Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

Our desert island disks, retirement plans, and the worst gifts people have brought back from holiday for us. With Gary from Linux After Dark, Félim from Late Night Linux, and Martin, Mark and Alan from Linux Matters.         Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

The Raspberry Pi 500+ is making waves as the priciest version yet, aimed at kids and education. A redesign of the OS, Trixie, brings a modern look and new features. Exciting AI advancements help fix security bugs in curl, while Google's new developer verification rules could spell trouble for F-Droid. The UK government's controversial digital ID proposal raises serious privacy and civil liberties concerns, igniting public outcry. Tune in for a lively discussion on these pressing topics!

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How we got started in our tech careers, how and why we moved into the cloud, and why the cloud often makes more sense than on-prem.           Insta360 Go Ultra Insta360 have just launched their brand-new pocket camera, the GO Ultra. To get free Sticky Tabs with it go to store.insta360.com and use the promo code “hybridcloud”, available for the first 30 purchases only.     Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

The weird errors you see when your root partition is full, TikTok uses a lot of bandwidth by preloading videos, and dealing with a ZFS pool that won’t import.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS: Security, Encryption, and Delegation   News/discussion Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation TikTok video pre-loads cause ‘massive data wastage’   Free consulting We were asked about dealing with a ZFS pool that won’t import. Importing corrupted pool causes PANIC Klara added additional diagnostics to ZFS to help investigate this issue, that shipped as part of 2.3.4 Klara also has a work-around to get past the errors, but it is likely to result in data loss if there are overlapping segments, or the leaking of free space when segments are not entirely removed (not to be attempted without a developer present)             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Alan discusses his work on Snap vulnerability scanning and how Snaps differ from Docker images. Martin shares his journey switching from MacOS to a Framework laptop, highlighting UI challenges. Mark introduces Immich for indexing photos from Nextcloud, showcasing its face recognition and search capabilities. The team delves into the privacy benefits of self-hosted solutions while navigating hiccups like auto-update issues. Get ready for a lively discussion on productivity and technology transitions!

Explore how entrenched tech habits might evolve as the hosts debate moving from typing to voice dictation. Discussions include the compatibility of immutable OSes with ZFS and the shift from Vim to modern editors like VS Code. They also touch on the use of voice messages in Slack, the containerization of headless boxes, and the frustrations of learning new systems like Ansible vs. SaltStack. The emotional cost of abandoning old knowledge for new tools is examined, along with the satisfaction that comes from mastering complex tech challenges.

The hosts dive into listener questions, tackling the impracticality of a package-manager-free challenge. They also discuss the challenges of donating old hardware responsibly and organizing tech clutter. Custom ROMs come under scrutiny for app compatibility issues, while stock systems are often necessary for functionality. The worth of low-end laptops with soldered eMMC storage is debated, with recommendations leaning towards repairable models. Finally, they share tips on integrating Home Assistant with Apple's HomeKit and using Jellyfin on different devices.

Intel and Nvidia are teaming up for multiple reasons, Open AI are planning to build data centers and use a ludicrous amount of power, LLM hallucinations aren’t going away, and how long we keep servers and hard drives in production.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Troubleshooting ZFS – Common Issues and How to Fix Them   News Nvidia, Intel to co-develop “multiple generations” of chips as part of $5 billion deal Nvidia and Intel’s $5 billion deal is apparently about eating AMD’s lunch OpenAI and Nvidia’s $100B AI plan will require power equal to 10 nuclear reactors Nvidia adds more air to the AI bubble with vague $100B OpenAI deal The AI-energy apocalypse might be a little overblown OpenAI’s Stargate project to pave the world with AI datacenters announces five new US locations OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws   Free consulting We were asked about how long we keep servers and hard drives in production.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

There's drama brewing in KDE as a key leader departs after 25 years, stirring up funding disputes. Concerns mount over the missing Android 16 QPR1 source code, sparking debates about Google's transparency. Meanwhile, Ubuntu's switch to Rust coreutils reveals performance hiccups that need addressing. Mastodon takes a bold step by introducing new paid services to boost revenue. In a quirky twist, the hosts discuss a creative hacker who hosts a website on a disposable vape, reflecting on a potentially dystopian tech future.