2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 02: Updating to Arm
Our thoughts on DNS-over-HTTPS, whether Arm is about to take over, HDD advice, and automatic updates and reboots.
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Jim will be speaking at Open Source 101 At Home
News
Surreptitiously Swapping SMR into Hard Drive Lines Must Stop
Paul Vixie on DoH @ vBSDCon 2019
Paul Vixie: DNS Wars: Episode IV: A New Bypass @ EuroBSDCon 2019
Making macOS run well on ARM processors isn’t the hard part
Free Consulting
Frank wrote in to ask advice on which HDDs to buy, and Jake was curious about automatic updates and reboots.