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 Ubuntu Summit 26.04 Timetable Ubuntu Summit videos See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS : Subscribe to th...
Jun 08, 2026•27 min
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 ....
Jun 05, 2026•25 min
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 with Jon from HexOS News/discussion Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal in...
Jun 04, 2026•33 min
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 late as 2028. News Steam Deck back in stock, with updated pricing The golden age of handheld gaming is alrea...
Jun 02, 2026•28 min
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
May 31, 2026•28 min
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? Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
May 29, 2026•26 min
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 TrueNAS fixed ZFS’s longest standing limitation Webinar: June 25th @ 11am EDT: Understanding AnyRAID with Jon...
May 28, 2026•29 min
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/discussion Debian Release Team: Debian Must Now Ship Reproducible Packages EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in ...
May 25, 2026•25 min
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 to the RSS feed ....
May 22, 2026•25 min
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 Webinar: May 27th at 11am EDT: Database Performance on ZFS with Tom Lawrence News/discussion Veteran network arc...
May 21, 2026•28 min
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 software development KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own Can Someone Please Expl...
May 19, 2026•28 min
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...
May 17, 2026•29 min
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 Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
May 15, 2026•30 min
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 refuses to replace large hard drive that was under warranty — company offers refund at the purchase price, not the highe...
May 14, 2026•28 min
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....
May 13, 2026•19 min
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 AI in Ubuntu I wanted to reply with some clarifications The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next? Anthropi...
May 11, 2026•29 min
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 ....
May 08, 2026•26 min
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 Hardware Upgrades News/discussion Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it’s encouraging experienced ...
May 07, 2026•29 min
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 from 6pm until late SeaGL 2026 Call for Presentations Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some earl...
May 05, 2026•30 min
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...
May 03, 2026•22 min
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 early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
May 01, 2026•24 min
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 Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke ext4 Hardlinks Dad stuck in support nightmare after teen lied abou...
Apr 30, 2026•33 min
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 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 th...
Apr 27, 2026•29 min
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 in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Apr 24, 2026•25 min
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 Dedup The Hidden Value of CPU-Intensive Compression on Modern Hardware News/discussion Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGu...
Apr 23, 2026•31 min
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 checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames ...
Apr 21, 2026•28 min
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 to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed...
Apr 19, 2026•27 min
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 and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Apr 17, 2026•25 min
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 terrible, horrible, no good idea Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website Free consulting We were asked about ZFS on ...
Apr 16, 2026•28 min
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 sparks OnlyOffice backlash TDF ejects its core developers Let’s put an end to the speculation Memo: Red Hat Global Eng...
Apr 13, 2026•27 min
