2.5 Admins

The podcast discusses the poor user experience on fresh installations of Windows and Edge, highlighting the pattern seen in various companies. They also delve into Microsoft's use of malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 and the issues with powering a home server on and off regularly. The hosts explore how companies test user tolerance, revenue generation, browser onboarding, and component degradation in a home NAS system. Lastly, they discuss the impact of turning on and off devices on their lifespan and performance.

Dropbox ends unlimited storage plan, Intel won't support Wi-Fi 7 on Windows 10. Managing SSH keys for servers, setting up data storage for containers, IPMI for Raspberry Pis using Turing Pi board.

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 Support us on Patreon   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       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

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.   Plugs Support us on Patreon   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           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

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 2.5 Admins is now part of the Late Night Linux Family. Support us on Patreon   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).         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Why the increasing trend of charging for public IPv4 addresses won’t change much, Google trials restricting its employees’ Internet access, and operating systems uploading firmware to devices at boot.   Plugs Support us on patreon Klara 2023 Recommended Summer Reads – FreeBSD and Linux   News New – AWS Public IPv4 Address Charge + Public IP Insights AWS to charge customers for public IPv4 addresses from 2024 Google’s new security pilot program will ban employee Internet access     Free Consulting We were asked about operating systems uploading firmware to devices at boot, rather than having it baked in.         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           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Updating the robots.txt standard for the AI era, the US government implements an IoT certification and labeling system, and the issues with fully encrypting a server.   Plugs Support us on patreon 3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server Operating System   News/discussion Google suggests updating the robots.txt standard Robots.txt is not the answer: Proposing a new meta tag for LLM/AI ChatGPT Browse with Bing temporarily disabled The Biden administration is tackling smart devices with a new cybersecurity label   Free Consulting We were asked about fully encrypting a server. The Klara article that Allan mentioned           Factor Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, so all you have to do is heat them up and enjoy. Go to factormeals.com/25a50 and use code 25a50 to get 50% off.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Intel is giving up on NUCs and Asus is taking over the line, millions of classified US military emails are going to a Russian ally thanks to a common typo, and monitoring SSDs.   Plugs Support us on patreon Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls – Part 2   News Intel is quitting on its adorable, powerful, and upgradable mini NUC computers Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take Intel NUC Systems Product Line Forward ‘Millions’ of sensitive US military emails were reportedly sent to Mali due to a typo   Free Consulting We were asked about monitoring SSDs.         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           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Setting up a self-hosted alternative, what counts as a “removable” battery, and backing up a Windows machine to ZFS.   News/discussion Practical ZFS Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries (Jim was wrong about AirTags and their batteries. He’ll correct the record next time. No need to email us.)   Free Consulting We were asked about backing up a Windows machine to ZFS.         HelloFresh With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep. Get 50% off and free shipping at hellofresh.com/25admins50 using the promo code 25a50.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Red Hat wants to limit redistribution of RHEL source code. We discuss their history with CentOS and the likely knock-on effects of taking direct aim at its customers’ GPL rights. Plus browsers doing port scans, and OpenWrt vs OPNsense.   Plugs Support us on patreon Practical ZFS   News Red Hat’s new source code policy and the intense pushback, explained Brave aims to curb practice of websites that port scan visitors   Free Consulting We were asked about OpenWrt vs OPNsense.       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   Factor Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, so all you have to do is heat them up and enjoy. Go to factormeals.com/25a50 and use code 25a50 to get 50% off.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.