Sysadmin Chris, cloud consultant Gary, and developer/admin Dalton join Joe to talk about their recen
It’s the £50 Linux machine challenge! We all had a budget of 50 GBP (~65 USD) to buy the best
Some of our hot takes and some from other people. Your OS is a passive gateway to apps and services,
We recently talked about the lowest-end hardware we’d be willing to use as a daily desktop mac
What Linux and FOSS technology should Joe learn next? Is it a case of waiting for a problem to prese
What do we wish had happened in the Linux and open source world? Successful mobile Linux, convergenc
Two years after we talked about the lowest-end hardware we’d be willing to daily drive, the We
We look at postmarketOS on various devices old and new, Arm and x86, and are impressed.  
A dreadful backup box mistake was made but then rectified, whether to take on the technical debt of
It’s the alternative open source OS challenge! May got OpenIndiana, Joe got ReactOS, Gary got
The search for the ideal cheap and small off-site backup machine, and our advice on learning the ins
When a certain task has both options, what do we only do with the command line and what do we only d
We share the stories of our various tech wins and fails over the holiday period including updating U
We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2024, and talk about what we
Gary observes that non-FOSS people don’t understand or care about licences. Chris admits that
Our FOSS frustrations, and our satisfying open source wins. ncspot py-spy OggCamp Distrobox B
We all compete to create the worst possible RAID array and network storage device. The mantra here w
Where do we draw the line when it comes to being made to use software that we don’t want to at
We revisit our home networking setups including using MoCa (network over coax), Chris searching for
Framework sent Joe a 13 DIY edition (for free and to keep) so we do our best to talk about it honest
Social media was a mistake that has caused polarisation through the spread of misinformation by grif
