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Our discoveries including a better diff, a way to replace Snaps with Flatpacks, a command line cheat sheet, help with YAML, and signing PDFs. Plus your feeback about supporting us with crypto nonsense, running Linux on work machines, an esoteric browser, and more.

Discoveries 

Saltstack linter

difftastic

Xournalpp

navi

qddcswitch

unsnap

asciinema

Feedback

Qutebrowser

Nyxt Browser

Interview with Gavin Freeborn about Nyxt

Kolide

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

Moving on from legacy BIOS and Xorg, Raspberry Pi OS finally catches up with security basics, the UK government give us more reasons to be angry, the usual KDE goodness, and more.

News

Work with Will writing Go

Fedora 37 Looks To Deprecate Legacy BIOS Support

Fedora 37 Considering Removal Of Legacy X.Org Drivers

An update to Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye

elementary update

Ubuntu gets a new rolling-release remix

GPD are getting quite desperate against the Steam Deck

Her Majesty’s Treasury is working on a new kind of mint: NFTs

Admin

Check out Linux Downtime and Linux After Dark

KDE Korner

KDE Itinerary has barcodes for the gate/seating and now a barcode reader

This week and the previous update-a-geddon

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:38 — 21.1MB)

A varied selection of Discoveries including Telegraf, writing tools, a book about networking, and fixing a Mac. Plus your feedback about Matrix bridges, virtualisation, Pocket alternatives, the BBC, game development, and more.

Discoveries

Computer Networks from Scratch a bit like Julia Evans

Telegraf

FocusWriter and PanWriter, and also Horcrux

It takes a Mac to save a Mac but there is a FOSS alternative

Feedback

Vagrant

wallabag

Shaarli

Archiving and Digital Preservation

Bookmarks and Link Sharing

Read-it-later Lists

get-iplayer

bashpodder

PICO-8

TIC-80

Scratch

Appel

Kolide

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:41 — 21.1MB)

The Mars helicopter continues to excel, Linux arrives on M1 Macs, Canonical’s hiring methods cause a stink, Graham eats his words about MDM, KDE korner, and more.

News

You can now support us on Kofi and Liberapay

Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying

The first Asahi Linux Alpha Release is here!

Linux Downtime Episode about Asahi

This was the first step in the interview process at Canonical – I withdrew my application

My Interview Process Experience With Canonical

Ask Shuttleworth a question!

Introducing MDN Plus: Make MDN your own

KDE Korner

Okular – First Eco Certified

QT6 work progresses with Frameworks+Plasma and now Kate/Kwrite

Some KDE items of interest from Wikidata Data Reuse Days

Nate’s usual weekly updates

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:00 — 20.7MB)

We discuss whether computing become less interesting as performance and abstraction have increased over the years. Plus our discoveries including two way radios, synths, HTML from colourful terminal output, and a personal wiki for Vim.

Discoveries

aha

blame Canada for computer translation

Chirp

vimwiki

Open Collidoscope (video)

Borderlands synth

Computers are really fast, but less exciting now

114 billion transistors, one big meh

Unity Store

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:34 — 20.4MB)

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

Arch is 20 years old

The Web is 33 years old

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

Admin

Check out Linux Downtime and Linux After Dark

KDE Korner

Wikidata reuse days… non now…

Steamdeck runs KDE

PIM Update & KDE Gear updates

New Firmware Security tab coming in Plasma 5.25

Translation help

Signature support is now Okular in on Android

Eco Software

Multi-cursors in Kate

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:37 — 20.4MB)

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

Pandas (10mins to pandas)

WLED

XSuspender

subnetcalc

Quickemu and Quickgui

Feedback

French Keyboard bug in KDE

asus-linux.org

GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

protondb

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:40 — 19.7MB)

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

Admin

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KDE Korner

Fix all the things

Kate Improvements coming soon

SoK Flathubbing

It’s Normal and it Works

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:49 — 20.5MB)

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

Python Rich

Sweethome 3D

react-wordle

wordle in under 50 lines of bash

Bismuth

Kröhnkite

KWin-Tiling

Mandelbulber2

Feedback

fx: Command-line tool and terminal JSON viewer

jo

Unofficial LNL Matrix room

Samson mic

Podcastage

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:48 — 20.5MB)

Mixed gaming news, great Raspberry Pi news, Mozilla teams up with Meta and ditches their VR browser, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Slackware 15 released

Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit)

Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance Review

Network install beta test

Update on Firefox Reality

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

Admin

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KDE Korner

Plasma 5.24 (Nico has a video) & Bug fixes coming with some improvements too

Kalendar 1.0 is out

Plasma Mobile Gear 22.01 is out

5.25 starts: Discover redesign begins & Navigate panels with the keyboard

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