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Whether Debian should be easier for new users, Twitter pretends to care about decentralisation, a protip about portable monitors, how we should run an online FOSS Talk Live, and your feedback.

Using an Android tablet as a portable monitor

All you need is a cheap USB capture device and an app from the Play Store. Full instructions here.

Félim’s 800×480 screen

News/discussion

Twitter’s decentralized social network project takes a baby step forward

bluesky on Twitter and a funny reply

Must ‘completely free’ mean ‘hard to install’? Newbie gripe sparks some soul-searching among Debian community

Admin

FOSS Talk Live 2021 isn’t happening in person

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Feedback

Some follow-up on mailservers, Ubiquiti alternatives, some top trolling of Félim, and something Joe missed when he spoke to popey about snaps.

We mentioned Mailcow, docker-mailserver, and Omada Enterprise Access Points.

Linode

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Datadog

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Lernard

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Graham’s Pi microcontroller prediction comes true, great progress with Linux on M1 Macs, Element’s Play Store troubles, hope for Firefox and web standards docs, mixed VR news, a new tablet distro in KDE Korner, and more.

News

Meet Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4

Arduino To Release Board Based on Raspberry Pi Silicon

How We Ported Linux to the M1

M1 Macs booting from NVMe

Element suspended on Google Play Store: now resolved

Welcoming Open Web Docs to the MDN family

Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies

Firefox stops working on progressive web app support

Fedora’s Chromium maintainer suggests switching to Firefox as Google yanks features in favour of Chrome

Google’s VR painting app is getting the axe, but it will live on as an open-source project

Admin

Popey on LNLE 14 about Snaps

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KDE Korner

JingOS, the Linux Tablet Distro, Releases First Alpha Build

Kate HUD

Plasma Browser Integration 1.8 with Edge

Consistency Nitpicks

Linode

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Will’s hybrid cloud approach to Pi-hole, and huge batch of feedback about all sorts including Firefox, convergence, home monitoring, email servers, and more.

Pi-hole and WireGuard follow-up

Double helping of Pi Hole

Admin

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Feedback

Some predictions about Firefox, follow-up on convergence, and home monitoring/automation, email servers, and FOSS we couldn’t live without.

Build an air quality monitor with InfluxDB, Grafana, and Docker on a Raspberry Pi

Steve’s series of posts

Linode

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Datadog

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Will’s questionable network gear recommendations, Wikipedia at 20, terrible BBC educational material, minimising e-waste, VMs vs containers, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Linux distro review: Intel’s own Clear Linux OS

Ubiquiti, maker of prosumer routers and access points, has had a data breach

BBC educational material about open source

Wikipedia at 20: last gasp of an internet vision, or a beacon to a better future?

Doubling down on open, Part II

Samsung pushes useful retirement project for older phones

Right to Repair Europe

Admin

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Feedback

We were asked whether we use more VMs or containers.

KDE Korner

Open-source contributors say they’ll pull out of Qt as LTS release goes commercial-only

Fedora Kenoite

Linode

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Datadog

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Entroware

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 31:22 — 21.6MB)

Monitoring and automating our homes, heating systems, brewing the perfect beer with a raspberry Pi, modern databases, KDE Korner, and more.

Home monitoring and automation

Will’s links:

Raspberry Pi Heating Controller

Heating controller code

Graphing library

InfluxDB Cloud 2

Node-RED

Graham’s links:

Home Assistant

Domoticz

HA Bridge

Rtl_433

BrewPi (legacy)

Fermentrack

Félim’s links:

Graphite

Grafana

KDE Korner

KDE Matrix Client – NeoChat

KDE Apps in the Windows store

Highlights from 2020

Geeks, Mops & Sociopaths

Linode

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Datadog

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Lernard

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It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2020 predictions, and make some new ones for 2021.

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Datadog

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We look back at some of the biggest 2020 trends including Arm and Mozilla, consider the fallout from the recent CentOS announcement, and end on typically good KDE news. Plus details of a LNL community event.

Two big 2020 topics

Arm

8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

Raspberry Pi 400

PinePhones Shipping

PinePhone UBports Community Edition Pre-orders are Open

Second PinePhone Community edition

postmarketOS now boots on over 200 Linux phones and tablets

AWS unveils new compute instances, including compute heavy C6gn powered by Graviton2

marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs

Mozilla

Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue

Readying for the Future at Mozilla

Use your voice to #StopHateForProfit

Changing World, Changing Mozilla

If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn’t. Bad news: It’s working as intended

Admin

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CentOS

CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream

Entroware

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Digital Ocean

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Faux outrage over the Linux Foundation’s lack of dogfooding, an attempt to port Linux to modern Macs, follow-up on search engines and privacy, KDE Korner, and more.

News

No dog food today – the Linux Foundation annual report

marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs

Check out the most recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra

Feedback

Thanks to everyone who wrote to us. See the contact page if you want to send in your thoughts.

KDE Korner

Plasma Big Screen Beta 2

Alternate Character Input

Digikam on Big Sur progresses

Lernard

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Digital Ocean

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