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The Late Night Linux Family
All episodes from Late Night Linux, Linux Dev Time, Linux After Dark, 2.5 Admins, Hybrid Cloud Show, and Ask The Hosts.
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Aug 24, 2023 • 27min
2.5 Admins 157: Lincoln’s HDD
CNET’s SEO attempts once again show that nothing lasts forever, why the reports of the death of the mechanical hard drive are greatly exaggerated, and home-made IPMI on the cheap.
Plugs
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News/discussion
The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google
Coughlin: SSDs will not kill disk drives
Samsung Announces 256TB SSDs and Unveils Peta-Byte Scale PBSSDs
Free Consulting
We were asked about setting up IPMI for cheap Arm boards.
PiKVM
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Aug 22, 2023 • 30min
Linux Matters 10: History All The Way Down
In this episode:
Martin is creating a magical shell history with Atuin
Alan is using Axiom to visualise a “data takeout” of a Mini EV
Mark is going maximum Google with a previously owned Pixel 6a purchased via Mozillion, then de-googling with Simple Mobile Tools.
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Aug 21, 2023 • 25min
Late Night Linux – Episode 243
Rooting Amazon Echo devices to use with your own open source software, a remote desktop solution to watch for the future, the state of tech magazines and why Linux ones are among the last remaining, another Pocket alternative, making shell scripts look prettier, a novel approach to IT training, and more.
Discoveries
Echo Root
Kyber
The End of Computer Magazines in America
Feedback
linkding
gum
35 Fedora Releases in 30 Minutes
exercism.org
Worker claims they’re unable to use Microsoft Windows OS due to their religion
Kolide
Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux
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Aug 18, 2023 • 23min
Linux After Dark – Episode 50
The bits of Linux and open source software that we regret putting off trying, and what made us wait. From the security and complexity of containers to the hype of ZFS and WSL. Plus why we still haven’t embraced Nix.
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HelloFresh
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Aug 17, 2023 • 25min
2.5 Admins 156: SanDisk Extreme Fail
Why fully remote work is on the wane as Zoom drags employees back to the office and Bluejeans is shut down, the Sandisk SSDs that keep failing, and how and why you should use ECC RAM in your home server if you can.
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News
Zoom has “Zoom fatigue,” requires workers to return to the office
BlueJeans, Verizon’s Google Meet competitor you’ve never heard of, is shutting down
We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD
SanDisk’s silence deafens as high-profile users say Extreme SSDs still broken
Free Consulting
We were asked about ECC RAM in a home server.
Kolide
Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/25a
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Aug 15, 2023 • 27min
Late Night Linux – Episode 242
Rare praise for Mozilla as more extensions come to Firefox on Android, Fedora is coming to Arm Macs, a rolling version of “Ubuntu” appears, an unwise solution to the problem of funding open source, SUSE might be the baddies, LXD is forked, and more.
With guest host popey from Linux Matters.
News
2.5 Admins is now part of the Late Night Linux Family. Support us on Patreon
Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim and hero of many developers
Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release
Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix
Neal Gompa says KDE will be the flagship version
Rhino Linux Makes Rolling-Release Ubuntu Reality
Incus – Introduction
Incus: A new fork of Canonical’s LXD ‘containervisor’
Privacy issues with SponsorLink, starting from version 4.20
Popular open source project Moq criticized for quietly collecting data
CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association for a Collaborative and Open Future
Factor
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Aug 13, 2023 • 23min
Linux Downtime – Episode 78
Why Amolith uses Arch, why Gary uses Debian, and why Joe uses Ubuntu.
Factor
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Aug 10, 2023 • 28min
2.5 Admins 155: Dialup Memories
Allan and Jim reminisce about the early days of connecting to the Internet, and what inspired them to become sysadmins in the first place. Plus recovering old versions of files, and an exciting announcement about the show.
Plugs
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News/discussion
2.5 Admins in
The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president
How To Start An ISP (like it’s 1993)
Free Consulting
We were asked about recovering old versions of files.
Linux Matters
Check out Linux Matters – a show in the Late Night Linux Family hosted by popey, Mark, and Wimpy about all the Linux matters that matter. They did a recent episode about backups (without using ZFS).
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Aug 9, 2023 • 21min
Ask The Hosts – Episode 3
What jobs we’d do if we didn’t work in IT, foreign countries we’d live in, the musical genres we are into, and what musical talents (if any) we have. With Amolith from Linux Downtime, Martin and Mark from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark.
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Aug 8, 2023 • 30min
Linux Matters 9: Big Backup Bonanza
In this episode:
Alan is backing up with rsnapshot
Martin suggests BorgBackup is better
Mark is using rclone to keep family photos safe
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:
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