Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

2.5 Admins 272: NVMe Surprise

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 a...

Late Night Linux – Episode 358

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ne...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 136

02 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 42

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Shane has teething issues with his Kubernetes homelab, Sean ran a bootable containers workshop at Texas Linux Fest, and the case for enterprise rollin...

2.5 Admins 271: Dead Internet

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 prob...

Linux Matters 67: Panache, for men

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan slipped down the nix rabbit-hole. Martin created Glyph Party, for adding panache to your terminal applications. Mark has lost al...

Late Night Linux – Episode 357

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ex...

Linux After Dark – Episode 107

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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? Wha...

2.5 Admins 270: Storage Shortage

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Late Night Linux – Episode 356

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 135

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 41

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

2.5 Admins 269: End of 10?

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Window...

Linux Matters 66: Terminal Full of Sparkles

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 fro...

Late Night Linux – Episode 355

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Linux After Dark – Episode 106

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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.   Fl...

2.5 Admins 268: The Salter Philosophy

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Ask The Hosts – Episode 29

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 f...

Late Night Linux – Episode 354

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 a...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 134

05 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 a...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 40

03 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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.           Ins...

2.5 Admins 267: Hoarding Cache

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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’...

Linux Matters 65: MacOS Made Me Snap!

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 famil...

Late Night Linux – Episode 353

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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.   ...

Linux After Dark – Episode 105

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 us...

2.5 Admins 266: Jiggawatts of Hallucinations

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 hallucinatio...

Late Night Linux – Episode 352

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ser...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 133

21 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 39

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SMTP relays and observability, why we didn’t recommend Podman over Docker to a newcomer, and Gary gives us an update on his homelab.           ...

2.5 Admins 265: Storage Lies

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Linux Matters 64: Ethical Retro Gaming

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Mark has been retro gaming with an Evercade. Martin replaced the official Dropbox client with Maestral. Alan created an MCP server fo...

Late Night Linux – Episode 351

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Linux After Dark – Episode 104

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 pl...

2.5 Admins 264: A Question of Trust

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 pr...

Ask The Hosts – Episode 28

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Historic musical performances that we’d go back and watch, and our scariest travel experiences. With Martin, Mark and Alan from Linux Matters.    ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 350

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Android becomes more like iOS, another key dev leaves the Asahi Linux project, Mozilla will probably keep their Google search deal, we troll Félim wi...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 132

07 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 bette...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 38

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

2.5 Admins 263: Seagate RAID

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 g...

Linux Matters 63: Running Linux on an iPad

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 u...

Late Night Linux – Episode 349

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Linux After Dark – Episode 103

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ca...

2.5 Admins 262: It’s About Control

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 net...

Late Night Linux – Episode 348

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 131

24 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We explore the differences between terms like coder, software developer, engineer, and architect. They are often used interchangeably, but there can b...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 37

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What exactly is platform engineering, and how does it differ from DevOps?               Insta360 Go Ultra Insta360 have just launched their bra...

2.5 Admins 261: Worms and Baskets

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Linux Matters 62: Mirrors, Motors and Makefiles

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan prepares for the inevitable by mirroring GitHub to Forgejo. Martin sidesteps complexity with Just. Mark gives his first thoughts...

Late Night Linux – Episode 347

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 wi...

Linux After Dark – Episode 102

15 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 mostl...

2.5 Admins 260: Watery Email

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AMD’s recent mobile-class processors impress us with their power to performance ratio, the UK government suggests a preposterous way to save water, ...

Ask The Hosts – Episode 27

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The field of science we find most interesting, the bionic enhancements we’d want, the longest we’ve stayed awake, and the wisdom we’d pass onto ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 346

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new Debian version is out and it’s the end of the 32-bit x86 era, an AWS user almost found out the hard way about the need for proper backups, Git...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 130

10 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Not invented here syndrome is very common in open source. We get into why that is, when it makes sense to start your own project from scratch, and how...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 36

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Shane gives us an update on his janky Kubernetes homelab. The storage is under control with ZFS, he’s got a decent switch, and everything is in Git ...

2.5 Admins 259: New Web?

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Web is a mess of tracking and AI scraping so do we need a new one, would it even be possible, or is this the wrong question? Plus setting up serve...

Linux Matters 61: Coding in my pants

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has a fancy GitHub profile. Shields.io – Concise, consistent, and legible badges github-readme-stats – Dynamically generat...

Late Night Linux – Episode 345

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Whether we need a properly open source ChromeOS alternative (or maybe we already have loads of them), what to do about bogus AI vulnerability reports,...

Linux After Dark – Episode 101

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gary has been using a Framework 12 laptop for a few weeks and gives us his impressions of it. Are the upgradability and repairability worth the premiu...

2.5 Admins 258: Artificial Dirtbag

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jim is concerned that although over-anthropomorphising LLMs is a mistake, we should be cautious about some of their human-like behaviour. Plus how to ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 344

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Intel kills its Linux distro without any notice, the UK government might ban state organisations from paying ransomware ransoms, we laugh at a vibe co...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 129

27 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With the recent news of Bcachefs (probably) being removed from the Linux kernel, we are joined by Allan Jude from 2.5 Admins and Klara to discuss some...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 35

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What to think about when picking a public cloud provider, and why it depends on the needs of your business. Free credits, billing complexity, availabl...

