web01.fireside.fm Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:27:23 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Sudo Show - Episodes Tagged with “Tech Pranks” https://sudo.show/tags/tech%20pranks Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:00:00 -0600 The Sudo Show covers topics ranging from Open Source in business to deep dives into complex technology. en-us episodic Where Business Meets Open Source Sudo Show The Sudo Show covers topics ranging from Open Source in business to deep dives into complex technology. no devops, it, cloud native, technology, sudo, linux, open source, work from home, productivity, red hat, FOSS, information technology Sudo Show podcast@sudo.show 75: I Don’t Know How to Make Coffee | SUDO Show 75 https://sudo.show/75 48ddf212-b2f0-47c6-933a-a08e73f6ad79 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:00:00 -0600 Sudo Show full Sudo Show SUDO Show 75, “I Don’t Know How to Make Coffee,” is an April Fools episode where Bill, Neal, and Noel swap “business meets Linux” for their most devious tech and coffee pranks, from Windows 9x and FVWM95 shell tricks to decaf‑only offices, LAN‑party chaos, and Kubernetes‑and‑YAML jokes. 1:07:57 no SUDO Show 75, “I Don’t Know How to Make Coffee,” is a full‑on April Fools special where “business meets Linux” takes a back seat to pranks, retro war stories, and questionable life choices. Bill, Neal, and Noel start with open source airplanes, HDMI‑to‑floppy adapters, and whether airplane wings actually flap, then quickly descend into cargo‑class containers, VM‑matrix jokes, and vintage Linux desktop pain with FVWM95 and XFree86. From decaf‑only coffee stunts, BashRC logout traps, PC speaker torture, and ping‑flooded LAN parties to PACMAN.BAT in the school lab, Gentoo use‑flag accidents, OpenStack root‑password “oops” moments, and a threat to invent Fedora.js, they share their most devious tech and non‑tech pranks. Along the way, they talk MSP coffee culture, two‑pots‑a‑day network engineering, Kubernetes as “all YAML,” and close by reminding you not to try any of this at work—no matter how good that April Fools itch feels. Show Links: FVWM95 – https://fvwm95.sourceforge.net/ ReactOS – https://reactos.org/ Kata Containers – https://katacontainers.io podman – https://podman.io Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro – Off the Rails April Fools 00:00:55 Open Source Airplanes and HDMI-to-Floppy 00:01:50 Do Airplane Wings Flap? 00:04:28 Cargo Class and the VM Matrix 00:05:22 Best Tech and Non-Tech Pranks 00:08:49 FVWM95, XFree86, and Fake Windows Desktops 00:14:22 ReactOS and Retro Linux Adventures 00:15:01 Going Vintage in the Future 00:18:09 Bill’s Decaf Coffee and BashRC Pranks 00:19:56 PC Speaker Torture and Random Beeps 00:20:58 Old-School LAN Parties 00:23:05 Ping-Flood LAN Parties and ZipSlack 00:24:21 PSA System Rollback – April Fools 00:25:58 Noel’s PACMAN.BAT and Lab Ban 00:32:02 Linux ISOs and School Network Quotas 00:35:07 Office Built from Old Optiplex Cases 00:39:28 First Home PCs and Gateway Cow Boxes 00:42:06 Serial Mice Still in Production 00:42:56 Gentoo Use Flags and history 00:46:22 OpenStack Cluster and Lost Root Password 00:48:41 Ranking Pranks and Coffee + Desktop Combo 00:50:45 Noel Hates Coffee 00:52:26 MSP Coffee Culture and “I Don’t Know How to Make Coffee” 00:55:51 Weaponized Iced Coffee 00:58:52 /30 Subnets per Phone and Two Pots of Coffee 01:01:10 No Rails 01:02:06 May Your BBQ Sauce Be Watery 01:03:36 Kubernetes Is All YAML 01:04:04 Fedora.js 01:04:57 Disclaimer – Do Not Try This at Work 01:06:01 Ball Pits, Ball.js, and Bouncy Balls 01:07:29 Outro – Where Business Meets Terrible Jokes Connect with the Hosts: Bill - @ctlinux on Mastodon Neal - @neal@social.gompa.me on Mastodon Noel - https://github.com/noelmiller open source, opensource, technology, enterprise, business, software, linux, SUDO Show, Linux, April Fools, tech pranks, sysadmin pranks, MSP life, coffee culture, “I don’t know how to make coffee”, Windows 9x, XFree86, X11, FVWM95, Enlightenment E16, ReactOS, Gentoo, use flags, OpenStack, ZipSlack, LAN parties, 10Base2, PC speaker, podman, Kata Containers, containers, VM matrix, Fedora.js, Kubernetes, YAML, HDMI to floppy, open source airplane, PACMAN batch file, school computer lab, Gateway cow boxes, serial mice, bouncy balls SUDO Show 75, “I Don’t Know How to Make Coffee,” is a full‑on April Fools special where “business meets Linux” takes a back seat to pranks, retro war stories, and questionable life choices. Bill, Neal, and Noel start with open source airplanes, HDMI‑to‑floppy adapters, and whether airplane wings actually flap, then quickly descend into cargo‑class containers, VM‑matrix jokes, and vintage Linux desktop pain with FVWM95 and XFree86. From decaf‑only coffee stunts, BashRC logout traps, PC speaker torture, and ping‑flooded LAN parties to PACMAN.BAT in the school lab, Gentoo use‑flag accidents, OpenStack root‑password “oops” moments, and a threat to invent Fedora.js, they share their most devious tech and non‑tech pranks. Along the way, they talk MSP coffee culture, two‑pots‑a‑day network engineering, Kubernetes as “all YAML,” and close by reminding you not to try any of this at work—no matter how good that April Fools itch feels.

