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Where is the gate for the “Real Linux User”, and who’s keeping it?
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Late Night Linux – Episode 166
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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
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KDE Korner
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Linux Downtime – Episode 41
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Joe is joined by Adam Pigg, a member of the Sailfish OS Community who has ported the OS to various phones.
A thread with some of Adam’s history
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Late Night Linux – Episode 165
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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
wordle in under 50 lines of bash
Feedback
fx: Command-line tool and terminal JSON viewer
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Entroware
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Linux After Dark – Episode 11
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Why Linux operating systems on small Arm devices almost all feel half-finished, and what we can do to improve things.
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Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities
Test 15 different PinePhone operating systems with Megi’s latest multi-distro demo image
PinePhone: trying out a Linux-based smartphone
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Late Night Linux – Episode 164
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Mixed gaming news, great Raspberry Pi news, Mozilla teams up with Meta and ditches their VR browser, KDE Korner, and more.
News
Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance Review
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
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KDE Korner
Plasma 5.24 (Nico has a video) & Bug fixes coming with some improvements too
Plasma Mobile Gear 22.01 is out
5.25 starts: Discover redesign begins & Navigate panels with the keyboard
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Linux Downtime – Episode 40
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Joe is joined by Joey Sneddon from OMG! Ubuntu! to talk about how Ubuntu and its community have changed over the years, snaps, GNOME, Flutter, WSL, and more.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 163
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Why FOSS is unlikely to gain traction in education, what’s great about Discourse, Linux gaming, the uncertain future of Termux, our thoughts on Snap and Flatpak, and more.
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Termux and its plugins are no longer updated on Google Play Store
AppImage, Flatpak und Snap in comparison
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Late Night Linux – Episode 162
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The Steam Deck is nearly here, Will is looking for a new email host, Creative Commons is abused, Joe has kernel problems, Félim upgrades his phone, and Graham plays a synth. Plus KDE Korner.
News
Steam Deck Deposit – Steam Deck Launching February 25th
The Pains Involved In Moving on from Google Apps for Domains
A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator
Discoveries
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KDE Korner
15 Minute bug initiative and progress (plus some upcoming features)
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