We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2025, and talk about what we want to happen in 2026.

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We tell stories from some of the tech support nightmares we’ve found ourselves in. This is a short episode because Joe is having a break for the Christmas period.

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Some of the Linux and open source tech from our past that inspired where we are today.

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How we’ve all set up our backups including GUI distros vs doing it the hard way, ZFS vs Borg, and why it’s tricky to chose the right offsite location.

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Some of our Linux hot takes including the LTS release model being broken, Linux media being out of touch, social media being the root of most evil, and people being too angry and defensive about the software they use.

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We’ve done various challenges in the past where we’ve bought Linux machines on a seriously low budget, but what if we had an unlimited budget? What would we buy in this hypothetical situation? It turns out we all struggled to come up with anything and are pretty satisfied with the machines we already have.

Note that this episode was recorded before we found out that Framework supports problematic projects.

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Florian Beijers joins us again to give us an update on the state of accessibility in Linux and whether things have improved since we last spoke.

Florian’s YouTube Channel

Techy Twitch streams

Accessible gaming Twitch streams

fireborn’s blog posts about accessibility in Linux

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We cover some of your emails, questions, and comments. A challenge suggestion of not using a package manager, donating old hardware, why we don’t use custom ROMs on our phones, whether low end laptops with soldered eMMC storage are worth buying (they aren’t), and tips for using Home Assistant with Apple gear and Jellyfin on Android.

The terrible laptop we mentioned

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