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Episode 143: Fairly De-Googled
Conor and Mike are on their own, discussing Conor's newest acquisitions - Fairphone 5 and Fairbuds XL.
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Episode 142: Bro!
Amolith, Mike and Shane start out by discussing broligarchs. Shane talks about his new favourite tool to help bring order into his life. The discussion then turns to AI contributions to open source projects. Amolith annouces "friendship ended with wallabag, Readeck is my new best friend". Shane then talks about his game.
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Discussion
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I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me
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AI contribution in open source projects
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existing guidelines:
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After the recording, Amolith found an existing Readeck plugin for KOReader that works very well
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A video of Shane's game prototype
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Episode 141: Thunder, Thunder, Thundermail!
Conor, Mike and Shane discuss the price of the new Framework 12, the Thundermail service and Zorin's switch to Brave.
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Discussion
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Mozilla Corporation pays for the development of Firefox
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MZLA Technologies Corporation looks after Thunderbird
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Mozilla Foundation owns the 2 above
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Episode 140: Hardware Humbugs
The lads start with a PSA about a Pixelfed vulnerability, then they talk about their current hardware setup.
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
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Discussion
Conor's setup
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Desktop
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CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 6 cores 12 threads
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GPU: Radeon RX 5700
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RAM: 32GB
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Storage: 1x 1TB NVMe (OS), 1x 2TB NVMe (Steam), 1x 6TB HDD (storage)
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Two ThinkPads
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Minisforum mini PC
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Audio
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Audio interface: Rode AI-1
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Microphone: Sennheiser e935
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Headphones: Audio-Technica M50x
Shane's setup
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Desktop
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CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K (4 cores/8 threads, 4.0-4.2 GHz base/boost)
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GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (8GB VRAM, driver 535.183.01) driving a 3440x1440 ultrawide display
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Memory: 16GB RAM
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One 1 TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD and two 2 TB WD HDDs
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Killer E2200 Gigabit Ethernet
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Logitech C920 webcam
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Audio
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Behringer UMC404HD audio interface
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AKAI MPK Mini Mk II MIDI controller
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Shure SM58 microphone
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Sennheiser HD200 Pro monitor headphones
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Three ThinkPads
Amolith's setup
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Desktop
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Ryzen 7 2700, 8 cores 16 threads
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Factory-overclocked Radeon 5700 XT
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32GB RAM
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Monitor is 27" and 1440@165
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MX Master 3 mouse
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Keyboards
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Ergodox
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Logitech MX Mechanical Mini
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Framework 13 with 11th gen Intel i5 running Fedora 41
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Audio
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Stagg SDM50 (similar to Shure SM58)
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Double-layer pop shield
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Sony WH-1000XM5
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Scarlett 2i2
Mike's setup
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Entroware Kratos laptop (EL04R4L)
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CPU: Intel i7-8750H (12) @ 4.100GHz
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GPU: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 (UHD Graphics 630)
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GPU: NVIDIA GeForce MX150
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32GB RAM
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MacBook Pro 13" 2020
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currently without Linux
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M1 CPU
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16GB RAM
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AOC CU34G2XP ultrawide curved monitor, 3440x1440, 180Hz
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Audio:
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Behringer U-Phoria UM2
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Headphones: Sony WH-CH720N
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Microphone: Behringer XM8500
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Episode 139: Questionable Choices
An "ask us anything" episode, inspired by Ask The Hosts. The lads start by discussing the appropriate age for kids to have a connected device, then get serious comparing cupcakes and muffins. This is followed by talking about immutable operating systems, replacement OSs and the weather.
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The Questions
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@linuxlads what age should do you think a child should have ownership of an internet connected device such as a mobile phone or computer? If you were a parent, would you implement some “lockdown” on their devices? Do you think your approach would be significantly different from the parents of your kids peers?
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@techcelt @linuxlads @killyourfm @felimwhiteley @sil Cupcakes vs Muffins? 😎😆
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Immutable operating systems are the future of the desktop, change my mind
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@linuxlads I have two questions. If you could not use your main OS, which one would you pick and why? The second question is, what is your ideal weather? Since I moved to the UK from Costa Rica, people ask me if I hate the weather, but I find it pleasant, It rains less and it never gets too hot.
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Episode 138: Wake Up, A New Font Has Dropped
Conor, Amolith and Mike start by discussing fonts by prettiness and legibility. Then they move onto new Framework offerings, followed by the news of EA open sourcing some Command & Conquer games. They end up by discussing the latest Mozilla shenanigans.
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Discussion
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Gnome introduces new fonts
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Check out fonts on CodingFont and Programming Fonts
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According to some evidence, special fonts don't help with dyslexia
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Framework's announcement blog post
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4 Command & Conquer games were open sourced by EA
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The Original GTA
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You can play the original Doom on Internet Archive
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Mozilla's new terms of use post
- The Firefox maker has been tied up in making statements and backpedalling after an uproar
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Mozilla's Orbit
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The Register's scathing article on AI summaries
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Episode 137: Resistance Is Federated
Amolith, Conor and Shane discuss federated communities as resistance against big tech. They touch on AcitivityPub and the network effect problem. Then they talk about RSS.
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Discussion
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Free Our Feeds, as discussed on Late Night Linux
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Skymoth the Mastodon - Bluesky crossposter
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You Should Be Using an RSS Reader by Cory Doctorow
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Want My RSS Firefox addon
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Episode 136: Let Them Run Boxes
Amolith, Conor and Shane talk about their experiences with self hosting.
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Discussion
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Conor's email service shortlist:
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Amolith suggested Purelymail
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Episode 135: A New Hope
All the lads are present and accounted for, and discuss their hopes and dreams for 2025. They also talk about politics 😲
This episode is sponsored by Sandfly Security.
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Discussion
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The Lenovo Legion Go S will run SteamOS
- SteamOS will be officially available on non-Valve handhelds
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Steam Controller 2 could happen this year
- Valve Deckard VR headset
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Shane's YouTube channel
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KDE's fundraising
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Ubuntu on the Risc-V Premier P550 board
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Framework's CEO swaps a laptop motherboard for a Risc-V one, live at Ubuntu Summit
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Episode 134: Shut Up and Take My Money!
Conor, Shane and Mike ponder what to spend imaginary money on.
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Discussion
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Conor's Framework config
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Steam Deck refurbished and new
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Donate to KDE
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Gawfolk curved monitor on Amazon
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Home Assistant Green smart home hub
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Support Asahi Linux
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Donate to Ardour
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Support Godot
- Godot Visual Scripting
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Donate to Blender
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Episode 133: App-y Old Year
We discuss our favourite projects of the year, from dev tools to distros via a synth!
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Discussion
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- Postgresql's Financial Sponsors
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Episode 132: Ogg Glamping
Amolith turns written word into spoken one, Conor tries out server distros and Shane talks about OggCamp.
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Discussion
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Piper text to speech system
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Coqui is shutting down, unfortunately
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Nala frontend to Apt
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The podcast that Shane couldn't recall is TuxJam
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Raspberry Pi UK police controversy
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Episode 131: Small Size, Big Game
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Shane organizes a new event. Mike makes bots. Amolith switches password managers, and Mike goes on a bit of a rant about Murena. Shane discovers permacomputing and fantasy consoles and Amolith plays with a tiny gamepad.
Discussion
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The Dublin Linux website will have the details of the next DL meetup at the TOG Hackerspace
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Mike's event bot repository (and a related blog post)
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The original article on the Bitwarden licensing drama from The Register
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Murena outage forum thread
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Episode 130: With a Little Help from My Home
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Amolith has been playing with Home Assistant, turning web pages into ebooks with EpubPress and developing his own cli password generator. Mike's done nothing, because he can now play games on Asahi Linux, and time has vanished somewhere.
Discussion
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Home Assistant VS Code extension
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Home Assistant Android app
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Aqara devices work with Home Assistant (as heard on Late Night Linux)
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Episode 129: Summarising the Open Source Summit
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Conor and Mike talk to Karla, an open-source focused people skills trainer, about the 2024 Open Source Summit Europe.
Open Source Summit 2024 with Karla Nieminen
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The event page now points to the 2025 event
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Linus's keynote (Don't worry, it switches to English after a few seconds.)
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Zephyr real time operating system
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Talk on funding open source maintainers
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Karla's LinkedIn
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Episode 128: Arbitrary Concept of Sexiness
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Gary chats to Shane about OggCamp 2024, then the lads discuss programming languages, Amolith's new Android app and Shane's adventures in game dev. Discussion then turns to the frustrating topic of chat platforms.
OggCamp 2024
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12 and 13 October 2024 in Manchester, UK
Discussion
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Apparently, manual memory management in Go can be done
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Firefox forcing restart after autoupdate, still a thing in 2024
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Conduit Matrix server
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Matrix client-server API
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Briar messenger
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Episode 127: From A to Zed
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Discussion
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The Zed editor
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Godot game engine
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Conor's Minisforum mini PC
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Jellyfin Docker image
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Episode 126: Tangential Perfection
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Discussion - Chat with Liam Proven from The Register
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Liam's Register page
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David Mills obituary
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Nejsem kaktus, musím pít - I'm not a cactus, I have to drink. 🌵🍺
Events
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Dublin Maker 31 Aug - 1 Sept at Richmond Barracks Dublin
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OggCamp 12 - 13 Oct at the Manchester Conference Centre in the UK
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Episode 125: Zorin It to Win It
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Discussion
Conor and Shane talk to Artyom Zorin of Zorin OS, 15 years after the distro's first release.
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- A video of Compiz in it's glory days
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The paid-for Zorin OS Pro Edition
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Munich's LiMux
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Episode 124: Politics After Eight
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Conor mentions an ARM laptop from Schenker that Tuxedo Computers will sell, Shane talks about messing with tiling in Cinnamon, we chat about politics and polarisation in open source, and then Amolith mentions the book club he's starting with our editor Jake.
Events
- Dublin Maker 2024, 31 Aug - 1 Sep
- FOSSY 2024, 1-4 Aug
- Amolith's talk, Mitigating MITMs in XMPP, was accepted \o/
Discussion
- Schenker shows off a Linux laptop prototype with Snapdragon X Elite at Computex 2024 (via Liliputing)
- gTile, a window tiling extension for GNOME turned into a Cinnamon Spice
- Linux Mint blog post announcing snap removal
- Linux Mint's lovely community
- Amolith and Jake's online, async book club
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Episode 123: Cloudy with a Chance of Games
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The lads chat about Theia, a VS Code-like IDE from the Eclipse Foundation, and its growing ecosystem (including an integrated plugin marketplace!), the Hypnotix IPTV app from Linux Mint, FOSS video games, and game/animation engines.
Discussion
- Theia IDE
- Hypnotix
- SuperTuxKart: On the way towards 1.5… and 2.0!
- Godot
- three.js
- Hoot
- Scheme
- Lisp Game Jam (ended 27 May)
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Episode 122: A Look Inside Our Drawers
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Discussion
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Conor's watch
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Raspberry Pi model post on Wkipedia
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Original Pinebook
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PinePower desktop power supply
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Pinecil soldering iron
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Sony something something XM3
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MX Master mouse
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Episode 121: Note to Self
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Whilst Mike was away, Amolith, Conor and Shane discussed Logseq and note taking, Automatic buying Beeper, Proton buying Standard Notes, chat platforms and social networks.
Discussion
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Beeper bought by Automattic (via Ars Technica)
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Proton bought Standard Notes (via TechCrunch)
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OggCamp 2024 12-13 October in Manchester, UK
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Episode 120: VideoLads
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With Shane and Mike away, Conor and Amolith talk to Vibhoothi from the VideoLAN project (of VLC fame).
Discussion
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Back door in xz leads to SSH server compromise
Chat with Vibhoothi
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Daala codec
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VDD Video Dev Days 2023 hosted by Sigmedia in Dublin
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Donate to VideoLAN or contribute in other ways
Vibhoothi's links
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his PhD research in the Sigmedia group under Prof. Anil Kokaram
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Episode 119: Boxing up a Distro
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Mike has been fighting with Windows. Conor is curious about Bluefin. Mike has a plastic notebook and Conor got a new watch.
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Episode 118: KDE Plasma 6 and the Future of AI Avatars
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News
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KDE MegaRelease 6 (KDE.org)
- KDE PLASMA 6 review: was it worth the wait? (The Linux Experiment, YouTube)
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Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media (TechCrunch)
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GNOME 46 shipped with experimental support for variable refresh rate (Phoronix)
Finds
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AI avatar generator (HuggingFace.co)
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Interesting Linux apps (It's FOSS)
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Episode 117: Read All About It
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Discussion
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Conor was quoted in the Irish Times about the Dublin Linux install fest
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Republican calendar Mostodon bot
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Biel in Switzerland
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Episode 116: As Seen in Apt
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
You can find our episodes on YouTube
Discussion
With Shane away, Amolith, Conor and Mike discuss advertising in package managers, a fork of Firefox and a snazzy window manager with a darker side.
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Ubuntu Pro package manager advertising (from omg! ubuntu!)
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Ubuntu repos
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Ubuntu Pro on the welcome screen
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Floorp fork of Firefox (from It's FOSS)
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Firefox sync
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Hyprland's community accused of toxicity
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Episode 115: This Episode Was (not) Generated By AI
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You can find our episodes on YouTube
Discussion
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Episode 114: Ubuntu Summit 2023
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
You can find our episodes on YouTube
Discussion
This is the recording of our Ubuntu Summit 2023 discussion. We talk about interesting talks and the conference experience. Then we chat with the audience in the room.
Please note that the audio quality is lower than usual, due to it being a live recording.
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The Dreamworks talk recording
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The Asahi Linux talk recording
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The Portals talk recording
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The Owncast talk recording
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The Typst talk recording
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The MOD Dwarf talk recording
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OggCamp sadly, there hasn't been one since 2019
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The Panel on the future of AI recording
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The technical writing talk recording
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The Fairphone talk recording
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Linux Lads' FOSS Talk Live 2021 presentation (with slides and everything)
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Amolith's spiky sandals
Contact Us
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Episode 113: Something, Something Linux
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
You can find our episodes on YouTube
Discussion
We talk about the stereotypical Linux user. Is it an unwashed bearded guy with a skin problem? Is it a privacy absolutist? A command line wizard? Just a slob like one of us? We talk about a cool project that Shane found, an example of open source making a difference outside of tech. We circle back to the Linux user, might they be a tinkerer?
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TimeTagger time tracking solution
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JetBrains, purveyors of IDEs
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Project Kamp on YouTube
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Amolith's project Willow is now open source
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Episode 112: Four Cs Thick
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
You can find our episodes on YouTube
Discussion
All four hosts present and accounted for. Conor's getting a new toy, and Amolith tries the little brick that wishes it could. We then discuss phones and OSs.
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Conor has a new Android games console
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As seen on YouTube
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JELOS, Just Enough Linux OS for handheld gaming devices
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Amolith tried a Librem 5, kindly provided to him by Jim Salter
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It is not slim.
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Librem 5 flashing docs
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Many other environments are available
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I couldn't find the promised video that compares Gnome mobile and Phosh again. Sorry.
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Google committed to 7 years of updates for the Pixel 8
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postmarketOS supported devices
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Events
Meet us all at Ubuntu Summit 2023, 3-5 November in Riga
Contact Us
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Episode 111: Newsworthy Habits
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
You can find our episodes on YouTube
Discussion
Amolith and Mike chat about their news-related habits and tools. A few hypotheticals are thrown around. Then the conversation turns to Amolith's new client and the two new programming languages that he's learning.
Keeping up with the news
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Nextnews for iOS
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yarr RSS reader
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wallabag self-hosted read-it-later service
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The 2023 writers' strike
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yt-dlp, a youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
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Amolith's feeds
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Mike's feeds
New client, new languages
Events
- Meet us all at Ubuntu Summit 2023, 3-5 November in Riga
Contact Us
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- We are on Telegram
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Episode 110: Shane's Planes
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
You can find our episodes on YouTube
Discussion
Shane and Amolith talk about Shane's air traffic tracking hobby, mesh networking and learning programming for career change.
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Shane set up his SDR dongle
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They have a Raspberry Pi image
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Shane talked about this in episode 107
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TP-Link AV600 powerline adaptors
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1 nautical mile is 1.852 of your finest kilometres, or 1.1508 US land miles.
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Unrelated, but just look at this map, then look Mike in the eyes and tell him that non-metric units shouldn't be consigned into history books.
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Other trackers are available:
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Meshtastic open source, off-grid, decentralised mesh network
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Used by farmers
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Can be helpful during natural disasters
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Discussed on Linux Downtime ep 76
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2023 has been the year of tech lay-offs
Announcements
- Meet us all at Ubuntu Summit 2023, 3-5 November in Riga
Contact Us
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Episode 109: Trying Your Hat at Fedora
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
You can find this episode on YouTube
Discussion
Conor and Mike talk about a new chapter for Asahi Linux, the redesign of everyone's favourite email client and a penguin beating a fruit.
