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I mostly get paid to talk to my friends about computers which is nice.
It seems I was radicalised by basic decency. 🤷♂️
Linux Matters 62: Mirrors, Motors and Makefiles
Alan prepares for the inevitable by mirroring GitHub to Forgejo], Martin sidesteps complexity with Just, and Mark gives his first thoughts on the VW ID.3.
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 like for desktop Linux. Plus a handy way to save and run project-specific commands, turning any device into a file server, and a convoluted way to get wind data from planes. With guest hosts Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show, and Kevin from Linux Dev Time.
Hey creators of Patreon, there seems to be a survey from Patreon asking creators about their opinions in regards of generative AI. I know, everyone hates surveys, but it's important to stand up against this slop now because it's harder to get rid of it once it's there. Please take a few minutes to voice your opinion!
https://patreon.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9sjIUT9LuK5gzoq?id=18318428
It’s our annual episode where we need to talk about Ubuntu. This time most of us are broadly indifferent about the distro itself, so we end up mostly discussing our concerns about Canonical.
2.5 Admins 260: Watery Email
AMD’s recent mobile-class processors impress us with their power to performance ratio, the UK government suggests a preposterous way to save water, setting up verified boot with snapshots, and the best way to configure ZFS to run VMs.
Arseholes in 2022: "Crypto shitcoins are bullshit but Bitcoin is the real deal bro"
Arseholes in 2025: "Vibe coding is bullshit but treating AI as a powerful partner for feature development, complex tasks, and large-scale refactoring is the real deal bro"
The UK government saying "delete old emails" to save water. 🤦♂️
Most emails average about 50k of storage even for someone who gets a lot of attachments, and will have exactly zero effect on data center consumption.
"Don't use cryptocurrency" and "don't use generative AI" would of course be thousands of times more effective.
2.5 Admins 260: Watery Email
AMD’s recent mobile-class processors impress us with their power to performance ratio, the UK government suggests a preposterous way to save water, setting up verified boot with snapshots, and the best way to configure ZFS to run VMs.
On a (semi-)recent episode, Allan mentioned some upcoming feature in ZFS 2.4 that would rebuild a dataset such as (re)applying compression settings. I think it was described as a `zfs rebuild` command, but it flew past pretty quickly. Is there some place I can read more about this upcoming feature? It sounds like something I've desired for years, so it's exciting to have the prospect of becoming real.
Based on my podcast player's history it would have been in episode 254–258, but I didn't catch which one since I was driving at the time.
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