Season 5 - Episode 5: DMing about Conan

Chitchat

• Mike: A cat got us 🐈

  • Obligatory Twitter photo 📷
  • 🎥 Streaming video with Raspberry Pi and Motion

• 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/ )

• 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!

• YouTube-DL repo is back up 👍

  • The EFF 💌 letter to GitHub
  • 🐇 Big Buck Bunny

• ⚙️ 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

• 📱 The Pro1 X Smartphone

  • XDA Developers 🧑🏽‍💻

• 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:

• DM 🎁 is giving away Conan Exiles + DLC!

• For your chance to win, you'll need to have a Steam account and:

  1. Follow @linuxlads on 🐦 Twitter if you don't already
  2. @us with the #️⃣ hashtag #conanlads

• We'll announce the winner in the next episode 🎲

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