Description

This week we dig into the VMware situation that's leading to companies across the companies dumping VMware.

-- During The Show --

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
• 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
• Spider Oak
• More value in spending "streaming money" on storage
• encrypt locally
  • GPG
  • VeraCrypt
  • CryFS
• Kopia
• BorgBackup
• ZFS send and receive

25:25 News Wire

• Rust 1.83 - rust-lang.org

• Handbrake 1.9 - handbrake.fr

• Firefox 133 - mozilla.org

• Cinnamon 6.4 - omgubuntu.co.uk

• Tails 6.10 - torproject.org

• NixOS 24.11 - nixos.org

• Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 - phoronix.com

• Ubuntu UEFI Bootkit - securityweek.com

26:10 VMWare vs Open Source

• Steve's interpretation of Oracle buying VMWare
• Stages
  • Start up
  • Growth
  • Extract
• 300%-1000% price hike
• OpenNebula
• Proxmox
• KubeVirt
• ArsTechnica

39:33 The Linux Experience

• Nvidia and Intel Arc A7070
• i90 driver vs XE driver
• Steve's Ansible playbook
• 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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