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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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Jul 17, 2025 • 32min
2.5 Admins 256: Why ZFS
To celebrate the 256 milestone we devote the whole episode to explaining why we use ZFS. We explain about data safety, data retention, data portability, and ease of administration.
Plugs
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Klara ZFS Basecamp – Central Resource for Everything ZFS
Practical ZFS
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Jul 15, 2025 • 25min
Late Night Linux – Episode 342
Mixed gaming news, Google’s AI is seemingly inescapable, SUSE offers Europe-only support, Ubuntu is dropping support for loads of RISC-V boards in favour of future ones, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
News
Stop Killing Games consumer movement hits some major milestones
DOGWALK Official Release
Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps
SUSE to roll out Sovereign Premium Support
Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements
Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
KDE Korner
Plasma Keyboard
This Week in Plasma: tablet dials and day/night cycles
Tailscale
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Jul 13, 2025 • 23min
Linux Dev Time – Episode 128
What it takes to sustain a medium-to-large-sized open source project.
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Jul 11, 2025 • 23min
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 34
How we access home environments from outside the home network while trying to stay secure using VPNs, Wireguard, overlay VPNs (like Tailscale and Nebula) and reverse proxies. Sean introduces us to Pangolin as an open source alternative middle-ground.
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Jul 10, 2025 • 30min
2.5 Admins 255: Copyright Your Face
Microsoft offers Windows 10 updates in return for your settings data, Denmark wants to protect against deepfakes using copyright, someone is wrong on the Internet about RAID, and getting a sysadmin job in your late 40s.
Plug
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News/discussion
Microsoft’s free updates for Windows 10 draw criticism
Denmark plans to thwart deepfakers by giving everyone copyright over their own features
Why I Stopped Using RAID on My Plex Media Server
Free consulting
We were asked about getting a sysadmin job in your late 40s.
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Jul 9, 2025 • 15min
Ask The Hosts – Episode 26
Whether we’d live in the country side or the city, the best Christmas presents we got as kids, and our Christmas movie traditions. With Allan from 2.5 Admins, Martin, Mark and Alan from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show.
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Jul 8, 2025 • 35min
Linux Matters 59: Old Man Yells At GMail
In this episode:
Alan has continued his Nerdy Day Trips journey into cloud-native software development.
Mark fulfills his years-long dream of buying a new Laptop.
Martin has junked GMail for Fastmail.
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Jul 7, 2025 • 30min
Late Night Linux – Episode 341
Joe can’t decide which distro to use for a proper KDE Plasma test, an easy way to develop Home Assistant integrations, automating lights, fixing the Telegram snap on Wayland, some AI bollocks, and a browser extension to automatically use privacy-preserving versions of big websites.
Discoveries
Home Assistant Developer Environment
xLights
QLC+
Telegram snap issue
faff
PrivacyPlease
Jacob Collier
Tailscale
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1Password Extended Access Management
Take the first step to better security for your team by securing credentials and protecting every application — even unmanaged shadow IT.
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Jul 4, 2025 • 29min
Linux After Dark – Episode 99
It’s part 2 of the £50 Linux machine challenge! This time: actually using them, what upgrades we did, what we’ll actually use them for, and more.
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Jul 3, 2025 • 29min
2.5 Admins 254: chrudo
A vulnerability in sudo brings up concerns about feature-creep, and makes us consider alternatives. Plus Broadcom starts auditing VMware customers, and how to decide which outbound ports to open on a large network’s firewall.
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Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A Practical Guide
News/discussion
Vulnerability Advisory: Sudo chroot Elevation of Privilege
VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom
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We were asked about how to decide which outbound ports to open on a large network’s firewall.
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