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Asahi Linux has a new flagship distro and it's Fedora
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Fedora remixes
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Fedora special interest groups
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Asahi alternative distros
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Linux overtook macOS on the Steam Deck
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Episode 108: Hare under the Willow
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
You can find this episode on YouTube, with a snazzy Blender animation.
Discussion
Whilst the other two are sunning their behinds somewhere, Amolith and Mike discuss two interesting projects - Amolith's own Willow, and Hare programming language that Mike has recently gotten into.
Willow
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How to get a feed of GitHub releases
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Git tags
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Apparently, other source code management systems exist:
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Willow might end up in a Slackware install near you
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Go templates
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The plan is for Willow to be ready by this year's Ubuntu summit, where Amolith will be giving a talk on it.
Hare
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Hare's IRC channel (opens in an IRC client)
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Drew DeVault's blog
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There actually is a tutorial
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The venerable top, and its descendants:
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The Ares Operating System, a blog post on it and from it.
Events
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Meet up with Amolith at DEF CON 31, 10-13 August in Las Vegas
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Meet us all at Ubuntu Summit 2023, 3-5 November in Riga
Contact Us
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Episode 107: ARMed with Debian
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks!
Discussion
We talk about running Debian on the devil's fruity hardware, then briefly sidestep into a culture and piracy discussion. Shane shares his plan to bug all air traffic with an SDR dongle and a Raspberry Pi. Conor shows off his new colour ereader.
Debian on an M1 MacBook
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Asahi's feature support page details what works and what doesn't
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Speakers are a work in progress
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Firefox as a Snap
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There is a project that looks after Linux on Microsoft Surfaces
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Beta and VHS video from Technology Connections
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A video from 1997 Macworld where Bill Gates came in to prop Apple up
Culture consumption
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Winamp is still around
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ReVanced for YouTube
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Dodgy boxes became popular and the State noticed
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Gabe Newell on piracy
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The soccer streaming case
Eavesdropping on planes
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Shane got himself an SDR dongle
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As discussed on Linux Matters and Late Night Linux
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Nautical mile is 1,852 metres
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Starlink's a source of light pollution as well as aid to the Ukrainian military (now paid for by the US)
E Ink in colour
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Conor got himself an InkPad Color 2
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Terry Pratchett's Discworld
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Tetris the movie
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BeagleV-Ahead Risc-V board
Announcements
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Meet up with Amolith at DEF CON 31, 10-13 August in Las Vegas
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Meet us all at Ubuntu Summit 2023, 3-5 November in Riga
Contact Us
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Attribution
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Episode 106: The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks!
Discussion
Our 😤 thoughts on the Reddit debacle, and the options that there are for online communities.
WTF even happened?
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Wikipedia's article about the whole mess
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Reddit'd like some of that sweet IPO cash 🤑
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Reddit's announcement of the API changes
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Apollo' Christian Selig's post ⚰️
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Subreddits went dark, the CEO just couldn't help himself and trolled on
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👷♂️ Last year's stats had volunteer mods generate $3.4M worth of free labour
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Reddit's pivot to crap ↪️💩 possibly made Google Search (even) less usefull
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Ranking of reddit.com
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Reddit's old site, projects like RES and third party apps like Infinity improve upon the current "stock" experience
Alternatives:
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sub.rehab lists instances of the Reddit communities on alternative platforms
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Sync app reborn on Lemmy
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List of Lemmy instances
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How to 🪛 install Lemmy from scratch
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kbin admin bare metal guide
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The threat of Threads
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The EU Comission Ireland in the Fediverse
Announcements
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Meet up with Amolith at DEF CON 31, 10-13 August in Las Vegas 🇺🇸
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Meet us all at Ubuntu Summit 2023, 3-5 November in Riga 🇱🇻
Contact Us
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Attribution
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Episode 105: And Now for Something Completely Different
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
Discussion
With Conor and Amolith away, Shane and Mike took a break from wagging their chins about Linux, and wagged them about their other nerdy pursuits instead.
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Amolith was at SELF
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Conor was at Download
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Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space
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Naomi Novik's Scholomance
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Maxime J. Durand's The Perfect Run
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A video of a ping pong "runaround"
Contact Us
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Episode 104: Desktop Lap Dance
Discussion
We talk about desktops, are they even necessary? Then we discuss Conor's newest hop, to Nobara.
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Framework now offers Ryzen processors
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Entroware Kratos
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Lenovo ThinkPads
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Dell XPS
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Nobara is a "modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it".
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GloriousEggroll and his Proton-GE
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Flathub now has a lot of things, including Proton VPN
Contact Us
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Episode 103: Fun Quail
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks!
Discussion
We talk to Ciarán about entertaining avians cetaceans prone to disco music publication and cataloguing system based on ActivityPub, creating specs for podcast syncing API, Star Trek, life, the Universe and everything.
Funkwhale
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Find instances using this dashboard
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Ciarán's own instance
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Funkwhale's Gitlab repo
Open Podcast API
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Retribute, wealth sharing platform
Star Trek
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The Irish unification is happening next year
Catch up with Ciarán
SouthEast LinuxFest
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SouthEast LinuxFest takes place in 9-11 June in Charlotte, North Carolina
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Amolith is going to be there, write the show or write him if you want to meet up
Contact Us
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Attribution
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Episode 102: Interview with Chris from the Gio Project
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks!
Discussion
Amolith's friend in code Chris masterfully expands on the previous episode by subtly correcting everything we got wrong about Gio and adding more information about the technology and the project.
Chat with Chris Waldon from the Gio project
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Gio was created by Elias Naur
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Intro to GTK for comparison
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GoGio, a CLI utility that helps build Gio apps for Android, iOS, tvOS and WebAssembly
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Gio's Open Collective page
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- There is a Go port
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Kakoune code editor
Catch up with Chris
SouthEast LinuxFest
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SouthEast LinuxFest takes place in 9-11 June in Charlotte, North Carolina
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Amolith is going to be there, write the show or write him if you want to meet up
Contact Us
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Episode 101: Gio Dudes
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks!
Discussion
We talk about using Bing and Edge (what has the world come to?). Is it a stoat? Is it a drill sergeant? No, it's an AI, and possibly a thieving one, but shouldn't we rethink IP anyway? Maybe the bot can cook better than Mike, idk the bar is low. Then we switch to Gio, a UI toolkit for Go, Amolith and Mike talk about their projects. Thirsty? Try making kombucha, you'll only need to know some biochemistry.
AI and chatbots
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Mike's Binging it
- How to use Bing GPT in Edge
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Amolith's turning AI into small woodland creatures and military personnel using Chatbot UI
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Today in Focus AI episodes
Gio
Kombucha
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Amolith ferments his own
moonshinetea-
The obligatory Wikipedia article
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The what of the what?? Article on making kombucha - includes terms like SCOBY and pellicle, so you know it's the genuine... article.
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Contact Us
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Episode 100: A Hundred Shenanigans
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks!
Discussion
It's the hundredth episode! We reminisce about the first time, 18.04, lightweight environments. There will never be Windows 11. Mozilla's a brand. Then we read some lovely feedback.
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The first episode
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Bionic Beaver is on its last legs, but we are still going strong
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A listicle on lightweight environments
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System usage comparison of Linux desktop environments
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There will be no Windows 11
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Mozilla are still design conscious
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Feedback and well wishes
- From HTTP 418, Bon Tron, Miguel A., Petre, hakerdefo, awful piper on Mastodon
- From Colonel Panic in YouTube comments
- From Dupsneerg and Zach via email
- From Carlos M. on Telegram
- From sciso on Discord
- From Aks on Matrix
Thank you all ❤️
Find us on Fedi
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Amolith: @amolith@nixnet.social
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Conor: @techcelt@fosstodon.org
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Mike: @mikee@social.lol
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Shane: @stranded_output@indieweb.social
Contact Us
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Attribution
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Episode 99: Off the Rails
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks!
Discussion
Ireland showed England how to play rugby, raising cheerfulness. We discuss a command line that's not your grandma's bash, more like a next generation UI that can be genuinely helpful even to non-techies. Shane, for one, welcomes his doomscrolling robot overlord on Mastodon. Mike's been playing with Go. Write to us for EP 100! Do it.
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Ireland are well versed in rugby
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Unity HUD
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ffmpeg has a large manual
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rclone QT frontend Rclone Browser
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For a Mastodon doomscrolling bot follow @doomscroll_bot@bird.makeup
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Episode 98: Interview with Gabe Kangas, Creator of Owncast
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks!
Discussion
We talked to Gabe Kangas, the creator of Owncast, a free and open source live video and web chat server for use with existing popular broadcasting software. Born out of the sudden silence of the pandemic, it empowers people to stream their events all over the world.
We chatted about the purpose and history of the project, what it means being an open source developer, the freedom and control of running your own server, and the tech behind it all.
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PeerTube is more of product, Gabe sees Owncast as more of a piece of infrastructure
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Owncast is written in Go, single binaries for everyone!
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Connects to OBS, future plans include recording functionality
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From concerts to funerals
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VPS providers like Hetzner often provide Owncast as a one click install
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Support Owncast on open collective
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Gabe is always on the lookout for help
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Beware of burnout
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Gabe's blog post about frontend technologies
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Scheduled events are on the horizon
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Catch up with Gabe and the project: https://owncast.online/contact/
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Episode 97: Lotsa FOSS
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks!
Discussion - Cool Projects
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Question for the audience: How should Shane get the internet through his concrete walls?
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Prosody real time blocklist module
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Cheogram XMPP client for Android
News
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Bad news from Mycroft
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Mozilla's Common Voice
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KDE & Gnome are working on Flathub Payments
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elementary OS's AppCenter allows paing for Flatpaks
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Ubuntu flavours will no longer provide Flatpak out of the box
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Contact Us
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Episode 96: An Outsider's Perspective
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SPSS Statistics (proprietary)
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Ubuntu Summit 2022 | Open Source Marketing Done Right — Michael Tunnel
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Episode 95: The Future is... Bright?
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks!
Discussion - The Future
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MKBHD tries the HTC Vive XR Elite (YouTube)
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Virtual retinal display (from Wikipedia)
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Eye tracking (from Wikipedia)
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Heatmap.me claims to do real time tracking of user interactions with pages
- Meta's mataverse eye-tracking wants to take this to a next level
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The recent nuclear fusion news (from The Economist)
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Season 7 - Episode 19: A Look Back at 2022
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks!
Discussion - A Look Back at 2022
Amolith
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Amolith was in a rush and forgot to mention his beloved Framework laptop
Conor
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Mentioned at Akademy 2022 (from GamingOnLinux)
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Frequent updates
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Intermezzo
- Anticapitalist Rant
Mike
Shane
Ubuntu Summit
The recording of our episode is now on YouTube
@ us on Mastodon
New podcast coming soon
Amolith and Jake will have their own show on redacted.life
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Season 7 - Episode 18: Live from Ubuntu Summit
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks!
Recorded on 8/11/2022 at the Ubuntu Summit in Prague
Headsup about sound quality
- Despite Jakes's effort, the sound is below our usual standards.
Discussion: Content Creation on Linux
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Where it started
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Software
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Hardware
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Sources
Catchup with Gary:
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Listen to him on Linux After Dark
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Season 7 - Episode 17: Matrix or Musk
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks!
Matrix
- Clients
- Conor's been enjoying Cinny
- Amolith has Cinny and Element instances
- FluffyChat for mobile
- Synapse (reference server implementation" target="_blank)
- Matrix spec
XMPP
- Server implementations
- A note about "Jabber" and "XMPP": Jabber is the name for the original base protocol specification from 1999. In 2002, the author contributed the Jabber spec to the IETF under the name XMPP. (source)
- Commercial products using XMPP on the backend
- Cisco Jabber
- Google Talk (2013)
- Nintendo Switch NPNS (push notifications, not news feed)
- Zoom
- Others…
- Clients
- Converse.js: web
- Movim: web
- Gajim: Windows, Linux, GTK, no A/V calls yet, dialer for Cheogram, more mature with advanced capabilities
- Dino: Linux, GTK, A/V calls, simple UI
- Snikket: Google Play, F-Droid, App Store
- Conversations: Android, most mature and featureful client (paid in Google Play, free from F-Droid)
- Cheogram: Android, fork of Conversations with specialised features for Cheogram users (F-Droid link)
Fediverse
- Platforms
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Mentioned instances
- Fosstodon
- mastodon.ie
- mastodon.social and mastodon.online (run by Mastodon creator, Amolith says please pick just about any other instance)
- nixnet.social (Akkoma instance run by Amolith, needs some work)
- mk.nixnet.social (Misskey instance run by Amolith, needs some work)
- Some recommendations
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Our fedi handles:
- Shane: @stranded_output@indieweb.social
- Conor: @techcelt@fosstodon.org
- Mike: @mikee3000@fosstodon.org
- Amolith: @amolith@nixnet.social
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Season 7 - Episode 16: Achtung!
Episode edited by: Jake Bauer https://www.paritybit.ca - thanks!
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Discussion - The Attention Economy
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Attention Economy on Wikipedia
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Brave's Basic Attention Token
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LTT's infamous sponsor seugues in a YouTube compilation
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Jay Forman's Tube Map YouTube video with a SurfShark VPN ad towards the end
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Dynamic ad insertion
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The Verge's article on the topic
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Interactive Advertising Bureau's US podcast ad revenue PDF report
- Page 12 shows that in 2021, dynamically inserted ads brought in 84% of revenue, as opposed to 16% for "baked in" ads. This trend has been on a steep rise in the last few years.
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Data brokers (from Wikipedia)
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- Their ad server is open source, you can self-host it
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All the tech giants want all the advertising (from The Economist)
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YouTube Music pays more than Spotify, but it's still close to nothing: $0.008 on YTM against $0.003 to $0.005 on Spotify per stream. (from Hypebot)
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XKCD on free speech
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Perceptual blinders on Wikipedia
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Blokada for Android and iOS
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Adaway for Android
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NewPipe supports YouTube, SoundCloud, https://media.ccc.de/ and PeerTube
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The Attenborough mural
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The stripes on the painted house were red and white, not yellow and purple
Ubuntu Summit
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Season 7 - Episode 15: Rocking Like a Pro
Episode edited by: Jake Bauer https://www.paritybit.ca - thanks!
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Discussion
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Ubuntu Summit, 7 - 9 November 2022, Prague
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Amolith's LXD talk has been accepted for the infrastructure track
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Conor got a Pinebook Pro
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Runs Manjaro with KDE Plasma
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Thunderbolt Wikipedia article
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Nifty Nuggets
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Mike:
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Zellij is a terminal workspace
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Warp terminal is proprietary and hasn't got a Linux version yet
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Office365 indistinguishable icons
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Amolith:
In other news...
