Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

Linux Dev Time – Episode 157 Aug 23, 2026 26:52 Macros: are they a superpower, a necessary evil, or a mistake?                   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

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 63 Aug 21, 2026 26:11 Shane wants to make his homelab less janky so needs to decide on how to split up his compute and storage, plus some of the KVM over IP devices we own and how we use them.             Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes     Subscribe to the RSS feed.

2.5 Admins 313: Cooking with NVMe Aug 20, 2026 27:56 Microsoft claims that Windows 11 will work well with 8GB of RAM, some of the innovations coming to high end SSDs, the arguments for TP-Link Omada over Ubiquiti UniFi.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes FreeBSD Support: Greatest Hits   Discussion Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11 Windows quality: an up

Late Night Linux – Episode 399 Aug 17, 2026 25:58 Guest hosts Chris from Linux After Dark and Sean from Hybrid Cloud Show tell Joe and Félim about bootc desktop Linux distros, how they build, deploy, and update them, and why this modern approach is so powerful. Plus another system information tool, cutting edge upscaling on the Steam Deck, and why Chris has switched to the KDE Plasma desktop.   Bootc desktops bootc Using Bootc to Manage Ubun

Linux After Dark – Episode 128 Aug 14, 2026 24:16 It’s a forced positivity episode! We all come up with some positive things to say about Linux and open source.               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

2.5 Admins 312: Bus Factor Aug 13, 2026 26:47 In a world where photos can no longer be trusted, Jim argues that we should move to a default distrust model where images are signed at every stage of the process of creation. We get into some of the potential issues. Plus how to ensure continuity for your clients in the event of your demise, and setting up a system to demonstrate ZFS replication capabilities.   Plugs Support us on patreon an

Ask The Hosts – Episode 39 Aug 12, 2026 19:50 Our favourite emoji, favourite vehicles, and whether we’d prefer to live in an icy or cold climate or an extremely hot one. With Félim, Gary, Jim, Allan, May, Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show, and special guest Shane from Linux Lads.            

Late Night Linux – Episode 398 Aug 11, 2026 26:51 Reports of desktop Linux adoption numbers are probably exaggerated, the Steam Frame seemingly gets closer, Valve’s European logistics partner leaks people’s data, Proxmox gains Arm64 support, GNOME Boxes makes some changes, and a quick KDE Korner. With guest hosts Chris from Linux After Dark, and Sean from Hybrid Cloud Show.   News Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to Lon

Linux Dev Time – Episode 156 Aug 9, 2026 25:31 How deep should you go with your understanding of systems?                 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

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 62 Aug 7, 2026 31:14 The biggest homelab mistakes we’ve made, and what we learned from them.               Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

2.5 Admins 311: Couch Cushions Aug 6, 2026 28:12 Microsoft restored an account including files that it initially claimed wasn’t possible, Apple might lock down phones if people don’t keep up their lease payments, ZFS scrubs shouldn’t be painful, and accessing another network from a locked-down work machine.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes ZFS vs Ceph: Do You Actually Need

Late Night Linux – Episode 397 Aug 3, 2026 26:01 Initial Steam Machine reviews are broadly positive, Jellyfin is losing some key project leaders, Sony deletes more movies that people “bought”, why you probably shouldn’t wipe your phone when the US authorities ask for access, Graham repurposes some discarded crypto hardware to play arcade games, Félim gets that old game working, a great terminal music player, and more.   Ne

Linux After Dark – Episode 127 Jul 31, 2026 24:02 We got a lot of feedback about choosing a distro for the friends and family we support, but a lot of suggestions didn’t make sense to us. We get into why we pick boring and safe choices instead of interesting and exciting ones.                   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes        

2.5 Admins 310: GPLFreeBSD Jul 30, 2026 29:11 Google wants you to use a selfie video for account recovery, LG will stop apps turning their smart TVs into residential proxy nodes, we disagree about how serious OpenAI’s agent hacking Hugging Face is, FreeBSD removes the last bits of GPL software and suffers an embarrassing git flub , and backing up to an encrypted NAS without ZFS.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS f

Late Night Linux – Episode 396 Jul 28, 2026 28:19 With several open source figures taking a stance on either side of the generative AI debate, we have another argument about it. This time we actually come to something closer to an understanding of each other’s views, even if we still end up disagreeing.   News/discussion Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 5th September from 5pm until late &

