Linux Lads

Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!

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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.

• The Dreamworks talk recording

• The Asahi Linux talk recording

• The Portals talk recording

• The Owncast talk recording

• The Typst talk recording

• The MOD Dwarf talk recording

• OggCamp sadly, there hasn't been one since 2019

• Fosdem

• BelFOSS

• FOSS Talk Live

• The Panel on the future of AI recording

• GUADEC

• Linux App Summit

• The technical writing talk recording

• The Fairphone talk recording

• Open Collective

• Linux Lads' FOSS Talk Live 2021 presentation (with slides and everything)

• Riga

• Amolith's spiky sandals

Contact Us

• We have a store
• We are on Telegram
• And on Mastodon
• And on Matrix
• You can email us on show@
• And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

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Disclaimer

May contain mature references

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.

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?

• TimeTagger time tracking solution

• JetBrains, purveyors of IDEs

• Community Platform

• Project Kamp on YouTube

• Phonebloks

  • Project Ara

  • Framework

• Apollo Program

• Amolith's project Willow is now open source

Contact Us

• We have a store
• We are on Telegram
• And on Mastodon
• And on Matrix
• You can email us on show@
• And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

Disclaimer

May contain mature references

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.

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.

• Conor has a new Android games console

  • As seen on YouTube

  • JELOS, Just Enough Linux OS for handheld gaming devices

• Amolith tried a Librem 5, kindly provided to him by Jim Salter

  • It is not slim.

  • Phosh on PureOS, based on Debian

  • Librem 5 flashing docs

  • postmarketOS

  • pmbootstrap

  • Gnome Shell Mobile

  • Many other environments are available

  • I couldn't find the promised video that compares Gnome mobile and Phosh again. Sorry.

  • PinePhone Pro

  • Fairphone

  • EU battery law

  • Google committed to 7 years of updates for the Pixel 8

  • Amoled

  • Zenfone 10

  • postmarketOS supported devices

  • LineageOS

  • GrapheneOS

Events

Meet us all at Ubuntu Summit 2023, 3-5 November in Riga

Contact Us

• We have a store
• We are on Telegram
• And on Mastodon
• And on Matrix
• You can email us on show@
• And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

Disclaimer

May contain mature references

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.

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

• Nextcloud News

• Nextnews for iOS

• Hacker News

• Ars Technica

• Lobsters

• The Irish Times

• The Economist

• yarr RSS reader

• wallabag self-hosted read-it-later service

• omg! linux!

• Euractive

• omg! ubuntu!

• GSMArena

• Phoronix

• Gaming on Linux

• It's FOSS

• The Verge

• Slashdot

• Agenda setting

• The 2023 writers' strike

• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

• Late Night with Seth Meyers

• Marques Brownlee

• yt-dlp, a youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

• The Linux Experiment

• This Week in Linux

• Late Night Linux

• Amolith's feeds

• Mike's feeds

• The Register

New client, new languages

• JMP

• XMPP

• Ruby

• Haskell

• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good

• Ruby on Rails

• Pandoc

• Monads

• Lazy evaluation

Events

• Meet us all at Ubuntu Summit 2023, 3-5 November in Riga

Contact Us

• We have a store
• We are on Telegram
• And on Mastodon
• And on Matrix
• You can email us on show@
• And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

Disclaimer

May contain mature references

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.

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.

• Shane set up his SDR dongle

• FlightRadar24, their data for business subscription plan

• They have a Raspberry Pi image

• Shane talked about this in episode 107

• TP-Link AV600 powerline adaptors

• 1 nautical mile is 1.852 of your finest kilometres, or 1.1508 US land miles.

• 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.

• Other trackers are available:

  • ADS-B One

  • adsb.fi

• Meshtastic open source, off-grid, decentralised mesh network

• LoRaWAN

• Used by farmers

• Can be helpful during natural disasters

• Lilygo

• Silicon Valley

• Go

• Discussed on Linux Downtime ep 76

• 2023 has been the year of tech lay-offs

Announcements

• Meet us all at Ubuntu Summit 2023, 3-5 November in Riga

Contact Us

• We have a store
• We are on Telegram
• And on Mastodon
• And on Matrix
• You can email us on show@
• And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

Disclaimer

May contain mature references

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.

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.

• Asahi Linux has a new flagship distro and it's Fedora

• Fedora remixes

• Fedora special interest groups

• Asahi alternative distros

  • NixOS

• Thunderbird got redesigned

• KMail

• Linux overtook macOS on the Steam Deck

Contact Us

• We have a store
• We are on Telegram
• And on Mastodon
• And on Matrix
• You can email us on show@
• And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

Disclaimer

May contain mature references

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.

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

• Willow

• How to get a feed of GitHub releases

• Gitea and Forgejo have release feeds, but GitLab doesn't

• Git tags

• Apparently, other source code management systems exist:

  • Mercurial

  • Fossil

• Willow might end up in a Slackware install near you

• Go templates

• The plan is for Willow to be ready by this year's Ubuntu summit, where Amolith will be giving a talk on it.