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Python 2 dropped from Arch repos
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An Ask Ubuntu answer about
python-is-python3 -
Correction: It's not google-appengine-java that depends on Python 2, it's google-appengine-go
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OpenJDK is from Oracle
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AdoptOpenJDK became Adoptium, belonging to the Eclipse Foundation
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Season 7 - Episode 14: Actually Comical
Discussion
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Budgeting SaaS product Actual went open source and can be self hosted
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Adobe is buying Figma, Penpot is an alternative
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Komikku, A FOSS manga reader
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Some alternatives if you don't read strictly manga (from It's FOSS)
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Conor has tried Mcomix and it seems to be a great lightweight comic reader that supports the features that you would want it to
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yarr RSS reader
- Lobsters community focused news aggregation and discussion
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Some Firefox add-ons (from It's FOSS)
- not in the list: Firefox containers
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New browser written completely from scratch, by the author of SerenityOS
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Season 7 - Episode 13: At One with Your Element
Discussion
Self Hosting
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Some platform as a service options that have free tiers:
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- Mike was wrong 🙄, Deta's Drive is 10GB
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or more at free-for.dev
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Heroku's free tier is mostly going away
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For those who like to mess with servers 🔔, here are some reasonably prices VPS providers:
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IBM Cloud free tier
Element One
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Conor has been trying Element One, a hosted service for Matrix chat that bridges to WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram
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Element's Enterprise offering
Solaar
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Solaar Logitech device manager
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Enables connecting peripherals 🖱⌨️ using the Logitech Unifying Receiver
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It comes with Linux Mint
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OpenRGB helped Conor calm down his flashing keyboard
Crystal and Garuda Linuxes
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This article sparked Conor's curiosity (from It's FOSS)
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The project's site
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Full of Libadwaita's goodness
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Made Conor put some Gnome in his Garuda Linux
Blindoy's Stories for Geriatric Millennials
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Season 7 - Episode 12: Reversed in the Nix of Time
Discussion
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🍴 GitLab to delete dormant repositories in free accounts then reversed that decision the next day
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🖥 ️NixOS 22.05 has a graphical installer that Mike and Conor tried
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Conor enjoyed 🦅 Garuda Linux
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Mike and Amolith play with Neovide, a ✨ flashy ✨ GUI frontend for Neovim
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🍵 Gitea, a self-hosted git forge, is very actively working on ActivityPub federation
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Season 7 - Episode 11: Bitwigs on the Green
Discussion
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Thunderbird with Matrix chat client built in (via The Register)
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Mozilla use Matrix themselves
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Thunderbird is now part of MZLA Technologies Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation according to Thunderbird's website
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Amolith uses Emacs's mu4e, because no text editor is complete without an email client
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Shane trying Bitwig Studio on Linux
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Use the Deb, Luke - click on "Ubuntu" on the download page
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Bitwig's CLAP audio plugin standard
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Mike's messing with Godot Engine again
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Godot's showcase
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Amazon Lumberyard
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Conor likes Vivaldi's email client
- Vivaldi's code licensing
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Amolith plays with Astrofox
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Say hi to Shane in our Discord
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Discord Nitro
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Amolith runs an XMPP server
- it has a Linux Lads channel -> linuxlads@muc.nixnet.services (not currently bridged to anything)
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Season 7 - Episode 10: You Wouldn't Download a Radio
Interview With Bill, the ham radio guy
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Wikipedia's amateur radio article (also explains why it's called "ham")
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DXCC call sign nomenclature
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Chirp FOSS for radio programming
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flrig to control bigger devices
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CQRLOG a ham radio logger
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WSJT-X helps with weak-signal communication
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The American National Association for Amateur Radio
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The global International Amateur Radio Union
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The Field Day event on 25 June in the US
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The Dublin maker's club
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ISM bands - radio bands reserved for industrial, scientific and medical purposes
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fldigi turns a sound card into a modem
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The Linux in the Ham Shack podcast
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Hamvention, a big amateur radio conference
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HP Dev One HP laptop sold with Pop!_OS
Catch up with Bill
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On the waves he's known as NE4RD
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You can listen to him on the Linux in the Ham Shack podcast
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Season 7 - Episode 9: Less Gapps than a Tesla
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Discussion
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Battery Drain 🪫:
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Amolith's 📜 post on battery usage
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Mike's testing results 🧪:
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94% left after 8 hrs with optimised apps and no Google apps
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95% left after 8 hrs with unoptimised apps and no Google apps
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96% left after 8 hrs with Google apps
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🔥 Firebase
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🤖 microG
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Modos 💻 e-ink laptop
- The specs 🤓
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🗓 10-12 June 2022 in Sheraton Charlotte Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
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Attendance is free 💰
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Season 7 - Episode 8: Sailing New Waters
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Discussion
A chat with Adam Pigg 💬
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InfiniTime ⌚️
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Amazfish 👩💻
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Pine64 🌲
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🪛 Adam's porting Sailfish OS
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to the PinePhone and PinePhone Pro
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Sailfish 🐠
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Sailfish VoLTE demo
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TechView Podcast's Sailfish OS 4.4 release video
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🐚 Terminals and shells
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tmate terminal sharing
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Installing software 👷♀️
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📜 IDEs and editors
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Smartwatches ⏱
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🎟 Shout-out for SouthEast LinuxFest
- Amolith will be there with his employer and, assuming things go according to plan, they will have a booth in the main hall.
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Catchup with Adam 🐦:
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Season 7 - Episode 7: Snappy Jellyfish
Discussion
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🫙 Ubuntu 22.04 is out (from omg! ubuntu!)
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Firefox is a snap now 🦊 (from Make Use Of)
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Nvidia users are stuck on Xorg (from Phoronix)
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Mike was wrong, accent colours are not (yet?) in Gnome 42. Ubuntu has them now 🔴🔵🟢 (from omg! ubuntu!)
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Asahi Linux 🐧🍎
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You can tell it's a Dell... with a touchbar 👆
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Asahi feature support 🤝
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Apple is looking for a 🍏 Linux engineer (from listener Joey)
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FreeBSD on the Framework laptop 🐱💻
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Framework reviewed on Linux After Dark 🎙️
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Framework on FreeBSD wiki 👿📕
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Framework motherboard is available on its own 🏪 (from The Verge)
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Pop!_OS 22.04 is now out ➡️
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Razer Tensorbook 💻
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The EU 🇪🇺 Digital Services Act (from The Verge)
-
A pull request is open for Gadgetbridge to add support for OsmAnd+ and possibly Organic Maps ⌚
- Maps.me 🗺
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Season 7 - Episode 6: Mike's Mac Misadventures
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Discussion
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🏰 Conor's back from Cork
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Mike's been (almost) daily driving macOS 🍏🖥, comparing it to Fedora
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🧢 Conor's been trying Fedora Kinoite
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Amolith has a new Pixel 6 📲
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Fedora 36 Beta is out β
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🖥 Gnome 42
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The default wallpaper 🏞
-
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Asahi Linux �🍎 continues to impress (from Ars Technica)
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🧾 Apple's AWS bill from a few years back (from CNBC)
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🍟 Apple M1 Pro, Max and Ultra
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Samsung Exynos 📱
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🤖 Google Tensor (from Android Authority)
-
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▶️ Steam Deck is getting continual big updates (from Gaming on Linux)
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🔃 Other gaming handheld companies seriously considering putting SteamOS on a future product (from Gaming on Linux)
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📤 You can now run Windows games on Arm via Proton and box86 (from Boiling Steam)
-
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⌚️ New InfiniTime release for the PineTime smartwatch by Pine64 that brings some minor improvements throughout plus a new terminal-themed watch face
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Season 7 - Episode 5: A Million Black Hearts
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Discussion
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Dirty Pipe 🚱 is the most serious vulnerability in years (via Ars Technica)
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☠️ 📲 Exploits exist, on Android too (via Ars Technica)
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Android application sandbox 🗃️
-
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☸️ Flathub
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Peacenotwar, a malware used by Node IPC 💣 (via The Register)
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🇺🇦 Stand with Ukraine Humble bundle
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Season 7 - Episode 4: ELI5 BTC? KTHXBAI
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Discussion
Crypto and Podcasting 2.0
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A Medium article 📰 on podcasting 2.0 (author Gary Arndt)
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The Linux Unplugged interview with Dave Jones (about 17:30) ⏺️
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The Podcast Index 📇
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📱 A list of apps that work at least some part of podcasting 2.0
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Issues with NFTs 🐒👔 explained in this YouTube video
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BTC 🪙 explained by 3Blue1Brown
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MetaMask wallet 👛
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OpenSea NFT market place 🖼️
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❌🗳️ No politics please, we are Coinbase
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Matt Damon's Crypto.com ad 🥺
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NixNet ⛔ doesn't take crypto
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Ian M. Banks Culture series 📚
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Castro 💽
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Coil the web monetization platform 💶
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The Web Monetization API 📜
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🛎️ Brave's Basic Attention Token
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Season 7 - Episode 3: Shanes, Great Bunch of Lads
Discussion
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Shane's taking a sabatical 🏖️
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Matrix: Federation is ✍️ a feature
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📱 Element Matrix app
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📱 Telegram
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Discord offers a very granular user and room control 🎛️
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Mattermost has 🔀 threads and channels
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Matrix spaces are not as easily used as Discord's 🧩
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The Synapse Matrix reference server 🐘🐍
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⚡ The nimbler Conduit Matrix server
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Mozilla use Matrix 🔥🦊💬
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FluffyChat iOS Matrix app 🐰🍎💬
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Telegram is domiciled in the UK and the Emirates 🏢 (via Wikipedia)
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Telegram is not opposed to making money 💶
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Telegram's crypto effort was ⚾⬇️ killed by the US Securities Commision (via Reuters)
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📲 Signal messenger app is a viable alternative to Telegram
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Green bubble/blue bubble explained by Marques Brownlee on YouTube 🔵🟢💬
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Facebook 📉 stumbles (via The Verge)
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Facebook is finally dying 🪦 according to this YouTube video
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Apple's privacy rules will cost Facebook 10 biiiiiiilion 💰💰💰 (via CNBC)
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Facebook 💰💰💰 likely dropped 10 biiiiiiilion on the Metaverse in 2021
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📖 In Snow Crash, the Metaverse was an ad-ridden dystopia
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The bone spaceship scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey 🦍🦴🚀
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Apparently, you can still buy a discman on Amazon 💿
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💊 Reportedly, social media is designed to be addictive (via BBC)
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VPS providers like Hetzner provide Wordpress 🕸️
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Season 7 - Episode 2: A Glitch in the Matrix
Discussion
Chatting
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The Dublin Linux's self-hosted Matrix server broke 💣
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The Matrix Spaces YouTube video 📼
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Video stickers and other Generation Z technologies 👶⚙️ are abundant on Telegram
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Mattermost competes with Slack 🏢
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Marques Brownlee's iMessage 💬 😱 YouTube video
Nifty Nuggets
- Conor: 🎮 ChimeraOS - just enough OS to run Steam
- Potentially an alternative to 🕹️ SteamOS
- Mike:
- Conduit ☇ Matrix server
- All the basic Linux CLI utilities like Rsync, Tar, etc 🪨
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Season 7 - Episode 1: Money for Nothing and the Tux Is Free
Chitchat
- Shane runs Manjaro 🥘
- Conor runs ⛵ EndeavourOS
- Mike 🤠 runs Fedora
- Amolith runs Arch with i3 desktop 🆒
Discussion
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📰 First screenshots of Pop!OS's Cosmic DE (via omg! ubuntu!)_
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Rust and Go 📜
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Dennis Ritchie 👨💻
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Irish Lotto ☘️
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🏎️ Stirling Moss's 250 GTO
Nifty Nuggets
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Apparently Windows in Docker is a thing 🪟
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Windows 11 in Gnome Boxes 🍱
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🎮 Sonic Colors: Ultimate was made in Godot (via Godot Notes)
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Patriot Act on game development 🤒
Catch up with Amolith on his site 📧
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Season 6 - Episode 22: Yippie Ki Yay Mothertuxers
Discussion
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The Steam Deck 🎮
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📦 Immutable Fedora Silverblue and Wayland
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LNL episode with Garuda Linux review 🎤
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MikroTik routers ⛕
- They 👆 urge their users to keep their machines updated and avoid stale passwords
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LTT 📼 Linux challenge
Favourite Projects
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KDE 🔧
- Pop!_OS 📀
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Mozilla 🔥🦊
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GNU/Linux Open Hardware PowerPC 💻 notebook
- "PPC64 Open Hardware Notebook prototype around the corner" 👨🏫 talk from SFScon
- "Prepare yourself to switch computing to Open Hardware Power Architecture" talk from OpenPOWER Summit 2021 👩🏫
Game on!
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📅 Monday 27th December 7.30 pm Dublin time (convert to a US timezone here)
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We'll choose a FOSS 🆓 game on the day. So far we are looking at the following, other suggestions are welcome:
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Season 6 - Episode 21: Come and Play
Discussion
We 🙏 apologize for the worse than usual audio quality.
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Ubuntu-powered cyberdog 🐕 (via omg! ubuntu!)
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Boston Dynamics makes pricier 💰 cyberdogs
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Blender 3.0 🥧 is out (via omg! ubuntu!)
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Shane is on Ubuntu Studio 🎤
- Unfa's 📹 channel
Game on!
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📅 Monday 27th December 7.30 pm Dublin time (convert to a US timezone here)
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We'll choose a FOSS 🆓 game on the day. So far we are looking at the following, other suggestions are welcome:
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❓If you have any questions or suggestions, get in touch with us on Telegram or Matrix (details in the contact section)
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Season 6 - Episode 20: No, Not that Linus, the OTHER One
Chitchat
- Mike uses Gnome without extensions 😱
- Conor uses EndeavourOS 🚢 with Cinnamon
- with the Pamac package manager 📦
- Shane installed PipeWire ♫
Discussion
Linus tries Linux
- the first video 🚗
- the 🎮 Steam Deck
- Discover will 👼 no longer allow uninstalling Plasma
- This Week in KDE reports 📰
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Season 6 - Episode 19: I CAN HAZ SERVICES?
Chitchat
- Mike is sunning his arse in Spain
- Shane is still missing and has (almost) built a new house at this stage
- Conor is holding fort kickass
News
-
Meta is the new name of Facebook.
-
Help us John Carmack you're our only hope.
- Has some serious Oasis vibes.
-
It seems that Meta want to get in on the watch game.
Discussion
Amolith's site
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Season 6 - Episode 18: Unscheduled Maintenance
Chitchat
- Conor: I am trying browsers again in the past few days, I've been trying Firefox and Vivaldi 🌐🔥🦊🎻
- 💚 Vivaldi is now the default browser on Manjaro Cinnamon
- Mike: Installed EndeavourOS left right and centre 💽
News
-
The PinePhone Pro is out (via 9to5linux) 🤳
- Purism Librem 5 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
- µ microG
- Aurora Store 🏪
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KDE is 25 years old 🎂
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🧁 Jolla is 10 years old thanks Adam Pigg for the reminder
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Ubuntu 20.10 Impish Indri is out 🐒
- Quickemu ⏩ (via linuxiac)
- 22.04's codename will be Jammy Jellyfish 📛 (via omg!ubuntu!)
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LTT's Linus encountered some toxic Linux community members 🤮
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Mozilla's VPN now available in Ireland 🇮🇪
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Season 6 - Episode 17: Frickin' Lasers
Discussion
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Linux Mint's new website 🆕🕸 (via omg! ubuntu!)
- 🏴📖🦊 Dark Reader for Firefox
- 🏴📖🔵 Dark Reader for Chrome-based browsers
- Linux Mint sponsors 💸
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😢😢😢😢😢 The end of Ubuntu Podcast (via omg! ubuntu!)
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Fairphone 4 5G leaked 📱💦 (via GSMArena)
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Linus Sebastian 💲💲💲 invests 200k in Framework
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Frickin' Lasers by Alphabet, from Space, with love and decent uptime 🛰️
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🧐 Smart glasses are coming....
- Xiaomi's 🕶↪ prototype with all-green microLED waveguide display
- Facebook's RayBan glasshole attempt 🥸🤮
- The 🇮🇪😟 Irish Data Protection Commision is concerned about this
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Season 6 - Episode 16: Linux is 0b11110
Discussion
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00:00 Intro 👋
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00:50 Linux turns 30 🎂
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02:30 Diversion into the workings of Irish legislature 🇮🇪📜 (Wikipedia for more information)
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04:08 Back to Linux
- About Linus's 📢 original Linux announcement (via Fossbytes)
- Linus's style 😠 has not been devoid of controversy (via Ars Technica)
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11:04 DIY version of the 💻 Framework laptop outsells the Windows version (via Gaming on Linux)
- Linus Tech Tips original video 📺
- The WAN Show video where he discusses investing 💸 in the company
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21:47 Shane is building a home server 💽💽💽
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31:54 The lads recommend 👍
- Shane: Joplin note app 📔
- Mike: 📋 Super Productivity
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Season 6 - Episode 15: Sweet Sixteen
Discussion
Zorin OS 16
Zorin's 📯 release post
00:00 Intro - It's been 3 years! 🎂
01:06 Disclosure - we've been given VIP access to the release candidates 🔑
02:58 Pop!_Shop complaints, love for Compiz
- Synaptic package installer 🛒
05:03 🔊 Startup sounds
- Ubuntu startup sounds 🔔
06:58 Zorin's Software Centre and repositories 🏪
10:58 App and software choices 🔘🔘
14:29 Zorin 🚅 performance and Shane's bad resolution
16:12 The Blanket app 🛏️ and our favourite noises
19:16 Desktop layout and 🖌️ theming
25:41 Outro 👋
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Season 6 - Episode 14: Modular Mindset
News
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KDE Connect on Windows (via omg! ubuntu!) 🦋📲
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🎮 The Steam Deck has been announced (via Ars Technica)
- Shane's not a fan of the 🕹️ Steam Controller
- 😧💸 Gabe Newell: The price point was painful (via PC Gamer)
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💻🔨 The Framework modular laptop (via Ars Technica)
- endorsed by Linus Tech Tips 📹
- iFixit gave it 10/10 🪛
- The DIY edition has plenty of configuration options 🤝
- 📱Fairphone
- Project Ara ⚰️
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Season 6 - Episode 13: Unlucky for Some
Discussion
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Ubuntu 🐒 21.10 (in development) got Gnome 40 (via omg! ubuntu!)
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Shane on Pop!_OS 🚀
- Gtile 👩💻
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⌨️ StreamPi
- Elgato Stream Deck 💰
- pactl 🔥
- Switching audio sources from the task bar since Plasma 5.22 🔀
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- 🥡 Firefox 90 is out (via omg! ubuntu!)
