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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

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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

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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 @doomscroll_bot@bird.makeup

• Deta Space

• Heroku

• itch.io

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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/

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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

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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

  • Thanks Elon! - Shane's posts on our 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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Recorded on 8/11/2022 at the Ubuntu Summit in Prague

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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: @stranded_output@indieweb.social
  • Conor: @techcelt@fosstodon.org
  • Mike: @mikee3000@fosstodon.org
  • Amolith: @amolith@nixnet.social

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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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• 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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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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• 🍴 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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• 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 -> linuxlads@muc.nixnet.services (not currently bridged to anything)

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• 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 🐦:

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  • Telegram: @adampigg

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• 🫙 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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• 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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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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• 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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• 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:

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  • 🎮 Super Tux Kart

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• 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

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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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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• 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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• 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

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• New 🌐Pop!_OS is out and this time it's cosmic 🌃

  • Nick's review on YouTube 📹

• 🚤 SiFive’s launched the P550 RISC-V CPUs (via Ars Technica)

• OpenStreetMap might relocate to the EU 🗺 (via The Guardian)

• The Irish spice bag 🥘 (via The Irish Times)

• Breton Kouign-amann butter cake 🎂 (via Wikipedia)

• Cuisine de France 🇫🇷

• 🛒 The AUR for Debian (via Gaming On Linux)

  • The Linux Unplugged episode 🔊 where they discuss Pacstall

Catchup with Nick

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• 📹 Odysee

• 🏪 TeeSpring

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Interview with Alex and Zlatan from Shells.com

Please excuse the slightly lower quality of the audio in this episode

• 🐚 Shells.com

  • Promo Code 💰 (Doesn't work in Brave and possibly other browsers, tested and proved working in Firefox)

• Wikipedia article on Mark Karpelès

• 2.5 Admin episode discussing Shells.com in context of Freenode

• Some previous Shells.com interviews 🎙:

  • Linux4Everyone

  • Destination Linux

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• 🐦 Twitter

• Keynote at openSuse Virtual Conference 💬

• Birds of a Feather 🦎 session at KDE Akademy 2021

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• Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management - The Register.

• Shit's going down with Audacity

  • They have added a controversial Contributor License Agreement.
  • Response to the controversial telemetry.
  • Ladspa.

• Google and Samsung are merging Wear OS and Tizen - The Verge.

• Tizen.
• MeeGo.
• Sagem.

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• IRC: amolith on Libera and NixNet

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We review the Beta release of elementary OS 6

• the release post 𝞫

• 🐦 elementary OS website

• elementary devs say elementary is not intended to work like macOS 🕬

• Gnome Web 🕸

• ⭐ the elementary icon set

• Mike was wrong 😱, the Planner app and the built in elementary OS Task app are 2 different things

• Simplenote 📘

• Joplin 📑

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• 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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Does desktop Linux do all we need it to do?

• 🛒 Some Linux vendors:

  • 🇪🇺 Slimbook
  • 🇪🇺 Tuxedo Computers
  • 🇬🇧 Entroware
  • 🇺🇸 System76

• 💿 Alternatives to commercial software and services:

  • 🆓 Dublin Linux list of free software
  • ☁️ Dublin Linux list of alternative cloud services
  • 🔄 AlternativeTo

• The 🧘 Linux Lads workflow

  • Jitsi 🤙
  • Audacity 🎵
  • 🎶 Ardour

• CUPS 🖨️

• Follow-You Printing 🐾

• 🖼️ Photography software

  • Digikam 📷
  • 🌑 darktable
  • 🥼 RawTherapee
  • Rapid Photo Downloader 🔽

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• 🖖🖥️ Gnome 40 (via omg! ubuntu!)
  • Fedora 34 Beta 🎩 (via TechRepublic)

• 🎙 Linux Unplugged Gnome 40 episode

• 👎 RMS is back at the FSF among protests from prominent community members

  • RMS's unkindness 😞

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• Shane is not feeling 🤒 well, so we are not going to release an episode this week.

• Hopefully he'll feel better soon, and we'll publish a show next week 🎙️📅.

• Apologies for any disappointment caused.

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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 👷🏼‍♀️

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• 📺 YouTube
• 👩🏿‍💻 GitHub
• 🖇 LinkedIn

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• GTA III and Vice City reverse engineering project was DMCAd 💩🎮 (via GamingOnLinux)

• 🦋🖥️ The Plasma people did something pretty

• Manjaro is now the default on the PinePhone 📱 (via omg! ubuntu!)

