681: Ain’t Nothing But a Syncthing

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Syncthing saves the day in an unexpected way, and we dig into what’s new in Linux 7.2. Sponsored By: • Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! • Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: • Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD • 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike • 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM • Jupiter Garage SWAG • AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker • Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker • Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Passes Away • Linux 7.2 Kernel Newbies • Cache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUs • Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions • [REGRESSION] drm/sched: FAIR policy causes serious performance degradation at max GPU load on 9070XT • reduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating outside the lock — While profiling Meta's caching code, I found pipe->mutex contention on the hot path. anon_pipe_write() currently calls alloc_page() once per page while