S13E18 – Full moon

This week we’ve been making operating systems for the Raspberry Pi 4. We discuss our favourite gadgets, bring you a verrrry long command line love and round up all your wonderful feedback.

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It’s Season 13 Episode 18 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

• We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:
  • Martin has been making Ubuntu MATE 20.04 for the Raspberry Pi 4.
• We discuss some of our favourite gadgets.
• We share a Command Line Lurve:
  • A very, very long command line love

lsblk -bdno NAME,SIZE | grep -v loop | while read dev size; do model=$(</sys/block/$dev/device/model); hours=$(sudo smartctl -a /dev/${dev} | awk '/Power_On_Hours/ { gsub(/h.*/, "", $10); print $10 }'); years=$(bc <<< "scale=2; $hours / 24 / 365.25"); size_tib=$(bc <<< "scale=4; $size / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024"); printf "%s %6d hours (%5.2f years) %.2fTiB %s\n" $dev $hours $years $size_tib "$model"; done | sort -rnk 2

sdd  50346 hours ( 5.74 years) 2.73TiB TOSHIBA DT01ACA3
sdc  50346 hours ( 5.74 years) 2.73TiB TOSHIBA DT01ACA3
sda  50345 hours ( 5.74 years) 2.73TiB TOSHIBA DT01ACA3
sdb  50062 hours ( 5.71 years) 2.73TiB TOSHIBA DT01ACA3
sde  48991 hours ( 5.58 years) 0.23TiB VB0250EAVER

• And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!
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