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Late Night Linux Family All Episodes
All episodes from Late Night Linux, Linux Dev Time, Linux After Dark, 2.5 Admins, Hybrid Cloud Show, and Ask The Hosts.
Episodes
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLate Night Linux – Episode 361
Ubuntu get 15 years of support, Google finally releases Android source code and backs down on “sideloading”, more steps to move on from X11, IKEA…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux After Dark – Episode 109
How we’ve all set up our backups including GUI distros vs doing it the hard way, ZFS vs Borg, and why it’s tricky to chose the right offsite…
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes2.5 Admins 274: Go Go Gadget Windows
Windows is becoming an “agentic OS”, some WD SMR drives are dying prematurely, backing up VMware with ZFS, and separating trusted and non-trusted…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLate Night Linux – Episode 360
We are excited and enthusiastic about Valve’s new Linux hardware, and then angry and disappointed about Mozilla’s latest nonsense. News Steam…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux Dev Time – Episode 137
What object-oriented programming is, why it went out of fashion, and how more modern approaches to development incorporate some of its aspects. Support us on…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesHybrid Cloud Show – Episode 43
We dig into the recent major AWS outage, why a misconfiguration in one region called global issues, and whether there’s anything you can do to avoid…
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes2.5 Admins 273: Reliability Tracking
Allan tells us about the recent OpenZFS Summit including inconsistent JBODs, more details about mixed disk sizes in ZFS with AnyRaid, an upcoming standard that…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesAsk The Hosts – Episode 30
The skills we wish we had (but accept we never will), what we are most scared of and if we’d confront it for money, and whether free will exists. With…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux Matters 68: Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes
In this episode: Alan dusts off his newsletter. Martin encrypts his new work Framework laptop without LVM, but with --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --hash=sha256…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLate Night Linux – Episode 359
What we all learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit including open source as a counter to insular nationalism, Canonical taking RISC-V very seriously, TPM-backed…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux After Dark – Episode 108
Some of our Linux hot takes including the LTS release model being broken, Linux media being out of touch, social media being the root of most evil, and people…
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes2.5 Admins 272: NVMe Surprise
Why you should seriously consider buying refurbished hard drives, why drives might be lasting longer than they once did, Jim’s M.2 NVMe drive died at an…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLate Night Linux – Episode 358
Mark Shuttleworth recently spoke to us about what he’s apprehensive and excited about in the tech world, and more. Plus in the news: Ubuntu Unity needs…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux Dev Time – Episode 136
Some of the languages that we love and why we love them. It’s not just Rust, honest! Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesHybrid Cloud Show – Episode 42
Shane has teething issues with his Kubernetes homelab, Sean ran a bootable containers workshop at Texas Linux Fest, and the case for enterprise rolling…
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes2.5 Admins 271: Dead Internet
Why you should keep your Baseboard Management Controller off the network, ZFS is hard to defeat with a zip bomb, how bad the Internet bot problem probably is…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux Matters 67: Panache, for men
In this episode: Alan slipped down the nix rabbit-hole. Martin created Glyph Party, for adding panache to your terminal applications. Mark has lost all his…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLate Night Linux – Episode 357
Intel is contributing less to open source and it could easily backfire, Qualcomm buys Arduino and we have concerns, KDE turns 29, Germans are doing excellent…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux After Dark – Episode 107
We’ve done various challenges in the past where we’ve bought Linux machines on a seriously low budget, but what if we had an unlimited budget? What…
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes2.5 Admins 270: Storage Shortage
It looks like the storage companies aren’t betting on the AI bubble lasting much longer, the arguments against self-hosting, and setting up a server for…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLate Night Linux – Episode 356
An AWS outage takes down a lot more sites and services than it should have, the new Ubuntu release has some surprisingly bad bugs, the Xubuntu website is…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux Dev Time – Episode 135
With constant news stories about security issues with developer-published software in package managers like npm, we weigh up the pros and cons of this approach…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesHybrid Cloud Show – Episode 41
Some examples of the technical debt we’ve seen in the cloud world, how to pay it back, avoiding it in the first place, and why a certain amount of tech…
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes2.5 Admins 269: End of 10?
Windows 10 is officially end of life but Microsoft extends free updates for Windows 10 in Europe, it gets even harder to use a local account in Windows 11, and…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux Matters 66: Terminal Full of Sparkles
In this episode: Martin has been using a fancy and colourful alternative to apt called nala. Mark has been debugging his car charger. Alan swapped from Plex to…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLate Night Linux – Episode 355
The Google Photos clone Immich finally has a stable release and Joe is impressed with it, we hope an open source printer crowdfunder works out, Amazon launches…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux After Dark – Episode 106
Florian Beijers joins us again to give us an update on the state of accessibility in Linux and whether things have improved since we last spoke…
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes2.5 Admins 268: The Salter Philosophy
A Red Hat breach leads to a leak of lots of sensitive customer data, Synology backs down on allowing third-party drives but they are removing features, and…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesAsk The Hosts – Episode 29
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…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLate Night Linux – Episode 354
The most expensive Raspberry Pi ever might appeal to kids and a new OS version looks somewhat more modern, AI does something Félim can’t complain about…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux Dev Time – Episode 134
What makes a good commit, the tools we use to help us produce good commits, and why we care about this. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesHybrid Cloud Show – Episode 40
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…
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes2.5 Admins 267: Hoarding Cache
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…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux Matters 65: MacOS Made Me Snap!
