Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

May wants to make a space heater out of an old computer, and Joe is thinking about buying a new (used) laptop. The heater will be pretty straightforward but finding the right laptop will be much harder.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Arm announces its first CPU, Anthropic accidentally leaks the source for Claude Code and it’s terrible, and setting up a backup for a friend’s photos.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes FreeBSD and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence: A Storage Architect’s View​   News/discussion Arm expands compute platform to silicon products in historic company first Anthropic exposes Claude Code source by accident   Free consulting We were asked about setting up a backup for a friend’s photos.               See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

What we do when we get stressed, cinema vs theatre, our mentors, and if we’ve tried being vegetarian. With Gary from Linux After Dark, Andy from Linux Dev Time, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

Steam stats suggest that gaming on Linux is more popular than ever, Wine improvements might entice even more gamers, Ubuntu might break things when it tightens up GRUB security and makes 6GB of RAM the minimum requirement for the desktop edition, and Ubuntu MATE is looking for new maintainers.   News LAS 2026 Call for proposals extended till the 10th April Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive Ubuntu 26.10 could drop btrfs, ZFS and LUKS support from GRUB Ubuntu quietly raises its minimum system requirements Windows 11 has lower requirements Ubuntu MATE – seeking maintainers                   Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

It’s another hot questions episode. Whether we think better on our own or with other people, our non-standard debugging habits, favourite interview questions, coding at night, character encoding, and abolishing time zones.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

The ugliest and jankiest hacks we’ve put into prod, and a few of the worst things we’ve seen other people get away with.           Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Microsoft says Windows 11 is getting less rubbish but we are skeptical, vehicles with alcohol interlocks won’t start because the manufacturer’s server is down, and whether you should virtualise a router or a NAS.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Five‑Year Storage Design with OpenZFS: Media Refresh, Rebalancing, and Hardware Independence   News/discussion Our commitment to Windows quality Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US   Free consulting We were asked about whether you should virtualise a router or a NAS.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Making silly URLs, visualising complex weather data, a TUI network discovery tool, and an open source version of a classic synthesizer in discoveries, plus the sad reality that it’s more or less impossible to avoid code that’s been generated by “AI” these days.   Discoveries creepy link Supercell Wx whosthere Ultramaster KR-106   AI in FOSS systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added New Xfce Wayland compositor is being developed with genAI                     Automox Turnkey Results Endpoint management tailored to your specific environment. Know the plan. Trust the result. Learn more at www.automox.com     Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

We decided to give openSUSE a try. We had a great time. Honest.                 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

The US government is drumming up fear about foreign routers, a pretty serious supply chain attack might be state-sponsored, and the safety of filesystems inside VMs.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes The Real Cost of Technology Dependence: Building Independence with Open-Source Storage   News/discussion US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America National Security Determination on the Threat Posed by Routers Produced by Foreign Countries (pdf) 1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines   Free consulting We were asked about the safety of filesystems inside VMs.                 Automox Turnkey Results Endpoint management tailored to your specific environment. Know the plan. Trust the result. Learn more at www.automox.com       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Age declaration and verification in Linux gathers pace, Google blesses us with some hoops to jump through to install the software we want on stock Android, the FSFE lost their payment provider, great new KDE Plasma and GNOME features, and more.   News Just over a month until OggCamp! Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late Age verification isn’t sage verification when it’s inside operating systems The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date When you tell me to just not implement age declaration, do you understand you’re asking me to risk thousands of dollars in fines? I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who’s behind the age verification bills. meta-lobbying-and-other-findings Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety 450 FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us This Week in Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters Introducing GNOME 50, “Tokyo”                 Automox Turnkey Results Endpoint management tailored to your specific environment. Know the plan. Trust the result. Learn more at www.automox.com     Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

In the wake of Discord’s recent announcement about age verification, Matrix recently came in for a lot of criticism by a lot of people who said it’s not a viable replacement. Andy works on Matrix for a living and Amolith is invested in the XMPP world so we get into secure messaging, trade-offs between security and user experience, federation, and more.   Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Gary is concerned that he might have dug himself into a hole of on-prem vendor lock-in, despite using open source software. Plus why you should have PiKVM type device in your toolkit.   PiKVM GL.iNet Comet               HelloFresh Go to HelloFresh.com/hcs10fm to Get 10 free meals + a FREE Zwilling Knife (a $144.99 value) on your third box. Offer valid while supplies last. Free meals applied as discount on first box, new subscribers only, varies by plan.     Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Why passkeys aren’t the right solution to everything, Allan tells us why he loves his new Lithium Iron Phosphate UPS, Btrfs vs ZFS on root, and restricting Internet access for IoT devices on your network.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence   News/discussion Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data Allan’s new Anker SOLIX C1000 Gen 2 Portable Power Station   Free consulting We were asked about restricting Internet access for IoT devices on your network.                 Automox Turnkey Results Endpoint management tailored to your specific environment. Know the plan. Trust the result. Learn more at www.automox.com       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Drama in the exciting world of office suites, new ThinkPads are properly repairable, hands on with the Android desktop convergence future, and more.   News/discussion LibreOffice Online: a fresh start LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic LibreOffice 26.2 is here: a faster, more polished office suite that you control Lenovo’s New T-Series ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability Your Pixel phone can now become a full Android PC via USB-C You will be able to install “unverified” Android apps with ADB                 Automox Turnkey Results Endpoint management tailored to your specific environment. Know the plan. Trust the result. Learn more at www.automox.com     Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

May has actually been using her stack of laptops and learning that “legacy” distros make more sense, the Firefox flatpak performs better than other packages, Linux Mint is a fine distro, Linux has the best calculators, and GNOME’s scaling is really good now.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Microsoft Authenticator will delete Entra credentials on phones that aren’t running stock ROMs, Jim’s nightmare experience trying to get a user back into their MS account, tracking vehicles via tire pressure monitors, using a ZFS pool in a degraded state, and keeping cold ZFS storage dataset snapshots in sync.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS Fast Dedup for Proxmox   News/discussion Microsoft Authenticator to nuke Entra creds on rooted and jailbroken phones Jailbreak/root detection in Microsoft Authenticator Jim Microsoft MFA rant Vehicle Tire Pressure Sensors Enable Silent Tracking   Free consulting We were asked about purposely using a ZFS pool in a degraded state, and keeping cold ZFS storage dataset snapshots in sync.                 Automox Turnkey Results Endpoint management tailored to your specific environment. Know the plan. Trust the result. Learn more at www.automox.com       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Our favourite smells, whether we use dark mode, and whether there’s any meaning to life. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

Discord delays their age-gating rollout but legislators are pushing for operating systems including Linux to verify ages, LLM licence laundering might mean the end of copyleft, and how and why you might want to detect Meta’s spy camera glasses.   News Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What’s Changing US state laws push age checks into the operating system California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup I have actually read the text of California law CA AB1043 and, honestly, I don’t hate it Do you really think that circumventing these things will always be a simple firmware mod or hardware hack? Relicensing with AI-assisted rewrite – Tuan-Anh Tran Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens No right to relicense this project Hide from Meta’s spyglasses with this new Android app Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You’re Being Watched, Too                   Automox Turnkey Results Endpoint management tailored to your specific environment. Know the plan. Trust the result. Learn more at www.automox.com     Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

The importance of having and sticking to correct development processes, what can go wrong when you don’t, and how to fix the problems you might end up with.               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed