2.5 Admins 297: Jraphics

2.5 Admins 297: Jraphics

Author: The Late Night Linux Family April 30, 2026 Duration: 32:43

Hitting the limit for hard links, a parent struggles to get back into their teen’s compromised Discord account, the demise of tower PCs and general purpose computing in general, and changing the properties of existing ZFS pools.

 

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Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS

 

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How Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke ext4 Hardlinks

Dad stuck in support nightmare after teen lied about age on Discord

Apple’s last tower topples… and the others will follow

 

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Ever wondered what happens when two seasoned system administrators and a producer who knows just enough to be dangerous get together for a weekly chat? That’s the premise behind 2.5 Admins, a refreshingly honest tech podcast from The Late Night Linux Family. Hosts Allan Jude and Jim Salter bring their deep, real-world expertise to the table, while Joe Ressington-the “0.5” who can configure a Samba share on a good day-keeps the conversation grounded and relatable. Each episode feels like eavesdropping on a lively breakroom discussion, where the latest headlines in technology are dissected not with sterile analysis, but with the practical, sometimes weary perspective of people who keep the digital lights on. You’ll hear them tackle listener-submitted admin questions, offering solutions that are tried and tested rather than purely theoretical. This isn’t about hype or buzzwords; it’s about the tools, headaches, and occasional triumphs that define life in IT. The chemistry between the hosts makes complex topics accessible, and the blend of professional insight with Joe’s every-user viewpoint creates a uniquely balanced listen. If you’re looking for a tech podcast that feels like talking shop with knowledgeable friends, this is it.
Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 100

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2.5 Admins 268: The Salter Philosophy [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:27
A Red Hat breach leads to a leak of lots of sensitive customer data, Synology backs down on allowing third-party drives but they are removing features, and managing ZFS properties during replication. Plugs Support us on…
2.5 Admins 267: Hoarding Cache [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 26:11
The weird errors you see when your root partition is full, TikTok uses a lot of bandwidth by preloading videos, and dealing with a ZFS pool that won’t import. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with…
2.5 Admins 266: Jiggawatts of Hallucinations [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:17
Intel and Nvidia are teaming up for multiple reasons, Open AI are planning to build data centers and use a ludicrous amount of power, LLM hallucinations aren’t going away, and how long we keep servers and hard drives in…
2.5 Admins 265: Storage Lies [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:53
Joe set up a FreeBSD box to serve as a replication target and it was surprisingly straightforward, if rather different from Linux. Plus the lies that storage tells us. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS fe…
2.5 Admins 264: A Question of Trust [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:27
Matrix shows how painful enormous databases can be to restore, why the certificate authority system doesn’t seem to make sense in 2025, a hosting provider thinks they are better than Cloudflare at blocking malicious traf…
2.5 Admins 263: Seagate RAID [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:41
McDonald’s IT systems seem to be riddled with 90s-style coding errors, we finally know where the fraudulent hard drives came from, when IT workers go rogue, and ZFS on root without using FreeBSD or Ubuntu. Plug Support u…
2.5 Admins 262: It’s About Control [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:51
Google is planning to assert even more control over which Android apps can be installed, the US government takes a 10% stake in Intel, and minimum networking speeds in homes and offices. Plugs Support us on patreon and g…
2.5 Admins 261: Worms and Baskets [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:01
Why you can’t rely on a single cloud provider, Jim discovers AI that spreads itself like a worm, and configuring all-flash arrays. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Fre…
2.5 Admins 260: Watery Email [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 26:36
AMD’s recent mobile-class processors impress us with their power to performance ratio, the UK government suggests a preposterous way to save water, setting up verified boot with snapshots, and the best way to configure Z…
2.5 Admins 259: New Web? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 25:15
The Web is a mess of tracking and AI scraping so do we need a new one, would it even be possible, or is this the wrong question? Plus setting up servers in a garage where dusty woodworking is happening. Plug Support us o…