This week we dig into the VMware situation that's leading to companies across the companies dumping VMware.
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01:11 lacucaracha123456 - Pixel Screen Repair
Screen repairs require heatguns and prying them apart
Check Batteries Plus
Check ebay for repair services
03:48 DNS - Aryeh
Enabled and working fine for Steve
Hairpin NAT
Tiny from the GeekLab says:
"Blocky and Adguard Home support DOH and DOT"
07:55 User Response Windows S - Michael
Windows Support Link (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/switching-out-of-s-mode-in-windows-4f56d9be-99ec-6983-119f-031bfb28a307)
Only seems to work if Windows 10 key is in the motherboard
Level of friction Microsoft is placing in front of users
11:25 Photos/Backups on a VPS? - Charlie
Crunch Bits (https://crunchbits.com/)
Spider Oak (https://spideroak.com/)
More value in spending "streaming money" on storage
encrypt locally
GPG
VeraCrypt
CryFS
Kopia (https://kopia.io/)
BorgBackup
ZFS send and receive
25:25 News Wire
Rust 1.83 - rust-lang.org (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/11/28/Rust-1.83.0.html)
Handbrake 1.9 - handbrake.fr (https://handbrake.fr/news.php?article=56)
Firefox 133 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/133.0/releasenotes/)
Cinnamon 6.4 - omgubuntu.co.uk (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/cinnamon-6-4-desktop-new-features-theme)
Tails 6.10 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6-10/)
NixOS 24.11 - nixos.org (https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2024/nixos-2411/)
Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Touch-OTA-7-Focal)
Ubuntu UEFI Bootkit - securityweek.com (https://www.securityweek.com/eset-flags-prototype-uefi-bootkit-targeting-linux/)
26:10 VMWare vs Open Source
Steve's interpretation of Oracle buying VMWare
Stages
Start up
Growth
Extract
300%-1000% price hike
OpenNebula (https://opennebula.io/)
Proxmox (https://www.proxmox.com/en/)
KubeVirt (https://kubevirt.io/)
ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/company-claims-1000-percent-price-hike-drove-it-from-vmware-to-open-source-rival/)
39:33 The Linux Experience
Nvidia and Intel Arc A7070
i90 driver vs XE driver
Steve's Ansible playbook
Getting Started With Linux (https://docs.minddripone.com/getting-started-with-linux/)
Needs to be
shareable
reproducible
sustainable
You quickly arrive at Open Source
Being good stewards of technology
Hardware
16GB Ram
512GB Storage
i5 or better
5-7 years or newer
Used Hardware
ThinkPad T480
Dell Latitude 7410
Dell Latitude 7330
New Hardware
System76
Framework
Tuxedo Computers
Star Labs
Try Before You Buy
EndlessOS
Tails
Make it Home
Linux Mint
Ubuntu
Fedora
OpenSuse
EndlessOS
Power User Distros
Arch
NixOS
Make it Endless
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