• Firefox 86 🔥🦊 is out

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• Conor: I got a new mic so my audio should be awesome or I'm getting my money back :D

Discussion

• 💰 Godot gets $120k grant money (via GamingOnLinux)

  • Mozilla is a platinum member of the new Rust Foundation 💎⚙️
  • Blender sponsors 🖌️

• Martin Wimpress is leaving 🚪 Canonical (via omg! ubuntu!)

• 👈 JingOS, Linux for tablets has an alpha out (via omg! ubuntu!)

• Changes in 💫 Gnome 40 (via Tech Republic)

  • The Linux Unplugged episode where they discuss Gnome 40 🎙

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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
  • Anbox 📦
• 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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• 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.

• Mike: Got myself a Teclast f5 hybrid laptop. Landed on EndeavourOS 📂

• 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

• 2021 should bring a Production ready Plasma Wayland session according the Nate Graham 🖥️

• 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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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!

• 🦋 Microsoft 🕵️👨🏻‍🏭🙇 apologize for "worker spyware" (via The Guardian)

  • The Linux Lads Employee of the Month is Debbie in Accounts 🏆

• 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 🪨🐧🪨

• New release of Raspberry Pi OS 🥧🥧🥧🥧

  • Hackboard 2 🪛
  • 🍱 FreedomBox
  • Pi KVM, Lakka 🎮
  • 🔄 Syncthing
  • 🚂🔗 Steam Link for the Pi

• 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:

• You must have a Steam or GOG 🔐 account (to be gifted the prize)

• You can follow us on 🐦 Twitter and use #cyberpunklads or email show@linuxlads.com with Cyberpunk Lads as the subject.

• The entries will be put into a spreadsheet and a 🎲 random number generator will pick the winner so there is no advantage or disadvanage to getting the entry in early.

• The deadline for entries is midnight 🌓 Dublin time on the 23rd. The winner will be contacted on the 24th.

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• 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).

Catch up with DM

• 🌐 Web

• 🐥 Twitter

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This week we chat about the new Raspberry Pi, Chromium on Mint, YouTube-DL takedown, Ubuntu, carrier lock, HBO Max.

• 🥧 The Raspberry Pi 400

  • Quidsup Ubuntu on RPi 4 YouTube 📹 video
  • IQ 151 ☭

• Linux Mint are now 🏗️ building and packaging Chromium

• The RIAA got ⚖️ YouTube-DL taken off GitHub (via Torrent Freak)

  • Our Article 13 episode 🎙️
  • Microsoft Dublin data centre case 💽 (via Irish Times)
  • 🌊 The Principality of Sealand

• Ubuntu 21.04 is gonna be called Hirsuite 🦛 Hippo (via TechRadar) -📺 Shane's YouTube Channel

• Ubuntu 20.10 is out (via FOSS Linux) 🦍

  • Sylvia Ritter's Groovy Gorilla 🎨
  • 🐧 Pop!_OS 20.10

• No more carrier lock in the UK 🔓 (via The Verge)

• 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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🎃 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 :

• 🔴🎩 Red Hat the company supporting Fedora

• The multiple editions can be found on their main page 📑

• 💻 Gnome-based workstation is the main one, but there are many other spins

• Centos gets a lot of goodness from Fedora (eventually ⌛)

• Extra options can be set using ⚙️ Gnome Tweaks

• Extra software can be found in the ⚗️ copr repos and in RPM Fusion

• Flatpak is the "official" universal 🌌 packaging format, but Snaps in Mike's experience works too.

• 🟦 Fedora Silverblue

• 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 🏘️

• Fedora 🤯 Mindshare

• 💼 Fedora Ambassadors

• 👍 Fedora is on

  • the podcast waves 🎙️🌊
  • YouTube 📹
  • Discord 🎮
  • 🦜 Twitter
  • 📷 Instagram
  • 😲📘Facebook

• Fedora Special Interest Groups 🍻

• Fedora is an ✌🏿✌️✌🏻✌🏾inclusive project

  • Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator aka F-🎂

• Find the Fedora community:

  • Join Fedora ℹ️
  • 🛠️ Help out

• Catch up with Ed on Twitter 🐦

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• Shane has a Minetest let's play YouTube 📹 video

  • Vim Golf is a thing 🏌️‍♀️

• 👨‍💻 Conor works way too much

• Mike talks way too much 🤐

Discussion

This week we mostly chat about empowerment and barriers 🚧 to entry.

