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All four of us have been Ubuntu users for a long time but we’ve been dabbling with different distros to see how they compare. Fedora, Debian, and openSUSE all have their appeal, but are we likely to switch permanently?

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Contributor license agreements aren’t very popular, but not having a CLA can cause problems for projects in the future. Gary can’t do things like publishing Pidgin on Apple’s app stores, and Amolith is wrestling with how to keep his options open for the SaaS project he’s working on.

Don’t sign a CLA

Seriously, don’t sign a CLA

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In this episode:

• Mark is repairing a Steam Deck
• Alan is taking digital hoarding too far with Tube Archivist
• Martin is creating a magical LAN using the Internet with ZeroTier

Some pictures of the state inside Mark’s Steam Deck

• The interior of a Steam Deck showing a PCB with a corroded connector
• The back of a Steam Deck’s touchpad showing sticky residue
• The touch pad PCB from a Steam Deck showing sitcky residue coating the sensor

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What ever happened to convergence? The dream of having one computing device just never came true, and we get to the bottom of it. Plus how to avoid drama in open source projects.

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We are joined by Chris Waldon to talk about how to get started with coding and software development.

Chris mentioned his blog.

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Our worst mistakes with a soldering iron, explaining the way we end most LNL episodes, how we vote with our money, and avoiding echo chambers. With Félim from Late night Linux, Dalton from Linux After Dark, and Gary from Linux Downtime.