• Application lifecycle management

Hare

• Hare

  • Improvements on C

• Hare's IRC channel (opens in an IRC client)

• Drew DeVault's blog

• There actually is a tutorial

• Hare specs

• High level data structures in Hare

• The venerable top, and its descendants:

  • Htop

  • Btop++

  • Jtop

• The Ares Operating System, a blog post on it and from it.

Events

• Meet up with Amolith at DEF CON 31, 10-13 August in Las Vegas

• Meet us all at Ubuntu Summit 2023, 3-5 November in Riga

Contact Us

• We have a store
• We are on Telegram
• And on Mastodon
• And on Matrix
• You can email us on show@
• And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

Disclaimer

May contain mature references

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.

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

• Asahi Linux

• Debian M1 installation

• Debian ARM

• KDE Plasma

• Gnome Boxes

• Asahi's feature support page details what works and what doesn't

• Speakers are a work in progress

• Firefox as a Snap

• There is a project that looks after Linux on Microsoft Surfaces

• Beta and VHS video from Technology Connections

• A video from 1997 Macworld where Bill Gates came in to prop Apple up

Culture consumption

• Winamp is still around

• ReVanced for YouTube

• Dodgy boxes became popular and the State noticed

• Gabe Newell on piracy

• The soccer streaming case

Eavesdropping on planes

• Shane got himself an SDR dongle

• As discussed on Linux Matters and Late Night Linux

• FlightRadar24, their data for business subscription plan

• Nautical mile is 1,852 metres

• R820T

• Russian Warship Go Fuck Yourself

• Russian military exercise in the Irish EEZ

• Submarine cable map

• 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

• Conor got himself an InkPad Color 2

• Judge Dredd

• Terry Pratchett's Discworld

• Tetris the movie

• Two idiots one keyboard

• BeagleV-Ahead Risc-V board

Announcements

• Meet up with Amolith at DEF CON 31, 10-13 August in Las Vegas

• Meet us all at Ubuntu Summit 2023, 3-5 November in Riga

Contact Us

• We have a store
• We are on Telegram
• And on Mastodon
• And on Matrix
• You can email us on show@
• And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

Disclaimer

May contain mature references

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.

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?

• Wikipedia's article about the whole mess

• Reddit'd like some of that sweet IPO cash 🤑

• Reddit's announcement of the API changes

• Apollo' Christian Selig's post ⚰️

• Subreddits went dark, the CEO just couldn't help himself and trolled on

• 👷‍♂️ Last year's stats had volunteer mods generate $3.4M worth of free labour

• Reddit's pivot to crap ↪️💩 possibly made Google Search (even) less usefull

• Ranking of reddit.com

• Reddit's old site, projects like RES and third party apps like Infinity improve upon the current "stock" experience

Alternatives:

• sub.rehab lists instances of the Reddit communities on alternative platforms

• kbin

• Lemmy

• Sync app reborn on Lemmy

• ActivityPub

• List of Lemmy instances

• How to 🪛 install Lemmy from scratch

• kbin admin bare metal guide

• Megalodon for Mastodon

• The threat of Threads

• The EU Comission Ireland in the Fediverse

Announcements

• Meet up with Amolith at DEF CON 31, 10-13 August in Las Vegas 🇺🇸

• Meet us all at Ubuntu Summit 2023, 3-5 November in Riga 🇱🇻

Contact Us

• We have a store
• We are on Telegram
• And on Mastodon
• And on Matrix
• You can email us on show@
• And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

Disclaimer

May contain mature references

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.

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.

• Amolith was at SELF

• Conor was at Download

• Twilight Struggle

• Rocket League

• Team Fortress

• Ticket to Ride

• Settlers of Catan

• Monopoly

• Carcassonne

• Crisis

• Cluedo

• Trivial Pursuit

• OpenOffice

• Cities Skylines

• Anno 1800

• Red Alert 3

• BioShock

• Arduino

• Raspberry Pi

• Distortion pedal building tutorial

• Bitwig

• Ardour

• Battleground: Ukraine

• Darknet Diaries

• The Blindboy Podcast

• Joe's podcasts

• The Guardian

• The Economist

• The David McWilliams Podcast

• Audible

• Kobo

• Ian M Banks

• Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space

• The Expanse

• Star Trek Discovery

• Star Trek Picard

• Blender

• Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

• Jules Verne

  • Museum

  • Off on a Comet

• Naomi Novik's Scholomance

• Terry Pratchett

• Maxime J. Durand's The Perfect Run

• Gooseberries

• Basil

• Moka pot

• A video of a ping pong "runaround"

• Ask the Hosts

Contact Us

• We have a store
• We are on Telegram
• And on Mastodon
• And on Matrix
• You can email us on show@
• And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

Disclaimer

May contain mature references

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.

Discussion

We talk about desktops, are they even necessary? Then we discuss Conor's newest hop, to Nobara.

• Framework now offers Ryzen processors

• Entroware Kratos

• Lenovo ThinkPads

  • USB ThinkPad keyboard

• Dell XPS

• SlimBook

• LTT desk pad

• Nobara is a "modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it".

• GloriousEggroll and his Proton-GE

• Flathub now has a lot of things, including Proton VPN

Contact Us

• We have a store
• We are on Telegram
• And on Mastodon
• And on Matrix
• You can email us on show@
• And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

Disclaimer

May contain mature references

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.