- Firefox now 📉 4th by market share, as discussed on Linux Action News
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Season 6 - Episode 12: Nick Knacks
Discussion
-
New 🌐Pop!_OS is out and this time it's cosmic 🌃
- Nick's review on YouTube 📹
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🚤 SiFive’s launched the P550 RISC-V CPUs (via Ars Technica)
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OpenStreetMap might relocate to the EU 🗺 (via The Guardian)
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The Irish spice bag 🥘 (via The Irish Times)
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Breton Kouign-amann butter cake 🎂 (via Wikipedia)
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🛒 The AUR for Debian (via Gaming On Linux)
- The Linux Unplugged episode 🔊 where they discuss Pacstall
Catchup with Nick
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Season 6 - Episode 11: The Three Sea Shells
Discussion
Interview with Alex and Zlatan from Shells.com
Please excuse the slightly lower quality of the audio in this episode
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- Promo Code 💰 (Doesn't work in Brave and possibly other browsers, tested and proved working in Firefox)
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Wikipedia article on Mark Karpelès
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2.5 Admin episode discussing Shells.com in context of Freenode
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Some previous Shells.com interviews 🎙:
Catchup with Shells.com:
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Keynote at openSuse Virtual Conference 💬
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Birds of a Feather 🦎 session at KDE Akademy 2021
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Season 6 - Episode 10: Adding Ammo Into The Mix
News
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Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management - The Register.
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Shit's going down with Audacity
- They have added a controversial Contributor License Agreement.
- Response to the controversial telemetry.
- Ladspa.
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Google and Samsung are merging Wear OS and Tizen - The Verge.
- Tizen.
- MeeGo.
- Sagem.
Amolith's socials
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Season 6 - Episode 9: Betas Are Elementary
Discussion
We review the Beta release of elementary OS 6
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the release post 𝞫
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elementary devs say elementary is not intended to work like macOS 🕬
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⭐ the elementary icon set
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Mike was wrong 😱, the Planner app and the built in elementary OS Task app are 2 different things
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Joplin 📑
Events
FOSS Talk Live 🍻🎙 will be happening as an online event on 12th June
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Season 6 - Episode 8: Craicin' Zorin
Chitchat
- Toxic a great Britney cover by A Static Lullaby 💉🎸
- Shane had deployed ⭐ Pi-hole to gobble all them ads
- OpenDNS ⛕
- 9️•9️•9️•9️ Quad9
- Shane tried out a new audio interface 🔉 but it doesn't 👎 work in Linux :(. If anyone would link to contribute to the driver, it's on GitHub
- 🔊 Conor is eyeing up the RØDE AI-1 audio interface
- A list of Linux-compatible audio interfaces 📜
Discussion
We test Zorin 16 Beta
- Zorin's blog post with the ISO download link ⬇️
- Mike's Realtek RTL8821CE chipset didn't work during install (the driver can be found on GitHub 📶
- Zorin has bespoke ⊞ extensions and other goodnes, they can be find on Zorin's GitHub
- AWN - Avant Window Navigator 🥱
- 🔁 Alternative Toolbar for Rhythmbox
- Zorin Ultimate 💸
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Season 6 - Episode 7: Linux Just Does It for Me
Discussion
Does desktop Linux do all we need it to do?
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🛒 Some Linux vendors:
- 🇪🇺 Slimbook
- 🇪🇺 Tuxedo Computers
- 🇬🇧 Entroware
- 🇺🇸 System76
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💿 Alternatives to commercial software and services:
- 🆓 Dublin Linux list of free software
- ☁️ Dublin Linux list of alternative cloud services
- 🔄 AlternativeTo
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The 🧘 Linux Lads workflow
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CUPS 🖨️
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🖼️ Photography software
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Season 6 - Episode 6: The Episode of the Beast
Discussion
- 🖖🖥️ Gnome 40 (via omg! ubuntu!)
- Fedora 34 Beta 🎩 (via TechRepublic)
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🎙 Linux Unplugged Gnome 40 episode
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👎 RMS is back at the FSF among protests from prominent community members
- RMS's unkindness 😞
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Podcast Postponement Post
Chitchat
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Shane is not feeling 🤒 well, so we are not going to release an episode this week.
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Hopefully he'll feel better soon, and we'll publish a show next week 🎙️📅.
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Apologies for any disappointment caused.
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Season 6 - Episode 5: Part of the Crowd
Discussion
A chat with Philippe from CrowdSec
- CrowdSec is an open-source security automation tool 🕵️
- it provides crowd-sourced reputation for IP addresses, log parsing tools and ⛹️ bouncers
- it's free of charge 💸 to users who share their data, but users can also pay to keep their data private
- a trust system is in place to prevent abuse of the technology 🛡️
- the code is 🔓 open source (MIT)
- the company makes money by 🛒 selling access to non-contributing users and selling premium features
- parsers, configurations and bouncers are avaialable on the ☸️ Hub
- CrowdSec employs 10 people 👷🏼♀️
Catch up with CrowdSec
Events
- FOSS Talk Live 2021 is happening as an online event on 12th June! 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🎙️🎙️🎙️🎙️🎙️🖥️🖥️🖥️🖥️🖥️
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Season 6 - Episode 4: Lockdown: Then We Get Up Again
Discussion
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GTA III and Vice City reverse engineering project was DMCAd 💩🎮 (via GamingOnLinux)
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🦋🖥️ The Plasma people did something pretty
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Manjaro is now the default on the PinePhone 📱 (via omg! ubuntu!)
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Firefox 86 🔥🦊 is out
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Season 6 - Episode 3: What Year Is It?
Chitchat
- Conor: I got a new mic so my audio should be awesome or I'm getting my money back :D
Discussion
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💰 Godot gets $120k grant money (via GamingOnLinux)
- Mozilla is a platinum member of the new Rust Foundation 💎⚙️
- Blender sponsors 🖌️
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Martin Wimpress is leaving 🚪 Canonical (via omg! ubuntu!)
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👈 JingOS, Linux for tablets has an alpha out (via omg! ubuntu!)
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Changes in 💫 Gnome 40 (via Tech Republic)
- The Linux Unplugged episode where they discuss Gnome 40 🎙
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Season 6 - Episode 2: When Piggz Fly
Discussion
This episode is shorter than usual due to some audio gremlins
🧑🦲🧑🦲🧑🦲🧑🦲 A chat with Adam Pigg, the porter of Sailfish
- Sailfish OS ⛵🐟
- KOffice 📊
- 💾 KEXI
- Nokia N950 📱
- N9 🤳
- PinePhone 🌲
- 🖼️ Volla Phone
- F(x)tec PRO¹ 🤓
- NemoMobile ⛵
- Spotify 🎶 on the PinePhone
- Qt LTS versions are now commercial only 👎
- ⌚ Adam's Amazfish app
- Plasma Mobile ⚙️
- KaiOS 📟
- Kate, KDevelop, Qt Creator 📜
Catch up with Adam
- Twitter 🐥
Feedback
- Cal asks "Do you think we'll see mainstream smartphone manufacturers adopt Linux on the mobile? I don't mean Android, I mean full-fledged, mobile Linux distributions." - the original Tweet 🐦
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Season 6 - Episode 1: Apples and Oranges
Chitchat
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Conor: I am now back to running KDE, I really like it so far. It has it's little annoyances (less so than last time, could be that I am more familiar with it) but then, no DE is perfect. 🏆 I've been playing GTA V all Xmas.
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Mike: Got myself a Teclast f5 hybrid laptop. Landed on EndeavourOS 📂
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Shane:
- I was running Ubuntu Studio with KDE Plasma for a week and then abruptly moved to Elementary OS. It's basic looking and user-friendlied to death but it's minimal-looking and responsive .🖌️
- I got an Arduino starter kit and built a Raspberry Pi touchscreen computer in a snazzy case. 🪛
Discussion
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2021 should bring a Production ready Plasma Wayland session according the Nate Graham 🖥️
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Corellium's port of Linux to the Apple M1 Macs 💻 (thanks to Phoronix)
- Why is the M1 so fast? - this is the article that Mike should have read before the recording 🧑🎓
The competition
The Cyberpunk give away was won by Amolith (@amolith@nixnet.social) 🕹️
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Season 5 - Episode 6: Sign of the Times
Discussion
In this episode we welcome back Wayne and Mark, formerly of the Binary Times 🎙️🎙️🎙️🎙️🎙️. We discuss offensive employment practices, Centos Stream, and the new release of Raspberry Pi OS. Also: Competition redesigned!
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🦋 Microsoft 🕵️👨🏻🏭🙇 apologize for "worker spyware" (via The Guardian)
- The Linux Lads Employee of the Month is Debbie in Accounts 🏆
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Centos is dead 😵⚰️🪦, but is it though 🎩👨🏻⚕️💉?
- 🌊 main story (via Ars Technica)
- some 🍴 alternatives (via Ars Technica)
- The breakdown on the 🎤🔈 Linux Unplugged episode
- Jay LaCroix's take on the situation 📺
- Rocky Linux 🪨🐧🪨
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New release of Raspberry Pi OS 🥧🥧🥧🥧
- Hackboard 2 🪛
- 🍱 FreedomBox
- Pi KVM, Lakka 🎮
- 🔄 Syncthing
- 🚂🔗 Steam Link for the Pi
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The 2020 Holiday Hack Challenge 🧪
Competition:
After speaking to DM it has been agreed that the prize be changed to a copy of 🕹️ Cyberpunk 2077.
The rules are as follows:
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The deadline for entries is midnight 🌓 Dublin time on the 23rd. The winner will be contacted on the 24th.
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Season 5 - Episode 5: DMing about Conan
Chitchat
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Mike: A cat got us 🐈
- Obligatory Twitter photo 📷
- 🎥 Streaming video with Raspberry Pi and Motion
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Shane: I have been 🎨 Blendering more and I have discovered a great resource ( That's my referral link so if people don't feel like indulging my self-serving plug you can go to https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com/ )
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Conor: 6 hours 😴 sleep, not recommended 😄
Discussion
In this episode we welcome back DM and talk about YouTube-DL, browsers, a new phone, Gimp and the suitability of FOSS for pro work. Also, a competition!
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- The EFF 💌 letter to GitHub
- 🐇 Big Buck Bunny
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⚙️ Servo goes to the Linux Foundation
- Rust 👩💻
- Firefox 83 is out 🚪 (via Phoronix)
- 🔐 Google plan on locking smaller browsers out of its assets
- 🤖 Reddit AmputatorBot transforms Amp links
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📱 The Pro1 X Smartphone
- XDA Developers 🧑🏽💻
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Gimp ✏️🖼️ is 25 (via Phoronix)
- Gimp 3 is on the horizon 🌅 (via omg! ubuntu!)
- Destructive v non-destructive editing 🎭
- Glimpse 🎂 is 1 year old
- Glimpse NX ⏭️
Competition:
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DM 🎁 is giving away Conan Exiles + DLC!
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For your chance to win, you'll need to have a Steam account and:
- Follow @linuxlads on 🐦 Twitter if you don't already
- @us with the #️⃣ hashtag
#conanlads
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We'll announce the winner in the next episode 🎲
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If you don't want to be 🤐 named mention this to us in a direct message on Twitter
The next episode
... will be the 🎄Christmas Mashup with the ex-Binary Times hosts Mark and Wayne!
(It will also be the last Linux Lads episode of the season, please prepare a bucket 🪣 so that your tears don't make your floor wet).
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Season 5 - Episode 4: We Elected Not To Do a Title
Discussion
This week we chat about the new Raspberry Pi, Chromium on Mint, YouTube-DL takedown, Ubuntu, carrier lock, HBO Max.
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Linux Mint are now 🏗️ building and packaging Chromium
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The RIAA got ⚖️ YouTube-DL taken off GitHub (via Torrent Freak)
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Ubuntu 21.04 is gonna be called Hirsuite 🦛 Hippo (via TechRadar) -📺 Shane's YouTube Channel
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Ubuntu 20.10 is out (via FOSS Linux) 🦍
- Sylvia Ritter's Groovy Gorilla 🎨
- 🐧 Pop!_OS 20.10
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No more carrier lock in the UK 🔓 (via The Verge)
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HBO Max is back for Linux users 🖥️ (via Ars Technica)
- Widevine 🛑
- WebKit 🌐
- Epiphany is pronounced Gnome Web 🕸️
- 📏 Edge Developer Preview now available for Linux , Coder Radio episode where they discuss it deeply.
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Season 5 - Episode 3: M'lady
Discussion
🎃 In this episode we tip our hat to the Fedora guys, and talk to them about the new release, the project, the Universe and everything.
Chat with Matthew Miller, Fedora Project Leader and Ed Lucena, Fedora Marketing Rep :
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🔴🎩 Red Hat the company supporting Fedora
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The multiple editions can be found on their main page 📑
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💻 Gnome-based workstation is the main one, but there are many other spins
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Centos gets a lot of goodness from Fedora (eventually ⌛)
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Extra options can be set using ⚙️ Gnome Tweaks
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Extra software can be found in the ⚗️ copr repos and in RPM Fusion
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Flatpak is the "official" universal 🌌 packaging format, but Snaps in Mike's experience works too.
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33 should be released 🏭 soon (via It's Foss)
- BTRFS is going to be the main 💾 file system
- Lumina Desktop that some BSDs use, has some features of ZFS accessible from the file manager 🏢
- Gnome 3.38 💅 (via omg! ubuntu!)
- Fedora IoT 🏘️
- BTRFS is going to be the main 💾 file system
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👍 Fedora is on
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Fedora Special Interest Groups 🍻
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Fedora is an ✌🏿✌️✌🏻✌🏾inclusive project
- Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator aka F-🎂
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Find the Fedora community:
- Join Fedora ℹ️
- 🛠️ Help out
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Catch up with Ed on Twitter 🐦
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Season 5 - Episode 2: M-powered
Chitchat
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Shane has a Minetest let's play YouTube 📹 video
- Vim Golf is a thing 🏌️♀️
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👨💻 Conor works way too much
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Mike talks way too much 🤐
Discussion
This week we mostly chat about empowerment and barriers 🚧 to entry.
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Purism's AweSim 📱💲
- 🎙️ This Week in Linux episode
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Azire VPN 🕸️
- Fortinet for Gnome Network Manager 👍
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UK Covid Excel fail 📊🙅♀️
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🦉 You've chosen wisely (via YouTube)
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Season 5 - Episode 1: A BRAND new season
Chitchat
- Shane passed his driving test 🚗
- Conor 🚌 went to County Kerry
- Mike is going back to school 🎒, went on Linux Spotlight
Discussion
And we are back! This time we mostly chat about hardware, as Nvidia dropped 40 biiiiiiillion on Arm and Linux laptops are all the rage. 👹
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Nvidia 🤑 buys Arm. (via ZDNet)
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RISC-V desktop CPU 🖥 (via CNX Software)
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Microsoft 🏭 release kernel source code for Surface Duo (via Windows Central)
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Pinebook Pro and 📱 Pinephone
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Linux 💻 laptops by
- HP (via omg! ubuntu!)
- Lenovo (via omg! ubuntu!)
- Tuxedo Computers
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Go have a listen of the new Tabs, Not Spaces 🎙
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We have a brand new store 🛒
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Season 4 - Episode 15: Ryzen and Fallin'
Chitchat
This is the last episode of the season, we'll be taking a break and will be back in September
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Conor: I haz new PC 🖥
- AMD Ryzen 5 3600 🦸
- 🎮 Radeon RX 5700 Graphics
- Timeshift ⌛backup tool
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Mike: 🍹Drinking in LA (fat chance)
News
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Ireland ☘ contributes the open-source part of the COVID Tracker app to the Linux Foundation
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PinePhone news 📱📢
- A beefier 💪 PinePhone now available (via omg! ubuntu!)
- Android 10 🤖 for the PinePhone (via omg! ubuntu!)
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Phosh Purism's phone shell 🐚
- 🦋 Flutter for Linux (via SlashGear)
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📽 Olive is a new contender in the video editing space on Linux.
- Non-linear editing (via Wikipedia) 🎞✂🎞
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LibreOffice 7 🏢 won't use "Personal Edition" tag for now
- The 🎙 Binary Times episode with Mike Saunders from the Document Foundation
- CodeWeavers 🧑💻
- 🕹🐧 PlayOnLinux
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Closing thoughts:
- 🍻🎤 FOSS Talk Live
- OggCamp 🐧⛺
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Season 4 - Episode 14: Missing the Mark
Chitchat
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Mike: Was on PTO, 🧳🇮🇪 went to Carlingford and Kilkenny
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Mark: Still playing with 📱 Volla phone and loving it.
- Upgrading ⬆ openSUSE
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Conor: Adventures in 🐧 KDE continue.... we can do this, we have the technology
News
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Ikey Doherty moves back to Ireland 🇬🇧➡🇮🇪, starts a new distro called 🐍 Serpent OS (not necessarily in that order).
