People trying to return defective hard drives and RAM are finding out why consumer protection laws would be good, GoDaddy accidentally gave someone’s domain name away, and when and how to fix ZFS fragmentation.
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Fast Dedup Economics: When Deduplication Beats Buying New Disks
News/discussion
Toshiba refuses to replace large hard drive that was under warranty — company offers refund at the purchase price, not the higher current retail price
GoDaddy Gave a Domain to a Stranger Without Any Documentation
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 36
13-05-2026 | 18 Min.
Light bulb colour temperatures, doing nice things for ourselves, pulling faces while playing guitar, and surreal experiences. With Allan from 2.5 Admins, May from Linux After Dark, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 385
11-05-2026 | 29 Min.
Voice to text, visualising CSVs in the terminal, managing software from releases on GitHub, a mini Android tablet for your wall, and Amiga music on Linux in Discoveries. Plus Ubuntu embracing AI makes us wonder if we should just stop having the same old arguments.
Discoveries
VoxType
Tennis
tooler
SONOFF NSPanel Pro Gen2
Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator
News/discussion
The future of AI in Ubuntu
I wanted to reply with some clarifications
The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next?
Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
Upcoming Blender Development Fund and AI Policies
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Linux After Dark – Episode 121
08-05-2026 | 26 Min.
How we get back to our home LANs when we are away travelling etc. It mostly involves WireGuard and Tailscale. We also get into blocking ads, mostly with Pi-hole.
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2.5 Admins 298: Windows Postdate
07-05-2026 | 28 Min.
Microsoft is encouraging employees with the most experience to leave the company and letting users pause Windows updates forever, some of the best features you’ll get in the version of ZFS that ships with the new Ubuntu LTS, and backing up data from cloud services.
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Extending ZFS Performance Without Hardware Upgrades
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Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it’s encouraging experienced workers to leave
Your Windows update experience just got updated
zfs-2.3.0
zfs-2.4.0
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We were asked about backing up data from cloud services.
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