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

• Funkwhale

• They Might Be Giants

• Grooveshark

• Jamendo

• Castopod

• Owncast

• Find instances using this dashboard

• The flagship instance

• Ciarán's own instance

• Funkwhale's Gitlab repo

Open Podcast API

• Open Podcast API

• gPodder

• AntennaPod

• KDE Kasts

• PodFriend

• nextcloud-gpodder

• Podcasting 2.0

• Podverse

• Pocket Casts

• REST API

• Retribute, wealth sharing platform

• W3C Payment Request API

Star Trek

• Star Trek Picard

• The Original Series

• TNG

• DS9

• Voyager

• Enterprise

• Discovery

• Lower Decks

• Red Letter Media

• The Expanse

• Stargate SG-1

• Firefly

• Cowboy Bebop

• The Irish unification is happening next year

Catch up with Ciarán

• Ciarán is on Mastodon

• So is Funkwhale

• Open Podcast API is on GitHub

SouthEast LinuxFest

• SouthEast LinuxFest takes place in 9-11 June in Charlotte, North Carolina

• Amolith is going to be there, write the show or write him if you want to meet up

Contact Us

• We have a store
• We are on Telegram
• And on Mastodon
• And on Matrix
• You can email us on show@
• And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

Disclaimer

May contain mature references

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.

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

• Gio's Website

• Gio was created by Elias Naur

• OpenGL

• Vulkan

• Intro to GTK for comparison

• GoGio, a CLI utility that helps build Gio apps for Android, iOS, tvOS and WebAssembly

• Gio's Open Collective page

• sourcehut

• HarfBuzz

  • There is a Go port

• GopherCon

• Kakoune code editor

Catch up with Chris

• GitHub

• sourcehut

• Gophers Slack channel

SouthEast LinuxFest

• SouthEast LinuxFest takes place in 9-11 June in Charlotte, North Carolina

• Amolith is going to be there, write the show or write him if you want to meet up

Contact Us

• We have a store
• We are on Telegram
• And on Mastodon
• And on Matrix
• You can email us on show@
• And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

Disclaimer

May contain mature references

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.

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

• Room 101

• Mike's Binging it

  • How to use Bing GPT in Edge

• Amolith's turning AI into small woodland creatures and military personnel using Chatbot UI

  • Prompt Injections

  • Github Copilot

  • Today in Focus AI episodes

  • Algorithmic Trading

Gio

• Gio website

  • Amolith's Gio project

  • Flutter

Kombucha

• Amolith ferments his own moonshine tea

  • The obligatory Wikipedia article

  • The what of the what?? Article on making kombucha - includes terms like SCOBY and pellicle, so you know it's the genuine... article.

  • Vietnamese coffee

Contact Us

• We have a store
• We are on Telegram
• And on Mastodon
• And on Matrix
• You can email us on show@
• And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

Disclaimer

May contain mature references

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.

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.

• The first episode

  • Bionic Beaver is on its last legs, but we are still going strong

  • A listicle on lightweight environments

  • System usage comparison of Linux desktop environments

  • Intel On Demand

  • Puppy Linux

  • BunsenLabs

  • There will be no Windows 11

  • Mozilla are still design conscious

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 ❤️

• Amolith was on Linux Downtime's ep. 69 (nice)

• Craic

• Shell GPT

Find us on Fedi

• Amolith: @[email protected]

• Conor: @[email protected]

• Mike: @[email protected]

• Shane: @[email protected]

Contact Us

• We have a store
• We are on Telegram
• And on Mastodon
• And on Matrix
• You can email us on show@
• And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

Disclaimer

May contain mature references

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.

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.

• Ireland are well versed in rugby

• Command Line is the GUI's Future

• Unity HUD

• ffmpeg has a large manual

• rclone QT frontend Rclone Browser

• For a Mastodon doomscrolling bot follow @[email protected]

• Deta Space

• Heroku

• itch.io

Contact Us

• We have a store
• We are on Telegram
• And on Mastodon
• And on Matrix
• You can email us on show@
• And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

Disclaimer

May contain mature references

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.

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.

• Owncast

• PeerTube is more of product, Gabe sees Owncast as more of a piece of infrastructure

• Owncast is written in Go, single binaries for everyone!

• Connects to OBS, future plans include recording functionality

• From concerts to funerals

• VPS providers like Hetzner often provide Owncast as a one click install

• Support Owncast on open collective

• Gabe is always on the lookout for help

• Beware of burnout

• Gabe's blog post about frontend technologies

• Scheduled events are on the horizon

• Catch up with Gabe and the project: https://owncast.online/contact/

Contact Us

• We have a store
• We are on Telegram
• And on Mastodon
• And on Matrix
• You can email us on show@
• And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

Disclaimer

May contain mature references

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.

Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks!

Discussion - Cool Projects

• Zettlr

• Joplin

• Obsidian

• Syncthing

• NextDNS

• uBlock Origin

• Pi-hole

• EndeavourOS

• Question for the audience: How should Shane get the internet through his concrete walls?

