Down the Linux rabbit hole (Changelog & Friends #121)
Alex Kretzschmar joins Adam for a trip down the Linux rabbit hole -- Docker vs Podman, building a Kubernetes cluster, ZFS backups with zfs.rent, bootc, favorite Linux distros, new homelab tools built with AI, self-hosting Immich, content creation, Plex and Jellyfin, the future of piracy and more.
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- 0:00 Let's talk!
- 0:38 Sponsor: Tiger Data
- 2:17 Start the show!
- 2:45 How are you, Alex?
- 6:17 Ok, this is the start for reals
- 8:24 Docker ot Podman?
- 15:33 Let's talk bootc
- 16:40 Rootless vs root
- 16:52 Texas Linux Fest!!
- 20:46 50,000 subs (and counting)
- 28:31 Sponsor: Depot
- 31:22 Adam, how do you do your backups?!
- 32:57 Hetzner for backups?
- 33:46 zfs.rent
- 37:12 The trouble with BSD
- 38:57 Immich instead of Google Photos
- 41:24 From Red Hat to full-time content for Tailscale
- 43:31 Doing content as a job
- 48:54 How honest can you be??
- 51:22 Alex's homelab (from gateway to clients)
- 53:03 I don't trust myself with k8s yet
- 53:24 Plex!!!
- 59:08 Physical media is off the shelf
- 1:06:51 Sponsor: Augment Code
- 1:09:46 Sponsor: Framer
- 1:11:00 Now we have to talk about AI
- 1:18:33 Alex built QuickSync Benchmarks with AI
- 1:34:17 Favorite Linux distro?
- 1:36:25 Declarative vs Bash script
- 1:38:02 The 4 DIMM problem
- 1:40:08 BBQ and Texas Linux Fest 2026!!
- 1:41:59 Watch Silicon Valley
- 1:42:47 Closing thoughts and stuff
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