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

• Pinebook Pro 💻 preorders are going to go live on 📅 25/7/2019.

• 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)

• 🎂 10 years of Zorin OS

Discussion

What Linux apps do you depend on and why?

• Mike: 📝 Vim, more info on Wikipedia. Vim Vixen Firefox extension, 🌍 Qutebrowser, Visidata.

• Shane: 💽 GParted, 🎥 Creative tools like Blender, 📸 Shotcut, GIMP, Inkscape ✒️✏️. Godot 🎮 game engine. Blender YouTube Tutorials. Kdenlive, if you bend the Plasma way.

• 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.

• Also mentioned: VLC, 🗜️ 7Zip, Filezilla

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The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.