Linux Dev Time – Episode 155 Jul 26, 2026 26:20 Does language choice actually matter?               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

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 61 Jul 24, 2026 23:32 It’s another hot questions episode! Tech we’d use if we rebuilt everything from scratch, career advice to our past selves, how much of our jobs we could do from our phone, and the qualities we’ve seen in great managers.               Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         &nbsp

2.5 Admins 309: Orbital Sauron Jul 23, 2026 24:01 A new HTTP caching standard looks promising but might struggle to get adopted, a terrible space mirror idea is actually happening, cars will spy on us all, and picking a VPN for use with an IP that doesn’t change very often.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes   News/discussion HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop prete

Late Night Linux – Episode 395 Jul 20, 2026 26:22 Some of the tech from early on in our lives that inspired where we are today. Plus discoveries including and old game that doesn’t work, professional audio hardware that now works on Linux, Arch on easy mode, and an old chip that can do a surprising amount.   Discoveries Celebrating 55 years of the 555 timer chip (flashing alert) open-apollo Ovine EndeavourOS        

Linux After Dark – Episode 126 Jul 17, 2026 25:13 Having seen some technologies come to a definite end, Chris wonders if we should be willing to draw a line under open source software sometimes.                   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

2.5 Admins 308: Sloppy Shims Jul 16, 2026 27:37 Microsoft really wants your Windows settings data, secure boot has been useless for a decade, our thoughts on (the idea of) Incus and IncusOS, and configuring ZFS for a Lightning Memory Mapped Database.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Jails, Not Containers: FreeBSD Isolation Done Right   News/discussion Microsoft flips Windows Backup to

Late Night Linux – Episode 394 Jul 14, 2026 24:02 Mozilla is paying for Firefox to be on the front of Wrexham football shirts, SCO vs IBM might not be dead after all, Red Hat will support RHEL forever if you are willing to pay, OpenMandriva discovers why distros need good governance, Félim awaits his statue, and a quick Kagi update.     News Wrexham AFC and Firefox announce a multi-year, front-of-kit partnership Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’

Linux Dev Time – Episode 154 Jul 12, 2026 23:28 With an increase in the number of security bugs being disclosed irresponsibly, we dig into how the process should work, the differences between normal bugs and security bugs, the complexities of coordinating patches, the human issues involved, and more.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 60 Jul 10, 2026 25:48 Is the industry now better or worse than when we got into it?               Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

2.5 Admins 307: One Big Pool Jul 9, 2026 26:37 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 Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Native inotify in FreeBSD   Feedback Anker SOLIX EV Charger Adapter (For F3000, J1722 only) EcoFlow EV Charger to Portable Power Station A

Ask The Hosts – Episode 38 Jul 8, 2026 4:18 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. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

Late Night Linux – Episode 393 Jul 6, 2026 26:58 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 up

Linux After Dark – Episode 125 Jul 3, 2026 26:11 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.                   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for w

2.5 Admins 306: WiFi Cable Jul 2, 2026 28:04 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.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Using Object Storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS   Discussion Jeff Moss explains why setting up priv

Late Night Linux – Episode 392 Jun 30, 2026 27:34 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 pric

Linux Dev Time – Episode 153 Jun 28, 2026 7:07 The bit of code we admire most and why. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.             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

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 59 Jun 26, 2026 6:49 The one tool in our IT tool belt that we value the most. This is a short episode because producer Joe is having a summer break.                 Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

2.5 Admins 305: Short Two Jun 25, 2026 7:17 The one tool in our IT tool belt that we value the most. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Late Night Linux – Episode 391 Jun 22, 2026 7:08 Our favourite little things about Linux and open source. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.               Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Linux After Dark – Episode 124 Jun 19, 2026 8:17 The most precious machine in our stack of laptops and PCs, excluding anything we actually use regularly. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

2.5 Admins 304: Wiring a House Jun 18, 2026 30:21 Wiring up a house for networking including cables, access points, connectors, and racks. Plus Google is found liable for what its AI overviews say.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Managing Cache and DirectIO for Databases on ZFS Webinar: June 30th @ 11am EDT: FreeBSD After Hours AMA   News/discussion Landmark German ruling declares Googl

