Perplexing 💩

Perplexing 💩

Most of the crew gathers in person to talk Plex's lifetime sub price hike, Bitwarden's quiet C-suite shakeup and its PE ties, and the latest in the Bambu Lab open source licensing fight.

Bambu-zled

Geoff sounds the alarm on Bambu Lab's legal threats against an open-source OrcaSlicer developer, the crew unpacks the CopyFail and DirtyFrag Linux kernel CVEs and AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery, and Adam reports from an off-grid California compound to explore parallels between physical self-sufficiency and digital self-hosting.

Framework Makes the Dreamwork

The crew breaks down everything new from Framework's big announcement week, Kasm's new Proxmox autoscaler partnership opens up self-hosted VDI for the rest of us, and our thoughts on the pricing of the Steam Controller.

Who Let the Magic Smoke Out?

Alex tells a sad tale about releasing the magic smoke from his Minisforum MS-01 and the rabbit hole of high availability, and we discuss the wonders and current state of 3d printing, including the new Bambu X2D and Snapmaker U1.

How to lose friends and alienate people

Stephen shares his road from childhood PC tinkering to running his own MSP, we trace MinIO's slow abandonment of its open source community, and Geoff explains how a new API in his email provider made his SimpleLogin subscription redundant.