- Lispy Snake game engine is still his "primary company and job" 🕘➡🕔
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Barclays UK 🏦 used the Internet Archive as their CDN 👎
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Volla 📱 phone beta is out and Mark is testing 🧪 how it runs Ubuntu Touch
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👈 Ubuntu Touch page for the device
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Assembled by Gigaset in Germany 🤖🇩🇪
-
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Turn Ubuntu into a rolling distro with the 🤣🦏 Rolling Rhino script (via omg! ubuntu!)
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The Ubuntu Podcast episode where it all started 🎤🔰 (around the 25th minute)
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Debian releases and codenames 🦖
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openSUSE 💚🐧
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Manjaro 💻
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🎷⬇ Cadmus noise suppression GUI tool for Linux (via GamingOnLinux)
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Elementary OS, Zorin, Linux Mint 🐧🐧🐧
-
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John Romero, the designer of Doom 💀
- David Hayter 🕹🐍
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Alacritty the GPU-accelerated terminal ⏩
🎙 Catch up with Mark at the Binary Times
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Season 4 - Episode 13a: Not That Kind of Blue Shell 2: Shell Harder
Discussion
Interview with DM
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What is ⚡🐚 PowerShell
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Zenity 🧑💻
Catch up with DM
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Season 4 - Episode 13: Not That Kind of Blue Shell
Chitchat
- Mike: 🎮 Playing BioShock Infinite
- Shane: I discovered PureRef 🖼 and I'm making a space station 🛰 in Blender
- Conor: I've been trying out Manjaro KDE 🔵🐧 on my laptop and quite liking it.
News
-
US 🇺🇸 Senate 🐘 Republicans 🥊 attack 🔒 encryption 🤯 (via cnet)
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Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition 💻 now comes with Ubuntu 20.04 (via 9to5Linux)
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KDE plasma 🖥 changes the window list to icons only by default (via omg! ubuntu!)
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Pine64 🎍📱 announced PinePhone Community Edition (via omg! ubuntu!)
-
Linux Mint 💔📦 disables snaps (via ZDNet)
-
Daniel from Elementary on Twitter: "Now that macOS looks like hot garbage I hope people will finally stop saying we look anything like it" 🔥♻
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iOS, now with more Android 7, Mac OS now with more iOS, also ARM 💻📲 (via The Verge on YouTube)
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Season 4 - Episode 12: We Can't Be Arsed Thinking of Something
Chitchat
- Mike: Having a go at Godot ⌨🕹
- Shane: Pop!_OS hard drive 💽💽 woes continue. Probably not their fault though as it seems to be related to an upstream systemd issue.
News
-
🖌🎦 Blender 2.83 is the first longterm support release from the project with many new great features.
-
Microsoft's recent "mis-steps" 🥾🥾 in open source:
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🥡 Winget Appget grab (via The Verge)
-
Maui 📛🔥 name clash (via Phoronix)
-
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Linux market share moved 📈 up (via omg! ubuntu!)
- Roaming within the EU 🇪🇺📲
-
PineTab is 📦 ready for order (via omg! ubuntu!)
-
Lenovo ThinkPads 💻 and ThinkStations 🖥 to be certified for 🐧 Linux
Events
- FOSS Talk Live is not happening but there might be a Mumble get-together on 🎙🍺🍺 the same day, as Joe hinted on Twitter
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Season 4 - Episode 11: Wins and Losses
Chitchat
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Mike: I've been playing 👨💻 with Julia
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Shane: I am reaching convergence ☯ nirvana in my workspace.
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Conor: I installed ➡ Ubuntu 20.04 on my Win 2, then wiped it and put on ➡ Manjaro Gnome. Also I went from Manjaro Cinnamon to ➡ KDE to ➡ Budgie to ➡ Mate (clean install each time).
- PPSSPP PlayStation Portable Emulator 🎮
News
-
Gnome and patent troll 🤝 settled
- The $150K 💰 could have gone into filing fees (via Slashdot, in the comments)
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EU 🇪🇺 Parliament recommends open source (via It's FOSS)
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Trump fact-checked by Twitter, so he wants to regulate 🟠👎🐦 (via The Guardian)
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Munich 🔙 going back to open source. (via ZDNet)
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Microsoft released version 1.0 of their open source terminal 💻 (via omg! ubuntu!)
- Linux GUI apps run in WSL (via It's FOSS)
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Season 4 - Episode 10: Lucid Lutris
Chitchat
- Shane: So long off the distro hopping wagon but I went on an odyssey 🧳 and also on Linux Spotlight
- Conor: It was my birthday 🎂 recently and I turned mutters under breath
- Mike: Moving ↔ DL web stuff
Discussion
Interview with Mathieu from Lutris
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Basic info about 🦦🎮 Lutris
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MAME and Retro Arch emulators 🕹
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🍷Wine is famously not an emulator
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PlayOnLinux makes Wine easier 🦋
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itch.io indie game repo 🏪
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🏬 Good Old Games (GoG) - a store for DRM-free games
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Old Lutris logo 🖼 (Forbes, within the article)
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🗺 Freeciv, 🔫 Xonotic, 🚁 OpenRA, 🛡 Warzone 2100, ⚔ 0 A.D., 🚂 OpenTTD are open source games native to Linux
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Mathieu spends a lot of time in 🌷 Stardew Valley
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Conor recommends ✅: AMD Ryzen 3 3300x
Catchup with Mathieu
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Season 4 - Episode 9: Fosa Fornication
Chitchat
-
Mike: Being quarantined 😷🏠
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Conor: Playing Twin Snakes in Dolphin 🐍🐍🐬❓❗
News
-
Ubuntu 20.04:
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🛒 21 Must-Have Apps for Ubuntu (2020 Edition) (via omg! ubuntu!)
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👈 Better fingerprints scanning (via omg! ubuntu!)
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Ubuntu 20.10 will be called 🕺🦍 Groovy Gorilla (via omg! ubuntu!)
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Conor's LBRY vids 🎥
-
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Fedora 32:
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Fedora 32 is 🐧🆓 released
-
Lenovo laptops 💻🐧 will soon come with the distro pre-loaded.
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The 🎙 Linux Unplugged episode with Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller.
-
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Vivaldi 3.0
- The new release has Tracker Blocking and ⏰ Status Bar Clock (via omg! ubuntu!)
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Manjaro Lysia
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Now has a ZFS option in the 💽 installer and snaps and Flatpaks can now be enabled in Pamac (via It's FOSS)
-
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OnlyOffice
- Version 5.5 Released 🧑💼 (via omg! ubuntu!)
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RetroPie
- Version 🥧 4.6 released with Raspberry Pi 4 support
Events
- openSUSE Virtual Summit 📅 1-2 May 2020
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Season 4 - Episode 8: Wrapped in Ethernet Cables
Chitchat
-
Mike: Used X2Go in anger 🖥️ and it was good
-
Shane: Dug out an old 🤳 OnePlus One. Still works fine! Going to test it with Ubuntu Touch. 👌
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Conor My 5T is back after attempted /e/ install, thanks to 🐦 PowerShellOnLinux's help 📱
- OneUI - not big fans 👎
News
-
The Heron 🖼️ is back (via omg! ubuntu!)
-
The Ubuntu startup sound 🔊 (YouTube)
-
-
QT might get forked 🍴 because the QT Company's possible releas changes. The QT Company responded with a extremely short blog post denying this. (via OSnews)
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New GNOME Mobile Shell Mockups for bigger touch 👈 screens (via omg! ubuntu!)
- The Phosh shell 🐚 from Purism.
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📚 A great update to Foliate eBook reader (via omg! ubuntu!)
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The 🦋 Deepin 20 Beta is out (via Forbes)
- Ubuntu DDE with Ubuntu Store 🏪
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System76 have a beautiful and light new Lemur 🐒 Pro laptop 💻 (via Forbes)
Shoutout
Well known Linux podcaster and community member Joe Ressington lost his consulting contract. The details are on his Twitter and in the latest Late Night Linux episode, but if you like to listen to Joe's podcasts, now would be a good time to support Late Night Linux's Patreon.
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Season 4 - Episode 7: Rocco's Modern Life
Discussion
Chat with Rocco
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🎥 Linux Spotlight <- Mark Shuttleworth episode
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🖥️ KDE 3.5 and Trinity Desktop
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Pop!_OS 🚀
-
Sparky Linux and MX Linux 💕
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MeWe 🖧
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TweetDeck 🐦🎴
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Ubuntu 20.04 💅 (via omg! ubuntu!)
Events
- FOSS Talk Live 2020 was cancelled. More info from Joe on the FOSS Talk website
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Season 4 - Episode 6: Profound Isolation
Chitchat
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Mike: 🏠 Reduced his existence to messing on his computer in his flat and getting paid for it and messing on his computer in his flat in his spare time.
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Shane - Has spent much of the last week in an existential crisis wondering if he has to start sharpening sticks and learning how to work leather into armour 🛡️.
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Conor: Been working from home, I've tested Ubuntu 20.04 in a VM and am very impressed, adventures in /e/ 🧱📱
Stay safe
Wash your hands, cough and sneeze into your elbow, keep a distance of at least 1 metre from others and stay away from elderly or sick relatives. Go to HSE.ie and WHO.int for information... not effing Facebook.
News
-
System 76: Pop Shell and a new ⌨️ keyboard (via omg! ubuntu! and Forbes)
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🕹️ Half Life Alyx to be available on Linux (via GamingOnLinux)
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Firefox 📦 now has a Flatpak (via 9to5Linux)
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Librem Mini 🖥️ from Purism. (via omg! ubuntu! and Forbes)
Discussion
Remote Work
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ℹ️ Big Tech and social networks against misinformation
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Norwegian Uni 🔥 burns the US
Shoutouts
Invidious alternative YouTube 📺 front end
Events
- FOSS Talk Live 2020 was cancelled just as we were about to publish this show. More info from Joe on the FOSS Talk website
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Season 4 - Episode 5: Zorin's Treasure
Chitchat
- Mike was traveling
- Shane is traveling
- Conor installed Manjaro Cinnamon and is also considering getting an ultrawide monitor (like this one on Amazon).
- Artyom is preparing a new release
Support Debian GNU/Linux
Debian, also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software, developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. The first version, Debian 0.01, was released on September 15, 1993, and the first stable version, 1.1, was released on June 17, 1996. The Debian Stable branch is the most popular edition for personal computers and servers, and is the basis for many other distributions. You would not have projects such as Ubuntu, Pop OS, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, MX Linux and indeed Zorin OS without the hard work of the Debian developers so go to https://www.debian.org/donations to donate in any way you can. This can be time, money or old equipment.
News
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Facebook sponsors OBS 💸 (via GamingOnLinux)
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LibreOffice 6.4.1 released 🏭 with over 120 bug fixes (via omg! ubuntu!)
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🖊️🏢 Collabora Office is now available on iOS and Android (via omg! ubuntu!)
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Unity8 has been renamed to Lomiri by the 📱 Ubuntu Touch project (via 9to5Linux)
Discussion
Artyom from Zorin OS
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🐧 Zorin OS
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Compiz desktop effects 🎆 in a YouTube video.
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Krazy Ken's Tech Misadventures Zorin OS episode (YouTube 📹 video from 2019)
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🚀 Pop!_os
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Elementary OS, 🏪 AppCenter for Everyone crowdfunder
Shoutouts
-
🛍️ bauh ( ba-oo ), formerly known as fpakman, is a graphical interface for managing your Linux applications / packages. It is able to manage AUR, AppImage, Flatpak, Snap and native Web applications.
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NCDU 💽, disk usage analyzer on the command line
Events
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🐧🎦 Revolution OS movie showing, Saturday, April 11, 2020 in the Harcourt Hotel in Dublin - more info on Meetup
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⚡🎤 Lightning Talks, WSL2 and PowerShell on Linux, Saturday, May 2, 2020 in the Harcourt Hotel in Dublin - more info on Meetup. If you are interested in giving a talk, please email 🖄 info@dublinlinux.org
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FOSS 🍻 Talk 🎙️ Live 2020 on 20th June 2020 at The Harrison near King's Cross in London UK (location)
Catch up with Artyom and Zorin OS
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Season 4 - Episode 4: Sentiment and Sediment
Chitchat
- Shane: Getting a cat 🐈
- Conor: 🤒 Being sick
- Mike: Learning 🏫 Dash
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News
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South Korea 🇰🇷🔀🐧 could possibly switch government computers to Linux (via FOSS Linux)
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App Center 🛒 for everyone
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A big update for OpenShot 📹 (via omg! ubuntu!)
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😞📵 Essential ceasing operation (via The Verge)
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UKUI redesign 🖥️ (via omg! ubuntu!)
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Linux-exclusive 🎮 gaming platform in the making (via Forbes), Kickstarter
Discussion
How we make the podcast
-
Mentioned gear:
-
Mentioned software:
-
DigitalOcean 0️1️🌊
Didn't get in (but still cool)
- Manga app for Linux and an old school alternative 💭💬💥 (via omg! ubuntu!)
Events
- 🍻🎤 FOSS Talk Live: 20th June 2020 at the Harrison in London 📅
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Season 4 - Episode 3: Flotsam and FOSDEM
Chitchat
- Shane made a low poly Tux in Blender. 🖌️🎨🖼️ Any ideas for future projects?
- Mike played with 🏗️ Ansible
Support the Document Foundation 💶💸
The Document Foundation are the maintainers of LibreOffice which is a Free and Open Source alternative to the likes of Microsoft Office and Google Docs. It is a long-standing project as it is a direct continuation of the OpenOffice and StarOffice projects. They also maintain the open document formats which are an open standard alternative to the MS Office formats. Please show your support by going to https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/
News
-
Pine64 shows off new stuff at FOSDEM 🌲6️4️
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Hardrock64 🤘🎸 - Raspberry Pi for comparison
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they offered cases for the 📱 PinePhone
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and showcased all the OSes - YouTube video 📹
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Regolith 🀄 1.3 released (via omg! ubuntu!)
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🤵 Tuxedo Computers offer Manjaro and Kubuntu (via Forbes.com)
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configure and price Kubuntu Focus 💻: Canada + US, rest of the world
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Epic 🕹️ gives 💵 Godot a $250,000 grant (via GamingOnLinux)
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Epic owned Rocket League 👎 drops support for Linux and Mac (via Jupiter Broadcasting)
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GeForce Now 👾 sadly doesn't work on Linux
-
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Zorin Grid 🖥️🖥️🖥️🖥️
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Wireguard 💂♀️ will be included in kernel 5.6 (via TechRadar)
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📧 Thunderbird is now under MZLA Technologies (via ZDNet)
- Ryan Sipes on the 🎙️ Mike Dominick Show
Shoutouts
-
Shane: Digital Sovereignity - A blog about digital freedoms. Found in the Binary Times podcast chat. They're just starting out and it's a topic I am very interested in so I felt like giving them a shout out. 🆓
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Mike: 🚀 Rofi app launcher, window switcher, ssh launcher and much more. Even has a Pass integration!
Events
- 🍻🎤 FOSS Talk Live: 20th June 2020 at the Harrison in London 📅
Question for the audience
** ❓Are you using Vim or are you doing it wrong?**
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Season 4 - Episode 2: Levelling up Your EXP
Chitchat
- Mike 🔀 switched to Manjaro with i3
- Conor got his 👐 hands on the Pinebook Pro
Support Mozilla
This episode we are bringing to your attention Mozilla 🧡🦊. They're the only serious competition to Chromium and the Blink engine out there. They care about us users and they don't rely on your data for ad revenue or to sell hardware. They promote free web standards, raise awareness of the social impact of technology, as well as making a damn good browser. Please go to https://donate.mozilla.org to help them in keeping the internet free 🌐 🗽.
News
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Canonical's tech to stream apps to phones 📲 (via omg! ubuntu!)
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Ubuntu Amazon App 👋📦 is shipping out (via omg! ubuntu!)
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Mozilla lays off 70 people (via ZDNet)
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Nextcloud ~~18~~ Hub ☁️ est arrivé
Shoutouts
- Ranger file 🗂️ manager
- 🥧☁️ NextCloudPi
Discussion
Nick from The Linux Experiment
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The city of 🗺️ Brest, Brittany 🇫🇷
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Kdenlive 🎥 Davinci Resolve 📀 Blender 🎬 Pitivi
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Nick's YouTube 🎞️ video of the Matebook 13 running elementary OS
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Julia Evans's Zines 📰
Catch up with Nick
- YouTube 📼 channel
- Twitter 📟
- Mastodon 🗣️
- Patreon 💶
- 🕸️ Website
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Season 4 - Episode 1: Negative in the Librem Dimension
Discussion
Linux in 2020
- For real 🌦️ predictions go to omg! ubuntu!
