Notices by Joe Ressington (joeress@mastodon.social)

@killyourfm how come all the places you talk about are named after macOS releases? 😂

I could use AI to edit my podcasts. As well as the ethics, the reason I don't is because it wouldn't save me any time. I'd still have to go through and check everything, and fix the small mistakes it made.

People who say AI saves them time at work (coding for example) must not be thoroughly checking the output and fixing the small mistakes. Or maybe I'm missing something here. 🤷♂️

@killyourfm we have pink ones in our garden!

It's just so beautiful 🥹

What am I even doing with my Saturday

OK that's enough fun for today.

@killyourfm because the people sitting around watching YouTube videos can click tracked links to the sponsor much more easily than the people listening to podcasts while they drive to work where they earn money that they can spend on the advertised products and services which they search for when they remember to check them out.

No click means no entry in the spreadsheet, which means no dollars in the budget.

@killyourfm that said, almost all the sponsor money is in YouTube these days so I get why people do it. It seems like it can definitely be worth it.

@killyourfm I think we talked about this when we recorded together just before Christmas but this is one of the many reasons why I don't do YouTube videos. The download numbers on the LNL Family podcasts are really consistent. Rarely more than 10 or 15 percent up or down, and gradually growing over time.

But I've been releasing episodes like clockwork on a set schedule for years. The YouTube algorithm *can* bless you with viral hits, but my winning formula is rather dull. Just gotta grind. 🤷♂️

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Windows, is in fact, Copilot/Windows, or as I've recently taken to calling it, CopilotOS.

This is literally the plot of Terminator 3.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/hegseth-wants-to-integrate-musks-grok-ai-into-military-networks-this-month/

Sometimes I take my job for granted, but tonight as people all over the western world dread going back to work tomorrow I'm so grateful that I don't feel that these days. Don't get me wrong - preparing, recording, and editing podcasts is definitely work. But I don't dread it at all.

My lack of dread tonight is thanks to everyone who listens, and more importantly everyone who supports @latenightlinux on Patreon etc. So thanks! Here's to another year of talking to my friends about computers! ❤️

@killyourfm fun fact: the Anna's archive website is blocked by my ISP and I need to use a VPN to view it. My ISP is one of the biggest in the UK.

@killyourfm @WelcomeHome we could have a chat about it if you like. Maybe even record it. A sort of "how to even start thinking about putting a NAS together thing". Then you could make some decisions and actually put it together in future content.

@killyourfm @WelcomeHome I guess it depends if you're putting it together for content, or for actual production use.

@killyourfm @WelcomeHome also a reasonable point. But also you can get a mini tower that is pre-win11 for under a hundred bucks on ebay.

@killyourfm @WelcomeHome yeah but I mean inside the actual machine rather than in an external enclosure. For example in an HP minitower.

@killyourfm @WelcomeHome yeah that makes sense. But also if a job's worth doing and all that. 🤷♂️

@killyourfm @WelcomeHome external drives are never ideal. You'd be much better off with internal SATA (or NVMe) drives.

@killyourfm https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewjxqvqzgyo