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Whether there’s any point trying out random distros, and your feedback about AMD hardware, slow phones, messaging services, cryptocurrencies, and KDE.

First Impressions

Is there anything to be gained from trying new distros? We’ll be pressing the random button on DistroWatch and briefly trying out the distro it picks for us. The first distro will be Endless OS.

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Feedback

The real reason old phones slow down, suggestions for Signal replacements, machine learning with an AMD card, a defence of cryptocurrencies, a weird KDE issue, and where to get help with KDE.

Things we mentioned:

HIP and ROCm

FOSDEM talks on using AMD GPUs

Restored Genesis video

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:56 — 21.3MB)

Linux flies on Mars, a new Ubuntu release, the kernel is the subject of an ill-judged study, Linux GUI apps on Windows, KDE Korner, and more.

News

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter achieves historic powered flight on Mars

NASA’s Mars helicopter makes second flight

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight

Ubuntu 21.04 is here

Ubuntu Server 21.04: What’s new?

Ubuntu 21.04 Flavours Released, This is What’s New

The Initial Preview of GUI app support is now available for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment

Reversion of all of the umn.edu commits

An open letter to the Linux community

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KDE Korner

Krita Arrives in the Epic Store

KDE in Kerala

Peruse Komics

Nico’s video series: Plasma Panel

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:21 — 20.9MB)

We go through a load of your feedback about Auacity’s new file format and UI toolkit, hacking a Firestick, Google search, the future of Fedora, and more. Plus Joe gives up on KDE.

We mentioned Launcher Manager.

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Check out the Conversations in Code podcast.

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

Signal disappoints with crypto nonsense, Google finally triumphs over Oracle, Nvidia helps out Mozilla’s voice project, the EFF helps you find out if you’re part of Chrome’s latest experiment, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Signal is testing a payments feature that lets you send cryptocurrency to friends

WTF: Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support

Signal finally updates public server code after months of silence

US Government Sues Decentralized Content Platform LBRY Over $11M in Token Sales

Over a decade on, and millions in legal fees, Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle in Java API legal war

LineageOS 18.1 based on Android 11 is here for nearly 60 devices

Mozilla partners with NVIDIA to democratize and diversify voice technology

Mozilla winds down DeepSpeech development, announces grant program

Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla

Am I FLoCed? A New Site to Test Google’s Invasive Experiment

Bad Voltage 3×26: Luminiferous Aether

popey to leave Canonical

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Graham was on Linux Unplugged 400 talking about brewing beer with Linux.

KDE Korner

Announcing KDE’s Qt 5 Patch Collection

SoK: Improving Kirigami Docs

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Entroware

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:56 — 21.3MB)

The lengths that we’ve all been to for a smooth home media setup, your feedback about SUSE and NFTs, and we hear from some actual young people who use Linux.

Home media setups

MythTV, Pis, x86 boxes, and grown-up solutions like the Firestick

How to Stream Netflix, Disney Plus, and more on raspberry pi 4 widevine

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Check out Joe’s albums

Feedback

Follow-up on getting young people into FOSS, more on why we don’t use DuckDuckGo, we hear from loads of SUSE users, and a potential use for NFTs.

Will mentioned the openSUSE Virtual Conference 2021.

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:45 — 19.8MB)

Stallman is back and ruffling feathers, PHP moves to GitHub, AMP might be on its way out, Audacity’s latest update gives us pause, Fairphone delivers an unlikely update, online events, and more.

News

Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies

Announcement video

An open letter to remove Richard M. Stallman from all leadership positions

An open letter in support of RMS

PHP repository moved to GitHub after malicious code inserted under creator Rasmus Lerdorf’s name

Audacity 3.0.0 Released

The End of AMP

Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to long-term Android support

Ubuntu Touch OTA-16 Release

Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week

elementary Developer Weekend

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KDE Korner

KDE Dev Tries Gnome 40

Kall kFor PapersK : Akademy

QT6 is gettin’ going

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 32:24 — 22.3MB)

What’s changed about Linux and FOSS in the last crazy year, a new private search engine on the horizon, and your feedback about all sorts.

A new hope for search?

Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version

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A year on from The Event

Almost a year to the day since the UK went into its first lockdown we discuss what this last crazy 12 months has changed about Linux, FOSS, open standards, and privacy.

Feedback
Follow-up on the Framework laptop, KDE offline updates, GNOME’s popularity, getting kids into FOSS, and more.

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:33 — 20.4MB)

Graham tries to argue that NFTs are sometimes good, SUSE prepares IPO, Canonical gets friendly with Google, Konvergence in KDE Korner, and more.

News

Steam Link now available on Linux

SUSE prepares for multi-billion Euro IPO

Canonical Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop Apps

NASA Mars helicopter lead on Linux Unplugged

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NFTs

Non-fungible tokens: a passing fad, a serious investment opportunity, or a dystopian nightmare?

NFTs, explained: what they are, and why they’re suddenly worth millions

Stop this digital ownership madness. NFTs are bullshit. And the stupid makes me angry

The explosive (and inclusive) potential of NFTs in the creative world

Jack’s first tweet is for sale

The climate controversy swirling around NFTs

KDE Korner

Elisa on the desktop and the phone… you could say… konvergence

Save and load plasma config Nico Love Video Series

Frameworks 5.80 is out

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:05 — 20.7MB)

Why so many distros ship GNOME by default, a retro OS on modern hardware, Mint’s update woes, your feedback, and more.

RISC OS with the Pi 400

Will has a new Raspberry Pi 400 and has been trying out RISC OS.

Mint’s update problem

Update your computer!

Vague update

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Feedback

Follow-up on messaging including Pidgin plugins, why GNOME is such a popular choice for distros, email on Android, and a possible reason for slow Xubuntu shutdowns.

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:26 — 21.0MB)

Linux on another planet, Chrome OS enjoys huge success, great Firefox improvements, a flawed but well-meaning idea for a laptop, free RHEL for FOSS projects, Xfce news, and KDE Korner.

News

Linux has made it to Mars

Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide in 2020, cutting into Windows market share

Latest Firefox release includes Multiple Picture-in-Picture and Total Cookie Protection

Introducing the Framework Laptop

Extending no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux to open source organizations

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Xfce Xorner

Xubuntu 21.04 Progress Update

And Now For Something Completely Different

KDE Korner

Plasma Mobile

Documentation

Offline Updates

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