• Ubiquiti

• TP-Link Omada

• Prosody real time blocklist module

• Cheogram XMPP client for Android

• US school buses

• Forgejo

• Gitea

• Renovate bot

• Woodpecker CI

News

• Bad news from Mycroft

  • Leon

  • Picroft

  • CMU Flite

  • Mozilla's Common Voice

• KDE & Gnome are working on Flathub Payments

  • elementary OS's AppCenter allows paing for Flatpaks

  • Ubuntu flavours will no longer provide Flatpak out of the box

Contact Us

• We have a store
• We are on Telegram
• And on Mastodon
• And on Matrix
• You can email us on show@
• And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

Disclaimer

May contain mature references

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.

• SPSS Statistics (proprietary)

  • GNU PSPP (open source alternative)

  • R (open source alternative)

• Ubuntu Summit 2022 | Open Source Marketing Done Right — Michael Tunnel

• Announcing Fedora Linux 36

• elementary OS 7 Release Announcement

• Linux Mint

• Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

• Ubuntu MATE

Contact Us

• We have a store
• We are on Telegram
• And on Mastodon
• And on Matrix
• You can email us on show@
• And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

Disclaimer

May contain mature references

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.

Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks!

Discussion - The Future

• Google Glass

• MKBHD tries the HTC Vive XR Elite (YouTube)

• Virtual retinal display (from Wikipedia)

• Eye tracking (from Wikipedia)

• Valve index

• Brain implant

• Solid state cooling

• Hacking pacemakers

• Limitless

• Lucy

• 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

• The recent nuclear fusion news (from The Economist)

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Discussion - A Look Back at 2022

Amolith

• GrapheneOS

• Doom Emacs

  • LSP (Language Server Protocol)

  • Flycheck syntax checker

• Tailscale

  • Sonarr

  • Radarr

  • Prowlarr

  • Usenet

  • BitTorrent

  • Lidarr

  • Readarr

  • Headscale

• Amolith was in a rush and forgot to mention his beloved Framework laptop

Conor

• Steam Deck

  • Mentioned at Akademy 2022 (from GamingOnLinux)

  • Frequent updates

  • Fall Guys

  • Heroic Launcher

  • Epic Games Launcher

  • Valve Corporation

  • Steam Controller

  • Steam Machines

Intermezzo

• Anticapitalist Rant

Mike

• Asahi Linux

  • Other distros are available

  • Available features

  • The GPU driver devs are mentioned in this post

Shane

• Mastodon

  • Activity Pub

  • New Grounds Forums

Ubuntu Summit

The recording of our episode is now on YouTube

@ us on Mastodon

• Shane

• Conor

• Amolith

• Mike

New podcast coming soon

Amolith and Jake will have their own show on redacted.life

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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

• Where it started

• Software

  • The steaming pile of Python relies heavily on:

    • Jinja

    • Python-Markdown

    • It also uses rsync to move files to our Hetzner VPS

  • We used to use Grav

  • Ardour

    • The "men from Ardour who just walked in" were Paul Davis and Robin Gareus

  • Audacity

  • Blender

  • Inkscape

  • PipeWire

  • JACK audio connection kit 🥁

  • Carla Patchbay

  • Gnome Sound Recorder

  • Jitsi

  • Riverside

  • Pavucontrol

  • VDO.Ninja

    • Used by the Ubuntu Portugal Podcast

  • Kdenlive

  • Davinci Resolve

  • RSS

  • yarr yet another RSS reader

  • Nextcloud

    • Nextcloud RSS app News

  • pCloud

• Hardware

  • Blue Yeti

  • Dynamic vs condenser mics

  • Behringer UM2

  • Focusrite Scarlett 2i2

  • Røde Podcaster

  • Shure SM58

  • Samson Q7

  • Don't buy a Blue Yeti

• Sources

  • Slashdot

  • Lobsters

  • Ars Technica

  • omg! ubuntu!

Catchup with Gary:

• Website

• Twitter

• Listen to him on Linux After Dark

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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
  • Prosody
  • ejabberd
  • Snikket
• 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
  • Mastodon
  • Misskey
    • FoundKey: Misskey but better (in Amolith's opinion)
  • Pleroma
    • Akkoma: Pleroma fork with a faster dev cycle, a friendlier community, and without the controversies surrounding Pleroma
  • Pixelfed (Instagram)
  • Peertube (YouTube)
  • Mobilizon (Facebook Groups, MeetUp)
  • Funkwhale (Music)

• 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

• Our fedi handles:

  • Shane: @[email protected]
  • Conor: @[email protected]
  • Mike: @[email protected]
  • Amolith: @[email protected]

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Discussion - The Attention Economy

• Attention Economy on Wikipedia

• Brave's Basic Attention Token

• LTT's infamous sponsor seugues in a YouTube compilation

• Jay Forman's Tube Map YouTube video with a SurfShark VPN ad towards the end

• Dynamic ad insertion

  • The Verge's article on the topic

  • 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.

