Software complexity is a complex topic, so we dig into it.

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Shane is worried about backups for his janky Kubernetes homelab. The rest of us advise him on exactly what to back up, how to go about picking an offsite backup location and setting it up, how best to backup databases, and more.

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The last method to activate Windows without the Internet has gone away, malware that tricks users with a fake blue screen of death, and recovering from bad RAM with ZFS.

Plugs

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Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity

News/discussion

Windows activation by phone is seemingly dead

How Fake BSODs and Trusted Build Tools Are Used to Construct a Malware Infection

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We were asked about recovering from bad RAM with ZFS.

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We cover your feedback including follow-up on old tablets as clocks, Firefox alternatives, and moving off Gmail. Plus building synths in Rust, FOSS isometric diagrams, a powerful network analysis tool for Android, and some cool ambient music in discoveries.

Discoveries

CAW

FossFlow

Félim’s bad diagram

Blade Runner Radio

LUX on Bandcamp

Network Survey

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We follow up on episode 104 from September last year when we promised to tackle some Linux projects including moving to Immich and Jellyfin, learning about Docker Compose and Python, and ditching Synology.

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Cisco network gear fell over when it shouldn’t have, yet another security flaw is found in Microsoft Copilot, the US military is letting Grok into all its networks, and managing LVM snapshots.

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Unwrapping ZFS: Gifts from the Open Source Community

A New Year, A New ZFS: What 2.4 Brings to the Table

News

Cisco routers knocked out due to Cloudflare DNS change

Reprompt: The Single-Click Microsoft Copilot Attack that Silently Steals Your Personal Data

Musk’s AI tool Grok will be integrated into Pentagon networks, Hegseth says

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The normal things we’ve never done. With Andy and Kevin from Linux Dev Time.

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Hype is really starting to build for Valve’s upcoming Steam hardware and other great gaming news, Stack Overflow is losing to LLMs, old men like Félim don’t want to lose middle click paste, our optimism about Google continuing to release Android source code was misplaced, and Bose demonstrates how to kill a product.

News

The Steam Machine’s Price Might Have Just Leaked And It’s Not What We Hoped For

Canonical Builds Steam Snap For Ubuntu ARM64 Leveraging FEX

Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58%

GeForce NOW coming to Linux

Stack Overflow graph

GNOME dev gives fans of Linux’s middle-click paste the middle finger

Google will now only release Android source code twice a year

Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life

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