Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 27:34 — 25.3MB)

We finally have pricing for the Steam Machine, but they are very hard to actually buy, and very expensive. SteamOS is now supported on your own hardware now though, and Joe gives it a go. Plus Ubuntu makes moves to tighten up the flavours situation and announces speech to text on the desktop, and a quick KDE Korner.

News

Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty prices amid AI squeeze

Valve’s Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won’t be able to buy one yet

Gamers Nexus long review

Valve will finally let you build your own Steam Machine with SteamOS for desktop [archived]

$100 Steam Machine GPU Unlocked! PS5 APU (ASRock BC-250)

Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status

Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop

KDE Korner

KDE e.V. COMMUNITY REPORT

Plasma 6.7

Get started with Union, Plasma’s new theming engine, in 2 minutes or less: a FAQ

Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 7:08 — 6.6MB)

Our favourite little things about Linux and open source. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.

Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 33:26 — 30.7MB)

The new Steam hardware is getting close, Arch Linux’s AUR is compromised, and curl is having a month off from vulnerability reports. Plus updates on using the Kagi search engine, retro handhelds, and 3D printing.

Plugs

Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late

Graham’s talk

Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes

News

Steam Machine and Steam Frame are shipping this summer

Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day [archived] 2

Arch Linux’s AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware 4.5

Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages

Arch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack

Arch Linux locks down AUR signups amid wave of malicious commits

curl summer of bliss

Retro gaming handhelds

R36S

Fakes

R36H

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 26:52 — 24.7MB)

A new Firefox release confuses Félim, Plex makes no sense in a world where Jellyfin exists, Will considers paying for the Kagi search engine, and another small Android tablet for your wall. Plus what we learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit.

News/discussion

Firefox 151.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing

Kagi

Shelly Wall Display

Ubuntu Summit

Ubuntu Summit 26.04 Timetable

Ubuntu Summit videos

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:21 — 26.0MB)

Steam Deck price rises point toward high prices for the new Valve hardware, Lenovo puts its name to a cheap retro handheld and regrets it, Wikipedia management seems to be acting like a typical big tech company and the workers are organising, Bambu pisses off its 3D printer customers and Joe got given a free unrelated 3D printer, and we don’t believe that the Raspberry Pi 6 will arrive as late as 2028.

News

Steam Deck back in stock, with updated pricing

The golden age of handheld gaming is already over [archived]

Lenovo pulls its controversial G02 retro handheld from sale – starting a chain reaction that could decimate the retro gaming market

Sellers circumvent Lenovo’s retro handheld ban with cheap wholesale storefronts

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

We’re Wiki Workers United, a global solidarity union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation

Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs

Comprehensive Response to Bambu’s AGPLv3 Violations – Software Freedom Conservancy

‘Fuck you, Bambu’: How one private message could change the face of 3D printing [archived]

No Raspberry Pi 6 before 2028

Don’t expect a Raspberry Pi 5 in 2023, says Eben Upton [21st Dec 2022]

Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! [28th Sep 2023]

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 25:22 — 23.3MB)

Debian’s ambitious aim to make all packages reproducible pushes us closer to a better future, yet more talk about age verification for VPNs, Firefox gets more users on mobile thanks to regulation, Opera’s gaming browser comes to Linux, Valve releases CAD files for the Steam Controller, and the Steam Frame might be coming soon. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.

News/discussion

Debian Release Team: Debian Must Now Ship Reproducible Packages

EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push

EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox’s way

Opera GX Lands on Linux

Steam Controller and Puck CAD files officially released under a Creative Commons license — Valve encourages users to create accessories for the device

Steam Frame coming soon?

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 27:47 — 25.5MB)

Great funding news for LVFS and KDE, why Europe probably needs some more home-grown distros, a conspiracy theory about Cloudflare seems unlikely, and we wonder what can be done about all the irresponsibly disclosed vulnerabilities that new tools are discovering. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.

News

LVFS Sponsorship Announcement

Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development

KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own

Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical?

‘Dirty Frag’ Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit

Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access

Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos

DirtyCBC: When Linux Kernel Decrypt-Before-MAC Turns Authenticated Encryption Into a Page-Cache Write

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:02 — 26.6MB)

Voice to text, visualising CSVs in the terminal, managing software from releases on GitHub, a mini Android tablet for your wall, and Amiga music on Linux in Discoveries. Plus Ubuntu embracing AI makes us wonder if we should just stop having the same old arguments.

Discoveries

VoxType

Tennis

tooler

SONOFF NSPanel Pro Gen2

Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator

News/discussion

The future of AI in Ubuntu

I wanted to reply with some clarifications

The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next?

Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

Upcoming Blender Development Fund and AI Policies

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:21 — 27.8MB)

There’s a new Ubuntu LTS release and quite a lot is new, Canonical’s infrastructure was taken down and we disagree about whether it could have been avoided, two recent examples of irresponsible vulnerability disclosure, and the Steam controller finally arrives with a hefty price tag.

Plugs

Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late

SeaGL 2026 Call for Presentations

News

Canonical releases Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: What’s New Since Ubuntu 24.04?

An update on rust-coreutils

Pro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedown

The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed

Carrot disclosure: Forgejo and follow-up

Steam Controller: The Ars Technica review

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:10 — 26.8MB)

Whether you can trust small new distros, Amazon is officially abandoning Android on its new TV sticks in favour of their new Linux-based OS, and we have another pointless argument about AI bollocks.

News/discussion

Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore

Eternal November — this new influx of users may be better than the last one