• Data brokers (from Wikipedia)

• Ethical ads

  • Their ad server is open source, you can self-host it

• Ad Nauseam

• Ready Player One

• Idiocracy

• All the tech giants want all the advertising (from The Economist)

• 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)

• Odysee

• XKCD on free speech

• Perceptual blinders on Wikipedia

• 👍 uBlock Origin

• 👎 Adblock Plus

• Blokada for Android and iOS

• Adaway for Android

• Pihole

• Adguard

• YouTube Vanced

• NewPipe supports YouTube, SoundCloud, https://media.ccc.de/ and PeerTube

• DNS66

• The Attenborough mural

• The stripes on the painted house were red and white, not yellow and purple

Ubuntu Summit

• From 7 to 9 November in Prague

• Website

• Amolith's LXD talk

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Discussion

• Ubuntu Summit, 7 - 9 November 2022, Prague

  • Amolith's LXD talk has been accepted for the infrastructure track

  • DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS

• Conor got a Pinebook Pro

  • Runs Manjaro with KDE Plasma

  • How to stream YouTube using MPV

  • Thunderbolt Wikipedia article

  • RockPro64

Nifty Nuggets

• Mike:

  • Zellij is a terminal workspace

    • GNU Screen

    • Tmux

    • Warp terminal is proprietary and hasn't got a Linux version yet

    • Warp file transfer

    • The Fish shell

    • Console and Konsole

    • Office365 indistinguishable icons

• Amolith:

  • Headscale open source control server for tailnets

    • MagicDNS

    • Taildrop

    • WireGuard

In other news...

• Python 2 dropped from Arch repos

  • 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

  • OpenJDK is from Oracle

  • AdoptOpenJDK became Adoptium, belonging to the Eclipse Foundation

  • Amazon Corretto Java

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Discussion

• Budgeting SaaS product Actual went open source and can be self hosted

• Adobe is buying Figma, Penpot is an alternative

  • Notion's alternative is AppFlowy

  • Trello's alternatives:

    • Focalboard

    • Kanboard

  • Deta.sh is a nice replacement for Heroku

  • Akira UX design tool

• Komikku, A FOSS manga reader

  • Some alternatives if you don't read strictly manga (from It's FOSS)

  • Conor has tried Mcomix and it seems to be a great lightweight comic reader that supports the features that you would want it to

  • Foliate

• yarr RSS reader

  • Lobsters community focused news aggregation and discussion

• Some Firefox add-ons (from It's FOSS)

  • not in the list: Firefox containers

• New browser written completely from scratch, by the author of SerenityOS

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Discussion

Self Hosting

• Some platform as a service options that have free tiers:

  • Cloudflare workers

  • Deta

    • Mike was wrong 🙄, Deta's Drive is 10GB

  • or more at free-for.dev

  • Heroku's free tier is mostly going away

• For those who like to mess with servers 🔔, here are some reasonably prices VPS providers:

  • Linode

  • Hetzner

  • DigitalOcean

• IBM Cloud free tier

Element One

• Conor has been trying Element One, a hosted service for Matrix chat that bridges to WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram

• Element's Enterprise offering

• WhatsApp Web

Solaar

• Solaar Logitech device manager

• Enables connecting peripherals 🖱⌨️ using the Logitech Unifying Receiver

• It comes with Linux Mint

• OpenRGB helped Conor calm down his flashing keyboard

Crystal and Garuda Linuxes

• This article sparked Conor's curiosity (from It's FOSS)

• The project's site

• Full of Libadwaita's goodness

• Made Conor put some Gnome in his Garuda Linux

Blindoy's Stories for Geriatric Millennials

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Discussion

• 🍴 GitLab to delete dormant repositories in free accounts then reversed that decision the next day

• 🖥 ️NixOS 22.05 has a graphical installer that Mike and Conor tried

  • Calamares installer

  • Nix package manager

• Conor enjoyed 🦅 Garuda Linux

• Mike and Amolith play with Neovide, a ✨ flashy ✨ GUI frontend for Neovim

• 🍵 Gitea, a self-hosted git forge, is very actively working on ActivityPub federation

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Discussion

• Thunderbird with Matrix chat client built in (via The Register)

  • Mozilla use Matrix themselves

  • Thunderbird is now part of MZLA Technologies Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation according to Thunderbird's website

  • Mutt and NeoMutt email clients

  • Amolith uses Emacs's mu4e, because no text editor is complete without an email client

• Shane trying Bitwig Studio on Linux

  • Use the Deb, Luke - click on "Ubuntu" on the download page

  • Flatseal

  • Ableton Live

  • MIDI

  • Bitwig's CLAP audio plugin standard

• Mike's messing with Godot Engine again

  • Waiting for Godot

  • Godot's showcase

  • Amazon Lumberyard

• Conor likes Vivaldi's email client

  • Vivaldi's code licensing

• Amolith plays with Astrofox

• Say hi to Shane in our Discord

  • Discord Nitro

  • Amolith runs an XMPP server

    • it has a Linux Lads channel -> [email protected] (not currently bridged to anything)

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Interview With Bill, the ham radio guy

• Wikipedia's amateur radio article (also explains why it's called "ham")

