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Running an old version of Windows on a Wii for some reason, a nice way to learn programming languages, a couple of very different games, more documentation tools, and moving to a new Mastodon instance.

Discoveries

entii-for-workcubes

Learn C, Coding for Kids

Isonzo

Material for MkDocs

markata

mdq

Moving to a new Mastodon instance is very easy

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We recently talked about the lowest-end hardware we’d be willing to use as a daily desktop machine, but what about headless boxes? It turns out that it depends on what exactly it’s doing and to what extent we have to actively interact with it. Ultimately we could probably use slower hardware than we actually do if it came to it.

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TrueNAS drops FreeBSD but there’s a community fork, the elusive ZFS send bug that affected encrypted datasets is finally identified and fixed, why the Raspberry Pi doesn’t make a great NAS, and when to use the zpool checkpoint feature.

Plugs

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Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions Matter

News/discussion

TrueNAS 25.04 drops FreeBSD: “Fangtooth” only with GNU/Linux base

FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart

ZFS raw-send corruption bug fixed

5 things I regret about using my Raspberry Pi as a NAS

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It’s the wheel of misfortune! Roughly 50 (mostly) Linux-related things are on the wheel, we take turns spinning it, and we all have to say at least some positive things about the thing we land on. (It makes sense once we start).

Porkbun.com

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It’s another hot questions episode. Tabs vs spaces, whether we have imposter syndrome, why software keeps getting heavier, the correct length of functions and files, and what every programmer should know.

Some things we mentioned:

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Sean tells us about bootable containers and asks for our opinions on how he plans to use them with Kubernetes. He mentions Talos Linux.

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Insta360 X5 Camera

To get a free invisible selfie stick worth US$24.99 with your purchase, go to store.insta360.com and use the promo code “hybridcloud”, available for the first 30 standard package purchases only.

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The basic computer science problems that still remain unsolvable, why you shouldn’t trust AI to tune ZFS (or answer any admin questions), and setting up a check-in system for a group of friends.

Plug

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Discussion

Why You Can’t Trust AI to Tune ZFS

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Our least favourite fandoms, frivolous things we’d buy, favourite childhood TV shows and movies, and house cleaning hacks. With Amolith, Kevin, and Andy from Linux Dev Time.

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