . Martin switches his console to KMSCON .   You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form . If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feed...

What if Linus Torvalds hadn’t written Linux? What if Canonical hadn’t dropped Unity and the phone? Plus what we are self-hosting in Voice of the Masses.   Voice of the Masses What are you self-hosting, and what are you relying on others to host for you?           Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build si...

The search for the ideal cheap and small off-site backup machine, and our advice on learning the ins and outs of desktop Linux.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .

Used Seagate drives are being sold as “new”, another reminder not to hack Windows 11 onto unsupported hardware, about using ZFS on VPS block storage, picking hardware to run VMs, and delegating datasets to containers.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Controlling Your Core Infrastructure: DNS   News Fraud with Seagate hard...

The furthest north and south we’ve been, art that means something to us, which brand of battery power tools we use, and how we hang our toilet roll. With Félim from Late Night Linux , and Gary from Linux After Dark .   Félim’s moon book photo .     Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

Linux kernel drama with Rust raises the old question about developer succession, the Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, great news for F-Droid, a movie made with Blender is nominated for an Oscar, RISC-V in a Framework, and loads more.   News Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Mai...

Mark from Linux Matters who’s a web developer joins us to talk about working in PHP – a language that’s mature and well established, and how that compares with working with newer “cooler” languages like Rust and Go.   Moodle Mark’s Bash text adventure Bash associative array examples       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with...

Is being cloud-first more about the target for your workloads, or more about mindset?   Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com         SysCloud Over 2,000 IT admins already trust SysCloud to protect their SaaS data. Head to SysCloud.com for a 30-day free trial—and for a limited time, use code HCS to get 50% off your first purchase.     Suppo...

We appreciate the elegance of subnets as well as the power of custom benchmarking, Xboxes will support large amounts of external storage, why it’s not looking great for bcachefs, malware and remote desktops, and our thoughts on Fortigate network gear.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Key Considerations for Benchmarking Network Stora...

In this episode: Martin runs GitHub Actions on his development workstations using act . Alan likes to help people and has upped his people-helping skills by making little tools to solve their problems . keyshield – A simple utility to protect your game inputs from GNOME keyboard shortcuts. archive-vbulletin-thread – A Python script to archive threads from vBulletin-based forums. Mark h...