Whether you dual boot and why in Voice of the Masses, some of your feedback, Graham plays with an open source synth, and Danielle Foré tells us about the recent release of elementary OS 8. Voice of the Masses Do you dual boot and why? Feedback The Linux Foundation – Nonprofit Explorer gui-scale-applet... Read More
Our FOSS frustrations, and our satisfying open source wins. ncspot py-spy OggCamp Distrobox BoxBuddy audio-visualizer-python Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out... Read More...
Intel’s CEO departs but replacing him won’t magically solve its serious problems, Zipcar wasn’t prepared for an outage and handled it really badly, moving to an email provider that supports DMARC, and picking a NAS distribution. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS Ask Me... Read More
We are characteristically cynical about GitHub’s token effort to improve FOSS security, more positive about FreeCAD 1.0 and elementary OS 8, somewhat ambivalent about the new OpenWrt router, understanding about Linux sanctioning the Bcachefs dev, and surprised that Félim is slowly starting to warm up to the idea of atomic distros (because KDE, obvs). With... Read More...
More of our development hot takes including excessive energy use, optimising your code, the importance of licences, Matrix and Jabber being on the same side, the myth of secure code, and why self-hosting is hard. watt-wiser 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the... Read More
How worthwhile cloud certifications are, whether they really demonstrate much more than your ability to pass an exam, how they relate to real world experience, actually learning new technologies via certification, and why having too many certs can be a red flag. Plus Sean tells us about his trip to the recent Ubuntu Summit. ... Read More
Equinix is shutting down its bare metal service, D-Link advises people to dump old vulnerable routers, Google makes changes to how it ranks some affiliate-driven “reviews”, and data caps seem to be sticking around. Plus mixing different brands and types of disks, using other partitions on a ZFS drive, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD... Read More
OggCampIn this episode: Alan uses vhs to make a short video Mark uses MARP to build a presentation in MarkDown for a lightning talk at OggCamp Martin uses pueue to manage all his mainframe jobs You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with... Read More
Comparing laptop battery life with different desktop environments like Xfce, MATE, KDE Plasma, and GNOME. Plus processing scraped HTML, an easy to use web-based classic game IDE, reverse-engineered smart Rubik cubes, and more. Discoveries pup 8bitworkshop 20 Year Anniversary of Halflife 2 BlinkenLights European Alternatives WisBlock Smart Cube Companion Graham’s cubes Joe’s battery test... Read More...
We all compete to create the worst possible RAID array and network storage device. The mantra here was “what would Jim and Allan from 2.5 Admins NOT do”. Guess who won with this monstrosity. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes 1Password... Read More
Windows server unexpectedly upgrades major versions, Microsoft reinvents the idea of a thin client, restricting a friend’s access to just their backups, and the importance of warranties when buying hardware. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes DKMS vs kmod: The Essential Guide for ZFS on... Read More
Mozilla lays off another load of people and we offer to run the organisation for a fraction of what the current leadership earns, Fedora promotes KDE Plasma to the same status as GNOME, Félim’s Neon update goes wrong, Will has network issues with Ubuntu 24.04, and Joe still can’t get Apple devices to play nicely... Read More
Some of the work-adjacent things that we do including writing code that we shouldn’t like writing Rust in Rust, fun projects that turned into paid work, and career progression. Plus some of our go to resources for learning about development. Some resources we mentioned Andy’s videos – Rust, General Lobsters Amolith’s RSS feeds Computer... Read More
What would be on our cloud tools wishlist to make our lives better? Consistent APIs and IAM across clouds, vulnerability information for dependencies that doesn’t depend on vendor data, more private compute, and more. Send your questions and feedback to [email protected] Support us on patreon and get an ad-free... Read More
Jim and Allan discover modern charging tech and marvel at what’s possible in the USB-C era, more on IPv6 firewalls, using ZFS like Git, and running your own authoritative DNS server. Automox Check out the brand new Autonomous IT podcast. Listen in as a variety of experts in the IT... Read More
Our first games systems, whether we wear watches, and the most cringe moments from our youth. With popey from Linux Matters, Will from Late Night Linux, and Andy and Amolith from Linux Dev Time. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.
In this episode: Martin has been keeping setting up simple monitoring and observability on a new server with ntfy.sh and gatus Alan has been creating animated gifs of terminal sessions with t-rec. Mark picked up a Keybow MINI from the swaps table at OggCamp. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the... Read More
Will went back to GNOME and made it exactly like Xfce, Félim used an unethical app ethically, and Graham had a great time at the Ubuntu Summit. Plus easily creating a customised Firefox profile, compiling Python, and what Mozilla would have to do for us to move to another browser. Discoveries firebuilder GNOME m.uber.com... Read More
Where do we draw the line when it comes to being made to use software that we don’t want to at work? Plus why only half of us use Linux on the desktop. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ... Read More
How using a copy-on-write filesystem like ZFS can get systems back online within seconds after ransomeware encrypts all your data, and even warn you more quickly that it’s happening. Plus Jim and Allan’s advice on getting a job as a sysadmin. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early... Read More
Linux removes Russian maintainers and bungles the explanation, Flutter is forked due to Google’s “labor shortage”, the OSI finally defines open source AI (and we don’t take it very seriously), Hollywood uses loads of FOSS, an easy way to help out Home Assistant, and Thunderbird for Android arrives. News Some Clarity On The Linux... Read More
Our development hot takes including “rewrite it in Rust”, lack of documentation, single vs multiple monitors, dependency numbers, light vs dark mode, and distro package repos. 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... Read More
How to be the change you wish to see in the workplace, how application architecture and infrastructure architecture are related, and if there are any real alternatives to Kubernetes for building a hybrid cloud. Send your questions and feedback to [email protected] Support us on patreon and get an ad-free... Read More
It’s Halloween so Jim and Allan share horrific and spooky stories from their sysadmin careers. Plus picking a UPS for a homelab. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Klara: NAS: Maintenance Best Practices See our contact... Read More
In this episode: Martin has been keeping his secrets safe with gocryptfs. CLI setup: gocryptfs -init ~/Syncthing/Secrets: Create encrypted storage gocryptfs ~/Syncthing/Secrets ~/Vault: Mount the decrypted secrets under ~/Vault fusermount -u ~/Vault: Unmount the decrypted secrets GUI Tools: vaults (Linux, GTK4) SiriKali (cross-platform, Qt) Mark wrote, built and released powerline-go-moodle. Alan joined the club and... Read More...
Yet another to do list manager, reflashing abandoned IP cameras, first impressions of the Framework 13 laptop, organising your workshop with 3D printed storage, what the death of Windows 10 means for Linux adoption, and more. Discoveries Taskfinder Thingino YouTube video on how to install it follow up videoon Neos Framework 13 DIY edition... Read More...
We revisit our home networking setups including using MoCa (network over coax), Chris searching for a unicorn, and relying on an Apple TV for home automation. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to... Read More
SSL certificates are likely going to last less time, the latest Windows 11 update leaves a huge chunk of data behind and doesn’t play nicely with some SSDs, picking a modern dhcp server on a homebrew router, and storing encrypted backups on a friend’s NAS with ZFS. Plugs Support us on patreon and get... Read More
The WordPress drama escalates, a great opportunity for Firefox to gain market share, Android will open up a little bit, the FOSS funding problem is solved, we laugh at WinAmp, a new release of Plasma, AAA gaming on Asahi, 20 years of Ubuntu, and more. News WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly... Read More
You need to be able to write good code to be a successful developer, but how important are other “soft” skills like communication, relating to and motivating others, and time management? Kevin mentioned a blog post about burnout in the Rust project 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every... Read More
