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If you’re going to use proprietary software, why not just run it on a proprietary OS?
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Late Night Linux – Episode 168
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Arch and the Web make us feel old, the BBC makes us rather cross, a kernel vulnerability makes us laugh, Mozilla makes us wonder, and KDE makes us happy.
News
A new year, a new MDN (MDN Plus cling soon)
Something is up with elementary
GNOME, Mono, Xamarin founder Miguel de Icaza leaves Microsoft
Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years
Click here to see why the BBC HATES RSS
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KDE Korner
New Firmware Security tab coming in Plasma 5.25
Signature support is now Okular in on Android
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Linux Downtime – Episode 42
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Joe is joined by Stuart Langridge to talk about Open Web Advocacy, a group of software engineers from all over the world who have come together to advocate for the future of the open web.
Stuart’s consulting company Kryogenix
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Late Night Linux – Episode 167
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A varied selection of Discoveries including suspending apps, easy VMs, and controlling pretty lights. Plus your feedback about Linux gaming, whether bug fixes should be more important than new features, and more.
Discoveries
Feedback
GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
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Late Night Linux – Episode 166
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The Raspberry Pi turns 10, the Steam Deck reviews are here, Android is getting proper virtualisation, Arm ThinkPads are coming, and KDE is even better than ever.
News
One decade, 46 million units: Happy birthday, Raspberry Pi
Android 13 virtualization hack runs Windows (and Doom) in a VM on Android
Steam Deck review: it’s not ready
Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad
Qualcomm’s new PC chips are good, but they still can’t match Apple’s M1
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KDE Korner
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Linux Downtime – Episode 41
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Joe is joined by Adam Pigg, a member of the Sailfish OS Community who has ported the OS to various phones.
A thread with some of Adam’s history
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Late Night Linux – Episode 165
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Loads of discoveries including window tiling, rich text for CLI Python apps, FOSS Wordle, 3D home design, and fractals. Plus your feedback about JSON, Matrix, audio, and an old Mac.
Discoveries
wordle in under 50 lines of bash
Feedback
fx: Command-line tool and terminal JSON viewer
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Linux After Dark – Episode 11
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Why Linux operating systems on small Arm devices almost all feel half-finished, and what we can do to improve things.
Links mentioned:
Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities
Test 15 different PinePhone operating systems with Megi’s latest multi-distro demo image
PinePhone: trying out a Linux-based smartphone
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Late Night Linux – Episode 164
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Mixed gaming news, great Raspberry Pi news, Mozilla teams up with Meta and ditches their VR browser, KDE Korner, and more.
News
Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance Review
Privacy Preserving Attribution for Advertising
Pocket migration to Firefox accounts
Google Stadia has reportedly been demoted, but it might show up in your Peloton
Inside Google’s Plan to Salvage Its Stadia Gaming Service
Early Steam Deck previews are out – and battery life is causing concern
Steam Deck CAD files now available
Twitter thread about the Deck’s size
Epic won’t update Fortnite to run on the Steam Deck
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KDE Korner
Plasma 5.24 (Nico has a video) & Bug fixes coming with some improvements too
Plasma Mobile Gear 22.01 is out
5.25 starts: Discover redesign begins & Navigate panels with the keyboard
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