Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

Audacity’s new major release makes it more like a proper digital workstation, Debian finally gets off the genAI fence and disappoints some of us, California exempts Linux from terrible age verification laws, and Asahi boots on M3 Macs. With guest host Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show.



News

Audacity 4

Debian Votes To Allow “Responsible Use Of Generative AI”

Results for LLM usage in Debian

Retiring from the Project (vv221)

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

M2: Episode 1 (or, Asahi Linux on M3)























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Andy recently wrote that product quality is proportional to attention and code quality is inversely proportional to pressure. Is he right?















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Sean wonders about the best way to build a new platform and how opinionated it should be, and then Aaron and Shane think about buying a UPS.















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What to read into a study of long-term Backblaze hard drive failure data, why the difference between TB and TiB matters, and what to do about an overheating host bus adapter.



Plugs

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ZFS vs Ceph: Choosing the Right Storage Architecture



News/discussion

Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze hard drives ranks HGST most reliable and Toshiba the least — Analysis of 1.66 million drive-years finds Seagate and Toshiba HDDs fail at roughly twice the rate of WD and HGST

Changing Language for Storage Capacity



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We were asked about an overheating host bus adapter.

















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KDE has a new proper LTS and Joe is very interested, the Steam Frame is (really) nearly here, the Epic Games Store is coming to Linux, Nintendo continues to play whack-a-mole with Switch emulators, and GitHub’s serious scaling issues are getting ridiculous.



News/discussion

What a real LTS looks like: Kubuntu 26.04

Kubuntu Focus, Techpaladin Software, and KDE e.V. Announce the ‘bullet-proof’ KDE Software Initiative

New Frame welcome videos pushed to Steam Store assets

Epic Games Store Will Support Linux “Soon”

Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep

Fairphone 6 + PostmarketOS working main camera!

The August 17 GitHub outage, and the work ahead

















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