Late Night Linux – Episode 390 Jun 16, 2026 33:26 The new Steam hardware is getting close, Arch Linux’s AUR is compromised, and curl is having a month off from vulnerability reports. Plus updates on using the Kagi search engine, retro handhelds, and 3D printing.   Plugs Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late Graham’s talk Support us on patreon and get an ad-f

Linux Dev Time – Episode 152 Jun 14, 2026 25:04 We get into the process of working on and with formal protocol specifications, something Andy is familiar with from his work on Matrix.               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

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 58 Jun 12, 2026 27:30 Having recently moved house, Gary wonders how to reconfigure his homelab and network setup. Plus Shane is fed up with GitHub’s outages and formulates a plan to move away… somewhere…                 Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

2.5 Admins 303: Denial of Secrets Jun 11, 2026 29:30 People were locked out of their password managers to stop a brute force attack, Coreutils come to Windows, a FreeBSD PR effort backfires, and the best simple consumer WiFi gear.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Why ZFS Is the Ideal Filesystem for Multi-User/Department Media Production Webinar: June 30th @ 11am EDT: FreeBSD After Hours AMA &nbs

Ask The Hosts – Episode 37 Jun 10, 2026 19:47 Late night snacks, and the books we love and hate. With Félim, Gary, Jim, and special guest Shane from Linux Lads. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

Late Night Linux – Episode 389 Jun 8, 2026 26:52 A new Firefox release confuses Félim, Plex makes no sense in a world where Jellyfin exists, Will considers paying for the Kagi search engine, and another small Android tablet for your wall. Plus what we learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit.   News/discussion Firefox 151.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing Kagi Shelly Wall Display   Ubuntu Summit Ubunt

Linux After Dark – Episode 123 Jun 5, 2026 25:04 We revisit the topic of the dire situation with hardware prices, this time with a focus on getting the most out of machines with limited resources.                 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

2.5 Admins 302: ClawPilot Jun 4, 2026 32:44 Microsoft threatens a security researcher for disclosing vulnerabilities publicly, bricks old versions of Office, and announces their version of OpenClaw. Plus keeping up with the latest technology.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Which ZFS Storage Metrics Matter for Database Performance Webinar: June 25th @ 11am EDT: Understanding AnyRAID wi

Late Night Linux – Episode 388 Jun 2, 2026 28:21 Steam Deck price rises point toward high prices for the new Valve hardware, Lenovo puts its name to a cheap retro handheld and regrets it, Wikipedia management seems to be acting like a typical big tech company and the workers are organising, Bambu pisses off its 3D printer customers and Joe got given a free unrelated 3D printer, and we don’t believe that the Raspberry Pi 6 will arrive as la

Linux Dev Time – Episode 151 May 31, 2026 28:18 What makes a good library?               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

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 57 May 29, 2026 25:35 It’s a Linux Dev Time style hot questions episode. Is “cloud native” more about where the workload is going or how you deploy it? What is a skill that is really important in your job that may surprise people? Is the cloud more or less secure than a company-controlled data centre or on-prem? Would you recommend what you do to your kids/nephews etc?         &nb

2.5 Admins 301: F(OSS) Consulting May 28, 2026 29:17 It looks like Bitlocker had a back door in it, how a listener accidentally broke Gitea for users of the snap version, Google accidentally published an unpatched exploit for Chromium-based browsers, why people are starting to ditch Bitwarden, and moving a tech stack away from large corporations.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes How Klara and Tr

Late Night Linux – Episode 387 May 25, 2026 25:22 Debian’s ambitious aim to make all packages reproducible pushes us closer to a better future, yet more talk about age verification for VPNs, Firefox gets more users on mobile thanks to regulation, Opera’s gaming browser comes to Linux, Valve releases CAD files for the Steam Controller, and the Steam Frame might be coming soon. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.   News/discu

Linux After Dark – Episode 122 May 22, 2026 25:13 We all seem to be moving away from Ubuntu, but there are still quite a few reasons to keep using it.   WG Tunnel PiVPN Charlie’s OggCamp talk about infrastructure as code                 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe t

2.5 Admins 300: IPvWot? May 21, 2026 28:24 Why a proposal for an alternative to IPv6 is unlikely to be viable, Microsoft really doesn’t want you to run Exchange Server on-prem, Google will finally stop being a proper search engine, setting up an email server for internal use, and mitigating DDoS attacks without Cloudflare.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Tuning ZFS for Databases