• Civil Air Patrol

• Radiosport

• DXCC call sign nomenclature

• Chirp FOSS for radio programming

• Computer aided transciever

• flrig to control bigger devices

• CQRLOG a ham radio logger

• WSJT-X helps with weak-signal communication

• Irish Radio Transmitters Society

• European Radio Amateur's Organization

• The American National Association for Amateur Radio

• The global International Amateur Radio Union

• The Field Day event on 25 June in the US

• The Dublin maker's club

• Ham Radio Village at DEF CON 30

• ISM bands - radio bands reserved for industrial, scientific and medical purposes

• fldigi turns a sound card into a modem

• The Linux in the Ham Shack podcast

• Software defined radio

• RTL SDR

• SDR++

• SDRangel

• GNU Radio

• Hamvention, a big amateur radio conference

• HP Dev One HP laptop sold with Pop!_OS

Catch up with Bill

• On the waves he's known as NE4RD

• Twitter

• You can listen to him on the Linux in the Ham Shack podcast

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Discussion

• Battery Drain 🪫:

  • Amolith's 📜 post on battery usage

  • Mike's testing results 🧪:

    • 94% left after 8 hrs with optimised apps and no Google apps

    • 95% left after 8 hrs with unoptimised apps and no Google apps

    • 96% left after 8 hrs with Google apps

  • LineageOS 📲

  • 🔥 Firebase

  • 🔓OpenGApps

  • MindTheGapps 🚊

  • 🤖 microG

  • Ubuntu Touch 👈

• Modos 💻 e-ink laptop

  • The specs 🤓

• 📛 SouthEast LinuxFest

  • 🗓 10-12 June 2022 in Sheraton Charlotte Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

  • Attendance is free 💰

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Discussion

A chat with Adam Pigg 💬

• InfiniTime ⌚️

• Amazfish 👩‍💻

• Pine64 🌲

  • PineTime

  • Pinecil

  • E Ink PineNote

  • PineSound and PineBuds

  • Drew DeVault's take on what Pine64's priorities should be

• 🪛 Adam's porting Sailfish OS

  • to the PinePhone and PinePhone Pro

  • F(x)tec Pro1 X

• PocoPhone F3 📱

• Sailfish 🐠

  • Sailfish VoLTE demo

  • Xperia 10 II and Xperia 10 III

  • TechView Podcast's Sailfish OS 4.4 release video

  • NemoMobile

• 🐚 Terminals and shells

  • rsync

  • Warp terminal

  • tmate terminal sharing

  • iTerm2

  • Fig

  • Explain Shell

  • fish

  • ZSH

  • Oh My Zsh

  • Bash Extensions

  • BusyBox

  • POSIX

• Installing software 👷‍♀️

  • Yay on EndeavourOS

  • Octopi

  • Pamac

  • KDE Discover

  • Flathub and Flatpak talk from 2022 Linux App Summit

  • Flatpak portals

• 📜 IDEs and editors

  • NetBeans

  • Eclipse

  • JetBrains

  • VS Code

  • Qt Creator

• Smartwatches ⏱

  • Mi Band

  • Garmin Instinct Solar

  • Amazfit GTR2

  • Watchy

  • Bangle.js

  • Gadgetbridge

• 🎟 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.

• Catchup with Adam 🐦:

  • Twitter

  • Telegram: @adampigg

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Discussion

• 🫙 Ubuntu 22.04 is out (from omg! ubuntu!)

  • Firefox is a snap now 🦊 (from Make Use Of)

  • Nvidia users are stuck on Xorg (from Phoronix)

  • Mike was wrong, accent colours are not (yet?) in Gnome 42. Ubuntu has them now 🔴🔵🟢 (from omg! ubuntu!)

• Asahi Linux 🐧🍎

  • You can tell it's a Dell... with a touchbar 👆

  • Asahi feature support 🤝

  • Apple is looking for a 🍏 Linux engineer (from listener Joey)

• FreeBSD on the Framework laptop 🐱‍💻

  • Framework reviewed on Linux After Dark 🎙️

  • Framework on FreeBSD wiki 👿📕

  • Framework motherboard is available on its own 🏪 (from The Verge)

• Pop!_OS 22.04 is now out ➡️

• Razer Tensorbook 💻

• 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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Discussion

• 🏰 Conor's back from Cork

• Mike's been (almost) daily driving macOS 🍏🖥, comparing it to Fedora

  • AppArmour 🛡

  • 🔐 SELinux

  • 🍺 HomeBrew

  • elementary OS 💻

• 🧢 Conor's been trying Fedora Kinoite

  • Flathub is still lacking some important software, especially compared to the AUR 📦

  • 🕹 SteamOS

  • AppImage 🌆

• Amolith has a new Pixel 6 📲

  • He's been running GrapheneOS on it 👮‍♀️

  • 🪨🌍🕸🪨 Vanadium browser

  • PDF.js 🔓

  • Auditor uses one device to validate the security of another one 💼

  • Seedvault backup tool 🏦

    • ☁️ can backup to Nextcloud

  • Google 📷 Camera app

    • and its ⚓️ ports for different devices

  • 🔥 Firebase

  • F-Droid 🆓

  • 🚚 microG

  • Aurora Store 🏪

• Fedora 36 Beta is out β

  • 🖥 Gnome 42

  • The default wallpaper 🏞

• Asahi Linux �🍎 continues to impress (from Ars Technica)

