Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

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.



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GL.iNet Comet















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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

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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



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We were asked about restricting Internet access for IoT devices on your network.

















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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

















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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.













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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.



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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



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We were asked about purposely using a ZFS pool in a degraded state, and keeping cold ZFS storage dataset snapshots in sync.

















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