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

• 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

• 19.04 Beta is out, ther are also images for flavours.

  • Includes Gnome 3.32 with fractional scaling

• Solus 4 has been released

• Steam is to be redesigned

• KDE Connect is back in the Play Store

• Google Stadia gaming streaming service coming "in 2019"

• Wine 4.5 released

• Nexdock2 is on Kickstarter

Discussion

Convergence device, would you use one?

• Nextdock2

  • Basically a laptop shell that uses your phone/Raspberry Pi

• Maru OS

  • Works on Nexus 5X, Nexus 5 and Galaxy S9+.

• Samsung Dex

  • The Linux version
  • The Android version
  • Both need fairly new Samsung hardware

• 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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Attribution

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