Late Night Linux – Episode 386 May 19, 2026 27:47 Great funding news for LVFS and KDE, why Europe probably needs some more home-grown distros, a conspiracy theory about Cloudflare seems unlikely, and we wonder what can be done about all the irresponsibly disclosed vulnerabilities that new tools are discovering. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.   News LVFS Sponsorship Announcement Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE so

Linux Dev Time – Episode 150 May 17, 2026 28:45 Andy has been taking the One Billion Row Challenge, and has been thinking about the broader question of what makes software fast.   Andy’s videos on Peertube and YouTube.             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

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 56 May 15, 2026 29:51 We get into some homelab updates. Sean has been consolidating hardware, Gary has been implementing high availability with Proxmox, and Shane has been working hard to get Home Assistant working with Kubernetes, as well as downloading YouTube videos.   Shane’s homelab           Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes  

2.5 Admins 299: RMAggravation May 14, 2026 27:41 People trying to return defective hard drives and RAM are finding out why consumer protection laws would be good, GoDaddy accidentally gave someone’s domain name away, and when and how to fix ZFS fragmentation.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Fast Dedup Economics: When Deduplication Beats Buying New Disks   News/discussion Toshiba

Ask The Hosts – Episode 36 May 13, 2026 18:33 Light bulb colour temperatures, doing nice things for ourselves, pulling faces while playing guitar, and surreal experiences. With Allan from 2.5 Admins, May from Linux After Dark, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

Late Night Linux – Episode 385 May 11, 2026 29:02 Voice to text, visualising CSVs in the terminal, managing software from releases on GitHub, a mini Android tablet for your wall, and Amiga music on Linux in Discoveries. Plus Ubuntu embracing AI makes us wonder if we should just stop having the same old arguments.   Discoveries VoxType Tennis tooler SONOFF NSPanel Pro Gen2 Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator   News/discussion The future of A

Linux After Dark – Episode 121 May 8, 2026 26:26 How we get back to our home LANs when we are away travelling etc. It mostly involves WireGuard and Tailscale. We also get into blocking ads, mostly with Pi-hole.                 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

2.5 Admins 298: Windows Postdate May 7, 2026 28:47 Microsoft is encouraging employees with the most experience to leave the company and letting users pause Windows updates forever, some of the best features you’ll get in the version of ZFS that ships with the new Ubuntu LTS, and backing up data from cloud services.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Extending ZFS Performance Without Hardwa

Late Night Linux – Episode 384 May 5, 2026 30:21 There’s a new Ubuntu LTS release and quite a lot is new, Canonical’s infrastructure was taken down and we disagree about whether it could have been avoided, two recent examples of irresponsible vulnerability disclosure, and the Steam controller finally arrives with a hefty price tag.   Plugs Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June

Linux Dev Time – Episode 149 May 3, 2026 21:58 It’s yet another hot questions episode. Colour schemes, syntax highlighting, code patterns, fonts, and keyboards.             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

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 55 May 1, 2026 23:44 A recent attack shone a light on some of the problems with GitHub Actions, and CI/CD more generally. As tempting as it might be, going back to shell scripts probably isn’t the answer.   1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack 2.5 Admins 292: Trivyally Infected             Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with ear

2.5 Admins 297: Jraphics Apr 30, 2026 32:43 Hitting the limit for hard links, a parent struggles to get back into their teen’s compromised Discord account, the demise of tower PCs and general purpose computing in general, and changing the properties of existing ZFS pools.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS   News/discussion How

Late Night Linux – Episode 383 Apr 27, 2026 29:10 Whether you can trust small new distros, Amazon is officially abandoning Android on its new TV sticks in favour of their new Linux-based OS, and we have another pointless argument about AI bollocks.   News/discussion Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore Eternal November — this new influx of users may be better than the last one           &

Linux After Dark – Episode 120 Apr 24, 2026 25:12 Chris ended up with a managed M4 Macbook Air at work with no sudo or root. So how does a Linux user get on with his first ever Mac? Turns out pretty well, thanks to lots of open source software and a terminal.               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get i

2.5 Admins 296: Beware of the Leopard Apr 23, 2026 30:32 Microsoft locks devs out of important accounts, the foreign router ban exemptions make even less sense, Backblaze shows that “unlimited” never means that, and attempting to avoid software that’s written with AI.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Do More with Less: Cost-Efficient Storage on the New TrueNAS with Enhanced Fast De

