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Two and a half years later
It’s been a long time. A very long time, in fact. But I’m back with a brief summary of the last few years.
JoeRess Podcast #25
Author: joe
The New Show 13: Unlucky For Some
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The best and worst jobs in IT, memorable parties, shopping habits, getting old and grumpy, and self improvement goals.
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00:00:43 What’s the best party you’ve ever been to and what’s the worst?
00:06:54 We get more cynical and grumpy as we get older. Why?
00:10:56 What do you think the best and worst jobs are in IT?
00:17:08 If you could be hypnotised to stop yourself doing something from today onwards, what would it be?
00:25:33 One big shop or lots of little shops?
2.5 Admins 13: bs=1mebibyte
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Intel almost catching up to AMD with Tiger Lake, the .uk fiasco, and why you shouldn’t be using dd.
Plugs
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News
Hands-on with Intel’s i7-1185G7 Tiger Lake prototype laptop
Intel’s run at the GPU market begins with Tiger Lake onboard graphics
What the hell is going on with .uk?
.uk registry operator Nominet responds to renewed criticism – by silencing its critics
Free consulting
We were asked about block size while using dd. Jim mentioned his blog post about iostat.
Datadog
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Late Night Linux – Episode 99
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Why WireGuard is the only VPN software worth using, games becoming open source, the slow demise of Mozilla, Cloudflare synergy with the Wayback Machine, KDE Korner, 3D printing updates, and more.
News
Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla’s top exec pay going up 400%
Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine gets way more websites in Cloudflare fail-over deal
WireGuard
Félim has been playing with WireGuard, and tells us about how easy it is to set up and use.
KDE Korner
Running PlasmaShell with Vulkan
Datadog
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Entroware
This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
Digital Ocean
This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.
The New Show 12: Significant Stickers
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The nature of native Linux apps and some good examples, friends in awkward situations, stickers on laptops, and bad movies that we keep watching.
You can support creation of The New Show episodes via Patreon or Paypal, and you can send us your questions on Twitter.
This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/thenewshow, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.
00:00:45 Stickers on laptops? Or not?
00:03:14 What are some native Linux apps you think are a great example of good modern and intuitive UI design?
00:14:30 At what point do you muster the guts to tell your friend that they are better off without their significant other?
00:21:04 What’s the worst movie you’ve seen more than five times?