• Purism's AweSim 📱💲

  • 🎙️ This Week in Linux episode

• Azire VPN 🕸️

  • Fortinet for Gnome Network Manager 👍

• Manjaro Cinnamon 🖼️

• UK Covid Excel fail 📊🙅‍♀️

• 🦉 You've chosen wisely (via YouTube)

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• 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. 👹

• Nvidia 🤑 buys Arm. (via ZDNet)

• RISC-V desktop CPU 🖥 (via CNX Software)

• Microsoft 🏭 release kernel source code for Surface Duo (via Windows Central)

• Pinebook Pro and 📱 Pinephone

• Linux 💻 laptops by

• HP (via omg! ubuntu!)
• Lenovo (via omg! ubuntu!)
• Tuxedo Computers

• Slimbook

• Go have a listen of the new Tabs, Not Spaces 🎙

• We have a brand new store 🛒

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This is the last episode of the season, we'll be taking a break and will be back in September

• Conor: I haz new PC 🖥

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600 🦸
  • 🎮 Radeon RX 5700 Graphics
  • Timeshift ⌛backup tool

• Mike: 🍹Drinking in LA (fat chance)

News

• Ireland ☘ contributes the open-source part of the COVID Tracker app to the Linux Foundation

• PinePhone news 📱📢

  • A beefier 💪 PinePhone now available (via omg! ubuntu!)
  • Android 10 🤖 for the PinePhone (via omg! ubuntu!)

• Phosh Purism's phone shell 🐚

  • 🦋 Flutter for Linux (via SlashGear)

• 📽 Olive is a new contender in the video editing space on Linux.

  • Non-linear editing (via Wikipedia) 🎞✂🎞

• LibreOffice 7 🏢 won't use "Personal Edition" tag for now

  • The 🎙 Binary Times episode with Mike Saunders from the Document Foundation
  • CodeWeavers 🧑‍💻
  • 🕹🐧 PlayOnLinux

• Closing thoughts:

  • 🍻🎤 FOSS Talk Live
  • OggCamp 🐧⛺

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• Mike: Was on PTO, 🧳🇮🇪 went to Carlingford and Kilkenny

• Mark: Still playing with 📱 Volla phone and loving it.

  • Upgrading ⬆ openSUSE

• Conor: Adventures in 🐧 KDE continue.... we can do this, we have the technology

News

• 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" 🕘➡🕔

• Barclays UK 🏦 used the Internet Archive as their CDN 👎

• Volla 📱 phone beta is out and Mark is testing 🧪 how it runs Ubuntu Touch

  • 👈 Ubuntu Touch page for the device

  • Assembled by Gigaset in Germany 🤖🇩🇪

  • /e/ foundation, Sailfish OS ☎

• Turn Ubuntu into a rolling distro with the 🤣🦏 Rolling Rhino script (via omg! ubuntu!)

  • The Ubuntu Podcast episode where it all started 🎤🔰 (around the 25th minute)

  • Debian releases and codenames 🦖

  • openSUSE 💚🐧

  • Manjaro 💻

  • 🎷⬇ Cadmus noise suppression GUI tool for Linux (via GamingOnLinux)

  • Elementary OS, Zorin, Linux Mint 🐧🐧🐧

• John Romero, the designer of Doom 💀

  • David Hayter 🕹🐍

• Alacritty the GPU-accelerated terminal ⏩

🎙 Catch up with Mark at the Binary Times

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Interview with DM

• What is ⚡🐚 PowerShell

• VS Code and the open source VSCodium 📜

• Zenity 🧑‍💻

• 🦸 PSAvalonia

• Out-GridView 🗼

• PowerShell 🌍 Selenium module

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• 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)

• Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition 💻 now comes with Ubuntu 20.04 (via 9to5Linux)

• KDE plasma 🖥 changes the window list to icons only by default (via omg! ubuntu!)

• 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" 🔥♻

• iOS, now with more Android 7, Mac OS now with more iOS, also ARM 💻📲 (via The Verge on YouTube)

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• 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:

  • 🥡 Winget Appget grab (via The Verge)

  • Maui 📛🔥 name clash (via Phoronix)

• 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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• Mike: I've been playing 👨‍💻 with Julia

• Shane: I am reaching convergence ☯ nirvana in my workspace.