- 🔥🦊 Firefox, LibreOffice 🆓🏢, 💙🖥️ KDE Plasma
- Manjaro 💚🐧, XFCE 🐁🖥️
- 🎼💾 LMMS, Ubuntu Studio
Tech in 2020
- 📛 CES
- Dell's foldable screen 💻 laptop
- Mobile 📱 devices with foldable screens
- Samsung's creepy 🤖🎾 robo tennis ball in a YouTube video
Librem 5
- Librem 5 😬
- Fairphone 3 🆗
- Librem 5 USA 🤢
Shoutout
Unofficial Office 365 Snap by Hayden Barnes 👍
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Season 3 - Episode 7: Festive Bonus
Notes
A little extra bonus for the festive period. We hope you enjoy your festivities and we'll (hopefully) be back in the new year. 🎅🥳
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Season 3 - Episode 6: Seasonal Shenanigans
Discussion
This time we recorded together with Wayne and Mark from the Binary Times
Windows 7 to kick the bucket in 2020 ⚰️
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Why you should replace Windows 7 with Linux ↔️
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Mentioned distros 🛒: Zorin OS, Elementary OS, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Solus, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Red Hat
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Single sign on 🔐 alternatives: RazDC and Univention UCS
Does there need to be a "Linux 🛍️ Product"
How many Raspberry PIs 🖥️ do you have?
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SBCs: Raspberry 🥧 PI, Rock 🌲 64, ODROID 🅾️
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SBC Projects 🎮: OpenELEC and LibreELEC media centres, Samba file server, Kodi, EmulationStation, Steam Link, Picade, Pirate Radio, PiHole, motionEyeOS, YunoHost, BrewPi by Graham from Linux Voice (PDF)
What hardware 🧰 would we like to see Linux on?
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Mentioned devices 📱: PinePhone, PowerPC Notebook, RISC-V
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Mentioned 0️1️ software: Manjaro on the PinePhone, UBports, Sailfish OS
Catch up with Wayne and Mark
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📧 Email: info@
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Season 3 - Episode 5: A Glimpse at Joe
News
- 🎨 Glimpse, the fork of GIMP hits 🍴 version 0.1. (via Phoronix)
- ➡️☁️🌩️☕ Nextcloud vulnerability Nextcry minimally exploited.
- Here is how to 🛠️ fix it.
- The Tesla Cybertruck 0️🚚1️🚚0️🚚1️🚚 is an ugly, idiotically named glorified milk float that Mike somehow really wants.
- Far Cry 3: Blood 🐲 Dragon
- The memes are 💪 strong with this one
- The Slimbook Pro X 15 looks great and promises a lot of power 🤤💻. (via omg! ubuntu!)
- System76 will design and produce their own laptops 🏭💻. (via Forbes)
- PinePhones Braveheart Edition to ship in late December or early January. Pinebook Pros with ISO keyboard likely to ship in December.🌲📱💻📦📦📦
- UBports Forum section for the PinePhone 🤖
- Google Stadia 🎮🐧 works on Linux, check it out in this YouTube video. Half-Life Alyx is billed for Windows only, at least for now.
Discussion
- NTLite can strip Windows down to bare minimum 🚄🖥️
- Xubuntu 🐭 and XFCE
- Slax distro, it has ⌛ changed since.
- Ubuntu 🎙️ Studio
- YouTube videos showing the 🐀🐦 Greybird theme and Windows XP Performance mode.
- Audacity audio 🎵✏️ editor, Mumble voice 👄 chat, EasyTAG audio file 🎶🏷️✏️ tag editor.
- Manjaro 🚄🐭 XFCE
- KDE 💙🐧 Plasma
- Mate Desktop 💚🐧
- Foss Talk Live 🎙️🐧🐧🐧🐧
Catch up with Joe
- Twitter 🐦
- Our 💬💬 Telegram
- Joe's 🕸️ website
- Jupiter 🎙️ Broadcasting
- 🤑 $150 off the regular price at 🐧🏫 Linux Academy
- User Error 📻
A big thank you to Joe for editing this episode
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Season 3 - Episode 4: Pinebooks Don't Grow On Trees
News
- Kdenlive 📹📦 is now available as a snap. (via omg! ubuntu!)
- Shotcut, 📽️ Blender and Openshot are also available
- If you don't mind being negative in the freedom dimension, 📼 there's Davinci Resolve and Lightworks
- Shadow of the Tomb Rider is now 🎮 available for Linux (via Phoronix)
- Microsoft Edge will be coming to Linux 🌐🐧 (via Phoronix)
- 🔥🦊 Shout out to Firefox
- Indian users 🇮🇳👎🐥 moving to Mastodon (via India Today)
- Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix 🖥️
Discussion
- Lukasz Erecinski from Pine 64 🌲6️4️
- Pinebook Pro 🌲📗
- 🌲📱Pinephone
- Pinetab 🌲🗂️
- 🌲⌚ Pinetime
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Season 3 - Episode 3: Ain't No Wimp
Chitchat
- Mike, Conor and Martin were at OggCamp 🤓🏕️
- Jeroen Baten's talk (video wasn't available at the time of recording) ⏲️
- Terence and Elizabeth Eden's benches talk and Terence's SVG talk. 🖼️
- Stuart Ward's 🗺️ OpenStreetMap Talk
- The recorded 🎞️ main stage streams are on YouTube, Saturday is here and Sunday is here
- Zeb's 📹 YouTube channel
News
-
The Document 📃 Foundation supports GNOME Foundation's fight against a ⚖️👺💩 patent troll
- Austin Meyer's YouTube channel, includes clips from The Patent Scam 📺
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Samsung is killing ☠️🖥️📲 Linux on Dex (via omg! ubuntu!)
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BBC 🇬🇧🎙️ has a Tor mirrror. The address is
bbcnewsv2vjtpsuy.onion, download the Tor Browser to access. (via The Verge) -
Ubuntu 19.10 👶🐧 is out, with experimental ZFS on root support. Will Cooke is leaving the Ubuntu desktop team, Martin Wimpress is replacing him 🔄. (via omg! ubuntu! and Phoronix)
- Ubuntu Mate 💚🐧
- Introductory blog post about Ubuntu, ZFS and zsys 🇿💽
- Using the 🧰 Tweak Tool
- Gnome improvements in 19.10 👍
Catch up with Martin:
- on 🐦 Twitter as @m_wimpress
- at the Ubuntu Podcast 🎙️
- at 🌍 Wimpy's World
Events
- Clear Linux Talk, Saturday 2/11/2019 in Dublin 🆑🐧
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Season 3 - Episode 2: Diplomatic Community
Chitchat
News
- Matrix receives funding and Nvidia contributes to Blender. 💶🌧️ (via GamingOnLinux)
- 🤷♂️ RMS: No major changes to the GNU project, meanwhile some GNU project devs call for him to go 🤢 (via Phoronix)
- System76 launches 💻💻 with Coreboot (via Phoronix)
- Linus 💙 Microsoft (well, is not anti-them , anyway) (via omg! ubuntu!)
- Facebook's Libra crypto to have an open source competition 🤑📕 (via The Verge)
Discussion
What Projects Would We Give Money To If We Won Euromillions?
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Mike:
- 📊 VisiData
- LibreOffice ✍️
- Vim ⌨️
- 🔥🦊🌐 Mozilla
- KDE 💙
- NextCloud ☁️📂 - they don't seem to have a "donate" link
- OpenStreetMap 🗺️
- The non-existent Linux marketing organization 🛍️
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Conor:
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Shane:
Events
- Ogg 🤓🤓🤓 Camp: October 19th & 20th, in Manchester
- 🏫 Clear Linux talk: November 2nd, in Dublin
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Season 3 - Episode 1: KDE Konundrum
Chitchat
- We are joined by Michael Tunnell 🤩🎤 of Destination Linux Network and This Week in Linux
- Shane 🖌️ learned Blender from BlenderGuru tutorials and found the Linus Torvalds Auditorium in the University of Helsinki.
- Conor was too humble to mention this on air, but he 🎙️ appeared as a guest on Linux For Everyone and Big Daddy Linux Spotlight
- Mike was sunning ☀️ his arse in Spain and watching flat Earth debunking videos on YouTube
News
- 🥴 RMS staying on as the head of GNU. via Phoronix
- Linus' hiatus
- Patent trolls 🤢🤢🤢 are after Gnome. via ZDNet
- Zorin 15 🏫🖥️ Education edition is out
- XFCE 4.14 🐭📅 released
- 📯📦 Librem 5 has started shipping. via omg! ubuntu!
- The current shipping version in a YouTube video 🎥
- 🌲📱 PinePhone
Discussion
- 💙 KDE
- Kubuntu 💙🦡
- 🌈 KDE Neon
- KDE get involved 🌐 page
- Latte 🖥️ Dock
- Das Geek's YouTube video of Michael's "KDE Secrets" 🎥🤐
- KDE Connect, also check it out in a (slightly dated) YouTube video from QuidsUp.
Catch Up With Michael:
- TuxDigital
- TuxDigital Twitter and his personal Twitter
- *diaspora
- mastodon
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Season 2 - Episode 14: A Break in Tradition
News
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Facebook got 💢💰 slapped with a $5B fine (CNN via Linux Journal)
- The Cambridge Analytica scandal 🤯
- Facebook 👌 Open Source
- ⚛️ React JavaScript library
- Btrfs at 💽 Facebook
- EEE 🤗↔️💀
- Microsoft joins private 🔒📧 Linux kernel mailing list
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✏️ Ubisoft and 🎮 Epic to support 💶💶💶 Blender (GamingOnLinux)
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KDEConnect 📱🔗🖥️ is being ported to Windows 10 (omg! ubuntu!)
- The effort is part of ⛱️🤖 Google Summer of Code
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Mirror 📱➡️🖥️ you Android phone from Ubuntu (omg! ubuntu!)
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New Pinebook Pro 🌲📗💻 video 📹demos 4K video, external monitor 📺, and WebGL (omg! ubuntu!)
- The PbP preorders 📦 are now live for community members
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OnlyOffice 🏢 gets updated (omg! ubuntu!)
Events
- Ubucon, 🐧📛 10th to 13th of October, Sintra, Portugal
- Oggcamp 🥳🐧, 19th to 20th of October, Manchester, UK
Discussion
Running Linux on an old 🕰️💻 laptop (submitted via Twitter by Joey Fallon
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Quick fixes if 🔥🦊 Firefox slows down
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NoScript ⛔📜 for Firefox
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Auto Tab Discard 🗃️🗑️ addon for Firefox
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Season 2 - Episode 13: Contrasting Chinwag
Chitchat
- Conor: Replacing sleep with a 🚆 commute across Dublin
- Mike: Playing with a new toy, the 🌟💻 Entroware Kratos
- Shane: Playing with a free router and a free network switch from Back From The Future and a 🥧 Rapsberry Pi 4
News
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Pinebook Pro 💻 preorders are going to go live on 📅 25/7/2019.
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MintBox 3 looks like it's going to be a decently specced machine. 🖥️ It's based on the passively cooled Compulab Airtop 3, as reviewed in this YouTube video by Linus Tech Tips. (via Gaming on Linux)
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🎂 10 years of Zorin OS
Discussion
What Linux apps do you depend on and why?
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Mike: 📝 Vim, more info on Wikipedia. Vim Vixen Firefox extension, 🌍 Qutebrowser, Visidata.
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Shane: 💽 GParted, 🎥 Creative tools like Blender, 📸 Shotcut, GIMP, Inkscape ✒️✏️. Godot 🎮 game engine. Blender YouTube Tutorials. Kdenlive, if you bend the Plasma way.
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Conor: 💽 Clonezilla, 🌍🕸️ Firefox, Steam ♨️🕹️, qBittorrent 📀, Dolphin Emulator, Project64 (runs under 🍷Wine ), Mupen64Plus, Snes9X and ZSNES for the SNES, PPSSPP for the PSP, PCSXR for PlayStation 1, PCSX2 for PS2 and the experimental RPCS3 for PS3.
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Season 2 - Episode 12: Minty Mask of Zorin
Chitchat
- All of us were at FOSS Talk Live and it was phenomenal!
News
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Facebook and friends announce a new 🤐💶 cryptocurrency called Libra (Via Hacker News).
-
Linux Mint Vs Windows 10 Speed Test (From OMG Ubuntu) ⚡🧪🖥️
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Ubuntu 19.10 dropping 32-bit support: There has been a development after the recording, a Ubuntu dev explained that they were not dropping support for 32-bit, but freezing 🥶📚 32-bit libraries at the 18.04 LTS versions and that 🎮 games would still work. (From Phoronix)
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Pinebook Pro to get a better Bluetooth and an extra keyboard ⌨️ option (From OMG Ubuntu)
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The GNOME Shell stock theme 🖌️ is to improve (From OMG Ubuntu)
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Intel's Clear Linux is for 🙂💻🙂💻🙂 'Normal' Desktop Users as well as corporate ones (From Forbes)
Discussion
⚡ Zorin OS 15 test ride with comparison to Linux Mint 19.1
-
💙🐧 Zorin OS
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💚🐧 Linux Mint
-
⌛↩️ Timeshift backup tool 🧰
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🖱️ Arc Menu Gnome Extension
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🖥️📹 Linus Tech Tips Thelio video on YouTube
Events
- 🔨 Dublin Maker: 20th July 2019, Dublin, IE
- 📛 OggCamp '19: 19th - 20th October 2019, Manchester, UK
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Season 2 - Episode 11: Feck It, We're Doing It Live
Chitchat
- Conor: Using Gnome on his laptop. 💻
- Shane: Using Ubuntu on 🔛 everything.
- Mike: Playing with the Debian build for the upcoming 🌲📘💪 Pinebook Pro.
Discussion
This episode was recorded live at FOSS Talk Live
How much do you use the command line?
- Yay is a Pacman wrapper 🛠️ and AUR helper on Arch-based distros. It stands for "Yet Another Yogurt" because of course it does.
- Synaptic had been a GUI package manager before it was cool. 🐱👓
- Let's Encrypt provides SSL certificates for the 👥 masses.
- cPanel is a proprietary web 🕸️ hosting control panel.
- VisiData is an open source command line spreadsheet that outexcels Excel when it comes to ginormous CSVs and speed of use.📊
- Sed and AWK are 🐱👤 ninja-grade CLI text processing tools.
- If you've never used Stack Overflow, 📚 then you must be omniscient. Just like Stack Overflow.
- Browsh is like Firefox on the command line. You know 👩💻🌐 you want it.
What are you missing in Linux?
- 🎛️ Pavucontrol is a GUI for PulseAudio.
- This podcast is usually 🤓🎙️🤓🎙️🤓🎙️ recorded and edited 🤓🎚️ in Audacity. We are grateful to it, even when it's messing 😈.
- WPS Office tries to compete with LibreOffice 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
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Season 2 - Episode 10: Huawei or the Highway?
Chitchat
- Conor has been playing 📲 with Android Q Beta
- Mike has been skiving on the Continent 🌍
News
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South Korean government might switch to Linux 🇰🇷💞🐧, original source here. Beware of the going the Munich route.
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US 🗽 companies banned from doing business with Huawei 📵
- 📈Stock exchange impact
- Huawei's own app store
- Ban postponed till August
- Deepdive into Huawei's current suppliers and future options
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Firefox 67 is out, 🌍💥 Mozilla claims speed improvements
- Linus Tech Tips video about Microsoft Edge
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Antergos Linux project ends 💔. The original announcment
Events
- We're doing it live 🍻🎤 at FOSS Talk Live
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Season 2 - Episode 9: Drop the Mike
News
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New ‘Linux App Store’ Website Lets You Find Apps, Wherever OMGubuntu.
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Librem One Campaign Will De-Google Your Life for $7.99/month OMGubuntu
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Canonical consolidates open infrastructure support and security offerings Ubuntu
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Red Hat has changed its logo for the first time in 20 years OMGubuntu
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Windows 10 is getting a Microsoft-built Linux kernel Microsoft
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Take a Closer Look at Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 OMGubuntu
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Ubuntu 19.10 to be named "Eoan Ermine" OMGubuntu
Events
- T-Dose to take place on 11th May 2019 in Eindhoven
- Overview: T-Dose, "the place where experts meet", is a free, yearly event held in the Netherlands to promote the use and Development of Open Source Software. This year the even will be held at the Fontys University of Applied Science in Eindhoven. This year there wil be more than a dozen talks held across three rooms, with talk highliights of how stuff works: Computer Chess, Crypto for IoT, postmarketOS.
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Season 2 - Episode 8: Disco Delinquents
Chitchat
- Ubuntu Touch 📱 on a Oneplus 1
- LibreELEC 📺 on a Rock64 with an Emby plugin.
- Dublin ZOO 🐧
News
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Purism has released videos documenting the progress on the Librem 5 phone 📳, including what looks like a GSM phone call.
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Nextcloud 16 🌍 is out. NextCloudPi runs on the Raspberry Pi, the Rock64 and other single board computers.
