Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:51 — 20.6MB)

Will buys a cheap mouse, Félim thinks he’s a meteorologist, Graham hacks his TV, and Joe complains about YouTube.

Discoveries

libratbag & piper

WeeWX

Device/DevMode Manager for webOS TV

LMN 3: An Open-Source DAW-in-a-Box

Doom on coreboot and on a Bluetooth dongle

OBS

Feedback

Deskreen

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:26 — 20.3MB)

Thumbs up for Mozilla and KDE, mixed reaction to mobile Thunderbird and Microsoft, AI definitely isn’t sentient, and more.

News

Our Plans For Thunderbird On Android

Frequently Asked Questions: Thunderbird Mobile and K-9 Mail

Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users worldwide

How to easily switch from Chrome to Firefox

How to set Firefox as your default browser on Windows

Microsoft Store: no astronomical pricing and paid open source or free copycat applications anymore

Microsoft Gives $10k to GNOME

clap

Ready to transform the enterprise world? We are!

Google suspends engineer who claims its AI is sentient

Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview

What is LaMDA and What Does it Want?

KDE Korner

Plasma 5.25 along with Frameworks 5.95

Goal: Apps & the call for new Goals is open

Platform Calendar Access followup

Qt Patch Level 5.15.5

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Entroware

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:47 — 19.8MB)

Arch is really easy to install now, Graham uses his keyboard as a mouse, replacing expensive security platforms with FOSS, silly AI pictures, and Will baffles us with electronics technobabble. Plus feedback about all sorts, including a chance to hear the noise that sends Joe to sleep.

Discoveries

Wazuh

cheat

Sigrok (better write up here)

warpd

archinstall

Dwitter

DALL·E mini

Feedback

Monit

Jason’s command: play -n -c1 synth whitenoise band -n 100 20 band -n 50 20 gain +25 fade h 1 864000 1

Joe’s: play -n -c1 synth whitenoise lowpass -1 150 lowpass -1 150 gain +10

Noice

Linux After Dark 18

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:22 — 20.2MB)

The usual love for the Mars helicopter and KDE, rare praise for Mozilla, and fingers pointed at DuckDuckGo and Brave. Plus apprehension about Broadcom’s VMware acquisition, and Intel’s new “features”.

News

Alex’s London meetup is going to be a day earlier than originally planned. He’s still working on a venue but stay tuned and watch the meetup page! 

Ingenuity Adapts for Mars Winter Operations

NASA’s 161-second helicopter tour of Martian terrain

Phoronix Turns 18 Years Old

Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot

DuckDuckGo: Why our browsers won’t block Microsoft trackers

DDG has a tracker blocking carve-out linked to Microsoft contract

Brave marketing gaffe

Brave’s use of Direct Mailers

Broadcom is acquiring VMware for $61 billion

VMware users are nervous about Broadcom acquisition

Broadcom’s stated strategy ignores most VMware customers

Drew’s Tweet

Linux 5.18 Released With Intel SDSi, New CPU & GPU Features

Intel’s software-defined silicon set to debut in Linux 5.18

Intel Upgrade Service

KDE Korner

KDE a Google SoC participent

SCAM: Lightmoon IS NOT Kdenlive. Lightmoon is MALWARE

KDE ECO sprint May & Nico Fella

KItinerary April/May Update

KDE Goals: Wayland

Job vacancy for furthering KDE in app stores

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:04 — 20.0MB)

FOSS alternatives to TeamViewer and Plex, Alexa automation made easy, Thunderbird is in great health, plus your feedback about all sorts including an amazing weird Linux installation.

Discoveries

RustDesk

Virtual Smart Home

Jellyfin

Thunderbird is very much alive and it has an RSS reader

Feedback

Geekbench results for Linux on Surface devices

barrier

owncast

Kolide

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:08 — 20.8MB)

We break with tradition and talk about some of the things we love about Linux and FOSS. Plus overhyped NVIDIA news, Google relents on free custom email accounts, Félim is trolled about Chromebooks, KDE Korner, and a Rust supply-chain attack drags up an old debate.

News

No FOSS Talk Live this year but there’s Alex’s outdoor meetup in August

Nvidia takes first step toward open source Linux GPU drivers

Hector Martin’s Twitter thread about it

Google backtracks on legacy GSuite account shutdown, won’t take user emails

Chromebooks are the perfect place to teach yourself about Linux

When will we learn?

KDE Korner

Lars Knoll Leaving The Qt Company, Starting New Chapter Outside Qt

Leaving The Qt Company

Almost time to pick new goals and end of KDE Goals: “Consistency”

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Entroware

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:33 — 21.0MB)

Graham plays with a synth, old desktops live on, Generation X11 yells at cloud, Will has been a naughty boy, TV alternatives, and Linux on weird hardware.

Discoveries

Surge XT synth

The Unity desktop is still alive (as is Trinity)

10 hours of a hairdryer noise

Star Trek TNG bridge noise

Feedback

Cloudfree.shop

Kolide

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:23 — 20.2MB)

The Mars Helicopter might be on its way out but it’s still a hero, bad things are happening to the UK Internet and we blame the government, whether software can ever be finished, some great discoveries, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Martin Wimpress has joined Linux Downtime as a co-host

Mars helicopter spots wreckage from Perseverance landing

Ingenuity might not last much longer

Oatmeal comic

LineageOS 19 based on Android 12 is now officially available

More about Lineage on Linux After Dark this Friday

Apple clarifies its controversial app removal emails with policy statement

UK finance minister blames legacy IT for benefits delay

Bad things are going to happen to the Internet in the UK

Discoveries

pz

dashy

Charge your laptop off a big external battery over USB-C

KDE Korner

KItinery out of Play

New Plasma Mobile Gear 22.04 with new site

New gestures support in Plasma 5.25

Poppler’s new embedded font support

LinuxAppSummit & video of Q&A with Neil McGovern and Aleix Pol

New LabPlot & Kdenlive

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 31:40 — 22.0MB)

Saving abandonded IoT devices with FOSS, watching directories for changes, monitoring disk usage, window managers vs desktop environments, further thoughts on work-supplied hardware, and more.

Discoveries

Tuya Convert

entr

hw-probe

Insteon Abruptly Shuts Down, Users Left Smart-Home-Less

Parallel Disk Usage

psst

Feedback

Touristic Guide — DebConf 22

adblock · PyPI

Kolide

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:45 — 21.2MB)

A new Ubuntu LTS is here and it’s mostly great, the Steam Deck is a huge success, Brave proves that nuance isn’t dead, people flock to Mastodon, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is released

Canonical now hopes to IPO in 2023

Ubuntu Founder Explains Why Distro Won’t Support Flatpak

Sinclair’s 8-bit home computer, ZX Spectrum, turns 40

The Steam Deck is not a flop

De-AMP: Cutting Out Google and Enhancing Privacy

Discoveries

LNL Matrix

Element

New official Mastodon apps for Android and iOS

Create Twitter RSS Feeds

KDE Korner

KDE Gear 22.04.0 is out

Nice theming improvements

iOS KDEConnect getting better Alerts

Simple Tasks App

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Entroware

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.