  • 🧾 Apple's AWS bill from a few years back (from CNBC)

  • 🍟 Apple M1 Pro, Max and Ultra

  • Samsung Exynos 📱

  • 🤖 Google Tensor (from Android Authority)

• ▶️ Steam Deck is getting continual big updates (from Gaming on Linux)

  • 🔃 Other gaming handheld companies seriously considering putting SteamOS on a future product (from Gaming on Linux)

  • 📤 You can now run Windows games on Arm via Proton and box86 (from Boiling Steam)

• ⌚️ New InfiniTime release for the PineTime smartwatch by Pine64 that brings some minor improvements throughout plus a new terminal-themed watch face

  • 🛑 Pebble Watch

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Discussion

• Dirty Pipe 🚱 is the most serious vulnerability in years (via Ars Technica)

  • ☠️ 📲 Exploits exist, on Android too (via Ars Technica)

  • Dirty 🐮 COW

  • Android application sandbox 🗃️

  • 📦 Flatpak sandboxing

• 🎩 📦 Flatpaks on Fedora

• ☸️ Flathub

• Peacenotwar, a malware used by Node IPC 💣 (via The Register)

• 🇺🇦 Stand with Ukraine Humble bundle

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Discussion

Crypto and Podcasting 2.0

• A Medium article 📰 on podcasting 2.0 (author Gary Arndt)

• The Linux Unplugged interview with Dave Jones (about 17:30) ⏺️

• Apple 🍎 Podcasts

• The Podcast Index 📇

• 📱 A list of apps that work at least some part of podcasting 2.0

• Issues with NFTs 🐒👔 explained in this YouTube video

• Lightning Network ⚡

• BTC 🪙 explained by 3Blue1Brown

• MetaMask wallet 👛

• OpenSea NFT market place 🖼️

• Dollarydoo 🇦🇺

• 🍕 Pizza for 3.8 biiiiillion

• ❌🗳️ No politics please, we are Coinbase

• Matt Damon's Crypto.com ad 🥺

• NixNet ⛔ doesn't take crypto

• Ian M. Banks Culture series 📚

• Pocket Casts 📢

• AntennaPod 📡

• Castro 💽

• Coil the web monetization platform 💶

• The Web Monetization API 📜

• 🛎️ Brave's Basic Attention Token

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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.

Discussion

• Shane's taking a sabatical 🏖️

• Matrix: Federation is ✍️ a feature

• 📱 Element Matrix app

• 📱 Telegram

• Discord offers a very granular user and room control 🎛️

• Mattermost has 🔀 threads and channels

• Matrix spaces are not as easily used as Discord's 🧩

• The Synapse Matrix reference server 🐘🐍

• ⚡ The nimbler Conduit Matrix server

• Mozilla use Matrix 🔥🦊💬

• FluffyChat iOS Matrix app 🐰🍎💬

• Telegram is domiciled in the UK and the Emirates 🏢 (via Wikipedia)

• Telegram is not opposed to making money 💶

• Telegram's crypto effort was ⚾⬇️ killed by the US Securities Commision (via Reuters)

• 📲 Signal messenger app is a viable alternative to Telegram

• Green bubble/blue bubble explained by Marques Brownlee on YouTube 🔵🟢💬

• Facebook 📉 stumbles (via The Verge)

• Facebook is finally dying 🪦 according to this YouTube video

• Apple's privacy rules will cost Facebook 10 biiiiiiilion 💰💰💰 (via CNBC)

• Facebook 💰💰💰 likely dropped 10 biiiiiiilion on the Metaverse in 2021

• 🎞️ Ready Player One

• Second Life 🎮

• 📖 In Snow Crash, the Metaverse was an ad-ridden dystopia

• The bone spaceship scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey 🦍🦴🚀

• Apparently, you can still buy a discman on Amazon 💿

• 💊 Reportedly, social media is designed to be addictive (via BBC)

• VPS providers like Hetzner provide Wordpress 🕸️

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Discussion

Chatting

• The Dublin Linux's self-hosted Matrix server broke 💣

  • LXD/LXC containers disappeared 🚪🚶
  • Now switched to Conduit instead of Synapse ⚡

• The Matrix Spaces YouTube video 📼

• Video stickers and other Generation Z technologies 👶⚙️ are abundant on Telegram

• 🍏☺️ Memoji

• Advertising 🕬 on Telegram

• Mattermost competes with Slack 🏢

• 💼 Microsoft Teams

• 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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Chitchat

• Shane runs Manjaro 🥘
• Conor runs ⛵ EndeavourOS
• Mike 🤠 runs Fedora
• Amolith runs Arch with i3 desktop 🆒

Discussion

• 📰 First screenshots of Pop!OS's Cosmic DE (via omg! ubuntu!)_

  • Pamac - Manjaro's package manager 📦
  • Paru, the AUR 🦮 helper, written in Rust