• 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)

• EU 🇪🇺 Parliament recommends open source (via It's FOSS)

• Trump fact-checked by Twitter, so he wants to regulate 🟠👎🐦 (via The Guardian)

• Munich 🔙 going back to open source. (via ZDNet)

• 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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• 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

• Basic info about 🦦🎮 Lutris

• MAME and Retro Arch emulators 🕹

• 🍷Wine is famously not an emulator

• PlayOnLinux makes Wine easier 🦋

• itch.io indie game repo 🏪

• 🏬 Good Old Games (GoG) - a store for DRM-free games

• Old Lutris logo 🖼 (Forbes, within the article)

• 🗺 Freeciv, 🔫 Xonotic, 🚁 OpenRA, 🛡 Warzone 2100, ⚔ 0 A.D., 🚂 OpenTTD are open source games native to Linux

• Mathieu spends a lot of time in 🌷 Stardew Valley

• Conor recommends ✅: AMD Ryzen 3 3300x

Catchup with Mathieu

• Discord 🎮

• 🐦 Twitter

• Web 🌐

• GitHub 😸

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• Mike: Being quarantined 😷🏠

• Conor: Playing Twin Snakes in Dolphin 🐍🐍🐬❓❗

News

• Ubuntu 20.04:

  • 🛒 21 Must-Have Apps for Ubuntu (2020 Edition) (via omg! ubuntu!)

  • 👈 Better fingerprints scanning (via omg! ubuntu!)

  • Ubuntu 20.10 will be called 🕺🦍 Groovy Gorilla (via omg! ubuntu!)

  • Conor's LBRY vids 🎥

• Fedora 32:

  • Fedora 32 is 🐧🆓 released

  • Lenovo laptops 💻🐧 will soon come with the distro pre-loaded.

  • The 🎙 Linux Unplugged episode with Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller.

• Vivaldi 3.0

  • The new release has Tracker Blocking and ⏰ Status Bar Clock (via omg! ubuntu!)

• Manjaro Lysia

  • Now has a ZFS option in the 💽 installer and snaps and Flatpaks can now be enabled in Pamac (via It's FOSS)

  • 2.5 Admins podcast 💾💾🙃

• OnlyOffice

  • Version 5.5 Released 🧑‍💼 (via omg! ubuntu!)

• RetroPie

  • Version 🥧 4.6 released with Raspberry Pi 4 support

Events

• openSUSE Virtual Summit 📅 1-2 May 2020

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• 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. 👌

• 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)

  • NDISwrapper 🖧

• 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)

• New GNOME Mobile Shell Mockups for bigger touch 👈 screens (via omg! ubuntu!)

  • The Phosh shell 🐚 from Purism.

• 📚 A great update to Foliate eBook reader (via omg! ubuntu!)

• The 🦋 Deepin 20 Beta is out (via Forbes)

  • Ubuntu DDE with Ubuntu Store 🏪

• 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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Chat with Rocco

• Big Daddy Linux 🕸️ website

• 🎚️ BDLL YouTube channel

• 🎥 Linux Spotlight <- Mark Shuttleworth episode

• Big Daddy Linux Telegram, Twitter 🐤

• 🎮 Metal Gear Solid

• 🎙️ Destination Linux

• Wubi installer 💾

• 🖥️ KDE 3.5 and Trinity Desktop

• Pop!_OS 🚀

• 🖊️ gedit

• OBS 💿 Studio

• 📼 DaVinci Resolve

• AlternativeTo 🔮

• Zoom ☎️

• 💚🐧 Linux Mint Debian Edition

• Sparky Linux and MX Linux 💕

• 🎤 Shure SM7B

• MeWe 🖧

• TweetDeck 🐦🎴

• Ubuntu 20.04 💅 (via omg! ubuntu!)

• Brave Browser 🦁

• Mozilla's 🦊 attempt to change web monetazition

Events

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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.

• 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 🛡️.

• 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)

• 🕹️ Half Life Alyx to be available on Linux (via GamingOnLinux)

• Firefox 📦 now has a Flatpak (via 9to5Linux)

• Librem Mini 🖥️ from Purism. (via omg! ubuntu! and Forbes)

Discussion

Remote Work

• ℹ️ Big Tech and social networks against misinformation

• 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

AzireVPN coupon code

We have a coupon code for 30% off when you pay for 3 months of AzireVPN, a security-focused VPN provider based in Sweden. The law there doesn't require them to log traffic, so they don't. They operate servers in 5 locations in Europe and north America. Their servers are owned by the company, installed on location by their engineers and running Debian. They provide a WireGuard option, as well as OpenVPN and their client is GPLv2 licensed and of course available on Linux. They take payment in cryptocurrencies, cash, credit cards and PayPal plus you don't even have to give them an email address.

• Use the code linuxlads20 when ordering.
• Make sure you click the green 'Add Code' button to get the discount.
• 30% off 3 months, so instead of paying €12, you'll pay €8.40

Contact Us

• We have a store
• And a forum
• And a Steam Community
• We are on Telegram
• And on Matrix
• And on Discord
• And on Twitter
• And on Mastodon
• Or 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.