In this episode: Alan has been manifesting Snaps. Martin has snapped and switched from MacOS to Linux with a Framework. Mark used Immich to find family…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLate Night Linux – Episode 353
The entrenched Linux or tech habits, workflows, and ideas we think we’ll move away from in the next few years and how we see ourselves doing it…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux After Dark – Episode 105
We cover some of your emails, questions, and comments. A challenge suggestion of not using a package manager, donating old hardware, why we don’t use…
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes2.5 Admins 266: Jiggawatts of Hallucinations
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…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLate Night Linux – Episode 352
Drama in KDE land, more worries about Android source code, Ubuntu’s transition away from GNU coreutils hits a slight speed bump, Mastodon adds a serious…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux Dev Time – Episode 133
Some of the alternatives to GitHub that we use, why we use them, and how they differ in terms of features and workflows. Support us on Patreon and get an…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesHybrid Cloud Show – Episode 39
SMTP relays and observability, why we didn’t recommend Podman over Docker to a newcomer, and Gary gives us an update on his homelab. Insta360 Go Ultra…
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes2.5 Admins 265: Storage Lies
Joe set up a FreeBSD box to serve as a replication target and it was surprisingly straightforward, if rather different from Linux. Plus the lies that storage…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux Matters 64: Ethical Retro Gaming
In this episode: Mark has been retro gaming with an Evercade. Martin replaced the official Dropbox client with Maestral. Alan created an MCP server for Grype…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLate Night Linux – Episode 351
Cloning disks (again), Félim’s new colour e-reader, 3 ways to make a QR code, improving your typing with a TUI and a game, a quick KDE Korner, and more…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux After Dark – Episode 104
Summer is officially over. As the nights draw in it’s time to hunker down and work on our technical debt. We all have Linuxy projects that we are…
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes2.5 Admins 264: A Question of Trust
Matrix shows how painful enormous databases can be to restore, why the certificate authority system doesn’t seem to make sense in 2025, a hosting…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesAsk The Hosts – Episode 28
Historic musical performances that we’d go back and watch, and our scariest travel experiences. With Martin, Mark and Alan from Linux Matters. Patrons…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLate Night Linux – Episode 350
Android becomes more like iOS, another key dev leaves the Asahi Linux project, Mozilla will probably keep their Google search deal, we troll Félim with some AI…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux Dev Time – Episode 132
A lot of key open source software is paid for by large companies. That has some advantages, but it can also cause some issues. Maybe it would be better if more…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesHybrid Cloud Show – Episode 38
The first steps to move away from a “pets” mindset and towards automation and infrastructure as code, why we use a lot of abstraction at home, and…
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes2.5 Admins 263: Seagate RAID
McDonald’s IT systems seem to be riddled with 90s-style coding errors, we finally know where the fraudulent hard drives came from, when IT workers go…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux Matters 63: Running Linux on an iPad
In this episode: Martin has been running Linux on an iPad using a-Shell, a-Shell mini, and iSH. He also used copyparty. Alan went to a hackathon and used…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLate Night Linux – Episode 349
What happens to Linux after Linus, what a German legal case might mean for blocking ads on the web, Graham tell us about his new foldable phone which Joe has…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux After Dark – Episode 103
It’s the £20 Linux machine challenge! This time the rules are stricter: no adding storage and RAM. It turns out that if you try really hard, you can buy…
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes2.5 Admins 262: It’s About Control
Google is planning to assert even more control over which Android apps can be installed, the US government takes a 10% stake in Intel, and minimum networking…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLate Night Linux – Episode 348
The AI crawler bot arms race has developed more quickly than we hoped, Google pretends to care what the community thinks, full Linux desktop apps are probably…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux Dev Time – Episode 131
We explore the differences between terms like coder, software developer, engineer, and architect. They are often used interchangeably, but there can be real…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesHybrid Cloud Show – Episode 37
What exactly is platform engineering, and how does it differ from DevOps? Insta360 Go Ultra Insta360 have just launched their brand-new pocket camera, the GO…
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes2.5 Admins 261: Worms and Baskets
Why you can’t rely on a single cloud provider, Jim discovers AI that spreads itself like a worm, and configuring all-flash arrays. Plugs Support us on…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLinux Matters 62: Mirrors, Motors and Makefiles
In this episode: Alan prepares for the inevitable by mirroring GitHub to Forgejo. Martin sidesteps complexity with Just. Mark gives his first thoughts on the…
Late Night Linux Family All EpisodesLate Night Linux – Episode 347
Xfce running on Wayland on openSUSE, Canonical laid off the printing guy, Mozilla pisses people off with AI tab groups, and what the post-x86 world will look…