Show Links:

FVWM95 – https://fvwm95.sourceforge.net/
ReactOS – https://reactos.org/
Kata Containers – https://katacontainers.io
podman – https://podman.io

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro – Off the Rails April Fools
00:00:55 Open Source Airplanes and HDMI-to-Floppy
00:01:50 Do Airplane Wings Flap?
00:04:28 Cargo Class and the VM Matrix
00:05:22 Best Tech and Non-Tech Pranks
00:08:49 FVWM95, XFree86, and Fake Windows Desktops
00:14:22 ReactOS and Retro Linux Adventures
00:15:01 Going Vintage in the Future
00:18:09 Bill’s Decaf Coffee and BashRC Pranks
00:19:56 PC Speaker Torture and Random Beeps
00:20:58 Old-School LAN Parties
00:23:05 Ping-Flood LAN Parties and ZipSlack
00:24:21 PSA System Rollback – April Fools
00:25:58 Noel’s PACMAN.BAT and Lab Ban
00:32:02 Linux ISOs and School Network Quotas
00:35:07 Office Built from Old Optiplex Cases
00:39:28 First Home PCs and Gateway Cow Boxes
00:42:06 Serial Mice Still in Production
00:42:56 Gentoo Use Flags and history
00:46:22 OpenStack Cluster and Lost Root Password
00:48:41 Ranking Pranks and Coffee + Desktop Combo
00:50:45 Noel Hates Coffee
00:52:26 MSP Coffee Culture and “I Don’t Know How to Make Coffee”
00:55:51 Weaponized Iced Coffee
00:58:52 /30 Subnets per Phone and Two Pots of Coffee
01:01:10 No Rails
01:02:06 May Your BBQ Sauce Be Watery
01:03:36 Kubernetes Is All YAML
01:04:04 Fedora.js
01:04:57 Disclaimer – Do Not Try This at Work
01:06:01 Ball Pits, Ball.js, and Bouncy Balls
01:07:29 Outro – Where Business Meets Terrible Jokes

Connect with the Hosts:

Bill - @ctlinux on Mastodon
Neal - @neal@social.gompa.me on Mastodon
Noel - https://github.com/noelmiller

]]> SUDO Show 75, “I Don’t Know How to Make Coffee,” is a full‑on April Fools special where “business meets Linux” takes a back seat to pranks, retro war stories, and questionable life choices. Bill, Neal, and Noel start with open source airplanes, HDMI‑to‑floppy adapters, and whether airplane wings actually flap, then quickly descend into cargo‑class containers, VM‑matrix jokes, and vintage Linux desktop pain with FVWM95 and XFree86. From decaf‑only coffee stunts, BashRC logout traps, PC speaker torture, and ping‑flooded LAN parties to PACMAN.BAT in the school lab, Gentoo use‑flag accidents, OpenStack root‑password “oops” moments, and a threat to invent Fedora.js, they share their most devious tech and non‑tech pranks. Along the way, they talk MSP coffee culture, two‑pots‑a‑day network engineering, Kubernetes as “all YAML,” and close by reminding you not to try any of this at work—no matter how good that April Fools itch feels.

Show Links:

FVWM95 – https://fvwm95.sourceforge.net/
ReactOS – https://reactos.org/
Kata Containers – https://katacontainers.io
podman – https://podman.io

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro – Off the Rails April Fools
00:00:55 Open Source Airplanes and HDMI-to-Floppy
00:01:50 Do Airplane Wings Flap?
00:04:28 Cargo Class and the VM Matrix
00:05:22 Best Tech and Non-Tech Pranks
00:08:49 FVWM95, XFree86, and Fake Windows Desktops
00:14:22 ReactOS and Retro Linux Adventures
00:15:01 Going Vintage in the Future
00:18:09 Bill’s Decaf Coffee and BashRC Pranks
00:19:56 PC Speaker Torture and Random Beeps
00:20:58 Old-School LAN Parties
00:23:05 Ping-Flood LAN Parties and ZipSlack
00:24:21 PSA System Rollback – April Fools
00:25:58 Noel’s PACMAN.BAT and Lab Ban
00:32:02 Linux ISOs and School Network Quotas
00:35:07 Office Built from Old Optiplex Cases
00:39:28 First Home PCs and Gateway Cow Boxes
00:42:06 Serial Mice Still in Production
00:42:56 Gentoo Use Flags and history
00:46:22 OpenStack Cluster and Lost Root Password
00:48:41 Ranking Pranks and Coffee + Desktop Combo
00:50:45 Noel Hates Coffee
00:52:26 MSP Coffee Culture and “I Don’t Know How to Make Coffee”
00:55:51 Weaponized Iced Coffee
00:58:52 /30 Subnets per Phone and Two Pots of Coffee
01:01:10 No Rails
01:02:06 May Your BBQ Sauce Be Watery
01:03:36 Kubernetes Is All YAML
01:04:04 Fedora.js
01:04:57 Disclaimer – Do Not Try This at Work
01:06:01 Ball Pits, Ball.js, and Bouncy Balls
01:07:29 Outro – Where Business Meets Terrible Jokes

Connect with the Hosts:

Bill - @ctlinux on Mastodon
Neal - @neal@social.gompa.me on Mastodon
Noel - https://github.com/noelmiller

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