• 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

• Facebook sponsors OBS 💸 (via GamingOnLinux)

• LibreOffice 6.4.1 released 🏭 with over 120 bug fixes (via omg! ubuntu!)

• 🖊️🏢 Collabora Office is now available on iOS and Android (via omg! ubuntu!)

• Unity8 has been renamed to Lomiri by the 📱 Ubuntu Touch project (via 9to5Linux)

  • Sailfish 🐟 OS

  • 📦 Anbox, Canonical offers Anbox Cloud service.

Discussion

Artyom from Zorin OS

• 🐧 Zorin OS

• Compiz desktop effects 🎆 in a YouTube video.

• Krazy Ken's Tech Misadventures Zorin OS episode (YouTube 📹 video from 2019)

• Zorin Grid 🌐

• Snaps, 📦 Flatpak

• 🚀 Pop!_os

• 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.

• NCDU 💽, disk usage analyzer on the command line

Events

• 🐧🎦 Revolution OS movie showing, Saturday, April 11, 2020 in the Harcourt Hotel in Dublin - more info on Meetup

• ⚡🎤 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

• 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

• 🐦 Twitter

• 🥶📘 Facebook

• 📌 Forum

AzireVPN coupon code

We have a coupon code for 30% off when you pay for 3 months of AzireVPN, a security-focused VPN provider based in Sweden. The law there doesn't require them to log traffic, so they don't. They operate servers in 5 locations in Europe and north America. Their servers are owned by the company, installed on location by their engineers and running Debian. They provide a WireGuard option, as well as OpenVPN and their client is GPLv2 licensed and of course available on Linux. They take payment in cryptocurrencies, cash, credit cards and PayPal plus you don't even have to give them an email address.

• Use the code linuxlads20 when ordering.
• Make sure you click the green 'Add Code' button to get the discount.
• 30% off 3 months, so instead of paying €12, you'll pay €8.40

Contact Us

• We have a store
• And a forum
• And a Steam Community
• We are on Telegram
• And on Matrix
• And on Discord
• And on Twitter
• And on Mastodon
• Or 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.

• Shane: Getting a cat 🐈
• Conor: 🤒 Being sick
• Mike: Learning 🏫 Dash

Support the EDRi and Digital Rights Ireland 💸

Technology brings with it countless benefits to society but it also brings with it a real potential for misuse and unethical practices. Fighting for privacy and against censorship and surveillance is not something we can do as individuals so we would like to shout out organizations like the EDRi and Digital Rights Ireland. They fight against the relentless march of big tech and oppressive governments who if left unchecked would seriously infringe upon our civil liberties. The internet is still very much a social frontier so it's important to support and promote advocacy groups will hold these people accountable.

News

• South Korea 🇰🇷🔀🐧 could possibly switch government computers to Linux (via FOSS Linux)

• App Center 🛒 for everyone

• A big update for OpenShot 📹 (via omg! ubuntu!)

• 😞📵 Essential ceasing operation (via The Verge)

• UKUI redesign 🖥️ (via omg! ubuntu!)

• Linux-exclusive 🎮 gaming platform in the making (via Forbes), Kickstarter

Discussion

How we make the podcast

• Mentioned gear:

  • 🎙️ Blue Yeti

  • Blue ❄️ Snowball

  • 🎤 Audio-Technica AT2020

  • Scarlet Focusrite 👎

  • Behringer XENYX Q502USB 🎚️

  • 🎛️ Behringer U-Phoria UM2

  • Tonor XLR condenser mic kit 🧰

• Mentioned software:

  • Audacity ✏️🎶

  • ☎️ Discord

  • 🤝 Jitsi Meet

  • 🐍🍾 Python Bottle with Jinja templates

  • Grav CMS 🦋

  • Vue.JS 🔭

• 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 📅

AzireVPN coupon code

We have a coupon code for 30% off when you pay for 3 months of AzireVPN, a security-focused VPN provider based in Sweden. The law there doesn't require them to log traffic, so they don't. They operate servers in 5 locations in Europe and north America. Their servers are owned by the company, installed on location by their engineers and running Debian. They provide a WireGuard option, as well as OpenVPN and their client is GPLv2 licensed and of course available on Linux. They take payment in cryptocurrencies, cash, credit cards and PayPal plus you don't even have to give them an email address.

• Use the code linuxlads20 when ordering.
• Make sure you click the green 'Add Code' button to get the discount.
• 30% off 3 months, so instead of paying €12, you'll pay €8.40

Contact Us

• We have a store
• And a forum
• And a Steam Community
• We are on Telegram
• And on Matrix
• And on Discord
• And on Twitter
• And on Mastodon
• Or 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