• Rust and Go 📜

• Dennis Ritchie 👨‍💻

• Irish Lotto ☘️

• 🏎️ Stirling Moss's 250 GTO

• Bowling for Columbine 🎥

Nifty Nuggets

• ⭐ Distrobox

• Apparently Windows in Docker is a thing 🪟

• Windows 11 in Gnome Boxes 🍱

• 🎮 Sonic Colors: Ultimate was made in Godot (via Godot Notes)

• Patriot Act on game development 🤒

Catch up with Amolith on his site 📧

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Discussion

• The Steam Deck 🎮

• 📦 Immutable Fedora Silverblue and Wayland

• LNL episode with Garuda Linux review 🎤

• MikroTik routers ⛕

  • They 👆 urge their users to keep their machines updated and avoid stale passwords

• European Computer Driving Licence 🚓

• The Raspberry Pi Foundation 🏫

• LTT 📼 Linux challenge

Favourite Projects

• ⛅ Nextcloud

• Matrix & Element 📩

• PipeWire 🔊

• KDE 🔧

  • Pop!_OS 📀

• 🍷 Wine

• Mozilla 🔥🦊

• 💸 Software in the Public Interest

• 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 👩‍🏫

• Squishbox 🎶

Game on!

• 📅 Monday 27th December 7.30 pm Dublin time (convert to a US timezone here)

• We'll choose a FOSS 🆓 game on the day. So far we are looking at the following, other suggestions are welcome:

  • 🎮 Zero K

  • 🎮 Super Tux Kart

  • 🎮 Xonotic

• For 🎙chat, we'll try Mumble with Jitsi as a backup

• ❓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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Discussion

We 🙏 apologize for the worse than usual audio quality.

• Ubuntu-powered cyberdog 🐕 (via omg! ubuntu!)

• Boston Dynamics makes pricier 💰 cyberdogs

• Blender 3.0 🥧 is out (via omg! ubuntu!)

  • Geometry Nodes ☊ tutorial

  • A video showcasing the new UI and features 📼

• Shane is on Ubuntu Studio 🎤

  • Unfa's 📹 channel

Game on!

• 📅 Monday 27th December 7.30 pm Dublin time (convert to a US timezone here)

• We'll choose a FOSS 🆓 game on the day. So far we are looking at the following, other suggestions are welcome:

  • 🎮 Zero K

  • 🎮 Super Tux Kart

  • 🎮 Xonotic

• For 🎙chat, we'll try Mumble with Jitsi as a backup

• ❓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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Chitchat

• Mike uses Gnome without extensions 😱
• Conor uses EndeavourOS 🚢 with Cinnamon
  • with the Pamac package manager 📦
• Shane installed PipeWire ♫
  • 🎸 easier than JACK
  • Unfa's YouTube 📹
  • Carla 🔊 audio app

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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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

• Nixnet
• Hetzner hosting
• Big Blue Button
• Etherpad
• Fediverse
  • Peertube
  • Matodon
• Tarsnap

Amolith's site

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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 🏪

• KDE is 25 years old 🎂

• 🧁 Jolla is 10 years old thanks Adam Pigg for the reminder

• Ubuntu 20.10 Impish Indri is out 🐒

  • Quickemu ⏩ (via linuxiac)
  • 22.04's codename will be Jammy Jellyfish 📛 (via omg!ubuntu!)

• LTT's Linus encountered some toxic Linux community members 🤮

• Mozilla's VPN now available in Ireland 🇮🇪

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Discussion

• Linux Mint's new website 🆕🕸 (via omg! ubuntu!)

  • 🏴📖🦊 Dark Reader for Firefox
  • 🏴📖🔵 Dark Reader for Chrome-based browsers
  • Linux Mint sponsors 💸

• 😢😢😢😢😢 The end of Ubuntu Podcast (via omg! ubuntu!)

• Fairphone 4 5G leaked 📱💦 (via GSMArena)

• Linus Sebastian 💲💲💲 invests 200k in Framework

• Frickin' Lasers by Alphabet, from Space, with love and decent uptime 🛰️

• 🧐 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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Discussion

• 00:00 Intro 👋

• 00:50 Linux turns 30 🎂

• 02:30 Diversion into the workings of Irish legislature 🇮🇪📜 (Wikipedia for more information)

• 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)

• 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

• 21:47 Shane is building a home server 💽💽💽

  • openmediavault
  • Unraid OS
  • TrueNAS

• 31:54 The lads recommend 👍

  • Shane: Joplin note app 📔
  • Mike: 📋 Super Productivity

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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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News

• KDE Connect on Windows (via omg! ubuntu!) 🦋📲

• 🎮 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)

• 💻🔨 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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Discussion

• Ubuntu 🐒 21.10 (in development) got Gnome 40 (via omg! ubuntu!)

  • Yaru theme 💜
  • 🏡 Adwaita theme

• Shane on Pop!_OS 🚀

  • Gtile 👩‍💻

• ⌨️ StreamPi

  • Elgato Stream Deck 💰
  • pactl 🔥
  • Switching audio sources from the task bar since Plasma 5.22 🔀

• Brave Browser 🦁

  • 🥡 Firefox 90 is out (via omg! ubuntu!)
  • Firefox now 📉 4th by market share, as discussed on Linux Action News