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Pine64's Pinebook Pro and PinePhone streamcast had to be rescheduled due to technical issues. New time and date weren't known before the release of this episode. Check Pine64's forum, Twitter and the PinePhone Telegram group for more information. A video about the Pinebook Pro.
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Syncing Gnome shell extensions (from OMG Ubuntu)
Discussion: Ubuntu 19.04 and its flavours
- Ubuntu Budgie 🐦
- Ubuntu Mate
- Xubuntu 🐭
- Ubuntu Studio 🎞️
- Ubuntu Kylin 🇨🇳
- Ubuntu
- Video of Conor's tweaks
- OMG Ubuntu's 10 things to do after installing 19.04.
- Yaru theme 💎
- Kubuntu
Boners
- Conor:
- Mike:
- Linux video editing projects like Kdenlive, OpenShot, Shotcut, DaVinci Resolve, Lightworks, OBS
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Season 2 - Episode 7: Apt Install New User
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News
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Matrix got hacked ⚔️. An attacker gained access to the servers hosting Matrix.org. The intruder had access to the production databases, potentially giving them access to unencrypted message data, password hashes and access tokens. As a precaution, if you're a Matrix.org user you should change your password now. Uptodate info on Matrix's Twitter
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MS Edge 🌐 may be comming to Linux. Yay... According to a Tweet, Microsoft is going to very much de-googlify Chromium.
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Linus detests social media, ⚡ 'I absolutely detest modern "social media" - Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. It's a disease. It seems to encourage bad behavior.' - From Linux Journal.
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Red Hat and Fedora devs are ramping up Arm support 💻
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UBPorts, the creators of Ubunu Touch 📱 have a foundation now
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Zorin OS is getting closer to a new release 🌀
Discussion: How To Get People into Linux
- 🍀 Linux Mint
- Linux is full of choice ↔️
- 🐭 Xubuntu
- Dublin Linux Community 🙋
- Linux USB WiFi 🌍 Adapters compatibility info
- Linus 🎮 Tech Tips gaming on Linux video
- Munich Linux 🏣
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Season 2 - Episode 6: Convergent Solutions
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Small Talk
- KDE Neon
- Yes, there is Vim for Windows
- The Long Room in the the Library of the Trinity College
News
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Articles 13 and 11 pass in the EU parliament
- Article 11 strengthens the copyright protections for news publishers against the re-use of their stories by internet companies, while article 13 greatly increases the responsibility internet companies have to prevent their platforms being used for copyright infringement.
- How individual MEPs voted PDF
- Allegedly, if it weren't for a confusion among some MEPs the articles could have been amended
- EDRi
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19.04 Beta is out, ther are also images for flavours.
- Includes Gnome 3.32 with fractional scaling
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Solus 4 has been released
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Steam is to be redesigned
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KDE Connect is back in the Play Store
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Google Stadia gaming streaming service coming "in 2019"
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Wine 4.5 released
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Nexdock2 is on Kickstarter
Discussion
Convergence device, would you use one?
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Nextdock2
- Basically a laptop shell that uses your phone/Raspberry Pi
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- Works on Nexus 5X, Nexus 5 and Galaxy S9+.
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Samsung Dex
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Purism
- Their version of onvergence means the same apps running on laptops and phones
Boners
- Mike: Bottle
- Shane: Godot Game Engine
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Season 2 - Episode 5: Binary Addition
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Mark from the Binary Times podcast
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Small Talk
KDE Neon • Linux Mint • PAVU Control • AVLinux • Python copy
News
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New 19.04 Official Wallpaper.🎴 Alternatively, there is Sylvia Ritter's beautiful creation. Compiz Cube and wobbly windows YouTube video
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New Gnome 3.32 released. It comes with fractional scaling, control over app permissions, new icon set and improved Adwaita, emoji in the on-screen keyboard
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Nginx sold for $670.000.000 (about €590.000.000) to F5, a cloud infrastructure company. 🌍 Web server market share.
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Librem 5 📱to have 3 hardware kill switches and a lockdown mode. Google knows where you have been
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Maru OS has a new release enabling new devices.
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A new video shows a community built desktop OS for the upcoming 💻 Pinebook Pro
Discussion: User Interfaces
A discussion of different approaches to user interfaces and their application. Some examples:
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GUI vs CLI: PAMAC • Krusader • ⌨️ Dolphin • Make Love, Not Warcraft 🖱
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Headerbars: Ubuntu window buttons went to the left and back • Mac-like touchpad gestures
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Launchers: Ulauncher • Wox launcher • Whisker Menu • KRunner
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Dark v bright themes:🌞 🌝 Solarized light/dark for Vim • Arc theme • Kubuntu 18.04
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Desktop icons: yes or no?
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Season 2 - Episode 4: Pine Fresh
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Interview
In this episode we welcome Lukasz, the community manager from Pine64, to have a chat about the company and their exciting new products.
The Pinebook Pro, PineTab and PinePhone 📱were first announced at FOSDEM 2019. The company later released a forum post with more information. This post also describes other upcoming products, like the Roshambo retro gaming console 🎮 and the CUBE open source IP camera 📽. - TL Lim of Cloud Media and company started Pine64 in 2015. - Linux phone distros: - ubports - Plasma Mobile - Maemo Leste - postmarketOS
- Project Ara
- sunxi community of kernel developers
- Mr FixIt the distro builder
Some of the specs:
Pinebook Pro iteration on the current Pinebook
- 14" 1080p IPS LCD panel
- 64/128GB of eMMC storage (128 default for Pine64 Forum members)
- Black magnesium alloy body 💻
- Digital video output via USB-C up to 4K60hz, USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports
- 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM
- Rockchip RK3399 ; big.LITTLE Hexacore A72/A53 SOC
- PCIe x4 that can take a m.2 NVMe SSD using an optional adapter
- Target Price: $199
The PinePhone (These are the dev kit specs, some of them are subject to change in the actual phone)
- Mockups on Twitter.
- USB C for data and charging
- Privacy (hardware) switches for BT/WiFi, LTE, cameras, speaker
- 2mpx and 5mpx front / back cameras 📷
- 1440x720 IPS screen
- SOPine module: Allwinner A64 with 2GB of LPDDR3 RAM
- Targeted price point for the phone: $149
The PineTab
- 16GB of eMMC
- 2GB of LPDDR3 RAM
- 720p IPS 10" LCD (MiPi)
- Magnetically attached keyboard + trackpad ⌨️
- Target price for PineTab + keyboard: $99 ($79 for standalone PineTab)
Pine64 contacts
Other stuff:
- Beyond the Curve, a documentary about Flat Earthers 🌍😜
- The Guinness Storehouse 🍻
- Newgrange
- Jameson Distillery
- NextcloudPi
Events
- FOSSTalk Live on 8th June in London.🍺
- OGGcamp on 19th and 20th October in Manchester.😍
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Season 2 - Episode 3: Average Joes
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Discussion
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LibreOffice has released version 6.2 with the NotebookBar available from the view menu, rather than as an experimental feature. This could be great for people coming from Microsoft Office
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation opened a store. Some people have been skeptical, isn't this similar to Games Workshop which seems to be thriving? The place is slick, it looks like an Apple Store.
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Fedora are designing a new logo. The lead developer uses free and open source tools only. She would like constructive and respectful feedback, but she felt forced to disable the comments on her blog, because some people just can't help being jerks.
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New Plasma is out. Bluetooth devices now show their battery usage, Firefox 64 can now optionally use native KDE open/save dialogues. Also, improvements to Discover. Jason Evangelho's openSUSE challenge.
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Is Linux ever going to be for the "average non-technical user"? Is it ready now? Should it even try? Jason Evangelho's article on Gaming without Windows. SteamOS could be just an appliance with its Big Picture. What about technical but new users? Should they be given Ubuntu or Linux from Scratch.
Boners:
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Mike: Tabulate for Python, because fuck me it's so good!
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Shane: Latest version of Blender
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Conor: LineageOS.
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Season 2 - Episode 2: Pining for Privacy
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Discussion
Pine64 revealed at FOSDEM, that they will release a tablet + a souped up PineBook Pro, OMG Ubuntu reports 😻. Prices are expected to be u-n-b-e-l-i-e-v-a-b-l-e (even though there's always a hefty shipping charge and maybe taxes).
PineTab:
- To be available later this year
- $79 (under €60)
- 10.1" screen
- 2GB RAM, 16GB storage, USB A 2.0 host, micro USB 2.0 OTG, microSD
- Black plastic
- Magnetic keyboard as an optional extra
PineBook Pro
- To be available later this year
- $199 (under €175)
- 14" 1080p display
- 6-core ARM chip
- 4GB RAM, 64GB EMMC storage (slower than SSD, faster than HDD)
- USB 3.0 and 2.0, USB C (incl. charging and video out)
Check out the OMG Ubuntu articles for more info about the PineTab and the PineBook Pro. If you want a Linux tablet now, UBports is available for the Nexus 7 (just be careful to get the supported version).
Not to be outdone, Purism revealed more info about the the PureOS Store.📱
- Apps in the store will have badges depending on the app development status (i.e. "Beta").
- They want to incentivize developers but don't say how
- They plan to build it around Flatpak
- They announced the Lollypop music player for laptops and the phone.
- The phone itself is meant to have really futuristic stuff like user-replaceable battery and a headphone jack. BUT 1440x720 display and ONLY 3GB of RAM (that could change).
More about Librem 5 apps in the lower half of the product website. PureOS is not going to be the only choice of operating system on the phone, users will be able to install for example Plasma Mobile. Hopefully the Librem 5 won't follow the destiny of Firefox OS. They are also planning a subscription of ethical services bundle.
Steam Play now allows to add non Steam Windows games. Games that ship with their own native clients can now launch with Proton from inside Steam for Linux. According to reports some games actually perform better that way.🎮
Steam also released new stats for 2019, Linux is sitting flat at 0.82%. Gabe Newell, president of Steam makers Valve, on Steam, Windows and Linux. Some examples of non-games in the Steam store.
The Lutris open gaming platform has a new release, 0.5:
- GOG service integration
- revamped interface
The GOG Galaxy app.
Kodi 18 released.
- Retroplayer gaming built in
- Digital Rights Management decryption support 😱❔🤷
- Live TV improvements
- Mike has tried it, but couldn't get the TV remote working.
By the time of release, LibreELEC have already released a version based on Kodi 18. OpenELEC are still on 17.
Gnome speed enhancements for the 3.32 release due next month.💻 This is a very good news, since Gnome happens to be the default DE on many distros. Thank you, Gnome devs, Canonical devs and everyone else who contributed.
Firefox 65 is out now comes with:
- Enhanced tracking protection: Simplified content blocking settings give users standard,
- Support for the WebP
- Enhanced security for macOS, Linux, and Android users via stronger stack smashing protection which is now enabled by default for all platforms. "Stack smashing" is a common security attack in which malicious actors corrupt or take control of a vulnerable program.👮
- Firefox will now warn you when closing a window (regardless of whether you have automatic session restore enabled for restart).
- Easier performance management: The revamped Task Manager page found at
about:performancenow reports memory usage for tabs and add-ons.
Also, Firefox 66 will come with client side decorations! Right now, users can enable this with a toggle switch in the Customize settings, from the next release it will be enabled by default.
Akira is to be a graphical interface design app for designers. The dev is running a Kickstarter campaign to pay full time devs for a few months + hardware + taxes. More info in a Linux Unplugged interview.💶
Akira the anime.
Update your boxen! Ubuntu security notices site mentions a tone of recent vulnerabilities, and they all look very scary, so update, people!☝️
HP joins in on the LVFS firmware update goodness. Richard Hughes, a LVFS developer, has previously called out HP for being "officially late". The vendor status page has details of vendor support.
Events
- OSM Ireland have an event in Belfast on 16th February.🌍
- FOSSTalk Live on 8th June in London.🍺
- OGGcamp on 19th and 20th October in Manchester.😍
Boners:
- Mike: Gnome. Mike was wrong, he can live without top icons, especially since it doesn't work as well on Wayland.
- Shane: Copenhagen
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Season 2 - Episode 1: A Pop at Windows
Discussion
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Gnome and Pop!_OS. Top Icons Plus is a necessity, yet the developer quit (see the Warning). Gnome Online Accounts for seemless cloud integration. Gnome Tweaks enable customization. Gnome can be conceptually compared to macOS
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The Focusrite Scarlett Solo audio interface doesn't play nice with Linux, so Conor has to use Windows 10 to record on. Skip signing into MS Account. A lot of junk litters the start menu by default, remove it. ShutUp10 is useful tame the OS. Windows design team
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We need consumer grade recording apps - Audacity is great but to complex for some of us.
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Fedora 30 is to get a Deepin desktop option.
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Deepin 15.9 released with touchscreen support. There are other touch-friendly options: Gnome, Plasma Mobile.
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DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps for its local search. OpenStreetMap might be a better fit, but how is non-tracking search engine going to make money? iCloud hack.
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Purism are going to create a convergent store for mobile and PC apps. F-Droid is a freedom respecting store on Android. Anbox let's users run Android apps on other platforms. Elementary OS AppCenter attempts to help Linux app devs monetize their creations. Federated app store would be a win.
Feedback
- Qwant from Markus, via email. There is a JavaScript-free version, just like DuckDuckGo Lite
Boners:
- Conor:
- Simple Note - still not known if the back-end is open source
- boner of the year 2018 - Steam Play/Proton
- Mike:
- Shane:
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Season 1 - Episode 10
Discussion
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Emby went proprietary but you wouldn’t guess that from the release post. Never mind, the Plex media server alternative has already been forked under the name of Jellyfin. Good luck to the developers (and unlike the Emby people, we mean it). Forks can turn out great, Libre Office came from Open Office after the Oracle Sun acquisition and now it’s the open source office suite.
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Mycroft is to postpone delivery of the Mark II due to manufacturing issues, from this December to Q1 2019. No refunds, for anyone put off by this. Hopefully when it comes, it will be better for it, to compete with the likes of Amazon Alexa.
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Firefox version 64 is out with multiple tab selection but without the killed off Live Bookmarks. Is it because of Pocket? Not as big as the Quantum 57 release.
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Microsoft to discontinue EdgeHTML (via hacker news) and base its Edge browser on Blink. They have an interest in the Blink ecosystem because of Electron ecosystem - very nicely explained on Coder Radio. Microsoft’s decision left many people and organizations like Mozilla worried about the future of the internet. Edge is going to join the club with Opera, Vivaldi, Brave and other Blink-based browsers. Are we going back to the terrible old days of Internet Explorer 6? Browser specific CSS. Duck Duck Go it if you don’t want to Google it - and go JavaScript - free on DDG Lite. Or if you are a master ninja of the search engines, use Searx to bind them all and unleash true power with DDG bangs!
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Konsole now fully supports Emoji characters (_via Phoronix _ ). This is rather nice for Telegram-CLI and Oh My Zsh.
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Fedora is to take time from their 6 months release cycle to fix up their infrastructure - interview on Linux Unplugged.
Feedback
- From Marko: Termux, a terminal emulator for Android. Get it on F-Droid or Google Play.
- Ian on Telegram asked for predictions:
- Shane: Trump (not linking him) will make the US government Linux and Open Source. He will swap Twitter for Mastodon.
- Mike: The UK will issue their own version of Linux, to take back control.
Boners
Donation Links (‘tis the season)
- EDRI - European digital rights
- DRI - Digital Rights Ireland
- FSF - Free Software Foundation
- FSFE - FSF Europe
- EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation
- ORG - Open Rights Group, the EFF’s sister organisation in the UK
- Mozilla Foundation
- Linux Mint
- Ubuntu
- KDE
- Fedora
- Gnome
- VideoLAN - VLC mainly, but they do a lot of codec development too
Drinks
- Mike: Smithwick’s Red Ale
- Shane: Lyons Tea out of a Linux Lads mug
- Conor: Bru Red Ale
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Season 1 - Episode 9: Everything Is OSM
Discussion
- ARCH!
- The fixes for Meltdown and Spectre are drastically slowing the kernel down. The patches are meant to be deployed in the 4.20 release, but according to Linus the patches might not be completely enabled by default. But hey, it’s the 4.20 release so, let’s chill.
- Ubuntu 18.04 is going to get 10 year support, and why not since RHEL already have it - or is it IBM/Red Hat now? If you wanna know what a 10 year old Ubuntu release feels like, try Hardy Heron.
- If you want to give back to the open source community, check out 10 ways to give thanks to open source and free software maintainers. The list fails to mention mapping though.
- Intel based single board computer Hardkernel Odroid-H2 sold out within 24 hours. It’s like a Raspberry Pi on ~~steroids~~ Celeron.
- Some Amazon EC2 servers are running on Arm
- You can now control your dildo from Emacs. Does it make it an RMS-approved GNU/dildo? There is a presentation video (not that kind of a video!). It’s, well, eye opening. Serious Mycroft opportunity here.