2.5 Admins 257: Outage365

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Two recent outages were handled very differently but show the dangers of centralisation, Let’s Encrypt is introducing certificates for IP addresses,...

Linux Matters 60: Frankenstein’s Ubuntu Server Framework

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin uses xdg-override to answer the question, How do you change browser in Slack anyway? Mark upgrades the SSD in his Framework la...

Late Night Linux – Episode 343

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The sad reality of the AI crawler bot arms race, the baddies seem to be obsessed with Xorg, but Wayland will soon be a reality for older smaller deskt...

Linux After Dark – Episode 100

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s our 100th episode spectacular! We look back at some of the memes and themes of our first hundred episodes including our obsession with old hard...

2.5 Admins 256: Why ZFS

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To celebrate the 256 milestone we devote the whole episode to explaining why we use ZFS. We explain about data safety, data retention, data portabilit...

Late Night Linux – Episode 342

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 f...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 128

13 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What it takes to sustain a medium-to-large-sized open source project.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early epis...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 34

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How we access home environments from outside the home network while trying to stay secure using VPNs, Wireguard, overlay VPNs (like Tailscale and Nebu...

2.5 Admins 255: Copyright Your Face

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft offers Windows 10 updates in return for your settings data, Denmark wants to protect against deepfakes using copyright, someone is wrong on ...

Ask The Hosts – Episode 26

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Linux Matters 59: Old Man Yells At GMail

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Late Night Linux – Episode 341

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Linux After Dark – Episode 99

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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....

2.5 Admins 254: chrudo

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A vulnerability in sudo brings up concerns about feature-creep, and makes us consider alternatives. Plus Broadcom starts auditing VMware customers, an...

Late Night Linux – Episode 340

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Linux gaming goes from strength to strength but puts off the inevitable death of 32-bit x86, devs are sick of companies expecting free fixes, Creative...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 127

29 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When and how to use benchmarking in your project, why it’s hard, and why optimising your code can be even harder.   Blog post about the speed of ri...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 33

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How much observability and monitoring is really needed, the tooling people actually use (from Datadog and Grafana Cloud to open source options like Pr...

2.5 Admins 253: ImpossibleFS

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jim is concerned that we might not see another next-gen filesystem that can compete with ZFS, no matter how much we all want one. Plus whether you sho...

Linux Matters 58: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has replaced his coreutils, findutils, diffutils and sudo with Rust reimplementations. Alan has continued working on Nerdy Day...

Late Night Linux – Episode 339

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Making music with code in real time, fancy rsync, an open source real time strategy engine, advanced print debugging, EU-based DNS resolvers, and Euro...

Linux After Dark – Episode 98

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the £50 Linux machine challenge! We all had a budget of 50 GBP (~65 USD) to buy the best computer we could find to run Linux.       Support...

2.5 Admins 252: Nintendon’t Back Up

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nintendo cuts off Switches that dare to play backed up games, more Microsoft AI exploits, why you shouldn’t regularly spin down hard drives, and sec...

Late Night Linux – Episode 338

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

X11 is basically dead (again) and we are quite pleased, the Linux Foundation sets out to fix the WordPress mess and some of us are cynical, custom ROM...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 126

15 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How we deal with complex projects involving non-technical people as well as developers. How to manage expectations about timing, how to deal with issu...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 32

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After over 10 years of using Synology appliances for his backups, Gary has had enough of their shenanigans and needs to rethink his whole setup.   Sy...

2.5 Admins 251: OversharePoint

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SharePoint is exploitable by Microsoft’s AI, NIST proposes a new metric for exploited vulnerabilities, SBCs that look cool for a mini NAS and a rout...

Ask The Hosts – Episode 25

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sports we’d take up if we were less unfit and lazy, whether we listen to our own podcasts, what the best time of day is, and our favourite sci-fi sh...

Linux Matters 57: Nerdy Day Trips

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has been brutally reclaiming GitHub runner disk space using Nothing but Nix This technique can be applied to other purposes. G...

Late Night Linux – Episode 337

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Redis finally picks the right licence but it’s probably too late, the Ubuntu release process is being modernised, GNOME drops X11 for good and gets ...

Linux After Dark – Episode 97

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Some of our hot takes and some from other people. Your OS is a passive gateway to apps and services, OSTree sucks, when you need to reboot Ubuntu is a...

2.5 Admins 250: Better RAIDz?

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google bypasses the usual channels to distrust two certificate authorities, Meta’s new escalation in the privacy arms race, Allan gives us the insid...

Late Night Linux – Episode 336

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mozilla kills Pocket and Fakespot, SteamOS is now available for devices other than the Steam Deck, Nextcloud’s Android app was missing key functiona...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 125

01 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What are the fundamental ideas and components of development and programming?         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 31

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When should you consider using a third-party management tool, rather than just the ones built into your cloud of choice?     Send your questions and...

2.5 Admins 249: Octopodian Nightmare

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Locating people with just a phone call, Google forces a change to Let’s Encrypt certificates, yet another example of a “lifetime” subscription b...

Linux Matters 56: Python a-Go-Go

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan builds a content pipeline with ALL THE MODELS! Mark switches Bookshelf Buddy Martin completes his Fedi-migration from Fosstodon ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 335

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Running an old version of Windows on a Wii for some reason, a nice way to learn programming languages, a couple of very different games, more document...