Late Night Linux – Episode 382 Apr 21, 2026 28:24 The French government makes a start on moving to the Linux Desktop, the EU has a terrible but open source age verification app, some clarity on one of the exciting office suite dramas, the media swallows Anthropic’s nonsense about their new magically powerful model, a quick KDE Korner, and more.   News France’s digital agency dumping Windows desktops for Linux Brussels launched an age c

Linux Dev Time – Episode 148 Apr 19, 2026 26:59 We get into dependency management. The pros and cons of tools like Dependabot, the varying approaches with different languages and standard library sizes, the times when pinning dependencies makes sense, and more.   Turn Dependabot Off             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 54 Apr 17, 2026 24:37 Aaron and Shane share some thoughts about attending Kubecon, including the push for European sovereign cloud, how platform engineering might mitigate some of the problems AI is causing, the sense that Kubernetes is mature and boring in a good way now, and our concerns about scope creep.   Announcing the AI Gateway Working Group             Support us on patreon a

2.5 Admins 295: Orbital Meltdown Apr 16, 2026 28:19 Why putting data center satellites in orbit is a terrible idea, Google might show people a made-up version of your website, and ZFS on really old Dell servers.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes   News/discussion Orbital data centers, part 1: There’s no way this is economically viable, right? 11 mins edited Datacenters in space are a terribl

Late Night Linux – Episode 381 Apr 13, 2026 27:20 Raspberry Pi prices have gone up yet again, more drama in the exciting world of open source office suites, Red Hat looks to be going all in on “AI”, Cloudflare vibe codes a WordPress rip off, and GIMP shares some interesting download numbers.   News/discussion A new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75, and more memory-driven price increases Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch

Linux After Dark – Episode 119 Apr 10, 2026 23:32 May wants to make a space heater out of an old computer, and Joe is thinking about buying a new (used) laptop. The heater will be pretty straightforward but finding the right laptop will be much harder.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subs

2.5 Admins 294: Oh, R2 Apr 9, 2026 22:24 Arm announces its first CPU, Anthropic accidentally leaks the source for Claude Code and it’s terrible, and setting up a backup for a friend’s photos.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes FreeBSD and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence: A Storage Architect’s View   News/discussion Arm expands compute platform to silic

Ask The Hosts – Episode 35 Apr 8, 2026 21:08 What we do when we get stressed, cinema vs theatre, our mentors, and if we’ve tried being vegetarian. With Gary from Linux After Dark, Andy from Linux Dev Time, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

Late Night Linux – Episode 380 Apr 7, 2026 20:14 Steam stats suggest that gaming on Linux is more popular than ever, Wine improvements might entice even more gamers, Ubuntu might break things when it tightens up GRUB security and makes 6GB of RAM the minimum requirement for the desktop edition, and Ubuntu MATE is looking for new maintainers.   News LAS 2026 Call for proposals extended till the 10th April Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam S

Linux Dev Time – Episode 147 Apr 5, 2026 23:31 It’s another hot questions episode. Whether we think better on our own or with other people, our non-standard debugging habits, favourite interview questions, coding at night, character encoding, and abolishing time zones.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in to

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 53 Apr 3, 2026 23:04 The ugliest and jankiest hacks we’ve put into prod, and a few of the worst things we’ve seen other people get away with.           Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

2.5 Admins 293: Reduced Flicker Apr 2, 2026 27:20 Microsoft says Windows 11 is getting less rubbish but we are skeptical, vehicles with alcohol interlocks won’t start because the manufacturer’s server is down, and whether you should virtualise a router or a NAS.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Five‑Year Storage Design with OpenZFS: Media Refresh, Rebalancing, and Hardware Indepen

Late Night Linux – Episode 379 Mar 30, 2026 23:24 Making silly URLs, visualising complex weather data, a TUI network discovery tool, and an open source version of a classic synthesizer in discoveries, plus the sad reality that it’s more or less impossible to avoid code that’s been generated by “AI” these days.   Discoveries creepy link Supercell Wx whosthere Ultramaster KR-106   AI in FOSS systemd 260-rc3 Release

Linux After Dark – Episode 118 Mar 27, 2026 25:01 We decided to give openSUSE a try. We had a great time. Honest.                 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.

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