- Plasma Mobile might soon be available on a Necuno mobile device. If this, the Gnome-based Pure OS running Librem 5 and the Pine64 all come through, 2019 is going to be full of open mobile awesomeness. The Necuno is probably going to be using the older i.MX 6 board versus the Librem’s i.MX 8.
Interview
- Tad is one of the 4 directors of OpenStreetMap Ireland.
- OSMI aims to become a part of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, a freedom respecting competitor to services like Google Maps
- With freedom sometimes comes vandalism
- Applications and websites:
- JOSM: OSM editing on the Desktop and the Terracer plugin
- OsmAnd: an Android app with navigation and editing
- Maps.me: an Android app with simpler UI than OsmAnd
- StreetComplete: mapping on Android phones
- uMap: create your own OSM-based maps
- Magic Earth: navigation
- Overpass Turbo: map queries
- Editors page on OpenStreetMap web
- O’Connell Street
- Ordnance Survey Ireland
- Free Satellite Images
- Irish Townlands
- Irish Open Data
- Portmarnock Community School’s mapping of Lesotho
- Eircode
- Dublin Postal Codes
- Optical character recognition
- The IE-UK maritime border
- Lake Constanze between Switzerland, Germany and Austria
- The OpenStreetMap Foundation’s position on disputed territories (PDF) and the minutes from the Data Working Group’s special meeting on Crimea
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OSM Contact details:
- web
- Twitter: @osm_ie
- Facebook: OpenStreetMap Ireland
- Mailing list: talk-ie at openstreetmap dot org
- IRC is embeded on the OSMI website Contact page
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Tad is @tadcan on Twitter and on our Telegram
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Season 1 - Episode 8: Tea, father?
Discussion
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Samsung’s Linux on Dex magically turns Android into Ubuntu 16.04 on high end devices. It’s another stab at convergence. Canonical tried with Ubuntu Touch, the project is now maintained by the UBports community. The Librem 5 crowdfunding campaign was propped up by corporate purchases, could big IT departments buy Dex in bulk?
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New Deepin’s out and boy does it look sexy in the screenshots. Compare with KDE Plasma or Elementary OS. Inspired by Mac OS but open source. The Chinese distro has been a focus of a ‘spyware affair’. Lenovo’s Superfish scandal. Red Star OS. Bloomberg’s spying hardware story.
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Mycroft have been raising ton of money and are hiring. It looks like the project is still going strong. They have investments from all sorts of places. The Mark I might not have been a serious competition to Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, but the Mark II is going to be better. Maybe it will even know what beans are. You can give it a try on a Raspberry Pi, Linux PC or an Android device as well. Mozilla’s speech recognition.
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Purism might be shipping the Librem 5 dev kits in December. The Librem 5 will be as much privacy friendly as their laptops are now.
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New Apple computers might or might not be able to run Linux. Apple might be completely switching to Arm. Meanwhile, Microsoft has been flirting with Qualcomm. Intel and AMD might be in hot water.
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Going ‘open source only’. Use Open Street Map instead of Google Maps. pCloud and NextCloud can replace Dropbox for cloud storage. Could we ditch proprietary social networks? Mastodon, Diaspora, MeWe - could they replace Facebook and Twitter? Could we use one to infiltrate the other with tools like cross posting? We need to redefine what a social network is. In some places Facebook is the internet. Social Network the movie. China practically lives on WeChat. BLOCKCHAIN. Could Hyperledger be the salvation? Is it user friendly enough? Is Trump daft or pretending? Back at the point: F-Droid and Collabora Online. Have a look at a list of various cloud services. Linux doesn’t work for everyone, as EposVox would attest. Kdenlive and OpenShot to the left of him, huge studios to the right, but he’s stuck in the middle with his proprietary platforms. IoT. Google Fuchsia. Microsoft Windows 10 IoT. Raspbian and Ubuntu Mate for the Raspberry Pi. Oh yeah, there are also the BSDs.
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Linux boners:
- Conor: Bitwarden (via Linux Unplugged), password manager that will help you get out of the proprietary shackles of LastPass. Open Source and better than Dashlane.
- Shane: Mycroft. Tea, Earl Grey, Hot. Tea, father?.
- Mike: Awk
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Season 1 - Episode 7: DEspicable
Discussion
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Red Hat was bought by IBM for \$34 billion. Hopefully Fedora, Gnome, Centos and other Red Hat supported projects won’t be hurt by this. We are still smarting from the Oracle Sun acquisition.
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Canonical published some stats collected by their installer (via OMG! Ubuntu!). No concrete numbers, only percentages. Trusting Canonical with stats collection.
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Ubuntu Mate is now available for the GPD Pocket2. Now in correct resolution and the right way up. Download from here. The device reminds us of something…
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Mozilla is gonna trial partnership with Proton VPN to help us keep safe online (via Joey Falon). Good source of income for the browser maker. Proton are known for their email service. Secure, reliable and easy-to-use VPN is good for all of us.
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Solus posted about the current situation of the project. The first post was followed by the second one and by an open letter from Ikey Doherty after the recording of this episode. Looks like Solus braved the stormy seas and is sailing into calmer waters with a good crew on board. Transparency is important and the bus factor is something to be aware of.
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There might be a new Linux based phone next year! The folks at Pine64 are hoping to offer us a Plasma Mobile based alternative to the horrors of Android and iOS. It should be much cheaper than the Librem 5. We yearn for a phone that is not restricted by the vendor, so 2019 might be the year of decent mobiles. In the mean time LineageOS and Replicant might help, if you happen to have the right device for it.
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The amount of Windows games avaiable on Linux through Proton is over 2,600, according to ProtonDB - a great source of information, if you want to know what games work and how well. You can log in with your Steam account and check the games you own too. Similar to the Wine Application Database. Fair play to Valve for hugely contributing to gaming on Linux! Let’s spread the word about how awesome our OS is these days. Related technologies: DXVK, Vulkan and DirectX
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Desktop environments: Check them out on YouTube:
- KDE
- Gnome
- Gnome on Ubuntu
- LXQT
- Mate
- XFCE (4.12 is current, 4.13 dev branch, 4.14 will be the GTK3 release)
- Budgie
- Cinnamon
- Elementary OS
- Window managers.
- KDE timeline with screenshots.
- Why some people love Cinnamon.
- LXQT landed in Lubuntu 18.10. replacing LXDE. They are keeping the 32bit builds when most others have dropped them.
- Use compositors for desktop effects, if you have the resources. Meanwhile Gnome is doing its own thing - who needs legacy icons anyway? The extension has been unmaintained for a year now. They might even do away with shell themes.
- Gnome’s ploughing forward makes people spin off their own GTK based desktops:
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Linux boners:
- Mike: Termux
- Shane: LMMS, Ardour, Reaper, PulseAudio, ALSA
- Conor: Thunderbird, ProtonMail IMAP bridge, K-9 Mail, Kmail, Mailspring, OfflineIMAP, Mutt, Alpine, Claws Mail
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Season 1 - Episode 6: It Was Just Resting in My Account
Discussion
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Plex Media Server is just a
snap install --beta plexmediaserveraway as it joins the ever growing list of snapped popular apps. Available from Gnome Software near you. Or use Emby as an alternative. Need a storage for your movies? NAS-up with openmediavault on a Raspberry Pi. Some configuration might be needed. -
Ubuntu-based betas are looking crisp:
- Xubuntu,
- elementary OS,
- Kubuntu,
- Ubuntu propper with the Yaru theme and
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Lubuntu now on LXQt. Don’t care for the hype? Linux Mint just works.
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Some say that Flatpak is a ‘security nightmare’, others like OMG Ubuntu, point out that you can’t blame a tool for how it’s used. Portals could help some of the issues.
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Etcher ignores privacy settings via [Ubuntu Podcast] https://ubuntupodcast.org/2018/10/12/s11e31-thirty-one-dates-in-thirty-one-days/). If this bothers you, there’s always UNetbootin and ddrescue.
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Linus Torvalds is addressing his non-cuddliness after publicly apologising while Linux is getting code of conduct. Be excellent to each other (apparently, that’s from a film).
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Facebook got breached, Bloomberg claims that there’s spy micro hardware on servers and Google don’t even bother any more - should we? Stay safer online with Mozilla’s guide.
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Google+ is shutting down, is this the year of Mastodon and Diaspora? You can find us on Mastodon. Twitter is trying to deal with abuse. Social networks should be interchangeable with everyone having an ID that could log into any network. Something similar, but for data could be Tim Berners-Lee’s new project Solid.
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Microsoft joined the Open Invention Network to ‘help protect Linux and open source’ and donated 60,000 patents. The Free Software Foundation says ‘keep on going’. The GPL protects code contributions to the kernel. Could Windows OS run on the Linux Kernel? Should Linux be the only OS? Is this the year…
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The EU might allow copyrighting data generated by self-driving cars. Not much news about this from either the EU or the press. The JohnDeere travesty. The right to repair movement.
Linux boners:
- Mike: Joplin
- Shane: TiddlyWiki
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Season 1 - Episode 5: Cults of Personality
Discussion
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The pleasure of dealing with small projects and why we need people forking, fragmenting and generally doing whatever they feel like. Small projects (VisiData, qutebrowser) make users feel like they are really part of something. Bigger projects (LibreOffice) do have the advantage of wider and more diverse user base.
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Bug reporting needs to be easy. Automated reporting - good idea or a privacy hell?
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Should communication with users and media be a number one priority for larger open source project? Is Linux Mint’s no press approach vs Monero’s incessant broadcasting. Balance rules. Engineers need marketing (up to a point). Canonical does marketing through community, just like the non-commercial KDE and Gnome.
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Cult of personality in tech. Prompted by an article in the NY Post. Even Elon Musk, Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison are people, can we/should we separate the personality from the work? Non-tech people like James Cameron can act like jerks too. Do certain roles require certain personalities? (This episode was recorded before the recent events around Linus Torvalds and the kernel Code of Conduct)
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Trying to keep your privacy while browsing anywhere near Verizon’s Oath properties like Yahoo and TechCrunch means that you’ll need to go through the Oath cookie maze of death. Their “privacy dashboard” can be found here. Should there be a single-button cookie offswitch?
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If advertising stopped, would it kill the internet? Is the attitude towards advertising changing? There are alternatives: a paywall like the Irish Times or voluntary contributions like Wikipedia and The Guardian. The benefits of both.
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Government-enforced encryption backdoors - Five Eyes are moving to force tech companies to “voluntarily” add backdoors to their products. Argh! Not much crime fighting for the price of everyone’s privacy and security.
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Linux Boner: RKWard
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Season 1 - Episode 4: Farnsworth
Discussion
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Gnome 3.30 comes with improved performance on low power devices (any chance this being connected to the Librem 5?), a new Podcast app and UI improvements. Contributions welcome.
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KDE released Plasma 5.14 Beta. Discover can now use fwupd for firmware updates.
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Canonical’s going for a Software Center revamp
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Software centers are important, Ubuntu Mate’s Software Boutique hits the spot.
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How do we discover software? Mostly word of mouth, a podcast or an article. There is a very useful alternativeTo website where you can find Linux alternatives to software from other platforms.
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AMD beats Nvidia in kernel contributions but Intel still contributes more. Hopefully Intel’s discrete GPUs will arrive soon and will work better than the one Linus Tech Tips got their hands on. It looks like AMD might be on the verge of Linux dominance because of better driver support.
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The EU voted on Article 13.
- See how your MEPs voted here (pages 38 and 39).
- Next EU parliamentary elections are next year. Discussion about MEPs.
- What’s gonna happen next? If this becomes a law, content delivery platforms might take some desperate measures, like relying 100% on content filters to identify copyright infringements - and those are rubbish
- XKCD: difference between easy and hard in CS.
- Should copyright be abolished completely? Brian Lunduke‘s interview with RMS
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Wobbly windows are coming back. Haven’t times and trends change, though?
Linux Boners
- Mike: Qutebrowser - browser with Vim-like keybindings
- Shane: Irish open data - the government got this right.
- Conor: qBittorrent - qt re-implementation of utorrent
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Season 1 - Episode 3: There's cocaine in it
News & Discussion
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film making and photography on Linux (Blender, kdenlive, Shotcut, darktable, digiKam. Blender as a video editor)
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Deepin has a new release and it looks good as ever. It purports to use less RAM than Ubuntu.
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not letting Google own the whole of your digital life
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Jeremy Corbyn would like a publicly funded Facebook alternative. Would the Irish government please step up? We need public digital infrastructure and it needs to be done right.
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Adobe Air, the technology of choice of governments everywhere
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Google Makes it Easier to Run Linux Apps on Chromebooks. Chrome OS is based on Gentoo, who knew?
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Are Google and Apple walled gardens slowly starting to crumble?
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Don’t confuse Kodi and piracy.
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How to explain what is Linux and free as in freedom to people outside our bubble? Is open source a better description?
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Linux is choice.
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Thunderbird is getting updated and the guy’s name is Ryan Sipes
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Get your ThinkPad firmware update on Linux
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Lubuntu are going Wayland. That’s a good thing. Ubuntu are careful.
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The trouble with Gnome and Dropbox
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Favourite desktop environments - Mate, Cinnamon, XFCE, LXQT, KDE.
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VisiData a command line spreadsheet that can handle massive amounts of data made by Saul Pwanson.
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Season 1 - Episode 2
News
- Dropbox sync will work only on EXT4 (unencrypted only, Linux), NTFS (Windows), APFS and HFS+ (both Mac OS).
- pCloud might be a good alternative to Dropbox. It’s hosted in Switzerland and cheaper.
- Rclone is also an option, but more of a DIY as you’d need to provide the backend storage.
- Most of us use the default file system for their distro, so many will be able to keep using Dropbox.
- Nextcloud will be big in Japan, as NEC are gonna make routers with Nextcloud pre-installed. Nextcloud 14 to be released in September is going to feature video authentication for shared files and lots of other new features.
Gaming
- Play Windows Steam Games on Linux with Proton, a fork of the Wine project. This could be a game changer for desktop Linux adoption, especially as some games, GTA V for example, show better max fps on Proton than on Windows. Linux to the masses!
Discussion
- Oggcamp 2018 was great!
- Shout out to all the lovely people who gave us encouragement and awesome podcasting advice: Joe Ressington, Martin Wimpress, Alan Pope and Mark Johnson, Dan Lynch, Simon Phipps, Jon the Nice Guy Spriggs and Chris Zimmerman. Many thanks to Tad Cantwell for the best promotion!
- Great talks - From building your own mobile network with Raspberry PIs and running your own mainframe to Dark Peak Data Cooperative and everything in between.
- Amazing social track - it was inspiring and heart warming to meet so many people so passionate about Linux and free culture.
- How do you make ‘other’ people interesting in Linux? Make it better than other OS, installed out of the box, improve an old PC with it… Linux is for everyone! (Not just you CLI geeks ;-))
- We moan a bit about other, not so good OSes (with love, of course). Updates are just so much better on Linux.
- Oggcamp rules, even if it’s not humanly possible to see all the talks. Go join all the great people in 2019 to see the best of the Linux and open culture community!
- Oggcamp is also free as in beer (and the beer in the UK is cheap).
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Season 1 - Episode 1
Discussion
- 18.04.1 and things based off it (or are going to be), Linux Mint 19, Elementary OS, KDE Neon, Zorin OS
- Gnome 3 and Ubuntu switching to it, stock gnome 3 vs “Ubuntufied Gnome 3 shell”
- KDE 5 and KDE Neon, design and system resources, LXQT as a “lightweight” desktop environment
- We briefly talk about Nvidia and AMD cards and drivers and what to buy and what’s most compatible
- Microsoft’s Windows as a service, buying a computer without Windows. Rejecting the Windows license, custom built PCs, System 76 and Entroware
- Should we always attempt to own/jailbreak/reinstall everything? While devices like the Kindle are worth jailbreaking for the extra features, the risk of bricking is high in many cases because of artificial barriers put in place by the manufacturers. Couldn't they just allow us to use the things we buy as we please, even if it meant voiding the warranty?
- Halt and Catch Fire
- Mozilla’s new designs - Waste of time or a good thing to show that an open source project can be a “designer item” and a “brand” https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/evolving-the-firefox-brand/
- Kai OS, based on Firefox OS is now more popular then iOS in India.
- Briefly our “discovery story” and what makes us passionate about Linux, what motivates us to organise the DLUG, attend conferences etc
- For now you can find us at:
- info@dublinlinux.org
- dublinlinux.org/telegram
- Dublin Linux User Group website
PSAs
- Oggcamp ’18 SAT AUG 18th - SUN AUG 19th 2018 in Sheffield
- The Dublin Linux User Group monthly meetup
- KDE Akademy in Vienna, Austria, from Saturday 11th to Friday 17th August.
Contact Us
- We have a store
- We are on Telegram
- And on Mastodon
- And on Matrix
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